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Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition
By T. Colin Campbell and Howard Jacobson
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New York Times Bestseller
What happens when you eat an apple? The answer is vastly more complex than you imagine.
Every apple contains thousands of antioxidants whose names, beyond a few like vitamin C, are unfamiliar to us, and each of these powerful chemicals has the potential to play an important role in supporting our health. They impact thousands upon thousands of metabolic reactions inside the human body. But calculating the specific influence of each of these chemicals isn’t nearly sufficient to explain the effect of the apple as a whole. Because almost every chemical can affect every other chemical, there is an almost infinite number of possible biological consequences.
And that’s just from an apple.
Nutritional science, long stuck in a reductionist mindset, is at the cusp of a revolution. The traditional gold standard” of nutrition research has been to study one chemical at a time in an attempt to determine its particular impact on the human body. These sorts of studies are helpful to food companies trying to prove there is a chemical in milk or pre-packaged dinners that is good” for us, but they provide little insight into the complexity of what actually happens in our bodies or how those chemicals contribute to our health.
In The China Study, T. Colin Campbell (alongside his son, Thomas M. Campbell) revolutionized the way we think about our food with the evidence that a whole food, plant-based diet is the healthiest way to eat. Now, in Whole, he explains the science behind that evidence, the ways our current scientific paradigm ignores the fascinating complexity of the human body, and why, if we have such overwhelming evidence that everything we think we know about nutrition is wrong, our eating habits haven’t changed.
Whole is an eye-opening, paradigm-changing journey through cutting-edge thinking on nutrition, a scientific tour de force with powerful implications for our health and for our world.
What happens when you eat an apple? The answer is vastly more complex than you imagine.
Every apple contains thousands of antioxidants whose names, beyond a few like vitamin C, are unfamiliar to us, and each of these powerful chemicals has the potential to play an important role in supporting our health. They impact thousands upon thousands of metabolic reactions inside the human body. But calculating the specific influence of each of these chemicals isn’t nearly sufficient to explain the effect of the apple as a whole. Because almost every chemical can affect every other chemical, there is an almost infinite number of possible biological consequences.
And that’s just from an apple.
Nutritional science, long stuck in a reductionist mindset, is at the cusp of a revolution. The traditional gold standard” of nutrition research has been to study one chemical at a time in an attempt to determine its particular impact on the human body. These sorts of studies are helpful to food companies trying to prove there is a chemical in milk or pre-packaged dinners that is good” for us, but they provide little insight into the complexity of what actually happens in our bodies or how those chemicals contribute to our health.
In The China Study, T. Colin Campbell (alongside his son, Thomas M. Campbell) revolutionized the way we think about our food with the evidence that a whole food, plant-based diet is the healthiest way to eat. Now, in Whole, he explains the science behind that evidence, the ways our current scientific paradigm ignores the fascinating complexity of the human body, and why, if we have such overwhelming evidence that everything we think we know about nutrition is wrong, our eating habits haven’t changed.
Whole is an eye-opening, paradigm-changing journey through cutting-edge thinking on nutrition, a scientific tour de force with powerful implications for our health and for our world.
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T. Colin Campbell
T. Colin Campbell, PhD, is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University and the coauthor of the best-selling books The China Study and Whole.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dr. Campbell is a biochemist who has spent decades researching the link between nutrition and health. What he discovered was unexpected and shocking, especially to the Western World - animal based proteins are carcinogens and lead to the development of cancer. The results were published in his best seller, The China Study. With this knowledge, you would think that there would be efforts by government agencies or the food industry to change our diets, but although there is a LOT of money poured into advertising and nutrition, there is very little done in the way of education about nutrition. And that makes Dr. Campbell a very frustrated man. The food industry is a huge business and there is no corporate profit made by telling people to eat broccoli. But, there is big business if people could find a specific chemical in broccoli, package it in a pill and sell it to people as a short cut to good health. The problem is the relationship between nutrition and the human body is complex. Even if a 'health food' contains some mineral, it's not clear that ingesting mega doses of that mineral will give a person the same benefit, let alone cause them harm.Part of this book is a rant against the food industry, drug companies, government agencies who are funded by the food industry, doctors who are pressured to prescribe drugs by big Pharma, and even non-profits like the American Cancer Society who are influenced by big donors ... who happen to be the drug companies. The frustration from Dr. Campbell rings out loud and clear. And some of the frustration makes this book less convincing. He accuses many people of covering up the real information because of greed, but I don't think that is really the big problem and it dilutes his message. Although he is convinced about his findings, nutrition is a complex subject and in the past several years we've learned that what we eat has a much larger influence on our health than we realize. The issues he raises about US government agencies (like the FDA) being controlled by the food industry are important and the influence that big Pharma has over our health recommendations can't possibly be the best for our health. Hopefully, like The China Study, this book will have an impact on diet in the world.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I wish I could double the stars for this book---a further look at why what we eat determines our health more than anything else that we can do---as an individual, a culture, or as a world. It is incredible how much effort Campbell has expended to promote SEEING the whole elephant --an effective picture he returns to frequently in the book--rather than just the parts, never understanding the WHOLE---YES, you are what you eat. It's almost too easy but at the same time almost impossible given the vast array of competitive but misguided forces out there fighting everything he has said or done to get his solid information out.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5If thinking uncritically and misrepresenting nutritional research was a crime, this author would be serving 30 to life. What a waste of time! The author is a conspiracy theory nut and a huge proponent of unscientific woo woo.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I found this book to be preachy, condescending, boring, and repetitive. It was extremely easy to follow and understand but it could have added more information rather than repeating the same ideas continuously. What it does have going for it is that it clearly explains how nutrition standards and statistics are generated and points out biases in medical research. Unfortunately, this author has a clear agenda of his own, but, to his credit, he admits this freely. He also points out that his research is largely anecdotal and circumstantial, that he has not established clear causality in many cases, and that his conclusions go against main-stream science and even the scientific method itself.This book is good for people who want to explore different approaches to medicine and nutrition from an alternate perspective.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Filled with exhaustive examples of corruption and cover ups, yet dearth particulars supporting the "Whole nutrition." The book indeed covered it some, but dwelled much more on addressing biases and criticisms rather than supporting it's own conclusions.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The book is a a sad indictment of the food and medical industries. Will big food be seen in the same light as big tobacco in 20-30 years time? It is such a pity that something as easy and natural as eating a plant-based diet - it really is easy - should be seen as alternative medicine by the medical establishment.