Welcome to "Healthy Living!"
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I'm your host Margot Marshall.
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What are the secrets of the
longest living people on earth?
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And what can you do now to
improve not only the chances
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of reaching 100 but getting
there with less disabilities.
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Stay tuned for the answers!
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Life is very precious
and quality of life is
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equally important!
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My guest today has first
hand experience in helping
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people to lead
longer, healthier lives.
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Welcome Dr. Eddie
Ramirez! Thank you!
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Tell us the secrets
that you have for us today.
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Well, there is a lot of research
today trying to find out
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what we can do in
order to reach 100.
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One of the latest
principles that have come out,
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at the University of Florida,
(there is a hospital there
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that is called "Celebrations,"
you can Google it if you're
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interested on the
topic), have come out with word
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"CREATION" that talks
about those eight principles,
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and every one of those
letters has something to do with
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a good principle.
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Like an acronym. That's right!
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So the "C"
would be for "choice;"
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the "R" would be for "rest;"
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the "E" would be
for "environment;"
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Oh I was thinking you
were going to say "exercise"
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actually, so environment, yes.
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"A" for "activity;" the
"T" would be the "trust;"
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and then we have
"interpersonal relationships;"
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then "outlook,"
and then "nutrition."
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Wow, that's beautiful!
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A really good lineup of
things that all play a role.
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Some of those are interesting,
you know - the interpersonal
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relationships and that's
very much what we like to
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promote in this program
because mental, physical,
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and spiritual health-
that's all of who we really are
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and they all blend in together
and they impact on each other.
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So it's really good to
come from different angles
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for whole person
health, that sounds beautiful.
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If you notice, the very
first one was about choice,
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and whenever we have
choice, we need to make
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a decision, so all change
needs to start with a decision.
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You have to decide and I say
this in the clinical practice.
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I know that if there's a
smoker there, if he says, "Well,
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maybe I'll quit smoking,"
it's not going to happen.
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It needs to be with all
your heart, then change can
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happen in you.
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And what happens is that
sometimes we human beings
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are a little bit reluctant
to make changes, yet we need
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changes to be prosperous.
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And you know, the part of
the brain that plays a very
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important role regarding
your decisions - it's called the
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"frontal lobe" of your brain.
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Before you go on with
that, you're talking about
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decisions and choices and so
on, and change, and I remember
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reading somewhere once
that two laws of change;
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change is inevitable
and change will be resisted,
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even a change for the better.
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That's right! Strangely enough.
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That fascinated me that we
would resist a change that was
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going to make
life better, but we do.
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After working for 23 years
in lifestyle centers in Europe,
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in Africa, in America - I've
seen that with my very own eyes.
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And you know, we actually have
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the hardware to
make good decisions.
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For example, a cat has only 3.5
of his brain is frontal lobes.
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A dog is 7%, who does more
tricks, the cat or the dog?
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Definitely the dog!
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Now, who can do more
tricks, a monkey or a dog?
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I haven't really seen
a monkey doing tricks.
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Well maybe because you don't
have too many here in Australia.
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Well no, we don't
but I do love them.
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Seventeen percent of the
chimpanzee is frontal lobe.
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That's why monkeys can
actually do more complex things
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than a dog, but you know...
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And the frontal lobe is the
executive part of the brain.
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Executive part of
the brain where you
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take the choices and so forth.
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And whenever people say
that "You came from monkeys
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and so forth - well there's
actually a huge difference
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between what a monkey
is and what a human is.
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A human has 33% of the
whole brain is frontal lobes.
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So you have the hardware
there to make good decisions.
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The physical part is there.
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You just have to decide to make
the change, then it can happen.
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Right and so the other
part of the brain that tends
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to want to take charge is
the feeling-part of the brain,
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(that's right), the emotional
part of the brain and we
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often say, "I don't
feel like doing that,"
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and that then takes control,
that's not a good thing.
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So you have three parts of
your brain that play a very
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important role - you have
your frontal lobes, that one
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asks the question -
"Is it correct, yes or no?"
