Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (799 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1939529840 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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"What You'll Learn in Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition" according to Allen Scott. "History is a race between education and catastrophe" -HG Wells, quoted in Whole.As T. Colin Campbell writes, Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition is built on two basic insights: "First, nutrition is the master key to human health. Second, what most of us think of as proper nutrition--isn't." While for many (though, alas, still the minority) this. Explains why The China Study is not mainstream GskFn The gist of T. Colin Campbell's new book, Whole, is this. After publishing his radical landmark The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted And the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, And Long-term Health in 2005, let's suppose what he reported there is true. Eight years later, why hasn't that information and per. Another great book from Dr. Campbell I loved the China Study. Now this just adds to it, explaining the reductionist thinking that passes for research nowadays. I have been plant-based for many years. unfortunately, it has been tough to convert my family to this way of eating. I feel so healthy and good on this diet. At my age, (59) my mother started on high blood pressure medication. When
They impact thousands upon thousands of metabolic reactions inside the human body. The traditional “gold standard” of nutrition research has been to study one chemical at a time in an attempt to determine its particular impact on the human body. New York Times BestsellerWhat happens when you eat an apple? The answer is vastly more complex than you imagine.Every apple contains thousands of antioxidants whose names, beyond a few like vitamin C, are unfamiliar to us, and each of these powerful chemicals has the potential to play an important role in supporting our health. But calculating the specific influence of each of these chemicals isn’t nearly sufficient to explain the effect of the apple as a whole. Now, in Whole, he explains the science behind that evidence, the ways our current scientific paradigm ignores the fascinating complexity of the human body, and why, if we have such overwhelming evidence that everything we think we know about nutrition is wrong, our eating habits haven’t changed.Whole is an eye-opening, paradigm-changing journey through cutting-edge thinking on nutrition, a scientific tour de force with powerful implications for our health and for our world.. Because almost every chemical can affect every other chemical, there is an almost infinite number of possible biological consequences.And that’s just from an apple.Nutritional science, long stuck in a reduction
He earned a Masters of Public Health and Doctor of Health Studies degrees from Temple University, and a BA in History from Princeton. His legacy, the China Study, is the most comprehensive study of health and nutrition ever conducted. When Howard is not chasing groundhogs away from blueberry bushes
From Publishers Weekly Campbell's follow-up to his best-selling The China Study is more of the same, in the best way. His years of scientific study and calm, measured tone are highly convincing, making a firm case that changing one's diet is the best way to assure good health. Yet he makes the case that Americans are too prone to take pills to solve health issues (and doctors too prone to prescribe them) as a result of "reductionist thinking". Readers will be inclined to put down their processed food snacks once they read what could be a life-changer of a book. Campbell has not written a book of diet tips, or even provided recipes. He continues his quest to convince people that "the ideal human diet looks like this: Consumer plant-based foods in forms as close to their natural state as possibleeat a variety of vegetables, fruits, raw nuts and seeds, beans and legumes, and whole grains." The en