Hello! I'm Dr. Agatha Thrash
and we're going to be talking
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the heart during
the next half and hour.
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The very first thing that makes
a person know that there is a
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child living with a mother is
the heart beat and the very last
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thing that we listen to, to say
that the person is not living
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is also the heart beat.
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So how to take care of the heart
is a very important function
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of living so stay with us and
we will discuss some important
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things during
this next half an hour.
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Welcome to Help
Yourself To health
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With Dr. Agatha Thrash
of Uchee Pines Institute
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and now here is
your host Dr. Thrash.
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Some people call it the ticker,
some people call it the pumper
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but whatever you call it,
it's a most important organ and
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it's care is really
quite simple, there isn't a lot
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to taking care of it, it
all has to do with lifestyle.
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But there are many people who
don't like to take care of the
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heart, it's trouble, sometimes
it is a little foreign to their
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nature but a little bit of
simple care can give you many
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years, many decades, of trouble
free use of your heart and
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with me is Don Miller, he's
going to be talking with you
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about some types of
heart disease, Don Miller!
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- You know you called the heart
the ticker and I remember a
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story back when I was in school,
I was in church one Sabbath
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morning and this is back in the
mid 60's and this was back when
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I guess these new heart valves
and tickers that we put into
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our bodies were pretty new and
I remember the pastor talking
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a man who just had a pacemaker
placed in his chest and it made
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a little ticking noise when
it went off: tick, tick, tick,
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and I remember the
pastor asking him a question:
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He says does that
noise ever bother you?
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And the thought that came
to my mind was I would be much
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more worried about it if I ever
stopped hearing that ticking
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noise, and I'm thankful for that
ticker that always is ticking
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away in my heart, it has been
ticking now for over 55 years
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and I'm thankful for it.
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But there are things that
we do to make the heart go bad
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and some of the things that
we can do, or some of the things
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that result from a bad lifestyle
things like a heart attack
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and basically what happens
there is we get one of the
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coronary arteries in the heart
that's feeding the heart muscle
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itself, every muscle needs blood
supply and our heart has it's
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own blood supply sent by the
heart itself to keep it supplied
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with plenty of blood because
it's one muscle that never
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rests, never
stops, it's always going.
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But if one of those little
coronary arteries gets plugged
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up with fat, the heart beyond
there will die and that's called
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a heart attack.
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Now it's not always
fatal, matter of fact the sooner
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a person gets into medical
help the better it is for that
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person, but there is always
something wrong with that heart
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which will lead down
the line to other problems.
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Let me go back to a situation
that happened in 1987, I was
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visiting a friend and he had
gone into see a doctor and the
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doctor says you are going to
need to have a bypass surgery
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a quadruple bypass, well the
man really didn't want to have
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a quadruple bypass
surgery and so he talked with me
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and he said what should I do
Don, and I said well if you do
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this and this and this and this,
basically start drinking water,
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eat the right type of food,
he used to sit there at night
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time and eat bowls of ice cream
and his spoon was a cookie.
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He would take a cookie and
get a big scoop of ice cream
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and that's the way he would
eat his ice cream every night,
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no exercise, so I got him
exercising, eating the right
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type of diet, off of all
saturated fats, really doing
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well, within three weeks
he dropped eleven pounds,
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he was feeling good, no pain,
so he went back for another
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checkup, well that was a
little bit soon to find any real
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appreciable improvement in
his coronary artery situation
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and another doctor said the
same thing, you got to have a
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quadruple.
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He went to a third doctor and
the third doctor said the magic
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words, if you don't get
a quadruple bypass surgery
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you will be dead in one year.
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Well he went in and got
his quadruple bypass surgery
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which probably he did need
and was not going to stay on the
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lifestyle that we had suggested.
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I remember going to visit this
man in the hospital and it was
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feeding time at the hospital
and he is sitting there with
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this tray of greasy food again,
and I said, what are you doing?
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You know better than that, he
says oh well the doctor gave me
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these pills, he said just take
one of these pills it will take
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care of my problems.
