The following
program presents principles
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designed to promote
good health and is not
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intended to take the
place of personalized
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professional care.
The opinions and ideas
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expressed are
those of the speaker.
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Viewers are
encouraged to draw their own
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conclusions about the
information presented.
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Hello and welcome to
Health for a Lifetime.
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I'm your host, Don Mackintosh
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we're glad that you're
with us today. And, we have
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a rare treat today,
we have the leader of
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the North American
Division of Seventh
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day Adventists, the
Health Ministries director,
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DeWitt Williams,
he's with us, he has
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a very busy schedule
and he is in involved
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in training of
many people around the
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world, we're glad
you're with us today.
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Good to be here,
Don. Around the world for
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several years, when
you were in the Health
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Ministries department for the
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general conference, but
now more focusing on the
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North American Division,
which is what Canada and
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United States. And, Bermuda.
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And, Bermuda. That's right.
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And, you do summits
or training programs,
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both in Orlando, I
think at the early part of
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the year, last part
of January. That's right.
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And, then out in
the West Coastal and
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Portland or other. We do one in
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Portland in October. Okay.
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And, in 2006, we're
hoping to start a new
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one, a third health
summit West in Montreal with
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with the committee
and basically and people
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on the North Eastern
part of the coast with a
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French
emphasis. Okay. So, you're
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you going to still
called that, health summit West
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or that would be east,.
We'll call, that would be
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health summit
North. North. Okay.
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One in Oregon is health
summit West and the one in
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Florida is health summit.
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And, people that
go there, I mean they
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have all kinds of
different things they can be
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trained on in terms
of helping people with
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their health needs,
whether it would be like
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today's program,
where we talk about
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hypertension or that
you do, I think the breath
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free training,
which is smoking sensation
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program, by the way
I think it's one of the
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best, if not the
best out there, I mean
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it's used in corporations
and different things
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in many churches,
and then, and then
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all kinds of other
programs. That's right.
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You know, 50 million
people are still smoking
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plus maybe another 3
million of teenagers show
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its very needful,
we, we've a program
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on, on hypertension. Umh! Umh!
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And, I wanted to talk
about hypertension today
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because in the
African American Community
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hypertension is
probably three times more
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prevalent, then in
the white community,
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and about one out
of every three African
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Americans is, is
hypertensive, they've high
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blood pressure, well,
that's another term for
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high hypertension
is high blood pressure.
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And, the interesting
thing is that most people
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don't realize that they
have high blood pressure.
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Called the silent
killer. The silent killer.
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You have it, and
you don't know that you
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have it. And, then
so you have to be, and
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I, I thought my,
myself, I thought, I was pretty
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healthful, you
know, I'm not overweight,
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I'm a jogger,
exerciser, a vegetarian, and
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I went to my doctor
one year and he said,
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do you know, you, you've
have high blood pressure,
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I said no, I don't
have high blood pressure.
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He said, yes you
really, you have high blood
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pressure, hypertension.
And, that's why I'm,
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that's why I'm concerned
about it, because I know,
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when I started
studying and found out
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that there was a
history of it in my family.
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I see. And, so I'm,
I'm concerned about it.
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So, how can you
know what your risk is?
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Well, the risk factors
of course, there you're
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high blood pressure,
if, if when they take your
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blood pressure.
And, it's above a 140.
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For the top
number. For the top number,
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which we called the
systolic, then and the
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bottom number is
the diastolic, if that's
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above 90 and you've
full-blown high blood
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pressure. And, then
this one is high-normal
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130-139 and now I think
we call it prehypertension
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and they have instead
of it's prehypertension.
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You actually have
it. So, the top number
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be 130 to 139 and
the bottom number the
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diastolic will be the 85 to 89.
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That's right. And,
then 120/80 they say as
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normal, but you
know, it's not good to be
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normal in America, you
don't want to be normal.
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you want to be below
normal. Normal is not
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good in the
United States. And, so I
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actually say the
110/70 is actually what you
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want to shoot for
110/70. Now, they, these
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numbers apply to
people, of course that
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are not taking
medications. That's right.
