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The China Study Findings Numbers Eight – Twelve

  • Type I diabetes, a devastating disease that strikes young children, is strongly linked to cow?s milk consumption and premature weaning. For infants, the best food is human breast milk.
  • Eye diseases commonly associated with old age, including cataracts and macular degeneration, have been convincingly linked to diet. Specifically, the antioxidants found in fruits and vegetables protect against these diseases. The best foods for your eyes: dark, green, leafy vegetables like spinach.
  • Bone health is strongly associated with the ratio of vegetable to animal protein intake. Your bones will thank you for eating more nutrient-rich plant foods and less animal foods. Populations that consume mostly plant- foods and lead more physically active lifestyles have much lower rates of hip fracture than we do in America, even if they don?t consume dairy foods or calcium supplements.
  • Several studies have shown that type 2 diabetes, an increasingly urgent epidemic in America, can be reversed in patients simply by changing their diet to a high-fiber, unrefined, largely plant-based diet; in other words, a nutrient-rich diet.
  • So many studies have so consistently shown that dairy intake is linked to prostate cancer that Harvard researchers have said that a high dairy intake is one of the ?most consistent dietary predictors for prostate cancer in the published literature.?

What follows is one of the most provocative finding in modern nutritional science?