America is under attack,
the world is under attack.
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Freedom of speech is under
attack, you're under attack,
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and there is a part of
you that is under attack
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and I hate to say it
but you may be the attacker
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and it is your
heart, Heart Attack.
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And that is what we are
going to talk about today
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in Part 7 of Body Battles.
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I'm Steve Wohlberg and my
guest is Jack McIntosh who is a
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Health Educator,
Nutritionist, he's a Lifestyle
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Interventionist, knows a lot
about the body and he's been, my
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guest Jack, here
we go for Part 7.
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Thank you for being
with me and I want to just
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remind people of, or maybe
just inform them of something
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that you said a long time
ago that I haven't forgotten.
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I was listening to you
give a talk in a large church
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and I remember you've said
this line. "The first symptom
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that most people have, that
they're having a Heart Attack
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is sudden death and
I never forgot that.
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It's been many years
since you've said that so
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let's get into this whole
topic of the heart and how to
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protect the heart.
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It's certainly a symptom that's
hard to get around, isn't it?
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Sudden death doesn't give you
many options. No, it doesn't.
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And for some people that's
true, it is the first symptom.
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That's right and before
you... before you launch in,
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let me read a text here? Yes.
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This is in the book of Proverbs
chapter 4 verses 20 to 23
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"My Son, attend to my words
incline your ear to my sayings",
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to Biblical sayings.
"Let not them depart from your
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eyes, keep them in
the midst of your heart"
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"for they are life to those
who find them health to all
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their flesh." So God is
concerned about the heart
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and about health. In
Numbers 23 says "Keep your heart
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with all diligence for out
of it are the issues of life."
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That's a powerful text
so from the heart come the
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Issues of Life" and that applies
to things that are happening
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within us like our motives
and our desires and what we say
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but it also applies to
the health of our heart
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because from the
heart, the heart pump
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pumps blood to every cell in
the body and that's how we live.
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The Bible said the blood is
the life. Life is in the blood.
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That's right. So we have
a physical heart and we have
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spiritual heart and
we're supposed to keep both
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with diligence. That's right.
So as far as heart attacks
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how big of a problem is this?
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Well, it's a big problem,
its the number one source of
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mortality. But before we get
into that, I want to introduce
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a little humor because this
is a tough subject you know.
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For some people. I want to...
in fact, I may ask our producers
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to put this little
graphic up on the screen.
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A man walks into a
restaurant with his wife,
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a nice upscale
restaurant, white tablecloth.
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And he sits down and
he says to the waiter
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what comes with the
steak? And the waiter says
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heart disease, cancer,
and your choice of rice pilaf
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or a baked potato. So that's
truth in advertising. Right!
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That's what comes with
the steak and unfortunately
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there are many insults to
the heart on a daily basis...
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We don't get heart
attacks the first time we have
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some junk food or a greasy
hamburger, something like that.
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It takes years of insults, day
after day, after day, the sweet
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drinks, the hamburgers,
the chicken, the high saturated
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fat foods day after, day
after day and those insults
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add up and what happens
is that eventually the heart
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gives out because of a blood
clot or a blockage of some kind
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and we have what we
call a heart attack.
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But the truth is that the
heart has been under attack
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for a very long time
before we get a heart attack.
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So today we are going to
talk about some of the things
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we can do to prevent the
insults to the heart and the
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cardiovascular system, the
whole vascular system really.
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Okay, just clarify for me,
is the biggest risk the heart
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itself losing its
ability on its own to pump
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or is it the system of arteries
around it that get clogged
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so that then it runs
into trouble, which is the
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greater risk?
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Well, it's the coronary arteries
themselves that get blocked
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and the blockage can come
from years of insults as we said
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to the vascular system the
actual arteries and the heart
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or it can come as a
result of a blood clot.
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Blood Clots of course are very
dangerous and that's one reason
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why we should keep the
blood thin. Now very often
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if the blood is very
thick and we're subject to clots
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the doctor will give us
a drug to thin the blood
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Coumadin or some other drug.
