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Originally Posted by jimbo2012
Well I guess U expected a reply from me 
This doctor is misguided and makes the mistakes many in his position do regarding the science. Others will be convinced diet has little influence on these conditions. You put your trust in where you feel the data is the strongest. I tend to believe Dr.’s Campbell, Esseltyn & Ornish and their perspectives.
Dr. Simpson makes many unsupported claims, just appears to make bald face statements off the top of his head attempting to invalidate a highly recognized work in one page. Someone providing a rebuttal of The China Study findings should me more familiar with the material than this.
He cites famous Vegans dying of cancer; almost everyone was a vegetarian not a vegan, big difference.
He uses those two diets several times incorrectly.
" That a vegan diet could prevent cancer is bunk. One need look no further than Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computer, who lived a vegetarian diet his life, and died of cancer."
Hello Steve Jobs was a vegetarian not a vegan, but he just babbles on like he was.
In my opinion people believe eating a plant based diet will reduce their chances of getting cancer, I doubt seriously many truly believe this prevents all cancers.
Pooh what you may also find interesting is this Dr, is his love of cigars.
Cigar Talk: Conversations of the herf [Paperback]
Terry Simpson MD FAC Only $17 on Amazon.
Steak and a fine cigar, "Don't bother me, I'm dying"
Or is that moderation?
This doctors primary business is the lapband surgery, not nutrition, in fact he has issues with that surgery, was found negligent of malpractice or wrongful death of a woman and a court awarded the husband 1.38M in 2011 for Gastric Banding Death......
Did a bit more research on his writings.
His source on The China Study seems to be Denise Mingers, who is a researcher wannabe with an English Lit degree and a blog. She's a good writer but has no qualifications to analyze the raw data of the China Study. Yet, meat advocates often use her amateur analysis as "proof" that The China Study has been "debunked". Like a peer-reviewed study could be so transparently flawed that an English major, with no research training, could "debunk" it while Dr. Campell's colleagues and the whole scientific community apparently couldn't.
Dr. Campell responded to her here
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I've read all the books and seen the videos which you mention above.
I still stand by our knowledge of known vegans who died of cancer.
They did everything by the book........and still succumbed.
Why doesn't anyone look into the role pharmaceuticals play in these cancer deaths......such as birth control pills, hormone replacement therapy, etc.? In other words, don't mess with Mother Nature.
Excess estrogen does contribute to cancer. There is no eternal fountain of youth. Better to go natural. The dangers of hormone replacement have been mentioned but then hushed up.
There also is the aggressive cancer gene that is familial; for which therapeutic mastectomy is often recommended....we also know someone considering that. One can be tested for the gene. Plus women do know their family history (grandparents, aunts, sisters, moms, etc.)
NO DIET ALONE CAN STOP CANCER. What about all the radiation we are bombarded with? Lately, there is an awful lot of brain cancers in our town among cell phone users. What about those radar detector thingies that cops in patrol cars used to use and hold on their laps while driving?
There are a myriad amount of possibilities in the modern world as to why cancer cells form in the first place. Heredity does play a role.
p.s. For some of the men, does anyone know if they used designer drugs or recreational drugs during their university years? How can that mess up your D.N.A.
I will agree with the healthy crowd that the ADDITIVES and JUNK in processed foods today is totally UNNATURAL........but so is the mercury in fish and the radiation in the rain clouds.............