In this program we
visit the traditional Mt. Nebo
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from which Moses viewed the
promised land before he died.
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He climbed this mountain shortly
after he had written the book of
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Deuteronomy, which, by the
way, contains some remarkable
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information on
how to live longer,
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and how to enjoy a good life.
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The hill over there, on
which there is a church built,
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is Mt. Nebo, and it may not
look very imposing from here,
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but from the Jordan valley
where Moses ascended from,
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it's 1,000 meters up to the top.
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From the top we get a
very fine view, of course.
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We can see right out
over the Jordan valley.
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You can see on the left the
Dead Sea, and in the distance,
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on a fine day, we can see the
hills of Judea, and Jerusalem
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even surrounding the hills.
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Would you like to know how
to live longer and enjoy it?
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Well I've got good news for you.
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Moses, in the book of
Deuteronomy, tells us we can
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live longer, and he
tells us how to do it.
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In Deuteronomy chapter
4 and in verse 40 he says,
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you shall therefore keep
his statues and his commandments
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which I command you today,
that you may prolong your days
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in the land which the
Lord your God is giving you.
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So there you are;
you can live longer.
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Well, what's the secret of it?
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It says in chapter 7, It
shall come to pass because you
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listened to these judgments,
and keep, and do them,
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the Lord will take
away from you all sickness,
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and will afflict you with
none of the terrible diseases
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of Egypt which you have none.
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There's nothing
arbitrary about this.
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It wasn't that God was saying
listen, I'm going to make all
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the other nations sick, and
I'm going to make you good, and
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strong, and healthy.
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This was a case of
follow the rules and you'll reap
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the benefits.
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Don't follow the rules and
you'll reap the consequences.
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Let me just give you a few
simple illustrations of this.
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You've heard of the
proverb saying, cleanliness
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is next to Godliness.
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Heard that one?
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It's not actually a
quotation from the Bible.
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But, never the less, the Bible
certainly does teach that we
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need to have cleanly habits.
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For instance, in
Exodus chapter 19, verse 10,
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Then the Lord said to Moses, Go
to the people, and sanctify them
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today and tomorrow, and
let them wash their clothes...
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Well, you see, cleanliness
is next to Godliness.
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And if you are hygienic
and keep yourself clean,
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well, naturally, you're going
to avoid some of these skin
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diseases which people get.
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And there's some
other rules here, too.
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Now you listen to this
very simple one in Numbers
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chapter 19, and in verse 15,
Every open vessel which has no
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cover fastened on it is unclean.
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Now that's quite important,
you know, because if you leave
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a vessel, whether it's a pot or
a dish, and some food, and it's
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uncovered, well, it's not
long before the flies sit on it,
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and it's going
to be contaminated.
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That's the way disease spreads.
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So God told the Israelites,
follow these simple rules
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and you won't have
some of these problems.
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Now here's another
very practical one, listen:
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in Deuteronomy 23, verse
13, You shall have an implement
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among your equipment, and when
you sit down outside you shall
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dig with it and turn
and cover your refuse.
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Now there's a lot of
diseases in the East.
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I've seen the people of
India, for instance, out in the
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morning, you know,
out to the patty fields.
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They just go to
the toilet there.
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They just leave it.
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The flies come swarming over it,
and the next thing they're back
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in the windows and
sitting on the food.
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That's why there's so
much cholera, typhoid,
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amoeba, dysentery.
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Well, here's
some good instruction,
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practical instruction.
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And Moses told the people
follow this instruction and
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you will avoid the diseases
that are so rampant among
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the other nations.
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Now what I have told you so far
is probably nothing new to you.
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I'm sure you've all got
nice, clean, hygienic kitchens.
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But you've got to remember,
it wasn't always that way.
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You know, people never dreamed
that disease could be carried
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on the legs of flies.
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But, of course,
we know that now.
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So we can see that
this instruction just has
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to be inspired.
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Moses certainly didn't get
it from the Egyptian doctors.
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It must have come from God!
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And that should give us a lot
of confidence in the rest of the
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instruction that
He's passed on to us.
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Behind me is a
bronze serpent on a pole.
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This commemorates an incident
in the wilderness wanderings.
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The people were being
bitten by snakes, and they were
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dying likes flies.
