Healthytarian Living with Evita Ochel and featured guest Dr. T. Colin Campbell in a dialogue about optimal health and nutrition for humans, and limitations of the current medical system.

Dr. Campbell’s Books:

  1. The China Study New Edition
  2. Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition
  3. The Low-Carb Fraud

Specific topics covered include:

  1. What the optimal diet for humans is. (1:41)

  2. How whole plant foods differ from refined or processed ones. (2:19)

  3. Can one diet fit all; how to use our unique body constitution in the right way. (3:49)

  4. Exploring whole food vs. synthetic, isolated nutrients. (5:52)

    • what about RDA, DRI, etc. (8:38)
  5. The power behind whole, plant foods. (11:01)

    • words by Hippocrates
  6. What research says about dairy, and the casein and cancer connection. (14:00)

    • protein from plants vs. animals
    • the health risks associated with consuming dairy
    • the calcium, dairy and osteoporosis connection
    • Fracture-Dairy graph
  7. The addictive nature of dairy. (22:14)

    • the role of fat and sugar
  8. The dangers of high protein diets. (25:31)

    • the history of protein
    • the dietary imbalance
    • social and cultural conditioning
  9. The dangers of low carb diets. (29:22)

    • where the idea of low-carb came from
    • whyPaleo / Atkins and similar diets gained popularity
  10. What is the safe zone for animal foods (33:01)

    • what research shows
    • guidance for general health
    • guidance for disease conditions
  11. The problems of mainstream science, medicine and nutrition. (37:41)

    • 1982 panel: relationship between nutrition and cancer
    • local theory of disease vs. constitutional nature of disease
    • why cancer is addressed as it is today in medicine
    • reductionism vs. holism
  12. Advice for overcoming the obstacles and challenges of confusing and contradicting nutritional information. (48:59)

    • online plant nutrition certification course
    • the role of support and community
  13. Closing words from Dr. T. Colin Campbell. (55:17)

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