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to promote good health
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the place of
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are those of the speaker.
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the information presented.
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Hello and welcome to
Health for A Lifetime,
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I am your host Don Mackintosh.
We are glad you joined us today
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We have an interesting and I
think a very important program.
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We are going to be talking
about African-American health
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or African
health. In other words,
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the black race verses the white
race in terms of health needs.
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And joining us to talk
about this important subject is
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Dr. DeWitt Williams,
he is the director of the
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Health Ministries department
for the North American
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Division of
Seventh-day Adventists.
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Welcome Doctor. Good
to be here, thank you.
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And thank you, for the work
that you do around the world
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in equipping people.
First around the world
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now more the North American
Division and equipping people.
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to be involved in
health ministries.
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I mean Seventh-day Adventists
when we hear about them
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they are known for a
couple of things, the Sabbath
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and then health. That's right.
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I mean that's just
normal isn't it. That's right.
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And today you're going to
talk with us about you know
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the difference in
racial, what we say problems
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with disease. That's right.
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and so many times we
don't make that distinction
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but we need to.
Are there differences?
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There are
differences, I was born
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in the slums of
South Philadelphia.
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I tell people and I didn't
realize when I was growing up.
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That they were
differences but I want to show
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on the slide here that of
the fifteen leading causes
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of death in the United
States. For the first 15,
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next slide you can see
that there are excess deaths
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among African-Americans.
In heart disease
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the African men 27 %
higher excess deaths,
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with women 55% higher.
For strokes, and for diabetes
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and kidney, you could see
them all, septicemia, these are
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these are and in all of
those areas of African-Americans
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have excess deaths.
Excess deaths. Okay,
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so these are leading causes
of death for most Americans.
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That's right. But when you
look at the African-American
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they're even more exaggerated
in terms of number of people
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that die. Exactly,
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in the next slide you can
see that for the only one that
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we have less would be of
course suicide, Alzheimer's
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Aortic Aneurysm and
respiratory diseases.
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So, in other words. We
don't commit a lot of suicides.
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Whites are higher death
rate in the respiratory,
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the Alzheimer's, the suicide
and as well as others but
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everything else, the black or
the African-American its higher.
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That's right, and also I didn't
have up there, but lupus we have
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more lupus, and sickle
cell anemia and more AIDS and
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addictions, about 75
percent of all heroin addicts
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are African-Americans.
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So there are diseases that
ravage the African-American
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community in North America.
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Now, are these
inherited? Some of them are,
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and some of them
aren't, I think for example the
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addictions in the age
and so forth, their inherited
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you know you can
pass down through genes,
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and you can pass down
genetic traits, but you can
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also pass down
lifestyles. Uh-uh!
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And so in a sense
they are all inherited.
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You and I were talking,
and you were sharing with me
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that many times this is not
however just because someone
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is black or white, they
are socioeconomic factors.
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That's right, you look
at Katrina, for example.
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And. The
hurricane. The hurricane,
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the people in the super
dome who got caught were those
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who didn't have enough
money to get out in their SUV
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and so forth.
So, many times, and
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I think I have a slide
there that shows us many times
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black people get caught in
the conditions that they are
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brought up in, they
can't get out of that.
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Okay, so in other
words it's just not an issue
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of being black or
white. Sometimes it's the
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the accessibility of things
that could help us be healthier.
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That's right, many
of the black people
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don't have insurance.
They don't have coverage
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to go in. I go every year
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to get my teeth. I
go twice a year like
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they say you should do. To
get it cleaned and get them
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cleaned and so forth
but how many black people go
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and get their teeth
cleaned every year twice.
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So, you know I think
we have a graphic looking
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at the disparity in dental
care, work us through that.
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Well, as you can see
here in the number of visits
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that for white
people number of visits 33,
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untreated cavities 24, and
you could see the blacks it's 43
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It's just higher. And the
Hispanics it's possibly even
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higher in some sense
and many of the studies
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are showing now that
the condition of your teeth
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has a lot to do with
the condition of your body
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Uh-uh! The bacteria
that are on your teeth
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can migrate down to your heart
and can migrate to different
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parts of your body.
So keep your teeth clean
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and repair it as an
index to your health.
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Alright! I mean every dentist
watching would be very happy
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with you doctor.
Hey look and you know
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I know you have more
of that, we won't look
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you made the
point, in other words
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it's not just an issue
of being black or white.
