Hello, and welcome to
"Health for a Lifetime"
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I'm your host Don Mackintosh,
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and today I'm delighted to be
joined with Dr. Richard Nelson
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who really is passionate
about, not only medicine,
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but especially we're going
to talk today a little about
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international medicine...
what you call "Health Expo"
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and it doesn't have to
just be in North America,
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it can be around the world.
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Exactly what is "Health Expo?"
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Well health expo is a
blended program where people are
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our program, and we're
out there to help prevent
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so many of these
lifestyle related diseases,
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and bring health and
happiness to the whole family.
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Now you're a medical doctor,
and you are the vice president
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at Weimar Institute
in Weimar, California,
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and I understand that
Weimar recently has won an award
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for it's NEWSTART Programs.
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Tell us a little bit about that.
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Well, Weimar has been offering
the NEWSTART Lifestyle Program
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as it now stands,
for about 23 years...
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And we've been recognized
by private, and other agencies
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for our good work,
especially in long-term results.
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The "Physicians Committee
for Responsible Medicine"
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ranked us top 2 in the nation
for long-term obesity treatment.
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But more recently,
we've had 2 universities...
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their cardiology departments
kindly looking over our program,
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giving us suggestions,
and seeing how they might
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incorporate some of OUR
techniques in their own practice
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Well that's
gratifying and it's also
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a great
opportunity that's probably
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a little
stress-producing too, isn't it?
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Well actually, it's a
lot of fun to have somebody
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who spends their whole
life in the hospital come up,
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and see how rapidly people
can come off of medications
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they've been on for
5 or 10 years safely
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and under
monitoring of a physician.
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You know, another interesting
thing that I've heard is that
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recently the insurance providers
or Medicare, or whatnot
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is starting to pay for
lifestyle-type programs
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like the NEWSTART
Program... Is that correct?
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Well, in 1998 they were looking
at doing a retrospective study
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from the Healthcare
Finance Administration
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and 4 areas were listed
in the government packet,
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and we were honored to be
listed as in that document.
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At that time, they
decided to go with a prospective
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study instead, and
they have announced
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on the Internet
Web page of HCFA,
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that they're going to be
choosing 2 multicenter sites.
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The first one selected was
the Dr. Dean Ornish Program
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for reversing heart disease...
because he's the one who
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published, in the Journal of
the American Medical Association
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December of 1998...
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that through the
Lifestyle Heart Trial,
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coronary artery disease,
it appears, can be reversed
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in a SIGNIFICANT
percentage of cases,
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and now a large scale
perspective multicenter study
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is underway; it's a
demonstration project.
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Weimar Institute's
NEWSTART Lifestyle Program,
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we feel would be an
ideal second site selection,
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but that's not our only goal.
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We're working with
university departments to
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enter into long-term
studies to carefully look at
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the components of
the NEWSTART Program
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as applicable to the public.
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Now some people
may be watching today,
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and we want to talk
about Health Expo which is
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a little bit
different than NEWSTART,
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but some people
may be watching today,
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and I want to just,
kind of, rapidly go through
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NEWSTART just to recap that.
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I can give it to
you in 2 things...
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Whole plant foods eaten
whole, and walk, walk, walk!
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If you forget everything
else, remember those 2 things,
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and that our Creator wishes
for us to have good health,
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and He loves us whether we
follow His principles or not.
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We have a Web page that you've
given us to let people know
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about and
that's: www. newstart. ws
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And if you go to that
Web page, newstart. ws
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you'll be able to get
more of the particulars
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about the program, I'm sure
about when the schedules are,
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and whatnot, but
let's switch gears...
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You know, I've talked now to
you, just during this program,
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and another taping where we were
talking about another subject
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but I've noticed that
you're really passionate about
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one thing especially, and
that's this Health Expo idea
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What is Health Expo, and
how exactly does it work?
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Just try to imagine
if you're a physician,
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and you're able to see 5,
10, 15 patients in a day...
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But what if you were able to
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influence a
THOUSAND people in a day?
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And that's what's
exciting about Health Expo...
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because Health Expo takes the
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principles of preventive
and therapeutic medicine
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in a public display
with high resolution graphics
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...8 exhibits on each on
each of the principles of health
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followed by a
platform presentation,
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a NEWSTART for Kids Program
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and a whole package
that a community can receive
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and literally
thousands of people can benefit.
