the China Study

A History of the China Study

When I interviewed with Colin Campbell for a job as a technician in his laboratory, my first reaction was, "What a nice, easy-going guy." Well, I was half right. He certainly has been a nice guy to work for over the last 19 years. On the other count I couldn't have been more wrong: always going, yes; easy-going, definitely not.

I would like to briefly recount some of the events that led up to the start of what came to be called the China Study. When I first came to work at Campbell's Cornell laboratory in 1980, our focus was entirely animal research in the effects of nutrition on the events leading to liver cancer. In a typical study we would feed rats a chemical called aflatoxin B1 that caused liver cancer in about 8-12 months. We would then feed different groups of animals different diets to see how specific dietary components (protein level, type of fat or different plant extracts) would affect the early stages of the development of liver cancer (hepatocarcinogenesis).
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the China Study

A book by T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Cornell University. Startling implications for diet, weight loss and long-term health.
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