I lied. Here's a great interview on the China Study and its Credibility

So I'll try to get up here once a week to post anything I run across.

Here's an excerpt from an interview (see urls below) between Chris Masterjohn and Dr. Mercola regarding the China Study and its "conclusion" that a plant based diet is best for everyone. Yes, I am aware that Chris Masterjohn is affiliated with the so-called "darkside", Weston A. Price Foundation, but he's extremely credible and pragmatic because he can see another perspective. When anyone makes sweeping statements, even in the vegan world, I immediately put up a flag. My husband does this, and he's on my shit list. When a doctor here in Santa Rosa says a low fat, starch based diet is the perfect diet for everyone, when there's even ONE PERSON or child with tooth decay (requiring most of her adult teeth to be capped!), that's just simply wrong on all levels. Do right by the fork wielders with honest information and let each one go to the level of plant based diet that is healthy for them.

Chris Masterjohn: ... some people may do better with a more plant-based diet and other people may do better with a more animal-based diet. I do happen to believe that everyone would be better off if they include some animal products in some form in their diet but certainly, there are many people who do well by having the majority of their diet or a vast majority as plant products.


What you find is an enormous selection bias when you look at only one practitioner who’s only treating people with vegetarianism. If you take a practitioner like Dr. Joel Fuhrman, for example, he may be a great practitioner and may have great success with his clients, but if you take someone like that and say that every single person or at least 90 percent of them do fine with less than 10 percent of animal products, do you really think many people who intuitively feel that they do better with animal products are gonna go to a doctor who’s telling them that they should cut out all the animal products and eat at least two pounds per day of leafy green vegetables in their diet? Probably not, so what you see is this enormous bias that’s introduced by focusing on three or more clinicians who are using that type of diet, and completely leaving out all of the other evidence.

http://mercola.fileburst.com/PDF/ExpertInterviewTranscripts/InterviewChrisMasterjohnChinaStudy.pdf
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/12/11/chris-masterjohn-criticism-of-the-china-study.aspx

I didn't have a chance to read Denise Minger's break down of the raw data of the China Study, but this information is highly interesting, she's got charts and photos too!:

http://rawfoodsos.com/2010/06/23/tuoli-chinas-mysterious-milk-drinkers/