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But in reality, the best way
to thin your blood and prevent
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a heart attack is to drink water
because water thins the blood.
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Now in America in the
morning the first insult to the
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vascular system is something
that causes you to lose water.
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We drink a drink that is a
diuretic, a diuretic makes you
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lose water, right, and
the blood becomes thicker
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and after the third cup of
this insult to the vascular
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system, the blood becomes very
thick, and most heart attacks
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happen in the morning.
So you know it's 10 o'clock,
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I've had my third cup of coffee
and that caffeine is a diuretic
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and so now my blood is very
thick and if I should happen
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to get a blood clot in that
coronary artery and it blocks
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that artery (he snaps
fingers), I have a heart attack
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and I could be 50%, there's
a 50/50 chance you will die.
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Fifty percent survive and 50%
die when we do have a coronary
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event or what they
call a myocardial infarction
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which means that
there is a blockage in the
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coronary arteries. So, it's
very important in the morning
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when you get up, excuse me.
The first thing that you can do
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to protect your heart
is to drink pure water,
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the beverage of Eden,
because that thins your blood
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and makes it less likely that
you're going to get a blood-clot
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because it's the blood-clot that
is the most dangerous thing.
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Even the blockages in the
arteries where the arteries
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narrow as we
talked about yesterday.
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Very often there is
a hard covering on that
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but sometimes that
plaque in the arteries is soft
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and when that plaque is
soft and it doesn't have a hard
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covering on it, it's liable
to rupture and from that rupture
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comes a blood clot, the
blood flows out and it clots
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and that clot can move on and
block an artery down the line
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and we have a
classic heart attack.
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So, something as simple as
drinking water instead of coffee
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is one of the best things
that you can do to protect your
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heart. Who knew? Right?
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Okay, just to clarify for
me, isn't the biggest risk for
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heart attack has to do
with the arteries, right?
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The condition of the arteries
or a blood clot or thinning,
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or the thickening of the
blood and the thickening of the
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arterial walls...Yes. More
than just the heart itself as a
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muscle, its more the arteries
that are going into the heart
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that have problems which then
eventually affects the muscle
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the arteries within the
heart, the coronary arteries.
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Within the heart. Um,
there is an artery that's called
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"the widow maker," the left
what is it? descending artery
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and it gets blocked in
men. But that's an artery within
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heart, within the heart
itself and that can get blocked
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either by a blood clot or
years of insults where the LDL
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cholesterol, particularly,
yesterday we talked about the
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LDLB, which is a
very dense form of the
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Low-Density Lipoprotein LDL
cholesterol that dense LDL can
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under the endothelium and into
the artery wall and do damage.
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Especially, of course,
the oxidized version of that.
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So, that's one of the reasons
why we want to eat foods that
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are free of cholesterol because
that LDLB is a heart attacker
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if you will. It will do
damage, there are two fractions
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as we talked about yesterday,
there's LDLA, it's kind of
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large and fluffy and relatively
harmless, but the B, LDLB
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the dense LDL can get on to
that endothelium, the lining
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of the artery and the
endothelium is very important
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because we talked about
how it produces nitric oxide
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and it dilates your
arteries and keeps them open
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lowers your blood pressure
and all that blood pressure,
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high blood pressure is a
risk factor for a heart attack,
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for heart disease. So all those
things mean something over time
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the dietary, particularly
the animal-based dietary really
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makes a difference in whether
or not we really are at risk.
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So these days, for a long time
the American Heart Association
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and in other organizations
resisted the idea that a
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plant-based or what we
call an Eden diet would be the
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best protector for the heart.
But now they are on our side
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the statements are there, they
say that plant-based diet is
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the ideal diet for
preventing heart disease.
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So we're talking about
the tubes that feed the heart
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I mean tube, there is a big
tube that goes into the heart
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and then goes out, but the heart
itself has these smaller tubes
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that...artery, coronary artery
is the tube that the blood
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flows in and nourishes the
heart and so we got to keep
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those tubes healthy so that
they are not hard, they are not
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clogged, they're open, the
blood isn't thick and so that
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all these factors work together
and you're saying that water
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will help and the diet helps
and all these things contribute
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day by day, step by step
to heart health so we don't
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get a heart attack.