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So God told Moses to make this
metal serpent; put it on a pole,
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and whoever
looked at it would live.
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They'd recover.
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Now this indicates that God is
very interested in our health,
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happiness, and
recovery from disease.
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And, of course, especially
prevention of disease is even
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more important.
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So we can have a lot of
confidence in the instruction
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that is given here.
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And let me give
you a little bit more.
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Now here is something
that is, perhaps more relevant
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to our modern world.
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In Leviticus, chapter 13, verse
45, Now the leper on whom the
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sore is, his clothes shall
be torn, and his head bare,
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and he shall cover his
mustache, or his mouth,
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and cry, Unclean, unclean.
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And he shall dwell alone,
and his habitation shall be
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outside the camp.
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Now anyone who has been
inside a surgery, you know,
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when an
operation is in progress.
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You see the doctors with all
their coverings on their lips.
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And this is to
prevent the spread of disease.
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We know that disease can be
spread through what is breathed
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out of the mouth.
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So here is some instruction
that was along these lines.
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This lets us know that God
knew what He was talking about
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way back there.
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Here's something else in
our cholesterol conscious age:
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Leviticus 3, verse 17, This
shall be a perpetual statute
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throughout your generations,
and all your dwellings.
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You shall eat
neither fat nor blood.
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Now we're just
waking up to that today.
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And here it was thousands
of years ago: don't eat fat!
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It just builds up cholesterol
in your arteries, and veins,
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and it can bring
on a heart attack.
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So, here's some very
up-to-date counsel, isn't it?
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Now there is something that
a lot of people think is very
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important for their
happiness, and that's the use of
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alcoholic beverages.
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But, is it?
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You know, I think I've had
a little experience in this.
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My father was a good man.
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I was brought up in an affluent
home, but he was a drinker.
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And I'll tell you, whenever
he came back, and had had some
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drinks, there was a lot of
very unhappy scenes in the home.
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And, of course,
alcohol also causes accidents;
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even a little bit.
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And it certainly is
a drain on the pocket.
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There's a lot of reasons why
we shouldn't be using alcohol.
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And it says over here
in Proverbs 20, verse 1,
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Wine is a mocker, intoxicating
drink arouses brawling,
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and whoever is led
astray by it is not wise.
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I think that is very
relevant counsel, don't you?
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But there's always somebody
who will raise the question:
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didn't Jesus turn water
into wine at the marriage feast
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at Cana of Galilee?
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Yes, indeed He did.
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In fact this is one of two
churches in Cana of Galilee
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that commemorate the miracle.
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And inside this particular
church there is a stone jar
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and it's standing in
front of a little water cistern.
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And so this church
commemorates the incident.
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It really happened; sure.
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But the question
is, which type of wine?
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You see, there
are two types of wine.
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We recognize that.
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You can either go into a
liquor shop and buy a bottle of
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alcoholic wine, or you can
go into a supermarket and buy a
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bottle of grape juice,
which we sometimes refer to as
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unfermented wine.
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Now in our society these are two
separate and distinct things.
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One is alcoholic, and
the other is non-alcoholic.
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But in biblical times,
of course, they didn't label
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them on bottles
just as clearly as that.
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When the grape crushing season
came along they crushed the
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grapes, got the juice, and for
a few days it was unfermented.
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And then if you
didn't do anything about it,
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then, of course,
it became fermented.
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However, they had a system
of boiling it, boiling it,
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and boiling it until it
became a thick, syrupy juice.
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That would keep for up
until nearly twelve months.
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All you had to do
was add water to taste.
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So, there are two types of
wines spoken of in the Bible.
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You have, for instance, in
Isaiah chapter 65, verse 8,
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Thus says the Lord, As the new
wine is found in the cluster,
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and one says, Do not destroy
it; for a blessing is in it.
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I like grape juice.
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It's a good drink, and
there's a real blessing in it.
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But, of course, there is
another type of wine which is
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condemned in the Bible.
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Proverbs chapter 23, verse 29,
Who has woe? who hath sorrow?
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who has contentions? who
has complaints? who has wounds
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without cause? who
has redness of eyes?
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Those who linger
long at the wine;...
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Now you don't need to wonder
very long as to just what type
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of wine is referred to there.
