Wait... There Was A Study In Where? China?

The China Study ended up becoming a book and then onto a few documentaries but it started as a study with T. Colin Campbell, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University, and his son Thomas M. Campbell II, a physician. The study was to find out just how much correlation there was between animal product consumption and chronic illness such as heart disease, breast cancer and colon cancer.  The title of the book is taken from the study from China-Cornell-Oxford Project, a 20 year study that began in 1983 and was conducted jointly by the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, Cornell University, and the University of Oxford. 

The mortality rates in China were surveyed between 1983 and 1984. Between the years of 1973 to 1975 the researchers took 100 people from 65 countries in China and then compared their bloodwork. They concluded that the countries with the higher death rates were the ones that consumed more animal products. The opposite was true for the countries that ate more plant based foods. 

You can get a copy of the book on Amazon by clicking the link below.

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