T. Colin Campbell | |
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 Campbell speaking in 2013 | |
| Born | March 14, 1934 |
| Education | Pennsylvania State University (BS) University of Georgia Cornell University (MS, PhD) |
| Occupation | Nutritional biochemist |
| Notable work | The China Study (2005) |
| Spouse | Karen Campbell |
| Children | Thomas M. Campbell, Keith E. Campbell, Nelson Campbell (sons) |
| Website | T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies |
Thomas Colin Campbell (born March 14, 1934) is an American biochemist who specializes in the effect of nutrition on long-term health. He is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University.
Campbell has become known for his advocacy of a low-fat, whole foods, plant-based diet. He coined the term "Plant-Based diet" to help present his research on diet at the National Institutes of Health in 1980.[citation needed] He is the author of over 300 research papers and four books: The China Study (2005), which was co-authored with his son, Thomas M. Campbell II, and became one of America's best-selling books about nutrition, Whole (2013), The Low-Carb Fraud (2014) and The Future of Nutrition: An Insider's Look at the Science, Why We Keep Getting It Wrong, and How to Start Getting It Right (2020).[1] Campbell is featured in the 2011 American documentary Forks Over Knives.
Campbell was one of the lead scientists of the China–Cornell–Oxford Project on diet and disease, set up in 1983 by Cornell University, the University of Oxford, and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine to explore the relationship between nutrition and cancer, heart, and metabolic diseases. The study was described by The New York Times as "the Grand Prix of epidemiology".[2]
- ^ Interview with T. Colin Campbell Archived 2013-09-06 at the Wayback Machine, author of "Whole", philly.com.
- Parker-Pope, Tara. "Nutrition Advice From the China Study", The New York Times, January 7, 2011.
- Also see Bittman, Mark. "Tough Week for Meatless Monday", The New York Times, June 29, 2011.
- ^ "Chinese ecological studies". Archived from the original on July 25, 2011. Retrieved 2010-12-03., Clinical Trial Service Unit, University of Oxford, accessed December 3, 2010.
- Brody, Jane E. "Huge Study Of Diet Indicts Fat And Meat", The New York Times, May 8, 1990, pp. 1–2.