The people who eat the most animal protein have the most heart disease, cancer and diabetes. T. Colin Campbell More Quotes by T. Colin Campbell More Quotes From T. Colin Campbell Cows' milk protein may be the single most significant chemical carcinogen to which humans are exposed. T. Colin Campbell cancer health may 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. T. Colin Campbell vegetables nuts animal Casein [the main protein found in dairy], in fact, is the most 'relevant' chemical carcinogen ever identified; its cancer-producin g effects occur in animals at consumption levels close to normal-striking ly unlike cancer-causing environmental chemicals that are fed to lab animals at a few hundred or even a few thousand times their normal levels of consumption. T. Colin Campbell environmental cancer animal In the next ten years, one of the things you're bound to hear is that animal protein is one of the most toxic nutrients of all that can be considered. Quite simply, the more you substitute plant foods for animal foods, the healthier you are likely to be. T. Colin Campbell health animal food 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. T. Colin Campbell medicine cutting believe The answer to the American health crisis is the food that each of us chooses to put in our mouths each day. It's as simple as that. T. Colin Campbell each-day simple answers A good diet is the most powerful weapon we have against disease and sickness. T. Colin Campbell disease powerful weapons Good health is about being able to fully enjoy the time we do have. It is about being as functional as possible throughout our entire lives and avoiding crippling, painful and lengthy battles with disease. There are many better ways to die, and to live. T. Colin Campbell able disease battle First, nutrition is the master key to human health. Second, what most of us think of as proper nutrition--isn't. T. Colin Campbell keys firsts thinking Everything in food works together to create health or disease. T. Colin Campbell disease working-together together No chemical carcinogen is nearly so important in causing human cancer as animal protein. T. Colin Campbell cancer important animal DURING THE PAST TWO TO THREE DECADES, we have acquired substantial evidence that most chronic diseases in America can be partially attributed to bad nutrition. Expert government panels have said it, the surgeon general has said it and academic scientists have said it. More people die because of the way they eat than by tobacco use, accidents or any other lifestyle or environmental factor. T. Colin Campbell environmental-factors two past 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. T. Colin Campbell eating-well too-late way Nutrition trumps genes. T. Colin Campbell genes nutrition trump 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. T. Colin Campbell osteoporosis cancer heart We now had impressive evidence that low protein intake could markedly decrease enzyme activity and prevent dangerous carcinogen binding to DNA. T. Colin Campbell decrease enzymes dna 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. T. Colin Campbell meat numbers looks As you will come to see, much is governed by the Golden Rule: he who has the gold makes the rules. T. Colin Campbell golden-rule golden gold Everything in food works together to create health or disease. The more we think that a single chemical characterizes a whole food, the more we stray into idiocy. T. Colin Campbell disease working-together thinking You can't be protein deficient without being calorie deficient because even if you take the foods that have the least amount of protein in them, let's say potatoes, for example, or rice at 8 or 9%. That's the figure we more or less need. T. Colin Campbell potatoes example needs
