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From El Salvador.
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I'm John Carter
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John Carter explores
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what is behind the
New Health Revolution.
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Hello friend. I'm John Carter.
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Welcome today to the
New Health Revolution.
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The Bible teaches very
plainly that we are not saved
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by what we eat or what we drink.
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We are saved by
the grace of God.
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But God wants us to
be happy and healthy.
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The Bible teaches it.
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God is a God of grace and mercy
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and He wants us to
be healthy and strong.
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Today, we have a
very special guest,
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Dr. John Westerdahl
is a health scientist.
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He's a graduate of
Loma Linda University.
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And we have tremendous material
to share with you today.
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Welcome today to
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Welcome to the
New Health Revolution.
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I'm John Carter.
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I wanna read you a
text out of the Bible.
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1 Corinthians 6:19,
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Paul says,
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"Do you not know that your body
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is the temple of the Holy Spirit
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who is in you,
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whom you have from God,
and you are not your own?"
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You belong to God.
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We believe that God has given us
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some marvelous
truths in His Word,
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because He loves us and
He wants us to be healthy,
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happy and successful.
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We are delighted
today to have with us
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a famous health
scientist Dr. John Westerdahl,
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graduate of Loma
Linda University,
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School of Public Health.
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Dr. John, welcome
today to The Carter Report.
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Great to be with you
today, Pastor Carter.
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We're delighted
to have you with us
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because we're going to
have a great time together.
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It appears that the
health crisis in America
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was made worse some
think by a recent report
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that says eating red meats
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and processed meats
is actually good for you.
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Right, right. That
caused a lot of issues.
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It was on Fox News Yes,
been on all over the media.
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And a
commentator in Fox News said,
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"Eat up now, eat up the red meat
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because you're
going to live longer
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and you're going to look
better and all the rest of it."
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Now tell us
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what scientific
evidence exists to show
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that eating red
meats and processed meats
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is actually bad for the system.
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Oh, there's been years, decades
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of research in
the scientific studies
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in epidemiologic studies
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and clinical
trials and so forth,
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showing that
consuming more red meat
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and particularly
the processed meats
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with all of these
chemicals added to it,
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they put
everything in processed meats.
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Everything in...?
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Every part of
the animal, you know,
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you don't even wanna know.
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And the scrapings off the floor?
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That's true.
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They hide all
the waste products,
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they're ground up
and they're put together
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and they put into
these processed meats.
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And so this has
caused a great concern
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in the public health community
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because it's like, you know,
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people like to hear
good news about bad habits.
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Yes, of course, they do.
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And what's
happening is the meat industry
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and the scientists
that are affiliated with it,
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they're running scared right now
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because more and
more research is showing
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that this red meat consumption,
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particularly high
consumptions of that
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and also the processed meats
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increases your
risk of heart disease,
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increases your risk of
different types of cancer,
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even the United Nations
has come out strong on this
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and this is a problem,
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but what's happening right now
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is we're coming up to
the new dietary guidelines
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for Americans,
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and this same
thing happened years ago,
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they come out,
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"Saturated fats
aren't that bad!"
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Yeah.
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You know, when the government's
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about to make some new dietary
guidelines for Americans.
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Is it true?
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Is there a parallel
between the meat industry today
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and the tobacco industry
of say in 1950 and 1960?
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Well, you know,
this is very interesting
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because they have scientists
on the tobacco industry side.
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They were
saying... On the payroll.
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On the payroll and, you know,
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the sergeant
general of that time,
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who is really great.
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He was very strong
against smoking and so forth,
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but they would swear
in testimony and comments
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that there's no
evidence to show.
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Raise the hand
and swear. They raise.
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Yeah, what I'm
telling you is God's truth.
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Yeah.
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And they were being paid
by the tobacco companies.
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Well, the sergeant general
even made a joke about it.
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They're raising
their hand one side
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and they're crossing
their fingers behind them.
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So...
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It's a scoundrels,
won't they? It was and...
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I know, you know,
this is outrageous,
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millions of people dying.
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And as a scientist, there are...
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I know for a fact,
there are other scientists
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that do represent food industry.
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Some of them are
very good scientists.
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However, there's a bias there.
