In Numbers chapter 15
and verse 39 the Word says:
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"Speak unto the children
of Israel and bid them that
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they make them fringes in
the borders of their garments
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throughout their generations
and that they put upon the
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fringe of the
borders a ribbon of blue. "
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This ribbon of blue was
a test of the Israelites'
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obedience. Here simple obedience
came in the color of blue.
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Blue! I like that.
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Well hello and welcome
to From Sickness To Health.
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I am your host Rico Hill
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and this is the blue guy. That's
me, also known as Sickness.
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Hey Rico, I noticed
on that last scripture
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you were a little
preoccupied with color
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so I'd like to do a
little test. Fine, go ahead.
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OK... here we go.
What color is this?
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It's brown. Is it
red? Clearly it's brown.
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Oh, interesting.
What color is this?
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Oh, come on... it's
red. It's red. Exactly, Rico.
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I know that you're going
to talk about red meat today
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and I just wanted to
get our colors straight
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right from the beginning.
OK, I see where this is going.
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In this program we're
going to share with you
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clear-cut research that
shows the significant warnings
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about the dangers
of eating red meat.
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How is it red meat?
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Hamburgers?
Brown. Steaks? Brown.
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Lamb chops? Brown.
Spaghetti and meat balls?
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Mostly brown...
a little red sauce.
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I think you get my
point. How is it red meat?
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Look, I'm not going to
answer the question any more.
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Let's roll it. Don't ignore me!
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Is it because I'm
a person of color?
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Roll it.
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Well hello and welcome
to From Sickness To Health.
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Thank you for joining
us here in the studio.
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We have a topic today
that you are going to love...
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maybe to hate. Today
joining us here in the studio
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is a friend of mine.
It is Dr. Milton Mills.
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He is a critical care physician
at the United Medical Center
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in Washington,
D.C. But that's not all!
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He's also the associate director
of preventative medicine
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for the Physicians' Committee
for Responsible Medicine.
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Now there are two words
that I love in his title
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and that's preventative
and that's responsible.
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Thank you so much,
doctor, for being here with us
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on the program. I'm
thrilled to be here.
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Praise the Lord! Now
we're going to be talking about
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red meat, as we've
just seen from Sickness.
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And some people...
they don't call it red meat.
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Some people think it's
brown meat. Some people just
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don't care what color it is they
just are emotional about it.
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But before we get into
it let's give our co-host -
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the blue guy,
Sickness - an opportunity to
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share what he thinks on this
subject. So let's take a look.
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Thank you, Rico. What I've
got here is a nice, juicy steak.
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And everyone loves a good steak.
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This guy here? He's
22 ounce of goodness.
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What I like is
all the fat around it
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and the fact that it's rare.
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You know rare meat
takes a lot longer to digest.
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Look at all that
blood... that "ooey" goodness.
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You know, the average piece
of red meat takes 8-10 days
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to go through your system.
And if you're lucky, two weeks.
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Hmmm. Think of all that
rotting goodness putrefying
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in your stomach. Along the way
you may get some colon cancer.
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There is that risk, but
TASTE always outweighs the risk.
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Back to you Rico.
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Um, um... this
is going to be good.
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Well, I don't know about that.
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We have a lot to say
about that, don't we? Sure.
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OK. But before we jump into it,
you know, there are traditions
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that are associated with
our diet and what we eat.
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I mean, we have
all types of holidays
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and family
traditions that play a part.
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In fact, there's the story
that goes: a young girl asking
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her mother, you know,
as she was baking a ham
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and she was looking
for this particular pot
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and she couldn't find it
and she was all up in arms.
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She was upset, and the
daughter said: "Why don't you
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just use a different pot? "
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And the mother said:
"No! We have to use this pot
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because it's the one
that makes it taste better. "
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She said: "Why does it
make it taste better? "
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And the mother couldn't
quite answer. She said: "Go ask
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your grandmother. " So she
goes to ask the grandmother
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and the grandmother said:
"Because it makes it taste
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better. " But she said: "Why? "
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And she couldn't
answer. And there was another
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great-grandmother... three
lines in this generation...
