The China Study

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I just finished reading the book “The China Study” by Campbell T.Colin and I must say that it has opened my eyes. I am a person who takes a lot of care of proper health, but the book revealed me some useful secrets that until now I did not know.

According to Campbell, we are living in a toxic food environment. We are surrounded by advertisements that do nothing more than spreading the idea of ??junk food. Have you ever noticed that when you buy a magazine written about health, you expect to find some healthy tips, but what you find are full-page advertisements of ketchup and hamburgers etc..

The reality is that large corporations are making a lot of money selling toxic foods. These foods make us fat and then these large corporations sell solutions to lose weight. Thus are making double money. What a brilliant idea!

If you want to live in good form, shiny and full of energy, you need to look for an ally in today’s environment. The book talks about diseases caused by junk food that we eat every day and it offers solutions how we can avoid all these diseases with a good and healthy diet.

There are so many questions about health and we want answers:

1. Do we have to buy products labeled “organic” to avoid exposure to pesticides?

2. Is our health “predetermined” by the genes we inherit at birth?

3. Do carbohydrates make us fat?

4. Must we be careful to saturated fats and trans fats?

We eat what we like and what our parents taught us to prefer. Most of us live within the boundaries that define our cultural preferences.

Part 1. Problems We face, Solutions We need

Cancer is not a natural event. By adopting a healthy diet and a healthy lifestyle we can prevent the majority of diseases. The old age can and should be a quiet and peaceful age without any disease. The fast food restaurants chains surround us everywhere. We prefer speed over quality. Since we spend more time watching TV, playing video games or stay in front of computer, we are becoming physically less active.

We tend to follow the diets suggested by fashion. We discard saturated fats, butter, carbohydrates, and turn to protein diet. If you do not know, let me tell you that high protein diets produce dangerous health problems.

Part 2. Diseases of Affluence

We are affluent and we die certain deaths because of it. A special diet for every type of illness does not exist. Now is the time that people should take control of their health. In today’s life it is not hard to notice our fights against fat. It is a black hole that swallows our money.

The solution for weight loss consists of a diet of natural foods provided by plants, combined with a reasonable dose of physical activity. People in countries like China, Japan and in India are slimmer. As soon as their diet will be same as ours, their bodies will be same as ours (overweight).

Part 3. The Good Nutrition Guide

The benefits of a healthy lifestyle are enormous: we can live longer, look younger, have more energy, maintain strong bones, prevent diseases and more …..

In return, what is the price we must pay? We must change our diet.

Our body has evolved with the purpose of obtaining the maximum benefit from the foods we eat. Supplements do not guarantee the long-term health benefits and can cause unexpected side effects. The risks of the western diet can’t be cancelled by consuming supplementary substances.

The animal origin food does not contain nutrients that are better than nutrients provided by plants. Good nutrition and good health are simple. Campbell recommends to eliminate all animal origin foods and minimize the use of refined carbohydrates, vegetable oils and fish.

Part 4. Why Haven’t You Heard this Before ?

I know you have a question in mind, “why I’ve never heard before about the diet based primarily on plants?

You’re right! You’ve always heard that we need to eat meat, fish, eggs and milk to stay healthy. The main reason is that there are so many big companies based on fast food that have risk of losing a large sum of money if we switch to vegetable diet. The entire system – government, science, industry and media, promotes the profit at the expense of health, and confusion at the expense of clarity.

Final Thoughts

The China Study has a strong message to convey: our diet is killing us. You definitely should not skip: breakfast, lunch and dinner. Campbell also found out that the only thing that is needed to cure heart disease is simply change what we eat.

Changing diet is not easy, it is often a radical choice. It takes a lot of courage to just accept the fact that a vegetarian diet is the better diet than animal-based diet. I too have always thought that plants can not fulfill our needs 100% and we have to eat meat and fish to feed ourselves better, but I was wrong.

I recommend you to read this book to discover surprising facts that will open your eyes.

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Lakhvir

Lakhvir is a personal finance expert. Once he was deeply in debt, he read everything he could about personal finance to get out of debt and to invest his money wisely. He likes to read books and share with others what he learns from these best-selling books.