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Sometime it has to do with
it's socio-economic disparity
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and kind of the
situation may be we inherit
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not physically speaking but
you know socio-economically,
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but you want to make a point
I think in this program that,
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hey there is something that's
going to help every culture.
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That's right. And
we're gonna move into that
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what's the big thing we
can do no matter what color
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our skin is? I
believe that God made
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human beings to move
for action, for movement
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and we hear people talking
about an epidemic of obesity
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especially among black people.
Well, the epidemic of obesity
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is actually an
epidemic of inactivity. And
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we've got to learn to
move. There is an old Chinese
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proverb that says,
every man has two doctors
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the right leg and the left leg.
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Okay. Use them everyday.
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And so I believe that if
African-American, black people
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will use the exercise that,
the ability to exercise, then
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a lot of this disease
that we have, this disparity
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would disappear.
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Now, you worked for a time
in Africa and you told me that
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when your over there you weren't
really moving like you should.
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Well, I was an administrator,
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I was a president.
Listen up administrators.
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You know, I looked
administrative. I had
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gained some weight and
I looked administrative.
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I came back, and they called me
into the Health and Temperance
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department, it was
called at that time.
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And I started reading the
book The Ministry of Healing
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and you Mrs. White
talks about moving.
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And I said if I am
going to be in this department
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I'm going to have to
move. Now did they pick you
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because they think
you needed the department.
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No, I don't think so. Right.
But it actually saved my life
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You know when I first came
in. I started to, I got a call
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from Trinidad,
they wanted me to be in
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our, in a half
marathon. They said we want you
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as a one of the you
know, in the department
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to come in and lead
out in the half marathon.
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So, I figured, I
said well, you know,
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I better start
training, this was maybe in
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I guess I would say December.
And so, I started training
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a little bit, and I
called my friend Jim Istre
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and I said Jimmy, I
said I need to get up to a
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half marathon is 12.1 miles.
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And he said, well, you know,
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if we run on the track, he
said I am going to leave you,
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so he says, if
you run on the street
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and I am going to leave
you, come and run on the track
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and that's what I did.
And he would run around
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and passed me, as I went walking
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but you should know I kept
on walking and kept on running
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and kept on doing
what I could by the time
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that Marathon in April. I
have moved up to four miles.
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Also so like, was
that one or two months
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you moved up to four miles.
Four miles running, jogging
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four miles, so and
then when I went to Trinidad
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for the race, they put me
up in the front of the race
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and for the four
miles I was good.
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But after four miles, the
little children were passing me
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and old ladies and so forth
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but the cameras
weren't there anymore.
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Cameras were
there, but I did go back
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and I ran the Marine
Corps Marathon in 1987.
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Is that the Marines? The
Green Corps, 26.2 mile Marathon.
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Wow! So, we can,
this, this, we can run,
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we can go from where we are
to some place where God wants
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us to be. Well,
that's the good news.
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I mean, you're a living
testimony that just because
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you're not listening to
the two doctors the right and
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the left leg doesn't
mean that's it you can move.
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That's right. Great.
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So, we really live in a
culture where there is this kind
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of epidemic of
obesity. That's right.
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And 60% percent of Americans
are overweight and obese.
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And I have a slide here called,
the problem of obese inactivity
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It is estimated that of
the 250,000 deaths per year
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in the United
States, approximately 12%
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of the total, are
attributed to a lack
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of regular physical
activity. And so that causes
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and you can see most
people are sedentary.
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Three out of four adults get
little or no regular exercise.
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And only 23% get regular,
light moderate activity.
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Only 12% get any
regular vigorous activity.
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So, the problem really is
that the people are not moving.
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It's an epidemic of inactivity,
that's what this epidemic
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of obesity is, and
I think it's even more
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among African-Americans
because many of them
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are trapped in the inner city,
there is no mall that they can
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go to, to walk.
There are no pathways
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in the city, not too many parks.
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And so, they're
trapped. And they come home
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and they are unable
to, they don't have money
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many of them to buy
treadmills and so forth
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so they're trapped
in their circumstances.
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Now, you know I heard
that the typical American
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I think it was in
1901, or 19, early 1900's.
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A typical American
would walk, just because of
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regular things they
had to do, 11 miles a day.
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I think that's correct, I look
back at when I was growing up,
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I wasn't in real early in
1900's I had to walk to school.