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Obviously, that is
alcoholic wine causing the
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red eyes, and the wounds
without cause, and so forth.
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And so it says here, Do not
look on the wine when it is red,
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when it sparkles in the cup.
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At the last it bites like a
serpent and stings like a viper.
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Not only don't drink
it, don't even look at it.
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Don't be tempted because
alcoholic wine is harmful
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to the health.
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Now let's take a look at
the physical effects of alcohol
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on the human body.
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I want to talk to Dr.
John Quinn of Sydney's large
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West Meade Hospital.
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Dr. Quinn has a
degree in Science.
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He has a degree in medicine.
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And he has a Ph. D. in
Immunology, which makes him
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pretty well
qualified to talk to us.
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Dr. Quinn, what can you tell
us about the effect of alcohol
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on the human body?
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Yes, David, thank you.
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I'll just start off by
telling some of the statistics
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associated with
alcohol in medicine.
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For example, it's known
that 85% of Australian men,
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and 75% of the women, drink
alcohol in some form or another.
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Now alcohol, even in minor
amounts, can interfere with
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medications that many
people take for minor illnesses.
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Now the problem with
that is that the effects
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are unpredictable, and
this can lead to sleepiness.
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It can interfere with
their ability to drive a car,
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and perform
various skilled tasks.
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Now even in moderate amounts
alcohol can acerbate many
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medical
conditions that people have.
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While in excessive amounts
alcohol leads to a whole host
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of disease processes.
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Well, when somebody puts
the bottle to their lips,
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what actually happens
when it starts pouring
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down their throat?
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Yes, well, David, after they've
taken a mouthful, obviously
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it goes down the main esophagus
into the stomach, and there it
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goes on into the small
bowel where it's largely
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absorbed from.
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Now, on the way down through
the esophagus, it irritates the
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lining of the esophagus.
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And also in the stomach
it irritates the lining.
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And this leads to pain in
the long term, and a condition
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called esophagitis, or
gastritis, and bleeding.
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While in the small bowel,
the irritation of the wall can
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interfere with the absorption
of many important nutrients,
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in particular
the B group vitamins.
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Is this a liver
you've got there?
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What effect does
alcohol have on your liver?
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Well, because of the arrangement
of the anatomy in the body,
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the substances that are absorbed
from the small bowel in the
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stomach, first of all,
are taken to the liver.
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Now the liver is a process,
a storehouse, and a processing
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factory in the body.
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And because of this, as the
alcohol is absorbed from the
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digestive system, it's the liver
that bears the first brunt,
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other than the lining
of the small intestine.
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Now even a single episode
of binge drinking, such is very
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common on a Friday evening
in Australian populations,
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can lead to a
condition called fatty liver.
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As you can see in this liver
here, this is what's called
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the cirrhotic liver,
which is a long term consequence
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of excessive alcohol.
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But you can see these little fat
globules, if I can point them
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out with my pen.
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The normal liver is sort
of smooth and homogeneous.
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These little fat globulars
have replaced the normal
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liver tissue.
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As a result, the functions of
the liver are interfered with,
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and in time this can
lead to serious disease.
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The person ends up a rather
pathetic sight with a swollen,
00:14:10.26\00:14:14.06
bloated stomach.
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They are unable to process
many of the nutrients that are
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absorbed, and also,
unfortunately, many of the
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toxins that come in from
the digestive system from the
00:14:23.33\00:14:27.61
breakdown of proteins
in the bacterial products.
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When they get to the
liver they're dealt with,
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and detoxified.
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But if the liver doesn't work,
then they're getting into the
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circulation and can
interfere with many of the
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body's functions.
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It's all pretty frightening.
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Now what's this over here?
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Don't tell me
that's a heart, is it?
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Alcohol effects the heart?
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Yes, now, unfortunately, the
heart, too, bears a large brunt
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of excessive alcohol intake.
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Now the normal heart is about
the size of your clenched fist.
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And if I compare my fist with
this heart, even though this
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heart is opened up to display
the internal structures, you can
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see that this is
a very large heart.
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Now what happens is that
the alcohol acts as a toxin on
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the muscle cells, and
these muscle cells are unable to
00:15:12.72\00:15:16.38
contract properly.
