New Releases by T. Colin Campbell

What we eat is a leading factor in our health and quality of life. Research has proven that a plant-based diet can prevent and sometimes reverse chronic diseases like heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and cancer. Yet this message has been ignored, distorted, or suppressed by people and organizations with a vested interest in the status quo. In a compelling new analysis, Dr. T. Colin Campbell, coauthor of The China Study and author of the New York Times bestselling follow-up, Whole, brings to light a series of first-hand experiences that starkly demonstrate how corporate influence in academia, government and the media determines—and sometimes actively suppresses—public access to nutrition research. Providing an eye-opening look behind the scenes of nutrition policy, Dr. Campbell recounts the story of his life and research, and then tells eight riveting stories in The Whole Truth about instances in which vital information was misrepresented or concealed, including: A national nutrition “supreme court” quietly organized by industry-affiliated scientists to control public messaging—and the attempt to expel Dr. Campbell from his own professional society when he challenged it. Manipulation of the U.S. Dietary Guidelines to permit consumption of animal protein at levels posing a higher risk of deadly chronic diseases. A research paper on the impact of nutrition on immunity—vital information for the COVID-19 pandemic—that was rejected from academic journals without professional review. An infant-feeding scandal in which a heavily marketed commercial product displaced breastfeeding—leading to widespread infant malnutrition and deaths around the world. Coauthor Nelson Campbell, a filmmaker, health advocate, and Dr. Campbell's son, broadens the lens in the book’s third part, examining why the plant-based movement has stalled and how it can be renewed through more effective messaging and a grassroots strategy to empower people everywhere to participate in building a healthier world. His suggested approach is provocative, inspiring and hopeful. Together, he and his father have authored a book that will infuse new energy into the plant-based movement.

"Decades of research show that the majority of non-communicable, chronic health issues like diabetes, heart disease, obesity, cancer, pain, digestive issues, depression, and anxiety can be reversed through comprehensive Lifestyle Medicine and Health Coaching protocols."--Back cover.

From the coauthor of The China Study and author of the New York Times bestselling follow-up, Whole Despite extensive research and overwhelming public information on nutrition and health science, we are more confused than ever—about the foods we eat, what good nutrition looks like, and what it can do for our health. In The Future of Nutrition, T. Colin Campbell cuts through the noise with an in-depth analysis of our historical relationship to the food we eat, the source of our present information overload, and what our current path means for the future—both for individual health and society as a whole. In these pages, Campbell takes on the institution of nutrition itself, unpacking: Why the institutional emphasis on individual nutrients (instead of whole foods) as a means to explain nutrition has had catastrophic consequences How our reverence for "high quality" animal protein has distorted our understanding of cholesterol, saturated fat, unsaturated fat, environmental carcinogens, and more Why mainstream food and nutrient recommendations and public policy favor corporate interests over that of personal and planetary health How we can ensure that public nutrition literacy can prevent and treat personal illness more effectively and economically The Future of Nutrition offers a fascinating deep-dive behind the curtain of the field of nutrition—with implications both for our health and for the practice of science itself.

We show analytically and empirically that the positive abnormal returns from Betting-Against-Beta (BAB) - a beta-neutral portfolio long in low beta stocks and short in high beta stocks - are consistent with market segmentation due to costly information acquisition, as in Merton (1987). Consistent with our predictions, expected returns and CAPM alphas from the BAB strategy are positive and vary (1) negatively in the cross-section with firm visibility, and (2) positively in the time-series with the portfolio's shadow cost of information and beta spread. These results cannot be fully explained by alternate explanations such as funding illiquidity or preference for lottery-like stocks.

