Proverbs chapter 3
verses 5 and 6 state:
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"Trust in the Lord
with all thine heart
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and lean not unto
thine own understanding.
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In all thy ways acknowledge Him
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and He will direct thy paths. "
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Hello and welcome
to the program. This is
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From Sickness To
Health. I'm your host Rico Hill
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and this is the blue
guy: Sickness himself.
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And today, whoa, we
have a fascinating program
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for you, don't
we? Yeah, I guess so.
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You all right? I'm
a little disappointed.
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In me? The
program? The topic? What?
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No... my heart: it
attacked me last night.
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Out of nowhere...
after all I've done for it.
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You mean you had a heart attack?
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NO... I did not
have a heart attack.
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My heart attacked ME!
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Let me get this straight:
your heart attacked you?
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Yeah, can you believe
it? No. I can't believe it.
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Well there I was
sitting on the couch
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enjoying some
delicious high-fat ice cream...
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Anyway, out of nowhere,
this sharp pain in my chest
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like a knife.
How would you like it
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if someone put a
knife in your chest?
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Well I probably wouldn't like
it but that's not the point.
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The point is that your
heart is just responding
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to all the unhealthy
foods you've been eating.
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Unhealthy foods!
I'm insulted! Name some.
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Let's see: fried
bacon, fried chicken,
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fried fish,
cupcakes, fried ice cream,
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pizza, cheese
pizza, meat-lovers pizza...
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What else? No... no, no, no, no.
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This isn't helping.
Name some unhealthy foods.
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Anyway, that's probably
why your heart attacked you.
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Yeah, that's right.
My heart attacked ME!
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Make the record
straight: my heart attacked me.
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Ungrateful heart. So
you're mad at your heart?
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Yes I'm mad at my heart. I
am taking care of this thing.
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Oh, are you mad
at your mouth, too?
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Maybe you should be mad at
your hands for putting the food
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in your mouth. Ha, ha,
ha, ha. Hold on! Hold on!
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I need a time to
laugh at that joke.
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This is NOT funny.
OK... roll the program.
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Look, today's topic
is When Hearts Attack.
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Hello? Heart attack hotline?
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Yes. I'd like to
report a vicious attack.
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Roll it. Yeah, yeah, I can wait.
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Well, thank you so much for
joining us here in the studio
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of From Sickness To Health.
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Oh, I cannot tell you how
how excited I am about today's
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program! I'm
joined by my good friend
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Dr. Schubert Palmer who is
the chairman of the Cardiology
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section of the White
Memorial Medical Center
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in Los Angeles, California.
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He's also the director of
the catheterization laboratory
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and the director of
cardiac rehabilitation.
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So he's very busy
but he made time today
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to come and be with us. So
we thank you for being here
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Dr. Palmer.
Delighted to be here.
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Ah, it's exciting, isn't it?
Any time you are talking about
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the heart I am excited.
Exactly. Because you know
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Dr. Palmer... this is a subject
that he has committed his entire
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life to. This is his life's work
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and he is committed to
making people healthy mentally,
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physically, and spiritually.
And there are a lot of
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misconceptions, aren't
there? about this subject
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about what keeps us
ticking, what slows us down,
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or even stopping all together.
But our friend Sickness
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thinks that he has this
whole heart thing figured out.
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So let's take a look
and see what he has to say.
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Thank you Rico. Hey, did
you know that cardiac arrest
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and heart attacks are
the leading cause of death
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in the United States this year?
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Mmm. That's one in four people
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that's going to
die of cardiac arrest.
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Wow... big business!
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Take this guy for
example. I mean, look at him.
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Fatty foods. Lack of exercise.
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Sugary drinks.
Watching TV all day.
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Late night eating.
He's just 35 years old.
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But little does he know that
age is nothing but a number.
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Boy, he has no idea
what's going to hit him.
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Hey buddy! Want me to order an-
other medium extra-cheese pizza?
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I'm paying.
Hey, sure. All right.
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He thinks I'm
paying but in the long run
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he'll be the one paying.
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Back to you, Rico.
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Wow! Well I tell you
what: I don't know if he has it
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figured out or if
he's causing a problem,
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but today we're talking
about - as Sickness put it -
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his heart attacked
him. And many people have
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this misconception
that somehow a heart attack
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is like your
heart attacking YOU.
