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Rethinking the Science of Nutrition

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By: T. Colin Campbell PhD/PhD, Howard Jacobson
Narrated by: Don Hagen
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What happens when you eat an apple? The answer is vastly more complex than you imagine.

Whole, a New York Times bestseller and an eye-opening, paradigm-changing journey through cutting-edge thinking on nutrition, is a scientific tour de force with powerful implications for our health and for our world.

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. They impact thousands upon thousands of metabolic reactions inside the human body. But calculating the specific influence of each of these chemicals isn’t nearly sufficient to explain the effect of the apple as a whole. 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 reductionist mindset, is at the cusp of a revolution. 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. These sorts of studies are helpful to food companies trying to prove there is a chemical in milk or prepackaged dinners that is “good” for us, but they provide little insight into the complexity of what actually happens in our bodies or how those chemicals contribute to our health.

In The China Study, T. Colin Campbell revolutionized the way we think about our food with the evidence that a whole food, plant-based diet is the healthiest way to eat. 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.

©2013 T. Colin Campbell (P)2013 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Diets, Nutrition & Healthy Eating Fitness, Diet & Nutrition Hygiene & Healthy Living Nutrition Plant-Based Diet Vegan Health Healthy Diet Medicine China

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" Whole makes a convincing case that modern nutrition’s focus on single nutrients has led to mass confusion with tragic health consequences. Dr. Campbell’s new paradigm will change the way we think about food and, in doing so, could improve the lives of millions of people and save billions of dollars in health care costs." (Brian Wendel, creator and executive producer of Forks over Knives)
"There are very few material game-changers in life, but this book is truly one of them. The information herein - backed up by extraordinary peer-reviewed science - has the power to halt and reverse disease, give you energy you’ve never known, and put you on a path of transformation in just about every positive way. Read it and get ready to soar." (Kathy Freston, New York Times best-selling author of The Lean)
"In this provocative book, T. Colin Campbell, based on his long career in experimental research and health-policy making, uncovers how and why there is so much confusion about food and health and what can be done about it. The China Study revealed what we should eat; Whole answers why. Read and enjoy; there’s something here to inspire and offend just about everyone." (Dean Ornish, MD, founder and president, Preventive Medicine Research Institute, Sausalito)
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A really good read around nutrition and health as well as the bias in society around reporting on what is healthy nutrition and disease prevention.
Note: Can get a little technical at times.

Excellent education on nutrition

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So insightful, a must read for those who want to empower their own health and learn about the benefits of a whole food plant based diet. Choose your health over an industry who too often benefit from today's society of dis-ease & sickness.

A must read to gain knowledge for greater health!

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You cannot ignore or dispute the power of evidence given in this book. Must read

Empowering and phenomenal

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good book, great knowledge, revolutionary really. Well done Dr. Campbell. Must read for everyone interested in nutrition and health. 4 stars

wholey moley

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Great book very informative and would highly recommend reading. It opens your eyes to what we can do for great health that is eat whole food plant based (WFPB).

Excellent information on food

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this was such an eye opener. A really good book, well put together. Well researched.

brilliant

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Very informative, well thought out.
Would recommend to anyone interested in WFPB diets/lifestyles.
Great follow up to 'The China Study'.

Interesting!

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Very interesting discussion about why a plant based whole food diet is not being taken up as much as it should be.

Great advice

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If you eat a typical western diet then this book could save your life! If you've read his other book, The China Study, then you won't learn too much more here but it's still brilliantly written and very informative.

Everyone should read this!

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great eye-opener. nutritional and holistic knowledge everyone should know. last 2 chapters too cynically complaining.

life changing

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