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And as a result, the heart tries
to compensate by getting larger,
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and, therefore, allowing more
blood to be pumped in and out.
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Also the force of the
contraction is better the larger
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the heart gets,
to a certain extent.
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In time this heart becomes so
large and dilated that the wall
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becomes very floppy, and
it's unable to pump the blood
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adequately through the body.
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The person ends up
with a condition called
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alcoholic Cardiopathy.
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Well, it sounds like
the long term effects
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are pretty disastrous.
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What about the
short term effects?
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Yes, well, the short term
effects are something that's
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more relevant to the average
sort of Australian, since we can
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consider only about 10% of
males, about 3 to 5% of females
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eventually go on to
become what we would refer to as
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chronic alcoholics.
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The under aged; the under 17,
and the under 25 year age group
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in Australia; they're a very
large proportion of drinkers
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in Australia.
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And, unfortunately, just
looking at the male population,
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about 30 to 40% of these young
men will eventually get into
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some trouble in their youth,
and their early adulthood,
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because of excessive alcohol.
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This may be in the form
of a motor vehicle accident.
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And despite random
breath testing in Australia,
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still about 50% of fatal
road accidents are caused by
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excessive alcohol intake.
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Then we have domestic violence.
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Alcohol is a
significant contributor here.
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The person may be drinking
and is unable to control many of
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their normal emotions.
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This can lead to violence,
which is a rather dreaded,
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and unfortunate thing that we
see in the Australian community.
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So your advice, I presume,
is keep off the bottle, aye?
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Even in moderate drinking?
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What do you think?
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Yes, even in moderate drinking,
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particularly in
females, for example.
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I mean it's been shown that in a
woman that is pregnant, even one
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or two standard drinks a day
can lead to a condition called
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the fetal alcohol syndrome
in which the poor unfortunate
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newborn child is mentally
and physically handicapped for
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the rest of their life
just because of their mother's
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excessive alcohol
during the pregnancy.
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There is something else
that Moses wrote just before he
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climbed Mt. Nebo.
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You'll find it in
Deuteronomy 29:18; listen:
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And that there may not be among
you a root bearing bitterness
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or wormwood.
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Some translations put
it that there may not be a
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poisonous herb.
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Now there's quite a
few poisonous herbs growing
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in the world today, and,
unfortunately, some people
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are using them
to their detriment.
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For instance, there
is the tobacco leaf.
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And you've only got to
look at a packet of cigarettes
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and read it here: WARNING
smoking is a health hazard.
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And according to the
latest government regulations,
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the tobacco companies have to
be even more specific than that.
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It is a deadly poison,
and it's not wise to use it.
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I talked with Dr. Russell Butler
who is a consultant physician
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about the effect of
smoking on the human body.
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Tobacco has a lot of effects on
the human body which we've been
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aware of for, oh, maybe 30
years, since the first reports
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were made of an association
between smoking, particularly
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smoking
cigarettes, and lung cancer.
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You know, a cigarette is
really very much like a chimney.
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And if you were to get on
the end of a chimney and inhale
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the smoke, you'd expect it
to be fairly nasty on the body.
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Now if you look here at
this picture of a normal lung
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you'll see that it's pink with
a few specks of black on it,
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just from the normal
dust that we see in the air.
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But this specimen I've got
in the bottle here shows the
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blackening which happens when
someone smokes regularly over a
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protracted period of time.
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Now the person who did this
had the consequences that they
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eventually
developed a lung cancer.
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And this pale patch of
tissue here is the cancer which
00:19:48.80\00:19:53.53
eventually led to them having
to have this lung removed.
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Beyond that they have a
patch of pneumonia because the
00:19:56.54\00:20:00.94
air passages in the lung
have been obstructed by the
00:20:00.97\00:20:05.16
development of this cancer.
00:20:05.19\00:20:06.57
It's been well known for a long
time now that people who smoke,
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particularly people who smoke
cigarettes, are likely to have
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something, about a twenty times
increased risk of developing
00:20:17.76\00:20:22.84
lung cancer.
00:20:22.87\00:20:23.84
The other effects of smoking,
however, are perhaps not so
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evident, and not apparently
statistically so great.
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For instance, people
also develop heart disease.