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And now they're
seeing all these,
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even these hamburger places
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are having plant
based burgers and...
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See you got McDonald's. Yeah.
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They're all say that,
"That's losing sales!"
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So there is a
concern so what they said
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in this report
which is ridiculous,
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I mean every, if
Harvard University,
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Columbia University,
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all the top
scientists in the country.
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And I'm a member of
the True Health Initiative,
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which is a group
of 500 scientists.
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I'm on their council,
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along with others scientists
from Harvard and others,
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who said this report is
gonna cause a lot of confusion,
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it's wrong and
they've re seen the data.
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Cause a lot of
cancer. That's right.
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Lot of heart disease. It will.
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A lot of funerals. Right.
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Now, let me ask you this.
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Here we've got Fox
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and most of us on
occasions look at Fox.
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And they are
trumpeting this report.
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One of their
prominent speakers, commentators
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is saying, "I can hardly wait,
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you know, eat
out folks, this is,
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you know, we've
got license now."
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It's like that
movie, "License to Kill".
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Right, right, right.
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Well, you know, in
this report though,
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one of the
scientists that is behind
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in putting this study out.
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Years ago, he also,
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I was working
with the sugar industry
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saying that, you know,
sugar's not all that bad.
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Now sugar's good for you?
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Yeah, they say, you know,
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it's not that bad as
people are saying so...
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Do you think this report
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that was
trumpeted around the world
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led by Fox?
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Do you think
some of these people
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were unduly
influenced by the meat industry?
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There's no question.
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Are you sure?
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I'm sure because
they've had a history
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in the past of working.
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And they've been a
part of an organization
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that actually is a
group of scientists
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in this organization
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that represent the
food product industry.
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But the media is
absolutely honest,
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we all know this.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.
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No, these make
headlines and unfortunately...
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It makes headlines
and it makes money!
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It makes money for them
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and it gets the people confused.
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All scientists don't
agree while we can eat
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whatever we want to.
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But the
overwhelming evidence is showing
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that we have to not...
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They're saying keep
the meat at the same level.
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Don't try to cut down.
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That makes no sense
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'cause most people
are eating too much.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So that's what's going on.
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Now, to go slightly
different direction,
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I understand
that there are people
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in Sardinia, Italy.
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And they're some of
the healthiest people
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on the planet I think.
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Are they in the Blue Zone?
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Yes, they're one
of the Blue Zones.
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So we got people in Sardinia,
they're in the Blue Zone,
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they live longer than
most of the rest of us,
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and they eat meat.
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Yes, they eat some
meat but generally,
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according to the scientists
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at National
Geography that study,
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it's about once a
week they have some meat.
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Once a week?
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About once a week on the average
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they have some meat.
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And they have some,
also some cheese from animals
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that eat a lot of
these Omega 3 fatty acids,
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they may be higher.
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The other thing
about the Sardinia...
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And not full of hormones.
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And not threw
out hormones also...
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Yeah, the growth hormones. Yes.
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And the drugs that are
pumped into the animals.
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And the scientists
believe there's a...
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In the case of Sardinia's people
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where there may be a
real strong genetic factor
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because they have a fair amount
of centenarians in Sardinia.
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How do you get
this genetic factor?
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Is it too late for me?
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Well...
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Look, let's pardon
my being a little jovial
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but at this stage in my life,
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I'm looking for
everything to help me.
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The Sardinians eat a better meat
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once a week,
they eat cheese, okay.
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What else do they eat?
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Well, the thing is,
most of what they...
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Large quantity
of what they eat is
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coming from
their vegetable garden.
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So they have vegetable gardens?
So they have vegetable gardens.
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Some of the foods
that they're eating,
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they have a high protein,
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a flat bread that
they make from wheat.
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Oh, it sounds good.
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Tomatoes, almonds,
barley, fava beans, chick peas,
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these make up a
bulk of their diet.
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And what about leafy greens?
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And a lot of leafy greens also.
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Is this the Mediterranean diet?
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Right because they're in Italy,
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so they're eating more
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of the Mediterranean style diet.
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And if they're using any oils,
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it's that organic
extra virgin olive oil.
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And are they couch potatoes? No.
