The Future of Nutrition, T. Colin Campbell PhD
The Future of Nutrition, T. Colin Campbell PhD
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The Future of Nutrition
An Insider’s Look at the Science, Why We Keep Getting It Wrong, and How to Start Getting It Right

Author: T. Colin Campbell PhD

Narrator: Dan Woren

Unabridged: 11 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/15/2020


Synopsis

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 T. Colin Campbell PhD

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.

About Nelson Disla

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.

About Dan Woren

Dan Woren is an American voice actor and Earphones Award–winning narrator. He has worked extensively in animation, video games, and feature films. He is best known for his many roles in anime productions such as Bleach and as the voice of Sub-Zero in the video game Mortal Kombat.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ryan

Imagine that, in the United States, there were an excess of one million deaths every year that could be prevented, relatively easily, with only a few lifestyle adjustments. You would imagine this to be a top public health priority, and that our health care professionals would be trained to offer the......more

Goodreads review by Melise

When I read the description of this book, I was very interested in reading it. I am old enough to have lived through various diet fads: The Atkins Diet (which one of my relatives insisted meant she could snack on as many pork rinds as she wanted), the Mediterranean Diet, low-fat, low-carb, eat only......more

Goodreads review by Bernard

First of all, I really liked its previous book, "Whole", which I felt brought new concepts when it came out in 2013. This book however, not so much. It's so odd to have a book titled "The future of nutrition", when most of the references and examples used throughout are at least 20 years old, if not o......more

Goodreads review by Dora

If there is anything that makes me relate to this book is the question my Grandmother once asked me, "why is it that what's good for you tastes like punishment when you have to take it to live?" She'd just suffered another ulcer attack and the doctor suggested a lifestyle change, refused to give her......more


Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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


Awards

  • Barnes & Noble Best Book
  • Foreword Indies Award