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We've gone from our
largest program which was
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over 20,000 people in attendance
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to smaller programs where
a few hundred will attend...
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but the results are the same.
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So, you've done this
in other countries...
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What other countries have
you done this in? Well 30...
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I'll just mention a few...
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Of course, the United States
and Canada, Mexico, Norway,
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India, Hungary; a
modified program in China,
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and in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan,
Kazakhstan, Tanzania,
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Ghana, the Pacific Ocean Islands
... that's just to name a few!
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And so, in these
particular governments
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some of these governments
are not typically open
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to people from the American
culture, or Western nations,
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how have the governments in
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these different
countries responded?
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Well first, when they
get to know the program,
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and they see that we're there
to benefit the whole community,
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and also they know that
with all the technology that
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North America
has, and Europe has,
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in many of these
lifestyle diseases,
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they're not making a
tremendous dent on long-term
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mortality statistics.
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And what they want to
see is ... how can we prevent
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these lifestyle
diseases in our country?
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They don't have the resources
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to have the best
heart centers over there.
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And, as a heart
surgeon will tell you,
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I can only help a
few people every day.
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Think about the thousands
out there that can't get help.
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And I used to have the
privilege to work with an
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open-heart surgery
team, in a nonphysician role,
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and I saw even the very best
team in the world could only
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help 5 or 10 people in a day.
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Whereas with Health Expo format,
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we can bring those
surgeons and other doctors
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to give a guest
lecture, and what an impact!
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We've had tremendous support
from the medical community
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and coming and joining
us when they're not in the
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operating suite or in
the clinics to come and help
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us share freely
with the public on how
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you can change your lifestyle.
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Tell us about China...
what happened in China.
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You mentioned you did it there;
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did you do it on the Great Wall
of China? Where did you do it?
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We in China, we use
the Health Expo panels
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as a backdrop for a
series of infomercials
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featuring Dr. Mark Finley...
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and this was shown throughout
China in 20 provinces...
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Very well received by the
government and by the public
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since China is the
world's largest producer and
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consumer of tobacco, they need
to attack the problem of tobacco
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So we use the NEWSTART exhibits
as a backdrop and focused in
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on the areas of prevention of
lung disease and heart disease.
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Okay, so in China, it was
really focusing on antismoking.
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Most of the studies I
hear coming out of about
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large population
studies and disease...
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they rank China as very healthy
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except for maybe in the cities.
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They're estimating
that in the next 25 years,
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50 million of the
young smokers in China will
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die of
cigarette-related disease.
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So it's a
SIGNIFICANT health problem.
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Are they upset at all
at the Western nations
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who started them on this habit?
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Wherever I go, people
really tend to like and receive
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some of our fast-food ideas,
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and a lot of our lifestyle
factors which are debilitating;
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but we're there to give
them a different picture...
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a different perspective
of lifestyle medicine.
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Some of the most exciting
areas have been in some of the
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new Central Asian Republics
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whose leaders really don't want
to follow the American model.
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And are looking right
from ground zero on how they
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can educate the
public and we've received
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tremendous support
from these governments.
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Health Expo... we go at
invitation of the government
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health authorities.
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Usually our invitation will
come from a minister of health
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and when our program
opens, we will have either the
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minister of health or his
designate open our program.
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We invite doctors
from the community
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to come and participate.
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This program is open
to people of all faiths...
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Yes, it's a Christian
program and the physicians
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and health
educators who are involved,
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are Seventh-day Adventists
but we work side-by-side
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with our colleagues.
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So it doesn't matter if
you are in an Islamic country,
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or a Buddhist
country, or whatever it is,
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they seem to
respond quite well to it.
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Well this message is not
only for people of other faiths,
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it's also for
people in my own church,
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and what I found
so interesting...
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we brought the vice-governor
of an important state
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in Central Asia to Weimar to
go through the NEWSTART Program
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and when she
went back, she said,
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"You know, I'm going to be
visiting the Adventist priest
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frequently to find out if
he's putting these practices
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to use in his own life,
and for his own members.
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So, she's going to call on the
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Adventist priest when she
gets back... She already has!
