81 Quotes by T. Colin Campbell

Costs have so consistently outpaced inflation that we now spend one out of every seven dollars the economy produces on health care.

The process of eating is perhaps the most intimate encounter we have with our world; it is a process in which what we eat becomes part of our body.

There are, in effect, two things: to know and to believe one knows. To know is science. To believe one knows is ignorance.

Perhaps the most telling report on the low-carb diet and health is the recent summary of 17 studies published in January 2013 involving 272,216 subjects,59 in which a low-carb diet showed a statistically significant 31 percent increase in total deaths. This finding is even more telling than the statistics suggest because this 31 percent increase is in comparison to the already high mortality typically observed for the SAD, when compared to a whole food, plant-based diet.

There’s only one thing that we have to do in life, and that is to die.

Quite simply, the more you substitute plant foods for animal foods, the healthier you are likely to be.

Population studies begun forty to fifty years ago show that when people migrate from one country to another, they acquire the cancer rate of the country to which they move, despite the fact their genes remain the same.

It is a wonderful harmony. The plants make the antioxidant shields, and at the same time make them look incredibly appealing with beautiful, appetizing colors. Then we animals, in turn, are attracted to the plants and eat them and borrow their antioxidant shields for our own health. Whether you believe in God, evolution or just coincidence, you must admit that this is a beautiful, almost spiritual, example of nature’s wisdom.

With industry’s sales and marketing machines cloaked in mantles of charitable virtue, no wonder most Americans don’t realize that the junk that passes for food is in fact the biggest contributor to our health crisis, and the junk that passes for medicine keeps us just well enough to continue to spend on both the food and the medicine.