328 pages
English language
Published Aug. 14, 2013
"The China Study" revealed what we should eat and provided the powerful empirical support for this answer. "Whole" answers the question of why. Why does a whole-food, plant-based diet provide optimal nutrition? "Whole" demonstrates how far the scientific reductionism of the nutrition orthodoxy has gotten offtrack and reveals the elegant wonders of the true holistic workings of nutrition, from the cellular level to the operation of the entire organism.
As a former scientist, I found myself nodding along with what Campbell reports about the current state of science. His disappointment with the turtle pace at which his valuable research is being accepted is understandable. His decision to explain to readers why it is not yet mainstream is admirable. As the title indicates, the focus here is a rethinking of science, not a step-by-step guide to healthy eating, as seemingly hoped for by some readers.
Personally disappointing - it is a very scholarly and thorough exploration of what is wrong with our current views of nutrition and illness. You cannot fault his coverage. However I was already a convert so much of this was just me nodding for page after page. I had hoped that there would be more... so this is what to do.... dropped one star as it’s totally USA centric.
trying to read this to understand more about nutiotion, but this guy's folksy, populist "science is too confusing" attitude, and his insistence that he's the victim of a conspiracy to squash his findings is really making it hard for me to accept his arguments.
