If I told you that
there was one disease
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where your lifetime
risk of being diagnosed
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is at 90 percent.
And also it is the number
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one reason for
prescription drugs,
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one last clue it is
also called the silent killer
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have any guesses. Well,
today's program is entitled
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the pressure's on.
We'll be right back.
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Hi, welcome to
the Abundant Living
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and this is Curtis
Eakins your co-host,
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which means I
have another host too,
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my wife Paula Eakins.
How you doing today, honey?
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Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.
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Alright, you are
looking wonderful today.
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Thank you. Well,
thank for being with me
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on these programs.
You started off with
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some heavy stuff
there on the pressure's on
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and I am sure that
by this time someone's
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hopefully kind of
knowing where this program
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is gonna be going. You
think they have an idea
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of what we are
talking about, you know,
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it could be
arthritis, it could be diabetes.
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What do you think, baby?
No, no, no the pressure's
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on means that we
gonna be talking about high
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blood pressure.
High blood pressure.
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High blood
pressure. Okay. Let's start.
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I guess we settled
that. Let me before you,
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with your
questions, honey, yes, this is
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gonna be a series called the,
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a clean heart
series. Okay. Alright.
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So the next few weeks
we're gonna be talking about
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not just heart but
the cardiovascular system
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in general. So but
today's program is of course
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high blood pressure
or the medical term is
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hypertension. So a
clean heart series,
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so you want to stay
with us for the next
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few weeks dealing with
the cardiovascular system.
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Well, moving right
into the area of high blood
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pressure. Let's
go ahead and define
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the term high blood pressure.
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Okay, good
question. Let me first before
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we define the term
high blood pressure.
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Let's first talk about
blood pressure, alright,
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in blood pressure
every time the heart beats,
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blood goes through the
vessels and provides organs,
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glands the nutrients
that these organs and glands
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need on day-to-day
basis, but now sometimes
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that pressure
against that artery wall was
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very thin as some
problems and that pressure
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when it's high is
called high blood pressure.
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Okay, okay. In medical
term of course is hypertension.
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There are two types
of high blood pressure;
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one is called essential
which has no real medical
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reason or cause for
that and the other one is
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called secondary which
due to maybe renal failure,
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endocrine problems
whatever. So, in today's program
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we're gonna be zeroing
in on essential high blood
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pressure or hypertension.
Now as far to the numbers
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are concerned. Now there
are three groups of numbers
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that we need to look at
and of course this is in
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your work book as well.
Number one let's look at
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the normal blood pressure.
Now the top number systolic
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where the heart is beating
that number should be 119
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or less, that's the
top number systolic.
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What about the bottom number?
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Okay, now the
bottom number should be 79
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or less, alright, so
let's say, with top number
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systolic is let's say
126 and bottom number is 78
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then it's not normal,
okay, both need to be below 119,
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not 119 or lower 79
and lower top and bottom.
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Now the next phase of
the system of high blood
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pressure is pre-hypertension,
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alright, the top
number is either 120 to 139
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and the bottom
number is 80 to 89.
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So now therefore if
the top number is normal
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but the bottom
number is abnormal then the
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person is still
pre-hypertension,
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alright, still
have pre-hypertension,
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alright. Now
stage one is 140 to 159
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and 90 to 99. And
this also in your work book
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as well because we all
way down to stage four.
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Normally those who are
in the pre-hypertension
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of phase that's about 30
percent of the population.
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We're talking
about 60 million people.
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Those who are on
stage one said to be
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"hypertension"
it's another 30 percent
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which another said to be
60 million people as well.
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So therefore, with
that in mind look at those
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two stages
together. The pre-hypertension
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and stage one, look at
about a 120 million people,
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that's why it's
the nation's number one
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reason for drug
prescription, alright,
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and it will go down
like I said before to stage
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four and of course
it can be very damaging
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to the system. People often say,
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I don't know when
to take my pressure,
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okay, whether morning,
afternoon, when I go to
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the doctor, what is
the tip on how to take your
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blood pressure,
or when to take it?
