For decades T. Colin Campbell, PhD has been at the forefront of nutrition education and research. Dr. Campbell’s expertise and scientific interests encompass relationships between diet and disease, particularly the causation of cancer. His legacy, the China Project, is one of the most comprehensive studies of health and nutrition ever conducted. Dr. Campbell is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University. He is also the founder of the highly acclaimed, CNS and eCornell Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate and serves as the Chairman of the Board for the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies.

Research Methodology in Cancer Research
Research Methodology in Cancer Research

Question: What is your response to: “A role for milk proteins and their peptides in cancer prevention”, by PW Parodi (Current Pharmaceutical Design 13: 813-828, 2007).


How Does Animal Protein Stress the Kidneys?
How Does Animal Protein Stress the Kidneys?

Answer to a Reader’s Question:

Animal protein-based foods show a strong relationship to the formation of kidney stones. Here is a quote from the leading research investigator in the world on this topic:


Animal Protein as a Carcinogen
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.


Animal Rights in Research
Animal Rights in Research

As an animal rights activist, I am very curious about your rat studies. My question is hypothetical.


Diet Matters: Clarifying the Link between Breast Cancer and Eating Patterns
Diet Matters: Clarifying the Link between Breast Cancer and Eating Patterns

It was June 1982. At a news conference in Washington, DC, a group of internationally recognized scientists had just finished announcing the National Research Council’s report on diet, nutrition, and cancer.[1] The report received extensive news coverage, criticism from the industry most affected by the report’s conclusion, and according to some authorities, the highest number … Continued


Prostate Cancer
Prostate Cancer

The toll from prostate cancer is immense. In the U.S., one out of every ten men will be diagnosed with this devastating disease.


Letter to the Editor: Journal of the American Medical Association
Letter to the Editor: Journal of the American Medical Association

Holmes et al, using data from the Nurses’ Health Study, report no significant association between breast cancer risk and type of dietary fat consumed, a finding mostly (but not entirely) consistent with earlier reports on this important study.


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