What If Doctors Were Paid to Keep People Well?
Promoting and managing disease is big business. What if our healthcare system instead placed people over profits?
—T. COLIN CAMPBELL, PhD
What If Doctors Were Paid to Keep People Well?
Promoting and managing disease is big business. What if our healthcare system instead placed people over profits?
3 Missteps in the 2020-2025 USDA Dietary Guidelines
From added sugar to alcohol and saturated fat, the latest edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans fails to provide the best recommendations for human and societal health.
Chef Del’s Diet Daze Episode 1 — Interview With Dr. Thomas Campbell
Whether the whole food, plant-based diet is new to you or you follow the diet but could use some reinforcement, especially with regard to weight loss, Del Sroufe’s interview with Dr. Campbell is sure to be an enlightening one.
3 Reasons Why Superfoods Can Be Dangerous
The concept of “superfoods” is an old one, but it has become even more popular as sections of society have become more health conscious and desperate to combat chronic lifestyle-related diseases. Unfortunately, this focus on individual foods has downsides, even in the case of legitimately healthful foods.
Diversity and Culture: The Missing Link Between Food and Health
The lack of representation of different cultures within the plant-based movement is glaring and the consequences are real. There is an abundance of research showing that culture and culturally relevant nutrition interventions are important for diet change and weight loss among Black and Asian Americans.
Food for Thought Series: Redefining Science as a Whole
Reductionism is the dominant paradigm of science today. It is time to break the chains of reductionism and free science from its profit-driven prison.
Top 10 Plant-Based News Stories and Articles of 2020
Health was certainly at the forefront of the news in 2020, and health happens to be our forte. Here we share our best articles of 2020.
Food for Thought Series: Assessing the Truth Behind Nutrition & Health Claims
The confusion surrounding health claims, and especially claims about the role of nutrition in specific diseases, like type 2 diabetes, can be overwhelming and sometimes discouraging. It often takes great personal responsibility and effort to assess the truth of competing claims. But even then—where do you begin?
Healthcare vs Disease Response System – Part 1
The health care system today is not equipped to establish health, or even prevent disease. Instead, it responds to disease, and it relies on technology to do so. The widespread, and still spreading, use of drugs illustrates this reliance on technology.
Study Finds Dairy (Not Soy) Skyrockets Breast Cancer Risk
If you could reduce your relative risk of breast cancer by 80 percent, wouldn’t you do it? A new study claims that women who drink cows’ milk could increase their risk of developing breast cancer by up to 80 percent compared to women who drink soy milk.
Cancer Prevention and Treatment: An Expert Analysis From Dr. Campbell
Bruce Mylrea interviews Dr. T. Colin Campbell to get his thoughts on the progress and current state of cancer prevention and treatment. Read this excerpt on “Who Gets Cancer and Why.”
Is Saturated Fat Really That Bad?
Dr. Campbell responds to twelve researchers who recently published a major review on the health effects of saturated fat which is mostly found in meat, milk, and eggs.
Scientific Review Finds Strong Link Between Dairy Consumption and Asthma
A recent scientific review asserts the role that a plant-based, dairy-free diet has in reducing one’s risk for asthma development and decreasing asthmatic symptoms.
Reinforce Your Immune System With Plant-Based Nutrition
In light of the continued spread of COVID-19, many people have taken a new interest in the relationship between nutrition and immunity—a welcome and encouraging development, despite the negative circumstances. Unfortunately, though, this interest has also opened the door to a great deal of confusing, misleading, or even blatantly false information. Let’s stick to the … Continued
Medical News: Plant-Based Diet Reverses Type 2 Diabetes in 84% of Patients, New Study Finds
A new intervention called the NFI Protocol has been shown in a recent study to reverse type 2 diabetes in 84 percent of patients. The protocol is a personalized whole food, plant-based diet plan.
Top 10 Plant-Based News Stories and Articles of 2019
A year in review, check out the top ten Center for Nutrition Studies news stories and articles in 2019.
Treating Kidney Disease With Plant-Based Nutrition
Dr. Thomas Campbell and his team recently published results from a case study featuring one of their patients with type 2 diabetes, hypertension and stage 3 chronic kidney disease (CKD), hyperphosphataemia and borderline hyperkalaemia. Read an excerpt from the published paper, “Plant-based dietary approach to stage 3 chronic kidney disease with hyperphosphataemia.”
Vaping a Sacred Nutrient? How Vitamin E Became ‘Dangerous’
In recent decades, vitamin E has been one of the trendiest of all nutrients. Long considered a miracle nutrient by many, it is now linked to illness and death thanks to certain vaping products.
Can the Ketogenic Diet Cure Cancer? What Does the Science Say?
The ketogenic diet does not offer the benefits that fasting and plant-based diets provide for cancer patients, in terms of reducing the side-effects of medical treatment and enhancing its effectiveness. But does the keto diet help fight cancer?
Results From 8-Week Whole Food, Plant-Based Study Are a Success
Dr. Thomas Campbell and his team recently published results from their highly successful whole food, plant-based nutrition lifestyle modification program. Read an excerpt from the published paper, “Evaluation of an Eight-Week Whole-Food Plant-Based Lifestyle Modification Program.
Hullabaloo! A State of Confused Noise Surrounding Meat Consumption
There’s a big story making all the lead news outlets today that is the very definition of ‘fake news'. It concerns a new report published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, titled “Unprocessed red meat and processed meat consumption: dietary guideline recommendations” from the NutriRECS consortium.
Fitness Over 50: 7 Ways a Plant-Based Diet Can Help Women Stay Active
Women over 50 often experience a decline in physical activity. Here are seven ways a whole food, plant-based diet can help older women overcome obstacles to fitness.
Soy vs Skim: How the Dairy Industry Twists Results To Market Milk
We reviewed two studies which compared the effects of whey protein to soy milk and found that the dairy industry is using short-term conclusions to promote long-term health habits.
Can a Whole Food, Plant-Based Diet Help Lupus?
Reports show that fasting and plant-food diets can improve symptoms of autoimmune conditions, but TrueNorth wants to get more specific.
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