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Oncology, Oncology

Animal Protein as a Carcinogen

Answer to a Reader's Question:

Although there are many arguments favoring the nutritional imbalance explanation of cancer, one of the more striking for me was the experimental animal studies discussed in Chapter 3 in my book, The China Study.  Namely, aflatoxin is a very potent...
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Cardiovascular

High Blood Pressure: Overview and Risk Factors

High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a major risk factor for heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, and other serious disorders. The World Health Organization has identified hypertension as the most important preventable cause of premature death in developed countries. About 65 million people...
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Gastrointestinal Disorders

Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Overview and Risk Factors

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is the most common form of liver disease in the United States. As its name suggests, it is associated with abnormal fat accumulation in the liver. Put simply, fatty liver develops from eating too much. When the amount of nutrients (particularly fat) entering the...
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Oncology, Oncology

China Report: Cholesterol and Cancer

Most of us have heard a great deal about the link between high cholesterol and heart disease. But how many have heard that high blood cholesterol levels are also associated with cancer? In China, we found that those with the highest cancer rates also had the highest cholesterol levels. Among the...
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Oncology, Oncology

Letter to the Editor: Journal of the American Medical Association

Re: Holmes DH, Hunter DJ, Colditz GA, et al. Association of dietary intake of fat and fatty acids with risk of breast cancer. JAMA 1999; 281:914-920.

Holmes et al1, using data from the Nurses' Health Study, report no significant association between breast cancer risk and type of dietary...
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Psychiatric Conditions

Eating Disorders

Eating Disorders: Overview and Risk Factors

Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are common and serious eating disorders. Up to 3 percent of American women suffer from an eating disorder, and up to 20 percent of college-aged women engage in abnormal eating behaviors. Anorexia nervosa is...
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Gastrointestinal Disorders

Gallstones: Overview and Risk Factors

Gallstones are small, hard stones form in the gallbladder. They occur in up to 20 percent of women and 8 percent of men worldwide. Physicians use the term "cholelithiasis" to refer to the condition of having gallstones.

Most stones are composed of cholesterol and are...
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Gastrointestinal Disorders

Infantile Colic: Overview and Risk Factors

Infantile colic refers to excessive crying in a baby less than three months old. Colic is defined as crying that occurs in an otherwise healthy baby for three or more hours a day, on three or more days a week, for three or more weeks. These criteria are somewhat controversial in that they may not...
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Professional Accreditation, Credentials and Licensure

by T. Colin Campbell, PhD

For almost 50 years, I have designed and directed large research projects in the areas of nutrition and health.  As a result of this experience, I have come to realize that most nutrition and health information is very misleading. It is no coincidence that we now have a health care crisis which is very expensive and which compromises the quality of life for millions of Americans and others living on a Western-style diet. . . READ FULL STATEMENT >>

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Sometimes the most elegant solution is the most simple. Why plant-based nutrition? Why not? Why develop heart disease? Cancer? Diabetes? The epidemic of chronic, degenerative disease that is sweeping the western world can not only be stopped, it can be reversed. The power lies in the hands of the consumer, in the choices we make about what to put on our plates.