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''The China Study'' is a book by T. Colin Campbell, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University, and his son Thomas M. Campbell II, a physician. It was first published in the United States in January 2005 and had sold over one million copies as of October 2013, making it one of America's best-selling books about nutrition.〔Parker-Pope, Tara. ("Nutrition Advice From the China Study" ), ''The New York Times'', January 7, 2011. Bittman, Mark. ("Tough Week for Meatless Monday" ), ''The New York Times'', June 29, 2011. For over one million copies sold, ("The China Study" ), the chinastudy.com, archived October 18, 2013.〕 ''The China Study'' examines the relationship between the consumption of animal products (including dairy) and chronic illnesses such as coronary heart disease, diabetes, breast cancer, prostate cancer and bowel cancer.〔Sherwell, Philip. ("Bill Clinton's new diet: nothing but beans, vegetables and fruit to combat heart disease" ), ''The Daily Telegraph'', October 3, 2010.〕 The authors conclude that people who eat a whole-food, plant-based/vegan diet—avoiding all animal products, including beef, pork, poultry, fish, eggs, cheese and milk, and reducing their intake of processed foods and refined carbohydrates—will escape, reduce or reverse the development of numerous diseases. They write that "eating foods that contain any cholesterol above 0 mg is unhealthy."〔Campbell and Campbell 2005, p. 132.〕 The book recommends sunshine exposure or dietary supplements to maintain adequate levels of vitamin D, and supplements of vitamin B12 in case of complete avoidance of animal products.〔Campbell and Campbell 2005, pp. 232, 242, 361ff.〕 It criticizes low-carb diets, such as the Atkins diet, which include restrictions on the percentage of calories derived from carbohydrates, which would, by quantity, reduce the benefits of complex carbohydrates.〔Campbell and Campbell 2005, pp. 95–96.〕 The authors are critical of reductionist approaches to the study of nutrition, whereby certain nutrients are blamed for disease, as opposed to studying patterns of nutrition and the interactions between nutrients.〔Scrinis, Gyorgy. ''Nutritionism: The Science and Politics of Dietary Advice'', Columbia University Press, 2013, p. 16.〕 The book is loosely based on the China-Cornell-Oxford Project, a 20-year study – described by ''The New York Times'' as "the Grand Prix of epidemiology" – conducted by the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, Cornell University and the University of Oxford. T. Colin Campbell was one of the study's directors.〔That the book is "loosely based" on this project, see Scrinis 2013, p. 182. Brody, Jane E. ("Huge Study Of Diet Indicts Fat And Meat" ), ''The New York Times'', May 8, 1990 (hereafter Brody (''New York Times'') 1990), p. 1. Campbell, T. Colin; Chen Junshi; and Parpia, Bandoo. ("Diet, lifestyle, and the etiology of coronary artery disease: the Cornell China Study" ), ''The American Journal of Cardiology'', 82(10), supplement 2, November 1998, pp. 18–21.〕 It looked at mortality rates from cancer and other chronic diseases from 1973–75 in 65 counties in China; the data was correlated with 1983–84 dietary surveys and blood work from 100 people in each county. The research was conducted in those counties because they had genetically similar populations that tended, over generations, to live and eat in the same way in the same place. The study concluded that counties with a high consumption of animal-based foods in 1983–84 were more likely to have had higher death rates from "Western" diseases as of 1973–75, while the opposite was true for counties that ate more plant foods.〔 ==Arguments and evidence== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The China Study」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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