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You know, I have a
question for you...
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because it sounds as
though you've traveled to
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many of these places, or
at least aware of those places
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where the
Health Expo has been...
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and, you know, a lot of people
will say.. it's a cultural thing
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If I'm an
Indian, I eat this way...
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If I'm an
American, I eat this way...
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and you can't change
culture, you can't fight it.
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It seems that Health
Expo is really saying,
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"No, that's not true" but
what do you talk about then?
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Just a couple of
months ago, I was in India,
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and we held a Health Expo,
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and a Health Expo
training seminar there...
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And some of the leaders
that I was working with,
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they said, "You know,
the NEWSTART Program is great
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perhaps in America, but
some of the nutritional aspects
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will just not
fit Indian culture. "
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Let's take, for example, the
area of refined vegetable fat.
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You talk about the
importance of trying to use
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whole plant foods
as much as possible,
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and avoiding refined oils...
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which are subject to oxidation
especially when you're cooking.
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And so they said...
"Dr. Nelson, you have
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to understand" You
know, when you're dealing
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with an Indian culture,
if you take out the oil,
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you're kind of attacking
our whole way of eating.
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So I listened, and then I
went out to a bookstore...
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And there I saw... was
the featured 2 books of
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the month; one was "Diet
for Reversing Heart Disease"
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and I go, "I've got to get this"
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And I looked inside, and it was
100% oil-free whole plant foods
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all the way through, English
and Hindi, all the way through!
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And what I thought to
myself, "My own church members
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are not aware of this"
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But here's an individual who
is a scientific cardiologist,
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not religiously affiliated,
and he's out there saying
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"This is the
diet for a new India"
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Right there, so it was
in English and in Hindi...
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And I bought one,
brought it home with me,
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and just out on the press...
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I'm sorry I don't
recall the name of the book,
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but you probably can find
it with a good Internet search
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on "oil-free Indian
cooking" and it's possible.
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Why do we go, some people
say to the extreme of saying
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"whole plant
foods" and one reason is
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...if we show them how to
do it with whole plant foods
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without the refined
foods, when they go home,
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they'll say "I can do this"
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If we showed them how
to do it 100% the best way,
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chances are, when they go
home, changes will be bigger.
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So the real motto
is "Don't assume that
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people don't want to
hear the whole truth...
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give them the whole
truth, then let them do
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with it what they want to do. "
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I'm told that the "American
Heart Association" reviewing the
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Dean Ornish Program,
for example, was saying,
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"This is not very practical in
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American
culture... it's difficult"
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The answer is, that's right!
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It's different, but I
understand that Dr. Ornish said,
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"Let's not hide the truth
from the people, let them know"
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And we were pleased to
have his endorsement of our
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NEWSTART Cookbook.
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Our program is different
in that we are a little bit
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higher fat, but we use natural
plant fats still protected.
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And in the Health
Expo, no matter where we go,
00:14:08.11\00:14:10.22
the first thing we do when
we arrive, we want to go out
00:14:10.25\00:14:13.09
and find out...
Are all the ingredients
00:14:13.12\00:14:15.50
for good health
in that community.
00:14:15.54\00:14:16.83
So, if we're in the
former Soviet Union,
00:14:16.87\00:14:18.99
we go to the
bazaars... we go shopping.
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I take pictures
with my digital camera,
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and on the first time
we talk about nutrition,
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I don't talk about American
food, I show them their own food
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We weigh it. We
look at the prices.
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We show them that eating can
be healthy in their own culture.
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I remember one
city, Arkhangelsk, Russia,
00:14:35.95\00:14:38.45
and the people came
to us, and they said,
00:14:38.48\00:14:40.12
"We have 2 problems
here; 1. We're too fat.
00:14:40.15\00:14:43.79
2. We can't get enough to eat. "
00:14:43.82\00:14:45.68
I want to hear
more about that story.
00:14:45.71\00:14:46.94
We're talking to
Dr. Richard Nelson.
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He's telling us the
truth about your health,
00:14:48.80\00:14:51.31
and about Health Expos...
Join us when we come back!
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but not found anything that
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00:15:05.19\00:15:07.52
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Welcome back!
