A student from China reads the China Study (Spoiler alert: they aren't impressed)

“As a Chinese person, I have never heard of Chinese people eating a plant-based diet.” “All of the food traditions include a lot of meat and less of plants.”

The comment was from an Honors student the other day. We had just discussed Colin Campbell’s famous China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-term Health, widely regarded as a “Bible” among vegans. For those of you who don’t know Campbell, he is a Cornell researcher who argued that the traditional Chinese diet was rich in plants and poor in animal fats and protein. In his view, this was the secret of Chinese health: lower cholesterol, lower rates of breast cancer and cardiovascular disease.

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