Evidently we can say it to the tune of $48.7 billions dollars. That's with a B, not an M, and that was for 2005 alone. According to Forbes, lots of good diets exist. There are many sites out there to rate the different diets, including those with reviews of the different diets. I like the one I linked to because it focuses on the safety of diet plans. A number of diets out there are just not a great idea in terms of your health.
The most effective diet book I've ever read isn't a diet book at all. It's the China Study, which goes over in detail the largest study ever done on diet and cancer. The first part is intense because of his studies on rats and cancer production. If you don't like that stuff, skip ahead to the huge studies on the Han Chinese, which provides conclusive evidence that diet activates or deactivates cancer.
I guess the most disturbing thing about the book is that we haven't really shifted our diets to conform to what he found. This was the big one. I think they had 500,000 survey takers, and covered millions of people. To paraphrase what he found, Campbell is now a vegan. To give that context, he began life as a cattleman researcher, trying to find ways to increase our meat yields. I still struggle to get my mind around what he found, and I still don't follow his diet. But I keep trying, which is more than I can say of any other diet book I've read from years ago.
The most effective diet book I've ever read isn't a diet book at all. It's the China Study, which goes over in detail the largest study ever done on diet and cancer. The first part is intense because of his studies on rats and cancer production. If you don't like that stuff, skip ahead to the huge studies on the Han Chinese, which provides conclusive evidence that diet activates or deactivates cancer.
I guess the most disturbing thing about the book is that we haven't really shifted our diets to conform to what he found. This was the big one. I think they had 500,000 survey takers, and covered millions of people. To paraphrase what he found, Campbell is now a vegan. To give that context, he began life as a cattleman researcher, trying to find ways to increase our meat yields. I still struggle to get my mind around what he found, and I still don't follow his diet. But I keep trying, which is more than I can say of any other diet book I've read from years ago.
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