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But, if you're, if
you're taking medications
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that's your number too,
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if it's high and
you've to take medication,
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that's the number
that you shoot for also.
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So, complications, I
mean, some people say,
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hey, no, no big deal,
but the complications of
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of hypertension, I think you're
gonna work us through those.
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Yes, high blood pressure
is very important because
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if you have it,
you're more prone to strokes
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and congestive heart
failure. See there is
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that pressure that,
the top numbers, when the
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blood, when the, when
the heart squeezes and
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pumps and the
second number that bottom
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number diastolic
is, when it relaxes and
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if the pressure is
too high on those arteries
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and blood vessels,
you, you can, you can blow
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out of, of a
gasket pop. You can pop,
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yes, you can pop one
in the brain, you can
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pop one in the heart.
Let's look at the graphic
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I think, we'll go through
these. Okay. And, we've, okay
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stroke, congestive heart
failure, because it backs
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upon the heart attack.
Exactly, Atherosclerosis
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or hardening of
the arteries and then
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heart attacks especially,
aneurysms, kidney disease,
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disease of the retina,
of the eye, blood vessel
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rupture, or
weakened memory and mental
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abilities. Many
people believe that actually
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what happens with, with
Alzheimer is that you've
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a lot of little tiny
mini strokes caused by
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high blood pressure
and every time you've a
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little mini stroke
little burst aneurysm here
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that you've a, area of
the brain that's cut off
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then you've another
little mini stroke and
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then another little
mini stroke and pretty
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soon, your, your
brain has been shut down
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through this high
blood presume. But that's not
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really a problem,
Alzheimer's that afflicts
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African-Americans
as much as Whites
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I think you've
mentioned that in the previous
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program with me.
But what about Kidney
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problems. Well, that
is the problem basically
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with Black people,
we've, we're, we've
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lots of, of kidney
problems, more people
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more African-Americans,
who are on dialysis
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machines and
suffering from kidneys and most
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of it comes because they
don't realize that they've
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high blood pressure and
by the time that realize
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it, it's, it's too late
and there is a certain degree
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of kidney failure.
Let's look at that graphic
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on kidney failure,
in another words, you're
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saying here at the,
at the left of our screen
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moving to the
right, what's this mean?
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Normal on the, on the
left of the screen and
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you can see that as
it goes up, you over a
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159/99, you've perhaps
22 times greater chance
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of having kidney failure.
And, by the way, kidney's
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all work on this
pressure gradient don't they.
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Exactly. So, if it goes up,
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those are little
fine tubules in the
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kidney and they just
kind of messes them up,
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Exactly. And,
that's, that's a real big
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problem, and then of
course, we've a graphic
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here that shows at as it
goes up, death, morbidity
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call. Yeah,
morbidity, that's right.
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So, as you go up
for 120, this is. Oh!
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This is your systolic
your, as it starts going
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up over 180 and so
forth you can see that.
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More, toward.
Mortality rates there
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on the left and
the amount of blood
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pressures on the
bottom. That's a 170
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times more
probable that you will have.
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Death. Death from
it. So, this is not
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something we should
mess around with. Absolutely
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not. Now, I was in
you know, when I was going
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to seminary, I
took my practical in a,
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African-American
church, I was wishing I was
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African-American,
because I enjoy the preaching,
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I enjoy the life,
the vibrancy of, of the
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African-American
church, it's just great. And, I
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I really missed
that many times, but they
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were these ladies
there, they were the Parish
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nurses, they had the
white gloves on and afterwards
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they did the
screening in the church, because
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they were so
concerned about this.
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Well, you know, I do
that, I tell them, when
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I'm coming to preaching
in the church a seminar,
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afterwards I, I
like for us to do a blood
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pressure screening,
and we've almost in every
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instance found
somebody whose blood pressure is
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just off the
charts. 190, 210/150,
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we've to take them
to the hospital and they
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didn't know it,
that's the interesting
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thing they never
even suspected it.
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So, you know,
maybe, you're watching this
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program and you say,
hey, I'm gonna takes this
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to heart, why not do a
screening in this weekend
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at your church, You don't have
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to have Dr. Williams
come, you just do it on your own
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and you're gonna
discover, you're gonna
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really helps.
