Dean Ornish: The killer American diet that's sweeping the planet
Dean Ornish: La dieta assessina dels EUA que està aniquilant el món
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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about AIDS and avian flu --
per la SIDA i la grip aviar
el brillant Dr Brilliant—
pandemic, which is
la diabetis, la hipertensió...
diabetes, hypertension --
preventable for at
canviant la dieta i l'estil de vida.
occurring, that people
and live like us, and
com nosaltres, els americans.
in one generation, for example,
one of the lowest rates of
del cor, obesitat i diabetis,
and diabetes to one
cardiovascular disease
en molts països.
window of opportunity we
per fer un canvi prou important,
difference that can
millions of people,
medicine on a global
a escala mundial.
diseases still kill more
encara maten més
country, but also
else combined, and yet
for almost everybody.
almost 29 years,
that by simply changing
la dieta i l'estil de vida,
these very high-tech,
measures to prove how
d'aquestes accions simples i barates.
and low-tech and low-cost
abans i després d'un any,
before and after a year, and
ago -- we published the
el primer estudi que demostra
can actually stop or
del càncer de pròstata,
of prostate cancer by
and lifestyle, and 70 percent
del creixement del tumor,
growth, or inhibition of
to only nine percent in the
spectroscopy here, the
is shown in red -- you can
of obesity: two-thirds of
What's really concerning
increased 70 percent in the
ha augmentat un 70 % en 10 anys
live a shorter life
menys anys que nosaltres.
returns, these are the
of the people who are obese
'86, '87 -- these are
'88, '89, '90, '91 -- you
88, 89, 90, 91
'92, '93, '94, '95, '96,
92, 93, 94, 95, 96,
-- it gets worse. We're
Well, you know, the
les malalties del cor
that can reverse heart
are starting to eat like we
tindran les mateixes malalties.
starting to get sick
with a lot of the big food
it fun and sexy and hip
sexy, modern, cruixent
to eat healthier foods,
boards to McDonald's,
and Safeway, and soon
finding that it's good
at McDonald's came from
inclouran una amanida asiàtica.
to have an Asian salad. At
of their revenue growth came
surten d'aquests menjars.
then we can free up
that you really do need
and malaria and for
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dean Ornish - Physician, authorDean 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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