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and they asked the
great- grandmother: "Why...
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why does it make
the ham taste better? "
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And the great-grandmother,
not wanting to pull any punches,
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not willing to make up
anything, she just said:
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"Baby, that's all we had. "
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So we see that sometimes
tradition is the only reason
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why we do certain things.
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People eat certain
ways, doctor, from tradition,
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from opinion, and
sometimes from emotion.
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Can you talk about that for us?
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Sure. You know, I once read that
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all animals feed; only
human beings eat. Um-hmm.
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And what that is designed to get
at is the fact that we humans
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have an emotional response
to the food that we eat.
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For instance, if I
invited you over to my house
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for a meal... yes... and
when you came to my house
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you would obviously
get dressed and come
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expecting, you know, a nice
meal. And when you walked into
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the house I went to the
kitchen sink, rummaged around,
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got a pot of some oatmeal
from this morning's breakfast.
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Scraped some out and
threw it on the floor
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and said: "Bon appetit, " you
would be absolutely insulted.
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My dog would be thrilled.
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Exactly! That
encapsulates very well
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the difference we have in terms
of how we emotionally respond -
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yeah - to the way food
is presented to us. OK.
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We expect that it's
going to have certain,
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you know, a certain
presentation, certain qualities,
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certain emotional aspects.
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And that's one of the reasons
that we have such a hard time
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making dietary change
because there are cultural
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and emotional components
to what and how we eat.
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Many of the foods that
people feel attached to
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they feel attached to because
this is, you know, the way
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we've always done it.
This is what my grandmother
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or my mom or - yes -
what we've traditionally eaten
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for the holidays or
for this particular season.
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But it doesn't necessarily
have anything to do with
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the intrinsic
nutritional value of the food.
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And in fact, many of the things
that we've been taught to eat
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we now know are not good
for us and have very deleterious
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effects on our health
and we need to make change.
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So we need to try
and divorce ourselves
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from the emotional attachment
we have to some of the things
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we eat and start to
look at them more critically.
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What we have to understand
is that food is really
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just a collection of
chemicals that are designed
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to do two things: one,
deliver energy to our bodies
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and two, provide our bodies
with the nutrients it needs
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to - or they need -
to function healthfully.
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So any time we
sit down to a meal
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we need to ask ourselves:
"What nutrients is this plate
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of food going to
be delivering to me? "
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And the corollary
to that question is
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"Is it going to be doing
anything to my body that is
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actually going to harm me? "
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And the answers to that
question are: one, it's not
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delivering any nutrients to me
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and two, in fact,
it is harming my body
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then we shouldn't be eating it.
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So we need to help people
to be a lot wiser about their
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choices and
their concept of food.
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And we want to try and
accomplish that in this program.
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So today before we go
further with our discussion
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because we've got a
lot to cover - sure -
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and I know it's going to be
really good as we start to jump
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into some of the
research that you've done
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we want to actually see
what the news is saying.
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Can we get some
insight? On this show we like to
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get a sense of not only
what you and I are going to say.
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We want to see what the
news is telling people. Sure.
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We want to see what the
people on the street are saying.
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But ultimately we're going
to come back right after we see
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this clip and we're going
to see what the Bible says.
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Absolutely. Let's do
that... let's take a look.
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The Harvard School of
Public Health saying there
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is a dramatically-increased
risk of death from eating
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as little as one extra
serving of red meat per day.
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So let's bring in our medical
editor, Dr. Richard Besser,
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to talk about this. So
what's the headline here
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with this study? You
know, Robin, we've known
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that there's a connection
between eating red meat and
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heart disease, eating red meat
and certain types of cancer.
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Here they looked at
eating red meat and your risk of
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having an early death. And what
they found was pretty stunning.
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For every additional serving
of red meat you have per day
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your risk of dying early
during the course of this study
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goes up by 12%. I mean
that's huge - yes - 12%.
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But there is some good news
here because they're also saying
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small changes can
have a big impact.
