Disease in animal based foods vs. strict plant based diet:
In multiple, peer-reviewed animal studies, researchers discovered that they could actually turn the growth of cancer cells on and off by raising and lowering doses of casein, which is the type of protein found in milk. This result was not found in all proteins. The safe proteins were from plants, including wheat and soy. In the largest comprehensive study of human nutrition ever conducted, Campbell examined mortality rates from 48 forms of cancer and other chronic diseases from 1973–75 in 65 counties in China, and correlated them with 1983–84 dietary surveys and blood work from 6,500 people, 100 from each county. He concluded that countries with a high consumption of animal-based foods were more likely to have had higher death rates from “Western” diseases, while the opposite was true for counties that ate more plant foods. Highly processed, refined carbohydrates and sugar intake resulted in poor health outcomes. Plant foods were found to possess many health benefits. Research shows that low-carbohydrate diets like the Atkins or South Beach can actually cause dangerous side effects. People who eat a plant-based/vegan diet—avoiding animal products such as beef, pork, poultry, fish, eggs, cheese, and milk, and reducing their intake of processed foods and refined carbohydrates—will escape, reduce, or reverse the development of chronic diseases according to this author. Sufficient levels of vitamin D, and supplements of vitamin B12 are recommended if a strict plant-based diet is followed. In conclusion, people who ate the most animal-based foods developed the most chronic disease. Those who ate the most plant-based foods were the healthiest. Therefore, a whole foods, plant-based diet is advocated by this research. (5)