Dean Ornish: The world's killer diet

Translator: Òscar Aznar Alemany Reviewer: Sandra Sánchez

With all the legitimate concerns about AIDS and avian flu --

Amb tot el respecte per la SIDA i la grip aviar

and we'll hear about that from the

brilliant Dr. Brilliant later today --

—que avui en parlarà el brillant Dr Brilliant—

I want to talk about the other pandemic, which is

vull parlar d'una altra pandèmia,

cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension --

les malalties cardiovasculars, la diabetis, la hipertensió...

all of which are completely preventable for at

Totes es poden evitar

least 95 percent of people

en el 95 % dels casos canviant la dieta i l'estil de vida.

just by changing diet and lifestyle.

And what's happening is that there's a

Existeix una 'globalització de malalties'.

globalization of illness occurring, that people

are starting to eat like us, and live like us, and

La gent menja, viu i mor com nosaltres, els americans.

die like us. And in one generation, for example,

En una generació, l'Àsia ha pujat

Asia's gone from having one of the lowest rates of

d'entre les menors taxes de malalties del cor, obesitat i diabetis,

heart disease and obesity and diabetes to one

of the highest. And in Africa, cardiovascular disease

a una de les majors taxes del món.

A l'Àfrica, les malalties cardiovasculars,

equals the HIV and AIDS deaths

igualen les morts per VIH i SIDA en molts països.

in most countries.

So there's a critical window of opportunity we

Tenim un marge crític d'oportunitat per fer un canvi prou important,

have to make an important difference that can

affect the lives of literally millions of people,

que afecti la vida de milions de gent

and practice preventive medicine on a global

i de practicar la medicina preventiva a escala mundial.

scale.

Heart and blood vessel diseases still kill more

Les malalties cardiovasculars encara maten més

people -- not only in this country, but also

—tant als EUA com al món—

worldwide -- than everything else combined, and yet

que la resta combinades,

it's completely preventable for almost everybody.

i quasi sempre es poden prevenir.

It's not only preventable; it's actually

A més de prevenir, es poden invertir.

reversible. And for the last almost 29 years,

Els últims 29 anys,

we've been able to show that by simply changing

ho hem demostrat només canviant la dieta i l'estil de vida,

diet and lifestyle, using these very high-tech,

amb aquestes mesures d'última generació

expensive, state-of-the-art measures to prove how

powerful these very simple and low-tech and low-cost

per demostrar el poder d'aquestes accions simples i barates.

interventions can be like -- quantitative

Això és una arteriografia, abans i després d'un any,

arteriography, before and after a year, and

cardiac PET scans.

i tomografies cardíaques.

We showed a few months ago -- we published the

Fa uns mesos vam publicar el primer estudi que demostra

first study showing you can actually stop or

que es pot frenar o invertir l'avenç del càncer de pròstata,

reverse the progression of prostate cancer by

making changes in diet and lifestyle, and 70 percent

canviant la dieta i l'estil de vida.

Amb un 70 % de regressió del creixement del tumor,

regression in the tumor growth, or inhibition of

o inhibició del creixement,

the tumor growth, compared to only nine percent in the

comparat amb el 9 % del grup de control.

control group.

And in the MRI and MR spectroscopy here, the

En les ressonàncies magnètiques,

prostate tumor activity is shown in red -- you can

amb l'activitat tumoral en vermell,

see it diminishing after a year.

es pot veure la disminució en un any.

Now there is an epidemic of obesity: two-thirds of

Hi ha una epidèmia d'obesitat:

adults and 15 percent of kids. What's really concerning

2 terços d'adults i 15 % de nens.

to me is that diabetes has increased 70 percent in the

El que em preocupa és que la diabetis ha augmentat un 70 % en 10 anys

past 10 years, and this may be the first

i aquesta pot ser la primera generació

generation in which our kids live a shorter life

en què els nostres fills visquin menys anys que nosaltres.

span than we do. That's pitiful, and it's

preventable.

Això és trist i es pot prevenir.

Now these are not election returns, these are the

Això no són resultats electorals,

és el nombre de gent obesa als EUA.

people -- the number of the people who are obese

by state, beginning in '85, '86, '87 -- these are

Comença el 1985, 86, 87

from the CDC website -- '88, '89, '90, '91 -- you

—són del web dels CDC—, 88, 89, 90, 91

get a new category -- '92, '93, '94, '95, '96,

—apareix un nou color—, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96,

'97, '98, '99, 2000, 2001 -- it gets worse. We're

97, 98, 99, 2000, 2001 i empitjora.

kind of devolving. (Laughter)

Estem involucionant.

(Rialles)

Now what can we do about this? Well, you know, the

Què hi podem fer?

La dieta que pot invertir les malalties del cor

diet that we've found that can reverse heart

disease and cancer is an Asian diet.

i el càncer és una dieta asiàtica.

But the people in Asia are starting to eat like we

Però si a l'Àsia mengen com nosaltres, tindran les mateixes malalties.

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

He treballat amb empreses de menjar.

companies. They can make it fun and sexy and hip

I poden fer que sembli divertit, sexy, modern, cruixent

and crunchy and convenient to eat healthier foods,

i còmode menjar més sa.

like -- I chair the advisory boards to McDonald's,

Assessoro comanyies com ara,

McDonnald's, PepsiCo, ConAgra o Safeway

and PepsiCo, and ConAgra, and Safeway, and soon

Del Monte, and they're finding that it's good

i aviat també Del Monte.

I pensen que és un bon negoci.

business.

The salads that you see at McDonald's came from

Les amanides del McDonald's inclouran una amanida asiàtica.

the work -- they're going to have an Asian salad. At

Pepsi, two-thirds of their revenue growth came

A Pepsi, 2 terços de l'augment de guanys surten d'aquests menjars.

from their better foods.

And so if we can do that, then we can free up

Si fem això, podem alliberar recursos

resources for buying drugs that you really do need

per comprar els medicaments que necessitem

for treating AIDS and HIV and malaria and for

per prevenir la SIDA, el VIH,

la malària i la grip aviar.

preventing avian flu. Thank you.

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