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Now, we need to address some-
thing else here and that is
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that all of the lifestyle
diseases that we can name
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begin with inflammation
and so there are markers for
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inflammation in the
body. When we have markers that
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indicate that there is a high
inflammatory process going on
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and one of the markers is
called CRP C-Reactive Protein
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when that number is high,
it means that there is a lot
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of inflammation
going on... In the tubes?
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In the body in general.
In the body, don't forget
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that the inflammation is
not going on just in the heart,
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it's going on in the whole
vascular system including the
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brain and all of
the organs of the body.
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And so by looking at the
CRP once a year, we can see
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whether or not there is advanced
inflammatory process going on
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in the body. Secondly, we
need to look at hemoglobin A1c
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as we talked about yesterday,
hemoglobin attaches to oxygen
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naturally in the lungs
and delivers it to the cells
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but when sugar gets
attached to our hemoglobin,
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it never let's go and the
red blood cell has to die 90 to
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120 days later in
order for us to get rid of
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that what we call
glycated hemoglobin.
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Glycated meaning sugar
attached to my hemoglobin
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in the red blood cell,
right? So that binding of sugar
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with the red blood cell,
with our hemoglobin and the
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red blood cell is a
danger to the vascular system,
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to the circulatory system.
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So, that's a number that
we need to pay attention to
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if that number is 6 or
higher for instance, we are
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pre-diabetic and that means that
there is inflammation going on
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and as we said yesterday, the
number one killer of diabetics
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is a heart attack
because that glycated hemoglobin
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sugar attached to my red-blood
cell is a free radical and
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it does accelerate
damage to the vascular system
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not just the heart
but all over the body.
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And so we need to pay attention
to that number, 7 or higher
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means we are diabetic but
that high blood sugar is really
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really puts us at a risk for
heart attack so that's something
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that we need to pay
attention and of course your
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blood pressure is important,
we mentioned that Nitric Oxide
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is the natural substance that
the body uses to dilate arteries
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and open them up and high
blood pressure is a risk factor
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for a heart attack.
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So, we talked about
physical activity increases your
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Nitric Oxide and your
ability to dilate your arteries
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and open them up and when
we sit in a chair all day long
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watching television or
whatever we are doing in a chair
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that's not a good thing for your
heart, that's a risk factor.
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That's why yesterday
we jumped up and did a few
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exercises. So being sedentary
is a risk, having a high-fat
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diet is a risk, having
too much sugar is a risk...
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In fact, there's a saying
out there right now that's
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sitting is the new smoking
and so sitting in a chair for
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more than an hour, things
start to happen, blood slows
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down, the triglycerides
start to get more active and
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begin to do negative
things to the vascular system...
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Let's put it that way.
So after sitting for an hour
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it's just a good idea to get up
out of the chair for 30 seconds
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walk around the room maybe,
and do a couple deep knee bends
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and arms over your head
exercises kind of thing and just
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get that blood again because the
sitting really puts long long
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hours of sitting put us
at risk for heart disease.
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That's an important thing
to realize. So keep moving
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cut the fat, avoid the sugar,
diabetes raises the risk for
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heart disease, not
moving around raises the risk
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for heart disease and
I'm sure there's a whole host
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of other factors and I
guess what we're focusing
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here on in this program and
this whole series is getting
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back to simplicity, right?
Back to the diet, God gave us
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in the Garden of
Eden... Eden diet...Which has...
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It doesn't have the saturated
fats, the processed fats...
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And no cholesterol, there is
no cholesterol and drink more
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water, keep going, keep moving
and all these things affect
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the tubes that the blood
flows through to go to the heart
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which is the organ that
pumps blood to the whole body
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and that's what keeps us alive
if we have a meltdown there
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we're at risk of having the
first symptom like you mentioned
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which is sudden death.
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Yes, and that is a
very unpleasant symptom.