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Oh! When to take it, yeah.
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Well, you know we've
been to a lot of health fairs
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and we've been to
a lot of health fairs
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and sometimes folks
health fairs may not be the best
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place to take
your blood pressure.
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I mean you're walking
around eating all kinds of
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foods and drinks and
cokes and whatever I mean
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take a blood pressure
and almost as you say have
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a heart attack looking
at your numbers, alright,
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So, that may be not be
an accurate thing to do,
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but a lot of people are
not taking the blood pressure
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at home. If you do
that it's very easy to do
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but there are
certain thing that we need
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to be mindful of
while we do take our blood
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pressure. Number
one, you need to have the
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right cuff, if the
cuff is too small you have a
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false high number. If the
cuff is too large you have
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a false low number.
In cold temperatures,
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if the body is cold,
coming from the cold whatever
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take your blood
pressure it's gonna be a false
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low number. Also you
need to have your feet
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flat on the ground,
do not cross your legs,
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no talking, turn off
the radio, turn off the TV
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and be quiet for
at least 5 minutes.
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A lot of times people
really don't do all of these.
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Right, right, so you may
have some false positives
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and false negatives in
doing all of this as well,
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and so with that in
mind. And now America Heart
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Association they suggest this.
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Take your blood
pressure standing up two times
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and then take a average.
Take your blood pressure
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sitting down two
times and take a average.
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You take the average
of the one that you were
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sitting down. The
one standing up is just a
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reference. So, they
suggest that as well.
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And so therefore one
blood pressure reading
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may not be accurate
one you want to take
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at least twice and so
but there is different ways
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of doing it but the
main things is that we want
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to make sure that we
take an accurate reading
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every time. And
sometimes in the doctor's office
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you know you're
rushing to the doctor's office
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you're looking for a
parking place, you know you
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dropped the
kids off or whatever,
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the husband off to
work and you go into the
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doctor's office and you
wait there for 30 minutes
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and you know, you're
stressed out and here
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comes the doctor
with the white coat
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and take your blood
pressure. You're now
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waiting for five
minutes and wow it maybe too
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high, it maybe a false positive.
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So you want to take all
those into consideration
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taking your
blood pressure. Well, I
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know from me, I know
when you talk me go have
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a physical done.
It's the same thing,
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we know it's called
the White coat syndrome.
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Yes right, I have learned that I
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need to be calm
and when I go into that
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office I actually
once I see him doing my
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blood pressure I
start saying the Lord is
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my shepherd I said the prayer.
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Oh! That's good.
Lord is my shepherd
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I shall not
want, I just lay this,
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you know try to calm
myself down because it is true.
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They'll do a
reading, it'll be high.
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And yet I know what my pressure,
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my blood pressure is normally.
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And then it will go
back again or he ask me
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to go back again
later on, to it better,
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but I found it
just by just having
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that peace of
God. Yeah, that's true.
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He helps calm me down.
Now that's a good point
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that you're saying a
Bible verse, The Lord is my
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shepherd; I shall
not want. That's right.
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Yeah, calm me
down. Okay. If it goes
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untreated, a lot of
people know they have high
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blood pressure,
okay, what can happen if it
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goes untreated.
Okay, we have a picture
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on our screen here, and
those are a lot of things
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that can happen if
blood pressure goes untreated.
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Let's look at this
and it's very important
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to understand this
graphic here. Number one,
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again left untreated,
number one, you increase
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dramatically stroke,
and reason for this is that
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when there is
pressure against your artery
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wall in the brain then
it causes the vessels in the
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brain to rupture
causing a stroke.
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Now we're gonna
have a program later on,
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later on in several weeks
entitled different strokes
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for different folks. We
will go into more that later on.