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We've got some pictures here
of the inside of blood vessels
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which show the deposition of
cholesterol and other material
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which tends to
block up the arteries.
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Now, statistically, the increase
in risk of developing heart
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disease due to smoking is
only about two or threefold.
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But when you think that
nearly a third of the population
00:21:06.33\00:21:09.67
eventually dies of heart
disease, it's very much more
00:21:09.70\00:21:13.58
common than
these with lung cancer.
00:21:14.03\00:21:15.28
So the influence of smoking
in accelerating heart disease
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is, in fact, much more important
as a public health problem
00:21:19.48\00:21:22.44
than is lung cancer.
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But there are other poisonous
plants around besides tobacco
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leaves, you know.
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I want to talk to Don
Bain, who is the Director of the
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Health Department of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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in the South Pacific region.
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Don, what can you
tell us about marijuana?
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David, I guess we could tell
you a great deal about marijuana
00:21:42.05\00:21:44.82
because this is a very old
drug that's been used in Eastern
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countries for thousands of
years has in recent decades
00:21:47.64\00:21:51.40
been discovered by
people in Western society.
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Many people think that this
is a very innocuous substance,
00:21:54.30\00:21:57.62
but it's not.
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It's actually a
very subtle drug.
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It appears to be virtually
harmless, but its effect upon
00:22:00.58\00:22:04.20
the body is really only starting
to be understood now as we're
00:22:04.23\00:22:07.51
doing more research.
00:22:07.54\00:22:08.64
Marijuana is a mood altering
drug and it effects our concept
00:22:08.67\00:22:13.46
of time and
space, and our judgment.
00:22:13.49\00:22:15.97
And for people who drive or
engage in any activity where
00:22:16.00\00:22:19.09
they might be using machinery
or flying aircraft, or doing
00:22:19.12\00:22:22.35
things like that, marijuana
can be a very serious drug.
00:22:22.39\00:22:25.59
So the advice is,
leave it alone, aye?
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Don't even experiment with it.
00:22:27.92\00:22:29.10
I would say
definitely so; that this is not
00:22:29.13\00:22:31.37
a drug to be played with.
00:22:31.41\00:22:32.56
I think we'd be much better
in our society without it.
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What about the plants
that produce caffeine?
00:22:36.25\00:22:39.37
Well, caffeine is an
interesting substance, too.
00:22:39.40\00:22:41.77
It's been around for a long
time, and it's probably one of
00:22:41.80\00:22:44.66
the drugs that is most
used in the world actually.
00:22:44.69\00:22:48.39
Now you find caffeine
in a variety of substances.
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Coffee, of course, is a major
source of caffeine for millions
00:22:51.30\00:22:54.69
of people; tea also.
00:22:54.72\00:22:56.12
The cola drinks have
quite a lot of caffeine in them.
00:22:56.16\00:22:58.97
And there are alkaloids
which are similar to caffeine
00:22:59.00\00:23:02.31
Theobromine, etc, which you
will find even in chocolate.
00:23:02.34\00:23:05.22
But caffeine is a drug that
people used for a stimulate,
00:23:05.25\00:23:08.89
to give them a lift.
00:23:08.92\00:23:09.89
And again, people may
think that this isn't dangerous,
00:23:09.90\00:23:13.50
but again, evidence shows that
too much caffeine can have a
00:23:13.53\00:23:17.35
very deleterious
effect upon the body.
00:23:17.38\00:23:19.33
Does it have any
relationship to stress?
00:23:19.36\00:23:22.52
Well, people will take caffeine,
as in fact they will take a lot
00:23:22.55\00:23:26.92
of drugs, to
overcome the stresses of life.
00:23:26.96\00:23:30.09
You know, people are always
looking to chemical crutches.
00:23:30.12\00:23:32.75
If you've got a problem
let's open the medicine chest
00:23:32.78\00:23:35.55
and find a pill or potion.
00:23:35.58\00:23:36.79
And that's why people tend to
be into alcohol, into marijuana,
00:23:36.82\00:23:40.02
into caffeine, into many of
these things to try and either
00:23:40.05\00:23:43.15
block life out or make
life a little more exciting,
00:23:43.18\00:23:45.71
or something like that.
