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statistically significant correlations between various dietary factors and disease—a huge number of them pointing to the protein from meat and dairy as the bad guys.
After conducting 27 years of research funded by the National Institutes of Health, the American Cancer Society, and the American Institute for Cancer Research, Dr. Campbell emerged a strict vegan, stating:
“The diet that has time and again been shown to reverse and/or prevent these diseases is the same whole foods, plant-based diet that I had found to promote optimal health in my laboratory research and in the China Study. The findings are consistent.” 6
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In a study comparing the cancer rates of 42 countries, milk and cheese consumption were strongly linked to the incidence of testicular cancer among men ages 20 to 39. The cancer rates were highest in places like Switzerland and Denmark, where cheese is a national food, and lowest in Algeria and other countries with lower dairy consumption. 7 The American Dietetic Association reports that breast cancer rates are highest in places where women consume high-fat, animal-based diets. Did you know that in countries where dairy is not consumed the incidence of breast cancer is so low as to be almost nonexistent? Once women in those countries begin eating Western diets, however, their breast cancer rates increase eightfold. Even the American Cancer Society recommends that we choose most of the foods we eat from plant sources and limit our intake of high-fat foods, especially from animal sources, in order to reduce the risk of cancer. More than 190,000 of our American girlfriends will get breast cancer in 2009 and more than 40,000 of them will die of it. 8 That is so, so sad. Sadder still is the fact that many of these deaths could have been prevented.
Milk does not prevent osteoporosis: This is a particularly touchy subject. This is where we—especially us womenfolk—have been completely boondoggled. We’ve come to believe there is a straight line between milk and strong bones despite the fact that dairy-free countries have the lowest rates of osteoporosis on Earth. In fact, the more milk a population consumes, the weaker its bones get. That’s the real straight line. So why does this fallacy that milk is inextricably linked to strong, healthy bones persist so stubbornly? It’s true that cow’s milk does contain calcium, which is necessary for strong bones, but that’s not the whole picture. Although milk offers calcium, it causes the body to release even more of it. It’s like someone giving you $1,000 but driving away in your car! So no matter how much you’re getting, you’re actually losing. Meat and dairy are the chief causes of osteoporosis, not the cures. There are tons of sources of calcium on a meat- and dairy-free diet, and the calcium they contain is actually more readily absorbed by the body. Sea vegetables, sesame seeds, leafy greens, and beans all kick milk’s butt.
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Superhero: Ruth Heidrich
Ruth was diagnosed with breast cancer at 47. After having the lump removed, further testing revealed cancerous hot spots in her bones and one on her lung. Heidrich decided to follow a strict vegan diet under the supervision of Dr. John MacDougall, who was researching the connection between diet and breast cancer at the time. Twenty-six years later, having undergone neither chemo nor radiation, Ruth not only thrives cancer-free, she has completed six Ironman triathlons, 67 marathons, and was named one of the “Ten Fittest Women in America” in 1999. She lives in Hawaii and Canada, where she writes books ( Senior Fitness , A Race for Life ), gives lectures, and cohosts a radio show called Healing and You .
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Calcium Milligrams (per 100-gram serving)
Butter
20
Whole milk
118
Chickpeas
150
Collard greens
203
Parsley
203
Soybeans
226
Almonds
234
Sesame seeds
1,160
Hijiki sea vegetable
1,400
Milk underlies asthma and allergies: This one hits home for me. As a kid, I came down with
After conducting 27 years of research funded by the National Institutes of Health, the American Cancer Society, and the American Institute for Cancer Research, Dr. Campbell emerged a strict vegan, stating:
“The diet that has time and again been shown to reverse and/or prevent these diseases is the same whole foods, plant-based diet that I had found to promote optimal health in my laboratory research and in the China Study. The findings are consistent.” 6
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In a study comparing the cancer rates of 42 countries, milk and cheese consumption were strongly linked to the incidence of testicular cancer among men ages 20 to 39. The cancer rates were highest in places like Switzerland and Denmark, where cheese is a national food, and lowest in Algeria and other countries with lower dairy consumption. 7 The American Dietetic Association reports that breast cancer rates are highest in places where women consume high-fat, animal-based diets. Did you know that in countries where dairy is not consumed the incidence of breast cancer is so low as to be almost nonexistent? Once women in those countries begin eating Western diets, however, their breast cancer rates increase eightfold. Even the American Cancer Society recommends that we choose most of the foods we eat from plant sources and limit our intake of high-fat foods, especially from animal sources, in order to reduce the risk of cancer. More than 190,000 of our American girlfriends will get breast cancer in 2009 and more than 40,000 of them will die of it. 8 That is so, so sad. Sadder still is the fact that many of these deaths could have been prevented.
Milk does not prevent osteoporosis: This is a particularly touchy subject. This is where we—especially us womenfolk—have been completely boondoggled. We’ve come to believe there is a straight line between milk and strong bones despite the fact that dairy-free countries have the lowest rates of osteoporosis on Earth. In fact, the more milk a population consumes, the weaker its bones get. That’s the real straight line. So why does this fallacy that milk is inextricably linked to strong, healthy bones persist so stubbornly? It’s true that cow’s milk does contain calcium, which is necessary for strong bones, but that’s not the whole picture. Although milk offers calcium, it causes the body to release even more of it. It’s like someone giving you $1,000 but driving away in your car! So no matter how much you’re getting, you’re actually losing. Meat and dairy are the chief causes of osteoporosis, not the cures. There are tons of sources of calcium on a meat- and dairy-free diet, and the calcium they contain is actually more readily absorbed by the body. Sea vegetables, sesame seeds, leafy greens, and beans all kick milk’s butt.
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Superhero: Ruth Heidrich
Ruth was diagnosed with breast cancer at 47. After having the lump removed, further testing revealed cancerous hot spots in her bones and one on her lung. Heidrich decided to follow a strict vegan diet under the supervision of Dr. John MacDougall, who was researching the connection between diet and breast cancer at the time. Twenty-six years later, having undergone neither chemo nor radiation, Ruth not only thrives cancer-free, she has completed six Ironman triathlons, 67 marathons, and was named one of the “Ten Fittest Women in America” in 1999. She lives in Hawaii and Canada, where she writes books ( Senior Fitness , A Race for Life ), gives lectures, and cohosts a radio show called Healing and You .
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Calcium Milligrams (per 100-gram serving)
Butter
20
Whole milk
118
Chickpeas
150
Collard greens
203
Parsley
203
Soybeans
226
Almonds
234
Sesame seeds
1,160
Hijiki sea vegetable
1,400
Milk underlies asthma and allergies: This one hits home for me. As a kid, I came down with
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