New Releases by T. Colin Campbell

T. Colin Campbell ha dedicato la propria esistenza alla ricerca sul campo e ha cambiato la scienza della nutrizione, dimostrando che una dieta vegetale e integrale è in grado non solo di mantenerci in salute, prevenendo le principali malattie, ma anche di guarirci. In queste pagine ricostruisce il suo percorso umano e professionale, presenta i risultati a cui è giunto e delinea le linee guida per il futuro, consegnandoci la sua eredità. Il testamento intellettuale di uno dei più importanti scienziati a livello mondiale sull’alimentazione. «I benefici di uno stile di vita sano sono enormi. Desidero sappiate che potete: vivere più a lungo. Apparire più giovani e sentirvi tali. Avere più energia. Perdere peso. Ridurre il colesterolo endogeno. Prevenire e addirittura far regredire le cardiopatie. Ridurre il rischio di cancro alla prostata, al seno e ad altri organi. Preservare la vista in età avanzata. Prevenire e curare il diabete. Evitare gli interventi chirurgici in diverse occasioni. Diminuire drasticamente il fabbisogno di farmaci. Mantenere forti le ossa. Ridurre il rischio di ictus. Prevenire i calcoli renali. Proteggere i neonati dal diabete di tipo 1. Alleviare la stitichezza. Abbassare la pressione sanguigna. Ridurre il rischio di Alzheimer. Sconfiggere l’artrite. E altro ancora…» - T. Colin Campbell

Malgrado il legame tra salute e alimentazione sia oggetto di ricerca negli istituti più avanzati del mondo, e nonostante i media non facciano che subissarci di informazioni in materia, oggi siamo più confusi che mai. Che influenza può avere il cibo sull'insorgere delle principali patologie? Quale tipo di nutrizione può essere definita "buona"? Che cosa possiamo fare a tavola per tutelare la nostra salute? Nel Futuro dell'alimentazione, il professor T. Colin Campbell - noto in tutto il pianeta quale autore del rivoluzionario The China Study, in cui prospettava i vantaggi della drastica riduzione o eliminazione delle proteine animali dalla dieta - analizza le origini del nostro rapporto con i diversi alimenti e scandaglia le "verità" in tema che ci vengono proposte da scienziati e mezzi di comunicazione. Lo scopo è andare poi a prefigurare gli scenari futuri: quali saranno le conseguenze sulla nostra salute individuale? Quanto a lungo il sistema attuale sarà sostenibile per la società? In queste pagine, Campbell svela come sia stata data troppa enfasi ai singoli nutrienti, distraendoci dal ruolo fondamentale dell'alimentazione integrale. Allo stesso tempo, l'illusione di poter avere proteine animali "di alta qualità" ci ha portato a sottovalutare i rischi connessi all'eccesso di colesterolo, all'assunzione di grassi saturi e al loro effetto cancerogeno. Ma qual è il motivo di tutta questa cattiva informazione? Sono stati anteposti gli interessi dei grandi produttori alla salute delle persone e della Terra. Con la sua sconvolgente analisi Il futuro dell'alimentazione offre un contributo fondamentale per il cambiamento culturale necessario per prevenire le malattie più diffuse. Un cambiamento che deve cominciare dalle nostre abitudini quotidiane e che può avere un benefico impatto anche sul pianeta.

From the coauthor of The China Study and author of the New York Times bestselling follow-up, Whole Despite extensive research and overwhelming public information on nutrition and health science, we are more confused than ever—about the foods we eat, what good nutrition looks like, and what it can do for our health. In The Future of Nutrition, T. Colin Campbell cuts through the noise with an in-depth analysis of our historical relationship to the food we eat, the source of our present information overload, and what our current path means for the future—both for individual health and society as a whole. In these pages, Campbell takes on the institution of nutrition itself, unpacking: Why the institutional emphasis on individual nutrients (instead of whole foods) as a means to explain nutrition has had catastrophic consequences How our reverence for "high quality" animal protein has distorted our understanding of cholesterol, saturated fat, unsaturated fat, environmental carcinogens, and more Why mainstream food and nutrient recommendations and public policy favor corporate interests over that of personal and planetary health How we can ensure that public nutrition literacy can prevent and treat personal illness more effectively and economically The Future of Nutrition offers a fascinating deep-dive behind the curtain of the field of nutrition—with implications both for our health and for the practice of science itself.

We show analytically and empirically that the positive abnormal returns from Betting-Against-Beta (BAB) - a beta-neutral portfolio long in low beta stocks and short in high beta stocks - are consistent with market segmentation due to costly information acquisition, as in Merton (1987). Consistent with our predictions, expected returns and CAPM alphas from the BAB strategy are positive and vary (1) negatively in the cross-section with firm visibility, and (2) positively in the time-series with the portfolio's shadow cost of information and beta spread. These results cannot be fully explained by alternate explanations such as funding illiquidity or preference for lottery-like stocks.

