Nutritional Therapies

Thanks. Good morning. Good to see you.

Nice to be invited here. Just for a couple of seconds. I'm an internist. I'm a medical doctor who's been in practice for about 30 years in some strange parts of the world.

When was New York City? One was Philadelphia. And we've been in Southern California for the last seven years. I work in Irvine, California. And I like my practice a lot. It's been an evolving practice. I learned when I was on the East Coast that you really don't treat human beings very well by just giving them drugs and surgery. You can make a few changes, but some of those changes will be for the worse.

And if you really want to get after human health, you have to get after the human condition.

And that's what you folks are all about. And it's good to see so many of you here. And it's good to see the disorganization, which I didn't realize. Been around for 30 years. Cancer Control Society. That's great.

Have you seen this U.S. News and World Report issue that came out about two weeks ago, kid on a front with a really big can of coke or some soft drink saying Supersize America, how our way of life is killing us?

If you haven't seen it in this magazine, you've seen it in Time or Newsweek or some other magazine because it's all over the place.

And what it says is true, our way of life is killing us and it's killing us and pretty much the same way.

What I'm going to be talking about this morning is the connection between what's going on in diabetes, what's going on, and heart disease and what's going on in cancer. Because as Dr. Mindell mentioned about an hour ago, there is a connection and it's a pretty big connection.

Who here in the last 48 hours -- be truthful -- has eaten a donut.

Nobody has eaten a donut in the last 48 hours. That's excellent. Who has eaten cabbage or broccoli in the last 48 hours? You guys out? No, that's wonderful. That's great to see. We would not be seeing that in the general population audience. I can assure you that if I walked into a movie theater tonight and asked those questions, if they were truthful, they would not be telling me what you just told me. And I personally love donuts. I eat them very rarely because my wife yells at me. But I like donuts.

There are a few donuts with a cup of coffee, and the average donut in that pile weighs about two and a half ounces, which