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Whole
- Rethinking the Science of Nutrition
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
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Summary
What happens when you eat an apple? The answer is vastly more complex than you imagine.
Whole, a New York Times bestseller and an eye-opening, paradigm-changing journey through cutting-edge thinking on nutrition, is a scientific tour de force with powerful implications for our health and for our world.
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 prepackaged 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 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.
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- J. Carroll
- 02-07-18
Truth
Wading through all the nutrition misinformation out there, this book is full of science backed data that everyone should know. Our health is our responsibility not our doctors, the government or anyone else. This book is a must read for everyone, particularly those on the 40s hitting their first health warning/crisis, and those much younger who want to avoid the damage!
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-02-22
great!
another great read, full of interesting and scientific details about modern nutrition and few answers about why humanity fails to address health issues.
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- SH
- 18-09-22
An important book for our time
What an amazing summary of a life’s worth of learning about health, wellbeing and better living. Thank you Colin, Howard and the team.
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- Dr Fiona
- 16-09-21
A life changer!
The premise is simple - eat a plant based diet with little added oil, salt or sugar. The rest of the book is as much philosophical and ethical as it is advisory.
Would recommend 100%.
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- Rita Z.
- 20-07-21
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This book should be in the national curriculum every where in the world. Must read!!
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- Peter Richardson
- 13-10-21
Convincing analysis
I am already converted to the benefits of wholeism, so I didn't need much convincing. I suspect most listeners will also be prior converts. Persuading others is, however, extremely difficult/impossible for many of the reasons Dr Campbell elucidates.
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- Anonymous User
- 30-03-22
Best nutrition book ever written
Nutrition Bible are you mad mate…. Now I’m just writing extra words to meet the review criteria
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- Smith King
- 18-08-21
MustRead/Listen, absorb and ACT with caveats
Dr Campbell is a legend from plant based whole food movement
This book is not only about the science, research and how the industry is funded and who are the key players, insights from the very top is difficult to find.
It is 200% behind plant based which maybe difficult for some to even fathom as a meat eater… despite that I would implore you to read and listen.
I would encourage a more inclusive holistic approach for future book to focus on how to transition from now overtly meat & diary focused society to one of balance and preventive nutritional and fasting regime … maybe answer is achieving balance from an individual perspective (based on genetic/epigenetic and lifestyle and individual measurable KPIs)
Key is after absorbing the facts, knowing the biases and ask the right questions would be the gift of this book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-10-20
Astonishing
Having spent three years working in Cancer Research at the University of Oxford, and seen the kinds of research that get funded, I have first hand experience of this reductionist system in which we work in. There is a complete lack of engagement with Nutrition as a way to prevent cancer, and everything is geared towards the development of patented drugs or treatments.
For myself, this book was a wake up call as to why I lost interest in biomedical science research. I’m now working as a personal trainer, educating people how to look after their health in the best way, with an emphasis on plant based nutrition. I feel frustrated and upset about the truths shared in this book, and I wish that this corrupted system was exposed for what it is to the general public so that we could make steps to change the way things are done. However, I fear that this will never happen, and so it becomes our personal responsibility to look after our health with good nutrition, reducing the likelihood that we will need help from the ‘disease care’ system.
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- Paul hurst
- 30-12-21
Makes you think
Knowledge is the key and the power to preserve life.you need to learn what we are doing to ourselves and through knowledge we will overcome
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