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But we're going to kind
of show in this program today
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that oftentimes we're
attacking our heart, aren't we?
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We surely... certainly are. OK.
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Well... And the thing that's so
exciting about today's program
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Dr. Palmer is that you
brought some props for us.
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So let's start with the basics.
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Let's start at your heart.
The heart's the size of a fist
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basically. And you remember
this is going to keep pumping.
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By the time you are 70
years of age it will have beaten
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at least 2 billion times.
Wow! If you look very closely,
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you will notice that there are
these big arteries we call the
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aorta and the pulmonary artery.
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And on the outside you
have these little bitsy things.
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That's the coronary artery.
The red ones are the arteries;
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the blue is the veins.
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We are concerned
about the arteries.
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And you have 3 main arteries.
You have one that's on the...
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on the left side
that comes down the front.
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The other one
that services the back.
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They actually start out
together, and once you get a
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blockage in that area
you call it a widow-maker.
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And then you have the artery
on the right side that's called
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the right coronary artery.
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So whenever an artery gets
clogged up with cholesterol
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or fats, then all of the muscle
that's depending on that blood
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supply doesn't have it and
so you have a heart attack.
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Inside the heart
if you look inside
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those are the muscles, and
they're beating their hearts off
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no pun intended.
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But they can only work as
the circulation is good to them.
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They can't get
the blood directly.
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Now alligators...
they're different.
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They have sinusoids, and
they get the blood directly.
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But we're not alligators.
We need to get the blood from
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the coronary
arteries. And if they stay open,
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perfect circulation gives you
perfect health. Perfect health.
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Wow! That is a
beautiful demonstration.
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So we've seen here
clearly how the heart functions.
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And that's how we
want it to function.
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And if we don't have it
functioning at its capacity,
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we're going to have
some problems, aren't we?
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We are. And unfortunately we
are suffering a big epidemic.
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It you were to take -
again - this coronary artery
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and blow it up to a big size,
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and I have a little model
here. Like here is an example
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of what the coronary
arteries are supposed to be:
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nice and clean. What
we are finding out now
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from autopsies from young people
who have died in the wars -
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you know, the
different wars we've had -
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is that their
arteries even at a young age
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15, 16, to 20... they've started
the process of plaque build-up.
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A little yellow there.
And it gets worse and worse.
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And what's happening now
is this build-up of plaque
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or blockages we're
seeing at an age where we...
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you'd have to
be 70 years of age.
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Now we're seeing that
disease process in 20-year-olds
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so the arteries
are looking like this.
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Whoa! In fact...
That's almost closed.
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It is! And 40-year-old
folk, they're running around
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an average of maybe
in the neighborhood of
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40 to 50% blockages and
they don't even know it.
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And it's gotten so bad
that in young people...
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Now this is kind of scary,
but a friend of mine who works
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with the public school system
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they're having young people
- boys - 16, 17, 18-year-old
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boys - and the #1
drug that they're asking
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the health
prescribers to give them is
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medicines like Viagra.
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Viagra. So there is a problem
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with circulation,
isn't there? It is scary
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because 16-year-old boys
should never have problems with
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circulation. There are some
serious moral and ethical issues
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involved. But when you
consider besides those issues
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why a 16-year-old
boy would even be asking
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for anything like
that, this is the problem.
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The diet that we as
parents have given our children
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now is leading to a society
in which parents are burying
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their children.
Oh, how sad... how sad.
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You know what? There is a
video clip that we're going to
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take a look at that
illustrates this point.
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Let's turn to that and
come back and continue to talk
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about that.
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Well the first sign that
both of these cast members had
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was shortness of breath.
And you may not think that
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that's a big deal... most
folks look for chest pain.
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But it turns out that about
half the people who have a heart
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attack never knew it was coming.
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They never realized that
subtle signs had been out there.
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They were looking
for the wrong signs.
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Shortness of breath, the
inability to walk up two flights
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of stairs, or a sudden
change in how breathless you get
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doing normal activities.
That's a situation that really
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worries me. It's subtle
but it's there, and it's a big
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warning sign to
everybody out there.
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If you look like Mr. Gandolfini
that's a warning sign as well.
