The China Study: #1 Best-Selling Book in China

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June 5th 2008

From The Economist print edition

 

Three things interest Westerners about China: food, fertility and

finance

" THE China Study " is the world's biggest-selling book about all

things Chinese because it touches on two American obsessions. The

first is that you will only live longer if you are able to reduce

the risk of suffering a heart attack, diabetes and cancer. The

second is that there exists a conspiracy of powerful lobbies,

government entities and opportunistic scientists who must be

overcome. The Campbells, father and son, are there to show how to

achieve both.

 

" After a long career in research and policymaking, " says Colin

Campbell, the elder of the two authors, " I have decided to step `out

of the system.' I have decided to disclose why Americans are so

confused. As a taxpayer who foots the bill for research and health

policy in America, you deserve to know that many of the common

notions you have been told about food, health and disease are wrong. "

 

So who is right? The answer is the Chinese. Thomas Jefferson advised

Americans that meat should be treated as a condiment for vegetables.

Jefferson, like China, is now in fashion. In a nutshell: " Eat food.

Not too much. Mostly plants. "

 

Bestselling books about China

 

1. The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever

Conducted

by T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell

 

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