You're gonna save some
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lives, does you
think, if they do that.
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I believe so.
Now, I wanna mention
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that I, what
happened with me. My blood
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pressure in the
morning is normal, but when I
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go to work and the
phones start ringing.
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Okay. And, the people
start visiting you, and
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you see your desk
pile up and stuff, my
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blood pressure would
go up. I went over to see
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our nurse once and
above 130, that's when
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my mind start growing, I
went over to see my nurse
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and I said, you
know, when I took my blood
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pressure this
morning, it was alright and she
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said, well let me take
it now and sure enough.
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It was up. It was up.
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So, what I've done, is
I've actually bought my
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own blood pressure
machine. Keep that with
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you. And, I carry it
with me, I take it in the
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morning and you need to
take your blood pressure
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four or five times a
day because it varies, it
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fluctuates,
you, your, your blood
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pressure maybe up in
the morning, but it will
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be down at noon,
you know, I don't
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know, you, you
maybe different from me.
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Or maybe it doesn't
go up in board meetings.
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Bored or what, but so
it's good, you can buy
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this at one of
the stores for maybe
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$25, but it's a
good investment to know.
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Many times when we go
to a doctor to have them
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take our blood pressure,
we've what we call the white
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coat effect, and you
know, you rush to get to
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the doctor and know
you're little out of breath and,
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and his stethoscope is
hanging around his neck
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and so forth. It terrifies you.
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It terrifies you, so
your blood pressure goes up,
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so it's good to have
your own blood pressure
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machine and especially,
if you've any tendency
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toward blood pressure,
high blood pressure, you
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need to know yourself.
Because once you get on
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the medications.
The medications are not
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good for you,
especially for some of the men
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decrease sexual
function and so forth,
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so you don't want to
get on them if you can.
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None of the men are
probably interested in
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that. Okay, reduced,
when, when your blood
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pressure starts to go
down though, you've a graphic
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that shows that it
starts to reduce the
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cardiovascular risk and
we're gonna look at that.
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Yes, okay, for the
general population, a
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three millimeter
decrease in systolic
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blood pressure would
yield 11 percent fewer
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strokes, 7 percent
fewer coronary events, and 5
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percent fewer deaths.
Wow! Let's just take a
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little down, a little
tiny bit. Let's take a bit
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down, let's say
your blood pressure is a
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140/90 and you do
down to 137, you've done
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all that, that you
just saw on the screen.
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So, every point you
can bring it down is better
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for you and I
think you're gonna show
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us some ways to do
that, the first one you
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mentioned to me is
oatmeal? Eat oatmeal
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Yes. Oatmeal, well
let's look at that.
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Okay, let's look
at the oatmeal slide,
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you know, 150 people
were categorized for the
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amount of oatmeal
they consumed and you can
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see that. The result here.
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One-bowl-per-day users
had lower blood pressure,
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that's right and lower
cholesterol, you hear a
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lot about blood
pressure and I mean you're about
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oatmeal and cholesterol,
but it also lowers blood
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pressure. And, the
effect was independent of age,
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weight, and intake
of sodium, potassium,
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and alcohol. So,
oatmeal or what about
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cereals that are made of
oats, would that be good.
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No, I don't think it
has. Not as good as oatmeal.
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But it would have
some, because it has the
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oats in there and I've
oatmeal pretty much everyday.
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Now, on Sabbath and
Sunday I change a little
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bit, but on five
days of the week oatmeal.
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I'm hungry enough
right now, if you've
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some, break us some
oatmeal, we could just take some
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right now. Now, I
don't know, if I took your
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blood pressure as a
result being on this
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program, I wonder if
it's up or down, we will take
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it right
afterwards. Probably up.
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Okay, what about
salt? Now, sodium chloride,
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that's what salt is
the, the sodium is not good
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for most people.
And, so salt does raise
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blood pressure, and
you'll find out that in
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societies that ingest
little or no salt, they
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don't have hypertension.
The teenagers blood
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pressure is the same
as somebody 90 years of
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age, when diets very
low in salt, such as.