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Now one of the risk
factors that I need to mention
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and that is abdominal fat,
the fat that concentrates around
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the abdomen. When we are on
the S.A.D. diet, the Standard
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American Diet, right? We
very often, we'll accumulate
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fat in the area of the abdomen,
what they call visceral fat
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which actually accumulates
on the inside of the abdominal
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cavity, around the organs.
It turns out that fat is not
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like the fat on your arms or
on your legs, this kind of fat
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visceral fat its load
produces inflammatory cytokines
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and these inflammatory cytokines
are what do the damage to the
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arteries that create
the blocking of the arteries
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overtime and as I said, and if
its soft plaque then of course
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it can rupture and
produce a blood-clot.
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So it is very important to
make sure that your waist girth,
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that's one of the risk factors,
your waist girth is in the
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right range, not more than
40 for men and 35 for women.
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So the waist girth is important
because it's the source of the
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inflammatory
cytokines that do the damage,
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one of the sources that
does damage to the arteries.
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So you need to pay attention,
so how do you reduce your waist
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girth, your
visceral fat, what to do?
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Belly fat right? Belly
fat exactly, what do you do?
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the answer is, you know,
you walk. You eat less and you
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walk more. Well not even eat
less, I would say that you eat
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the Eden diet, the plant-based
diet, you can eat as much as you
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want of that diet because that
diet is not going to have the
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harmful cholesterol, the LDL,
cholesterol that will damage
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the artery and if you
are walking, and using the
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Eden diet, remember the
Eden diet has lots of fiber...
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Yesterday we talked about a
minimum of 25 grams of fiber.
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Well, if you are eating
that diet you don't even have to
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worry about counting how many
grams of fiber you are getting
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you're getting
more than the minimum...
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So what's the quickest way
again to bring them the belly
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down? Yeah, so you need that
source of the high fiber sources
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of calories to bring down
the belly fat and you also need
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the physical activity. The
combination is very powerful...
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The natural diet and movement?
And moving. The combination...
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One thing again, we would like
to say one thing potentiates
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the other makes the
other more powerful.
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There's a synergy that's
going on there so that...
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It's not just 1+1 is 2,
it's 1+1 is 4 because it's so
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powerful used
together and that's the point.
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So we need to pay
attention to that.
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On real practical level as
you mentioned, heart disease
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develops gradually, it develops
bite by bite, chair by chair,
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the longer we are just
not moving around and the more
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food that we eat that is not
healthy for us, little by little
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those tubes slowly get
affected, the blood thickens,
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the walls become damaged
and we increase our risk.
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and so really on a practical
day today, it's just really,
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it's those little decisions
one by one and we're all being
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bombarded with all
these advertisements for food
00:21:42.43\00:21:45.97
that's not good for us. We got
all the fast-food restaurants
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all over the place and
it's so easy just to compromise
00:21:50.44\00:21:53.88
and go along with what
our taste buds want and what's
00:21:53.91\00:21:57.18
easier just sitting around
but slowly but surely we're
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raising our risk
level... Insulting the heart...
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And so to lower the risk, we
need to just get into a habit
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of moving more and eating
more natural foods, more of the
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food that's grown, the
plant based foods...And drinking
00:22:14.76\00:22:17.27
that pure...Drinking that
water and just step by step
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we are lowering our risk,
right of that heart attack
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which is killing so many people.
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So, in the few remaining
minutes that we have left
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I want to talk a little
bit about this strategy that
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you just mentioned. What
are the practicalities of
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putting that in place?
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So many people make a New Year's
Resolution, I'm going to be more
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physically active, it lasts
for a a week or ten days or...
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A relatively short period
of time. How can you make this
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a habit so that it
becomes a permanent part of your
00:22:51.57\00:22:56.24
lifestyle? And one of the
things that I do as a Lifestyle
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Interventionist is I facilitate
the interventions that people
00:23:00.41\00:23:04.68
who are going to put in place?
