“ This is also the case with our disease-care system: it focuses on treating symptoms as if they were root causes, and as a result, it tends to choose interventions that completely ignore the true root… T. Colin Campbell
“ When we live in a system, we absorb a system and think in a system. —JAMES W. DOUGLASS T. Colin Campbell
“ My friend David Kritchevsky, who was probably the leading researcher in this area until his death, found40 that protein of animal origin is more cholesterolemic [leading to higher cholesterol in the b… T. Colin Campbell
“ The problem is that we are asking the wrong questions - questions based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the wholistic nature of nutrition. We're asking, "How much vitamin C are we getting?" when… T. Colin Campbell
“ By now, I hope you recognize this as one more example of the reductionist paradigm at work, even when it's couched in natural and alternative terms. As we saw in chapter ten, one of the major problems… T. Colin Campbell
“ 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 ou… T. Colin Campbell
“ Even rational, data-driven scientists could be sent into prolonged states of hysteria when presented with evidence that their favorite foods might be killing them. T. Colin Campbell
“ I have heard one doctor call high-protein, high-fat, low-carbohydrate diets “make-yourself-sick” diets, and I think that’s an appropriate moniker. You can also lose weight by undergoing chemotherapy o… T. Colin Campbell
“ If we limit our sight to individual players, we'll never see the big picture. The issue is a systemic one, maintained by interconnected actors, all acting in their self-interest to further their goals… T. Colin Campbell
“ We don't need to know the effects of single agents on health, because this is not the way that nature works. Nutrition has a wholistic effect on health; one that we consistently miss and misinterpret… T. Colin Campbell