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One pill will not take care of
the problems, I thank the Lord
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that he got the surgery, I thank
the Lord that he did get on to a
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good lifestyle program, exercise
and he lived for quite a number
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of years after that
in quite good shape.
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But later on in his life he
developed the leading cause of
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hospitalizations of people over
65, and that is congestive heart
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failure, basically the heart
has been weakened and now this
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weak heart can no longer
put out the volume of blood,
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can no longer move the
fluids of the body like it is
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supposed to and you start
swelling in the ankles and
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in the legs, fluid backs up into
the lungs, you are tired all
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the time and you have
congestive heart failure,
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which basically does not
go away and it needs to be
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carefully
monitored and taken care of.
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There are other various types
of heart diseases, there are
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things called bradycardia,
where the heartbeat is to slow
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and tachycardia where it beats
to fast, and then there is just
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basically a different type
of itis', we have myocarditis,
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basically an inflammation
of the heart muscle itself,
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you have perocarditis of
the pericardium, that sac that
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surrounds the heart, it gets
inflamed or endocarditis the
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inflammation of the lining of
the heart and the heart valves
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themselves, all these
things are itis' and many times
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they are probably
cause by viral infections.
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When a person gets into
this type of a situation it is
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a serious situation and
so as people say all the time
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the best treatment is
prevention, so we take good care
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of our hearts, we feed it
good foods we take care of it by
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exercising, drinking plenty of
water and as we take care of it
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it's going to take care of
us for a lot longer than we
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normally expect it to, we
normally go by that one place
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in the Bible where it
says, it is given to man to live
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Three Score and Ten, well that's
an average, man is really...
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As science looks at man today
and what he is capable of living
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he is really capable of living
for 120 years and I believe if
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we took care of the heart
through the generations we would
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be seeing people more
often now living to that age
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than they do now, but the heart
is ours and I'm thankful for it.
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We have other hearts, we've
got the right and left leg which
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helps pump that blood
around through our bodies,
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but we need to take care
of this precious organ God has
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given us right there in
the center of our chest and I'm
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thankful for my
heart. Dr. Thrash, are you
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thankful for yours?
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- Oh yes, and the heart is
really not a complex organ, it's
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composed of only four tissues,
muscle, nerves, blood vessels,
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and connective tissue, it
isn't complex like the pancreas
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which has all sorts of
glands and eyelets and ducts and
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various tissues, isn't like
the liver with the complexity
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that it has with all of it's
metabolic nuances and everything
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that must go on there, also
with tubes and glands, and all
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of that kind of thing.
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The heart is a very simple organ
and yet it is responsible for
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more deaths than
any other of our organs.
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There are certain nutrients
that are known to be associated
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with a reduction in your
risk of getting a heart attack
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and folic acid is one of
those, and here with me is
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Valerie Scheriber who is
my associate at Uchee Pines
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she is a lifestyle counselor
and a lifestyle educator and
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she will talk with you now about
some of the important things
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having to do with nutrients
and the heart, Valerie!
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- Folic Acid deficiency may
be caused by inadequacy of fresh
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fruits and vegetables in your
diet, now folic acid plays a
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key role in the body in terms
of homocystine levels and so
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we want to show you today how
you can keep a good folic acid
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in your body.
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You do it by eating the
fresh fruits and vegetables, now
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all you need is about
five servings a day to maintain
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the level that you need in your
body and you do this by eating
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it fresh if at all possible.
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Now one of the things that will
destroy folic acid is by heavily
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cooking it or microwaving it,
now that doesn't mean you can't
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steam your vegetables some,
you can certainly do that but
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it will reduce it slightly,
but it's best if you can do your
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fresh fruits and vegetables,
and it's very easy to do this.
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You can get up in the morning
and have a bowl of cereal
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which now are fortified with
folic acid, you can have two
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fruits, you could have a salad
for lunch and you will get your
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five servings in per day.