The revised and expanded edition of the bestseller that changed millions of lives The science is clear. The results are unmistakable. You can dramatically reduce your risk of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes just by changing your diet. More than 30 years ago, nutrition researcher T. Colin Campbell and his team at Cornell, in partnership with teams in China and England, embarked upon the China Study, the most comprehensive study ever undertaken of the relationship between diet and the risk of developing disease. What they found when combined with findings in Colin's laboratory, opened their eyes to the dangers of a diet high in animal protein and the unparalleled health benefits of a whole foods, plant-based diet. In 2005, Colin and his son Tom, now a physician, shared those findings with the world in The China Study, hailed as one of the most important books about diet and health ever written. Featuring brand new content, this heavily expanded edition of Colin and Tom's groundbreaking book includes the latest undeniable evidence of the power of a plant-based diet, plus updated information about the changing medical system and how patients stand to benefit from a surging interest in plant-based nutrition. The China Study—Revised and Expanded Edition presents a clear and concise message of hope as it dispels a multitude of health myths and misinformation. The basic message is clear. The key to a long, healthy life lies in three things: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Le diete low carb sono efficaci? Quanto sono sane e naturali? Servono al nostro benessere?In questo suo nuovo libro, T. Colin Campbell, affermato leader nel campo della nutrizione dei bestseller The China Study e Whole – Vegetale e integrale, ci spiega come questi regimi alimentari non siano la soluzione ottimale per la salute del nostro corpo.Le diete a basso contenuto di carboidrati, Atkins, South Beach, Zona e non solo, sono i metodi preferiti da milioni di persone per perdere peso.Ognuna ha le sue peculiarità, ma tutte hanno in comune due componenti fondamentali: la condanna dei carboidrati e l’enfasi sulle proteine – o sulla carne – e sui grassi come fonte di calorie.Anche la più recente tendenza, la dieta Paleo, nonostante il maggior rilievo che dà ad alcuni alimenti integrali, è solo un’ennesima variante delle stesse fobie legate ai carboidrati.Campbell ci spiega l’origine della convinzione secondo cui i carboidrati farebbero male e il motivo per cui questa teoria continua a sopravvivere nonostante tutte le prove scientifiche che dimostrano il contrario.Gli alimenti che in modo fuorviante definiamo “carboidrati” non sono tutti uguali per natura, e trattarli come tali ha gravi conseguenze negative per il nostro benessere nutrizionale.Se state pensando di adottare una dieta a basso contenuto di carboidrati, leggete prima questo libro: cambierà il vostro modo di considerare gli alimenti che mangiate, e quelli che scegliete per perdere peso e ottimizzare la salute, nell’immediato così come a lungo termine.Gli autoriColin Campbell è un famoso biochimico americano, nutrizionista e professore emerito alla Cornell University, considerato uno dei ricercatori alimentari più eminenti e riconosciuti in tutto il mondo. Il suo libro The China Study, basato sul Progetto Cina, ha portato a un cambiamento epocale nella storia dell’alimentazione. Pioniere nello studio del rapporto tra nutrizione e salute, tra dieta e malattie, Campbell dimostra nei suoi studi come il consumo di proteine animali sia evidentemente correlato allo sviluppo di cancro e malattie cardiache. The China Study è uno dei più vasti studi epidemiologici sulla dieta mai realizzati prima e una mastodontica ricerca sulla relazione tra cibo e malattia. Gli studi di Campbell sono stati pubblicati in più di 300 articoli.Cresciuto in una fattoria tradizionale e abituato a nutrirsi di carne tutti i giorni, ha modificato le sue abitudini dopo aver conseguito la laurea specialistica e il dottorato in “Nutrizione Biochimica” presso la Cornell University. Colin Campbell ha adottato una dieta vegana e naturale a partire dagli anni ‘90.Per oltre 20 anni ha lavorato nelle Commissioni della National Academy of Science, contribuendo alla stesura e allo sviluppo di politiche nazionali e internazionali sul binomio alimentazione salute.Nel 2010, dopo l'intervento cardiaco, l'ex presidente degli Stati Uniti Bill Clinton ha deciso di adottare la dieta raccomandata da Campbell, Caldwell Esselstyn, e Dean Ornish.Oggi, Campbell Colin, asserisce che la sana nutrizione è la vera scienza biomedica del futuro. Per approfondire visita il sito ufficiale di THE CHINA STUDY www.chinastudy.it.Howard Jacobson è formatore in campo sanitario, ha conseguito il master in sanità pubblica e il dottorato in scienze sanitarie presso la Temple University, nonché una laurea in storia a Princeton.

In contrast to prior equity market results, we document that corporate bonds issued by low profitability firms outperform bonds issued by highly profitable firms. This performance difference is primarily driven by low profitability, low credit rating firms. This profitability premium is consistent with compensation for default risk and can be explained by default risk factors that include speculative-grade bonds. The impact of profitability on equity returns depends on the relative importance of default risk and the risk of the firm's investments when solvent, consistent with higher profitability signaling both lower future distress and riskier investments resulting in higher discount rates.

We study the effect of changes in CEO inside debt on equity and debt values during the period in which firms' disclosure of inside debt increased. We predict optimal CEO relative debt-equity incentive ratios based on firm and CEO characteristics, and show that firms adjust their ratios towards the predicted optimums. Equity values rise for firms that adjust their ratios downward to their predicted optimums and for firms that adjust ratios upward toward their predicted optimums, which implies that some ratios were too low and others were too high. Debt values rise for firms that adjust their ratios upward and do not fall for those that adjust their ratios downward. Our predicted optimum explains changes in equity and debt values better than a simple and intuitive target where inside debt-equity ratios are set equal to firm debt-equity ratios. The results support an optimal contracting view of CEO inside debt and suggest important cross-sectional differences in firms' optimal use of inside debt in compensation policies.

"El autor del bestseller ESTUDIO DE CHINA, analiza en este libro las investigaciones tradicionales sobre nutrición y apunta que la información que proveen estos estudios informan sobre los productos quimicos que contienen o no los alimentos, pero realmente proporcionan poca o ninguna información sobre la complejidad de lo que ocurre en nuestro cuerpo al ingerirlos. Campbell invita al lector a un viaje científico para ir mas alla de lo tradicional y descubrir como influyen estos alimentos en nuestra salud"--Amazon.