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Let's go back to the
graphic let's see what else
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we can what happens
to the damage of blood
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vessels if left
unchecked. Blood vessels damage
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of course Arteriosclerosis
it can damage blood
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vessels, any blood vessels
to clean the heart as well.
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Heart attack or
congestive heart failure,
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even the kidneys, renal
failure again this pressure
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against our artery wall,
so any time there's gonna
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be a major organ
there, it's gonna damage that
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blood vessel, it's
gonna damage also that organ.
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So, it puts some undo
stress on the kidneys as well.
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So it can cause renal
failure, heart attack,
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strokes and
congestive heart failure as well
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just by having high
blood pressure and a lot of
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people don't even know
they have high blood pressure,
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left unchecked,
those are the some of the
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damages right there.
So you are going to your
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doctor you find you
have high blood pressure
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and of course at that
point they're going to put you
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on some type of
medication if it's high,
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yes, so what
about medication? Yeah,
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like I said before it's
the number one reason for
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prescription drugs
is high blood pressure.
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The medication for
high blood pressure can be
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a problem in our self.
We listed several things in
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our work book, but just
to summarize it in may be
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30 seconds and so.
There are several different
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categories of high
blood pressure. You have the
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ACE inhibitors this
causes dry cough and etc.
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You have the diuretics,
potassium loss, muscle pain
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and cramps and you
have the blockers are called
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the ABC blockers. A: Alpha
blockers; B: Beta blockers;
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Calcium channel
blockers. All those held
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a list of side effects
and I counted at least 40.
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Dizziness, fatigue,
muscle cramps, loss of appetite,
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weight gain, libido, low
sex drive, renal failure,
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liver disease, rapid
pulse rate, cold hands,
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extremities, and even
can be very fatal as well.
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And that's just the good
news. So, a lot of people
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looking for other
alternatives other
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than that as well. And
let's talk about quickly
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about the sodium I
know there are lot of people
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when we talk about
high blood pressure,
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we talk about the sodium.
And let's talk about sodium
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as salt, table salt and
what people are taking in
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and what shall we
take on a daily basis.
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Well, you know when we
talk about the sodium levels.
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One of the things that
people are very surprised
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that when we do in
our program and that is
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the 1/4 of teaspoon of
sodium is over 590 milligrams.
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1/4 of the teaspoon,
okay, 1 teaspoon is over 2360
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milligrams of
sodium, oh! My goodness,
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I am giving you those
numbers because believe
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it or not the average
person should not take in more
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than 2500 milligram
of sodium and you say,
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okay, what does
that mean. What it means
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that when you go and
buy your foods you can
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always see the
amount when it comes
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to sodium in
milligram amounts. It takes 1000
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milligrams to equal
1 gram of sodium so you
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can see already
about 590, 1/4 of teaspoon.
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Then you're moving,
you're moving, okay,
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and people don't
measure out there sodium.
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What they usually do
as they just take the salt
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shaker and they
shake, shake, shake.
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Shake, shake, shake.
And they shake it more
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than two or three
times a day. A person is salt
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sensitive however
I've said 2500 milligrams
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sodium a day. But if
you're salt sensitive
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we are actually recommend
that you not do more than
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1500 milligrams of
sodium a day. And so you can
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actually count by
looking on your labels.
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Seeing exactly how much
sodium is actually there.
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And you can keep a
count where you are.
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How about the average American.
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The average American
is taking in anywhere
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from 6 to 8
grams of sodium a day.
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I said 6 to 8
grams. Oh! My, grams.
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Grams of sodium a
day, alright, which is also
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causing a problem
with these high numbers
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you're seeing now of
high blood pressure whether
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it's by salt you're actually
sprinkling extra salt on
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your food, there is
already salt on your processed
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foods, that kind of
thing. These are the ways in
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which we can get more
sodium in our diet than
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we actually need to
have and I guess one of the
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things I want to ask you
then okay, it's how do you
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actually go about
selecting low sodium foods.