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Now I want to show you
what ones are rich, the richest
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source of folic that we
have happens to be in the legume
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family which are your beans,
your garbanzos, your lentils,
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your navy beans, all of those
are very rich in folic acid
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but along with that is
your leafy green, like we
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have right here.
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Spinach is very rich in
folic acid and your other leafy
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green vegetables, and
surprisingly asparagus,
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delicious, asparagus is just
has lots of folic acid in it
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and broccoli, and oranges,
and avocados, and tofu, tomato
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juice, tomatoes, are just
filled with folic acid so you
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can get it in almost all
your vegetables and fruits.
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Now one caution I want to
relate to you, if you happen to
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be a consumer of alcohol or
cigarettes, or you have been
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taking a lot of aspirin products
in your life, or antacids,
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or your on oral contraceptives,
or you've been using any kind
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of anti-cancer drugs, this
can reduce considerably the
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folic acid in your body and
so you need to be aware of this.
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If you have been using these
things in high consumptions
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you could possibly have a very
low folic acid and you want to
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be cautious about this
especially moms if you are
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thinking about conceiving,
folic acid plays a major roll
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in birth defects and
those birth defects happen to be
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Spinal Bifida, they are
the neural tube defects, Spinal
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Bifida, Downs Syndrome, in young
mothers and the Anti-Cephaly
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which means no brain, and
I know a lady that had two
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different births a couple of
years apart and her little boys
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were born with no brain.
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Well back in those days, they
didn't know what was the reason
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for it, but since then research
has shown that it could be
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a folic acid deficiency, so
I encourage you mom's consider
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this for yourself as
well as for your children,
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and all it takes is five
servings of fresh vegetables
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and fruits a day, Dr. Agatha!
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- Now with our understanding
with folic acid we need the
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understanding of a wide variety
of other things and so we can
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see that foods need to be
chosen with great care and so
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Don Miller is going to show
you some things now having to do
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with the way that you
behave yourself at the market,
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and so Don Miller what
do you have here for us?
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- I got some of
my favorite pills!
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- Oh, that's very good!
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- When I was growing up
this was the favorite pill that
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I could take growing up,
and this is a watermelon,
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it has a number of good things
in it watermelon is very high in
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potassium, now when
people have heart problems the
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number one thing they usually
try to do is they say hmm!
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were going to give this person
some pills to make their water
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go out of their
body some diuretics.
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And so they give them these
medications but diuretics really
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are very nicely packaged
in things like watermelons,
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matter of fact just drinking
water is a good diuretic but
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eating watermelon is a good
diuretic and if you take the
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watermelon in the summertime
when there are plenty of these
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things around, there's
watermelons all over right now.
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Take the seeds as you are eating
your watermelon and save them
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at the end of the summer you
can take the watermelon seeds
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and dry them and then in
the winter time grind them up
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and make some watermelon seed
tea, you've got a good diuretic.
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The same thing in the summer
time if you have corn growing
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take the corn and save the silk,
dry the silk slowly in an oven
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powder it and put it in a jar
and make corn silk tea in the
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winter time, a very nice
diuretic for those who are
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having things like congestive
heart failure and need to get
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rid of some of the
fluid in their bodies.
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Now Valerie is a woman and
she has this beautiful display
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and I bring my stuff in an old
grocery bag, but there are some
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wonderful things we
can find in grocery bags.
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Here we have a simple tomato,
now a tomato is full of Lutein,
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so is the watermelon full of
Lutein which we find protects
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the arteries, it also has
Lycopene, as a matter of fact
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let me tell you something about
this tomato, Cornell University
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did a study, they have a
really good nutrition lab there,
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they say that in each tomato
there are over 10,000 different
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phytochemical, phyto
meaning plant and a chemical.
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Everything we eat is a chemical,
you are a chemical, oxygen,
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nitrogen, carbon, they are
all chemicals and so there are
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over 10,000 different
phytochemical in just the
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tomato alone.
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God has put all the medications
that we need in his foods
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if we just eat the
foods like we are supposed to.
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They did a study of men, about
43,000 men and they found that
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those men who ate tomato sauce
two to four times a week had
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35% less prostate cancer, so
run out there and get yourself
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some tomato sauce.