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Do they sit in front
of the television set like
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most of us in the western world,
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with their eyes glued
to the television set,
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stuffing ourselves
with the junk food?
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No they don't.
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Most of the men there
are actually shepherds.
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And they're out with
the sheep all day long.
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They're doing some physical work
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and you know what?
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There's another factor in there
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that they feel that
that type of lifestyle,
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thank you if you're a
shepherd out with the sheep.
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You're spending
your day, walking around,
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working the sheep.
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That's very low
stress type of job.
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And they think that
low stress lifestyle...
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It's too late for me isn't it
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to become a
shepherd in Sardinia?
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Well' we're shepherds,
you're a minister, right?
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That's a shepherd.
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And that's not a stress
free job, I can tell you.
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But that type of lifestyle
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also when you have
a low stress lifestyle
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like they're doing,
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that reduces the risk
of cardiovascular disease.
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But also exercise.
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Exercises in combination
with a low stress, right?
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Have you heard of James Herriot?
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No, I haven't.
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James Herriot wrote the
book, I'm trying to think of it,
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"All things
bright and beautiful."
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Okay. He is a vet.
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He was a vet
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up in the
northern parts of England.
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And I read the story,
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"All things
bright and beautiful",
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how he'd be called
out at 2 in the mornings,
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3 o'clock in the
morning to deliver a cow
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or something, you know,
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but these folks ate a
lot of unhealthy food,
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but they walked 20 miles a day.
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Exercise is a big
factor in our health, right?
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Up and down 20 and
they didn't walk it,
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they chased their animals.
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Right. Twenty miles a day.
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But we today have a very
different lifestyle, don't we?
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We're very sedentary.
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We don't get enough exercise,
that's why it's a good idea,
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even if you're in sedentary job.
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Every hour, get up and
walk around a little bit,
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then sit down again.
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And say that again. I
want my staff to hear this.
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Every hour to get up and
because studies show you...
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Let's say someone
does a lot of exercise
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in the morning at the
gym and the rest of the day,
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they're sitting around.
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Well, they got
some benefits then
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but they're losing the benefits
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if they're sitting
in sedentary lifestyle
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and job.
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You need to get up every hour
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and just take a
little walk around the office
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to get up because if
you're sitting solid,
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that's increasing
your risk of heart disease.
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When we finish this interview,
you and I are going to get up.
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Now, we've referred,
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when we're talking
about the people in Sardinia,
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where was it?
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Sardinia? Yeah, yeah.
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When we're
talking about those folks
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there having the
Mediterranean diet.
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They belong to a
so called Blue Zone.
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Right.
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Tell me about these Blue Zones?
00:14:08.41\00:14:10.05
Well, the
scientists and explorers
00:14:10.08\00:14:12.45
in National Geographic,
particularly Dan Buettner
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who is, what they call
the explorer of longevity.
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They have this
world map on the...
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Posted up and what they did is
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they were trying to identify
these cultures of longevity
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where people in the world live
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exceptionally
healthy and longer life.
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What they did there
this blue marking pen
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and circled this one,
and they circled this one.
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They had three identified ones.
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And, at that time,
00:14:37.84\00:14:39.21
if you're National Geographic,
00:14:39.24\00:14:40.68
and there's blue
markings that says,
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"Oh let's call
these Blue Zones."
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That's how it came about. Yes.
00:14:43.45\00:14:44.78
But these are
cultures of the world
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where they live
longer and healthier lives.
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Are there some
identifying factors
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that make these
places very special?
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Yes, there's a
number of factors that
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and here's some
of the Blue Zones
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they've identified.
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Sardinia there. Yes.
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And they've
identified five altogether.
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Ikaria, Greece, in
Okinawa and also Nicoya,
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Costa Rica and
Loma Linda, California.
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Which is not far
from here. Right.
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And it's a smoggy place.
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It's a smoggy place which shows
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that you can still
live in an urban area,
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live a long, healthy life.
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But these are the
identifying factors.
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It's quite
amazing, you know that.
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No smoking, they had
an importance of family,
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they got regular
exercise, social engagement.
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Spirituality religion played
an important role they believe.
00:15:31.99\00:15:35.03
That gives you peace.
