ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dean Ornish - Physician, author
Dean Ornish is a clinical professor at UCSF and founder of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute. He's a leading expert on fighting illness -- particularly heart disease with dietary and lifestyle changes.

Why you should listen

Dr. Dean Ornish wants you to live longer, and have more fun while you're at it. He's one of the leading voices in the medical community promoting a balanced, holistic approach to health, and proving that it works. The author of Eat More, Weigh Less and several other best-selling books, Ornish is best known for his lifestyle-based approach to fighting heart disease.

His research at the Preventive Medicine Research Institute (the nonprofit he founded) clinically demonstrated that cardiovascular illnesses -- and, most recently prostate cancer -- can be treated and even reversed through diet and exercise. These findings (once thought to be physiologically implausible) have been widely chronicled in the US media, including Newsweek, for which Ornish writes a column. The fifty-something physician, who's received many honors and awards, was chosen by LIFE Magazine as one of the most influential members of his generation. Among his many pursuits, Ornish is now working with food corporations to help stop America's obesity pandemic from spreading around the globe.

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Dean Ornish: The killer American diet that's sweeping the planet

Dean Ornish sobre a assassina dieta mundial

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Pare de se desesperar com AIDS, câncer e gripe aviária. Doenças cardiovasculares matam mais do que todas as outras doenças combinadas - e são preveníveis em grande parte. Dr. Dean Ornish explica como ao mudar nossos hábitos alimentares vidas serão salvas.
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Dean Ornish is a clinical professor at UCSF and founder of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute. He's a leading expert on fighting illness -- particularly heart disease with dietary and lifestyle changes. Full bio