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For five miles, I
had to walk to school.
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Uh-Uh!
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And sometimes my father
would take me to school.
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Where we walk to school
sometimes I follow him to
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school. We were sent to the
store we didn't, nobody drove
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us down to the store, we
had to walk to the store.
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So five miles to
school, and back from school.
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Five miles. Or did you just
stay there all week? I came home
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to do my home work.
So, the solution then is
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regular exercise. That's right.
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And if we could arrange in
our schedule to do more things.
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part further away, you
know if we could arrange
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to walk to a store
every once in a while,
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and in simply, in the
intercity you can do that.
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You can walk to many of the
stores but sometimes its very,
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very difficult to get there.
So on the graphic you have
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the solution is regular
exercise, then you work us
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through a list.
Regular physical activity
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reduces the risk for? For
obesity, if we walked everyday
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we would loss
weight, high blood pressure
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will come down,
Heart disease and stroke
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HDL is raised by, and
that's the good cholesterol,
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diabetes, in my mind diabetes
is a disease of inactivity,
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that's what
diabetes is. Osteoporosis,
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for strengthening of the
bones we have definite links
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of the exercise and
colon cancer, and breast cancer
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and the endorphins are
secreted when we exercise,
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God has actually placed
in our minds and our bodies
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a hormone that
makes us feel good
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and the endorphins that
are secreted when we exercise
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so we feel good. So
we don't have the anxiety
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or the depression
that plagues us. Exactly.
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So, all of it's just
get out there and move.
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Get out and move as
much as you possibly can.
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I have a graphic here,
Physical activity level
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and risk of heart disease
and you can see that this
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nurses study, these are
nurses ladies that followed
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72,000, it's a large
group, 72,000 of them followed
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for 8 years and go to the
next one if you can, and you can
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see that the heart attack risk
dropped 54% in the most active
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women and next one here and
also there it is, you can see
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the thing that
interests me the most is the big
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difference between the
first line and the next.
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Yes. They're just
doing a little bit.
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A little activity. Just a little
activity will bring you down
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and as you do more, they're
separated into five quintiles.
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and the most group of
course had the least amount
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of the heart disease.
So, and nurses by the way
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are usually very
unhealthy people,
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I am a nurse too, of
course I am not a female
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nurse but male nurses
too are very, very unhealthy
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like about 98% percent of
them smoke, just really, you
00:14:15.56\00:14:19.74
would think
that they are healthy
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I mean, but many
times they're not,
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no. They are on
their feet a lot.
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Right. That is one
good thing about the nurses,
00:14:25.82\00:14:29.25
and their feet.
We're talking with
00:14:29.28\00:14:31.69
DeWitt Williams, he
is the Health Ministries
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Director for the
North America Division of
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Seventh Day Adventists he has
00:14:38.24\00:14:39.47
a worldwide perspective talks
with you about health everyday
00:14:39.50\00:14:43.06
and when we come back we
are going to be looking closer
00:14:43.09\00:14:45.41
at the solutions no matter
what our race or gender is,
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we are looking more
closely at exercise,
00:14:49.58\00:14:51.89
join us when we come back.
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Welcome back we are
talking with DeWitt Williams,
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he is the Health
Ministries director for
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the North American Division
of Seventh-day Adventists.
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If you aren't familiar
with how they are organized,
00:16:03.81\00:16:05.90
there is I think like
13 divisions maybe 14 now
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as this church
expands around the world
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some 15 million, 20 million
people attending on weekends
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and it's a huge group
of people that are known
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basically for two
things the Sabbath and Health
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you're kind of leading
out on their health aspect,
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people are, that are
coming into the church.
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Many people
coming into the church.
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Thousands everyday are
drawn many times by this message
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of health and your
primary role is to equip people
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to do health
ministries isn't it right.
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First we want to
get them to live it,
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accept it and live it,
share it with their families
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and then share it with
their family and friends.
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Yes. So, for some people
they come into the church
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because of health
things other people come in
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maybe through evangelist
meanings and they need to
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be kind of disciplined
in this area as well.
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I mean this program will
air you know at different times
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but every year you
have I have a flyer here.
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You have a health
summit I think one both
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in the early part
of the year January,
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at the end of
January, first part of February
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and they you have another
one depending on the year.
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And again this will
be aired a number times
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but you do training sessions
across the United States.
