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With all the legitimate concerns[br]about AIDS and avian flu --

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and we'll hear about that from the

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brilliant Dr. Brilliant later today --

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I want to talk about the other[br]pandemic, which is

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cardiovascular disease,[br]diabetes, hypertension --

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all of which are completely[br]preventable for at

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least 95 percent of people

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just by changing diet and lifestyle.

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And what's happening is that there's a

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globalization of illness[br]occurring, that people

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are starting to eat like us,[br]and live like us, and

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die like us. And[br]in one generation, for example,

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Asia's gone from having[br]one of the lowest rates of

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heart disease and obesity[br]and diabetes to one

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of the highest. And in Africa,[br]cardiovascular disease

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equals the HIV and AIDS deaths

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in most countries.

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So there's a critical[br]window of opportunity we

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have to make an important[br]difference that can

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affect the lives of literally[br]millions of people,

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and practice preventive[br]medicine on a global

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scale.

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Heart and blood vessel[br]diseases still kill more

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people -- not only in this[br]country, but also

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worldwide -- than everything[br]else combined, and yet

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it's completely preventable[br]for almost everybody.

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It's not only preventable; it's actually

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reversible. And for the last[br]almost 29 years,

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we've been able to show[br]that by simply changing

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diet and lifestyle, using[br]these very high-tech,

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expensive, state-of-the-art[br]measures to prove how

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powerful these very simple[br]and low-tech and low-cost

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interventions can be like -- quantitative

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arteriography,[br]before and after a year, and

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cardiac PET scans.

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We showed a few months[br]ago -- we published the

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first study showing you[br]can actually stop or

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reverse the progression[br]of prostate cancer by

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making changes in diet[br]and lifestyle, and 70 percent

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regression in the tumor[br]growth, or inhibition of

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the tumor growth, compared[br]to only nine percent in the

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control group.

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And in the MRI and MR[br]spectroscopy here, the

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prostate tumor activity[br]is shown in red -- you can

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see it diminishing after a year.

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Now there is an epidemic[br]of obesity: two-thirds of

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

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to me is that diabetes has[br]increased 70 percent in the

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past 10 years, and this may be the first

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generation in which our kids[br]live a shorter life

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

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preventable.

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Now these are not election[br]returns, these are the

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people -- the number[br]of the people who are obese

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

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

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

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

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kind of devolving. (Laughter)

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

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diet that we've found[br]that can reverse heart

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disease and cancer is an Asian diet.

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But the people in Asia[br]are starting to eat like we

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

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like we are.

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

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companies. They can make[br]it fun and sexy and hip

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and crunchy and convenient[br]to eat healthier foods,

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

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and PepsiCo, and ConAgra,[br]and Safeway, and soon

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

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business.

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The salads that you see[br]at McDonald's came from

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

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Pepsi, two-thirds[br]of their revenue growth came

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from their better foods.

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And so if we can do that,[br]then we can free up

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resources for buying drugs[br]that you really do need

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for treating AIDS and HIV[br]and malaria and for

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preventing avian flu. Thank you.