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Big weight that we have
talked about together, appears
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several times. A waist size that
is more than half your height
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is a warning sign
because that increased girth
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predisposes you to the
risk factors for heart disease
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which are high blood
pressure - #1 cause of death
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and risk factor for it -
diabetes and high cholesterol.
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And if you don't know
whether you have a shortness
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of breath or and you're not
going to pay attention to your
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waist size at least
know those risk factors
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because they are critical.
And now the fourth sign
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I'm going to tell you all
is not something many would
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think of, but it was probably
important in Mr. Gandolfini's
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case which is what you last ate
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'cause often your last
meal is truly the last meal.
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Heart disease
is a serious issue!
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It's affecting
so many Americans.
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And just before we took
a look at the video here
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you were pointing out that
it's affecting young people,
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young boys -
um-hmm - at an early age
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due to what?
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The lifestyle and
particularly the diet
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is the most important.
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There are other issues that
come into play... the exercise.
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Most people are on
their... playing video games
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and things of that sort
so they're not exercising.
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So exercise is very important
and maybe we will talk about it
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in a little while,
but relatively speaking
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the major problem is the diet.
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So as a heart surgeon you
are finding that the diet is
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contributing to heart
disease and cardiac arrest?
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Everyone who has looked
at this subject seriously
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down from the Surgeon General
to William Castelli from the
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Framingham Study and several
others, all of the researchers,
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same conclusion: 70% to
80% or more of the heart
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problems we are
having would cease to exist
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if folks were
having a reasonable diet.
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So what's an unreasonable diet?
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And what happens? What is this?
You've got some props here.
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That's very exciting to
me. You've got some glob here.
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What is this thing here? Well,
this here is 5 pounds of fat.
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Ooh! My, my.
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This is so heavy.
You mean to tell me
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if someone has 5
pounds of fat in their body
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it's as heavy as this?
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How does someone
get this in their body?
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Please explain.
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This all comes from
what comes through here.
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Whoa! The food we eat
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coupled with the
exercise we do not have
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directly leads to
this little issue here.
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As we look at the
obesity trends in America
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we have found some
very interesting things.
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The map has just gradually lit
up in terms of the percentage
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of overweight and
obese population. Um-hmm.
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So much so that the
average seat that we sit on now
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is 22 inches wide. It
used to be 100 years ago
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17 inches. So... it
went from 17 inches to 22.
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To make accommodation
for our increasing girth.
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So people are
getting bigger. It is.
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And the most serious
trend is that children -
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the obesity rate in children -
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is off the scale. Wow!
Wow! So when we look at
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fat... Let's make this
real practical for people
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because, you know, I was sharing
with someone the other day
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and I said: "You know
you have to be careful of
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processed foods. "
And the person said:
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"I don't even eat
processed foods. "
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And then I shared what
a few processed foods were
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and she ate all of them.
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So sometimes people don't
know what we're talking about
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when we say fatty food.
They'll say: "Well I don't eat
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any fatty foods. "
Let's get some examples
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here of how we go from this
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which goes in the mouth to this.
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Take a look here.
This is the amount of fat
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that you see in
one cup of skim milk.
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Skim milk? Skim milk.
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This is in one
cup of whole milk.
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This is almost full. Uh-huh.
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Now skim milks tastes
pretty nasty I must confess.
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Yes. Personally. Yes.
00:14:44.58\00:14:45.91
I would much rather this,
but there's even a better way!
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And that is, as we talk
about fats, we have the good,
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the bad, and the ugly.
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All right. And this is
pretty much bad fat. OK.
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Here is another example.
This is a 3-ounce fish serving.
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And here we have... this
is 3 ounces chicken, roasted,
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no skin. That's half-way full.
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Half-way full... and that's
the best part of the chicken.
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So this is the best part
of the chicken - yes - but
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this is... the breast without
the skin. Without the skin.
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But this isn't going
to affect my heart, is it?
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Huh! It definitely does.
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It gets even better.
This is a regular potato chip.
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Wait a minute.
This is completely full
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of fat and you're
saying this is 12 to 20 chips?
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One ounce? Um-hmm... um-hmm.
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But people love
their potato chips!
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They sit on the couch,
they watch the game and they eat
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bowls and bowls of them.
And they dip them in something
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that also has fat!