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That's right. You know,
whenever I see a study like this
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it's like: "Well,
what do you do about it? "
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But they looked to see
what happens when you substitute
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one of those
portions of red meat
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for a healthier
protein. And what they found was
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for every time you do that
substitution with something like
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fish, poultry, nuts, grains
your risk of that early death
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goes down by 19%. So
there IS something you can do.
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So they're not only saying
stay away from a lot of red meat
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but they're saying if you
do take these substitutions
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that you're going to...
It matters. Yeah, it matters.
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Whoa! Whoa! This is some
serious scientific research
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that is... And most
people don't know about it!
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That's true. It's
amazing to me that
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you can have all of the
media, most of the news outlets
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they're talking about this
but when you get into a group
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of people it's as if they
have heard nothing about it.
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But here's what I'd like
to do: I'd like to go and see
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if the news is
agreeing to what God has said.
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So I'm going to go into
the Bible and I'm going to look
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and see the diet that God has
given. And I'm going to look at
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three verses in
three different chapters
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of the book of Genesis.
So first I'm going to take
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a look at: Genesis 1:29.
I'm going to do this very
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quickly. And before I
look into the scripture
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I always like to pray so
God will guide our thoughts
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and guide those who are hearing.
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So let's just pray very
quickly. Father in heaven,
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we thank you for the Word
and we pray You would bless
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it and bless those who are hear-
ing. In Jesus' name, Amen. Amen.
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In Genesis 1:29 it says:
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Then in Genesis
chapter 3 after the fall
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He changes the diet.
He adds something to it.
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And that's found in
Genesis chapter 3 and verse 18.
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It says:
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So God has now brought into
fruit, nuts, grains, and seeds
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He's brought in
the herb of the field.
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Can I interject something? Sure!
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The reason God
enlarged the diet for humans
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was because He had changed
their diet by barring their
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access to the fruit
from the Tree of Life.
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Because now they could no longer
eat from the Tree of Life.
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Absolutely. And we
know from earlier in Genesis
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He said the reason He wasn't
going to allow them to continue
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to eat from the
fruit of the Tree of Life
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was because the
fruit from the Tree of Life
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had the power to
perpetuate life indefinitely.
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And by that we can infer
that that fruit had the power
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to help rebuild and
restore the tissues of the body.
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Yes. And since they no
longer had access to that fruit
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He had to enlarge their diet
to other types of plant foods
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that could partially replace the
nutrients they were no longer
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getting from that special fruit.
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And those were the plant foods
described as the herbs of the
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field... which are
your legumes, your grains,
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and your vegetables. And
in the green of that vegetable
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we find chlorophyll
- absolutely - which is
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absolutely essential. It's...
Some people call it green blood.
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Right... that's right. So
this was needed and God knew
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that they needed this now.
Now the third part of the diet
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because it changes after
the flood, doesn't it? Yes.
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Changes after the flood, and now
I'm going to Genesis chapter 9.
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In Genesis chapter 9... and
again, so that you're paying
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attention at
home and keeping track
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we're looking to see if what
we've just seen in the news clip
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is agreeing with what the
Bible says... what God has said.
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So in Genesis chapter 9
and verses 3, 4, and 5 it says:
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So the Word of God is saying
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that I gave you fruits, nuts,
grains, and seeds but because
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of sin I added to it as
you just clearly articulated
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but then once the flood came
and there was no more vegetation
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God said: "I'm going
to allow you to eat meat
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but when you eat it, your
life is going to be shortened. "
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Right. The clip has just
agreed with the Word of God.
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Go ahead... Absolutely.
I would also argue that
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that was meant to be
temporary. And I think again we
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can infer that that was meant
to be a temporary enlargement
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of the diet because Numbers
11 when God brought His people
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out of Egypt He
fed them with manna
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which Psalms describes as
being the "corn of heaven"
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and "angel's food. " And
God wanted them to eat this
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plant-based diet, but it
was the Israelites who demanded
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flesh... which again, Numbers
11 tells us... angered God.
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And He sent a flock
of quails into the camp
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so they could have
the meat they demanded.
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But many of them died with
the flesh between their teeth
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and it came out
of their nostrils.