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Then you have the other
part of the brain that is not
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frontal lobe, that is that
limbic system - that one asks
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the question - "Is
it logical, yes or no?"
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And the limbic system asks the
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question - "Do I
like it, yes or no?"
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Yes and that's it,
that's all it does.
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And see, you need to use
those three parts of your brain
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to make good decisions.
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Sometimes there are
things that you may like,
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yet you need, so we have
three counselors which are
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called, "Judgment,
Reason and Conscience."
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So judgment has to
do with the question:
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"Is this the best for me?"
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See, when you go to the
store, don't ask the question,
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"What's wrong with this?"
No, that's the wrong question.
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Ask the question, "What
is the best? I want the best
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for me." In that way,
judgment will work properly.
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Then you have reason.
Reason has to do with taking
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into account all the different
factors and then you make
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a decision - that's why
you need to be very careful
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what kind of information
you put in your head.
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I see this very often
in medical consultation.
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People go to the internet
and start reading all kinds of
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pseudoscience and
they believe it's true.
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Be very careful - use
reason properly because
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bad information
will give bad behavior.
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And as I recently
saw in a doctor's office,
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it said, "You will be
charged an extra $20 for
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diagnosis found
on the internet."
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Self-diagnosis
found on the internet.
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Be careful, use
your reason correctly.
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And finally, we
have the conscience part.
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Conscience has to do with the
moral and ethics side of things.
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For a Christian, this
would be the question - "Is this
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the will of God or not?"
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So that will was a special gift
that God gave to human beings
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at the very beginning.
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And what happens is
that when you have true love,
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you have to decide if
it's related to something
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related with love.
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You have to have the
possibility of saying, "No."
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For example, I've never
seen a couple that tells me
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how he proposed to his
wife; he didn't get his hand
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and twist the hand of the future
wife and say, "You have to
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say "yes," you
have to say "yes."
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It doesn't work like that, you
know, it doesn't work like that.
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You have to have
that ability of choosing,
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and God in His
infinite love provides us with
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that reflection of His
love in us so that we could
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take decisions and love.
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And the thing is that,
you know, if there's no love,
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there's no happiness and
that's why we need to have
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love in our lives.
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Love others and have the
ability to let others love us.
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Yes, and it's interesting, I
mean, sometimes when we think
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of love, we think of
fluffy feelings and that's
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from a different part of
the brain and that's nice,
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that comes, but the Bible
also talks about what love is.
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It gives a beautiful definition
in Corinthians - it's patient,
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it's kind - all those
lovely things and it doesn't do
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any harm and it doesn't
keep a record of wrongs. Yes!
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You know, all those sorts
of things and that's really
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more about what love actually
is and it brings with it
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some fluffy
feelings too. That's right!
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But that's not the basis...
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And that's not the basis,
you know, it is a decision
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that you need to take.
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And you know, God made
human beings and put them
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in a perfect environment;
everything was nice;
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air was fresh; food was healthy;
relationships were great,
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but still human beings
needed to take a decision.
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And you know, that
decision was based on two trees.
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You had the tree of life
which actually today could be
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representing all those good
decisions that you need to take;
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everything that is good
for you, that is life-giving.
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But then you also have
the decision of the tree of
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knowledge of good and evil.
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And you know, that represented
those poor choices that
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sometimes we take that
unfortunately have negative
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consequences, unhealthy
consequences and life-destroying
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practices.
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And God never wanted
us to partake of that.
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And as we went ahead and
disobeyed the will of God,
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we got ourselves in big
trouble. (Really big trouble!)
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And sin was
introduced in the picture.
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I can illustrate this with
you; as a mother that bakes
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some good-smelling cookies
and she puts them in a jar,
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and she says, "Johnny, I
need to go out of the house
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for a minute, please
don't eat the cookies."
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So the mother goes out and
it's taking longer, Johnny goes
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and starts to open the jar
and as he is starting to put his
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hand in the jar, he
hears the door being opened.