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The nice thing about the
phytochemical like Lutein
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in the tomato is they are
not altered by heating and by
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cooking, God realized that
we were going to want to cook
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some of the food after while
and he's made it so that we can.
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An apple, there are some
marvelous things we can do
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with apples, we were in Ukraine
a number of years ago and we
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found that people had extremely
high blood pressure in a number
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of places, we find that
people with extremely high
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blood pressure, if we put
them on a three day apple fast
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normally their blood
pressure comes down to normal,
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and at that point we say
alright follow this no salt
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diet, no fat diet, and put
them on a good exercise program
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and they can keep it down.
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But for the purpose of the
heart we find that an apple is
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high in Omega 3 fatty
acids, now you have heard about
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Omega 3 fatty acids and if
I would ask you the question
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where do they tell you to
get the Omega 3 fatty acids
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you would say squeeze a fish,
I really don't want to get a
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squeezed fish and get
the oil out of a fish,
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basically the fish was swimming
today in polluted waters.
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When Jacques Cousteau
died they published his memoirs
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and in his memoirs he said,
(this was towards the end of
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his life), that the
world's oceans would be dead
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in 20 years. We
are polluted everywhere
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and fish swimming in polluted
waters are going to themselves
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be polluted by bio-magnification
and bio-intensification and so
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we find that if you want your
Omega 3's you can get it through
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apples, you get it through
walnuts, you can get it through
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flax seed, flax seed is the
best source of Omega 3's that we
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can find.
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We also can find that one of the
nicest heart foods is grapes,
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there is a phytochemical called
Resveratrol in a grape that is a
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product that keeps you
from clotting your blood.
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Normally when a person had a
heart problem or is prone to a
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stroke they will give them
blood thinners, put them on
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an aspirin a day or some other
type of a blood thinner but we
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don't really need to do that
if we are supplementing with
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good foods and not eating foods
that are going to cause our
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blood cells to aggregate
to each other, stick together.
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Another very nice form of
a blood thinner is something
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as simple as garlic, it
has an anti-platlet stickiness
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factor, one clove of raw garlic
a day will give you as much
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anti-platelet stickiness
factor as will an aspirin a day,
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it might also help you
keep the mosquitoes away.
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We find that something like
a green pepper also has Lutein
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in it, this has some very
good phytochemical that protects
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the arteries, now I could pull
out all these kinds of fruits
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and vegetables like the
good old carrot which has
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plant sterols which is going
to protect against cancer for a
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woman, ovarian cancer, or
breast cancer, but at the same
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time, the thing about a
carrot is it is a vegetable.
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That means it has no saturated
fatty acids and no cholesterol,
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nothing in my bag has any
cholesterol in it and so that
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means it is all
heart friendly foods.
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Do you like strawberries?
Again a very good phytochemical
00:18:21.19\00:18:25.16
in here will protect the heart,
no cholesterol, nothing in there
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to harm the heart but everything
to make your heart feel better.
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Another very nice phytochemical
is found in apricots,
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heart friendly, cancer
unfriendly, it's going to keep
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you healthy, all the foods God
has given us, He has given us
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everything to keep us healthy.
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You know the Bible talks in
the book of Revelation about the
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leaves of the trees being
for the healing of the nations
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well right now we got the
fruits of the trees and the
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fruits of the ground, and
we got the fruits all over the
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place that God has given us
to help us be healthy, wealthy,
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and wise, if that's what we
can be, and God has given us
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good foods and I love this
type of medicine Dr. Agatha.
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Matter of fact this is one of
my favorite medicines and I just
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might go over here and
have some medicine right now
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if you don't mind.