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That's right, we
do one in Florida
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in the last week of January
and the first week of December
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it's a whole week of
training and this year
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we had about five
hundred people to come to it.
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We have started the one
last year in Portland, Oregon.
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We call it health summit west.
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And we had three hundred
people to come to that one.
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So, and these people come,
they get certified to be able
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to do different health
programs whether dealing
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with depression
or diabetes or heart,
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all the major things that
people deal with in America.
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That's right, in
Florida we are going to offer
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about 25 different programs.
Wow! Stop smoking program,
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there is a diabetes
program and fitness and exercise
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program and I teach one
on the smoking cessation.
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There are 50 million people
who are still smoking today,
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so, we feel that when
people actually do something
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they not only help
somebody but it re-enforces
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their own commitment to
this particular lifestyle
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and Jesus you know he
did actually more healing
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then he did
preaching. He did more teaching
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and healing, then he
did preaching and to find
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just a few of his sermons but
we have lots of his healings.
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So, that's the
method that we recommend.
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Yeah, and you know,
if people were interested
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that they can contact
the North American division
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on the Internet, they can go
to what's called the PlusLine.
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And any year, I
mean they can just
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figure out what's
happening, see what programs
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and be a part of
that. You know thank you for
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doing that by the way. I
think it's very neat. You were
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one of our speakers
remember about a year or so ago
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we had you to be there,
spoke everyday, people enjoyed
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you and we need to
get you to come again.
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Alright, well I'll
take you up on that,
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so we have been talking
though about African-American
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or black, the black
race verses the white race,
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verses different
races and some disparities
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in the program, so
far we have talked yet.
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They're really are
big problems in terms
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the amount of people
dying that are black verses
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white from the killers
that kill all of us. Right.
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But what you've suggested
is, yeah you can look at that
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but really there's
something that all races need
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and that is exercise,
and we want to continue that
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I think you have some
other things you want to share
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about the importance
of exercise then hopefully
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at the end you give
us some particle ways
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you have already
said you ran a marathon
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what was impressive to me, I've
never done that. 26.2 miles.
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And the interesting
thing is when you compare
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African-Americans
with Africans, who do get a
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lot of exercise you
will find out that they don't
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for the majority
African's are not overweight,
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you see in the runners
from Kenya who run. Always wine.
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always win, they win too.
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But they are thin and the
majority of Africans are not
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overweight and
their jobs make them work
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the economy where they
live, they are poor also.
00:20:18.92\00:20:21.57
But the economy keeps
them walking, keeps them moving
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and they don't have
the diseases that we have,
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the African-Americans
have you don't,
00:20:29.18\00:20:30.50
you really hear of an
African who has a diabetes
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or a heart disease or
many of these diseases
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which we are talking
about they don't have
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they are our ancestors.
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So, it don't have to be,
it's not a genetic thing,
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it's a lifestyle
thing, I believe so.
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Now, they are some diseases
I think that we do inherit,
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that is genetic
basically the African-American
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has his skin color locks out
a lot of the rays of the sun.
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And he doesn't get
vitamin D that much
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ultra violent
light is not absorbed
00:21:04.36\00:21:07.31
and so there are
diseases like the, sickle cell,
00:21:07.34\00:21:15.13
we got a problem
with sickle cell and lupus
00:21:15.16\00:21:17.40
what the disease I want
to mention prostrate cancer
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for example.
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We have high rates of
prostate cancer and I believe
00:21:22.22\00:21:24.61
basically is because we
don't get enough vitamin D
00:21:24.64\00:21:27.50
and sunshine but
back to exercise.
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Back to
exercise here in America.
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I have a slide, physical
activity and blood pressure.
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Okay, And you can see
that among those who are
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really fit that low fit, I think
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it should be just
the opposite there.
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But the low fit
well, that's deaths,
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more deaths you can see
among those who have low fat.
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That's right, that's
the deaths you can see that,
00:21:50.23\00:21:52.15
the next line you
can see risk of diabetes
00:21:52.18\00:21:55.11
changes also, with you
can see that as the activity
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increases you can
see that deaths decrease
00:22:03.63\00:22:07.98
and then overall
health, my next slide,
00:22:08.01\00:22:11.10
moderate activity and
health and you can see that
00:22:11.13\00:22:14.35
when there moderate
activity and health you can see
00:22:14.38\00:22:17.84
that really unfit
more deaths moderately fit
00:22:17.87\00:22:22.09
and that's you can see
very nicely they are just
00:22:22.12\00:22:25.13
doing a moderate
amount of exercise brings you
00:22:25.16\00:22:27.25
down from 64% down to
26%. That's mortality rate.
