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T. Colin Campbell Biography

Thomas Colin Campbell (born March 14, 1934) is an American biochemist who specializes in the effect of nutrition on long-term health. He is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University.

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If you flip a coin three times and it lands on heads each time, it’s probably chance. If you flip it a hundred times and it lands on heads each time, you can be pretty sure the coin has heads on both sides. That’s the concept behind statistical significance—it’s the odds that the correlation (or other finding) is real, that it isn’t just random chance.

Concept, Correlation, Land, Odds, Real, Three

Usually, the first thing a country does in the course of economic development is to introduce a lot of livestock. Our data are showing that this is not a very smart move and the Chinese are listening. They are realizing that animal-based agriculture is not the way to go. . . . We are basically a vegetarian species and should be eating a wide variety of plant food and minimizing our intake of animal foods.

Basically, Country, Foods, Move, Moving, Smart

DURING THE PAST TWO TO THREE DECADES, we have acquired substantial evidence that most chronic diseases in America can be partially attributed to bad nutrition. Expert government panels have said it, the surgeon general has said it and academic scientists have said it. More people die because of the way they eat than by tobacco use, accidents or any other lifestyle or environmental factor.

Accidents, Environmental Factors, Government, Past, Tobacco, Two

Perhaps it is a testament to the power of modern marketing savvy that an obese man with heart disease and high blood pressure became one of the richest snake oil salesmen ever to live, selling a diet that promises to help you lose weight, to keep your heart healthy and to normalize your blood pressure.

Heart, Help, Men, Oil, Promises, Weight

You can't be protein deficient without being calorie deficient because even if you take the foods that have the least amount of protein in them, let's say potatoes, for example, or rice at 8 or 9%. That's the figure we more or less need.

Deficient, Example, Needs, Potatoes, Say

The answer to the American health crisis is the food that each of us chooses to put in our mouths each day. It's as simple as that.

Answer, Answers, Crisis, Each Day, Mouths, Simple

Americans love to hear good things about their bad habits.

Americans, Good Things, Habit, Healthy Eating, Hear, Things

The people who eat the most animal protein have the most heart disease, cancer and diabetes.

Animal, Cancer, Diabetes, Disease, Heart

Protein during promotion trumps the carcinogen, regardless of initial exposure.

Exposure, Initial, Promotion, Protein, Trump

Furthermore, a pattern was beginning to emerge: nutrients from animal-based foods increased tumor development while nutrients from plant-based foods decreased tumor development.

Animal, Development, Patterns, Tumor, Foods

I know of nothing else in medicine that can come close to what a plant-based diet can do. In theory, if everyone were to adopt this, I really believe we can cut health care costs by seventy to eighty percent. That's amazing. And it all comes from understanding nutrition, applying nutrition, and just watching the results.

Adopt, Believe, Cutting, Know, Medicine, Theory

First, nutrition is the master key to human health. Second, what most of us think of as proper nutrition--isn't.

Firsts, Human, Keys, Nutrition, Think, Thinking

It’s never too late to start eating well. A good diet can reverse many of those conditions as well. In short: change the way you eat and you can transform your health for the better.

Eating Well, Good, Health, Start, Too Late, Way

Everything in food works together to create health or disease. The more we think that a single chemical characterizes a whole food, the more we stray into idiocy.

Chemical, Create, Disease, Health, Thinking, Working Together

Cows' milk protein may be the single most significant chemical carcinogen to which humans are exposed.

Cancer, Carcinogen, Health, Humans, May, Protein

No chemical carcinogen is nearly so important in causing human cancer as animal protein.

Animal, Cancer, Important, Nearly

Let’s start with the most prominent ecological crisis of our time: global warming. When you look seriously at the numbers, you find that switching from a meat-based to a plant-based diet would do more to curb and reverse global warming than any other initiative.

Ecological, Looks, Meat, Numbers, Time

Nutrition trumps genes.

Genes, Nutrition, Trump, Trumps

When absurdities get repeated often enough, they start sounding like truth.

Absurdities, Absurdity, Enough, Repeated, Start, Truth

A plant-based diet is more likely to produce good health and to reduce sharply the risk of heart problems, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, gallstones, and kidney disease.

Cancer, Gallstones, Heart, Osteoporosis

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