The supplementation of
Omega-3 fatty acids is booming.
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As a matter of fact, the Food
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and Drug
Administration just approved
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the first Omega-3 fatty
acids supplement as a drug,
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totaling sales of over 600
million in the United States,
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over one billion worldwide.
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What's the research?
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Suppose I don't wanna
eat fish or take fish oil,
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are there any alternatives.
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Well, today's program is
entitled "Alpha and Omega."
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We'll be right back.
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Hi, welcome to Abundant Living,
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this is Curtis
Eakins your co-host.
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I like to have my wife
introduce herself this time.
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His wife at this time.
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Okay, and let's
put a name on that,
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Paula, Paula Eakins? Yeah.
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Okay, we have a same last name,
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so we're married. Yep.
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In holy matrimony. Yep.
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And are you happy
with this marriage? Yep.
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Okay, very good, I'm too.
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That's a new hairstyle too
by the way, isn't it? Nope.
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Or you had it before? Yes.
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Okay, and I like it. Thank you.
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Okay, let's go
with alpha and omega.
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I know, I think we should
move on with alpha and omega.
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And you said alpha and omega,
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so can you explain
exactly what you're talking
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about alpha and
omega, what do you mean?
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Yeah, alpha and omega
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and again I'm gonna
give out some initials,
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so you may want to
write down these initials
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but alpha and omega,
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these are
different kinds of fats
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they are found in foods,
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all right, very
beneficial to the system.
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Alpha can convert
into Omega-3 fatty acids,
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that's why the
program is entitled
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alpha and omega, all right?
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In Omega-3 fatty acids
there are certain oils of fat
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in that group too, and initials
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because the words are so long,
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is really known by initials.
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One initial is EPA and DHA.
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Those are different
types of Omega-3 fatty acids.
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Sometimes you'll see
those initials on packages
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but again you know that,
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that's an Omega-3
fatty acids, EPA, DHA,
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then of course
you have the alpha,
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which is
alpha-linolenic acid, ALA.
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It does not stand for Alabama,
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okay, just want make sure
that people understand that.
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So but it's been
booming and like I said before
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the Food and Drug Administration
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just a few years
ago, just approved a drug,
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Omega-3 fatty acids
and supplement as a drug.
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And it's been booming
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since the last few years in
this country and also worldwide.
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So you said based on
research, so based on research,
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what are the benefits of this?
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Okay, there is
a lot of benefits,
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now most people
then they hear about
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alpha or Omega-3 fatty acids,
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most people think of
heart disease, all right?
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So let's go to the
screen because that is true
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but we gonna add more to that
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than just heart disease as well.
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But let's go to the
screen to see the benefits.
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Heart Healthy!
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"Omega-3 fatty
acids lower triglycerides,
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resting heart
rate, blood pressure
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and improve heart efficiency
and vascular function."
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That's Omega-3
fatty acids, all right?
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So that proves
those things there.
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Now in addition to that,
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based on
numerous clinical studies,
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Omega-3 fatty acids also
inhibits breast tumor growth,
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also it release symptoms
of rheumatoid arthritis.
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Also it maintains brain health,
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impacts-far as long
and short term memory
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also dementia and
also some research
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on Alzheimer's disease.
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We're talking about Omega-3
fatty acids and also alpha
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which is converted into omega,
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that's why the
problem is alpha and omega.
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So the research is out there
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and it's been
growing for the last,
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I guess 15, 20 years.
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It just--I means it's
just flying off the shelf.
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Okay, because I'm
gonna ask the question
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that is so some so--
is in supplemental form
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that people can actually take,
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that's how it's out
there on the market places.
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Yeah, mm-hmm.
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Along with the fact
that it's coming actually
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from the fish
kingdom, is that right?
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Yes, well, yeah, fish
oil. Okay, other thing,
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yeah, but the other things are
coming from other than just fish
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but just bottom-line,
just is kind of talking
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more about the fish part of it.
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Yeah, the fish part of it, yes.
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Okay, okay, okay so, in
fact it is on the market.
