Alternative Therapies, Cancer, Nutrition
In this video, Earl Mindell spends about 25 minutes speaking on "Alternative Therapies, Cancer, Nutrition" at the 38th Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About Earl Mindell
EARL MINDELL, R.Ph., M.H., Ph.D. (PHARMACIST, MASTER HERBALIST AND NUTRITIONIST) received his R.Ph. Degree in 1963 at the North Dakota State University, Fargo; his M.H. Degree in 1985 at the Dominion Herbal College, Surrey, BC, Canada and his Ph.D. Degree in 1985 at Pacific Western University in Los Angeles, California.
Dr. Mindell is the author of The New Vitamin Bible, an international best seller, with over 11 million books in print in 34 languages. This book was written originally in response to the countless questions he received as a Nutritionist and Lecturer.
In addition to outlining basic Nutrition, his book also explains how specific employment, sports and life experiences can affect the body’s supply of vitamins and minerals. He describes each nutrient from A to Zinc, telling what each can do to help maintain the body at maximum energy. Also included is up-to-date information on a vitamin program for retarding the aging process and how to handle smoking withdrawal symptoms.
He has conducted Nutritional Seminars around the world, condemning dependency on sugar, salt, white flour and junk foods which he calls the “Twinky, Ding Dong, Pizza, Prozac, Pepsi, Plaxix Diet.”
His book Prescription Alternatives (4th Edition) gives people alternatives to the prescription and over the counter drugs that are being advertised as the only way to treat a condition.
Dr. Mindell is listed in Who’s Who In America and is a member of numerous Professional Societies. He has been seen on Good Morning America, CNN, The David Letterman Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Live With Regis and hundreds of radio interviews across the country.
Earl’s 55 books include The New Herb Bible, The Nutrition Bible, Nutrition and Health for Dogs, Prescription Alternatives, the 30th Anniversary Edition of "The New Vitamin Bible and The Allergy Bible."
More information on Dr. Mindell’s monthly Total Health Resource Newsletter can be found on his website.
He can be contacted at his office, called Adanac Management Inc. in Beverly Hills, California, and website drearlmindell.com
Transcription
Good morning. We want to hear the bad news or the good news first. Good time to tell you the bad news.
Cancer costs the most in disability and lost life.
And I really excited to find out that the establishment is now starting to tell you that cancer is a major problem. Give me an example. In the year 2000 and eight and I have to read these these statistics because they're so unbelievable. Seven point six million people died because of cancer and twelve point four million were diagnosed with cancer. If you read any of the magazines and newspapers, you'll see that on television they're advertising these cancer clinics all over the place because it's big business. Here's one says, United, we win. Cancer is big. U.S. oncology is bigger. And it says they touch eight hundred and fifty thousand Americans every year that have cancer. And it goes on and on. In fact, in the year 2000 and at nine, we spent fifty one billion dollars on drugs against cancer. Fifty one billion. So you can see it's a big business. It's a major business. And unfortunately, the media is controlled by their advertisers. And guess who their advertisers are? Anybody? The drug companies, of course. Fact, if you have an opportunity in this country, just watch any of the major networks or even some of the so-called minor networks. One evening I counted seven out of 10 of these ads are for drugs.
And it's interesting that by the end of the evening, you're saying yourself, my goodness, it's all over for me. I've got every known disease from IBS, the dandruff, the back pains. I can't sleep. I can't get up. It's unbelievable. I mean. Get up. Leave that up to you anyway. So what can we do about it? Well, we can do a lot about it because first of all, there has been all kinds of research showing that we can do something to counteract the problem without using the chemotherapeutic drugs, radiations and surgery that you might have seen just recently. One of our principal actors, Michael Douglas, just was, I think, misdiagnosed as a good word. His wife is pretty angry about it. He went to a bunch of different physicians, oncologists, and he didn't find his problem. Now we find that he has a walnut shaped tumor in his throat and he is in stage four of throat cancer.
But he says, well, we can beat it because I'm going to use radiation, chemotherapy. And if all else fails surgery. See, that's the whole thing about this country. We have no real alternatives. We have to go along with