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Okay, there is a
easy way of doing folks
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and there is one
number you need to remember
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selecting foods that
has the right amount of
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sodium that you
need particularly those
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who are already hypertension.
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One number, that
number is 15. Now we look at
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a package container of
food in the grocery store.
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You want to look not
so much at the milligram
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amount of sodium but
you want to look at the
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far right column, okay,
it may have the letters DV
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or the words daily
value as a percentage.
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You go down to sodium,
go across to the far right
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column you see a
percentage there.
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That percentage
needs to be 15 or less.
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15 or less you know
this a right amount of sodium
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that the
percentage, particular person's
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hypertension. If you
are not even hypersensitive
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it still need to good
to have that percentage
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around 15.
Sometimes you can go up to
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20 percent, even 25
percent and with that
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in mind regular
table salt is 25 percent,
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regular table salt so
that's way past the 15.
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So but you have also
some white salt which is
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down to about 12 percent,
so that's one way of doing
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that as well. So
just looking at the labels
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15 is that number you
need to understand for
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looking at the
sodium amount that the body
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needs on a daily
basis. Several studies have
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come out. They have
talked about potassium foods,
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okay, potassium
versus sodium type foods.
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Explain to us... I
understand that potassium foods
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are also there to help
lower our blood pressure,
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so talk about
that. Okay, yeah, quickly
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low sodium diets can
lower blood pressure what
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they discovered now
they say, published in
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Archives of Internal
Medicine that when we have foods
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that has a high potassium
and a low sodium ratio,
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blood pressure
drops even further.
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So with that in mind
we have the whole list of
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foods in our work
book but so with foods that
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has a high potassium
and a low sodium you have
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the lima beans, you
have bananas and the orange,
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but they has high
potassium and a low sodium,
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the ratio, the higher
the potassium the lower
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the sodium. Foods
that have a high sodium
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and a low potassium
food will raise your
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blood pressure.
Those foods are mostly your
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flesh foods and your
sea foods. Your flounder,
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salmon, your cod and
chicken and roast beef,
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those have a high
sodium and a low potassium
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and those foods will
raise your blood pressure,
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it's very
damaging to the system.
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So now we have idea
of the foods that can
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raise your blood
pressure and foods that can
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lower your blood
pressure. So, we are seeing once
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again the fruit, vegetables,
the whole grain will do
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that, that's true,
yeah, what about botanical
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medicines then?
Yeah, botanical medicine
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again what we need to
do is, let's go to our
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graphing, let's look
at botanical medicine.
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I want to see this
graphic first of all because our
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blood vessels are very
elastic. If they are wider
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or if they are dilated
the blood pressure comes
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down. If they constrict
themselves and the blood
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pressure goes up.
So with that in mind,
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there is one herbal medicine
out there that can simply
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dilate the arteries.
Now, as the arteries are
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dilated the blood
pressure comes down, right,
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alright. So, with that
in mind there is one herb
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or botanical medicine
we call it, that can simply
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dilate the arteries
which causes the blood
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pressure to come down.
Let's go to the screen,
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look at that herb at
this time. Here it is,
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botanical medicine
"Hawthorn has played
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a role in the
prevention and treatment of
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hypertension, hyperlipidemia and
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congestive heart
failure." So it is very powerful
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as far as that's
concerned looking that about
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600 milligrams per day
on a daily basis and let you
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health care profession
be aware that you have taken
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this botanical
medicine so that they can make
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their adjustments as
far as your blood pressure
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medication is concerned.
So it is very important,
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I think we are
apart go into the kitchen
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and at this time and
maybe talk a little bit about
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cause physical emotional
stress can also raise your
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blood pressure as well.
So we probably talk about
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that in the kitchen.
Well, we are not finished
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with this subject. We're
gonna go into the kitchen
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and we're gonna do a
Spicy Oven Baked Vegetables.
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Get your paper and your pencils
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and see you in the kitchen.
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