Tuesday 7 December 2010

China study problems of interpretation

An observational study was the China to collected an enormous amount of information on nutrition and health in 65 different rural areas of China. It is popular was by Dr. t. Colin Campbell, who claims that the study shows that plant foods are generally superior animal foods for health, and even a small amount of food is harmful. Campbell's book since its publication in the middle of the strict vegetarian (vegan) - movement.

Richard free the animal passes only on some information that many of you might like. A woman named Denise Minger recently published a series of posts on the China study. She looked it applied to the raw data and statistics. It is the most thorough scan of the data I've seen so far.Solves some points about Campbell's interpretation of the data frankly disturbing sind.Als I like to say, is the problem in the data-that is not in the interpretation.

One of the things, Minger is recalls that wheat recording a massive correlation with coronary heart disease-one of the strongest correlations investigators had found.That is because wheat CHD causes or it, is because wheat of eating regions tend to further north and thus worse vitamin D status? I don't know, but nevertheless it's an interesting Beobachtung.Check Denise Minger's out posts... If you have the stamina:

The China study: Fact or deception

See also reports about the China study by Richard Nikoley, Chris Masterjohn and Anthony colpo:

Colin Campbell's the China study
The truth about the China English
The China study: More vegan nonsense

And my previous post on the association between wheat recording and obesity in China:

Wheat in ChinaPosted ByStephanat10: 51 AM

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