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Well, as I tell my patients
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"You enjoy this kind of food? "
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I said: "You know, it's bad
for you but it's good for me. "
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As a heart surgeon.
Here we go with a...
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this is the small
size of French fries.
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That's the amount of fat in a
small serving of French fries.
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Hold on... This is
mind-blowing to me.
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This is a small serving
of French fries? Um-hmm.
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We're not talking about like
when they are extra super sized
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in some way. This
is the smallest version
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and it fills up a
complete test tube right there.
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But I want to make sure
that we understand this 'cause
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you know, someone says:
"Well that's a small test tube
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of fat. How can
this be a bad thing? "
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But you're saying it is! It
is... because that has to go
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somewhere. And as
you study the circulation
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we find out that they land up
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in the process - of
course they through the liver
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and then from there on -
but it lands up many times
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in these arteries...
the cholesterol and the fat
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land up somewhere. So when
you're going in as a surgeon
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and you're looking... Now
most people have never looked
00:17:11.53\00:17:14.06
inside of a heart.
You do it every day
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all day all the time. Yes?
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We do. And what you're saying
is the stuff we don't think
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is actually going
anywhere except into our stomach
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is ending up in our hearts
and it's causing major major
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problems? You are what you eat.
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Garbage in... garbage out.
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Mercy. Quality
in... quality out.
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Take a look at this
one. This is for one hot dog.
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What kind of a hot dog?
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A dead dog.
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A dead dog... hot dog.
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OK. And here is my
favorite... here's my favorite.
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This one's coming
out the thing. Yeah.
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How about the
quarter-pound cheeseburger?
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A
quarter-pounder of cheeseburger.
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Here is the fat in a
quarter-pounder cheeseburger.
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I'm going to need
your help. Help me there.
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OK. And that and that and that.
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I'm sorry. You mean
one of these is? All three.
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This is three quarter
pounds of cheese? One serving.
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This is one serving?
Quarter-pound cheeseburger.
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You know what? I'm going
to hold these right here.
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Let's... 'cause there are a
lot of people on the streets...
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There are a lot of
people on the street
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who are actually eating
this and they don't know
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what we're talking about.
So let's go hear from them
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and come back and
finish the discussion.
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Let's take a listen.
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Right now this whole
epidemic of attacks of the heart
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around the
country is taking place.
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What do you think is
causing these heart attacks?
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Well people are
under a lot of stress.
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Well it's certainly not the
food, right? 'Cause there are
00:18:48.39\00:18:49.86
some health nuts out
there trying to convince people
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it's the food. Well, in
combination with the stress.
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Well what kind of food are
we going to throw under the bus
00:18:56.03\00:18:58.10
with stress that
causes these heart attacks?
00:18:58.30\00:19:01.37
Pork is #1. Pork? Why
would you do this to me?
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I thought we were
friends. I thought we were too
00:19:04.51\00:19:06.64
I mean it's your
stress... Friends differ.
00:19:06.84\00:19:08.88
Friends differ in
many instances, yes.
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Some friends do differ. What do
you think causes heart attacks?
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Stress; high blood pressure.
00:19:15.65\00:19:19.05
Why put all the guilt on
stress and high blood pressure?
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Obesity. Obesity! Oh man,
you're starting to sound like
00:19:22.79\00:19:26.63
my friend Rico.
What do you think
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is causing these heart attacks?
00:19:29.13\00:19:30.93
Fatty foods. I'd
say lack of exercise.
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Something I learned
recently. Oh. You exercise?
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Outside of work? No.
Yeah, don't waste your time.
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I ride my bike casually, man,
maybe about 4-5 times a month.
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Just run your fingers
across the desk. That's about
00:19:45.48\00:19:47.18
all the exercise I
encourage people to get.
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You do? Ah yeah man,
don't exercise. You're Sickness.
00:19:49.62\00:19:52.82
Yeah that's right. I'm SICKNESS!
00:19:53.02\00:19:55.09
I'm already super
famous out here in Hollywood.
00:19:55.29\00:19:57.83
You know if you take aspirin
you can get all that every day.
00:19:58.03\00:19:59.89
Every day? I heard
it's good for your heart.
00:20:00.10\00:20:03.30
Oh yeah, it's good for your
heart. Aspirin is fantastic.
