Whole

Rethinking the Science of Nutrition

By: T. Colin Campbell PhD/PhD, Howard Jacobson

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins

Publisher's 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.

©2013 T. Colin Campbell (P)2013 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

" Whole makes a convincing case that modern nutrition’s focus on single nutrients has led to mass confusion with tragic health consequences. Dr. Campbell’s 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." (Brian Wendel, creator and executive producer of Forks over Knives)

"There are very few material game-changers in life, but this book is truly one of them. The information herein - backed up by extraordinary peer-reviewed science - has the power to halt and reverse disease, give you energy you’ve never known, and put you on a path of transformation in just about every positive way. Read it and get ready to soar." (Kathy Freston, New York Times best-selling author of The Lean)

"In 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; there’s something here to inspire and offend just about everyone." (Dean Ornish, MD, founder and president, Preventive Medicine Research Institute, Sausalito)

Everyone should read this

This book was excellent. Since I began reading it I started to change to the RWFPB diet. I feel very different...not sure what my health results will be in the future, but I feel very motivated to pursue this course.

More technical than The China Study

First, read The China Study. Then you will understand this book as it explains, in more technical detail, the complexity behind The China Study. Much is repeated from the previous book but this one gives deeper understanding to the frustrations of academia, big business, and our government's interference to muffling nutritional research by scientists like T. Colin Campbell.

Awsome

loved it, expanded on China Study. would recommend to anyone and everyone. will blog this one

WFPD FTW

Changed my life. I have cut meat out completely as well as any/all processed food. Let's just say after a few months you just feel lighter. I recommend this to anyone who is willing to embrace change and a better way to live.

A Powerful and eye opening revelation

What did you love best about Whole?

The incredible data that Colin Campbell has uncovered in a 60 year career in medicine and health research.

What other book might you compare Whole to and why?

Few are this cimprehensive Though John Robbins books are in the same vein.

What does Don Hagen bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Enunciation and clarity

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Life and Death and healthand Your diet What the government and industry is not telling you about what you eat and how it affects your health.

Any additional comments?

You will not be disappointed when you egt this book It is astounding and profoundly important for you and your family and your community.

Critically important info from a trusted source

He Colin Campbell he is a doctor of nutritional biology he’s and devoted his life helping improve health and society. He shows how our healthcare system is actually a disease care system with her little focus on what your overall needs.

Simply astounding

So much revealed about the underbelly of our nutrition information and Sound advice to take charge of our health for real! Highly recommend

Love it Loved it & Want More of it

I just can't get enough of this life enhancing life sustaining and mostly life saving information backed by real scientific evidence and practical, personable lived experiences by researchers, clinicians, athletes and there rest of us

Very Informative Must Read

This book has really important information about the cover ups of our current health and gov system's. a must read

Informative and easy to read

The book is a brilliant and easy listen. Makes you question a lot of things.