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The rice and fruits
diet. The rice and fruits diet,
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given to hypertensive
patients, blood pressure
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often falls and
returns to normal. Changing to
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diet that is only
moderately low in salt
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produces only
small reductions and
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salt-induced hypertension
has been produced in both
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man and experimental
animals. Well, we're
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gonna comeback and
talk about salt topic,
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salt some more because
I mean you need to have
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some salt, but
lower salt is better and
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I want to ask you
about that, when we
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comeback. Hope that you join us.
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Welcome back,
we're talking with DeWitt
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Williams. He is the
Health director for the North
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American Division of
Seventh-Day Adventists.
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And, in that role, he
does training seminars
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around the country and
you see a lot of health
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problems and one
of your concerns is
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African-American
Health because of the silent
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killer, hypertension,
high blood pressure
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and you do
screenings and you help people
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with that, we were
talking at the break
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you know, about
how salt is related to
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increase in blood
pressure, but we do need
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some salt right or
wrong? We do need, it's
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absolutely necessary
to have salt, so we're
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not against all
salt, but the American diet
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is so high in soy
foods, you've heard of
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soul foods? Oh!
Man I've tasted some
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of it, but maybe I, I'm
sure, I don't understand
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that all whole point of it.
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Well, soul food is
very tasty, but it's high in
00:15:54.75\00:15:58.16
salt. And, you know,
the we've barbecue beef,
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a lot of meats
and almost all meats
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you know, have
high sodium content,
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and so, you just, we
say instead of soul food,
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there is a dash
diet. Dash diet, yes.
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The dietary approach
to stop hypertension,
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dash, dietary
approach to stop hypertension.
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And, that's a
diet, that's low in salt.
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And that's what we
recommend that, if, if
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you know, or maybe
you'll have soul food,
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maybe once a
week, but dash diet the
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other days of the
week. Dash away from the
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soul food. So,
reduce salt then you've a
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graph that shows
us that, when you
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reduce it, the blood
pressure will go down,
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here it is. Reduce
salt and blood pressure.
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This was an
actual experiment, they
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did 20 patients with
average blood pressure
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of 161/101 that's very
high, reduced their salt
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intake for a year.
And, after one year, their
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average systolic pressure
was lowered by 19 points
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and diastolic by 14
and the blood pressure of
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16 of the 20 patients
was well controlled by
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simply
restricting their salt intake.
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Wow! So, this, this for
many people and a lot of
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people, there are some
people, they're not as salt
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sensitive, but for most
people they're and this is
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gonna really help.
And, especially with
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Black people. And,
the average America diet
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is high in salt, we
don't realize it, and we
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probably only need about
250 mg a day, but here is
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the average diet,
4000 mg a day. Normal blood
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pressure 240000 mg. 2400
mg a day, I'll still stay
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normal, okay. Yeah, yes
that's right. High blood
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pressure, let say what
is that, 2000 mg a day. So,
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for high blood with
congestive heart failure,
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you need to come
down as you see, you only
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need about 250 mg a day,
that's what you need. So,
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we're just, just
going way over that. What
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are the some of the foods
that are high in sodium. If
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you buy anything
in a box, or in a bag.
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Or in a can. Or in a
can, or in a restaurant, you
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go to a restaurant to
eat. Let's see some of
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them because, corn
chips, a cup 163 that's not so
00:18:05.13\00:18:08.95
bad, but cured ham,
loot at that. Wow! And,
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one thing about most
foods in a can are gonna
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high in sodium because
the peas there, they're
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frozen, that's 70,
but when you put them in
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the can, they go way
up. Can foods are always,
00:18:20.59\00:18:23.88
somebody said because
they've to cook them, and
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when you cook them,
you take away some of the
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flavors, so they add
salt in to get back some of
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that flavor.
Chinese, rice style Chinese, a
00:18:30.64\00:18:34.84
whole bunch of
sodium, look at that, and then
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dairy products, of
course have a lot of sodium many
00:18:37.20\00:18:39.02
times in them.
