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T. Colin Campbell is a renowned biochemist known for his contributions to the fields of nutrition and cancer research. His research has focused on the impact of a plant-based diet on health, particularly in the prevention of cancer. Professor Campbell's work has had a profound influence on global health and dietary practices.

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“A plant-based diet is more likely to produce good health and to reduce sharply the risk of heart problems, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, gallstones, and kidney disease.”

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Author:T. Colin Campbell

“The ideal human diet looks like this: Consume plant-based foods in forms as close to their natural state as possible (“whole” foods). Eat a variety of vegetables, fruits, raw nuts and seeds, beans and legumes, and whole grains. Avoid heavily processed foods and animal products. Stay away from added salt, oil, and sugar. Aim to get 80 percent of your calories from carbohydrates, 10 percent from fat, and 10 percent from protein.”

Source: Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition

“Perhaps it is a testament to the power of modern marketing savvy that an obese man with heart disease and high blood pressure became one of the richest snake oil salesmen ever to live, selling a diet that promises to help you lose weight, to keep your heart healthy and to normalize your blood pressure.”

Source: The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-Term Health

“Let’s start with the most prominent ecological crisis of our time: global warming. When you look seriously at the numbers, you find that switching from a meat-based to a plant-based diet would do more to curb and reverse global warming than any other initiative.”

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Book:Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition

Source: Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition

“It’s never too late to start eating well. A good diet can reverse many of those conditions as well. In short: change the way you eat and you can transform your health for the better.”

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Book:Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition

Source: Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition

“One way to identify the optimal human diet, pretty obvious to all but fundamentalist reductionists, is to survey and compare populations as they already exist, and see what they eat and how healthy they are.”

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Book:Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition

Source: Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition

“Once people start introducing animal products into their diet, that's when the mischief starts.”

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“A good diet is the most powerful weapon we have against disease and sickness.”

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Book:The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-Term Health

Source: The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-Term Health

“I know of nothing else in medicine that can come close to what a plant-based diet can do. In theory, if everyone were to adopt this, I really believe we can cut health care costs by seventy to eighty percent. That's amazing. And it all comes from understanding nutrition, applying nutrition, and just watching the results.”

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Author:T. Colin Campbell