By now, the low-carb diet's refrain is a familiar one: Bread is bad for you. Fat doesn't matter. Carbs are the real reason you can't lose weight. The low-carb universe Dr. Atkins brought into being continues to expand. Low-carb diets, from South Beach to the Zone and beyond, are still the go-to method for weight-loss for millions. These diets' marketing may differ, but they all share two crucial components: the condemnation of “carbs" and an emphasis on meat and fat for calories. Even the latest diet trend, the Paleo diet, is—despite its increased focus on (some) whole foods—just another variation on the same carbohydrate fears. In The Low-Carb Fraud, longtime leader in the nutritional science field T. Colin Campbell (author of The China Study and Whole) outlines where (and how) the low-carb proponents get it wrong: where the belief that carbohydrates are bad came from, and why it persists despite all the evidence to the contrary. The foods we misleadingly refer to as “carbs" aren't all created equal—and treating them that way has major consequences for our nutritional well-being. If you're considering a low-carb diet, read this e-book first. It will change the way you think about what you eat—and how you should be eating, to lose weight and optimize your health, now and for the long term.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER What happens when you eat an apple? The answer is vastly more complex than you imagine. Every apple contains thousands of antioxidants whose names, beyond a few like vitamin C, are unfamiliar to us, and each of these powerful chemicals has the potential to play an important role in supporting our health. They impact thousands upon thousands of metabolic reactions inside the human body. But calculating the specific influence of each of these chemicals isn't nearly sufficient to explain the effect of the apple as a whole. Because almost every chemical can affect every other chemical, there is an almost infinite number of possible biological consequences. And that's just from an apple. Nutritional science, long stuck in a reductionist mindset, is at the cusp of a revolution. The traditional “gold standard" of nutrition research has been to study one chemical at a time in an attempt to determine its particular impact on the human body. These sorts of studies are helpful to food companies trying to prove there is a chemical in milk or pre-packaged dinners that is “good" for us, but they provide little insight into the complexity of what actually happens in our bodies or how those chemicals contribute to our health. In The China Study, T. Colin Campbell (alongside his son, Thomas M. Campbell) revolutionized the way we think about our food with the evidence that a whole food, plant-based diet is the healthiest way to eat. Now, in Whole, he explains the science behind that evidence, the ways our current scientific paradigm ignores the fascinating complexity of the human body, and why, if we have such overwhelming evidence that everything we think we know about nutrition is wrong, our eating habits haven't changed. Whole is an eye-opening, paradigm-changing journey through cutting-edge thinking on nutrition, a scientific tour de force with powerful implications for our health and for our world.

La evidencia científica es clara, los resultados son inequívocos. Cambia tu dieta y reducirás el riesgo de padecer cáncer, enfermedades cardiovasculares, diabetes y obesidad. Desde donde lo queramos ver, la salud de Norteamérica y de los países occidentales está empeorando. Cada vez gastamos más dinero en asistencia sanitaria y, sin embargo, dos tercios de la población tienen sobrepeso y 15 millones de norteame ricanos padecen diabetes. Las enfermedades cardiovasculares tienen la misma incidencia que hace treinta años, y la guerra contra el cáncer, lanzada en la década de los años setenta, ha sido un fracaso estrepitoso. Casi más de la mitad de la población padece alguna enfermedad que requiere tomar medicamentos cada semana y más de 100 millones de norteamericanos tienen el colesterol demasiado elevado. Para empeorar las cosas, estamos guiando a nuestros jóvenes a través de un camino de enfermedades y padecimientos cada vez más rápido. Los jóvenes se enferman más que antes y un tercio de nuestros niños tiene sobrepeso o está en camino de tenerlo. Además, un tipo de diabetes que antes solo afectaba a los adultos, está incidiendo cada vez más en los niños. El Estudio de China presenta un mensaje esperanzador, claro y conciso. Al mismo tiempo, desvela muchos mitos y mucha desinformación. Si quieres estar sano, cambia tu dieta.

We show theoretically that optimism can lead a risk-averse CEO to choose the first-best investment level that maximizes shareholder value. Optimism below (above) the interior optimum leads the CEO to underinvest (overinvest). Hence, if boards of directors act in the interests of shareholders, CEOs with relatively low or high optimism face a higher probability of forced turnover than moderately optimistic CEOs face. Using a large sample of turnovers, we find strong empirical support for this prediction. The results are consistent with the view that there is an interior optimum level of managerial optimism that maximizes firm value.

Traditional Chinese edition of The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted And the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, And Long-term Health. Doctor T. Colin Campbell studies the correlation between diet and disease in over 100 villages all over China. His studies uncover realities about our diets and food regulation programs that will open your eyes to the way people are eating in the U.S., and how the foods we eat can either promote or compromise our health.

De quelque côté que l'on regarde, la santé des Occidentaux se dégrade. Nous dépensons de plus en plus pour les soins de santé, ce qui n'empêche pas un nombre croissant de diabètes, de maladies cardiovasculaires et le fait que la " guerre contre le cancer " amorcée dans les années 1970 est un fiasco. Près de la moitié de la population souffre d'un problème de santé nécessitant la prise hebdomadaire de médicaments sous ordonnance, et plus de 25 % souffre d'un cholestérol trop élevé. La science le dit clairement. Les résultats sont là pour le prouver. Modifier votre alimentation, c'est réduire de façon impressionnante vos risques de cancer, de maladies cardiaques, de diabète et d'obésité.

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