China Study

A There is protein in every fruit, vegetable, grain, nut, bean, and seed. These foods also supply plentiful amounts of vitamins, minerals, fiber, phytochemicals (healing plant chemicals), enzymes, and beneficial fats. Most protein from nonmeat sources is actually easier for the body to digest, extract, and use. A significant body of research—including the landmark China Study—indicates that we eat excessive amounts of protein, particularly from animal sources. In chapter 5, you ll learn about excellent vegetarian sources of protein. 

Campbell, T. Colin, with Thomas M. Campbell II. The China Study Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-Term Health. Dallas BenBella Books, 2005. 

Speaking further of garlie, in a brief section about laetrile, garlic is disparagingly cited as an alternative health product in T. Colin Campbell s The China Study, as assisted by Thomas M. Campbell II (Campbell, 2005, p. 252). Mention is made of pangamic acid, various bee concoctions, and of zinc supplements, which also may have no apparent benefit. 

The China Study, however, documents an epidemiologic investigation of major importance and magnitude. As the study was conducted among the Chinese, the population was more or less homogeneous, without any other nationalities or races that could introduce genetic aberrations. It should be emphasized, moreovCT, that the study was not directed toward cures but, rather, toward what should be the healthiest lifestyles, or in other words, toward what may be called prevraition or chemoprevention, but with the emphasis on namral food sources rather than pharmaceuticals. 

Another step in the right direction, which has also been discussed earlier, is the Cornell-Oxford-China Study, or The China Project, which is directed at finding connections between diet and disease, with the inference that a plant-based diet is preventive. An estimate noted is that between 80 to 90% of all cancers, cardiovascular diseases, and other degenerative illnesses can be offset until old age, with the qualifier that the normal processes of aging are not so normal after all. 

An example of the effects of iodine deficiency and its correction on socioeconomic conditions is shown in Table 79.5. The data presented here were obtained from a small rural village named Jixian in Heilongjiang Province, China, studied before (1978) and 8 years after (1986) the introduction of effective iodine supplementation (Dunn and Haar, 1990). 

In China, studies of the marine enclosure ecosystem mainly include the following aspects the mutual interactions between nutrients and ph doplankton, the transportation of heavy metals, effects of heavy metals on the plankton, the metabolism of organic carbon, the grazing pressure on bacteria of zooplankton, and so on. 

In China, studies of the biogeochemical model have been developed since the 1990s. These studies were mainly related to budgets of biogenic elements... 

Tulenin YuP, Sinev MYu, Savkin W, Korchak VN. D3mamic behavior of Ni-containing catalysts during partial oxidation of methane to synthesis gas. In Bao X, Xu Y, editors. Proceedings of the 7th natural gas conversion symposium, June 6—10, Dalian, China. Studies in surface science and Catalysis. Natural gas conversion VII, vol. 147. Amsterdam Elsevier 2004. p. 151—6. 

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