Amb tot el respecte per la SIDA i la grip aviar —que avui en parlarà el brillant Dr Brilliant— vull parlar d'una altra pandèmia, les malalties cardiovasculars, la diabetis, la hipertensió... Totes es poden evitar en el 95 % dels casos canviant la dieta i l'estil de vida.
With all the legitimate concerns about AIDS and avian flu -- and we'll hear about that from the brilliant Dr. Brilliant later today -- I want to talk about the other pandemic, which is cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension -- all of which are completely preventable for at least 95 percent of people just by changing diet and lifestyle.
Existeix una 'globalització de malalties'. La gent menja, viu i mor com nosaltres, els americans. En una generació, l'Àsia ha pujat d'entre les menors taxes de malalties del cor, obesitat i diabetis, a una de les majors taxes del món. A l'Àfrica, les malalties cardiovasculars, igualen les morts per VIH i SIDA en molts països. Tenim un marge crític d'oportunitat per fer un canvi prou important, que afecti la vida de milions de gent i de practicar la medicina preventiva a escala mundial.
And what's happening is that there's a globalization of illness occurring, that people are starting to eat like us, and live like us, and die like us. And in one generation, for example, Asia's gone from having one of the lowest rates of heart disease and obesity and diabetes to one of the highest. And in Africa, cardiovascular disease equals the HIV and AIDS deaths in most countries. So there's a critical window of opportunity we have to make an important difference that can affect the lives of literally millions of people, and practice preventive medicine on a global scale.
Les malalties cardiovasculars encara maten més —tant als EUA com al món— que la resta combinades, i quasi sempre es poden prevenir. A més de prevenir, es poden invertir. Els últims 29 anys, ho hem demostrat només canviant la dieta i l'estil de vida, amb aquestes mesures d'última generació per demostrar el poder d'aquestes accions simples i barates. Això és una arteriografia, abans i després d'un any, i tomografies cardíaques.
Heart and blood vessel diseases still kill more people -- not only in this country, but also worldwide -- than everything else combined, and yet it's completely preventable for almost everybody. It's not only preventable; it's actually reversible. And for the last almost 29 years, we've been able to show that by simply changing diet and lifestyle, using these very high-tech, expensive, state-of-the-art measures to prove how powerful these very simple and low-tech and low-cost interventions can be like -- quantitative arteriography, before and after a year, and cardiac PET scans.
Fa uns mesos vam publicar el primer estudi que demostra que es pot frenar o invertir l'avenç del càncer de pròstata, canviant la dieta i l'estil de vida. Amb un 70 % de regressió del creixement del tumor, o inhibició del creixement, comparat amb el 9 % del grup de control. En les ressonàncies magnètiques, amb l'activitat tumoral en vermell, es pot veure la disminució en un any.
We showed a few months ago -- we published the first study showing you can actually stop or reverse the progression of prostate cancer by making changes in diet and lifestyle, and 70 percent regression in the tumor growth, or inhibition of the tumor growth, compared to only nine percent in the control group. And in the MRI and MR spectroscopy here, the prostate tumor activity is shown in red -- you can see it diminishing after a year.
Hi ha una epidèmia d'obesitat: 2 terços d'adults i 15 % de nens. El que em preocupa és que la diabetis ha augmentat un 70 % en 10 anys i aquesta pot ser la primera generació en què els nostres fills visquin menys anys que nosaltres. Això és trist i es pot prevenir. Això no són resultats electorals, és el nombre de gent obesa als EUA. Comença el 1985, 86, 87 —són del web dels CDC—, 88, 89, 90, 91 —apareix un nou color—, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 2001 i empitjora. Estem involucionant. (Rialles)
Now there is an epidemic of obesity: two-thirds of adults and 15 percent of kids. What's really concerning to me is that diabetes has increased 70 percent in the past 10 years, and this may be the first generation in which our kids live a shorter life span than we do. That's pitiful, and it's preventable. Now these are not election returns, these are the people -- the number of the people who are obese by state, beginning in '85, '86, '87 -- these are from the CDC website -- '88, '89, '90, '91 -- you get a new category -- '92, '93, '94, '95, '96, '97, '98, '99, 2000, 2001 -- it gets worse. We're kind of devolving. (Laughter) Now what can we do about this? Well, you know, the
Què hi podem fer? La dieta que pot invertir les malalties del cor i el càncer és una dieta asiàtica. Però si a l'Àsia mengen com nosaltres, tindran les mateixes malalties. He treballat amb empreses de menjar. I poden fer que sembli divertit, sexy, modern, cruixent i còmode menjar més sa. Assessoro comanyies com ara, McDonnald's, PepsiCo, ConAgra o Safeway i aviat també Del Monte. I pensen que és un bon negoci. Les amanides del McDonald's inclouran una amanida asiàtica. A Pepsi, 2 terços de l'augment de guanys surten d'aquests menjars.
diet that we've found that can reverse heart disease and cancer is an Asian diet. But the people in Asia are starting to eat like we are, which is why they're starting to get sick like we are. So I've been working with a lot of the big food companies. They can make it fun and sexy and hip and crunchy and convenient to eat healthier foods, like -- I chair the advisory boards to McDonald's, and PepsiCo, and ConAgra, and Safeway, and soon Del Monte, and they're finding that it's good business. The salads that you see at McDonald's came from the work -- they're going to have an Asian salad. At Pepsi, two-thirds of their revenue growth came from their better foods.
Si fem això, podem alliberar recursos per comprar els medicaments que necessitem per prevenir la SIDA, el VIH, la malària i la grip aviar. Gràcies
And so if we can do that, then we can free up resources for buying drugs that you really do need for treating AIDS and HIV and malaria and for preventing avian flu. Thank you.