The China Study is part diet, part medical study, part condemnation of the governmental and industry politics that determine what we think about what we eat.

This exhaustive presentation of the findings from the China Study conclusively demonstrates the link between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes and cancer. Referred to as the "Grand Prix of epidemiology" by the New York Times, this study reveals the dramatic effect proper nutrition can have on reducing and reversing these ailments as well as obesity and calls into question the practices of many of the current dietary programs, such as the Atkins diet, that enjoy widespread popularity in the western world.

T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., is the project director of the China-Oxford-Cornell Diet and Health Project (the China Study), a twenty year study of nutrition and health. In more than forty years of research he has received more than seventy grant-years of peer-reviewed research funding and authored more than three hundred research papers.

Publication date: January 2005