T. Colin Campbell Ph.D. is a name I want you to remember.  Dr. Campbell is the author of The China Study, a book that I recommend you read.  This book is not an easy read, but worth your time, if, you are serious about your health.  I have recommended this book through the years to my clients.  Dr. Campbell is one of the most important researchers our country has had in the area of health and nutrition.

Dean Ornish M.D. states, ” Everyone in the field of nutrition science stands on the shoulders of Dr. Campbell, who is one of the giants in the field.  This is one of the most important books about nutrition ever written – reading it may save your life.”

For 27 years, Dr. Campbell’s research was funded by the National Health Institute  for Cancer Research (NIH), the American Cancer Society and The American Institute for Cancer Research.  His team’s research was then reviewed for a second time for publication in many of the best scientific journals.

Dr. Campbell was instrumental in the discovery of dioxin and aflatoxin. Does dioxin ring a bell for you?  It is arguably the most toxic chemical ever found.  Remember the Vietnam War and Agent Orange?   Aflatoxin is a mold found in peanuts and corn.  Aflatoxin has been called one of the most potent carcinogens ever discovered.

For ten years Dr. Campbell worked on a project with Filipino children investigating the unusually high prevalence of liver cancer, a disease usually found in adults.  It was thought that the high consumption of aflatoxin was the cause.  In this project, he discovered the dark secret that: Children who ate the highest-protein diets were the ones most likely to get liver cancer!

Dr. Campbell grew up on a dairy farm believing that the dietary recommendations of a high protein diet was correct and that Americans had the best diet.  Dr. Campbell started his career in veterinary school and then moved into a position of research in animal nutrition.  (If you want to know what is in the future for human medicine, research animal medicine.)

Dr. Campbell was on the road to promote better health by advocating the belief that the intake of more meat, milk and eggs was the best course of action.

So, what happened in Dr. Campbell’s research that would cause medical institutions and government agencies to go out of their way to discredit him?

The defining moment for Dr. Campbell was when he was studying a research project in India that had some very provoking findings.  India researchers had studied two groups of rats.  One group was feed the cancer-causing aflatoxin with a diet composed of 20% protein, a level near American consumption of protein and the second group of rats fed the aflatoxin, but only 5% protein in the diet.  Incredibly, every animal in the 20% protein group, developed liver cancer.  The animals in the 5% protein group did not develop liver cancer.  It was a 100 to 0 score, leaving no doubt that nutrition won out over chemical carcinogens.  This was a very potent discovery.

Dr. Campbell researched the different proteins and the effect they have on the human body and discovered that the protein casein, which makes up 87% of cow’s milk protein promoted all stages of cancer.  Dr. Campbell discovered that proteins from plants made up the safest forms of protein.  Remember, Dr. Campbell grew up on a dairy farm.

This series of articles on diet and cancer will examine the popular beliefs and propaganda that we Americans have been spoon-fed through the decades.  You will be given information and the tools to make up your own minds.

Dr. Joseph Rosenzweig, a pediatrician I worked with when I started my nursing career, said, “Cows milk is for cows.  Man is the only mammal who drinks milk past infancy.  This is why humans have many of the health problems they have.”

So, does milk do a body good?  Are our medical institutions protecting the American public?  And the most important question: What are you going to do with the information once you learn the truth?