In an extense epidemiologic study called the China Study determined the exact relation between food habits and disease predominance, and the implications of a traditional chinese plant based diet, to a western style, with rich foods, diet. Professor T. Collin Campbell implicated, with strong evidence, the increase in animal protein consumption with an increase in cancer, diabetes, heart related diseases, and others. These, common in western countries, were considered rare in China.
Healthy eating habits mean, in China, secular habits. A rural chinese (80% population) eats more calories than a westerner, yet, stores less fat. Eats more starch, yet weighs less. And eats less animal products, having less LDL cholesterol and typical diseases of affluence.
Modern Nutrition and Chinese Dietetics
Food is used much like chinese herbal prescription, according to opposite pairs, natures, flavors and directions.
In the recent decades the food pyramid, recommended by the Food and Drug Administration in the USA, much starts to resemble the healthy food pyramid from the Far East (Kushi, 2005). Now, many modern studies on nutrition provides us a safe confirmation for this healing tradition.
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