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And that helps give you peace
and control over your stress.
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Moderate caloric intake
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and eat more of a
plant-based type of diet.
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Not all of them were vegetarians
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like the Sardinians, but
they were semi plant-based,
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you know, they
eat meat just a...
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Maybe once a week as
when they have their meat
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and is vegetarian.
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I know this is
science, isn't it?
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This is all based on
science and research.
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This is not
religious fanaticism.
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No.
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Now, I want to
say it to the camera,
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I wanna say to my
friends who're watching,
00:16:02.09\00:16:04.29
we're not saved by what we eat
00:16:04.33\00:16:06.36
or what we drink
or what we don't eat
00:16:06.39\00:16:08.80
or what we don't drink.
00:16:08.83\00:16:10.37
We are saved by
the grace of God.
00:16:10.40\00:16:13.23
We're saved by
the blood of Jesus.
00:16:13.27\00:16:15.74
In this ministry,
00:16:15.77\00:16:17.11
we believe in
the Gospel of Christ.
00:16:17.14\00:16:20.38
And so we're not
saved by being vegetarians
00:16:20.41\00:16:23.85
but listen, Dr. Jesus
said in John Chapter 10,
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I believe, "I've come
that they may have life
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and have it more abundantly."
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Right.
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Comment on it
please? Well, that's true.
00:16:36.16\00:16:37.66
And Lord wants us to be healthy.
00:16:37.69\00:16:39.76
As Christians, we should
be the healthiest of everyone
00:16:39.79\00:16:42.60
because we need to get
out and spread that gospel
00:16:42.63\00:16:44.67
that Jesus has called us to do.
00:16:44.70\00:16:46.13
So it's not really good news
00:16:46.17\00:16:48.70
if you're having a diet
00:16:48.74\00:16:50.44
that's going to give
you cancer or heart disease?
00:16:50.47\00:16:52.94
No. And you know what?
00:16:52.97\00:16:54.84
That affects your spirituality.
00:16:54.88\00:16:57.45
If you're sick, it's
hard to praise the Lord,
00:16:57.48\00:17:00.55
it's hard to
concentrate on the scriptures.
00:17:00.58\00:17:04.55
But when you're
healthy and vibrant,
00:17:04.59\00:17:06.45
you can live life as
Jesus says more abundantly.
00:17:06.49\00:17:08.96
Now, I got to
make this statement.
00:17:08.99\00:17:10.79
Okay.
00:17:10.83\00:17:12.16
Jesus, our Lord, our Savior,
00:17:12.19\00:17:16.16
through whose
grace we are saved...
00:17:16.20\00:17:18.63
Right.
00:17:18.67\00:17:20.00
Ate fish. Yeah.
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He ate, you know, Jesus
ate the Mediterranean diet.
00:17:21.90\00:17:25.14
Now I'm talking about not
today's Mediterranean diet,
00:17:25.17\00:17:27.64
I'm talking about the
ancient Mediterranean diet
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during the Bible times.
00:17:29.74\00:17:31.38
And that was predominantly
a plant-based diet,
00:17:31.41\00:17:34.08
lots of fruits and
vegetables are plant foods
00:17:34.12\00:17:36.18
and they had
some fish as well too.
00:17:36.22\00:17:38.39
Now, are there not benefits
00:17:38.42\00:17:40.72
in eating wild Alaskan Salmon?
00:17:40.76\00:17:44.63
Well, the wild Alaskan
Salmon, every time a wild,
00:17:44.66\00:17:47.73
not farmed there is problems.
00:17:47.76\00:17:50.33
Yeah.
00:17:50.37\00:17:51.70
You know, it is a
source of what we call
00:17:51.73\00:17:53.84
Omega 3 fatty acids.
00:17:53.87\00:17:55.80
These are essential fats
00:17:55.84\00:17:57.41
that we don't get
enough of it in our diet.
00:17:57.44\00:17:59.21
Now, of course, the salmon
are getting it from algae,
00:17:59.24\00:18:01.84
they're actually
getting from plant sources
00:18:01.88\00:18:03.61
and it's
concentrated in their flesh.
