Participants: Don Mckintosh (Host), Tim Lawton
Series Code: HFAL
Program Code: HFAL000160
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00:01 The following program presents principles designed
00:03 to promote good health 00:05 and is not intended to take the place 00:06 of personalized professional care. 00:09 The opinions and ideas 00:10 expressed are those of the speaker. 00:12 Viewers are encouraged to draw their own conclusions 00:15 about the information presented. 00:50 Hello, and welcome to "Health for Lifetime," 00:51 I'm your host Don Mackintosh 00:53 and I'm glad you join us today. 00:55 Today we're gonna be talking about a very important 00:57 and somewhat troubling subjects for many in America 01:00 and that is the subject of cancer. 01:03 And many times we'll even hear that word, 01:05 were kind of filled with fright and worry 01:07 and all of us probably know 01:08 someone that is struggling with cancer 01:10 and I would dare say that all of us want to avoid it. 01:13 And so talking with us 01:15 about this important subject is Dr. Timothy Lawton, 01:17 he is a physician in Wichita, Kansas and Wichita, Kansas 01:22 is just like any other city in America, 01:24 it has a lot of people that have cancer 01:27 and a lot of other lifestyle problems. 01:29 And Dr. Lawton has started 01:31 a life style medicine centre there 01:34 called the Vitae which means life. 01:36 And he gives advise 01:38 and all kinds of America's killer diseases 01:41 and also including our topic today cancer. 01:44 Dr. Lawton, you told me something that was, 01:46 by the way welcome to the program. Thank you. 01:48 I'm glad that you can take time out 01:49 of your busy schedule. 01:52 You told me something that 01:53 just really grip my attention. 01:55 You said that cancer now is the number one cause 01:57 of death in America. 01:59 After decades and decades of heart disease 02:01 being the number one cause of death. 02:02 Cancer as of 2005 has stepped ahead, 02:06 at least for people under the age of 85. 02:08 So if I'm a woman or if I'm a man 02:11 is there any greater risk for. 02:13 The life time risk 02:15 or prevalence of cancer is almost 50%. 02:18 It's 47% for men and 38% for women in America. 02:24 Wow! And I mean is it 02:27 because of all kinds of new chemicals 02:29 what's the problem? 02:31 Well, we know there is being, 02:34 there got 75,000 new chemicals 02:36 registered with the EPA since 1930's. 02:39 But we can't blame just the chemicals 02:41 there is a lot of lifestyle factors 02:43 that may be even more significant 02:44 than the carcinogens in the environment. 02:47 Now there has been some elegant research done 02:51 on cancer and I think 02:52 you want to talk a little bit about that. 02:55 There has been a landmark study 02:58 and I'll be sharing the details 03:00 of that in just a minute, 03:01 but this was published in 1997 03:03 looking at the accomplishment of 4500 smaller studies 03:08 and they came up with about 03:09 10 lifestyle recommendations. 03:12 So this is for 4500 studies. 03:15 All is devised down to 10 principles. 03:18 Yeah, Okay. 03:19 So tell us about this? 03:22 I use those principles 03:23 when I counsel patients on lifestyle related cancers. 03:27 And one patient I'm thinking of in particular Don. 03:31 He was a gentleman around 50 years of age 03:33 and he was diagnosed with prostate cancers 03:35 and he got treated in the usual manner 03:38 and the doctor said you're in remission. 03:40 Few months later he came back to his doctor, 03:41 and like got some rectal bleeding. 03:45 The doctor said you need a colonoscopy. 03:48 Very typical. 03:49 Yeah and at age 50 it's recommended, 03:51 everyone have a colonoscopy 03:53 just as a screening for colon cancer 03:55 which affects 1 out of 20 Americans. 03:58 Well, this guy was like the 1 out of 20, 04:00 he had colon cancer 04:02 after supposedly beating his prostate cancer. 04:07 Well, doctor said okay we'll treat you 04:09 for the colon cancer. 