How does a farm boy turned scientist cope with the startling discovery that the casein in cow’s milk is a powerful carcinogen?
Dr.
T. Colin Campbell, author of The China Study — grew up on a dairy farm
but stopped serving ANY milk whatsoever to his own family over twenty
years ago. He also counseled Dr. Spock prior to his final book — he too
finally learned the truth about milk a few years before he died.
After growing up on a dairy farm in
Virginia, Dr. T. Colin Campbell began his career in nutritional science
believing that the healthiest diet in the world was the good old standard American diet
— rich in meat and dairy three meals a day. But, as a man of the
highest integrity, he took notice as he began discovering some dirty little secrets about the animal “protein” products that we had been led to believe were so healthy.
As early as the 1960′s as he began
uncovering scientific evidence that negatively implicated the vast
amount of animal protein in our diets, he was advised by his peers and
colleagues that, in the interest of his career, he better keep quiet
about those findings. Fortunately, keeping quiet about something that
was killing people all over the world simply wasn’t in the Colin
Campbell DNA.
Being a scientist, he wanted to find more
proof before he went public — he simply wanted to be sure. He knew that
once he went public with negative information about animal-based foods,
that he would have difficulty getting much funding — and, without
funding, it’s difficult to do much scientific research.
Fortunately, in 1980, he got the chance to direct the largest epidemiological study in the history of the world. It was called The China-Cornell-Oxford Project
and, over the next thirty years, produced startling evidence about the
relationship between diet, disease and health. As the overall director
of this huge international project — this vital experience became the
capstone of his 50-year career.
My
Cornell Certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition — Nov. 2009; a certificate
that is good for continuing education credits for MD’s and RD’s but
(thanks to the dairy industry) is no longer good for credits toward
graduation from Cornell University.
After becoming absolutely sure that the
natural and best diet for our species was whole, plant-based foods; he
followed the encouragement of his wife Karen — and told his complete
career story in his world-changing book, The China Study (BenBella 2005).
She had been saying that he simply must tell his story — for the children of the world.
But long before telling his story to the world, he created a
plant-based nutrition course at Cornell University in the 90′s and
taught it himself for seven years.
Wildly popular among the students, he got a
call one day from someone who was trying to sign up for his course, but
was told that the course had been canceled. Why was it canceled and why
was Dr. Campbell not told about that cancellation in advance? The short
answer is MONEY — in the form of the university’s huge financial support
from the dairy industry. The controlling powers of the university had
decided that a course that was counter to the prevailing meat &
dairy diet-style didn’t make good business sense. So much for academic freedom.
J. Morris Hicks
The good news is that Dr. Campbell’s
Plant-Based Nutrition course has been resurrected and is now delivered
online by eCornell – a division of Cornell University.
Managed by the T. Colin Campbell Foundation,
graduates of this great 6-week course can earn continuing education
credits for MD’s and RD’s but, thanks to the dairy industry, cannot earn
credits toward graduation from Cornell University. You can sign up for
that course today by visiting this link: Certificate in Plant Based Nutrition – Online Certificate Program | eCornell. My certificate from 2009 is shown above.
To Dr. Campbell’s knowledge, there is no
such course offered toward graduation in ANY school of nutrition in the
United States. Apparently, our entire network of nutritional academia
has sold out to the meat and dairy industry. What a shame. And how sad
for the young people who compete to get into the best schools — in
search of the truth. Further, the vast majority (if not all) of the PhD
faculty in the School of Nutritional Science at Cornell have never even
read The China Study.
Maybe some of that is driven by a threat to their job security; after all, how many PhD’s do you need to tell you the only two words that you need to know about consuming a health-promoting, disease-reversing diet? WHOLE PLANTS!
J. Morris Hicks reviewing his book manuscript with Dr. T. Colin Campbell at Cornell University — Dec. 15, 2010
The students had great interest; the faculty — not so much. And the comments they made revealed how little they knew — or wanted to know about the topic of plant-based nutrition. This kind of information needs to be seen by millions of people; maybe you can share it with a few that might be interested.
One final note: We are truly honored that this great man and his son have written the foreword to our upcoming book — you can see an excerpt of that foreword by clicking here.
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—J. Morris Hicks…blogging daily at HealthyEatingHealthyWorld.com
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