00:20:03.50\00:20:06.13
So I won't get a heart
attack 'cause I'm within that
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demographic of people
who get those. Heart attack?
00:20:08.17\00:20:10.37
Yeah. She's acting like
she doesn't like heart attacks.
00:20:10.57\00:20:14.74
People my age are
tipping over every day.
00:20:14.94\00:20:17.31
Like what? What?
Isn't that great?
00:20:17.51\00:20:20.62
You heard them Rico.
They don't want heart attacks
00:20:20.92\00:20:24.19
but they love
them there fried foods.
00:20:24.35\00:20:27.02
Finger lickin' mouth
watering artery cloggin'
00:20:27.22\00:20:31.29
fried foods.
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Steak, chicken, French fries.
People are eating everything
00:20:33.60\00:20:38.70
but they don't have a
clue that they're really
00:20:38.90\00:20:42.37
setting themselves up
to visit someone like you,
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aren't they? No they don't.
00:20:45.57\00:20:47.68
What are the numbers? What
are the numbers like on this?
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Every 30 seconds in this
country somebody dies from
00:20:49.71\00:20:52.61
a cardiovascular disease.
That works out to a person dying
00:20:52.81\00:20:57.19
from heart attacks, high
blood pressure-related symptoms
00:20:57.39\00:21:00.86
and so on every 30 seconds.
00:21:01.02\00:21:03.49
Heart attacks works
out to every minute.
00:21:03.69\00:21:05.93
Every minute somebody is drop-
ping dead from a heart attack.
00:21:06.13\00:21:08.53
Up to forty percent of folks
that get these heart attacks
00:21:08.93\00:21:13.23
are dead within an hour.
00:21:13.44\00:21:15.00
And for at least half of
them their very first symptom
00:21:15.20\00:21:18.17
of having heart
trouble is sudden death.
00:21:18.37\00:21:20.91
So the symptom itself
is... is death. Death.
00:21:21.31\00:21:25.75
You're done. It's kind of late.
00:21:25.95\00:21:27.62
It's a little late in the
game for that, isn't it? Yes.
00:21:27.82\00:21:29.55
And they looked at some of
these folks who had sudden death
00:21:29.75\00:21:32.85
and they found out
that between - one study -
00:21:33.12\00:21:36.32
between 20% and 40% of
00:21:36.52\00:21:39.83
them had seen a
doctor the previous week
00:21:40.03\00:21:42.80
and had been declared
that they were in good health.
00:21:43.00\00:21:45.23
Oh, that's criminal!
00:21:45.53\00:21:47.14
It's not the
fault of the doctor.
00:21:47.34\00:21:48.90
It's the nature of the
disease atherosclerosis. Aah.
00:21:49.10\00:21:54.11
So it's actually a
crime against yourself
00:21:54.51\00:21:56.88
that is perpetrated even before
you've gotten to the doctor.
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It is definitely... absolutely.
00:22:00.45\00:22:03.18
And so what's happening now
is that you have this disease
00:22:03.39\00:22:06.72
and some can call
it the silent killer
00:22:06.92\00:22:08.86
that we invite to our
home for dinner every day
00:22:09.06\00:22:12.29
and silently it does its job.
00:22:12.49\00:22:15.80
These arteries keep getting
clogged more and more with
00:22:16.00\00:22:19.63
cholesterol, and most of the
heart attacks we have are not
00:22:19.83\00:22:23.57
even the arteries
that are 90% closed.
00:22:23.77\00:22:26.61
They are the ones that
are maybe 50-ish percent
00:22:26.81\00:22:29.14
but they have an
unstable plaque that ruptures.
00:22:29.34\00:22:32.88
OK. So you've got something here
00:22:33.18\00:22:35.15
that once you've started that
huge thing of fat that we have
00:22:35.45\00:22:39.42
here - um-hmm - and
you've got that in the body
00:22:39.62\00:22:41.59
and you're eating the
foods that contribute to this -
00:22:41.79\00:22:43.79
um-hmm - and someone
has a heart attack...
00:22:43.99\00:22:45.79
Now I know this very well
because my mother actually had
00:22:45.99\00:22:48.50
triple bypass heart surgery.
00:22:48.70\00:22:50.73
And for many years, you know,
she and others feel that it's...
