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?

Could Changing Our Diets Defeat COVID-19?

T. Colin Campbell, PhD, the author of The China Study, considers whether diet could help combat COVID-19, the novel coronavirus.

Dr. T. Colin Campbell’s 8th Principle of Food and Health

Good nutrition creates health in all areas of our existence. All parts are interconnected.

Dr. T. Colin Campbell’s 1st Principle of Food and Health

T. Colin Campbell, PhD, co-author of the best-selling book “The China Study” has been dedicated to the science of human health for more than 60 years. From this lifetime of work, he has developed eight principles of food and health.

My Plant-Based Life With MS – Goodbye Brain Lesions, Vertigo, and Eczema

Medication is the gold standard for treating MS, but should it be? One woman shares her story of reading two life-changing books and how a whole food, plant-based diet, rooted in science, helped treat her MS better than any medications ever did.

Observations From China: What Happened to the Plant-Based Diet?

The typical Chinese lifestyle now includes less exercise and more meat, dairy, sugar, oil, and fast food than during the The China Study era.

The China Study Changed My Life

74 year old Gary read The China Study book by chance and it changed his life forever. He was vegetarian, then became vegan, and finally adopted a whole food, plant-based lifestyle after taking the Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate online course through the Center for Nutrition Studies and eCornell.

The 4Leaf Survey: An Important Diagnostic Tool for Doctors

Medical doctors have found the 4Leaf Survey to be a useful tool in helping their patients understand what constitutes a health-promoting diet. Some doctors are now entering the patient’s survey score in their medical records as a vital sign.

Gianna Simone Interviews Dr. T. Colin Campbell – Link Between Animal Protein & Cancer

Gianna Simone produced this series of interviews with the top plant-based doctors of our time with the intention of providing educational resources to people on the benefits of a whole food, plant-based diet.

The China Study: 3 Lessons We Need to Know

The China Study provides overwhelming evidence that animal protein is cancer promoting. A whole food, plant-based diet not only prevents cancer but leads to optimal human health across the board.

The Value of the Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate: A Graduate’s Review

I am glad that I earned a certificate in plant-based nutrition from the Center for Nutrition Studies and eCornell. It is worth the money.

How The China Study Changed an Osteopath’s Practice

Thanks to Dr. T. Colin Campbell I now offer a more holistic and effective health promotion service to all my patients.

A Hidden BBC Agenda? Dr. Yeo Gives Answers

BBC’s Horizon program is receiving push back from the public for the misrepresentation of science surrounding a plant-based diet.

Eating Right: 8 Principles of Food and Health

The 8 principles from this abbreviated chapter of The China Study are important lessons about food, health, and disease.

Scientific Reductionism Detracts from Whole Food, Plant-Based Message

Reductionism is not the way that nutrition works—by definition. It is time to recognize the science that demonstrates the health benefits of whole foods instead of their nutrient parts.

Nutrition is a Democratic Topic in This Life Changing Writing Class

Comparing the Standard American Diet with a Plant-Based Diet serves as a model resource for learning basic argumentative skills. It also becomes life changing for many students.

From Scared School Boy with MS to Doctor of Nutrition

After reading The China Study I immediately adopted a whole food, plant-based diet and began to think about nutrition a little different. Suddenly Multiple Sclerosis (MS) didn’t seem so scary.

China Project History Part 3: An Unprecedented Collaboration

The China Project started in a friendship between Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Chen Junshi.

Wish Me Luck, I’m Going Home to Ireland, Plant-Based!

I was encouraged to eat the ‘best part of the meal,’ the meat. It took time, a move to the US, and The China Study to clarify there is no place on my plate for meat.

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Your Credibility Is Tarnished

Dr. Giles Yeo interviewed me for the BBC. It is now abundantly clear that Yeo and the BBC intended to disparage the notion that food matters for our health.

Precision Medicine Initiative: Wealth For a Few & Poor Health For Many?

The new PMI is very similar to the experimental design of Dr. Campbell’s 1980’s NIH proposal. Unlike PMI, its emphasis was on nutrition not on pharmaceuticals.

My Aging Parents’ Shocking Health Improvements Through Food

My parents (both in their 80’s) moved in and began a whole food, plant-based diet. The outcome? It’s never too late to overcome serious health issues!

How a Heart Attack Saved My Life

This article is not about dieting, it is about second chances. How optimal nutrition healed my body after 55 years of burgers, pizza, steaks, soda and chips.

Ethics, Evidence and the Business of Your Health

There is a business benefit to a population of confused consumers who want ‘magic bullet’ fixes for our diet and health problems.