That's right, is there
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another one up there,
that will see the next
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one. I don't think to
have another one I think
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this is the one that
kind of gives us a sample,
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but there is all kinds
of them. Even pastries,
00:18:46.32\00:18:48.71
you have down here.
Danish pastries, 371,
00:18:48.74\00:18:51.52
man some of these
things they look and they, they
00:18:51.55\00:18:56.14
taste good, but we've
to be careful. We've to be
00:18:56.17\00:18:58.41
careful. And,
specially as you say, if you
00:18:58.44\00:19:00.58
know, that you've
high blood pressure, you
00:19:00.61\00:19:02.53
need to take steps to
control it, and one of
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the steps is being
very sensitive to salt, be
00:19:05.06\00:19:07.57
careful. Now, you're
the Health Ministries
00:19:07.60\00:19:09.41
Director for the
North American Division.
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Right. And, you know,
Adventists are known for
00:19:11.14\00:19:14.99
two things, the
Sabbath, you know, and also
00:19:15.02\00:19:18.43
they're known for,
for their health habits.
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Habits, yes.
And, you want to talk
00:19:20.97\00:19:22.86
just little bit
about what the blessing of
00:19:22.89\00:19:26.25
being a Seventh-day
Adventists or at least
00:19:26.28\00:19:27.66
following those health
principles could be and
00:19:27.69\00:19:30.05
you've down here a
graphic about the recent
00:19:30.08\00:19:33.02
article in the
National Geographic. Yeah, I was
00:19:33.05\00:19:35.77
little pleased with
this National Geographic, the
00:19:35.80\00:19:39.46
cover story was the
secrets. The secrets of
00:19:39.49\00:19:42.04
living longer and they
feature three groups in
00:19:42.07\00:19:45.29
here, they are feature
the, the Sardinians from
00:19:45.32\00:19:48.95
Italy, and the feature
the Okanawa from Japan, and
00:19:48.98\00:19:51.77
then the feature the
Seventh-day Adventists.
00:19:51.80\00:19:53.17
And, I was just
overwhelmed, they print
00:19:53.20\00:19:58.80
about 22 millions
copies of this magazine. Lot of
00:19:58.83\00:20:02.44
people see that. Lot
of people and they, there
00:20:02.47\00:20:03.93
was a follow up on
ABC twice and the CNN
00:20:03.96\00:20:08.07
had a, Anderson Cooper
had a segment on it and I was
00:20:08.10\00:20:10.81
just overwhelmed. And,
the article it says that
00:20:10.84\00:20:15.00
the Seventh-day Adventists
are the longest living
00:20:15.03\00:20:17.63
Americans. That's
right. And, now you told me, in
00:20:17.66\00:20:20.48
your own family, you've
some pretty long living, I
00:20:20.51\00:20:22.80
mean this profiled more
the look like Caucasians
00:20:22.83\00:20:25.84
in the article, but
African- American, Seventh-day
00:20:25.87\00:20:28.96
Adventists live a long time too.
00:20:28.99\00:20:30.28
And, that's what I, I
like about it, as you see
00:20:30.31\00:20:33.68
it didn't come out in
the story that this lifestyle
00:20:33.71\00:20:36.50
effects all
cultures, effect all races,
00:20:36.53\00:20:40.10
the lifestyle, the
new style of lifestyle,
00:20:40.13\00:20:43.62
a plant based diet,
runs across and brings
00:20:43.65\00:20:50.20
better health to, no
matter, who follows it.
00:20:50.23\00:20:51.78
Now, you tell me, one
of your aunts was a 107.
00:20:51.81\00:20:54.42
My father lived to be
93, which is long for man and
00:20:54.45\00:20:58.87
I had one of my father's
mother's sisters lived to
00:20:58.90\00:21:03.26
be 99, another lived
to be a 100, one 104 and
00:21:03.29\00:21:07.45
one lived to be a
107, if she lived another
00:21:07.48\00:21:09.52
month, she would be
an 108. Wow! I hope,
00:21:09.55\00:21:11.97
I've her genes. Now,
you know, you, you, you told
00:21:12.00\00:21:14.75
me how old you're, I don't
wanna bring that on television,
00:21:14.78\00:21:16.85
but you. I don't
mind telling my age.
