The China Project

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Dr. was the co-director of the world renowned China Project. At

the time of this study, people in rural areas of China were still

consuming traditional Chinese diets that were largely unaffected by

American and European influences. These rural areas provided researchers a

unique opportunity to study the cause-and-effect relationship between diet

and various diseases.

The China Project remains one of the most important medical studies ever

done on how diets cause diseases.

Based on calories, about 96 percent of the diet in rural China was derived

from vegetables. On average, it is estimated that their diet was about 58

percent white rice, 35 percent fresh vegetables, 3 percent added oil and 4

percent from animals.

The occurrence of many degenerative diseases, such as arterial disease

(the cause of most heart attacks and strokes), cancer, diabetes and

obesity, were often 10 percent or less of that in the U.S. and Europe.

This study shows that a diet low in fat, moderate in protein and high in

complex carbohydrates dramatically reduces obesity and produces very low

rates of several degenerative diseases.