00:22:50.93\00:22:54.04
it's a radical
thing to change the diet
00:22:54.24\00:22:56.81
to a more plant-based diet
00:22:57.01\00:22:58.64
from eating fatty
foods, fried foods. Um-hmm.
00:22:58.84\00:23:01.34
But it's really radical to
actually have a bypass surgery
00:23:01.54\00:23:06.01
or this thing that
you're about to demonstrate.
00:23:06.21\00:23:08.45
Running out of time, so
I really want to see this.
00:23:08.65\00:23:09.98
OK, yes, so here it goes.
So you've done all of the...
00:23:10.02\00:23:12.62
Now you could have had a
heart attack and tried to do
00:23:12.92\00:23:15.22
everything right. It is
possible, but the odds are
00:23:15.42\00:23:17.73
much much... in your favor if
you tried to do the right thing.
00:23:17.93\00:23:21.76
Right. And again, the main
enemy that we are looking at
00:23:21.96\00:23:26.07
is cholesterol. Cholesterol
is like public enemy #1.
00:23:26.27\00:23:29.97
So if your food has cholesterol
you have to be very careful.
00:23:30.27\00:23:33.21
So you... A
salad has cholesterol?
00:23:33.41\00:23:35.14
My friend Hans
Diehl said it correctly:
00:23:35.34\00:23:38.35
the only foods that have
cholesterol are foods that have
00:23:38.55\00:23:40.92
a mother or a face.
Flesh foods and fish.
00:23:41.12\00:23:45.42
Beef, pork. And many people
don't every recognize that
00:23:45.62\00:23:48.69
food like chicken has as
much cholesterol as beef.
00:23:48.89\00:23:52.39
So it has less fat but it has
the same amount of cholesterol.
00:23:52.59\00:23:55.46
So... you come into my office
00:23:55.66\00:23:57.77
and now... Not office...
you come into the emergency room
00:23:57.97\00:24:00.44
and you're having a
sudden heart attack.
00:24:00.64\00:24:02.07
So we rush you to the
cath lab. We have to do this
00:24:02.27\00:24:04.44
right away. So, we
rush to the cath lab.
00:24:04.64\00:24:07.74
We get inside your artery.
We do a procedure we call
00:24:07.94\00:24:11.55
an angioplasty. And
I have here a catheter.
00:24:11.75\00:24:14.48
Now I'm going to need
your help here, doctor.
00:24:14.68\00:24:16.48
Here I'm taking out
the angio... Here we have
00:24:16.79\00:24:20.76
a picture of what
a stent looks like.
00:24:20.96\00:24:23.93
Aah... look at that.
And so we have to get this
00:24:24.13\00:24:28.93
stent positioned right
across the blocked artery
00:24:29.13\00:24:33.07
wherever that is. And
once we get it into position
00:24:33.27\00:24:36.34
then we go ahead and inflate
and let's see what happens.
00:24:36.54\00:24:40.38
Just push that
forward. Push really hard.
00:24:40.58\00:24:43.98
You have to go harder.
00:24:44.38\00:24:46.45
No forward. Keep pushing harder.
00:24:46.65\00:24:48.62
Oh... there. And
keep holding it down.
00:24:50.62\00:24:54.92
Oh, OK. Let's try
it again. All right.
00:24:55.12\00:24:56.49
And as we are doing this
we have a very limited time
00:24:56.69\00:25:01.13
to open up that blocked artery.
I don't want to kill anybody!
00:25:01.33\00:25:03.23
Let's get this done. Here we go.
00:25:03.43\00:25:05.07
Ready? Yes. Keep going.
Keep holding it... keep holding
00:25:05.27\00:25:07.67
it down; keep holding it
down; keep holding it down.
00:25:07.87\00:25:10.81
And you can see that there is
a stent there that is trying to
00:25:11.01\00:25:14.28
squeeze itself
open. Aah... look at that.
00:25:14.48\00:25:17.78
And if... he is
working very hard over here.
00:25:17.98\00:25:23.52
All this work to try
to keep somebody alive
00:25:23.72\00:25:25.49
for eating wrong? Mercy!
00:25:25.69\00:25:28.06
And that stent will
open up and act as a scaffold
00:25:28.36\00:25:33.29
to keep the artery open. So
now you need artificial help
00:25:33.50\00:25:36.97
to keep the artery
open to keep you alive.