00:18:03.65\00:18:06.01
And also if
someone doesn't eat fish,
00:18:06.05\00:18:07.72
they can get it from flax seeds,
00:18:07.75\00:18:09.45
from chia seeds, from walnuts.
00:18:09.48\00:18:11.29
Those are also good plant
sources of Omega 3 fatty acids.
00:18:11.32\00:18:14.62
But the farmed raised fish.
00:18:14.66\00:18:18.59
It's bad stuff, isn't it?
00:18:18.63\00:18:19.96
Well, here we go again. Yeah.
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This is a big
agriculture business, right?
00:18:21.36\00:18:22.90
Yes, it is. Money.
00:18:22.93\00:18:24.57
And on land, they do
farming of the cows and so forth
00:18:24.60\00:18:28.14
and they feed them improperly
00:18:28.17\00:18:29.87
and they're not healthy
and the same things going on,
00:18:29.90\00:18:33.17
so they're
maximizing the production
00:18:33.21\00:18:35.38
to make more of these salmons.
00:18:35.41\00:18:37.25
They say you can
hardly walk between the fish.
00:18:37.28\00:18:39.68
I mean you just
walk on their backs.
00:18:39.71\00:18:41.05
Though they're
all cramped together
00:18:41.08\00:18:42.85
and they use
chemicals in those waters
00:18:42.88\00:18:45.12
to make sure that
they don't get diseases.
00:18:45.15\00:18:47.49
And often they feed
them awful, every day I mean.
00:18:47.52\00:18:51.46
Right. It's not a
health... Let's put it this way.
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If they're out wild,
00:18:53.76\00:18:55.53
eating the way
they're supposed to eat,
00:18:55.56\00:18:57.37
they will be much healthier,
00:18:57.40\00:18:58.90
but they're sickly that
some of this fish are sickly
00:18:58.93\00:19:02.10
and they crammed
in an environment.
00:19:02.14\00:19:04.17
But from a business standpoint
it's maximizing production.
00:19:04.21\00:19:07.34
I'm not absolutely
certain where I read this,
00:19:07.38\00:19:10.01
it could have been
Newsweek or Time magazine.
00:19:10.05\00:19:12.68
But it said, "If
a woman is pregnant,
00:19:12.71\00:19:14.92
she shouldn't have more than
00:19:14.95\00:19:16.79
four ounces of farm
00:19:16.82\00:19:20.36
raised fish a month."
00:19:20.39\00:19:23.79
Because it's so
bad for the baby.
00:19:23.83\00:19:26.49
Yeah.
00:19:26.53\00:19:27.86
Poisonous stuff.
00:19:27.90\00:19:29.23
The way it is,
we're concerned about,
00:19:29.26\00:19:31.07
you know, the
ocean is one big soup
00:19:31.10\00:19:32.97
and there's pollutants going in.
00:19:33.00\00:19:34.37
And Jack Kustow,
00:19:34.40\00:19:35.74
I'm a good friend of his
son John Michel Kustow...
00:19:35.77\00:19:38.74
Oh, yes.
00:19:38.77\00:19:40.11
Jack Kustow back in
the 70's in his expeditions
00:19:40.14\00:19:42.41
would go up into Arctic regions
00:19:42.44\00:19:44.31
and other place of the
world where man has never been.
00:19:44.35\00:19:46.88
They take the fish
out, they tested it,
00:19:46.92\00:19:49.08
they found it had
significant levels of DDT
00:19:49.12\00:19:51.45
and pesticide residue.
00:19:51.49\00:19:53.12
So that is a
concern in the oceans today.
00:19:53.15\00:19:56.76
But the smaller the fish,
the less of the chemicals.
00:19:56.79\00:20:00.96
Yeah, because the bigger
fish eat the smaller fish
00:20:01.00\00:20:03.40
and it concentrates up through,
00:20:03.43\00:20:05.40
so the bigger fish really
are quite toxic in many cases
00:20:05.43\00:20:09.17
because they're concentrated.
00:20:09.20\00:20:10.57
So if you're going to eat fish,
00:20:10.61\00:20:12.47
you better eat what
sardines or something like that.
00:20:12.51\00:20:15.54
They'll be less contaminated.
00:20:15.58\00:20:18.21
Less contamination. Okay.