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With all the legitimate concerns
about AIDS and avian flu --
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Com todas as preocupações legítimas sobre AIDS e gripe aviária --
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and we'll hear about that from the
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e ouviremos sobre isso do
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brilliant Dr. Brilliant later today --
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brilhante Dr. Brilliant hoje mais tarde --
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I want to talk about the other
pandemic, which is
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Quero falar sobre a outra pandemia, que é
doença cardiovascular, diabetes, hipertensão --
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cardiovascular disease,
diabetes, hypertension --
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all of which are completely
preventable for at
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todas das quais são completamente preveníveis para
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least 95 percent of people
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ao menos 95 por cento das pessoas,
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just by changing diet and lifestyle.
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apenas pela mudança de dieta e estilo de vida.
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And what's happening is that there's a
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E o que está acontecendo é que há uma
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globalization of illness
occurring, that people
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globalização de doenças ocorrendo, e pessoas
estão começando a comer como nós, viver como nós, e
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are starting to eat like us,
and live like us, and
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die like us. And
in one generation, for example,
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morrer como nós. E em uma geração, por exemplo,
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Asia's gone from having
one of the lowest rates of
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a Ásia passou de uma das menores taxas de
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heart disease and obesity
and diabetes to one
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doença cardiovascular, obesidade, e diabetes para ter uma
das maiores. E na África, doenças cardiovasculares
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of the highest. And in Africa,
cardiovascular disease
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equals the HIV and AIDS deaths
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equiparam mortes por HIV e AIDS
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in most countries.
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na maioria dos países.
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So there's a critical
window of opportunity we
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Então há uma janela crítica de oportunidade que
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have to make an important
difference that can
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nós temos para fazer uma diferença importante que possa
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affect the lives of literally
millions of people,
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afetar as vidas de literalmente milhões de pessoas,
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and practice preventive
medicine on a global
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e praticar medicina preventiva numa escala
global.
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scale.
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Heart and blood vessel
diseases still kill more
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Doenças de coração e vasos sanguíneos ainda matam mais
pessoas -- não só nesse país, mas também
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people -- not only in this
country, but also
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no mundo -- que todo resto combinado, e ainda assim
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worldwide -- than everything
else combined, and yet
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it's completely preventable
for almost everybody.
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é completamente prevenível para quase todo mundo.
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It's not only preventable; it's actually
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Não é apenas prevenível, é na verdade
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reversible. And for the last
almost 29 years,
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reversível. E nos últimos quase 29 anos,
fomos capazes de mostrar que pela simples mudança
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we've been able to show
that by simply changing
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de dieta e estilo de vida, usando essas medidas tecnológicas,
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diet and lifestyle, using
these very high-tech,
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expensive, state-of-the-art
measures to prove how
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caras, avançadas para provar o quão
poderosas essas intervenções simples e básicas
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powerful these very simple
and low-tech and low-cost
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interventions can be like -- quantitative
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e baratas podem ser. Arteriografia
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arteriography,
before and after a year, and
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quantitativa, antes e após um ano, e
PET scans cardíacos.
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cardiac PET scans.
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We showed a few months
ago -- we published the
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Nós mostramos alguns meses atrás -- nós publicamos o
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first study showing you
can actually stop or
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primeiro estudo mostrando que você pode mesmo parar ou
reverter a progressão de câncer de próstata
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reverse the progression
of prostate cancer by
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fazendo mudanças na dieta e estilo de vida, e 70 por cento
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making changes in diet
and lifestyle, and 70 percent
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regression in the tumor
growth, or inhibition of
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de regressão no crescimento do tumor, ou inibição do
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the tumor growth, compared
to only nine percent in the
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crescimento do tumor, comparado a apenas 9 por cento no
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control group.
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grupo de controle.
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And in the MRI and MR
spectroscopy here, the
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E na espectrocopia de MRI e MR, a
atividade do tumor de próstata é mostrada em vermelho -- você pode
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prostate tumor activity
is shown in red -- you can
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observá-lo diminuindo após um ano.
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see it diminishing after a year.
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Now there is an epidemic
of obesity: two-thirds of
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Agora há uma epidemia de obesidade. Dois terços dos
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adults and 15 percent of kids.
What's really concerning
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adultos e 15 por cento das crianças. O que realmente está me preocupando
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to me is that diabetes has
increased 70 percent in the
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é que a diabetes aumentou em 70 por cento nos
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past 10 years, and this may be the first
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últimos 10 anos, e essa pode ser a primeira
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generation in which our kids
live a shorter life
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geração na qual nossas crianças vivem uma expectativa
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span than we do. That's pitiful, and it's
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de vida menor do que nós. Isso é uma pena, e isso é
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preventable.
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prevenível.
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Now these are not election
returns, these are the
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Agora isso não é contagem de votos, isso são
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people -- the number
of the people who are obese
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pessoas -- o número de pessoas que são obesas
por estado, a partir do ano de 85, 86, 87 -- esses são
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by state, beginning in '85,
'86, '87 -- these are
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from the CDC website --
'88, '89, '90, '91 -- you
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da página da web do CDC -- 88, 89, 90, 91 -- você
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get a new category --
'92, '93, '94, '95, '96,
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tem uma nova catergoria -- 92, 93, 94, 95, 96,
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'97, '98, '99, 2000, 2001
-- it gets worse. We're
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97, 98, 99, 2000, 2001 -- isso piora. Nós estamos
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kind of devolving. (Laughter)
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meio que desevoluindo.
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Now what can we do about this?
Well, you know, the
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Agora o que podemos fazer quanto a isso? Bem, você sabe, a
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diet that we've found
that can reverse heart
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dieta que nós encontramos para reverter doenças
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disease and cancer is an Asian diet.
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cardíacas e o câncer é a dieta da Ásia.
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But the people in Asia
are starting to eat like we
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Mas as pessoas na Ásia estão começando a comer como nós
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are, which is why they're
starting to get sick
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comemos, e por isso estão começando a ficar doentes
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like we are.
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como nós.
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So I've been working
with a lot of the big food
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Então eu estive trabalhando com um monte de grandes empresas
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companies. They can make
it fun and sexy and hip
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alimentícias. Elas podem tornar divertido e atraente e legal
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and crunchy and convenient
to eat healthier foods,
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e gostoso e conveniente comer alimentos saudáveis,
como -- eu presido o comitê de conselho do McDonald's,
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like -- I chair the advisory
boards to McDonald's,
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and PepsiCo, and ConAgra,
and Safeway, and soon
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da PepsiCo, da ConAgra, da Safeway, e logo
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Del Monte, and they're
finding that it's good
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da Del Monte, e elas estão descobrindo que isso é bom
negócio.
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business.
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The salads that you see
at McDonald's came from
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As saladas que você vê no McDonald's vêm desse
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the work -- they're going
to have an Asian salad. At
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trabalho -- eles terão uma salada asiática. Na
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Pepsi, two-thirds
of their revenue growth came
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Pepsi, dois terços do crescimento de rendimento vieram
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from their better foods.
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de seus alimentos saudáveis.
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And so if we can do that,
then we can free up
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E assim se nós podemos fazer isso, então nós podemos liberar
recursos para comprar remédios que você realmente precisa
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resources for buying drugs
that you really do need
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for treating AIDS and HIV
and malaria and for
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para tratar AIDS e HIV e malária e para
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preventing avian flu. Thank you.
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prevenir a gripe aviária. Obrigado.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dean Ornish - Physician, author
Dean Ornish is a clinical professor at UCSF and founder of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute. He's a leading expert on fighting illness -- particularly heart disease with dietary and lifestyle changes.

Why you should listen

Dr. Dean Ornish wants you to live longer, and have more fun while you're at it. He's one of the leading voices in the medical community promoting a balanced, holistic approach to health, and proving that it works. The author of Eat More, Weigh Less and several other best-selling books, Ornish is best known for his lifestyle-based approach to fighting heart disease.

His research at the Preventive Medicine Research Institute (the nonprofit he founded) clinically demonstrated that cardiovascular illnesses -- and, most recently prostate cancer -- can be treated and even reversed through diet and exercise. These findings (once thought to be physiologically implausible) have been widely chronicled in the US media, including Newsweek, for which Ornish writes a column. The fifty-something physician, who's received many honors and awards, was chosen by LIFE Magazine as one of the most influential members of his generation. Among his many pursuits, Ornish is now working with food corporations to help stop America's obesity pandemic from spreading around the globe.

More profile about the speaker
Dean Ornish | Speaker | TED.com