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Welcome to
"Health for a Lifetime"
00:15:57.99\00:15:59.46
We've been talking
with Dr. Richard Nelson
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We're glad you're
with us Dr. Nelson...
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And I kind of cut you off
in the middle of the story,
00:16:02.87\00:16:04.82
but you were telling
us the truth about what
00:16:04.85\00:16:07.50
can really happen in communities
00:16:07.53\00:16:09.01
when they change
their lifestyle habits.
00:16:09.04\00:16:10.87
You were talking a little
bit about a country you were in,
00:16:10.88\00:16:13.39
and you say, "Hey,
here are your foods,
00:16:13.40\00:16:15.70
here are the ways you can
actually change in your culture"
00:16:15.73\00:16:18.52
So it is possible to change our
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habits no matter
what culture we're in.
00:16:20.89\00:16:22.61
We're going to
talk about nutrition...
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we have to be practical,
00:16:24.15\00:16:25.44
and we have to know that all
the ingredients for good health
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are in their community.
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It's not true of every
community in the world,
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but MOST communities
now that you go into...
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If you go down to their
bazaars and their supermarkets,
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you can find that all
the ingredients are there
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if you make the right choices.
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So you're dangerous
with your digital camera.
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In one city, Northern
Uzbekistan called "Zarafshan"
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which is a unique place...
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It was the first time
that a member of my church
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had ever been in that city.
00:16:53.83\00:16:55.12
We had 1,200 people attending,
00:16:55.15\00:16:56.70
and it was so popular,
that the government said,
00:16:56.73\00:16:58.98
"Could you please be on
live television, so we can
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do Q&A... So we did.
00:17:01.34\00:17:03.26
We were supposed to be on
for an hour, and went 2 hours.
00:17:03.27\00:17:05.04
But during the program,
we were showing pictures
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of what's in their bazaar,
and comparing the prices.
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And, near the end of
the week that we were there,
00:17:11.39\00:17:14.14
they were saying, "Dr. Nelson,
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if you wouldn't mind... staying
away from the butcher shops...
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because business
is really going down"
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Because people are discovering
that they could eat healthfully
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for the same price!
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Not necessarily
cheaper but for the same price.
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So, for some people it was
good news that you were coming
00:17:27.37\00:17:30.23
and, others, it was bad news.
00:17:30.26\00:17:32.00
I was up, recently, at a
conference where there were
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a lot of people that
were vegetarians in the city,
00:17:33.95\00:17:36.12
and in the newspaper it said,
00:17:36.15\00:17:38.07
"It's a wonderful time UNLESS
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you sell this, that and the
other... it's a boom time. "
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I want to just show this flyer
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to the folks that
are watching here.
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This is your actual
new flyer on Health Expo...
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It says, "Into all the world.. "
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and then it begins to profile
some of the different things
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...the Health Expo weekends,
the actual Health Expo,
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and it has a whole
bunch of resources that
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you can get a hold of
concerning Health Expo...
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the exhibit
coordinator guidebooks,
00:18:03.28\00:18:06.19
the 8 NEWSTART exhibits,
the banners, flip charts,
00:18:06.22\00:18:10.55
the stuff for
children and everything else
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is mentioned there.
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So there's a lot
of resources there...
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You had put it all on computer,
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and so if you have a computer
or those types of things,
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you can go to the Web
page and look at that.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, it's
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www. healthexpo. org
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That's right?
That's right, and all this
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information is there
as well as you can call us
00:18:32.52\00:18:35.95
...We'd be happy to
share our experience,
00:18:35.98\00:18:38.63
and our expertise with your
professionals in your community,
00:18:38.66\00:18:41.42
or your lay personnel.
00:18:41.45\00:18:42.67
Very likely if you
do go to the Web page
00:18:42.70\00:18:44.89
and get your phone
number, or call 3ABN,
00:18:44.92\00:18:47.08
you will be talking to
someone like Dr. Nelson
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because they really make a
00:18:50.83\00:18:52.52
good attempt at
answering your questions.
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I want to just show
one other thing here...
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I have a CD... tell us
a little bit about that.
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This CD created by Dr.
Milton Crane and my brother,
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Ken Nelson, also a physician,
describes what makes people sick
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It looks at "You-Surely-Blew-It
and "How-He-Blew-It"
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as they get
old, develop disease,
00:19:10.51\00:19:12.80
and then discover
how to reverse it.
