Benefits, Traditional Diets, Nutrition
In this video, David Getoff spends about 24 minutes speaking on "Benefits, Traditional Diets, Nutrition" at the 40th Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About David Getoff
DAVID GETOFF, C.C.N., C.T.N., F.A.A.I.M. is a nationally board certified Clinical Nutritionist and Traditional Naturopath. He has been in private practice in San Diego County for over 25 years. David is the vice president of the 67 year old Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation in Lemon Grove California.
David is an elected member of the American College of Nutrition and the American Society for Nutrition and has produced over a dozen–one to three hour educational videos on topics including: cancer, diabetes, detoxification, anti-aging, healthy eating and emotional problems in children. David lectures at scientific medical, nutritional, dental, and organic food conferences across the United States as well as conferences for the general public and he has been a guest on numerous broadcast and web based radio shows, webinars and summits.
David is on the teaching faculty of the American College of Integrative Medicine and Dentistry and is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences. David IS NOT a doctor and does not like being put into the same category as all those medical professionals who were unable to help his patients get well.
David developed and has been teaching a course entitled Attaining Optimal Health for the past 20 years and this course is now available on line from his website at DavidGetoff.com.
David’s new book, Abundant Health in a Toxic World was recently published by Author House.
Transcription
Our executive director asked me what I please take a thirty or forty five seconds just to say if they still happen to be here. Will the people who gave legs to a couple of Nik Gonzalez's books that he was very nice enough to bring in here and let us sell and that walked off by themselves. Please either bring them back or pay for them. So pleasure to be here. I love what this organization does. They expose you to so many different things that some of you get a lot of fabulous information and some of you are so confused you don't know what to do.
And one of the reasons for that actually does have to do with diet. So no group that I have been to and I go to many, many groups and I speak at many, many groups, I get exposed to as many different recommendations.
As far as diet as this group, that's just the way it gets done here, because we have people that say the way to get rid of cancer is to change your diet this way. And somebody says that way. And some ways as part of this way and part of that way, and somebody says, oh, no, they're all wrong. It's this way.
And so we get this over and over and over again. And it's really fascinating because in addition to the fact that there are lots and lots of different ways to do this, there really aren't a lot of different ways to determine what healthy diets are. There are just a lot of people that don't know that there's only one way to determine what a healthy diet is. And so the question obviously is what's the healthy diet? And just say you'll know a lot of people believe that every condition is totally different and therefore it needs to be treated totally differently. That's true of pharmaceuticals. Obviously, you're not going to give somebody who needs a blood pressure medication, chemotherapy. That's the wrong pharmaceutical. But when we're talking about food, we're talking about diet. We're talking about different nutrients you're taking. If you study the parts of the world that don't have cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and I could keep on going, they're all eating the same food. They're not eating a different group of foods if they're trying to avoid this condition. And another group of foods, if they're trying to avoid this condition because a healthy diet is a healthy diet. Now, there are some changes and there are some differences. But overall, if you have a truly healthy diet, you have a population that has very, very little