Dean Ornish: The world's killer diet

Translator: Matej Divjak Reviewer: Klavdija Cernilogar

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

Od vseh upravičenih skrbi o AIDS-u in ptičji gripi --

and we'll hear about that from the

o tem bomo slišali od

brilliant Dr. Brilliant later today --

sijajnega dr. Brillianta kasneje --

I want to talk about the other pandemic, which is

bi rad govoril o drugih pandemijah, kot so

cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension --

srčno-žilne bolezni, sladkorna bolezen, zvišan krvni pritisk --

all of which are completely preventable for at

od katerih se vse lahko preprečijo za vsaj

least 95 percent of people

95 odstotkov ljudi samo s spremembo

just by changing diet and lifestyle.

diete in življenjskega sloga.

And what's happening is that there's a

In kar se dogaja je,

globalization of illness occurring, that people

da se pojavlja globalizacija bolezni, da ljudje

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

začenjajo jesti kot mi, živeti kot mi in

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

umirati kot mi. Na primer, v eni generaciji

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

je Azija prešla od ene najnižjih stopenj

heart disease and obesity and diabetes to one

srčnih bolezni, debelosti in sladkorne bolezni

of the highest. And in Africa, cardiovascular disease

do ene najvišjih. V Afriki je smrti zaradi srčno-žilnih bolezni

equals the HIV and AIDS deaths

toliko kot smrti zaradi HIV-a in AIDS-a

in most countries.

v večini držav.

So there's a critical window of opportunity we

Tu je torej priložnost.

have to make an important difference that can

Narediti moramo pomembno razliko, ki lahko

affect the lives of literally millions of people,

vpliva na milijone ljudi

and practice preventive medicine on a global

in prakticirati preventivno medicino na globalni

scale.

ravni.

Heart and blood vessel diseases still kill more

Bolezni srca in ožilja še vedno ubijejo več

people -- not only in this country, but also

ljudi -- ne samo v tej državi, temveč

worldwide -- than everything else combined, and yet

po vsem svetu -- kot vse ostalo skupaj, pa vendar

it's completely preventable for almost everybody.

lahko to preprečimo skoraj pri vsakomur.

It's not only preventable; it's actually

Ni samo preprečljivo, dejansko je celo

reversible. And for the last almost 29 years,

obrnljivo. In v zadnjih skoraj 29-ih letih

we've been able to show that by simply changing

smo lahko pokazali, da lahko preprosto s spremembo

diet and lifestyle, using these very high-tech,

diete in življenjskega sloga, z uporabo teh zelo visokotehnoloških,

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

dragih, najnovejših meritev smo dokazali,

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

kako so lahko ti zelo preprosti, nizkotehnološki in poceni

interventions can be like -- quantitative

posegi močni. Kvantitativna

arteriography, before and after a year, and

arteriografija, pred in po enem letu in

cardiac PET scans.

PET sken srca.

We showed a few months ago -- we published the

Pred nekaj meseci smo pokazali -- objavili smo

first study showing you can actually stop or

prvo študijo, ki je pokazala, da lahko dejansko ustavite

reverse the progression of prostate cancer by

ali obrnete napredovanje raka na prostati

making changes in diet and lifestyle, and 70 percent

s spremenjeno dieto in življenjskim slogom,

regression in the tumor growth, or inhibition of

in 70-odstotno nazadovanje rasti tumorja, ali ustavitev

the tumor growth, compared to only nine percent in the

rasti tumorja, v primerjavi s samo 9 odstotki v

control group.

kontrolni skupini.

And in the MRI and MR spectroscopy here, the

Tukaj v MRI in MR spektroskopiji je

prostate tumor activity is shown in red -- you can

delovanje tumorja na prostati prikazano v rdeči --

see it diminishing after a year.

vidite lahko, da po enem letu izginja.

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

Imamo epidemijo debelosti. Dve tretjini odraslih

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

in 15 odstotkov otrok. Kar je zame resnično zaskrbljujoče,

to me is that diabetes has increased 70 percent in the

je, da je sladkorna bolezen zrasla za 70 odstotkov

past 10 years, and this may be the first

v zadnjih 10-ih letih in da je lahko to prva

generation in which our kids live a shorter life

generacija, v kateri bodo naši otroci živeli

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

krajše življenje kot mi. To je bedno in

preventable.

lahko se prepreči.

Now these are not election returns, these are the

No, to niso rezultati volitev, to so ljudje --

people -- the number of the people who are obese

število ljudi, ki so zelo debeli

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

po državah, začenši v '85, '86, '87 -- to je s spletne strani

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

CDC (www.cdc.gov) -- '88, '89, '90, '91 -- dobite

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

novo kategorijo -- '92, '93, '94, '95, '96,

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

'97, '98, '99, 2000, 2001 -- se še poslabša. Na nek način

kind of devolving. (Laughter)

nazadujemo v razvoju.

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

Torej, kaj lahko naredimo glede tega? Veste, dieta, za katero

diet that we've found that can reverse heart

smo ugotovili, da lahko

disease and cancer is an Asian diet.

obrne srčne bolezni in raka, je azijska dieta.

But the people in Asia are starting to eat like we

Vendar ljudje v Aziji začenjajo jesti tako kot mi,

are, which is why they're starting to get sick

zaradi česar postajajo bolni

like we are.

kot mi.

So I've been working with a lot of the big food

Delal sem z mnogimi velikimi prehranskimi podjetji.

companies. They can make it fun and sexy and hip

Lahko dosežejo, da je uživanje zdrave hrane zabavno

and crunchy and convenient to eat healthier foods,

in seksi in "zakon" in hrustljavo in pripravno

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

kot -- predsedujem svetovalnim odborom v McDonald's-u

and PepsiCo, and ConAgra, and Safeway, and soon

in PepsiCo in ConAgra in Safeway in kmalu

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

Del Monte in ugotavljajo, da je to

business.

dober posel.

The salads that you see at McDonald's came from

Solate, ki jih vidite v McDonald's-u,

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

so rezultat dela -- imeli bodo azijsko solato.

Pepsi, two-thirds of their revenue growth came

Pri Pepsiju je dve tretjini dohodkov prišlo

from their better foods.

od njihove boljše hrane.

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

In če lahko to naredimo, lahko sprostimo

resources for buying drugs that you really do need

vire za nakup zdravil, ki jih resnično potrebujemo

for treating AIDS and HIV and malaria and for

za zdravljenje AIDS-a in HIV in malarije in za

preventing avian flu. Thank you.

preprečevanje ptičje gripe. Hvala.