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 Post subject: CNN: Dr Campbell -- "Exporting the Chinese diet... to China
PostPosted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:48 pm 
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Confirms a point Dr. McDougall has been making regarding genetics vs. the toxic western food environment.
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T. Colin Campbell co-authored a bestselling book touting the health benefits of eating like the rural Chinese. Now he’s trying to reacquaint the Chinese with the benefits of the plant-based diet he learned from them....

“It’s ironic that some of the things we learned from the Chinese now we’re sort of taking back to China,” said Campbell, an American who is professor emeritus in nutritional sciences at Cornell University....

Rapid economic expansion in China has been accompanied by a transformation of the diet and a proliferation of fast food, especially in cities....

Like their diets, China’s rates of diabetes, obesity and heart disease rates also are starting to more closely mirror western countries:

http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/07/exporting-the-chinese-diet-to-china/


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