04:10 So they went with the usual treatment for that, 04:12 still though he was in remission. 04:16 The doctor said it's time you know, 04:19 you make peace with the world with your maker 04:22 and you know, get things in order. 04:27 He wasn't satisfied with that. 04:28 He wants to know what he could do 04:30 to prevent any kind of recurrence. 04:33 So we looked at specifically the prostate cancer 04:36 and the colon cancer 04:37 and we looked at some of the lifestyle principles 04:39 that were involved there. 04:41 So this gentleman, he didn't smoke 04:42 so that was a good sign. 04:44 But lifestyle factors, 04:45 he wasn't any getting any regular physical activity 04:48 and that makes a huge difference with colon cancer. 04:51 Is that right so, 04:52 exercise actually helps prevent colon cancer. 04:57 It's been proven soundly. 05:00 So what kind of exercise? 05:02 Well, it doesn't have... regular moderate activity, 05:06 like a brisk walk most days of at least 30 minutes 05:11 or 60 minutes is recommended. 05:14 So you're sharing with us 05:15 you know, things that we could do to prevent. 05:16 But like in this particular guy's case he actually had, 05:19 he went into remission 05:21 and these were great things to do 05:24 to make sure it didn't crop up again. 05:27 Right and then we also looked at the dietary factor too. 05:29 He was eating a diet 05:31 that was typical of many western diets, 05:34 very low in fruits and vegetables 05:36 and low in fiber and high in meat 05:38 and diary and those were factors 05:40 for prostate and colon cancer. 05:43 What about protein diets? 05:46 There is a lot of high protein diets 05:48 out there right now. Right. 05:50 You remind me of Dr. Colin Campbell. 05:52 He did a significance amount of research 05:55 and published the book of the China study. 05:58 And one of the things that he looked out 06:00 was a carcinogen called Aflatoxin. Aflatoxin. 06:05 Yeah Aflatoxin is the... it's one of the too most potent 06:09 naturally occurring carcinogens that we know. 06:12 It grows on mouldy peanuts and mouldy corn. 06:15 Mouldy peanuts, okay. 06:18 So what he discovered in rats 06:22 and in humans the more Aflatoxin, 06:25 when it's exposed to the more liver cancer 06:29 one has subsequently though again both in the laboratory 06:33 and then in human beings 06:35 high protein diets 06:37 specially diets high in casein 06:39 which is the primary protein in diary. 06:44 Those tend to promote the cancer in the liver. 06:47 Diets low in animal protein, 06:49 then the suppress will prevent Aflatoxin 06:52 going onto to cause cancer. 06:54 Well, this is fascinating, I mean in America today, 06:59 I mean diary is the big product 07:00 of our consumption, isn't it? 07:03 And growing too. 07:05 Now do you think that you know, 07:06 it's in the study that the casein 07:09 or the protein was actually turning 07:12 would you say turning on the cancer, 07:14 turning off the cancer? 07:15 In the studies in the rat studies 07:17 that Dr. Campbell presented, 07:21 the rats who had a low protein diet. 07:22 5% protein had zero cases of liver cancer 07:29 even though they were exposed to the Aflatoxin. 07:31 Those rats were eating the high protein diet 07:34 the 20% a 100% of these rats ended up with liver cancer. 07:40 A 100% to 0% is pretty convincing 07:43 and this also was true in epidemiological studies. 07:48 He did some research overseas 07:52 in the Philippines with children 07:53 who are exposed to the Aflatoxin. 07:55 So let me get to straight then, 07:56 if I live in a country or have a family history 08:00 or what not of cancer, 08:05 protein specially the protein found in milk 08:08 for cheese or diary. 08:09 I've to be very careful about the amount that I get. 08:15 Don, you want to be careful what you say here 08:18 because this is liver cancer 08:22 and this is one study. Okay. 08:24 But I think the general principle 08:26 that Dr. Campbell wanted people to know is that diet 08:30 choices are or least can be even more important 08:34 than exposure to carcinogens. Okay. 08:38 Let's talk then about how to prevent this? 08:42 You want to help us 08:44 and we've seen the magnitude of the problem, 08:46 how we can we be preventing? 