00:21:16.88\00:21:18.78
How? 67 on my next birthday.
You don't even look 67,
00:21:18.81\00:21:21.56
I mean I look
older than you do on the
00:21:21.59\00:21:24.33
camera, you look good to
me. Well! Thank you. We'll,
00:21:24.36\00:21:27.42
pay you for that
afterwards, but so, so this,
00:21:27.45\00:21:29.92
this what are the
things about the Adventists,
00:21:29.95\00:21:32.44
so called Adventists
lifestyle that can help
00:21:32.47\00:21:35.86
us with hypertension.
Well, in this slide,
00:21:35.89\00:21:38.98
we've been following
Adventists for many, many
00:21:39.01\00:21:40.92
years, since we've had
that, we've had the first
00:21:40.95\00:21:44.17
1960 to 1985. We
had a study done in
00:21:44.20\00:21:47.50
Lomaland, we called
them the mortality study.
00:21:47.53\00:21:49.26
And, they compared
Seventh-day Adventists
00:21:49.29\00:21:52.14
with Californians.
The American Cancrum
00:21:52.17\00:21:55.57
provided those
people and we were shown to
00:21:55.60\00:21:58.98
live a longer time
and then we did the first
00:21:59.01\00:22:01.01
health study in
1974-1988, and over
00:22:01.04\00:22:05.90
and over 200
scientific studies have been
00:22:05.93\00:22:08.04
produced showing the,
the results of that, and the
00:22:08.07\00:22:14.20
results show that we
can get ten years just by
00:22:14.23\00:22:18.80
following five little
things. What are these
00:22:18.83\00:22:22.21
five things. Regular exercise.
00:22:22.24\00:22:23.39
Eating a
plant-based diet, eating small
00:22:23.42\00:22:26.65
amounts of nuts
regularly, maintaining
00:22:26.68\00:22:28.82
normal body weight,
and then not smoking
00:22:28.85\00:22:31.14
So, then this is what you've
been talking about, exercise,
00:22:31.17\00:22:33.75
plant-based diet, all
these different things
00:22:33.78\00:22:36.21
that are also good
for hypertension as well.
00:22:36.24\00:22:38.45
Good for hypertension.
And, now the interesting
00:22:38.48\00:22:43.08
about plant-based
diet is very low in salt,
00:22:43.11\00:22:46.31
very few, very little
sodium in a plant-based
00:22:46.34\00:22:52.17
food, where as big
foods have lots of, of
00:22:52.20\00:22:56.17
sodium and of
course not smoking.
00:22:56.20\00:22:57.83
We've a graphic
here that I want to just
00:22:57.86\00:23:00.61
show you here.
You know, we've all
00:23:00.64\00:23:03.20
kinds of
Adventists, and if you take the
00:23:03.23\00:23:05.88
Adventists who don't
follow those five habits
00:23:05.91\00:23:09.07
You can see that
there is a ten. Difference
00:23:09.10\00:23:12.08
Ten year. Yeah, the ones
that are do better, the best
00:23:12.11\00:23:15.29
is 87 years for
man, 88 for women, but
00:23:15.32\00:23:18.94
when they do
poor, it drops ten years
00:23:18.97\00:23:21.02
doesn't. That's
right. And, we, we classify
00:23:21.05\00:23:23.06
the better as those
who are following those
00:23:23.09\00:23:25.06
five habits, exercising,
keeping the body weight,
00:23:25.09\00:23:28.04
plant-based diet,
so forth, so a ten year
00:23:28.07\00:23:30.67
difference can come
about just by following
00:23:30.70\00:23:34.36
those five habits.