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So again, it was God's
desire that we continue to eat
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the plant-based diet that He had
designed us to eat originally.
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But it was the humans
who demanded the flesh
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and He relented and allowed
them to eat only certain types
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of flesh. Wow! That is amazing
when you think about that.
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So it brings into question
that God has a perfect will
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and then He has a permissive
will. Absolutely. So a perfect
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will and desire was that man
first of all would live forever
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which is what you were
describing earlier when you
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were talking
about the Tree of Life.
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Man was
designed to live forever!
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But His permissive will
brought in a different diet
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just to help man to live
- correct - a little longer.
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But then after the flood
then man had to eat the flesh
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which was temporary as the
doctor has just pointed out.
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And that was designed to
just help him to get along...
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again, permissive will. And
you mentioned this, that He...
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they desired to have
meat and He gave it to them
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but it made them sick.
Absolutely. It made them sick.
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Again we're seeing that. Right.
But in Psalm 105 it says that
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when the tribes of Israel
were journeying through the
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wilderness there was not
one feeble member among them.
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So the ones who wanted
to eat it... they died off.
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But the ones who continued
to eat the manna in the way that
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God said there was none
that were sick. Absolutely.
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Furthermore, we are told
in the first chapter of Daniel
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when Daniel was
carried captive into Babylon
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He was given this very...
he and his Hebrew companions
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were given a very rich diet
from their Babylonian captors
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that included meat, wine,
and a bunch of other things
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that Daniel decided he did
not want to defile himself with.
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So he went to his
overseer and he said: "Look,
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we don't want to eat this.
We want to eat just vegetables
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and water. " His overseer said:
"Look, if I let you guys eat
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this way you're going to get
sick and I'm going to basically
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be executed for not letting
you eat a healthier diet. "
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He said: "Test us. Let us eat
nothing but vegetables and water
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for ten days then
compare us to the people
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eating the king's diet
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after ten days and
see who is healthier. "
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And after ten
days the Bible tells us
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that Daniel and his companions
were fairer, healthier,
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and looked much
better than those who ate
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the regular diet and
therefore they were allowed
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to continue to eat their
plant-based diet indefinitely.
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So again, the
Bible makes it very clear
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that not only were we originally
designed to eat a plant-based
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diet but that when we
do adhere to that diet
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we are healthier, we look
better, and we live longer.
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Praise God! Now we
want to take a look here
00:19:00.64\00:19:03.30
'cause people on the
streets don't know this, and
00:19:03.51\00:19:06.11
our co-host Sickness went
out and he talked to people
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and he just wanted to see what
they have to say on the subject.
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Let's take a look and
see what they're saying.
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Hey everybody... I'm
here with my friend Max.
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What part of the
country are you from, Max?
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Atlanta GA. Oh man, this guy
knows how to pick his cities.
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Let me ask you a question:
they know how to eat down South,
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right? Um-hmm. What are
some of your favorite foods?
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Hot wings. Hot
wings! Hallelujah!
00:19:27.26\00:19:30.60
What else do you like?
Ribs... tacos. Ribs, tacos...
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What else? Keep
going... you're making my day.
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Hamburgers. Hamburgers!
Tacos you said? Um-hmm.
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Hamburgers you said?
Yes. You like steaks? Yes.
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OK, let me ask you one more
question: red meat... do you
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like red meat? I
do... I love red meat.
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What types of
red meat do you like?
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Steaks. Oh...
steaks. The big ones, right?
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Yes... the really
good ones. Hamburgers?
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Umm, they have to be
like super sized. And juicy?
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And juicy. Oh, we
are best friends. Yes.
00:19:58.73\00:20:01.20
She's a carnivore
connoisseur. I am!
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What do you think
about a nice juicy steak?
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I love steak but
that's just heavy.
00:20:06.84\00:20:10.04
It's heavy food, man.
It's heavy. It's like...
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Takes like about a week
to get out of my system.
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Now would you consider yourself
someone who likes red meat?
00:20:14.38\00:20:17.28
Yeah, I like red meat,
yeah. Steak? Hamburger?
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Had some bacon this morning. Oh,
she had some bacon this morning.