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Okay, what about
just eating a fish.
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Why do we need to
do supplements anyway?
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Just go to a
fast food restaurant
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and just order fish
sandwich- Eats the fish, yeah.
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Yeah, that will
make sense, wouldn't it?
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So you get the fish
oil when you eat the fish.
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Well, there may be some
problem with that, okay?
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Number one, let's first
realize that when we eat fish,
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a lot of fish that we eat
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here in United
States are from fish farms.
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Now that may not be a good idea.
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A fish farm? Yeah,
fish farms, all right?
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And it's been
going on for at least
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the last 30, 20, 30 years
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and a lot of fish farms
are in cold water inlets
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on the west coast right
here in United States in a way,
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California, up in
Vancouver, British Columbia
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along those lines,
there are fish farms
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and they are like 100x100
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maybe acre or square
block are floating in the water.
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I think we have a
picture of the fish farm,
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let's go to the
screen at this time.
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And this fish farm right
there are packing like sardines,
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they're not like
swimming up stream all right,
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and what happens is
in these fish farms,
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we have fecal
matter, you have sea lice,
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you have parasites
all that is packed in,
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in this container or
these fish farms here
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and most fish in these farms
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are being raised
salmon about 80%.
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And lot of people eat salmon
for the Omega-3 fatty acids
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and most of the salmons are
coming from these fish farms
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that's contaminated
with all these filth
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in this fish farm.
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So with that you
also have vaccination,
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all right and antibiotics,
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all that's going into
the fish tissue itself.
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So therefore as one person
calls it floating pig farms,
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they are packed in like sardine.
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These are couch potatoes,
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marine couch
potatoes, fish farms.
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And a thing about is that
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normally most
fish or the salmon,
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they normally feed on krill.
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This is a carotenoid
which is mostly orange.
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So when the fish feed on that,
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then their flesh is pink.
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But guess what, they don't
feed these fish farms krill,
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they feed these fish farms,
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cat fish, sardines,
mackerel, anchovies.
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So when the fish
eat this type of food,
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their flesh is no
longer pink, it's a pale gray.
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Well, no one's gonna
buy any salmon that's flesh,
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that's pale gray.
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So how did you get the
salmon flesh to be pink?
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There is a
pharmaceutical company
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that actually
makes shades a peek
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that people can order and buy
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and they feed this
into the fish farms
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and therefore it can
make their flesh pink.
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So we go through the store
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and get the salmon
fish farm pink flesh,
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oh and people will buy it.
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But it maybe a
synthetic pigment of pink.
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And if are not that,
this fish don't really have
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as much Omega-3 fatty
acids as one's thought.
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All that's going
through the system fish farms.
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I-I, that's mind boggling.
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Yeah, and I'm-I'm
trying to be nice. Okay.
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Because more that can
be said. I understand.
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But this is very
prevalent here in United States
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and also worldwide
as well, fish farms.
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And people
think, oh this is safe
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because it's enclosed
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but then that can be also
increase the contamination
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as well at the same time.
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Oh, well have you
ever heard of a fish farm?
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I mean-I mean I've
heard of a farm where animals,
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cows and chickens and
stuff, okay, but a fish farm.
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Fish farm. For real.
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Yeah, and
increases the contamination
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because now is-is packed in
an enclosed environment. Yeah.
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So all that fecal
matter and sometimes lice,
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sea lice burrows
into the flesh of the fish
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and then the fish all
comes from this environment,
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we take it into
our system, all right?
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So therefore eating fish
may not be the best idea.
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I'm agreeing and I believe
the audience is agreeing too.
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Okay, on this information
what does Ellen White,
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you know, she is one
of our Christian authors
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and she speaks a lot about
the food and stuff is going on
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and so what does she
actually say about fish?
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Well, she says
quite a bit about fish,
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this one powerful
statement she said about fish
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and of course not
those who are not familiar
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with this author Ellen G. White,
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she is a prolific author,
known to be inspired by God,
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by millions of
people around the world
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according to
Library of Congress,
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the most translated
author in United States,
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second in the world.
