Various things heard today—

Good news! You've been diagnosed with prostate cancer! Just think what would have happened if they hadn't found it.

If you want to be healthy, avoid foods with nutritional labels. Does a tomato have a nutritional label? Does ketchup? Does a potato have a nutritional label? What about a bag of potato chips?

How long would it take you to eat a tube of Pringles? Half an hour. That's a third of a pound of fat, downed in half an hour. It's the equivalent of the calories in 11 potatoes. How long would it take you to eat 11 potatoes? Eleven days.

Caloric density.

This is a religious institution. We make no excuses for that. No one comes here by accident.

[By the way: No one here seems very intent on turning us into Seventh Day Adventists. But they're rabidly evangelical about healthy eating, exercise, and healthy living. There's at least one vegetarian market and two organic markets within a 4 mile radius.]

The American tsunami of cardiac disease, diabetes, hypertension, and obesity does not have genetic causes. It's directly the result of environment—in particular, what we are eating (diets high in animal fats, sugar, and salt) and what we're not doing (exercising).

The majority of erectile disfunction in older men is the result of plaque laden veins. What you do in the kitchen affects what you do in the bedroom.

Two men—one a current proton patient and the other an alumnus of the program—said that they had undergone radical prostate surgery—touted by urologists as The Gold Standard—and suffered all the side effects of incontinence, erectile dysfunction, etc., only to have the cancer return. The alumnus said that, after proton treatment, his PSA dropped to undetectable levels. (PSA=prostate specific antigen, a substance in the blood that is a marker for prostate cancer)

Japanese medical schools used to have to buy diseased cardiac arteries from American hospitals in order to educate their students But now that the Japanese have adopted Western eating habits, they produce enough heart patients to supply their own specimens for study.

Treatment count: 7 down, 38 to go.