The Future of Nutrition Lib/E: An Insider's Look at the Science, Why We Keep Getting It Wrong, and How to Start Getting It Right

Why, despite the many advances in science and technology over the past few decades, does our health only seem to be getting worse? Why, despite so much time and energy spent studying the foods we eat, are we more confused than ever about nutrition--what good nutrition looks like, and what it can do for our health? Colin Campbell's first book, The China Study--with 3 million copies sold (and growing!)--laid out the exhaustive evidence for the whole foods, plant-based diet as the healthiest way to eat. His New York Times bestselling follow-up, Whole, addressed the widespread scientific emphasis on reductionism that has kept our focus on the discrete behaviors of individual vitamins and nutrients in the foods we eat, rather than diet's synergistic effects on health. Now in The Future of Nutrition, Campbell takes on the institution of nutrition itself: the history of how we got locked in to focusing on "disease care" over health care; the widespread impact of our reverence of animal protein on our interpretation of scientific evidence; the way even well-meaning organizations can limit what science is and is not taken seriously; and what we can do to ensure the future of nutrition is different than its past. The Future of Nutrition offers a fascinating deep-dive behind the curtain of the field of nutrition--with implications both for our health and for the practice of science itself.

About the Author :
T. Colin Campbell, PhD, has been at the forefront of nutrition research for more than fifty years. His legacy, the China Study, was, at that time, the most comprehensive study of health and nutrition ever conducted. Dr. Campbell is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of nutritional biochemistry at Cornell University. He has received more than seventy grant-years of peer-reviewed research funding and authored more than 350 research papers. The China Study was the culmination of a twenty-year partnership of Cornell University, Oxford University, and the Chinese Academy of Preventative Medicine. In 1997, it was cited by the Chinese Ministry of Health as the most important study in medicine in China from 1978-1997. He also has been a member of several expert panels on food, nutrition, and health, especially those of the US National Academy of Sciences and the US National Institutes of Health. He has been the recipient of three lifetime achievement awards. Nelson Disla is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he studied English. He works as a writer and editor for nonprofit organizations. Dan Woren is a Los Angeles-based actor, writer, and voice-over artist. His voice can be heard nationally on radio and television commercials as well as on cartoons.

Review :
"Buckle up for an incredible ride! The Future of Nutrition gives the reader an unvarnished front row view of the forces that have had profound influence, for better or for worse, on the food we literally place at the end of our forks." -- "Robert Ostfeld, MD, MSc, FACC, professor of medicine and director of preventive cardiology for the Montefiore Health System" "The Future of Nutrition is Campbell's magnum opus and will leave you rethinking...what's in your next bite." -- "William W. Li, MD, New York Times bestselling author and president and medical director of the Angiogenesis Foundation" "A must-read for anybody interested in understanding health, cancer, and how a proven lifestyle has become so controversial." -- "David Feinberg, MD, head of Google Health" "After reading this book...everything came together as a whole and made music. This book had a huge impact on me. I think it will change many lives for the better." -- "Daniel Domb, cello soloist with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Pops, Chicago Symphony, and National Symphony" "Brilliantly explor[es] the institutional biases that have long confused consumers and subverted the science as to the power of evidence-based nutrition to prevent and treat disease." -- "Michael Greger, MD, New York Times bestselling author" "Our health and our lives depend on us acting on the tipping-point evidence that Dr. Campbell provides." -- "Ruth Heidrich, PhD, WFPB Ironman triathlete and author of A Race For Life"