Q & A with T. Colin Campbell

Dr. Campbell responds to Weston Price Foundation criticisms of his bestseller, The China Study; talks about vitamins and the vegan diet; discusses his views on fish. For more info debunking the Weston Price Foundation, see: http://www.vegsource.com/articles2/fuhrman_dietary_myths.htm

It is also interesting to note that Weston Price's dietary advice has been abandoned by the people now running his foundation. Price actually advised his nieces and nephews to eat a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet as the healthiest diet, see: http://www.vegsource.com/news/2009/11/reflections-on-the-weston-a-price-found...

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[retrogradeorbit]

@kimchidressagemama Mary Enig is not a member of the Weston A Price foundation.

[headveg]

@retrogradeorbit Yes she is, see for example wikipedia

[TheDrBillM]

I endorse Professor Campbell's statements.

Bill Misner PhD

AAMA Board Certified Alternative Medicine Practitioner

Certification #32872409 (2004)

"Phytonutrition: Finding Fitness For Life!"

[esper252]

@Tailflap Maybe he never addressed the criticism because he knows that no amount of evidence will ever suffice to disabuse WAPF fanboys of their cherished beliefs. WAPF doesn't care about truth. It wants to assimilate you to its meat-eating borg. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE! If you don't admit they're right, they'll keep slinging more shoddy science at you and assassinating your character until you give up and walk away, at which point they'll convince themselves they won the argument.

[LCHFinCanada]

@Gary1111001 Hey Gary - theoretically you *could* be under 40g of protein a day - if you were a 90lb sedentary person... Not many people are.

For anyone athletic, it's been proven that slightly over 2x the WHO and RDA amounts may be necessary for peak performance without any health-related side-effects.

For a 300lb obese person working out, they'd likely need 1.2g/kg+ of bodyweight which is a minimum 163g per day. For a 150lb sedentary person, ~ 60 to 100g depending on activity.

[AlbertaBeefy]

@Gary1111001 BTW, the WHO's and US RDA of protein (both .8g/kg of bodyweight) are based upon today's sedentary lifestyles.

All research shows athletes benefit from more dietary protein and amino acids. Research by Kent University (as well as other research) shows athletes benefit from 1.2 to 1.8g/kg of bodyweight daily depending on if they are endurance or strength athletes. All evidence shows up to this level being safe.

Once at a level above 2.3g/kg it can be unhealthy.

[AlbertaBeefy]

@Gary1111001 As for PCRM pledge to "do no harm" - first, barely 7% of the PCRM are physicians. Second, their physicians and their organization has repeatedly been in trouble with the American Medical Association for "doing harm". Look it up.

They're a vegan-propaganda-agency, nothing more.

[AlbertaBeefy]

@Gary1111001 Wow, that's either an outlandish lie or you don't research what "facts" are given by your vegan propaganda sites.

In the WHO's own paper, "Protein and Amino Acid Requirements in Human Nutrition" which is updated and available on their website, if you cared to check your "facts" they state "value accepted for the safe level of intake is 0.83 g/kg per day"

There is nothing about a "under 40 grams" recommendation anywhere.

Get your facts straight.

[Gary1111001]

@AlbertaBeefy The WHO recommends under 40 grams of protein a day. U can't do that with meat unless u under-eat.

PCRM are physicians who pledged to "Do no harm", so yeah, they're true to their agenda. :)

The ADA knows u don't need meat, but sounds like they buy into dietary myths(protein incompleteness, etc, etc, etc). I've proven 1st-hand those myths are false by NEVER complementing proteins, eating under 50g of protein a day(high-fruit), and gettin stronger on the weights

[AlbertaBeefy]

@Gary1111001 The PCRM is a pro-vegan organization funded by PETA among others, of course they recommend it, it's their agenda.

ADA (American Dietetic Association) paper actually spent page after page after page showing how difficult vegan diet really is, and what it really entails for health, not a blanket recommendation. They recommend vegans get professional nutritional counseling, in fact...

As for the WHO I can find no recommendation for veganism from that agency. Can you?

[wawei67]

I find the W.A. Price Foundation approach very interesting,even if it is a form of neo-colonialism in that it recommends for Europeans the 'ideal' diet of indiginies.Those peoples' particular diets were created over time in relation to climate. tradition, daily needs etc. and I don't know if that can translate to modern contexts (who does, lol) I'm vegan of 20yrs btw.

[nichins]

Weston Price foundation has nothing to do with factory farms. All the Weston Pricers I know come from the organic community and they tend to obsess on grass-feeding.

[Tailflap]

He never answered the question about his criticism of the China Study. Instead he went on and attempted to discredit the Weston A Price Foundation.