00:19:12.81\00:19:15.12
It's full of great
graphics and cartoons as well as
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good scientific information.
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So there are a lot of
resources that kind of put
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flesh on what
you've been saying today,
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or tangible objective
things you can hand out
00:19:25.41\00:19:28.15
and you can get
people knowing about this.
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We want people to know that
they can do this in their home
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with their families,
and do it practically.
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So anywhere from a
family to a community,
00:19:35.13\00:19:37.41
you can be involved in
sharing these 8 natural laws
00:19:37.44\00:19:40.58
in a very compelling way.
00:19:40.61\00:19:42.98
And Health Expo has demonstrated
that around the world,
00:19:43.01\00:19:45.36
and not just in
the United States,
00:19:45.39\00:19:46.59
but also in developing nations
and other developed nations
00:19:46.62\00:19:51.36
Governments have recognized that
it is much cheaper to prevent
00:19:51.39\00:19:56.02
and that lifestyle diseases
can be reversed in some cases
00:19:56.05\00:20:01.58
effectively, and
our own government,
00:20:01.61\00:20:04.83
the Healthcare Finance
Administration is studying
00:20:04.86\00:20:07.12
long-term with the
Lifestyle Modification Project,
00:20:07.15\00:20:11.69
sponsored by Medicare.
00:20:11.70\00:20:13.46
With Health Expo, we want to
get that information as rapidly
00:20:13.49\00:20:16.94
to the public as we can.
00:20:16.97\00:20:18.40
...presented in a
culturally sensitive way,
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and use their own
physicians and health educators
00:20:21.15\00:20:24.30
working side-by-side with us.
00:20:24.33\00:20:25.97
So they can learn it,
and continue to teach it.
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What's your success in
any country like America,
00:20:28.37\00:20:30.73
or a Western country where
they think they "know it all"
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How do doctors, how
do health professionals,
00:20:34.12\00:20:35.79
how does the public
respond to a Health Expo?
00:20:35.82\00:20:38.16
Say, you went to Chicago, or
00:20:38.19\00:20:40.19
some major city...
How do they respond?
00:20:40.22\00:20:42.39
We make it fun,
and by making it fun
00:20:42.42\00:20:44.56
involving the whole
family, we catch their interest.
00:20:44.59\00:20:47.60
We started with hand-painted
panels, original art work
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It took us 3
months to make each set,
00:20:51.26\00:20:53.90
and we continued to
produce 4 sets a year for years.
00:20:53.93\00:20:56.98
Now we've gone to
a wide format printer
00:20:57.01\00:20:59.24
which has high resolution,
and we can put graphs
00:20:59.27\00:21:02.13
and charts, and
also the artwork.
00:21:02.16\00:21:04.31
We want to make it
interesting so that people...
00:21:04.34\00:21:07.45
their interest is caught.
00:21:07.48\00:21:09.13
There's plenty of
information out there on health,
00:21:09.16\00:21:11.58
but making it
practical for the whole family,
00:21:11.61\00:21:15.20
and also making it artistic,
and where they can come in
00:21:15.23\00:21:18.89
and see... "That's
myself, that's where I'm at. "
00:21:18.92\00:21:21.17
And combining that
with some sophisticated
00:21:21.20\00:21:23.59
but inexpensive
screening techniques...
00:21:23.79\00:21:26.40
i. e... looking at the common
carotid arteries intima-media
00:21:26.43\00:21:30.91
thickness combined with the
00:21:30.94\00:21:32.39
brachial
endothelial response test which
00:21:32.42\00:21:35.02
Dr. Helmut Fritz...
00:21:35.05\00:21:36.41
You said some big
words there Ah yeah!
00:21:36.44\00:21:37.99
So you mean, they take
these arteries and they see how
00:21:38.02\00:21:41.99
they respond and
whether or not they're healthy.
00:21:42.02\00:21:44.18
We're using some sophisticated
ultrasound equipment
00:21:44.21\00:21:46.52
to look at an area of
the arterial wall in the
00:21:46.55\00:21:50.19
common carotid which actually
reflects coronary artery disease
00:21:50.20\00:21:55.29
So if it's
thick, they're bad news,
00:21:55.32\00:21:56.67
if it's thin,
they're not so bad Basically.