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Question - Where
does Johnny want his mom
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to be at that moment? Laughter!
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In the North Pole or
if possible, on the moon,
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isn't it? Probably one of those.
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That's what sin does to us.
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Sin creates separation
and that's why God never
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intended that door to be opened.
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It was not that God
didn't want to give us something
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special and so forth,
God never intended that
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door of pain; of suffering;
of pollution; of death;
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of sickness to be opened.
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That's why we need to be
very careful on the decisions
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that we take because our
choices do have consequences.
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They do. Good or bad.
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In the same way, you
don't want to base your life
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on bad decisions because -
as I tell my patients, sooner
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or later, the bill will
come to you and especially
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sometimes young people
they feel indestructible and
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their behavior and
practices may testify of that,
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but I can tell you,
sooner or later the bill comes.
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I'm surprised to see sometimes
people that are my age,
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my friends, some of them
so sick taking all kinds of
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medications and feeling
tired and so forth - there is
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no need for that.
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You look remarkable for your age
and I think it's alright to say
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you're 43 but you
look absolutely amazing,
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and that is a credit
to your lifestyle and to
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all the good
choices that you have made.
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As I tell my patients, "I
don't want to be a hypocrite."
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If I'm telling you to do
sometime, it is because I am
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doing that thing in my life.
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So when sin gets introduced in
the picture, spiritually we know
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we separated ourselves
from God; physically, disease
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came on;
emotionally, stress and anxiety,
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and relationship
problems came on.
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The relationship fell down as
soon as it happened, didn't it?
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They started blaming each
other, it's like, "Oh, not me,
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it's not my
fault, it's their fault."
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And that was an
immediate thing, so yes, it does
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and all of those things are
affected - the relationships
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and our physical health, our
mental health and, of course,
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just like, you know,
Johnny didn't want his mom
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to be there, they hid
from God. That's right!
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So all of those aspects of
our being impact in one event
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they're all mixed in
together and we can't do one
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and not have them all
affected for good, as you said
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or negatively.
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So our goal should be to
try to understand what type of
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lifestyle was taking place
at the very beginning and try
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to pattern our
lifestyle as much as possible
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on that - regarding
diet; regarding exercise;
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regarding rest; regarding
relationships and so forth.
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There are blessings in that!
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That's what I like about
the Bible - as you read its
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pages, there are good
examples and bad examples.
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The bad examples are there
so that you can avoid falling
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in the same pits
that certain people fell,
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and there are good examples.
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For example, in Genesis, we
see the negative consequences
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of uncontrolled anger
resulting in the death
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of the first human being.
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Also, Psalms talks about
what happens with uncontrolled
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passion - how relationships
were affected in the case of
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David and pain and even death
resulted as a result of that.
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So bad consequences...
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But you're talking about
when he saw Uriah's wife,
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you know, he committed adultery
and then she got pregnant,
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and he tried to hide it and
couldn't, so he had the husband
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killed (That's right!) and then,
of course, it all came back
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against him and it
was a very bad experience.
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Or Judas - you know,
uncontrolled greed took him
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to the point that he
actually traded Jesus
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for just some pieces of
metal called "silver," you know.
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But also the Bible
also has examples of people
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that even had pathological
families in the example of
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Joseph, you know, a
very pathological family,
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yet the choices that he
took sooner or later they gave
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good consequences and you can
see that he became one of the
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highest officials in Egypt
or Daniel, you know, he purposes
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in his heart that he would
not defile himself with the wine
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or the food of those Babylonians
and God blessed them.
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I think that's the absolute
key, he purposed in his heart
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and he made that decision
that choice before he was ever
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confronted with the temptation.
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And I think that's a big
secret, if you wait until
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the cookies come out or
whatever it is, whatever it is,
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it's very difficult but if ahead
of time you think, " this is
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what I am going to
do; this is what I'm not
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going to do," and that's your
line in the sand - in your mind,
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and you just draw
that line. That's right!
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And I believe that's the
secret, whatever it is...
