T. Colin Campbell

Colin Campbell, author of The China Study (3M sold across all formats and editions) and New York Times bestseller Whole, returns with The Future of Nutrition, a book examining the shortcomings and confusion within the nutrition industry and outlining steps to improve.

An Insider's Look at the Science, Why We Keep Getting It Wrong, and How to Start Getting It Right

The Future of Nutrition

Anyaconda

I've read the China Study and nutrition is one of the topics I'm quite interested in, hence why I picked up this book. 
Doctors are not trained in nutrition, not enough importance is given to prevention instead of trying to fix everything later with pills and prescriptions and there are over a million preventable deaths in the US, if we wouldn't eat that much junk.
People suffer malnutrition, this doesn't mean they're not getting enough energy through food, it means important vitamins, nutrients, minerals and fibre are missing from the "standard American diet". It comes as no surprise that we get bigger and sicker. Whom does this benefit? The lobbyist, pharma companies, health care providers and Coca Cola.
I was hoping for a clearer direction through the diet and nutrition information jungle, but this book just gives you lots of studies and data why "we are right" and "the others are wrong". It points out all the problems with the system and publicly funded research and politics and after the half point of the book I started skimming pages.
The one thing the book achieved is make me more angry about the system, about how junk food is cheaper than fresh organic options and that we individuals have to change things ourselves the hard way if we want to be healthy, because there's nobody supporting us.

The Future of Nutrition An Insider's Look at the Science, Why We Keep Getting It Wrong, and How to Start Getting It Right

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