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The '''China–Cornell–Oxford Project''', short for the "China-Oxford-Cornell Study on Dietary, Lifestyle and Disease Mortality Characteristics in 65 Rural Chinese Counties," was a large [[observational study]] conducted throughout the 1980s in rural China, jointly funded by Cornell University, the University of Oxford, and the government of China.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090223222003/http://www.nutrition.cornell.edu/ChinaProject/ "China-Cornell-Oxford Project"], Cornell University.
*[http://www.ctsu.ox.ac.uk/~china/monograph/ "Geographic study of mortality, biochemistry, diet and lifestyle in rural China"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100911215335/http://www.ctsu.ox.ac.uk/~china/monograph/ |date=2010-09-11 }}, Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit, University of Oxford, accessed February 3, 2011.</ref> The study compared the health consequences of diets rich in animal-based foods to diets rich in plant-based foods among people who were genetically similar. In May 1990, ''The New York Times'' termed the study "the Grand Prix of [[epidemiology]]".<ref name=Brody>Brody, Jane E. [https://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/08/science/huge-study-of-diet-indicts-fat-and-meat.html?scp=8&sq=%22T.%20Colin%20Campbell%22&st=cse "Huge Study Of Diet Indicts Fat And Meat"], ''The New York Times'', May 8, 1990.</ref>
 
== Background ==
The first two major studies were led by [[T. Colin Campbell]], professor of nutritional biochemistry at Cornell, who summarized the results in his book, ''[[The China Study]]'' (2005). Other lead researchers were Chen Junshi, Deputy Director of Institute of Nutrition and Food Hygiene at the [http://www.visresearch.org/center/chinese-academy-of-preventive-medicine Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine in Beijing], [[Richard Peto]] of the University of Oxford, and Li Junyao of the China Cancer Institute.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090223222003/http://www.nutrition.cornell.edu/ChinaProject/ "China-Cornell-Oxford Project"], Cornell University, accessed March 31, 2012.</ref>▼
The idea for the study began in 1980–81 during discussions between T. Colin Campbell at Cornell and Chen Junshi, Deputy Director of Institute of Nutrition and Food Hygiene at the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine. They were later joined by [[Richard Peto]] of the University of Oxford—Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology as of 2012—and Li Junyao of the China Cancer Institute.<ref name="study">{{syn|date=January 2020}}[https://web.archive.org/web/20090223222003/http://www.nutrition.cornell.edu/ChinaProject/ "China-Cornell-Oxford Project"], Cornell University, accessed March 31, 2012<br />
[http://www.ctsu.ox.ac.uk/~china/monograph/ "Geographic study of mortality, biochemistry, diet and lifestyle in rural China"]<br />{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100911215335/http://www.ctsu.ox.ac.uk/~china/monograph/ |date=September 11, 2010 }}, Clinical Trial Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, University of Oxford, accessed March 31, 2012<br />
[http://www.ctsu.ox.ac.uk/projects/cecology1989/ "Chinese ecological studies] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725165942/http://www.ctsu.ox.ac.uk/projects/cecology1989/ |date=July 25, 2011 }}, Clinical Trial Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit, University of Oxford, accessed March 31, 2012<br />
{{cite journal |last1=Campbell |first1=T. Colin |last2=Junshi |first2=Chen |last3=Brun |first3=Thierry |last4=Parpia |first4=Banoo |last5=Yinsheng |first5=Qu |last6=Chumming |first6=Chen |last7=Geissler |first7=Catherine |title=China: From diseases of poverty to diseases of affluence. policy implications of the epidemiological transition |journal=Ecology of Food and Nutrition |date=May 1992 |volume=27 |issue=2 |pages=133–144 |doi=10.1080/03670244.1992.9991235 }}<br />([http://www.mcspotlight.org/media/reports/campbell_china2.html courtesy link])<br />
[http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/01/6.28.01/China_Study_II.html "Switch to Western diet may bring Western-type diseases"], ''Cornell Chronicle'', June 28, 2001</ref>
 
== Studies ==
TheIn study1983 examinedtwo thevillages diets,were lifestylechosen at random in each of 65 rural counties in China, and disease50 characteristicsfamilies were chosen at random in each village for a total of 6,500 people. inThe 65dietary ruralhabits Chineseof [[Countyone (People'sadult Republicmember of China)|counties]]each family were examined—half male, comparinghalf female—and the prevalenceresults ofcompared diseaseto characteristics,the excludingdeath causesrates in those counties from around 48 forms of deathcancers suchand asother accidentsdiseases during {{nowrap|1973–75.}}<ref name="study" /><ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Junshi |editor1-first=Chen |editor2-last=Campbell |editor2-first=T. Colin |editor3-last=Junyao |editor3-first=Li |editor4-last=Peto |editor4-first=R. |title=Diet, lifestyle, and mortality in China: a study of the characteristics of 65 Chinese counties |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1990 |isbn=978-0-19-261843-6}}</ref>
 
▲The first two major studies were led by [[T. Colin Campbell]], professor of nutritional biochemistry at Cornell, who summarized the results in his book, ''[[The China Study]]'' (2005). Other lead researchers were Chen Junshi, Deputy Director of Institute of Nutrition and Food Hygiene at the [http://www.visresearch.org/center/chinese-academy-of-preventive-medicine Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine in Beijing], [[Richard Peto]] of the University of Oxford, and Li Junyao of the China Cancer Institute.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090223222003/http://www.nutrition.cornell.edu/ChinaProject/ "China-Cornell-Oxford Project"], Cornell University, accessed March 31, 2012.</ref>
 
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