A lot of people were
00:23:34.39\00:23:36.94
a little bit concerned,
when you saw one about
00:23:36.97\00:23:38.85
nuts and somebody said,
well you're a little bit
00:23:38.88\00:23:42.09
nuts, but we're
finding out that nuts
00:23:42.12\00:23:43.76
actually produce
the largest lifestyle
00:23:43.79\00:23:47.71
difference, adding nuts
into your diet, it lowers
00:23:47.74\00:23:51.37
your blood pressure, a
man who eats nuts five times
00:23:51.40\00:23:54.55
a week has less heart
disease, there are all
00:23:54.58\00:23:57.37
kinds of chemicals,
all kinds of vitamins,
00:23:57.40\00:23:59.86
all kinds of
phytochemicals, that's what
00:23:59.89\00:24:02.03
I mean, phytochemicals
in nuts and vitamins
00:24:02.06\00:24:04.35
and so, I don't know, are
you eating your nuts at least
00:24:04.38\00:24:07.62
five times a week.
You know, when I was
00:24:07.65\00:24:08.62
working as a nurse in
the hospital, a number
00:24:08.63\00:24:10.29
of years ago. You know,
what they called me, they
00:24:10.32\00:24:12.19
called me a
peanut, because I brought
00:24:12.22\00:24:14.53
nuts every time,
they say your one of those
00:24:14.56\00:24:15.89
peanuts. Oh! And,
now I see that, that
00:24:15.92\00:24:18.39
was a compliment,
back then I thought
00:24:18.42\00:24:19.45
maybe that's not
so nice, you know.
00:24:19.48\00:24:21.18
Well, the study
actually was actually talking
00:24:21.21\00:24:25.94
about tree nuts. Tree nuts.
00:24:25.97\00:24:27.36
More so the peanuts.
Well, that they would
00:24:27.39\00:24:29.43
just call me a peanut,
I was eating tree nuts,
00:24:29.46\00:24:31.50
they were calling
me a peanut. Okay.
00:24:31.53\00:24:33.63
But now you guys that
were calling me that, you can
00:24:33.66\00:24:36.22
see, that was
really good what I was
00:24:36.25\00:24:38.52
doing. That was good,
yeah, so nuts, add them
00:24:38.55\00:24:42.44
into your diet. Okay, then you,
00:24:42.47\00:24:44.95
you said that,
there is a one of the
00:24:44.98\00:24:46.34
discoveries they made
in the Adventist Health
00:24:46.37\00:24:47.98
study was one of the
first time ever they made
00:24:48.01\00:24:50.58
a discovery. I think
you have a graphic on that.
00:24:50.61\00:24:52.44
On water? Yeah.
5 glasses of water
00:24:52.47\00:24:55.56
a day, and. Does that
help with hypertension?
00:24:55.59\00:24:59.10
It help for hypertension,
hypertension, the blood can get
00:24:59.13\00:25:03.43
thick, especially,
during the night, you know,
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you, most people
don't drink water
00:25:07.17\00:25:08.14
at night, when they
try to stop cutting,
00:25:08.15\00:25:10.79
they you wanna start
cutting down on water
00:25:10.82\00:25:12.33
before they go to
bed, and so we don't
00:25:12.36\00:25:13.96
have to get up, and so
actually in the morning
00:25:13.99\00:25:16.05
your blood is quite
thick and most heart attacks
00:25:16.08\00:25:18.96
occur probably
before 10 'O clock in the
00:25:18.99\00:25:21.64
morning, because
the blood is thick.
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Dehydrated.
Dehydrated and so, when
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you get up in the
morning you ought to drink two
00:25:27.41\00:25:29.55
glasses of warm
water, and kind of thin the
00:25:29.58\00:25:32.31
blood out, the
heart doesn't have to pump
00:25:32.34\00:25:34.08
so hard and doesn't.
