Studies; Quesetions; China Study

[Guest guest]

Hi Jackie and all,

 

Well, Campbell was not just ONE of the scientists ... the China Study has

been his project since its inception, from soup to nuts. Others have been

involved, but it's his ship.

 

The China Study is the largest study ever conducted on the relationship

between food and health. The study concluded, among other things, that when

we remove animal foods from our diet, almost all modern chronic and

degenerative diseases vanish. In particular, the study found that

environmental toxins are far less significant as causal agents of disease

than is widely thought.

 

This conforms well with a health-model view of human health and vitality: as

we provide our system with the foods, rest, physical activity, and other

factors on which it thrives, our vitality increases dramatically. When this

occurs, our system flushes out those awful toxins quickly and easily in

almost every case. In other words, we need no treatments, no drugs or herbs

or garlic or onions or whatever else.

 

The China Study specifically did not distinguish organic from commercial

foods. (But in China, during the years when the study was conducted, this

may have been a minor issue.) Nor did the study distinguish between

consumption of cooked vs. raw animal foods. Therefore, proponents of eating

raw animal foods (whether flesh or dairy or eggs) say that the study is

vegan propaganda. Their underlying objection is correct, namely, that the

study indeed does not make this distinction. Their emotional outcry about

vegan propaganda is, well, an emotional outcry. They are tired of being

ignored, with which I can readily empathize.

 

I do not mean these comments are criticism of the China Study or of anyone.

To my knowledge, there are NO large studies on the relationship between food

and health that make refined distinctions between variants of dietary

labels. For example, no large studies distinguish variants of vegan, or of

raw, or the like. This represents a gaping hole in the entire field of

" nutritional science " . In fact, when one holds a health model (vs. a medical

model) in mind and begins reading journal articles, one readily sees that

most of what is called " nutritional science " has little to do with nutrition

and is not, for the most part, science at all. That's why I typically

enclose the phrase in quotation marks. All those people who point to this

and that study really have no earthly idea what's going on in the land of

nutritional science research. Most of it is of such poor quality as to be

downright misleading. Campbell comments on this in his book, in fact ...

something about imbecilic studies. You can enjoy that paragraph when you get

to it.

 

We serve ourselves far better when we first develop a framework in which to

comprehend health and THEN begin learning " what to do " . For to do the

reverse, to begin by asking " what should I do? " (as most, in fact, do begin)

leaves most people feeling confused. There is no need for such confusion.

Creating health is actually quite a simple undertaking. This can only be so,

for were Nature's design otherwise, then few species would long survive upon

the Earth.

 

Just a few comments I thought some might appreciate.

 

Best,

Elchanan

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rawfood [rawfood ] On Behalf Of

YoungLiving

Sunday, August 26, 2007 12:38 PM

rawfood

RE: [Raw Food] China Study?

 

 

thanks Erin, I'll look into getting that book...

~ Jackie

 

rawfood@ <rawfood%40> .com

[rawfood@ <rawfood%40> .com]On

Behalf Of

Erin

Sunday, August 26, 2007 1:14 PM

rawfood@ <rawfood%40> .com

Re: [Raw Food] China Study?

 

It is well-written book by one of the scientists involved

in a massive epidemiological study of Chinese residents,

which found cancer and other diseases of affluence to be

closely tied to consumption of animal proteins (including

eggs and dairy):

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

rawfood , " Elchanan " <Elchanan wrote:

>

> Hi Jackie and all,

>

> Well, Campbell was not just ONE of the scientists ... the China Study

has

> been his project since its inception, from soup to nuts. Others have

been

> involved, but it's his ship.

 

Lead or peon, still makes him one of the scientists.

He teamed with several prominent Chinese scientists,

without whose cooperation the project could not have

been undertaken.

 

 

-Erin

http://www.vegandonelight.com