Whole, T. Colin Campbell, PhD, with Howard Jacobson, PhD
Whole, T. Colin Campbell, PhD, with Howard Jacobson, PhD
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Whole
Rethinking the Science of Nutrition

Author: T. Colin Campbell, PhD, with Howard Jacobson, PhD

Narrator: Don Hagen

Unabridged: 11 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/07/2013


Synopsis

What happens when you eat an apple? The answer is vastly more complex than you imagine. 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 isnt 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 consequencesand thats 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. InThe 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, inWhole, 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 havent changed. Wholeis an eye-opening, paradigm-changing journey through cutting-edge thinking on nutrition, a scientific tour de force with powerful implications for our health and for our world.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David

"There are these two young fish swimming along and the happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says,'Morning boys. How's the water?' And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, 'What the hell is water?'......more

Goodreads review by Jason

This book, by the author of the China study, starts off with an interesting premise: that a diet comprised of whole vegetables provides the most optimal health benefits to individuals while potentially reversing many ill effects of environmental contact and carcinogens that are consumed. With all of......more

Goodreads review by Tina

If you picked up this book you KNOW a whole foods plant based life is the healthiest way to live. This book will explain the WHY that information is not mainstream. Why our doctors, our government, our media and our big businesses DON'T want you to know the truth. Thank you Dr. Campbell.......more

Goodreads review by Shel

T. Colin Campbell's earlier book The China Study (2006) was a distressing, technical read with chapter after chapter filled with research on dread diseases including heart disease and cancer. But it had an uplifting note: a solution! "Good food and good health is simple," Campbell said. A whole f......more

Goodreads review by Gloria

This is not an easy book to read. It is filled with scientific studies, acronoyms, facts and strong opinions. Campbell is the author of "The China Study" and his persuasive argument is that we need to be a "whole food, plant based" society. Much of the book outlines his research and documents how co......more