Day 3 Keynote Speaker No. 2
Dr. David Katz – John Hopkins University – Life and Death, Knowledge & power: why knowing what matters isn’t what’s the matter
- It does us no good if the reason for death is disease of the coronary artery
- McGinniss, Foege – actual causes of death in the U.S (Journal of American Medical Association paper) 1993: 270.2207-12 – we have the knowledge to define these death. What we know and what we do is to different thing
- Master levers of destiny is our feet, forks & fingers [choices we make with lifestyle, diet, exercise etc]
- Dean Ornish study was quoted, Potsdam study. Are we living [a life] or just not dying?
- Medical prowess has delay death but what about living well?
- He claimed: Obesity is a cause for all cancers except for certain skin cancer and certain brain tumour
- Rise in diabetes, coronary disease, insulin resistant conditions
- We call type 2 diabetes, it’s just a euphemism for when children get adult onset diabetes before age of 10! – we have sanitized it, and make the disease not as serious
- We need to turn our knowledge into power
- 17 years old getting triple bypass
- The trend has to stop
- Teenage coronary artery looks like adults (a study of teenagers using ultrasound to scan their blood arteries)
- We live longer today but live with chronic disease
- Healthy lifestyle can do:
- 80% reduction in heart disease
- 90% reduction in diabetes
- 60% reduction in cancer
- The trouble with public health is there’s no ‘public’ involved. Each health episode is delivered in person. Think about that one particular person, what can we do for him/her?
- We have known all these for 17 years (refer to study reference above, first publish date), but we haven’t done anything. Imagine if we have?
- Favorite symbolism – polar bear in the desert. We are a product of our environment, we adapt in the calorie deficient environment. But what happen when that environment no longer exist? We have more food, we eat more. Like the polar bear, the very thing that keep him alive in the polar region will cook him alive in the desert. How about human beings?
- Read Michael Pollen’s [not sure spelling] book – In Defense of Food
- If it glows in the dark, you probably shouldn’t eat it – reference to artificial flavouring, colouring and process food
- Now we have an environment that condemn us to fail (conspire against us to succeed). Supermarket aisle, abundance of food, all the wrong food in the supermarket etc
- We place all the emphasis on willpower, it should be skillpower
- He invented NoVal – a simple numbering system to rank supermarket food by nutrition value
- Also created Activity Burst in Classroom (ABC) – dramatic result in healthier school kids, better grades and less disciplinary problem. How? By having recess (a novel idea suddenly)! It’s been scientific proven and published now.
- Government created No Child Left Behind, but perhaps taking out recess, we are encourage our kids to ‘No Child Left (on their) Behind
- Story of ABC
- 5 ½ year old son was with him when he was giving a talk, he was so restless, he (father) ask the son to run around the hall.
- At lap 1 – he completed the lap and sat down, then with an impish grin, took off again
- At lap 2 – he wave and kept going
- At lap 3 – 3 other kids follow him
- At lap 4 – 35 kids were running around the hall!
- Rumbuctious kids should be treated with recess, not Ritalin
- ABC reduces asthma medication by 17%, reduces ADHD medication use by 33% - proven, see website for more details
- Only one place to grow a kid, food is the only way. So do we want to build him/her out of junk or good food?
- Teach kids simple way to find good food. Husband and wife invented Nutrition Detectives. Teach them 5 clues
- Big letters, beware of them
- 1st ingredient usually means the most content
- Beware of partially hydrogenated oil, corn syrup, trans fat
- Long list of ingredients usually means bad. What’s the ingredient for broccoli? Broccoli, simple
- Choose whole grain
- Fiber is your friend
- Program to train them as Certified Nutrition Detectives
Once again a particularly inspiring talk. Check out the website: http://www.davidkatzmd.com.
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