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Wrote many volumes on
health and healthful living,
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five major
health books by the way,
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Counsels On Health,
Ministry Of Healing,
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Counsels On Diet and Foods,
Medical Ministry and Temperance,
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those are five major
books on health, all right?
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One of those books
she mentions about fish.
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Let's go to screen at this time
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and folks let's
hold on to your seat.
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It's called Filthy Fish!
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"Fish become so contaminated
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by the filth on which it feeds
as to be a cause of disease."
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Counsel on Diets
and Foods, page 394.
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So again we got the fish oil
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that mostly come
from this farm raised fish
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that's been fed
mackerels, sardines,
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cat fish with the fecal matter,
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sea lice
parasites, that kind of thing.
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If we eat the fish
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and that statement
there says is so contaminated
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because what happens with that,
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lot of people they will
be go out and do the fishing
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but not knowing
that so many fish feed on
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sometimes the
sewerage of the cities,
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then they go out into the oceans
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and people get the fish
thinking that is fresh water
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because it's not
around the contamination
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but not knowing
that this fish sometimes
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are feeding on the
sewerage of cities nearby.
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And so therefore you're
taking all that toxin ways
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and-and you got the mercury,
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you got the PCB, you
got all these dioxins
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and fish
contains also carcinogen,
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cholesterol and saturated fat.
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All of that for
Omega-3 fatty acids.
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You know, in a
medical profession
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we have, what we call
the benefit to risk ratio
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and we need to
understand that sometimes,
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something may
not be a beneficial
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if the risk
outweigh the benefits.
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And based on what has been said
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and more we can say
simply there's more risk
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than what the
benefits have the offer
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as far as getting
Omega-3 fatty acids.
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And I know when
you're watching that,
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hear what he's saying,
you then saying to yourself
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okay-okay, enough of the fish.
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So what am I gonna do now?
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What about-- I can't do the oil,
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I can't do the fish, so
what are the alternatives?
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Well, and people--
the Omega-3 fatty acids,
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I mean it's in all the
clinical studies have made this,
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I mean, breast cancer growth
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inhabit of that,
rheumatoid arthritis,
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dementia Alzheimer's disease,
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of course
cardiovascular disease,
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I mean, so people still
want those benefits. Absolutely.
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But a lot of times
about 40% of people
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now do not like the
fish oil for two reasons
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because this very
slightly going down hill,
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because number one,
the taste and after taste.
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Number two, the smell.
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But yet and still-
still want the benefits
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from Omega-3 fatty acids.
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So what is there left, and
don't want to eat the fish.
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So there are some alternatives
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without we call this
the fishless, fish oil.
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Which is there is lot
of things that has Omega-3.
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You have the canola oil,
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flaxseed oil, soy oil,
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Soybean, tofu and walnuts.
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Those have the
Omega-3 fatty acids
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and you now even have
in the health food stores
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vegetarian Omega-3 fatty acids
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that has the
flaxseed oil already in them
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And tend to have even
more of the Omega-3 fatty acids
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than the fish oil
because of contamination
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of those fish in the fish farms.
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So that would be a safe
bag going to that direction
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you don't have the
smell, you don't have the taste,
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you don't have the contaminates
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that the fish oil will bring
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based on those fish
farms in container there.
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So it's a good way of taking
in those Omega-3 fatty acids,
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you're getting all the benefits
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without the
contamination of the fish oil
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or even eating fish itself.
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Well, you said, what you're
gonna fix that about that,
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so it's been we
talked about this fish issue.
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I hope we're not
having Fish, are we?
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Well, let me just say
this, whenever you do a program,
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I'm always trying to match
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a food item to match
that. Right, that's true.
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And believe it or
not, a friend of mine
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from the Islands
actually quite a while back
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gave me a recipe for
a mocked fish. Oh, okay.
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Smells like, acts
like, taste like fish
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but it's all plant based,
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so guess what, get your paper,
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and your pencil and
meet us in the kitchen.
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