The follow is taken from a web site promoting the book called “The China Study”:

Early in his career as a researcher with MIT and Virginia Tech, Dr. Campbell worked to promote better health by eating more meat, milk and eggs — “high-quality animal protein … It was an obvious sequel to my own life on the farm and I was happy to believe that the American diet was the best in the world.” He later was a researcher on a project in the Philippines working with malnourished children. The project became an investigation for Dr. Campbell, as to why so many Filipino children were being diagnosed with liver cancer, predominately an adult disease. The primary goal of the project was to ensure that the children were getting as much protein as possible. “In this project, however, I uncovered a dark secret. Children who ate the highest protein diets were the ones most likely to get liver cancer…” He began to review other reports from around the world that reflected the findings of his research in the Philippines. Although it was “heretical to say that protein wasn’t healthy,” he started an in-depth study into the role of nutrition, especially protein, in the cause of cancer.

Authorized website for The China Study

I post the information above not because I read the book and conclusively believe this to be the latest truth on the nutritional scene. I include enough information to cause someone who perhaps has gotten caught up in the low carb or high protein diet as I have. I was at a Simcha Torah lunch at our shul when I had the opportunity to sit next to someone who had previously told me was getting away from eating meat. I had asked him if this was something his doctor had placed him on or was it something he had come up with on his own.

He explained to me that he had read the book noted above and was also dealing with his doctor telling him that he would need to go on medication to control his cholesterol. I avoided asking him about exercise or other questions like that but was however more interested in the information that he had obtained from the book. In other words the doctor had suggested the medication as opposed to changing his diet, He had looked into this himself, and I understand it to be working well for him. I myself have previously been a fairly outspoken advocate for high protein diets for a variety of reasons. Now that I am aware of some important information regarding the dangers of excess protein from animal sources, I felt it to be a responsible thing to inform readers of my blog of what may indeed be significant consequences to shifting the diet to far into the consumption of animal protein.

So I thought I would post about it first, then when I get the opportunity to read the book, come to my own conclusions later.

My first encounter with the world of nutrition took place in the mid 80′s when a biology professor of mine at Queens College starting talking about the inhumane treatment of chickens raised for slaughter along with other information regarding using hormones on these animals that really become reduced to machines to produce meat for our dietary needs. Now mind you I had just left one of the finest Respiratory Therapy programs being conducted by UCLA hospital in conjunction with Santa Monica College. It was not because I was squeamish, or because the study was too rigorous it really had more to do with how most of the patients requiring our care had gotten there. You guessed it, cigarette smoking. It may have been just too much for me, when a patient right after getting a bronchosol treatment administered via an aerosol mist which he inhaled over several minutes then requested a permission to have a cigarette and then was allowed, might have been just a tad too much irony for myself.

Our classmates used to immitate the sound that was made when a tube was inserted down the trachea of an intubated patient on a respirator and the mucus was removed from their longs via suction. At Santa Monica College we were even lucky enough to have actual human cadavers for our human anatomy course. The other concern had to deal with the double gown, double glove procedure that was used when one had to change the water in the humidifier tanks on the patients who had were diagnosed with highly contagious diseases which could be transmitted via water droplets. Somehow in my mind the protocol did not seem adequate enough to assure the safety of the health care practitioner performing it.

So now having escaped from LA, and the potential dangers of earthquakes, and the very real danger (at least in my mind) present in all those water droplets from very ill patients on respirators, I had time to reflect on how the chickens that we eat were raised for slaughter. Also please understand that I only recently became an orthodox Jew, so I did not know anything about any possible variations in the raising or slaughtering of chickens. Suffice it to say that sometime in the mid 80′s I simply decided to become a vegetarian. I immediately became concerned about consuming complete proteins with the correct balance of amino acids. Of course as a biology major, I was also well aware that the essential amino acids had to be present in the required ratio in order to enable the body to produce the proteins that were required for proper health. Therefore I became engrossed in obtaining all kinds of information about the nutritional content of various foods including rice, beans and cheese. The vegetarian phase of my life lasted I was say about one calendar year.

I mentioned being new to being orthodox because the moment that I stopped being a vegetarian can be best described as a big mack attack. McDonalds had a particular television advertising campaign at the time which featured an almost subliminal glimpse of a Big Mac, and somehow perpetuated a slogan of having a big mack attack. So I remember the evening that I decided to stop being a vegetarian, and stopped at the local McDonalds on Cross Bay Blvd in queens to have a Big Mac Attack.

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