Traditional Diets, Cancer, Nutrition
In this video, David Getoff spends about 22 minutes speaking on "Traditional Diets, Cancer, Nutrition" at the 34th 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
You've already got the title of the talk. You've heard a lot of different people giving you different information on different ways that you should eat both to be healthy or to get rid of cancer. And I always find it interesting to listen to all the different people, because the longest running experiment in the history of the world will always be the history of the world and what Dr. Price found and what Dr. Pottinger found and what some other people have really taken a close look at. Healthy eating have found is that if you really want to have a good idea of what methods of eating, I don't like the word diet. Diet is temporary. If you're eating well, don't change it. So don't call it a diet. If you want to take a look at good methods of eating, what you do is you find populations that have been eating specific ways fairly regularly and similarly for a minimum of four or five generations. And anytime somebody tells you a way of eating that is healthy because it made them well, maybe it's a therapeutic way of eating. That should be done for two months, three months, five months, six months, and then had better be changed or it's going to cause other problems. But if you see societies that have been eating that way for multiple and many multiples of generations, then you know that that's something that's going to be helpful. So we've got traditional diets and let's just go over that a little bit. There the diets of our distant ancestors, there were foods that were available before we had any stores. They were organic foods, but we had no such word. They were organic foods because there were no pesticides. There were none of the things that would make a food, not be organic. They didn't exist yet. So they were automatically organic, but nobody would have known to call them that. Every animal eight its intended diet. We are animals, so we eat our intended diet. And every animal that we would kill to eat for our food was eating its intended diet. And therefore it caused none of the problems that all the people that you've heard here before have said are reasons not to eat meat. That's because either we are preparing it wrong or the animal itself was living incorrectly. All animals were wild. They were not fed and they were not in cages. And all the meat and organs were consumed because unlike what we do today, no animal, including humans in the wild, traditionally ever left part of the animal. They would leave the entrails.