00:23:45.74\00:23:46.71
And I really think that when
people are looking to chemicals
00:23:46.72\00:23:50.57
to solve their problems, they're
really fooling themselves.
00:23:50.60\00:23:53.07
And even with
caffeine, that this could have
00:23:53.10\00:23:55.93
a serious effect actually
upon oxygen levels to the brain,
00:23:56.10\00:23:59.12
and can effect
our motor performance.
00:23:59.15\00:24:00.70
So I really think that if people
are looking for drugs to help
00:24:00.73\00:24:04.28
them with stress, they're
looking in the wrong direction.
00:24:04.31\00:24:06.64
People would do much better
looking to a balanced lifestyle,
00:24:06.67\00:24:09.63
getting a balance in the
social, mental, physical,
00:24:09.66\00:24:12.58
and spiritual areas.
00:24:12.61\00:24:13.71
These are the sort of
things that people should be
00:24:13.74\00:24:15.92
concentrating on.
00:24:15.95\00:24:16.93
Now medicines and drugs in
that area have some place in
00:24:16.96\00:24:20.70
society, but
they've got to be governed.
00:24:20.73\00:24:22.48
They've got to be
controlled by competent people.
00:24:22.51\00:24:25.23
That we've gotten into
this habit of self medication,
00:24:25.26\00:24:28.42
and people are taking so many
pills, potions, drugs, and all
00:24:28.45\00:24:32.59
sorts of substances to
try and help them cope.
00:24:32.62\00:24:35.05
And I really think that this
isn't a positive way to behave.
00:24:35.08\00:24:38.50
So it's best to keep away
from the regular cup of tea.
00:24:38.53\00:24:41.91
Well, I think even that,
you know, people may get some
00:24:41.94\00:24:44.23
comfort from it, but even the
cup of tea that people think is
00:24:44.26\00:24:48.30
quite harmless, that drug
authorities, from instance,
00:24:48.33\00:24:51.38
New South Whales, and health
authorities have shown that
00:24:51.41\00:24:53.80
beyond five cups a day,
for instance, that's been
00:24:53.83\00:24:56.91
considered, even by the health
authorities in this state, to be
00:24:56.94\00:25:00.28
a health risk.
00:25:00.31\00:25:02.29
So I think that we need to be
very careful taking these sorts
00:25:02.32\00:25:06.22
of substances into our body.
00:25:06.25\00:25:07.58
Now let us talk
about what we eat.
00:25:07.61\00:25:11.57
You know the Bible tells
us to look after our bodies.
00:25:11.60\00:25:14.30
In I Corinthians, chapter
6, and in verse 19, it says:
00:25:14.33\00:25:17.83
Do you not know that
your body is the temple of the
00:25:17.86\00:25:21.40
Holy Spirit which is in
you, whom you have from God,
00:25:21.43\00:25:24.89
and you are not your own?
00:25:24.92\00:25:26.18
For you were brought at a price:
therefore glorify God in your
00:25:26.21\00:25:30.17
body, and in your
spirit, which are God's.
00:25:30.20\00:25:33.10
So not only your spirit,
but your body belongs to God,
00:25:33.13\00:25:36.27
and God expects
you to look after it.
00:25:36.30\00:25:37.94
And, more specifically, it
says in I Corinthians 10, and in
00:25:37.97\00:25:42.08
verse 31: Therefore whether
you eat, or drink, or whatever
00:25:42.11\00:25:47.69
you do, do all
to the glory of God.
00:25:47.72\00:25:50.63
Carolyn Laredo is an officer
in the diet office of a leading
00:25:50.66\00:25:56.94
Sydney hospital, so she'll
be a good one to talk to about
00:25:56.97\00:26:00.92
dietary matters.
00:26:00.95\00:26:02.36
Carolyn, just how
important is diet to health?
00:26:02.39\00:26:05.69
Well, there's an adage that's
very appropriate to answer
00:26:05.72\00:26:09.66
that question, David.
00:26:09.69\00:26:10.66
"We are what we eat. "
00:26:10.67\00:26:12.68
Diet is extremely
important to our health.
00:26:12.71\00:26:15.45
Really, what we put into our
bodies is what determines what
00:26:15.48\00:26:20.65
we can get out of them.
