I felt this was a wonderful, lifechanging book that every one should read.
Dr. Campbell has the best, long term, peer reviewed study on nutrition out there. I'm sure some people don't want to hear that your diet is the most important component of your health and that it's up to you and not your doctor to take care of yourself, but it's true. You have the choice to eat a healthful diet and maintain optimal health or eat the standard American diet and merely hide the symtoms of a greater underlying problem with drugs. It's up to you. If you choose to take your life into your own hands this book will be an excellent resource.
I think people that won't like it are likely people who don't want to change what they are currently doing because the research is there. ( )

T. Colin Campbell’s career-long study of nutrition has produced a simple assertion backed up by empirical evidence: that a diet featuring animal protein and fat is harmful to human health – the best action you can take in order to have long-term health is to eat a plant-based diet. But don’t think this statement capture the full import of the book. “The China Study” is well worth reading from cover to cover. Along the way, Campbell has many insightful thing to say about human nutrition, the nature of scientific investigation, and the depredations caused by scientific reductionism.

Towards the end, he asks the following disturbing questions:

“How did we get to a place where the healers of our society, our doctors, know little, if anyting, about nutrition; where our medical institutions denigrate the subject; where using prescription drugs and going to hospitals is the third leading cause of death? How did we get to place where advocating a plant-based diet can jeopardize a professional career, where scientists spend more time mastering nature than respecting it? How did we get to a place where the companies that profit from out sickness are the ones telling us how to be healthy; where the companies that profit from our food choices are the ones telling us what to eat; where the public’s hard-earned money is being spent by the government to boost the drug industry’s profits; and where there is more distrust than trust of our governments policies on foods, drugs and health?

Dr. Campbell is not simply a writer or journalist, he is a distinguished professor of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University. This is a very important book for everyone to read, and it could have a major impact on your life. ( )

everyone has got to read this book! ( )

The China Study gives critical, life-saving nutritional information for every health-seeker in America. But, it is much more; Dr. Campbell’s exposé of the research and medical establishment makes this book a fascinating read and one that could change the future for all of us. Every health care provider and researcher in the world must read it.

Fantastic and enlightening book. If diet and nutrition hadn't become such taboo topics lately, I'd be sending copies to everyone I care about. It's occasioned my own transition to a vegetarian diet. ( )