I'm reading The China Study and I wanted to share some tidbits.
p. 6 "Low-protein diets inhibited the initiation of cancer by aflatoxin, regardless of how much of this carcinogen was administered...In other words, the cancer-producing effects of this highly carcinogenic chemical were rendered insignificant by a low-protein diet. In fact, dietary protein proved to be so powerful in its effect that we could turn on and turn off cancer growth simply by changing the level consumed...
But that's not all. We found that not all proteins had this effect. What protein consistently and strongly promoted cancer? Casein, which makes up 87% of cow's milk protein, promoted all stages of the cancer process. What type of protein did not promote cancer, even at high levels of intake? The safe proteins were from plants, including wheat and soy."
p.7 "...among the many associations that are relevant to diet and disease [found in the study],
so many pointed to the same finding: people who ate the most animal-based foods got the most chronic disease. Even relatively small intakes of animal-based food were associated with adverse effects. People who ate the most plant-based foods were the healthiest and tended to avoid chronic disease."
p. 15 According to an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, "physician error, medication error and adverse events from drugs or surgery kill 225,400 people per year...[making] our health care system the third leading cause of death in the United States, behind only cancer and heart disease."
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I will continue to post as I get more tidbits of info. The section of the book I'm on now is really heavy on the study design.
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