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diet is ideal for cleansing, but I know that many people won’t want to give up meat entirely. And that’s okay. You can still reap the incredible benefits of the Beauty Detox Solution while incorporating meat and other animal products into your diet. Throughout the book I’ll help you determine the best kinds of meat to eat and the best way to eat meat to support your Beauty Detox.
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    CANCER RISK
    A major review on diet and cancer prepared for the U.S. Congress in 1981 estimated that genetics determines only about 2 to 3 percent of the total cancer risk. That’s why the incredible findings of the China-Cornell-Oxford Project, simply known as the China Project, are important to note. The China Project was the most comprehensive study on the connection between diet and disease in medical history. Funded by such prestigious organizations as the National Institutes of Health, the American Cancer Society and the American Institute for Cancer Research, and spearheaded by T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., a professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University and a former senior science advisor to the American Institute for Cancer Research, the China Project was launched in the early 1980s and ran for nearly thirty years. Dr. Campbell’s research found more than eight thousand statistically significant associations between various dietary factors and disease. Dr. Campbell’s findings were ultimately published in his book The China Study.
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    How Much Protein Do We Really Need?
    The World Health Organization recommends that only about 5 percent of our daily calories be from protein. 7 Incidentally, that is the same percentage of protein as in human breast milk.
    The RDA recommendation from the Institute of Medicine is that we take in about 0.8 grams of protein per kilogram that we weigh. 8 This recommendation includes a generous safety factor for most people.
    The prominent nutrition expert Dr. John Scharffenberg gave an extensive presentation at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which was ultimately published in 1982. He was quoted as saying, “Let me emphasize, it is difficult to design a reasonable experimental diet that provides an active adult with adequate calories that is deficient in protein.” 9 Nathan Pritikin, the founder of the Pritikin Longevity Center in Florida, whose work has proven the incredible healing powers of a plant-based diet, once stated, “Vegetarians always ask about getting enough protein. But I don’t know any nutrition expert that can plan a diet of natural foods resulting in a protein deficiency, so long as you’re not deficient in calories. You need only six percent of total calories in protein…and it’s practically impossible to get below nine percent in ordinary diets.” 10
    While there may be many different opinions on the exact amount of protein we need, one thing is clear: the average plant food supplies at least 10 percent of its calories in the form of protein, and green vegetables average about 50 percent. 11 You can rest assured that on the Beauty Detox Solution, which is whole-food based and plant based, with a ton of greens, you will be getting plenty of protein! I go into more detail on this in Chapter 5.
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    Most notably, the China Project revealed a strong correlation between cancer and animal protein and dairy consumption. 13 As Dr. Campbell explains in The China Study , “dietary protein proved to be so powerful in its effect that we could turn on and turn off cancer growth simply by changing the level consumed.” The China Project, along with some seven hundred and fifty studies Campbell cites in The China Study , demonstrably revealed that a plant-based diet supplies more than adequate protein and calcium, as well as other important minerals and nutrients needed for health. It also pinpointed the powerful connection between diet—namely, eating