00:20:20.98\00:20:23.39
She's a
carnivore connoisseur! Yes.
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Carnivore connoisseur... that's
what you are. That's right!
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I love you more every
single day. This is fantastic!
00:20:29.06\00:20:31.83
WE LOVE THIS LADY!
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You need to come on
down South and cook for us.
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Oh I can! I know of some vege-
tarians that you could cook for.
00:20:35.80\00:20:38.73
Mmm... we don't like
vegetarians. We do not like
00:20:38.93\00:20:41.74
vegetarians. Let's say
it in the camera together:
00:20:41.94\00:20:43.64
we do not like vegetarians.
00:20:43.84\00:20:47.01
Back to you.
00:20:47.31\00:20:48.78
Well... there you have
it. We see that people are,
00:20:49.41\00:20:52.81
you know, they
love their steaks.
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They love their red meat, man.
00:20:54.98\00:20:58.35
And the thing is is that
they're loving it out of an
00:20:58.55\00:21:02.02
emotional place. They're
loving it out of the tradition.
00:21:02.22\00:21:04.73
And now I'm going to let you
just kind of go and just share
00:21:04.93\00:21:08.30
this research
'cause it's fascinating.
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Do they love the taste as they
think? Do they love the smell?
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Break that whole thing down.
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Well first of all,
you saw me laughing, Rico.
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And I'm laughing
because they think they love it.
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They really don't...
because I tell people
00:21:20.38\00:21:23.91
"If you really loved
meat, you would eat it the way
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real carnivores
eat it: that's raw,
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bloody, rotting and covered
with flies and maggots. " Oh!
00:21:31.02\00:21:34.96
Man! When is the last
time you saw a dog or a cat
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say: "I'm not going to touch
a piece of meat unless it's
00:21:38.66\00:21:41.50
been fried, breaded, and
covered with some sort of
00:21:41.70\00:21:46.74
peppercorn sauce and lightly
sautéed in garlic and oil. "
00:21:46.94\00:21:51.07
I mean, they
don't care about that!
00:21:51.27\00:21:53.41
They will eat it in its native
state which is something we find
00:21:53.61\00:21:57.98
utterly
disgusting. And tell us why.
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It is because we are
not designed to eat it.
00:22:00.68\00:22:04.42
We... 90% of the people
who choke to death every year
00:22:04.62\00:22:09.46
according to the ear,
nose, and throat literature
00:22:09.66\00:22:12.59
choke to death on animal flesh.
00:22:12.79\00:22:14.96
Why? Because our esophagus
- the tube that leads from our
00:22:15.16\00:22:18.53
mouth to our stomach -
is not designed to handle
00:22:18.73\00:22:21.60
animal tissue. Carnivores
have no problem with it.
00:22:21.80\00:22:24.94
They tear off a hunk of
flesh, swallow it whole.
00:22:25.14\00:22:28.74
Why? Because carnivores
don't chew their food.
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They don't have to. Herbivores
have to chew their food
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because plant foods
have a lot of fiber in them
00:22:36.05\00:22:39.45
and in order to
digest them effectively
00:22:39.65\00:22:42.66
you have to disrupt
those fibrous tissues
00:22:42.86\00:22:47.50
so that you can mix the plant
foods with digestive enzymes
00:22:47.66\00:22:51.47
that are contained in the
saliva so that the process of
00:22:51.67\00:22:54.44
digestion can actually
begin - yeah - with the chewing.
00:22:54.64\00:22:59.27
Carnivores don't have
enzymes in their saliva.
00:22:59.47\00:23:02.74
Herbivores do.
Humans are herbivores.
00:23:02.94\00:23:05.38
We have an enzyme
called salivary amylase
00:23:05.58\00:23:08.55
in our saliva that begins
the process of breaking down
00:23:08.75\00:23:11.75
carbohydrates as
we chew our food.
00:23:11.95\00:23:14.79
And our esophagus is
designed - as all herbivores
00:23:15.19\00:23:21.13
esophagus's are designed -
to handle thoroughly chewed,
00:23:21.33\00:23:25.03
small, soft balls of food
00:23:25.23\00:23:28.27
which then go to the
stomach and allow the process of
00:23:28.47\00:23:31.97
digestion to continue.