08:48 Let's talk about that study I mentioned, 08:50 we got a couple of graphics on that. 08:53 The first thing the most important thing is 08:56 choosing a diet is predominantly plant-based, 09:01 plant-based, meaning the fruits are coming 09:03 from plant sources 09:04 and they are minimally refined. 09:07 So you're getting fruits in their whole forms 09:09 as they grew in nature. 09:11 So like the picture says we eat the carrots, 09:13 we eat all the different colors. 09:17 The fruits, the vegetables, 09:19 the whole grains, the beans, 09:21 and the nuts goes with that, 09:23 the main fruits that grow in nature. 09:25 So raw fruits. 09:27 You know the interesting thing 09:29 about raw fruits, 09:31 some nutrients are more available to us 09:33 in the raw form, 09:34 some are more available in the cooked form. 09:37 So what would be the ones available, 09:38 more available in raw form? 09:40 You know, most of the foods 09:41 that we eat cooked like beans for example 09:47 that helps our body to be able to utilized 09:50 and digest some of the nutrients 09:51 that are in there. 09:52 Some foods like spinach or carrots, 09:54 we can eat either cooked or raw. 09:57 I usually recommend people 09:59 when they consumed their vegetables try 10:01 and keep a balance about half raw, about half-cooked, 10:04 that way you will have a good balance. 10:06 Now Wichita, where you and I live 10:10 there is a restaurant 10:11 there that has all those raw things 10:16 that you can put them in a salad. 10:20 Is that's something you recommend that type of place. 10:22 I recommend eating salads 10:24 and raw fruits every single day, yeah. 10:26 Now I saw study that said 10:28 there is one in four Americans 10:30 that really follow this advice. 10:32 The American cancer society recommends getting 10:35 at least five to nine servings of fresh fruits 10:38 and vegetables a day. 10:42 Some raw, some cooked, 10:44 but only less than 25% of Americans get 10:48 even five which is the minimum. 10:51 And I mean this is after they have all these campaigns 10:55 to tell people they need to do this. 10:56 So what do you do, 10:58 I supposed people that have someone that develops cancer, 11:01 they are very interested in doing all the right things, 11:03 but it's best to do it before then. 11:05 Right, right. 11:07 What else can we do to avoid cancer? 11:11 Well, another thing the study found is on our next graphic 11:14 and that's about keeping your weight 11:16 in a healthy range. 11:18 There is a measurement that called Body Mass Index 11:24 which recommend the Body Mass Index is 11:26 between 18.5 and 25. 11:29 What does that mean exactly? 11:32 That's a ratio based on height and weight 11:35 and there is a mathematical formula. 11:37 People can get more information 11:40 on that on the Internet 11:42 where there are articles and so on. 11:44 How that really works? Right. 11:45 But really just I mean you want to 11:48 weight less than you normally do. 11:51 Though they figure out. 11:52 Well, speaking of, 11:53 two-thirds of the Americans are over-weight 11:54 or obese. 11:56 And I saw an interesting graphic 11:57 on that recently that since the 90's 11:59 has just skyrocketed in the last decade, obesity. 12:03 And obesity increases your respiration, 12:05 some kinds of cancer, 12:07 particularly endometrial cancer 12:09 which is of the uterus, breast cancer, 12:11 and prostate cancer 12:13 and may be other cancers as well. 12:15 So obesity is a hazard to 12:17 then you would say both man and woman. 12:18 Absolutely. Okay. 12:20 Well, so these are, we're going down 12:21 the 10 things that are recommended 12:23 from this large study, 12:25 the China study, right? 12:27 What's the next? 12:29 This study is actually called the food nutrition 12:32 and prevention of cancer, 12:34 a global perspective. Okay. 12:36 This is the 4500 studies. 