00:22:27.28\00:22:32.86
The 64% of the 26%.
That's right, mortality rate
00:22:32.89\00:22:36.12
and then if you're
super fit you're just 6% less
00:22:36.15\00:22:39.98
you knows like
just 6% difference.
00:22:40.01\00:22:43.03
So the biggest
difference is from
00:22:43.06\00:22:44.61
becoming unfit to moderately.
In another words you don't have
00:22:44.64\00:22:47.90
to do a marathon for
the Marines like you did.
00:22:47.93\00:22:50.40
That's right but if
they're walking around the track
00:22:50.43\00:22:52.22
with their friend what was
his name? Jimmy? Jim Istre.
00:22:52.25\00:22:54.40
Jim Istre, they're walking
around the track, they are going
00:22:57.56\00:22:59.38
to get a lot of
benefits from that.
00:22:59.41\00:23:02.51
They have to plan it
in, and this what I do now
00:23:02.52\00:23:04.25
as I plan in my exercise.
00:23:04.28\00:23:06.56
Once I realize how
important exercise was
00:23:06.59\00:23:09.85
to me then I have
actually made it a part
00:23:09.88\00:23:12.79
of my daily
routine, just like I get up
00:23:12.82\00:23:15.43
in the morning and eat
my breakfast and go to work,
00:23:15.46\00:23:19.07
and have my
devotions and so far.
00:23:19.10\00:23:21.59
Exercise now is a
part of my routine.
00:23:21.62\00:23:25.80
And the first thing I do,
when I get up in the morning
00:23:25.83\00:23:27.54
'cause I need
sometimes some of those days
00:23:27.57\00:23:29.94
when I get up its cold,
it's rainy and so forth,
00:23:29.97\00:23:33.15
so I do it early in
the morning, when my will
00:23:33.18\00:23:35.54
is very, very
strong. I go out and I do my
00:23:35.57\00:23:38.56
two miles, sometime
three miles and four miles
00:23:38.59\00:23:41.93
but at least two miles
a day. So the message is
00:23:41.96\00:23:45.20
do it first, get
it out of the way.
00:23:45.23\00:23:47.32
That's right, and but know that
00:23:47.35\00:23:49.15
you are benefiting from
it, now I have another slide
00:23:49.18\00:23:52.29
here in
strength and flexibility.
00:23:52.32\00:23:54.02
Okay. I include
three sessions per week
00:23:54.48\00:23:58.62
where I lift
weights, now the walking
00:23:58.65\00:24:01.80
is aerobic. And what's it help?
00:24:01.83\00:24:03.69
Strength and
flexibility helps what Will.
00:24:03.72\00:24:05.74
It helps us in
protecting gives strong
00:24:05.77\00:24:09.05
backs, it helps us to be
00:24:09.08\00:24:11.32
our bone density to
be better bone density.
00:24:11.35\00:24:16.41
It prevents loss of muscle mass
00:24:16.44\00:24:18.86
improve the figure and physique
00:24:18.89\00:24:20.74
and it prevents
disability with old age.
00:24:21.59\00:24:24.82
Now, the muscle
masses this is the thing
00:24:24.85\00:24:26.19
I want to talk about the
most. Most people as they age
00:24:26.22\00:24:29.74
they lose muscle, they
have atrophy of their muscles
00:24:29.77\00:24:32.53
and muscles burn more calories.
00:24:32.56\00:24:36.53
Okay, muscles
burn more calories.
00:24:36.56\00:24:38.57
once you start
losing your muscles
00:24:38.60\00:24:40.55
you start
getting a little heavier
00:24:40.58\00:24:43.12
because your not
burning as many calories.
00:24:43.15\00:24:44.74
And so, you want to
lift about. Helps your figure
00:24:44.77\00:24:48.33
and physique too.
00:24:48.36\00:24:49.61
The figure and physique,
you feel that suit up nicely,
00:24:49.64\00:24:51.53
well, exactly.
Exactly, so right so
00:24:51.56\00:24:55.69
weight training and some
of these sculpting exercises
00:24:55.72\00:24:59.24
sometimes they do Pilates
or different kind of things,
00:24:59.27\00:25:02.01
that's good.