00:26:20.68\00:26:21.80
And what are the
principles of a good diet?
00:26:21.83\00:26:23.88
Well, there's a lot of things
that contribute to us having
00:26:23.91\00:26:27.43
a good diet.
00:26:27.46\00:26:28.82
It's important that we
have regular meals; that they be
00:26:28.85\00:26:31.94
set at a time suitable for
each particular individual.
00:26:31.97\00:26:36.11
We need a lot of variety.
00:26:36.14\00:26:38.42
And we need to be
aware of things like obesity;
00:26:38.45\00:26:41.18
particularly because that
is a very big problem in our
00:26:41.21\00:26:46.40
society today.
00:26:46.43\00:26:47.40
We need to decrease fat,
sugar, alcohol, and salt.
00:26:47.41\00:26:52.07
We find that a lot of people
that might have high intake
00:26:52.10\00:26:57.14
of these things
00:26:57.17\00:26:58.41
We need to increase our dietary
fiber, and have a lot of fruit
00:26:58.44\00:27:03.15
and vegetables.
00:27:03.18\00:27:04.15
Fresh fruit and vegetables
are really the best things
00:27:04.16\00:27:06.90
that you can eat.
00:27:06.93\00:27:07.90
I'm sure.
00:27:07.91\00:27:08.88
We need a variety which is the
big thing in a vegetarian diet.
00:27:08.89\00:27:13.71
It cannot be emphasized enough
because without variety you are
00:27:13.74\00:27:19.42
not including
everything that your body needs.
00:27:19.45\00:27:23.85
But the vegetarian
diet, with that variety,
00:27:23.88\00:27:27.95
does include everything.
00:27:27.98\00:27:30.73
But, of course, good health is
not only a matter of abstaining
00:27:30.76\00:27:34.19
from what is harmful,
it is doing what is good.
00:27:34.22\00:27:37.51
And that not only involves
having a good, solid diet;
00:27:37.54\00:27:41.74
a good, healthy diet,
everything is involved.
00:27:41.77\00:27:45.52
You should have
good rest at night.
00:27:45.55\00:27:48.94
You should breathe plenty
of fresh air, drink plenty of
00:27:48.97\00:27:53.28
fresh water, and I think that
exercise is also an important
00:27:53.31\00:27:58.28
element for good health.
00:27:58.31\00:27:59.61
Beautiful game
for an old fellow.
00:28:09.65\00:28:10.90
Well, my son beat
me again, of course.
00:28:12.56\00:28:15.47
He usually does these
days, but I got my exercise.
00:28:15.50\00:28:19.74
I really enjoy a game of tennis.
00:28:19.77\00:28:21.57
And I think the reason I can
keep up with my boys is because
00:28:21.60\00:28:25.18
of my lifestyle.
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I don't drink.
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I don't smoke.
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I don't use tea or coffee.
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I've got a wonderful
wife who turns on some great
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vegetarian meals.
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And I really get
the most out of life.
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Well, what about you?
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Do you have
something there that should go?
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I think we've all got to
get a good lifestyle, you know.
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And if there's anything that
you need to get rid of, well,
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why not get rid of it now?
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You'll not only live longer, but
you'll get far more out of life.
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Unbelievable!
00:28:59.87\00:29:02.17
Now I'm going to let
you into a little secret.
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David's into his 70th year!
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So maybe that healthy lifestyle
really does pay dividends!
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Have you ever noticed that our
Jewish friends are usually quite
00:29:11.94\00:29:17.05
prosperous folk?
00:29:17.08\00:29:18.45
Well I don't know the secret
of their prosperity today,
00:29:18.48\00:29:21.85
but I do know the secret
of the prosperity of Abraham,
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the father of the Jewish nation.
00:29:26.05\00:29:28.10
In our next program we'll
be visiting Ur of the Chaldees,
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Abraham's hometown.
00:29:32.47\00:29:34.35
We'll be investigating
his finances and revealing the
00:29:34.38\00:29:38.19
exciting story of Ur; how it
was lost, forgotten, and found
00:29:38.22\00:29:43.14
again recently by archeologists.
00:29:43.17\00:29:45.36
It's a really interesting story.
00:29:45.39\00:29:47.32
Why don't you join us then?
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