The Future of Nutrition- How oversimplifying nutrients has gotten us into trouble, with Dr T. Colin Campbell
In episode 12 of The Green Life , I have the privileged to discuss the future of nutrition with the father of Modern Day Plant Based Nutrition, Dr T Colin Campbell. Based on his latest book by the same title, we discuss how oversimplifying nutrients has caused confusion, the negative impact of private financial incentives on food policies and more!
T. Colin Campbell, PhD has been dedicated to the science of human health for more than 60 years. His primary focus is on the association between diet and disease, particularly cancer. Although largely known for the China Study–one of the most comprehensive studies of health and nutrition ever conducted, and recognized by The New York Times as the “Grand Prix of epidemiology”–Dr. Campbell’s profound impact also includes extensive involvement in education, public policy, and laboratory research.
Dr. Campbell grew up on a dairy farm and was the first in his family to go to college, where he studied pre-veterinary medicine at Pennsylvania State University. After obtaining his bachelor’s degree, and while completing his first year at the University of Georgia veterinary school, he received a telegram from a well known professor at Cornell University, offering a scholarship and research opportunity too good to turn down. And so he completed his education at Cornell University (M.S., Ph.D.) and MIT (Research Associate) in nutrition, biochemistry and toxicology. He then spent 10 years on the faculty of Virginia Tech’s Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition before returning to Cornell in 1975 where he presently holds his Endowed Chair as the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry in the Division of Nutritional Sciences.
Dr. Campbell’s research experience includes both laboratory experiments and large-scale human studies. He has received over 70 grant-years of peer-reviewed research funding (mostly with NIH), served on grant review panels of multiple funding agencies, actively participated in the development of national and international nutrition policy, and authored over 350 research papers, most published in peer-reviewed science journals. Throughout his career, he has confronted a great deal of confusion surrounding nutrition and its effects. It is precisely this confusion that he has focused so much on, in recent years.
In order to synthesize the findings of his long and rewarding career, and to give back to the public whose lives are threatened by rampant misinformation and special interests, Dr. Campbell co-wrote The China Study: Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (2005, 2016), which has sold more than 3 million copies worldwide and has been translated into 50 foreign languages. He is also the author of the The New York Times bestseller Whole (2013), The Low Carb Fraud (2013), and The Future of Nutrition. An Insider’s Look at the Science, Why We Keep Getting It Wrong and How to Start Getting It Right (2020). Several documentary films feature Dr. Campbell and his research, including Forks Over Knives, Eating You Alive, Food Matters, and PlantPure Nation. He continues to share evidence-based information on health and nutrition whenever given the opportunity. He has delivered hundreds of lectures around the world and he is the founder of the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies and the online Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate in partnership with eCornell.
WELLNESS RETREAT TUCSON OCT 31T -NOV 5TH 2022
With a focus on Whole Wellness, Dr. T. Colin Campbell and other leading experts will share WFPB nutrition and lifestyle medicine practices to help you live your best life, in addition, a handful of speakers who are highly sought-after wellness practitioners that usually only work at exclusive destination wellness resorts. So join for this special week, and learn about a wide range of topics: culinary medicine, sleep health, gut health, stress reduction, movement/activity, social connections, and more.
To register and view a complete lineup of speakers and activities, please visit: https://wellness.nutritionstudies.org/
AMAZING PROJECT at the Centre of Nutrition Studies
The T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies (CNS) is committed to increasing awareness of the extraordinary impact that food has on the health of our bodies, our communities, and our planet. In support of this commitment, CNS is creating a Community Grants service initiative to empower sustainable food-based initiatives around the world. They will do this by providing grants to enable innovative start-ups and to propel the growth of existing initiatives. This initiative is overseen by Dr Cambell's daughter LeeAnne Campbell PDH
