The Future of Nutrition by Professor Colin Campbell

There is extensive “modern” research starting with William Lambe and John Abernetly in the first decade of the 1800s that shows a significant increase in cancer rates is a result of: ^{1 2}

In 1846, William Hayle Walshe showed that cancer was “primarily a disease of civilization” due to an excess of meat consumption. ³

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Frederick Hoffman was born in Germany in 1865. His mother’s desperate financial situation required him to leave home at the age of 14. Due to his small stature and mal-nourishment he was unable to obtain physical work. ⁴

At the age of 19, Hoffman borrowed enough money for passage to New York from an uncle. In Ohio, he was offered a temporary position in a store where he learnt English by delivering groceries.

In 1888, Hoffman worked as an industrial insurance agent for Metropolitan Insurance Company.

In 1892 Prudential Life Insurance Company hired Hoffman Frederick as a statistician in New Jersey. He concluded that statistical reports were means a achieving social justice.

Hoffman campaign for social reforms such as safety and health conditions of industry workers, especially that of miners.

He was interested in Navajo society, made an honorary Navajo chief and was interested in the value of Indian herbal remedies and medicines. He campaigned for better health care for minorities, especially American Indians and ensured that American native populations were insurable.

He wrote thousands of extensive papers about malaria, tuberculosis, cancer, leprosy, homicide, suicide, national health and social insurance, aviation, geography, American Indians, aesthetics and childbirth. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Tulane University and was appointed a trustee of the American Cancer Society and chairman of its committee on statistics.

Frederick resigned from Prudential in 1922. He continued as a consultant until 1935. Because of his leadership in cancer research, he was awarded the American Cancer Society’s Clement Cleveland Medal in 1943. He also was named a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society of London, made a member of the German Society for Insurance Science, named an associate fellow of the American Medical Association, made an associate member of the American Academy of Medicine, and made an honorary member of the Essex County Anatomical and Pathological Society.

He was a member of the American Economic Association, the American Academy of Social and Political Science in the City of New York, the National Institute of Social Sciences, the American Sociological Society, the Southern Sociological Congress, the National Conference on Charities and Corrections and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

He was the seventh president of the American Statistical Association.

Hoffman’s 1915 study of cancer mortality rates cites 579 sources and includes a presentation of statistical methodology in its first 221 pages. This study was the basis for the first United States Cancer Census.

Frederick Hoffman was the author of a 749 page book Cancer and Diet, written in 1937, demonstrating:

Hoffman published 1300 items including 28 major works of 100 or more pages.

The Future of Nutrition examines:

The China Study Solution

Written by Thomas Campbell, (Colin Campbell’s son), who is a medical doctor, it looks at the steps required to incorporate a whole-food, plant-based diet into our lives.

Recipes are also included.

How Not To Die – by Dr Michael Greger documents how we can avoid or greatly reduce the possibility of dying from the most common causes of death in Western society.

A brief introduction describes Michael’s journey that led him to become an advocate of a plant-based diet.

China Study Solution CookBook by LeAnne Campbell contains over 120 Whole-Food, Plant-Based recipes. Written by LeAnne Campbell, daughter of The China Study author Colin Campbell. The China Study Cookbook features delicious, easily prepared plant-based recipes with no added fat and minimal sugar and salt that promote optimal health.

A beautifully produced cookbook with many practical and quick whole-food plant-based recipes.

The Starch Solution by Dr John McDougall. Complex carbohydrates are the foundation of a healthy diet which contradicts many popular commentators as well as many medical practitioners.

Rice, wheat and sorghums including millets, corn, sweet potatoes, barley and many types of tubers and yams have nourished the majority of the world’s population for millennia.

The book also contains many recipes.

Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease – Caldwell Esselstyn (2007). Dr Esselstyn is a US surgeon who has researched the effects of diet and health. He is one of the doctors along with Colin Campbell and Dean Ornish that Bill Clinton has credited with his health transformation.

He won an Olympic gold medal in rowing at the 1956 Olympics. He was an army surgeon in Vietnam, a member of the Board of Governors of the Cleveland Clinic, one of the world’s top cardiac centres and was named in 1994-1995 as one of the top doctors in USA.

The world’s advanced countries have easy access to plentiful high fat food; ironically, it is this rich diet that produces atherosclerosis.

In the world’s poorer nations, many people subsist on a primarily plant-based diet, which is far healthier, especially in terms of heart disease. To treat coronary heart disease, a century of scientific investigation has produced a device-driven, risk factor-oriented strategy. Nevertheless, many patients treated with this approach experience progressive disability and death. This strategy is a rearguard defensive. In contrast, compelling data from nutritional studies, population surveys, and interventional studies supports the effectiveness of a plant-based diet and aggressive lipid-lowering to arrest, prevent, and selectively reverse heart disease.

In essence, this is an offensive strategy. The single biggest step toward adopting this strategy would be to have United States dietary guidelines support a plant-based diet. An expert committee purged of industrial and political influence is required to assure that science is the basis for dietary recommendations.

Images of coronary angiograms of the circumflex artery in Dr Esselstyn’s books and website show a 20% improvement following approximately 60 months of a plant-based diet with cholesterol-lowering medication. The Hagen–Poiseuille equation shows that the flow rate of blood through the artery is proportional to the radius raised to the fourth power, meaning that a small increase in the internal diameter of the artery greatly increases the amount of blood that flows through the artery. ⁶

Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D. Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease Avery Trade 2008

www.dresselstyn.com/site/

Dr. Neal Barnard’s Program for Reversing Diabetes outlines a dietary approach to preventing, controlling and reversing diabetes. The program is based on a series of research studies Dr. Barnard and his colleagues have conducted over the years, the latest funded by the National Institutes of Health. Published in the August 2006 issue of Diabetes Care, that study found Dr. Barnard’s program to be three times more effective than the American Diabetes Association dietary guidelines at controlling blood sugar.

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human – Richard Wrangham is a Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University and a director of the Kibale Chimpanzee Project in Uganda. Wrangham began a researcher at Jane Goodall’s chimpanzee study project at the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. He also assisted Dian Fossey in setting up her mountain gorilla conservation program.

Wranghams’s view is that cooking food is an essential human activity. Cooking increased the value of our food. It changed our bodies, our brains, our use of time and our social relationships.

A fascinating book that describes how we evolved as a species based on the change of behavior resulting from the discovery of cooking.