Healthier Choices
In this video, Earl Mindell spends about 24 minutes speaking on "Healthier Choices" at the 30th 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
Thank you. Actually, I have two books that I want to talk about. First one is US Safe at any meal. And the second book is called The Diet Bible.
The Diet Bible. Actually, two of them are very closely intertwined because we have a plague in America. It's called obesity or overweights.
And it is really something that we should realize is probably a major cause of a bad 30 to 40 percent of the cancers. And I'll repeat that because a lot of people don't understand what's happening. 30 to 40 percent of the cancers that we are afflicted with in this country are diet related in the sense that if you are overweight, your chance of coming down with cancer about 30 to 40 percent greater. And considering that sixty one percent of Americans are overweight and 27 percent are BS and about a third of the children now are overweight. We are going to see an onslaught of cancer in this country that is going to make what are the statistics we have now look like almost insignificant.
In fact, we think this is the first generation in America where they will not live as long as the previous generation and not be as healthy.
The children say about about a third are overweight. The good news, of course, if you have read the newspapers or watch any of the media in the last week is I think we should be very proud of this. L.A. Unified School District threw out soft drink machines throw. At least it's a step because I know what's going to happen. The convenience store is going to start opening up across the street from the schools and selling their gigantic soft drink type things.
So it is a step and it shows you that we are now understanding that it's not really the fat in a diet that is a major culprit. It's the sugar and the processed carbohydrates, which I'll talk about in a minute. Another important thing to know, I'm a great student of the history. I have an office with a museum complex. I collect pharmacy, antiques and memorabilia. The old the vitamins and a lot of books. I have a book from 1939 called The Vitamins, written or published by the American Medical Association. Yes. Nineteen thirty nine.
That's even before I was born. Amazing. Now, just in the last month, the brand new study came out in the journal American Medical Association. And here's a article and one of the newspapers, American Medical Association, no longer anti vitamin. Wow. I guess they just look back in their history and found out that they really were