00:21:56.70\00:21:58.66
And we combine that with
another test which looks at
00:21:58.69\00:22:02.46
the response of your artery
to ischemia, or lack of oxygen.
00:22:02.49\00:22:06.85
It's not real comfortable, for
4 minutes, we pump up a cuff.
00:22:06.88\00:22:10.54
We're still in preliminary
studies but we can get a
00:22:10.57\00:22:14.20
pretty good idea if you have
00:22:14.23\00:22:16.67
increased risk of
coronary artery disease.
00:22:16.70\00:22:18.76
Sounds like a real
motivational tool as well.
00:22:18.80\00:22:20.83
Well, that's the whole idea.
00:22:20.84\00:22:22.15
We are not going to replace
competent cardiology evaluations
00:22:22.18\00:22:26.20
What we'll do is identify
more people who need to go
00:22:26.23\00:22:29.23
and see their cardiologist.
00:22:29.26\00:22:30.72
I bet you and I would
imagine that coming out of these
00:22:30.73\00:22:35.87
health expos, you have just a
lot of special interest stories,
00:22:35.90\00:22:39.70
or, you know, interest
stories about individuals.
00:22:39.71\00:22:42.98
Do you have any of those types
00:22:43.01\00:22:44.02
of things that
just come to mind?
00:22:44.05\00:22:45.08
As you know, we
travel around the world,
00:22:45.11\00:22:48.01
and one place we went to,
which is in southern part of
00:22:48.04\00:22:52.01
Central Asia... they
brought a little child to me...
00:22:52.04\00:22:54.65
And I was all ready
for my can speech that,
00:22:54.68\00:22:57.44
"You know, we're not
running a clinic here,
00:22:57.47\00:22:59.15
I'm going to refer you to
the government health clinic,"
00:22:59.18\00:23:01.06
when I noticed this boy
had significant heart disease,
00:23:01.09\00:23:03.92
and I knew in this country, they
really had no heart surgery team
00:23:03.95\00:23:07.54
And so I said,
"Look, I'll try to help"
00:23:07.57\00:23:09.75
And I called up
Loma Linda University,
00:23:09.78\00:23:12.07
and I said, "Would you be
willing to help a little child
00:23:12.10\00:23:14.47
from this country?"
00:23:14.50\00:23:16.06
And, I was kind of
hoping they'd say "no,"
00:23:16.09\00:23:18.51
because then
I'd be off the hook.
00:23:18.54\00:23:19.55
I've done my best, but they
said, "You know, we'll try. "
00:23:19.58\00:23:22.09
And make a long, interesting
story as brief as possible,
00:23:22.12\00:23:26.71
that child, we took
him to the United States
00:23:26.72\00:23:29.78
Flew him over
there. That's right.
00:23:29.81\00:23:31.11
Brought him,
spent 3 months with us.
00:23:31.14\00:23:32.92
His hemoglobin was only
8.0 which is pretty low.
00:23:32.93\00:23:36.17
Normal is what... 11 to 14
00:23:36.20\00:23:38.37
And, we put him on a
whole plant food diet.
00:23:38.40\00:23:41.19
He had nutritional anemia,
00:23:41.22\00:23:42.70
and his hemoglobin was
14 by the end of 3 months.
00:23:42.73\00:23:45.33
But when we took him
and did a cardiac echo,
00:23:45.36\00:23:47.87
and a cardiac catheterization,
with some of the world's best
00:23:47.90\00:23:50.77
cardiologists and
surgeons, they discovered
00:23:50.80\00:23:53.27
his heart couldn't be fixed.
00:23:53.30\00:23:54.62
What was the...
What it was is, he had
00:23:54.65\00:23:58.49
no pulmonary arteries, nothing
from the right side of the heart
00:23:58.52\00:24:01.33
connecting the lungs.
00:24:01.36\00:24:02.61
And in utero, he had developed
these collateral vessels.
00:24:02.64\00:24:06.60
and it's a very
complicated situation called
00:24:06.63\00:24:09.53
"tetralogy of Fallot with
complete pulmonary atresia"
00:24:09.56\00:24:13.25
which is a
fancy way of saying...