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- Well we certainly can enjoy
this kind of medicine and they
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are very good pills now we
are learning something's that we
00:19:19.68\00:19:22.89
keep and some things that we
get rid of, we've already said
00:19:22.92\00:19:26.98
that in order to keep our folate
high we need to get rid of some
00:19:27.02\00:19:31.81
things that we may be
doing and here are some pills,
00:19:31.84\00:19:35.61
these are aspirin and some
antacids and I'm going to give
00:19:35.64\00:19:40.18
these to Melissa and she
can just take these away so that
00:19:40.21\00:19:43.77
we can be sure that you know
that these cigarettes are not
00:19:43.80\00:19:48.23
part of those
things that we recommend.
00:19:48.26\00:19:50.37
This beer that is not
part of what we recommend.
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We like for you to see those
things that we do recommend
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we want these to be
firmly fixed in your mind.
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Now there are three chemicals
in the blood, I have a graphic
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to show these so that you will
be able to spell these words
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and see just how
they are written.
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These chemicals have to do
with marking your blood tests
00:20:10.65\00:20:17.94
so that you can tell whether
your own blood is likely to be
00:20:17.97\00:20:22.82
the kind that a person
with a heart attack might have:
00:20:22.85\00:20:25.54
Like cholesterol, cholesterol
is high often in people who are
00:20:25.57\00:20:31.31
going to have a heart attack.
00:20:31.34\00:20:33.06
Triglycerides are also
high in people who are going to
00:20:33.09\00:20:36.90
have a heart attack.
Homocystine is also high,
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now that's a word that
you may not have heard of.
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Homocystine is a
breakdown product of some of the
00:20:43.55\00:20:47.80
amino acids in the body and
as such they can let us know
00:20:47.83\00:20:54.62
if we have a likelihood
of getting a heart attack,
00:20:54.65\00:20:58.00
and Valerie was telling
you about Folic Acid or Folate,
00:20:58.03\00:21:01.92
which is one of those protectors
against having to much
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homocystine, B12 will also
help you no to have to much
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homocystine, and
so will vitamin B6.
00:21:11.74\00:21:14.29
Now as I look at this table
I see a number of other things
00:21:14.32\00:21:18.05
that I would like to have
Valerie tell you about because
00:21:18.08\00:21:22.04
these are keepers also,
they are keepers in the heart
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and they are
keepers in the menu.
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Valerie tell us about some
of these beautiful things here!
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- Well Mom's, I want to show
you how you can cook a delicious
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meal, getting all your folate
in it for your family plus
00:21:33.12\00:21:36.39
many other
nutrients in amino acids.
00:21:36.42\00:21:38.76
So one of the ones that we
are going to use is lentils,
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lentils are absolutely
delicious, I don't care how you
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cook a lentil it's good, soups
and stews and burgers and loaves
00:21:44.52\00:21:49.42
and pâtés, it is absolutely
delicious, but you know when
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you are going from the
transition of eating the all
00:21:53.80\00:21:57.71
American diet and you are trying
now to incorporate good healthy
00:21:57.74\00:22:01.34
food sometimes when you
look at it like you look at this
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it's kind of like ohh!
You are used to seeing that
00:22:04.53\00:22:07.85
big juicy steak or whatever
and you are used to that,
00:22:07.88\00:22:10.28
so I've had Mom's come to me
and say I'm trying to do this
00:22:10.31\00:22:14.83
but the kids give me a
hard time, my husband gives me a
00:22:14.86\00:22:17.29
hard time. So I got to thinking
how can we make it so that they
00:22:17.32\00:22:21.91
will want to eat it,
and make it more appetizing.
00:22:21.94\00:22:25.08
Well you know one of the things
is so appetizing to children
00:22:25.11\00:22:28.52
as well as adults is
guess what? Potatoes!
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And if you mash them and make
them delicious you can put it on
00:22:31.48\00:22:35.39
any food and they are going
to eat, so I want to show you
00:22:35.42\00:22:38.40
how to do that. Now
here's this lentil loaf
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and really it's delicious,
once you've been eating this way
00:22:40.42\00:22:42.96
for a long time and you
look at a lentil loaf it doesn't
00:22:42.99\00:22:45.43
have to be decorated, you know
it's good and so you'll eat it,
00:22:45.46\00:22:48.54
but when you are starting out
it is real important to do this.