00:25:02.04\00:25:03.01
I don't you a whole
lot of the Pilates and
00:25:03.02\00:25:05.69
so, but we do have gym. Okay.
A little physical fitness room
00:25:05.72\00:25:09.05
at the general
conference and we have may be
00:25:09.08\00:25:10.86
15 or 16 machines
and I go on do all of
00:25:10.89\00:25:14.27
how many of the
brethren there are in
00:25:14.30\00:25:15.37
there working out.
00:25:15.40\00:25:16.37
Well, when I go down
at 3 O'clock not too many
00:25:16.80\00:25:18.97
of them are there, but after-
wards the room is pretty busy,
00:25:19.00\00:25:22.94
we have some
treadmills there and we have and
00:25:22.97\00:25:26.07
I want to you about
specific departments.
00:25:26.10\00:25:27.68
No, don't ask me about
specific department, but we do,
00:25:27.71\00:25:30.50
we do a lot of
exercising and I tried to get,
00:25:30.53\00:25:36.27
I send out around my notices
and try to get people down
00:25:36.30\00:25:38.66
there two or three times a week.
00:25:38.69\00:25:39.95
Now, use of
pedometer. Yes, the pedometer
00:25:39.98\00:25:42.20
now the advantage of a pedometer
00:25:42.23\00:25:45.29
and I usually I have
mine, but I lost mine.
00:25:45.32\00:25:47.14
The advantage of a pedometer
00:25:47.17\00:25:49.66
if you know accurately
how many steps you have taken
00:25:49.69\00:25:53.96
and you start off
trying to target 2000 steps
00:25:53.99\00:26:00.22
a day, that what you want to do,
00:26:00.25\00:26:01.51
that's a
pedometer and go to Wal-Mart
00:26:01.54\00:26:03.20
and get a
little cheap pedometer.
00:26:03.23\00:26:05.10
I lose mine,
they clip on you belt
00:26:05.13\00:26:07.92
and you bend over they pop off,
00:26:07.95\00:26:10.20
so focus on
getting your 2000 miles,
00:26:10.23\00:26:13.73
2000 steps, 2000, I
mean you are in good.
00:26:13.76\00:26:16.67
Oh! Get your 2000
steps and you want to move
00:26:16.70\00:26:19.87
up to 10,000 steps. So, a day?
00:26:19.90\00:26:23.31
a day, 10,000 steps
is where you want to be.
00:26:23.34\00:26:25.50
So, when your wife says
go out and do this, you say
00:26:25.53\00:26:27.60
thank you honey I need
700 more steps. That's right.
00:26:27.63\00:26:30.62
And you'd be surprised to know
00:26:30.65\00:26:32.50
when I first put up my
pedometer I thought I was doing
00:26:32.53\00:26:35.57
a lot of walking in my
day because I parked my
00:26:35.60\00:26:38.41
car far away, it came back,
and was doing about 4,000 steps.
00:26:38.44\00:26:41.87
Oh! Oh! So then I, that's why
00:26:42.68\00:26:44.32
I do my two miles in the morning
00:26:44.35\00:26:46.37
when I go out, that
gives me about 4,000 steps
00:26:46.40\00:26:48.73
to begin with. Now
your a man of faith,
00:26:48.76\00:26:51.71
your a minister as
well as you know the
00:26:51.74\00:26:54.05
health ministries director
of North American division.
00:26:54.08\00:26:55.84
There was
statement from Ellen White
00:26:55.87\00:26:58.14
that really gripped
you, I think you want a close
00:26:58.17\00:26:59.92
with that right.
And let's look at that,
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this is Ellen White, she
says all who can possibly
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do so ought to walk in
the open air everyday, summer
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and winter and
it continues, a walk
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even in winter would be
more beneficial for the health
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then all the medicines
that doctors may prescribe.
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That's right on
top on the list there,
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isn't that right,
she says its better than
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any of those
medicines those doctors
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write in the prescription.
So, the message today
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is no matter what
race you are the best thing
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is exercise you
know thank you so much,
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first of all what you
do as the health ministries
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director and educating
and thank you also for your
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personal testimony of
taking your message seriously.
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Thank you it's good to be here,
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I hope the message
helped somebody to get moving.
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I am sure it
will and you watching
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why not get out
there and get on the move.
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