The revised and expanded edition of the bestseller that changed millions of lives The science is clear. The results are unmistakable. You can dramatically reduce your risk of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes just by changing your diet. More than 30 years ago, nutrition researcher T. Colin Campbell and his team at Cornell, in partnership with teams in China and England, embarked upon the China Study, the most comprehensive study ever undertaken of the relationship between diet and the risk of developing disease. What they found when combined with findings in Colin's laboratory, opened their eyes to the dangers of a diet high in animal protein and the unparalleled health benefits of a whole foods, plant-based diet. In 2005, Colin and his son Tom, now a physician, shared those findings with the world in The China Study, hailed as one of the most important books about diet and health ever written. Featuring brand new content, this heavily expanded edition of Colin and Tom's groundbreaking book includes the latest undeniable evidence of the power of a plant-based diet, plus updated information about the changing medical system and how patients stand to benefit from a surging interest in plant-based nutrition. The China Study—Revised and Expanded Edition presents a clear and concise message of hope as it dispels a multitude of health myths and misinformation. The basic message is clear. The key to a long, healthy life lies in three things: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

In contrast to prior equity market results, we document that corporate bonds issued by low profitability firms outperform bonds issued by highly profitable firms. This performance difference is primarily driven by low profitability, low credit rating firms. This profitability premium is consistent with compensation for default risk and can be explained by default risk factors that include speculative-grade bonds. The impact of profitability on equity returns depends on the relative importance of default risk and the risk of the firm's investments when solvent, consistent with higher profitability signaling both lower future distress and riskier investments resulting in higher discount rates.

We study the effect of changes in CEO inside debt on equity and debt values during the period in which firms' disclosure of inside debt increased. We predict optimal CEO relative debt-equity incentive ratios based on firm and CEO characteristics, and show that firms adjust their ratios towards the predicted optimums. Equity values rise for firms that adjust their ratios downward to their predicted optimums and for firms that adjust ratios upward toward their predicted optimums, which implies that some ratios were too low and others were too high. Debt values rise for firms that adjust their ratios upward and do not fall for those that adjust their ratios downward. Our predicted optimum explains changes in equity and debt values better than a simple and intuitive target where inside debt-equity ratios are set equal to firm debt-equity ratios. The results support an optimal contracting view of CEO inside debt and suggest important cross-sectional differences in firms' optimal use of inside debt in compensation policies.

"El autor del bestseller ESTUDIO DE CHINA, analiza en este libro las investigaciones tradicionales sobre nutrición y apunta que la información que proveen estos estudios informan sobre los productos quimicos que contienen o no los alimentos, pero realmente proporcionan poca o ninguna información sobre la complejidad de lo que ocurre en nuestro cuerpo al ingerirlos. Campbell invita al lector a un viaje científico para ir mas alla de lo tradicional y descubrir como influyen estos alimentos en nuestra salud"--Amazon.

By now, the low-carb diet's refrain is a familiar one: Bread is bad for you. Fat doesn't matter. Carbs are the real reason you can't lose weight. The low-carb universe Dr. Atkins brought into being continues to expand. Low-carb diets, from South Beach to the Zone and beyond, are still the go-to method for weight-loss for millions. These diets' marketing may differ, but they all share two crucial components: the condemnation of “carbs" and an emphasis on meat and fat for calories. Even the latest diet trend, the Paleo diet, is—despite its increased focus on (some) whole foods—just another variation on the same carbohydrate fears. In The Low-Carb Fraud, longtime leader in the nutritional science field T. Colin Campbell (author of The China Study and Whole) outlines where (and how) the low-carb proponents get it wrong: where the belief that carbohydrates are bad came from, and why it persists despite all the evidence to the contrary. The foods we misleadingly refer to as “carbs" aren't all created equal—and treating them that way has major consequences for our nutritional well-being. If you're considering a low-carb diet, read this e-book first. It will change the way you think about what you eat—and how you should be eating, to lose weight and optimize your health, now and for the long term.

Berdasarkan "The China study", penelitian kesehatan paling komprehensif yang pernah dilakukanÿ Pada awal 1970-an, Pemerintah China mengadakan survei kesehatan nasional yang melibatkan 650 ribu pekerja dan 880 juta penduduk. Survei ini menghasilkan Atlas Kanker yang menunjukkan kondisi kesehatan orang China yang sangat berbeda dengan masyarakat Barat.ÿ Atlas Kanker kemudian menjadi pijakan dimulainya penelitian paling komprehensif tentang pola makan, gaya hidup, dan penyakit. Penelitian tersebut dikenal dengan nama China Study. Selama lebih dari 20 tahun, penelitian dilakukan di China bersama-sama antara Universitas Cornell, Universitas Oxford, dan Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine.ÿ China Study tak hanya mengungkap rahasia sehat dan panjang umur orang China, tetapi juga membuktikan bahwa nutrisi yang tepat dapat mengatasi berbagai penyakit kronis dan berbahaya, seperti penyakit jantung, diabetes, kanker, obesitas, dan berbagai penyakit autoimun lain.ÿ Dengan ribuan fakta mengejutkan yang dihasilkan, China Study pun menjungkirbalikkan teori kesehatan modern yang saat ini diyakini. [Mizan, Nourabooks, Sehat, China, Tiongkok, Indonesia]