You know, what you're
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saying is exactly
right. When I worked in an
00:25:36.65\00:25:38.63
emergency department,
most of the heart attacks,
00:25:38.66\00:25:40.27
7 to 11 AM, that's right. People
coming in and the ambulance is
00:25:40.30\00:25:44.05
all heart attack,
all dehydrated, that's
00:25:44.08\00:25:46.53
good advise. Hey, look
you know. And then they
00:25:46.56\00:25:47.86
eat that big
breakfast of bacon and eggs and
00:25:47.89\00:25:50.86
and fried biscuits
or whatever you know,
00:25:50.89\00:25:53.82
and they end up in
the emergency rooms, it's
00:25:53.85\00:25:54.82
good for the business
of the hospital, but if
00:25:54.83\00:25:56.66
you wanna put
the hospitals out of
00:25:56.69\00:25:57.85
business, drink that
water. Hey, thank you,
00:25:57.88\00:26:00.59
so much for
spending time to be with us,
00:26:00.62\00:26:02.26
you know, as the
Health Ministries Director,
00:26:02.29\00:26:04.35
you trained people,
those I want to mention those
00:26:04.38\00:26:08.10
summits again and
they can always go to
00:26:08.13\00:26:10.33
plus line or they
can go to the website
00:26:10.36\00:26:12.03
for the North
American Division, and they can
00:26:12.06\00:26:14.36
figure out, what's
happening, how they
00:26:14.39\00:26:16.04
can get trained.
Could we just say, put
00:26:16.07\00:26:19.23
in a little plug
about the Adventist
00:26:19.26\00:26:20.49
Health study two.
I was gonna mention
00:26:20.52\00:26:22.36
that, yeah. Okay.
Look, that's, that's
00:26:22.39\00:26:24.33
going on a lot of
our members, we were and
00:26:24.36\00:26:27.77
trying very hard
to, to get a 125,000
00:26:27.80\00:26:31.11
people. I don't
know, where that's gonna be
00:26:31.14\00:26:33.78
when you see the
program, but there is
00:26:33.81\00:26:35.19
always ongoing
studies of Adventists because
00:26:35.22\00:26:37.77
of the benefits we
see, and no matter when you
00:26:37.80\00:26:40.77
see this program,
just you know, look on the
00:26:40.80\00:26:42.85
website, call the
general conference,
00:26:42.88\00:26:44.87
call the little
Linda school of health,
00:26:44.90\00:26:46.49
whatever and you
could be above and doesn't
00:26:46.52\00:26:48.88
matter, if you're
doing everything right,
00:26:48.91\00:26:50.33
does it. No, you
can have, whatever your
00:26:50.36\00:26:52.06
lifestyle,
that's how we compare.
00:26:52.09\00:26:53.72
You know, we've
Adventist, who are,
00:26:53.75\00:26:56.42
who are not
vegetarians, and we've some
00:26:56.45\00:26:58.57
Adventists who are
vegans, and we've some
00:26:58.60\00:27:00.27
Adventists who
only clean. Right.
00:27:00.30\00:27:02.22
And, so we've
some Adventists who eat
00:27:02.25\00:27:04.34
anything. They've
fallen off the wagon.
00:27:04.37\00:27:06.18
Fallen off the wagon
and the only way we can
00:27:06.21\00:27:08.31
find out that is
to compare. Right.
00:27:08.34\00:27:11.55
And, so we what
and especially African-
00:27:11.58\00:27:13.57
American, we've a
cohort of 45000 particularly
00:27:13.60\00:27:18.14
put into this new
Adventist Health Study,
00:27:18.17\00:27:19.92
and we're not doing
too well in getting the
00:27:19.95\00:27:21.63
the service return to
us. So, if you've not signed
00:27:21.66\00:27:25.30
up, now it's the
time to sign up. Hey thank
00:27:25.33\00:27:27.16
you, so much first of
all for providing what
00:27:27.19\00:27:31.39
you do at the you
know, division level for
00:27:31.42\00:27:35.30
health and beating
the drum, but you know,
00:27:35.33\00:27:37.92
more importantly, as
I talk with you, you,
00:27:37.95\00:27:39.55
you've taken the
message that you preach and you
00:27:39.58\00:27:41.79
put into your own
life. Thank you, very much,
00:27:41.82\00:27:43.69
it's a joy for me to be here.
00:27:43.72\00:27:44.85
And, we're glad that
you've been here with
00:27:44.88\00:27:46.86
us and we're glad
that you've been here with
00:27:46.89\00:27:48.16
us, and if you haven't
become a part of that study,
00:27:48.19\00:27:50.89
become a part of
it now, follow these
00:27:50.92\00:27:52.98
habits and I know,
you'll have health that lasts
00:27:53.01\00:27:55.78
for a lifetime.
00:27:55.81\00:27:56.78