12:37 Okay, great. 12:38 So aside from eating the fruits 12:41 and vegetables and then maintaining an ideal weight. 12:45 Number three is being physically active 12:48 and they recommended being active 12:51 at least 60 minutes a day. 12:52 Moderate activity which can be brisk walking enough 12:56 for your coming to catch your breath a little bit, 12:59 but not so much that you are out of breath. Okay. 13:01 And it doesn't have to all be done at one time, 13:05 you can actually, you can walk 20 minutes here 13:08 and 10 minutes there and walk up to stairs 13:10 and combined it to add up to 60 minutes 13:13 plus some vigorous activities 13:15 recommended as well. 13:16 Okay, and that's something I think 13:17 we many times fall down on America I mean, 13:20 we're very sedentary. 13:22 We're talking with Dr. Timothy Lawton. 13:24 We're talking about cancer. 13:25 We're talking about the fact 13:26 that it's now number one 13:28 in terms of causing death in America 13:30 for those under 85. 13:32 And we're talking about how to prevent it 13:35 and of course if you have cancer 13:36 this is also going to help you perhaps recover 13:42 from that Lord willing. 13:44 And we're gonna be continuing our talk 13:46 with Dr. Lawton when we come back. 13:50 Have you found yourself 13:51 wishing that you can shed a few pounds? 13:53 Have you been on a diet for most of your life, 13:56 but not found anything 13:57 that will really keep the weight off. 13:59 If you have answered yes to any of these questions 14:01 then we've a solution for you that works. 14:04 Dr. Hans Diehl and Dr. Aileen Ludington 14:07 have written a marvelous booklet called 14:09 "Reversing Obesity Naturally". 14:11 And we like to send it to you free of charge. 14:14 Here is a medically sound approach successfully 14:17 used by thousands who were able to eat more 14:19 and loose weight permanently without feeling guilty 14:22 or hungry through lifestyle medicine. 14:25 Dr. Diehl and Dr. Ludington have been featured on 3ABN. 14:28 And then in this booklet 14:29 they present a sensible approach to eating nutrition 14:32 and lifestyle changes 14:34 that can help you prevent heart disease, 14:35 diabetes, and even cancer. 14:38 Call or write today for your free copy of 14:40 "Reversing Obesity Naturally" 14:41 and you could be on your way 14:43 to a healthier, happier you. 14:45 It's absolutely free of charge, 14:47 so call or write today. 14:50 Welcome back, we're talking with Dr. Timothy Lawton. 14:53 We're talking about cancer 14:54 and we're talking about 14:56 how you can avoid America's number one killer, 14:59 that's number one for those under 85 15:02 and how you can prevent that? 15:03 Dr. Lawton is a medical doctor in Wichita, Kansas. 15:06 He has started a lifestyle medicine centre called Vitae 15:11 which means life. 15:12 It's an excellent, it's an excellent approach, 15:15 I've been there but I'm unable to visit, 15:16 what you are doing, you have various programs 15:18 that you run lifestyle programs 15:20 and you follow people medically. 15:22 I mean it's not just okay, this may help you. 15:25 You are able to do the things 15:27 everything they have done on a medical doctor 15:29 and you work with there, 15:30 I think local physician as well, don't you? 15:32 Right, patients can either say yes 15:35 for their primary as a primary physician 15:37 or we can work in concert with the other providers. 15:40 We're talking about cancer 15:41 and we talked just to recapitulate 15:44 about how it's a very big problem 15:47 both for men and women. 15:48 And then we were looking 15:49 at this global perspective study, 15:52 those 4,500 studies and had 10 points. 15:56 We talked about remind us of the three 15:58 we've gone through and then let's continue on. 16:00 All right, the first point was to choose 16:03 predominantly a plant-based diet. 16:05 Most of your food is coming from fruits, 16:07 vegetables, whole grains, beans, 16:10 and nuts and seeds. 