00:20:18.25\00:20:19.91
Now, let me say
this to you, Doctor,
00:20:19.95\00:20:21.58
because you're a
world authority on this.
00:20:21.62\00:20:26.45
Many people and
some of these people
00:20:26.49\00:20:28.72
I know, pride
themselves on being vegetarians.
00:20:28.76\00:20:33.93
Right.
00:20:33.96\00:20:35.30
And some of them
doubly pride themselves
00:20:35.33\00:20:38.57
on being vegans.
00:20:38.60\00:20:40.27
I'm a vegan myself.
00:20:40.30\00:20:41.94
Well, I'm not telling about you
00:20:41.97\00:20:43.30
but I do know and you know
00:20:43.34\00:20:45.57
some people who are
big into being vegetarians,
00:20:45.61\00:20:50.91
and they fill
themselves up with sugar.
00:20:50.95\00:20:54.12
Have you ever been to
some of their church socials?
00:20:54.15\00:20:56.58
I know.
00:20:56.62\00:20:57.95
I mean it's almost murder.
00:20:57.99\00:21:02.16
I mean the people are
stuffing down their throats
00:21:02.19\00:21:05.36
lots of sugar.
00:21:05.39\00:21:06.80
There's healthy vegetarian diets
00:21:06.83\00:21:08.83
and then there's
unhealthy vegetarian diets.
00:21:08.86\00:21:10.87
And if you're vegetarian,
00:21:10.90\00:21:12.60
you're eating
lots of saturated fat
00:21:12.63\00:21:14.67
and cheese and egg yolks
and so forth, you're gonna...
00:21:14.70\00:21:18.34
That's not a healthy thing.
00:21:18.37\00:21:19.71
And all that sugar,
refined empty calories.
00:21:19.74\00:21:21.08
How bad is refined
sugar? How bad is it?
00:21:21.11\00:21:23.38
It's bad. How bad?
00:21:23.41\00:21:25.61
It's very bad because
it's completely concentrated
00:21:25.65\00:21:29.22
what we call it empty calories.
00:21:29.25\00:21:30.59
There's no
nutrients in it at all,
00:21:30.62\00:21:32.35
it's very high in sugar.
00:21:32.39\00:21:33.79
This affects your
brain, the way you think,
00:21:33.82\00:21:36.46
it increases your blood
sugar, it's doing severe damage.
00:21:36.49\00:21:40.26
We eat about...
00:21:40.30\00:21:41.73
The average American eats
120 pounds of sugar a year.
00:21:41.76\00:21:45.63
Hundred and twenty pounds!
00:21:45.67\00:21:47.00
Now, listen to this my friend,
00:21:47.04\00:21:48.60
sorry to be the
bearer of such awful news,
00:21:48.64\00:21:52.51
the average American
eats how many pounds a year?
00:21:52.54\00:21:56.51
A hundred and
twenty pounds a year.
00:21:56.54\00:21:57.88
A hundred and
twenty pounds of sugar.
00:21:57.91\00:22:00.05
Does this
influence the way we think?
00:22:00.08\00:22:02.75
There's no question
00:22:02.78\00:22:04.12
because what
happens is first of all,
00:22:04.15\00:22:06.72
when you eat that
much amount of sugar,
00:22:06.76\00:22:08.22
you know, your
blood sugar goes real up
00:22:08.26\00:22:09.76
and you get a lot of energy.
00:22:09.79\00:22:11.13
But then it drops,
00:22:11.16\00:22:12.53
and then you feeling like
a stupid, you don't feel...
00:22:12.56\00:22:15.33
You don't have the energy.
00:22:15.36\00:22:16.70
And this influences
the processes of the mind?
00:22:16.73\00:22:20.70
That's right.
00:22:20.74\00:22:22.07
And so people find
it very, very difficult
00:22:22.10\00:22:25.27
to think rationally and clearly.
00:22:25.31\00:22:27.61
Is this true?
00:22:27.64\00:22:28.98
That's true,
and it goes the same
00:22:29.01\00:22:30.35
with all that extra
fat people are eating too.
00:22:30.38\00:22:32.25
It slows, it inhibits
the cerebral circulation,
00:22:32.28\00:22:36.58
blood circulation to your brain.
