Whole
- Author T. Colin Campbell
- Narrator Don Hagen
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 7 May 2013
- Run Time 11 hours and 10 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Biology, life sciences, Coping with illness and specific health conditions, Diets and dieting, nutrition, Family and health, Popular medicine and health, Science: general issues, Scientific research.
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What to expect
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.
Critics Review
u201cDon Hagen is an excellent narrator to deliver this persuasive health audiou2026With his intelligent phrasing, clear enunciation, and mature-sounding sonority, Hagenu2019s performance promotes engagement and thoughtful reflection. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.u201d
u201cThere are very few material game-changers in life, but this book is truly one of them. The information hereinu2014backed up by extraordinary peer-reviewed scienceu2014has the power to halt and reverse disease, give you energy youu2019ve never known, and put you on a path of transformation in just about every positive way. Read it and get ready to soar.u201d
nu201cIn this provocative book, T. Colin Campbell, based on his long career in experimental research and health policy making, uncovers how and why there is so much confusion about food and health and what can be done about it. The China Study revealed what we should eat; Whole answers why. Read and enjoy; thereu2019s something here to inspire and offend just about everyone.u201d
nu201cWhole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition picks up where thenauthoru2019s popular The China Study leavesnoff. The China Study examined what wenshould eat and provided scientific support for these considerations: Whole considers the u2018whyu2019 of how anwhole-food, plant-based diet provides optimal nutrition. From cellular changesnto the entire organism, this provides a scientific basis for a whole-foods dietnplan, considering the antioxidants in foods, what happens to the body uponneating foods, and considering how the influences of chemicals affect biology.nMany books promote whole foods without backing their contentions with scientificnresearch: this offers explanations of that science and provides readers with anpowerful survey of nutrition and its scientific basis. Any health or foodncollection needs this.u201d
u201cCampbellnlays down a challenge to outdated methods and status quo thinking, calling fornwidespread changes in government policy as well as nutritional researchu2026Whole will touch you at the cellularnlevel and challenge you to rethink what you believe you knew about nutritionu2026Whole is that rare sequel that lives upnto the original. It picks up where ThenChina Study left off and solidifies Campbellu2019s status as the modern erau2019sngodfather of nutritionu2026Campbell has changed the field of nutritionu2026[and now]nthrows a serious monkey wrench into the evils of the current scientific method.u201d
u201cCampbellu2019snfollow-up to his best-selling The ChinanStudy is more of the same, in the best wayu2026The entirety of the book is anpassionate and convincing case for that ideal dietu2026His years of scientificnstudy and calm, measured tone are highly convincing, making a firm case thatnchanging oneu2019s diet is the best way to assure good health. Readers will beninclined to put down their processed food snacks once they read what could be anlife-changer of a book.u201d
u201cWhole makes a convincing case that modern nutritionu2019s focus on single nutrients has led to mass confusion with tragic health consequences. Dr. Campbellu2019s new paradigm will change the way we think about food and, in doing so, could improve the lives of millions of people and save billions of dollars in health care costs.u201d
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