16:12 The second point was to maintain a healthy weight. 16:15 And third point was to get adequate 16:17 physical activity on a regular basis. 16:19 Okay let's continue on, then what's number four? 16:22 Point number four is, 16:24 there is a certain number of fruits and vegetables 16:26 that are recommended its five to ten 16:30 servings a day of fruits and vegetables. 16:32 People are wondering 16:34 sometime how much a serving is. 16:38 Usually it's about what you would eat normally. 16:41 It could be a like a medium size apple 16:44 or medium size oranges considered one serving. 16:48 As far as things like the salad vegetables, 16:51 it's usually one cup of raw 16:53 or half a cup of cooked vegetables, 16:55 take spinach for example, 16:57 the volume decreases when you cook it. 17:00 So five to ten a day, 17:01 so five apples a day keeps the doctor away. 17:05 Well, you really need to eat fruit 17:07 and or vegetables with every single meal 17:10 that's the only way to get it in 17:11 and for snacks. 17:13 And for snacks, okay. 17:15 What's our next recommendation? 17:18 Well, next recommendation is really keeping 17:21 the refine sugar intake low keeping it 17:24 to less than 10 percent of our total daily calories. 17:28 And that's interesting whether that's consistent 17:30 with the US government's new food guidelines. 17:35 They recommend that you keep 90 percent of your food 17:38 as being whole foods and about 10 percent 17:41 or less as being what they call discretionary calories. 17:44 Okay, now is there a link between sugar consumption 17:47 and cancer tha'st been showed in the research. 17:48 And that's what the study has concluded, yeah. 17:52 I saw your M&M's or schedules all those different things, 17:54 don't need too many of them. 17:57 You can get your five or nine servings 17:59 of different colors in M&M schedule, 18:01 but they are not pretty vegetables so. 18:02 That's right, right. 18:04 Okay, anything else? 18:05 Well, point number six was alcohol is not recommended 18:12 and that they felt very clearly alcohol is linked 18:15 with a number of different kinds of cancer 18:16 specially cancer of the digestive tract, 18:20 the mouth, throat. 18:23 And why is it that, 18:25 you know, the etiology on that how does that work? 18:29 Well, the alcohol is a poison 18:32 and toxin and it seems to be toxic to the areas 18:36 it comes in contact with. 18:38 So just avoiding that completely 18:39 and I think that's a good recommendation 18:42 for lots of reason, kind of make a loopy too 18:45 and then you make bad decisions. 18:47 What's your next one? 18:49 Recommendation number seven was meat consumption, 18:53 limiting meat consumption especially red meat. 18:57 I think this is an interesting point. 19:00 They say if you choose to eat red meat, 19:02 limit consumption to less than 3 oz a day. 19:06 And if you think about your 16 oz stake or something, 19:08 that will feed your whole family 19:09 for at least half a week. 19:13 Yeah, so in another words 19:15 it's probably best not to eat any meat 19:17 if you want to avoid cancer, 19:18 but if you do make sure and avoid red meat. 19:21 Well, Don, they suggested that if you do consume meat, 19:26 choose meat that either is from fish or poultry 19:30 or non domesticated sources 19:33 or non domesticated you can get perhaps 19:36 like a grass fed cow, 19:37 or buffalo or something like that 19:39 will be safer than your he typical beef of pork. 19:42 So why is that the blood 19:45 and meat is so dangerous? 19:49 I think it's the fat content, 19:51 there is significantly five times more fat 19:57 in your grain fed cow versus your free range grass fed cow 20:00 or your domestic turkeys versus your wild turkey, 20:05 it's lot, lot more fat. 20:07 You know, in my family, 20:08 my lot of, my great uncles died of colon cancer 20:13 and the difference between them 20:15 and my grandfather who was a vegetarian 20:19 because he was a Seventh-day Adventist minister 20:21 that was the main difference, I mean in my own family. 