Campbell biography

Even an ancient Greek physician, the father of European medicine, Hippocrates said: "Let the food be medicine." Colin Campbell - an honorary professor of Cornell University, a teacher and writer of 60 years of life spent on scientific studies that reveal the relationship between the nutrition of people and their health, and came to very non -trivial conclusions. Childhood and youth Colin was born in the spring of the year in the family of farmers-living creatures and from early childhood heard that freshly-like milk and paired beef are the most useful products.

The first doubts about the correctness of these postulates arose at the boy when a father, a summer meat -eater, engaged in physical labor in the fresh air, overtook a heart attack. Soon, uncle's wife, a lover of cottage cheese and other dairy products, died from cancer. Young Campbell dreamed of becoming a veterinarian to help American farmers increase milk yields and assignments.

The guy did not limit himself to veterinary schools in Pennsylvania and Georgia, defending the master's and doctoral dissertations at Cornell University. Soon, Colin married and watched the suffering of the mother -in -law - a summer lady who died of cancer, in the past also fans of meat food. Research and books in the turning point in Campbell’s biography was participation in the program to combat hunger in Asia.

Trying to improve the nutrition of Philippine children, Campbell drew attention to the fact that minor members of the country's wealthy families often suffer from liver cancer. The researcher recalled the following statistics: the population of Japan was 2 times smaller than the US population at the time of analysis, but the proven cases of death from prostate cancer were there at a time less than in the United States.

Kenya women who eat more scarce than US residents suffered from breast cancer by 18 times less than American. This fact is also known: in the beginning of the 10ths, the Nazis occupied Norway and confiscated cattle for the needs of the army, the Norwegians began to eat mainly plant foods, and the number of heart attacks decreased sharply. With the departure of the Germans, the descendants of the Vikings returned to the consumption of animal protein, and the level of heart attacks grew again.

After that, carcinogens were introduced to animals that cause cancer. Rats with more protein nutrition were dying of cancer, and with less protein lived for a long time. Campbell changed the terms of the experiment: the scientist alternated the power modes in rats. When switching to a more protein diet, rat tumors grew, and when the share of casein in food decreases, they decreased.

To check whether the connection between protein foods and oncological diseases for the human population is fair, Colin analyzed the results of the “Chinese study”. In the year, Chinese Prime Minister Zhou Enlai was hospitalized in connection with bladder cancer. The politician decided to ensure a better understanding of the Celestial Councils of cancer. The analysis covered 65 rural cantons in 22 provinces of the PRC.

The countryside was chosen as more stable in the population. From each canton was taken by a person. In M Campbell began the analysis of the collected information. The work took 7 years. 94 thousand correlations between nutrition and diseases were calculated. The calculations showed: in poor areas, where residents could only dream of milk and meat, health was better, and in the prosperous where the daily menu was approaching the American one - worse.

The conclusion made by Colin is food based on whole plant products is more useful for the human body than on the basis of animals. Moreover, this is true not only for oncology, but also for other diseases. So, according to the researcher, contrary to the assurances of manufacturers of cottage cheese and yogurts, milk does not reduce, but increases the risk of osteoporosis.

The biochemist outlined the results of research in books, the most famous of which are Chinese research and “useful food”. The scientist’s thoughts about nutrition are aphoristic in 8 Campbell postulates: nutrition is not the sum of the absorbed substances, but the result of their complex interaction. The introduction of the missing substances into the diet using food additives is not a panacea and can provoke unpredictable side effects.

There are more beneficial substances in plant foods than in animal. The hibernation and awakening of genes, including those responsible for the predisposition to diseases, depend on environmental factors, including nutrition. Nutrition can withstand adverse environmental factors. If a certain type of nutrition prevents the onset of the disease, then the transition to the appropriate diet slows down or even stops the development of the already beginning illness.

Proper nutrition is similar or the same for the prevention of various diseases, different diets and recipes are not needed. Proper nutrition comprehensively heals a person. Criticism of Campbell’s research has been criticized repeatedly. The main remarks of the opponents are based on the thesis “after it does not mean due to”, the correlation between phenomena does not necessarily mean a causal relationship between them.

For example, it is noted that with an increase in kvass consumption, the number of rape is growing.Does this mean that drinking kvass provokes a tendency to violence - no, the logic here is different: people drink kvass more on hot days than on cold. The heat contributes to the wearing of short skirts and other outfits that provoke sexual aggression. That is, not kvass activates rapists, but hot weather is the cause of both phenomena.

Similarly, a larger number of cancer cases in Chinese areas with the American type of power is not necessarily a consequence of the transition to a meat and milk diet. It is likely that in wealthy areas the population adopted not only the European diet, but also the way of life, for example, emotional reactions to the death of relatives and other sad events. Dr.

Colin Kempbell. The monologue about health, the principles of nutrition and cancer. Another aspect of criticism is associated with the incorrectness of the experiment on rats to the human community. In addition, milk consists not of one that is so harmful to Casein rats, but also of other substances, including such benefits such as serum.

Campbell and followers claim that critical comments are paid by cattle -breeding and pharmaceutical lobbies, which are beneficial for people to spend money first on livestock products, and then on drugs. Personal life about Colin’s personal life is little known. According to the scientist, the family switched to plant foods. However, Campbell asks not to classify him to the champions of vegetarianism: in his books there are no religious and ethical motifs on which opponents of meat -eating are based.

It is known that the scientist has three offspring, and all children support the parent. The eldest son Nelson makes films about proper nutrition, biography and research of his father. The most famous tape is “forks against scalpels”. The average child of a biochemist, daughter Kit is a scientist, a woman works in Latin America and talks about the dangers of hamburgers there.

The youngest son Michael is a doctor of family medicine, the co -author of his father in the spelling of “Chinese research”. Colin Campbell now in March, Colin Kampbell, 85 years old. Judging by the photo, the scientist looks youthful now. Whether the propaganda type of food will help the researcher among the centenarians, humanity will recognize in the coming years. Disputes about the correctness of Campbell's postulates do not subside.