It’s never too late to start eating well. A good diet can reverse many of those conditions as well. In short: change the way you eat and you can transform your health for the better. T. Colin Campbell More Quotes by T. Colin Campbell More Quotes From T. Colin Campbell Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases. T. Colin Campbell funny-inspirational disease animal One way to identify the optimal human diet, pretty obvious to all but fundamentalist reductionists, is to survey and compare populations as they already exist, and see what they eat and how healthy they are. T. Colin Campbell population healthy way Perhaps it is a testament to the power of modern marketing savvy that an obese man with heart disease and high blood pressure became one of the richest snake oil salesmen ever to live, selling a diet that promises to help you lose weight, to keep your heart healthy and to normalize your blood pressure. T. Colin Campbell oil heart men When absurdities get repeated often enough, they start sounding like truth. T. Colin Campbell absurdity enough In short, it is about the multiple health benefits of consuming plant-based foods, and the largely unappreciated health dangers of consuming animal-based foods, including all types of meat, dairy and eggs. T. Colin Campbell eggs meat animal I was raised on a dairy farm and ate plenty of meat and eggs until about twenty years ago. I started doing nutritional research, and a decade pr so after that my family made some major dietary changes. I'm just paying attention to what the data are telling me: The scientific evidence came first. T. Colin Campbell data eggs years Once people start introducing animal products into their diet, that's when the mischief starts. T. Colin Campbell introducing animal people Furthermore, a pattern was beginning to emerge: nutrients from animal-based foods increased tumor development while nutrients from plant-based foods decreased tumor development. T. Colin Campbell patterns development animal The national debate on health-care reform wildly misses the mark, with Democrats and Republicans alike arguing about who's going to pay rather than about what would actually make people healthy. T. Colin Campbell healthy missing people Quite simply, the more you substitute plant foods for animal foods, the healthier you are likely to be. T. Colin Campbell substitutes plant animal Usually, the first thing a country does in the course of economic development is to introduce a lot of livestock. Our data are showing that this is not a very smart move and the Chinese are listening. They are realizing that animal-based agriculture is not the way to go.... We are basically a vegetarian species and should be eating a wide variety of plant food and minimizing our intake of animal foods. T. Colin Campbell smart country moving Americans love to hear good things about their bad habits. T. Colin Campbell healthy-eating habit good-things There’s only one thing that we have to do in life, and that is to die. T. Colin Campbell one-thing dies Protein during promotion trumps the carcinogen, regardless of initial exposure. T. Colin Campbell promotion trump protein In every respect, vegans appear to enjoy equal or better health in comparison to both vegetarians and non-vegetarians. T. Colin Campbell vegetarian-health vegan vegetarianism Nutrition is not a mathematical equation in which two plus two is four. The food we put in our mouths doesn't control our nutrition-not entirely. What our bodies do with that food does. T. Colin Campbell mathematical-equations doe two If you flip a coin three times and it lands on heads each time, it’s probably chance. If you flip it a hundred times and it lands on heads each time, you can be pretty sure the coin has heads on both sides. That’s the concept behind statistical significance—it’s the odds that the correlation (or other finding) is real, that it isn’t just random chance. T. Colin Campbell odds land real