In today’s diet-crazed society, one main theme seems to emerge. Carbohydrate heavy foods like fruit are not good for you and if you eat them, you could get fat and even sick. This is a major principle of the low-carb movement.

Is this assessment correct? What if that was all wrong? In the China Study, we will find out just how beneficial a plant-based diet is and why we don’t need to fear carbs as much as we need to fear meat.

The China Study by T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell II is primarily focused on the results of an enormous survey of diet and mortality that T. Colin Campbell conducted in 65 Chinese counties.
Campbell was the son of farmers who ate a largely animal-based diet. When he began studying nutrition, he worked under the assumption that the typical American diet of dairy and meat products was ideal. However, after Campbell participated in a nutrition improvement program in a region in the Philippines where children had a high incidence of liver cancer, he began to have doubts. Campbell read studies that helped him make the connection between protein consumption, the carcinogen aflatoxin, and liver cancer. Plant proteins were significantly less correlated to liver cancer.