00:23:32.17\00:23:34.48
Carnivores also
have huge stomachs.
00:23:34.68\00:23:38.75
A 50 kg. wolf can eat
30% of its body weight
00:23:39.25\00:23:45.22
at one meal. 30%? 30%.
00:23:45.42\00:23:48.32
Of its body weight? Of
its body weight. That's 15 kg.
00:23:48.52\00:23:52.53
of meat at one meal.
Whoa! That's over 30 pounds
00:23:52.73\00:23:58.33
of meat in one meal!
That's absolutely true.
00:23:58.53\00:24:00.94
And another thing: although
they have binocular vision
00:24:01.14\00:24:04.34
their eyes are very
different from ours.
00:24:04.54\00:24:06.64
They have permanent
night-vision goggles.
00:24:06.84\00:24:09.84
They see over six times
better at night than we do.
00:24:10.05\00:24:13.11
Why? Because their prey
is usually asleep at night
00:24:13.31\00:24:16.99
so they hunt at night.
And furthermore, we have
00:24:17.19\00:24:20.39
an area of acute vision
in our eyes called a fovea.
00:24:20.59\00:24:24.46
They don't have a fovea.
What they have is what's called
00:24:24.66\00:24:27.20
a linear streak that
allows them to follow movement
00:24:27.40\00:24:30.63
very well... which is why
anything that's moving along
00:24:30.83\00:24:34.30
that linear streak
in the back of their eye
00:24:34.50\00:24:36.60
they will chase. But they
don't see detail very well
00:24:36.81\00:24:39.87
because they don't need to.
All they need to be able to do
00:24:40.08\00:24:42.94
is track movement,
because anything that's moving
00:24:43.14\00:24:46.68
is probably
something that they can eat.
00:24:46.88\00:24:49.35
Whereas for us,
we need color vision
00:24:49.55\00:24:53.12
which they don't have.
Why? Because we need to be able
00:24:53.32\00:24:56.29
to tell which plant foods
are ripe and ready to be eaten.
00:24:56.49\00:25:00.80
And we also need to be
able to see fine detail
00:25:01.00\00:25:04.17
so that we can pick
grains and roots and tubers
00:25:04.33\00:25:08.94
so that we will be able to
gather the fruits, vegetables
00:25:09.14\00:25:13.68
and other things that we need
to eat and provide ourselves
00:25:13.88\00:25:17.18
with the energy that we
need. But just one more point
00:25:17.38\00:25:20.32
about the
differences in the stomachs.
00:25:20.52\00:25:23.52
Carnivores typically are
very inefficient hunters.
00:25:23.92\00:25:27.72
They will... 95% of the
time they go out to hunt
00:25:27.92\00:25:30.66
they don't make a
kill. So they eat on average
00:25:30.86\00:25:34.40
in the wild
once every 7-10 days.
00:25:34.60\00:25:37.07
So they have to be able
to eat enough at one meal
00:25:37.27\00:25:39.57
to last them 10 days.
That's why they have these
00:25:39.77\00:25:42.37
gigantic stomachs.
Plant eaters have to eat
00:25:42.57\00:25:46.04
multiple times every single day.
00:25:46.24\00:25:48.54
And that's why they're
designed to walk around
00:25:48.74\00:25:51.31
and eat multiple times a day
00:25:51.51\00:25:53.72
but they have
much smaller stomachs.
00:25:53.92\00:25:55.68
Wow! I am blown away.
00:25:56.08\00:25:59.29
So what you have just
said to the audience is that
00:25:59.49\00:26:01.92
animals are predators and
they are looking for something
00:26:02.12\00:26:05.46
that's running. We don't
chase after food. No we don't.
00:26:05.66\00:26:07.93
We need color because...
Our eyes respond to color
00:26:08.13\00:26:11.27
because we need to know
when it's ripe. Absolutely.
