Cataracts, Glaucoma, Macular Degeneration, Diabetic Eye Disease
In this video, Marc Rose spends about 32 minutes speaking on "Cataracts, Glaucoma, Macular Degeneration, Diabetic Eye Disease" at the 35th Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About Marc Rose
MARC ROSE, M.D. graduated from Ohio State University, Columbus in 1967 with a B.S. Degree, Cum Laude and Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan in 1971 with an M.D. Degree and did his Residency in Ophthalmology at University of Illinois, Chicago in 1975. Dr. Rose had Board Certification and is a Member of California Association of Ophthalmology, American Academy of Ophthalmology, American Society of Cataracts and Refractive Surgery and National Eye Research Foundation.
Memberships and Recognitions include: an appointment by Governor Edmund Brown, Jr. as Member of the 11th District Medical Quality Review Committee, Board of Medical Assurance’s; Certificate for Outstanding Contribution to the City of Los Angeles awarded by Mayor Tom Bradley of Los Angeles; and Missionary Trips to Mexico with Flying Doctors carrying surgical equipment and treating the rural population with eye health problems.
Medical Appointments and Training include Assistant Professor of Surgery & Ophthamology at Western University of Health Science Pomona, and Photorefractive Keratectomy, Dept. of Ophthalmology at Jules Stein Institute, UCLA School of Medicine in Los Angeles, both in California.
Dr. Marc has developed many of the guidelines used to prevent and even reverse various age and lifestyle induced diseases of the eye that are in his book Save Your Sight! This 1998 bestseller contains these protocols, which have helped thousands of those afflicted with diseases of the eye.
Some of the Chapter Headings include The Nutritional Care and Feeding of Your Eyes; Preventing and Healing Cataracts, Glaucoma and Macular Degeneration; Keeping Your Blood Vessels Strong; Are Your Prescription Drugs Making You Go Blind?; and Exercise Your Way to Clear Vision with an Appendix: A Summary of Nutritional Prescriptions for Eye Diseases.
Transcription
I want to thank everybody for staying on this Monday, Labor Day. Everybody's got family and friends and barbecue and lots of good stuff to do. So I appreciate everybody's staying after a long, hot weekend. It's really important to continue to have the Cancer Control Society because it gives a venue for opinions and what I call traditional medicine. Traditional medicine is what I call nutritional health based medicine, studying about good health habits as opposed to American Westernize Bettison, which unfortunately is a drug based medical establishment and a drug based society. I've been an opthamologist now since nineteen seventy two for about 35 years. And fortunately or unfortunately, I've seen a great deterioration in the health and nutrition of people in this country. So when I first started 35 years ago, people were actually much healthier than they are now with much, much, much less eye disease.
Now I'm seeing an epidemic of diabetes, an epidemic of obesity associated with the diabetes, cataract, glaucoma, macular degeneration and naturally diabetes, bleeding in the eye called diabetic retinopathy. Now, the statistics here in the U.S. of A. are just alarming. There's about 300 million people and over well over 200 million are overweight. There's over 100 million obese people and children in the United States, 30 million diabetics, 50 million pre diabetics of the diabetics, the 30 million. The statistics are that 40 percent get diabetic retinopathy with loss of functional vision, which means that there's over twelve million people in the United States with diabetes bleeding in the eye at the present time. That's simply totally unacceptable to me. And on any given day, I see on the average of about 20 to 25 diabetics with multiple system failure and with diabetes bleeding in the eye. And it has to do with this epidemic of obesity in the United States. And so it's really important for us to understand it's a condition. And I'll get. I know everybody's here to find out about the cataract and the glaucoma and the macular degeneration and the diabetes. But it's this epidemic of obesity that's causing the increase of all the diseases and all the eye diseases.
They love sugar. They love sugar. Cancer loves sugar. So the more sugar the one consumes, the more obese one gets, the higher the chance of getting cancer, chronic degenerative diseases and all the chronic degenerative diseases of the eye. So it's really important to understand what is this? Why what is this epidemic of of obesity and the severe epidemic of diabetes in the United States? And there's a syndrome called metabolic syndrome, which is associated with prediabetes and insulin resistance. And I'm