00:23:04.71\00:23:06.08
So for instance I say to
them look, if you're going to be
00:23:06.11\00:23:09.22
more physically
active, you have to set a time,
00:23:09.25\00:23:12.05
you can't say I'm going
to be walking today at noon
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and then the next day at
seven o'clock in the evening and
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all over the map. There needs
to be a time, the brain likes
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regularity and so when
you get up in the morning
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think about the day. When is
the best time for me to set a
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time? Put a stake in the sand.
And one of the facilitators
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of that stake in the
sand is your cell-phone.
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Your cell phone has an alarm,
set an alarm, if it's 11:00,
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That cell phone goes off at
11:00 and you know it's time
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to push back from the
desk, whatever, get up...
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Maybe in the morning when
you got up, you've prepared
00:23:51.56\00:23:56.03
yourself by putting
on your walking shoes
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the brain takes note of
that, I'm going to walk.
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You see, all these little things
that we do, the night before
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you lay out your walking
clothes or jogging whatever
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you are going to. All those
little things that you do to
00:24:09.41\00:24:11.91
prepare...It tells the brain
something's going to happen
00:24:11.95\00:24:15.42
and it prepares you to get
active...all these little things
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make a difference. Shopping
you know, making sure that you
00:24:19.95\00:24:24.23
bring the right foods home,
that you're not putting that
00:24:24.26\00:24:27.56
sweet drink in the refrigerator.
That high-fructose corn syrup
00:24:27.60\00:24:31.33
drink that's going to trash
your arteries and create trouble
00:24:31.37\00:24:36.67
for you long term.
00:24:36.71\00:24:38.04
So all these things make
a difference and we have to
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recognize that little
things can really, you know
00:24:42.18\00:24:46.21
little foxes spoil the vine,
that's what the Bible says.
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A little leaven
leavens the whole lump.
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So prepare the evening
before and dress for the weather
00:24:52.15\00:24:57.06
there's no such thing as
bad weather, only bad clothing.
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Put on a hat so that you don't
lose heat through your head,
00:25:01.16\00:25:06.77
a lot of the heat that you
lose when you are out there
00:25:06.80\00:25:08.74
is through, from the top
of your head...Put on a hat,
00:25:08.77\00:25:11.64
I wear some gloves, I
dress warmly, I have a couple of
00:25:11.67\00:25:16.24
two or three layers and my
wife and I go out and take that
00:25:16.28\00:25:19.48
brisk walk. We do it at
a certain time every day
00:25:19.51\00:25:23.79
after breakfast basically.
00:25:23.82\00:25:26.39
And so, all those things, take
a friend, in my case my friend
00:25:26.42\00:25:31.49
is my wife, so
that's a good thing right?
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A friend will hold you
accountable, so all of those
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things make a difference.
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Practical steps, I like to walk
after I eat, as much as I can
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not always, but after breakfast
this morning I took a walk,
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after lunch today I'm going
to take a little time and walk
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and I do this often in
the evenings too after I have
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a supper and it's just those
daily choices, step by step
00:25:53.05\00:25:58.39
that helps us to win
the battle of the body.
00:25:58.42\00:26:01.66
The saying in Spanish,
poco a poco aval joseos
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little by little you go far.
That's right little by little.
00:26:04.76\00:26:08.50
Well, we've come far to
the end of our program so,
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Proverbs chapter 4:23, the
Bible says "Keep your heart with
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all diligence," in other words,
make those diligent efforts
00:26:20.68\00:26:25.91
to keep your heart, to
have a healthy heart, not only
00:26:25.95\00:26:29.82
spiritually but physically
for out of it are the issues of
00:26:29.85\00:26:34.06
life." And heart disease is
a terrible thing and if loved
00:26:34.09\00:26:38.49
ones, someone that you know,
or you, have a heart-attack
00:26:38.53\00:26:43.16
you could die early.
I know this is a tragedy
00:26:43.20\00:26:46.97
and God wants us to live
as long as possible down here
00:26:47.00\00:26:50.41
so take those practical
steps, protect your heart from a
00:26:50.44\00:26:53.51
heart attack and don't
you be attacker. Absolutely!
00:26:53.54\00:26:57.08
Thanks for watching,
we'll see you next time.
00:26:57.11\00:26:59.18
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