| In one of the most significant books ever written | | | | In what became a 20-year study ... the result of a |
| about the relationship between diet and disease, the | | | | partnership between Oxford and Cornell universities |
| researcher discovered that cancer was most | | | | and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine ... |
| common among those who consumed mostly | | | | the groundbreaking research evidenced more than |
| animal-based foods -- especially meat and dairy. The | | | | 8000 associations between diet and disease -- |
| scientist discovered this accidentally, while working | | | | especially cancer. |
| with malnourished children in the Philippines. | | | | The conclusion was that individuals who consumed |
| He tried to find out why so many Filipino children | | | | the most "animal-based" diets got the most chronic |
| were diagnosed with liver cancer. He noted that the | | | | diseases. But those who ate more "plant-based" diets |
| primary goal of the nutrition project he worked on | | | | tended to avoid chronic diseases. |
| was to make sure these children were getting as | | | | While other factors may be involved, the most |
| much protein as possible. (The protein source was | | | | obvious common denominator to many forms of |
| primarily meat). The assumption was, after all, that | | | | cancer is food. When individuals move to the West |
| animal-based protein must be good for the children. | | | | from parts of the world where cancer is rare, and |
| What he found though, was just the opposite. | | | | then adapt Western eating habits, they begin |
| It seemed that the children who consumed the | | | | acquiring cancer at the same rate as other |
| highest amounts of animal-based protein in their diets | | | | Westerners. |
| were the ones likeliest to get liver cancer. This | | | | Studies comparing raw plant-based diets against |
| researcher then began collecting reports from around | | | | animal based ones continuously show that there is |
| the world to see if there were any similarities. That | | | | more of a connection between diet and cancer than |
| eventually led him to further study nutrition and its | | | | most individuals have ever realized. |
| connection with disease. | | | | |