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Heard on Campus: T. Colin Campbell on holistic nutrition

T. Colin Campbell, best-selling author of 'The China Study' and Professor Emeritus at Cornell, was the guest speaker at the Penn State Forum on the afternoon of Oct. 13. Credit: Patrick Mansell / Penn StateCreative Commons

"Nutrition we tend to think of as one nutrient at a time — we think of recommendations, mainly supplements and so forth. I'm going to argue that there's holistic nutrition. We have to change our mindsets about this. We have to recognize that nutrients work together within food to create a response, almost like a tsunami activity. This is a highly interactive, integrative, holistic system."

— T. Colin Campbell, professor emeritus at Cornell University and best-selling Author of The China Study, at the Penn State Forum speaker series on Oct. 13. Trained at Cornell University and MIT in nutrition, biochemistry and toxicology, Campbell spent 10 years on the faculty of Virginia Tech’s Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition before returning to Cornell in 1975 where he is presently the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry in the Division of Nutritional Sciences.

Campbell’s principal scientific interests have been on the effects of nutritional status on long term health, particularly on the causation of cancer. He has conducted original research both in laboratory experiments and in large-scale human studies; received over 70 grant-years of peer-reviewed research funding (mostly with NIH), has served on several grant review panels of multiple funding agencies, and has authored over 350 research papers.

Last Updated October 13, 2015

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