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So remember, all change
starts with good decisions.
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Now some people will say,
"Well it's because I have bad
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genetics, doctor, you
don't understand this."
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"My father died of heart
disease; mother died of cancer;
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there's a lot of
disease in my family."
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Well, we're realizing that
genes actually account only for
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20% of your health.
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You know there's a study that
took place actually not too far
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from where I'm
currently living, it's called,
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"Alameda Longevity Study," and
we can see that on the screen.
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They found out that people
that follow these habits - you
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actually
predicted their longevity:
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And let me share with you
a very interesting graphic.
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That graphic tells
you how you can actually
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predict that longevity.
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In this graphic, for example,
you can see that a 20-year-old
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that has zero to 2
habits, (you see it on the red),
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he is not 20, he is
actually 34 and if you notice,
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the older you get,
the more the implications.
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Somebody that is 70
years old that has 5 habits,
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he is going to have about
71, but if he has the 7 habits
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that I've just mentioned,
he's actually going to be
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52 years old in real age.
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Compared to someone
who doesn't have any,...7,
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that's a 45 year differential.
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That is a huge
effect! A massive difference.
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And the older you get,
the bigger the effect that
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it has for good or for bad.
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And this is just in
you quality of life.
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And really, that becomes so
important, and unfortunately,
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Eddie, sometimes we have to lose
some measure of our wellness
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before we really appreciate
quality of life, so that's huge.
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I mean a 45
differential is terrible.
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I know what some people
may be thinking right now.
00:19:38.97\00:19:41.84
They may be saying, "You
know doctor, what were those
00:19:41.88\00:19:44.65
7 habits - I didn't copy them."
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So let's show them on the
screen, those 7 habits again:
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They are actually very common
sense when you think about it,
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but not all that common.
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So "National Geographic"
was interested in finding out
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where the longest
living people on earth were.
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And, in fact, you can actually
Google that article for free.
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That's actually a nice,
little, short video that I
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recommend you watch.
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If you type in your
Google, "Living Longer National
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Geographic," it will
bring you to that online version
00:20:29.96\00:20:34.60
of the article - "Living
Longer National Geographic."
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And there, it talks about
three cultures of longevity;
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in Japan - in Okinawa, Japan;
also in Italy - way in the
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mountains - not the whole island
but there's a small population
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there in the island of Sardinia;
and finally they were surprised
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that in America, in the
Western world, in the east of
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Los Angeles, there's a
small community there of
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"Seventh-day Adventists"
in Loma Linda, California.
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You can go to the
"National Geographic" page,
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I'm not making this up
and Dan Buettner, the author
00:21:14.74\00:21:20.14
of this research, he
wrote a whole book called,
00:21:20.18\00:21:24.51
"The Blue Zones."
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And the interesting,
fascinating thing about those
00:21:26.35\00:21:29.22
"Seventh-day Adventists"
that live in Loma Linda,
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I do lots of research and
actually met a researcher of
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the environment in America
and he told me that Loma Linda
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is one of the most
polluted places in America,
00:21:41.00\00:21:44.63
the reason being is that Los
Angeles is close to the ocean,
00:21:44.67\00:21:49.27
and as the winds push all that
smoke, Loma Linda is surrounded
00:21:49.30\00:21:54.44
by mountains, so all that
smoke stays in Loma Linda.
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You have one of the most
polluted places in America
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yet you have one of the longest
living people in America.
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So universities and
governments around the world
00:22:08.12\00:22:13.19
wanted to know what are
they doing that is causing
00:22:13.23\00:22:17.57
that amazing longevity.
00:22:17.60\00:22:19.57
And you know, today
there's more than 50 years of
00:22:19.60\00:22:23.10
research, and you can actually
find this - it's called,
00:22:23.14\00:22:25.77
"Adventist Health Studies."
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And they have found out
that there is, nowadays, in the
00:22:27.98\00:22:32.55
database, more than
100,000 people that have
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been studied and this
is what they found out.