20:24 I've seen what killed the people on one side 20:28 versus the other, very fascinating, 20:30 but now science is bringing it out. 20:33 What's your next thing? 20:34 The next point is just limiting fat 20:36 specially saturated fat. 20:41 One interesting thing about the fat in animals. 20:47 We're learning now, it's not just, 20:49 we can't make a blank statement 20:51 and say all fat is bad, because we really know that 20:55 there are certain fats our bodies need, 20:56 there are essential fats to our diet 20:58 and some of those are the omega 3's. 21:00 Interestingly animals like I was mentioning like a cow 21:06 who is fed on grass for example. 21:08 They will have more omega 3's 21:10 than that cow who is raised in the feedlot. 21:12 In fact after that cow has been in feedlot 21:14 for a couple of months, there is almost no omega 3 21:17 or good fat left in their body at all. 21:20 It' all been replaced with an unhealthy kind of fat. 21:23 Okay, so, yeah, if you are going to eat meat 21:25 make sure it's been on the range not on the... Yeah, 21:28 and how many people do that, 21:31 probably most people go just to store 21:33 and buy whatever is there. 21:34 Whatever is on sale. 21:35 Right whatever is on sale. 21:37 So limiting the fatty foods and besides meat, 21:41 what are some other saturated fats they should avoid. 21:44 You know, one animal is responsible 21:47 for five of the top six sources of saturated fat 21:50 in our diet, but you can guess. 21:52 Probably the cow. It goes moo, yeah. 21:56 So diary accounts for four of those top six 21:58 and beef is one of the other top six. 22:01 The other source of saturated fat would be oils you know, 22:05 French fries and other fried foods. 22:07 What's the percentage in French fries is fat. 22:12 I think it's probably around 50 percent of the calories 22:16 in French fries or potato chips are pure fat. 22:20 And no nutrition in that, it's just. 22:22 I heard I mean, I don't want you put on the spot there, 22:24 but I heard that it's like French fries are 70% fats, 22:28 someone told me once. It could be. 22:29 It's just 50 percent that's a lot of fat. 22:32 It's interesting, you know, 22:34 you're a Christian clinician as well 22:37 and of course I am a Christian, 22:39 but I've noticed something that's fascinating that 22:42 in the scriptures it says avoid fat 22:44 and avoid blood, very same things 22:46 that now science is telling us 22:47 to do avoid those things. 22:50 What's our next one? 22:52 The next point Don has to do with salt. 22:54 We've heard for years 22:56 that too much salt is bad for the heart, 22:57 but too much salt also can cause cancer. 23:01 Explain that. 23:02 Well, feed people to eat a lot of salt, 23:06 it's just been found that 23:08 there is a high rate of cancer. 23:10 The recommendation from the studies is to keep salt 23:12 down to 2400 mg a day, 23:15 that's one teaspoon of salt a day. 23:19 I mean a potato chips seems almost have more than that. 23:22 Well, you would be surprised a lot people say 23:25 well, I don't add salt to anything, 23:28 but 70 percent of America's 23:30 salt doesn't come from the shaker, 23:32 it comes from what's already in the food 23:33 that's purchased and processed. 23:38 You know, as far as how do you measure, 23:40 how do you count it's tougher 23:42 if you are eating all the restaurant food, 23:44 but sodium is on all the labels. 23:46 So 2400 mg I tell my patients 23:48 so you got 2400 sodium bugs to spend 23:51 and if they go over can of soup, 23:53 they might be spending 900 or 1000. 23:55 So any can, is it safe to say caned 23:58 products are always higher in sodium. 24:00 Unless they say low sodium, you got to look at that. 24:03 Frozen dinners notoriously going to be high in sodium. 24:07 And of course potato chips and all these other things 24:09 it's very obvious they have a lot of salt. 24:11 In lot of restaurant food. 24:14 In lot of restaurant food. It's very salty. 