00:22:36.62\00:22:37.95
So there's a
relationship between what we eat
00:22:37.99\00:22:40.86
and how we think?
00:22:40.89\00:22:42.29
There is.
00:22:42.32\00:22:43.66
And so fuzzy thinking may
be caused by fuzzy eating.
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That's correct. That's correct.
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America today, we
know in America today,
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we have a crisis
wherever you look.
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Maybe, one of the
reasons we have this crisis
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is because of the junk
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that we are putting
into the temple of God.
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You know, most
people treat their bodies,
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which is a temple of God
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as a trash can with a hairy lid.
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In other words, they
just throw everything in that.
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A trash can with a hairy lid?
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Well, a trash
can with a hairy lid.
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Disgusting.
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And if we're living temple,
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we wanna put the
best things in it for God.
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What about corn syrup?
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Corn syrup, high
fructose corn syrup?
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Mm-hmm.
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Well, that's a
problem. That's a...
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You know, it's one
of the cheapest forms
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of sugar on the diet.
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And so what's
happened is the government
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has given these big
subsidies to the corn growers
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and they make the corn syrup
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so it's cheaper
than caned sugar.
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And they put it
in from soft drinks
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to all these jams and jellies,
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to all the things
that have sweetness.
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Corn syrup. High
fructose corn syrup.
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It's very inexpensive
form of sugar that people,
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the manufacturers produce.
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And then we grow this
because we have prodigious,
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generous farm subsidies.
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That's right.
That's why it's so cheap.
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And because of the subsidies,
we're not gonna get into this.
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But there's some
parts of the world
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where people are
committing suicide
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because they can't compete.
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And we're putting
out these corn syrups
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that are
poisoning the population,
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so the population cannot think
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reasonably and rationally.
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And it's all political.
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Getting these
subsidies to the politics,
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you don't see
subsidies in broccoli, do you?
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Cauliflower,
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I mean I don't see
any subsidies on that.
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Not since President
Bush was the president,
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you know, That's right.
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He didn't like broccoli. Okay.
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Now what does the
Bible say of anything
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about eating and drinking?
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What about the original diet?
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You know, we believe
we're saved by grace alone,
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through faith alone,
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but we believe
that this book tells us
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how to be happy and
healthy and prosperous.
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What does it say
about the original diet?
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Well, you know,
the Garden of Eden
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is where the
optimal diet God gave man.
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And that was in Genesis 1:29
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and which is all
plant based diet.
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There was no eating
of meat and so forth,
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but it was all plant foods
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and that's God
intended us to eat that way.
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That was the
optimal type of diet.
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So man was given this diet
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to live for eternity
basically, wasn't it?
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Exactly.
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Man originally in
the Garden of Eden
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was designed to live forever.
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But he was given a choice,
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like we're given
choices with our diet lifestyle.
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And so it appears,
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if we can get back to this diet,
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we're going to be
healthier, happier,
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more prosperous and
we're going to enjoy
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longer lives like the
Hunzas and other people.
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That's right.
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And what's
interesting to point out,
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the scripture indicates too
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that we're going
back to this type of diet
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in God's new kingdom in heaven.
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The gospel, the
Bible says in Romans 14:17,
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it's not about
eating and drinking
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but it's about joy and peace,
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and happiness and
holiness in the Holy Spirit.
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Having said this,
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the body is a temple of God.
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Jesus came that
we might have life
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and that we might
have it more abundantly.
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As we finish this
segment of this program
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on the New Health Revolution,
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what would you
say to the audience
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so that they can be happier
and healthier and live longer?
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Well, I think, of
course, as you point out
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having a
relationship with Jesus Christ
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is the key to
enjoying really optimal health
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and combine that with
a healthier lifestyle,
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you have the best going
for you in all the ways.
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Doctor, it's been our privilege
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and we're going to have you back
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in our next segment.
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And we're going to talk
about the New Health Revolution.
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We're going to talk about
the super, super, super foods.
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Right.
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We're so glad that
you joined us today.
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Don't go away
because we'll be back soon
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as we talk about the
New Health Revolution.
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Stay with us and
thank you, Dr. Westerdahl.
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Thank you.
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