00:22:36.42\00:22:39.55
They found out that
these "Seventh-day Adventists"
00:22:39.59\00:22:43.86
live 10 years or more
than the average American.
00:22:43.89\00:22:48.90
The ones that also live in the
00:22:48.93\00:22:50.83
area, yes. That's
right, that's right!
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You know they are not
isolated from all of the
00:22:52.70\00:22:55.34
temptations, all the
availability of other choices.
00:22:55.37\00:22:58.84
So it's a choice that they make.
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Yes and as my professor said
when I was studying medicine,
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going to an American market
can be harmful to your health.
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You have all kinds of access
there - sugars and white flour,
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whatever you want is
there in those markets.
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So yes, you know, they
are exposed to those types
00:23:15.79\00:23:19.13
of temptations.
00:23:19.16\00:23:20.76
And you know, back in
the 60s, they did a study,
00:23:20.80\00:23:23.73
one of the first Adventist
mortality studies and they
00:23:23.77\00:23:30.54
found out that males
were living 6.2 years more
00:23:30.57\00:23:35.24
than the average American.
00:23:35.28\00:23:37.28
But then, the latest,
latest study and, in fact,
00:23:37.31\00:23:41.35
if you are somebody that watches
the news or reads the newspaper,
00:23:41.38\00:23:45.69
you have seen the
results of these studies.
00:23:45.72\00:23:48.16
CNN, Fox News, NBC, Australian
Outlets and newspapers
00:23:48.19\00:23:54.66
and all over the world
have reported the amazing
00:23:54.70\00:23:59.00
results of these studies.
00:23:59.03\00:24:00.50
So let's go through some
of the fascinating facts that
00:24:00.54\00:24:04.11
these studies have shed on the
lifestyle of these Adventists.
00:24:04.14\00:24:10.01
We can see, for example,
that mortality in all cancers
00:24:10.05\00:24:13.42
among males is 60% LESS,
you know, compared to the
00:24:13.45\00:24:17.49
average population. Fantastic!
00:24:17.52\00:24:19.05
Mortality on all
cancers among females 76% less.
00:24:19.09\00:24:24.83
Also, they found the importance
of eating whole grains.
00:24:24.86\00:24:30.63
Eating whole grains decreased
the risk of a fatal heart attack
00:24:30.67\00:24:34.94
in 45%.
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That's a huge reduction!
00:24:37.67\00:24:39.81
That is fabulous!
00:24:39.84\00:24:41.34
It's almost half, isn't it?
00:24:41.38\00:24:42.84
And also drinking
water has an effect.
00:24:42.88\00:24:46.55
Five or more glasses of
water reduced the risk of
00:24:46.58\00:24:51.02
a heart attack by 50%.
00:24:51.05\00:24:53.56
What a simple product, I
mean. That's right! Water!
00:24:54.42\00:24:57.63
And it's just so valuable.
00:24:57.66\00:24:59.29
And then tomatoes - the
males that ate the most tomatoes
00:24:59.33\00:25:04.17
reduced their risk of
prostate cancer by 40%.
00:25:04.20\00:25:08.24
And if you replace
your dairy for soymilk,
00:25:08.27\00:25:11.87
among males, you reduce
the risk of prostate cancer
00:25:11.91\00:25:15.84
by 70% - a cancer that
is extremely common here
00:25:15.88\00:25:21.72
in Australia,
unfortunately. Yes, very common.
00:25:21.75\00:25:24.25
And you know, if you
analyze this group of people,
00:25:24.29\00:25:29.16
they're not just one race -
you know, you cannot just say
00:25:29.19\00:25:32.79
"Oh it's just white," no there
are Hispanics, there is Asian,
00:25:32.83\00:25:36.93
there is African - all
kinds of people composed the
00:25:36.97\00:25:41.00
Seventh-day Adventists.
00:25:41.04\00:25:43.07
And not all the Seventh-day
Adventists grew in the same way.