24:15 Is that right, so? 24:16 Yeah, okay, so avoiding, 24:17 keeping the salt down to less than 2400 mg 24:23 which is like a teaspoon, right, okay. 24:26 What's our next recommendation number ten. 24:29 The next recommendation 24:31 I suppose this would be for people 24:33 who do eat meat, 24:34 but don't grill or barbecue your food in a direct flame. 24:40 This is very interesting, 24:42 something I hadn't heard at all, 24:43 until the study came out. 24:45 But the meat juices when they drip over the direct flame 24:51 they created a carcinogenic smoke. 24:55 And so smoked meats 24:57 and when that smoke gets back on your food, 24:59 it's actually toxic. 25:00 If the flame is hot enough 25:02 that the meat actually gets burned or charred, 25:05 that charred part is bad for you, 25:07 that's carcinogenic. 25:09 I grew up thinking that well just eat that charcoal, 25:12 it's good for you, but it's really, really not. 25:15 So, is that true just for meats or is it true also for 25:19 if you are grilling vegetables 25:21 or doing that kind of stuff on your grill. 25:24 I probably wouldn't eat the stuff, 25:25 it's been cooked to the point that 25:28 it's not recognizable Don. 25:31 Some people, I mean some people 25:33 just find that the most tasty, 25:34 you know, the part is just kind of, 25:36 you know, and they really look forward to that. 25:39 You know, if you are following 25:41 all these other nine steps 25:43 and you are grilling your vegetables 25:44 and you are getting your five or nine vegetables in the day 25:48 more power to you, I think that's great. 25:50 But we, just to say one thing 25:52 we did a grill that we barbecue on, 25:56 it's completely sealed 25:57 there is no exposure to the flame at all. 25:59 It's got a non stick coating 26:02 and so all the juices would drip off to the side 26:05 and there is no burning or exposure to direct flame, 26:08 so these are available. 26:10 Couple of things we haven't talked about 26:11 or haven't brought up a lot? 26:13 What about tobacco? 26:15 Tobacco is a number one cause of death 26:18 in United States over 400,000 deaths 26:22 and it says me that at least 26:23 a third of all cancers are related to tobacco. 26:26 Another third at least 26:28 are related to diet and inactivity. 26:31 So then there is another third related other factors, 26:34 but you cover, you don't smoke, 26:36 you cut your risk by about third. 26:37 If you follow these nutritional principles 26:40 you cut your risk by another third, 26:42 so two-thirds at least your risk of cancers 26:44 can be eliminated by 26:46 these very simple lifestyle principles. 26:48 Second hand smoke 26:49 Second hand smoke is very, very dangerous. 26:52 Every hour you are exposed to second hand smoke, 26:55 is like smoking one cigarette, 26:57 so if you are exposed to smoke ten hours a day 27:00 that's like smoking half a pack of cigarettes. 27:02 So if you are in a band and everybody smokes, 27:04 but you don't, don't pat yourself on the back 27:07 You know, go out and get some fresh air 27:08 and may be find another band. 27:12 And at Vitae Health, you help people with 27:15 all these kind of principles and help them. 27:18 Are people sometimes just unaware of these things? 27:22 People are extremely unaware, 27:24 even a lot of medical doctors are not aware 27:27 of these principles that we've discussed. 27:30 Well, thank you so much for joining us, 27:32 taking time out of your busy schedule there 27:35 at Vitae to be with us to share these principles. 27:38 Well, thank you Don, it's been a pleasure to be here 27:40 and share this useful information. 27:42 And thank you for being with us today 27:44 on "Health for Lifetime" as well. 27:46 We hope the information today will be helpful to you. 27:48 If you know someone who has cancer, 27:50 but more importantly if you want avoid it. 27:53 Thanks for joining us 27:54 and have health that lasts for a lifetime. |
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