00:26:11.47\00:26:14.17
Praise God! I
tell you: this has been
00:26:14.37\00:26:16.30
an exciting discussion. We're
going to have to pick it up
00:26:16.50\00:26:19.21
in another program.
Hopefully we can get some more
00:26:19.41\00:26:21.88
of these facts in. You
have been hearing about
00:26:22.08\00:26:24.98
the dangers of eating red meat
00:26:25.18\00:26:26.98
and how you can have
a healthy alternative.
00:26:27.18\00:26:30.49
How you can do something that
is actually health to the body.
00:26:30.69\00:26:33.52
So... just keep in mind
what we have shared today:
00:26:33.72\00:26:36.62
these are facts. Check
them out for yourself, though.
00:26:36.83\00:26:38.83
And we look forward to
seeing you in another broadcast
00:26:39.03\00:26:42.10
of From Sickness To Health.
00:26:42.30\00:26:44.17
May God bless
you. Thank you, doctor.
00:26:44.33\00:26:45.67
We appreciate it. My pleasure.
00:26:45.70\00:26:47.04
You know, who can
deny that a juicy hamburger
00:26:51.14\00:26:55.61
is delicious? I
can't. When I ate meat
00:26:55.81\00:26:58.95
there was nothing
better for me than a hamburger
00:26:59.15\00:27:03.18
and some French fries.
I didn't think there was
00:27:03.39\00:27:04.99
anything other than that. But
I tell you: when I was eating it
00:27:05.19\00:27:08.42
I always felt drained.
My energy was just zapped.
00:27:08.82\00:27:12.53
But we've learned today in this
program that eating red meat
00:27:12.73\00:27:15.80
can do more than zap
your energy. It can actually
00:27:16.00\00:27:18.87
cause you to have sicknesses
and different types of diseases
00:27:19.07\00:27:23.61
that you
otherwise wouldn't have.
00:27:23.81\00:27:25.37
It is proven that a
whole-food, plant-based diet
00:27:25.57\00:27:29.14
is best for our health.
00:27:29.34\00:27:31.78
Yes... it's best for our health.
00:27:31.98\00:27:34.12
It helps you live longer.
All the stats: I've heard them.
00:27:34.32\00:27:37.82
And you can live a
long, miserable life.
00:27:38.12\00:27:41.42
Look, I'm just saying that if
people want to enjoy their food
00:27:41.72\00:27:44.66
and have the risk of cancer, let
their taste buds win that war.
00:27:44.86\00:27:48.50
And hey, so what if
they get their mind and body
00:27:48.70\00:27:51.17
clogged up so they can't
hear the voice of reason.
00:27:51.37\00:27:53.67
What about
hearing the voice of God?
00:27:54.07\00:27:56.17
What's that have to do with it?
00:27:56.57\00:27:58.17
Here's the thing: if
you have a clogged system
00:27:58.37\00:28:01.64
then you'll have a clogged mind.
00:28:01.84\00:28:03.75
And when you have a clogged mind
00:28:03.95\00:28:05.61
how can you hear
the voice of God?
00:28:05.81\00:28:07.62
Make no mistake... this
is a battle for the mind.
00:28:07.78\00:28:11.55
The Bible tells us that
"we wrestle not against flesh
00:28:11.95\00:28:14.82
and blood but we wrestle
with principalities and darkness
00:28:15.02\00:28:20.46
in high places. " We must
understand that this is not just
00:28:20.66\00:28:23.73
about eat this or eat that
00:28:23.93\00:28:25.27
or don't eat this
and don't eat that.
00:28:25.33\00:28:26.87
No... it is a
battle for our minds.
00:28:27.07\00:28:29.87
Are you going to be able
to hear the voice of God?
00:28:30.27\00:28:33.84
Well... that's
our program for today.
00:28:35.14\00:28:37.41
As always I leave you with this:
00:28:37.81\00:28:39.61
Third John 2 says: "Beloved,
I wish above all things
00:28:40.02\00:28:42.35
that thou mayest
prosper and be in health. "
00:28:42.55\00:28:45.15
I'm Rico Hill and I'm
the blue guy, Sickness.
00:28:45.35\00:28:49.06