00:25:43.10\00:25:47.81
There are some that
didn't grow as Adventists
00:25:47.84\00:25:50.78
and later on chose to become an
Adventist and if you eliminate
00:25:50.81\00:25:55.32
those people that were eating
lots of cheese, lots of dairy,
00:25:55.35\00:25:59.99
lots of meat that in the
past, they partook of lots of
00:26:00.02\00:26:03.76
alcohol or drugs - that
actually the longevity goes
00:26:03.79\00:26:07.66
to 10, 12 or even
more years compared
00:26:07.70\00:26:10.50
to the average American.
00:26:10.53\00:26:12.37
So what are they
doing, these Adventists?
00:26:12.40\00:26:14.94
They're not smoking; they
follow a plant-based diet;
00:26:14.97\00:26:18.37
they consume nuts;
they do regular exercise,
00:26:18.41\00:26:22.61
and they keep a healthy weight.
00:26:22.64\00:26:24.91
And one very important
factor, they found out,
00:26:24.95\00:26:28.58
is that the way that the faith
they live - having faith in God
00:26:28.62\00:26:36.16
as they crunched the
numbers, they realized that is
00:26:36.19\00:26:39.16
actually a huge
factor in longevity.
00:26:39.19\00:26:42.40
Yes and that doesn't
surprise me at all because
00:26:42.43\00:26:44.63
in the last 100 years there's
been - oh, I think it's about
00:26:44.67\00:26:48.50
1,200 studies that
show the beneficial effects
00:26:48.54\00:26:52.31
to our physical health from
spirituality - you're probably
00:26:52.34\00:26:56.31
aware of all that
too, I'm sure with all the
00:26:56.34\00:26:58.18
research that you do - yes,
it has a really amazing impact
00:26:58.21\00:27:02.08
on our overall health -
tapping into spirituality.
00:27:02.12\00:27:05.19
So if you want to have
that longevity, I invite you to
00:27:05.22\00:27:09.92
tap into those
spiritual resources.
00:27:09.96\00:27:12.49
In fact, in "National
Geographic," one of the
00:27:12.53\00:27:16.60
characteristics of those
three groups is that they
00:27:16.63\00:27:20.04
had faith in God which
is fascinating, isn't it?
00:27:20.07\00:27:23.57
Yes it is actually because
they weren't all identical
00:27:23.61\00:27:26.98
like the factors that
helped each of the groups
00:27:27.01\00:27:29.34
weren't entirely
identical, but that was one
00:27:29.38\00:27:31.88
that was a common
one that they all had.
00:27:31.91\00:27:35.52
I'd like to teach a Bible
verse for those patients that
00:27:35.55\00:27:38.79
would like to overcome a
certain habit - I teach them:
00:27:38.82\00:27:41.96
Philippians 4:13 which
says, "I can do all things
00:27:41.99\00:27:46.90
through Christ
who strengthens me."
00:27:46.93\00:27:49.66
So focus on a few things,
start making those changes,
00:27:49.70\00:27:53.67
decide for the change
and harvest the good results!
00:27:53.70\00:27:57.24
That's tremendous and,
you know, the Bible - actually
00:27:57.27\00:28:00.64
the same creative
power that brought this world
00:28:00.68\00:28:03.65
into existence is in
actually in God's Words,
00:28:03.68\00:28:05.85
so it's really, really powerful.
00:28:05.88\00:28:08.15
So we wish you a very
long and healthy life!
00:28:08.18\00:28:11.75
And remember that you can
view our programs on demand,
00:28:11.79\00:28:15.26
just visit our website
at 3abnaustralia.org.au
00:28:15.29\00:28:20.26
and click on the watch button.
00:28:20.30\00:28:21.73
And we just hope that
this has been a really helpful
00:28:21.76\00:28:24.40
thing for you and I
hope that you take onboard
00:28:24.43\00:28:27.17
something that you heard
and even think of one thing
00:28:27.20\00:28:29.67
that you could do
right now to give yourself
00:28:29.70\00:28:33.11
a long and healthy life.
00:28:33.14\00:28:35.04