I’m currently rereading the best book on nutrition I’ve ever read, ‘The China Study’ by T. Colin Campbell. Quite possibly you have never heard of it. It hasn’t made a splash like the Atkins diet, the South Beach diet, or any of the other quick fix prescriptions for getting slim that never work.
That’s because this massively researched study proves once and for all that our Western diet, with its heavy emphasis on meat, animal products and highly processed food is making us fat -- and killing us with cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and all the other diseases of affluence.
Campbell proves that it is not just animal fat that is dangerous, but animal protein as well, and demonstrates that a vegetarian diet is the only way to go if you want to live a long and healthy life.
And, of course, one of the reasons that the study has not made much of a splash is that smashes the toes of too many powerful corporations who are promoting our current deadly lifestyle – McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, as two prime examples. You know, the people that pay for all the ads in the corporate media.
Most of us aren’t ready to embrace vegetarianism. If we knew the facts however, that a vegetarian diet can prevent – and even cure – cancer and heart disease, we might be willing to try it.
Our powerful corporations are working very hard to make sure that we never do.
Posted by Deck at April 19, 2006 02:03 PM