The China Study Part 1 - Problems We Face, Solutions We Need

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Book: The China Study - Chapter 1 - Problems We Face - Solutions We Need

Author relates the death of his father at seventy from a second massive coronary.
Sections:

• Sickness, Anyone?
  • American Cancer Society claim that males have a 47% chance of getting cancer, and females have 38% lifetime chance of cancer. These are almost the highest rates in the world. Despite this, healthy diet and lifestyle can prevent the majority of cancers.
  • Chart 1.1: Cancer Death Rates per 100,000 people
  • Chart 1.2: Percent Obese Population
  • Chart 1.3: What is Obese? - Height, and weights
  • Diabetes Statistics - Annual cost of diebetes: $98 billion
• Ooops... We didn't mean to have that happen
  • Barbara Starfield, M.D., in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) said that physician error, medication error, and adverse events due to drugs or surgery, kill 225,400 people per year.
  • Chart 1.4: Leading Causes of Death
  • Chart 1.5: Death By Health Care - 106,000 Americans a year die from adverse drug effects, such as the "noxious, unintended and undesired effect of a drug which occurs at normal doses". Note, the complication of death is happening to people who are properly prescribed and medicated.
• An Expensive Grave - We spent over 1 trillion dollars are health care in 1997. It could cost 16 trillion dollars by 2030. One out of every seven dollars is spent on health care. According to WHO, U.S. ranks 37th best in the world for health care.
  • Chart 1.6: Health Care expenditures per person 1997
  • Chart 1.7: Percent of US GDP Spent on Health Care every 10 years from 1960 to 1997.
• Working to Lessen Confusion
  • Americans tend to follow faddish diets. 60 women diet from the protein shake fad in the 1970's. Atkins, Protein Power, and The South Beach Diet are high protein, high-fat diets that increasing evidence is showing cause dangerous health disorders.
• A different kind of prescription
  • This book is not a two week diet, and offers a "more beneficial way to view health".
  • This author has authored or coauthored 350 scientific articles
• The promise of the feature
  • The benefits produced by plant-based diet are more diverse and impressive than any drug or surgery
  • These diseases are largely prevented by a plant-based diet:
    • Heart diseases
    • Cancers
    • Diabetes
    • Stroke
    • Hypertension
    • Arthritis
    • Cataracts
    • Alzheimers
    • impotence
  • These diseases can be reversed by diet:
    • Advanced heart disease
    • Relatively advanced cancers
    • Diabetes
    • other degenerative diseases
    • diseases believed due to genetic factors
  • Genetics based research takes money and attention from proven nutrition solutions
  • This authors lab has shown cancer can be turned on and off by nutrition.
  • World class athletes have noticed they are more likely to exercise on a low-animal protein diet.
  • Professor Russell Chittenden, nutrition resercher at Yale Medical School tested student performance when eating a plant-based diet. He saw spectacular improvements. - Chittenden RH, Physiological economy in nutrition 1904, and The Nutrition of Man, 1907
• Simple beginnings

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Other pages about the book The China Study

• Introduction
• Part 1: The China Study
  • The China Study Part 1 - Problems We Face, Solutions We Need
  • The China Study Part 1 - A House of Proteins
  • The China Study Part 1 - Turning Off Cancer
  • The China Study Part 1 - Lesson from China

• The China Study Part 2 - Diseases of Affluence
  • The China Study Part 2 - Diseases of Affluence - Broken Hearts
  • The China Study Part 2 - Diseases of Affluence - Obesity
  • The China Study Part 2 - Diseases of Affluence - Diabetes
  • The China Study Part 2 - Diseases of Affluence - Common Cancers
    • The China Study Part 2 - Diseases of Affluence - Common Cancers - Breast Cancer
    • The China Study Part 2 - Diseases of Affluence - Common Cancers - Prostate Cancer
    • The China Study Part 2 - Diseases of Affluence - Common Cancers - Large Bowel Cancer
      • The China Study Part 2 - Diseases of Affluence - Common Cancers - Colon Cancer
      • The China Study Part 2 - Diseases of Affluence - Common Cancers - Rectal Cancer
  • The China Study Part 2 - Diseases of Affluence - Autoimmune Diseases
  • The China Study Part 2 - Diseases of Affluence - Wide-Ranging Effects
    • The China Study Part 2 - Diseases of Affluence - Wide-Ranging Effects - Bone Diseases
    • [The China Study Part 2 - Diseases of Affluence - Wide-Ranging Effects - Kidney Diseases]?Create
    • The China Study Part 2 - Diseases of Affluence - Wide-Ranging Effects - Eye Diseases
    • The China Study Part 2 - Diseases of Affluence - Wide-Ranging Effects - Brain Diseases

• The China Study Part 3 - The Good Nutrition Guide
  • The China Study Part 3 - The Good Nutrition Guide - Eating Right - Eight Principles of Food and Health
  • The China Study Part 3 - The Good Nutrition Guide - How To Eat

• The China Study Part 4 - Why Haven't You Heard This Before ?
  • The China Study Part 4 - Science - The Dark Side
  • The China Study Part 4 - Scientific Reductionism
  • [The China Study Part 4 - The Science of Industry]?Create
  • The China Study Part 4 - Government - Is it For The People
  • The China Study Part 4 - Big Medicine - Whose Health Are They Protecting
  • The China Study Part 4 - Repeating Histories

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