00:25:37.27\00:25:40.34
Well... you do
what you have to do.
00:25:40.64\00:25:43.10
But as soon as I am finished
with this I get off my mask
00:25:43.30\00:25:48.11
and everything, I go
to the head of the table
00:25:48.31\00:25:49.64
and I'll tell the patient:
"I've got good news and I've
00:25:49.81\00:25:51.51
got bad news. The good news is
00:25:51.71\00:25:54.52
the artery is open; we
have restored circulation.
00:25:54.82\00:25:58.15
No more of your heart muscle
is going to die than already
00:25:58.35\00:26:01.16
has... has died... and there's
hope. That's the good news.
00:26:01.36\00:26:05.66
The bad news is I
haven't cured anything.
00:26:05.96\00:26:09.40
The artery - the athero-
sclerosis - is still a problem
00:26:09.70\00:26:13.54
and you are going to need
to make a drastic change. "
00:26:13.74\00:26:16.94
And then I say: "The
best surgical equipment
00:26:17.14\00:26:19.71
is not what I do. " But I
brought along the very best
00:26:19.91\00:26:22.44
surgical
equipment. Not the knife,
00:26:22.64\00:26:25.31
but it has to do with this.
00:26:25.61\00:26:28.48
If you can use this...
This is my surgical equipment
00:26:28.88\00:26:32.45
that I recommend. And
if you know how to operate
00:26:32.65\00:26:35.19
in your kitchen I will
not have to operate on you
00:26:35.39\00:26:38.73
in mine. " Well
said! Did you hear that?
00:26:38.93\00:26:43.30
It comes down to two
instruments of surgery.
00:26:43.70\00:26:47.34
What you have and I
have and everyone has
00:26:47.84\00:26:50.67
and we use it every
day: a fork and a knife.
00:26:50.87\00:26:54.44
It really comes down
to choice, doesn't it?
00:26:54.84\00:26:56.85
It's all a matter of
choice. It's a matter of choice.
00:26:57.25\00:26:59.41
We'll continue this.
Tune into our program where we
00:26:59.98\00:27:02.22
share with you the
things that you can do
00:27:02.42\00:27:04.69
to live a heart-healthy life
00:27:04.89\00:27:07.12
and you don't have
to go under the knife.
00:27:07.32\00:27:09.32
I would prefer this
knife over your knife any day.
00:27:09.52\00:27:14.23
Until next time. We thank you so
much, doctor, for being with us
00:27:14.43\00:27:17.37
and sharing this
information. Tune in again
00:27:17.57\00:27:19.50
on From Sickness To Health.
00:27:19.70\00:27:21.34
Isn't it great to come to
the knowledge of the truth?
00:27:24.47\00:27:26.71
A problem so huge
with a solution so simple?
00:27:26.91\00:27:30.28
To think that making
some changes here and there
00:27:30.58\00:27:32.91
can actually prevent
heart attacks and even
00:27:33.11\00:27:35.85
reversing heart disease.
00:27:36.05\00:27:38.25
I don't know about you,
but this does my heart good.
00:27:38.65\00:27:42.09
It does your heart good?
00:27:42.49\00:27:44.33
Oh yes! To think that this
program and what shared today
00:27:44.49\00:27:47.56
may change somebody's
life or even save a life.
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Well it gives me
heartburn... heart... burn.
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Healthy folks and all
this healthy eating talk
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gives me heart palpitations.
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You know what? I do
not think for one moment
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that people are going to
listen to you or this program.
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Well, you sound a
little angry but anyway...
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You know, I am reminded of
Proverbs chapter 17 verse 22
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that says: "A merry heart
doeth good like a medicine. "
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Friends, we ought
to care for our bodies:
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what we put in them
and what we do with them.
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Cardiac arrest is a very serious
matter affecting the lives
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of millions of
Americans and their families.
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With simple lifestyle
changes we can reverse this
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and live a longer,
happier, more fulfilling life.
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Well that's our
program for today.
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But I want to
leave you with this:
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Third John 2 says: "Beloved,
I wish above all things
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that thou mayest
prosper and be in health. "
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I'm Rico Hill, your host,
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and I'm blue guy: Sick-ness.
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Be healthy. Maranatha.
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