Campbell and Esselstyn suggest ways Obama can change the health debate, and keep our eye on the real causes of health and preventative cures for illness.
The No. 1 cause and cure of America's health care crisis is right under your nose - it's what you put in your mouth.
Unfortunately, the scientific findings on diet and disease are marginalized by the political power of huge, mutually reinforcing commercial interests - meat, dairy, sugar, drugs and surgery.
These industries are desperate to sell a solution that obscures their part in the problem. If they can convince people that the cause of our health crisis has nothing to do with eating unhealthy food, and everything to do with increasing access to drugs and surgery, Americans will spend trillions more on health care without improving their health. That's what happens when you leave science out of public policy.
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., is professor emeritus of nutritional biochemistry at Cornell University. He is co-author of "The China Study."
The China study is an amazing piece of science that concludes, basically, that the more protein (meat and dairy) we eat, the more likely we are to get all sorts of diseases. It is a direct correlation. Anything over 10% protein in a diet will certainly dramatically increase risks of fatal disease. Learn more at Wiki, but read the actual book if you can.
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