00:24:13.28\00:24:14.49
"no connection from the
right heart to the lungs"
00:24:14.52\00:24:17.00
And, can you imagine
having to take a child back
00:24:17.03\00:24:20.24
with an unmended heart!
00:24:20.27\00:24:22.03
We took him back to that
city where there are only
00:24:22.06\00:24:24.26
4 Christian church
members of my church
00:24:24.29\00:24:27.47
and when we got
there, we presented the case
00:24:27.50\00:24:32.40
to all the
physicians and they saw
00:24:32.43\00:24:34.22
we were part of a
global healthcare system of the
00:24:34.25\00:24:36.83
highest standard...
00:24:36.86\00:24:37.92
And, we went to hold another
health expo in their city,
00:24:37.95\00:24:41.50
and the program had been
closed after the first day
00:24:41.53\00:24:45.52
because they said, "You know,
this program appears to have a
00:24:45.55\00:24:48.29
strong Christian emphasis. "
00:24:48.32\00:24:50.67
And I said, "Well that's true
because I believe in Creation
00:24:50.70\00:24:53.45
just like you do. "
00:24:53.48\00:24:54.91
But, the person who
had closed the program,
00:24:54.94\00:24:57.36
called the governor,
and the governor said,
00:24:57.37\00:24:59.65
"These people are the ones
who are helping our community;
00:24:59.68\00:25:02.73
they have reached out to
even help a small child...
00:25:02.76\00:25:05.68
even though his
heart wasn't fixed,
00:25:05.71\00:25:07.10
we know they're part of
a global healthcare system,
00:25:07.13\00:25:09.82
and they're helping people
of other religions as well. "
00:25:09.85\00:25:13.26
And that opened up a
new registered center...
00:25:13.29\00:25:16.01
and they saw our
Christian church as a
00:25:16.04\00:25:18.71
center for health dissemination.
00:25:18.72\00:25:21.71
The very principles that
they said our Ministry of Health
00:25:21.74\00:25:25.04
should be doing, we
want you to help us with.
00:25:25.07\00:25:28.16
Our visas come from
the Ministry of Health
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in these countries and
they appreciate the impact
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we're having on the community.
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So, sharing yourself
with just one individual,
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and it wasn't just you, it was
a team, an international team.
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We've seen that repeated
in a number of other cities
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and in 30 seconds to
tell you in one place,
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the largest church
building project in ALL of the
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Central Asia
Republics was taken away because
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the government didn't
understand what its use would be
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When they hosted the
Health Expo, they said this is
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the type of work we need...
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And we realized that
Health Expo isn't just
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for people outside of
their church, it's also for the
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people in their own church.
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This is something that we
need in our Ministry of Health
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and that's when the
vice governor from that state
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came through the
NEWSTART Lifestyle Program
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and today,
throughout that country,
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as well as some of the
other nations we've been to,
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the Ministries of Health
are actually helping sponsor
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the Health Expos!
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Amazing... So doors open up
that are going to benefit people
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not only physically,
but also spiritually...
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But you're very respectful
of whatever the culture is,
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and they realize that,
"Hey, this is going to help us
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bottom line
physically with our health.
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Our motivation is Christ's
love and, as our Creator,
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we know He didn't wish
these diseases upon us.
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...On anybody. That's right.
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And by employing
these lifestyle techniques,
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we can bring a lot of happiness
and health to a lot of families.
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Someone is watching
right now, Dr. Nelson,
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in the last 30
seconds or minute together,
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they're saying, "Look, I
need to get in touch with
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some of these
principles, both either to
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share or for myself
personally, what should they do?
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Call us, visit our Website, or
call 3ABN for more information
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about how lifestyle modification
can work for you and your family
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Let me give you the Website
if you're interested in it...
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If you're interested
in the NEWSTART Program,
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just go to... www. newstart. ws
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...that's 3 w's
www. newstart. ws
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And then if you're
interested in Health Expo
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either for yourself, your family
or your community, go to...
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www. healthexpo. org
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We're glad that
you've joined us today.
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We hope that this has
been inspiring to you to do
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something for yourself,
your family, or your community.
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And, we hope that as a
result they'll have health
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that lasts for a lifetime!
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