Why an animal-based diet is hazardous to your health

Forget the meat!

05/03/07

Slowly the truth is emerging that diet is decisive to health. Out of a fog of deliberate confusion and fierce resistance put up by the food and pharmaceutical industries and their allies in government, academia and big medicine, the idea is winning support in the public mind, and a fundamentally new picture is becoming clear. That picture is that a diet centered on animal products — meat, dairy and eggs — is actually toxic and promotes all the main chronic diseases — cardiovascular, cancer, diabetes, obesity and autoimmune — that cause death in the United States and other industrialized countries.

The scientific evidence is overwhelming and has been assembled in “The China Study,” a marvelous, popular account by T. Colin Campbell, one of the world’s leading experts on nutrition and epidemiology, and his son, Thomas Campbell II...

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