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You make yourself some mashed
potatoes, and you just icing
00:22:51.20\00:22:54.87
it like you would a
cake, and just put it on here,
00:22:54.90\00:22:58.53
and you can do this on burgers,
you can do it on loaves,
00:22:58.56\00:23:03.38
and you can make it real pretty
and real delicious because
00:23:03.41\00:23:09.83
you know that the children
love it, and Dad loves it,
00:23:09.87\00:23:13.04
and you can do fun things
when you get through with this.
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Some times I decorate them
I put smiley faces on them,
00:23:18.07\00:23:21.56
flowers, I've run outside
and picked flowers right out of
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the garden and put them
right on top of it, and you know
00:23:24.33\00:23:27.89
you make things either
look really tasty or make them
00:23:27.92\00:23:32.82
amusing to the family and
you know if it's amusing like
00:23:32.85\00:23:36.99
putting a smiley face on, they
are so amused that they will
00:23:37.02\00:23:39.93
say well let's try it and make
Mom happy, and if it's delicious
00:23:39.96\00:23:43.60
looking and they all love
potatoes, they are going to
00:23:43.63\00:23:45.28
sit down and eat it.
00:23:45.31\00:23:46.34
So in the beginning I do this
kind of thing, and let me just
00:23:46.37\00:23:50.39
show you what I did today,
now here you have it all ready
00:23:50.42\00:23:54.03
icing up real nice, and
then you can go right outside
00:23:54.06\00:24:00.67
and you can just pick some weeds
and wash them off real nice
00:24:00.70\00:24:04.12
and you can lay one weed
down this way, or put that one
00:24:04.15\00:24:07.65
in the center like this, and
put this going in this direction
00:24:07.68\00:24:12.23
and then you can pick some
leaves, I just picked these out
00:24:12.26\00:24:17.78
along in the yard today,
and you put a leaf there and put
00:24:17.81\00:24:21.80
another over here like this,
and then I took carrots and
00:24:21.83\00:24:26.93
cut them into little flowers,
and you put one right here
00:24:26.96\00:24:30.51
and one right there, and
one right here, and see it looks
00:24:30.54\00:24:37.75
so pretty and
isn't that appetizing?
00:24:37.78\00:24:40.36
Wouldn't you just like
to have a piece of that?
00:24:40.39\00:24:41.93
Then you can go ahead and
take your vegetables like this
00:24:41.96\00:24:47.42
and lay them all around
with your carrots and some more
00:24:47.45\00:24:52.00
broccoli, I'm telling you I
don't care who you are you are
00:24:52.03\00:25:00.03
going to want to eat this
wouldn't you say, doesn't that
00:25:00.06\00:25:02.84
look delicious? So
now what you can do is to
00:25:02.87\00:25:06.01
fix a plate, put your broccoli
some carrots on here for your
00:25:06.04\00:25:11.59
family, and you can cut
yourself a nice piece of loaf
00:25:11.62\00:25:25.19
and lay it right there with
the potatoes and then you can
00:25:25.22\00:25:28.26
go ahead and serve yourself
up another big whapping bunch of
00:25:28.29\00:25:37.49
potatoes and you can
make a nice gravy, and here is
00:25:37.52\00:25:43.82
your meal. Now who
wouldn't want to eat this?
00:25:43.85\00:25:48.32
There you go, Thank you!
00:25:48.35\00:25:54.09
- That's nice! Did I see
something else over here?
00:25:54.12\00:25:57.39
- Oh! - I have
had my eye on that!
00:25:57.42\00:26:01.37
- Let me tell you what this
is Dr. Agatha, this is what they
00:26:01.40\00:26:06.00
call Humus, but if you don't
add extra water in it you can
00:26:06.03\00:26:10.31
make it like a pate', and you
take any of the legume family,
00:26:10.34\00:26:15.01
the beans, I don't care if
it's pintos or navy or lentils,
00:26:15.04\00:26:19.39
or garbanzos, and you can
make the most delicious European
00:26:19.42\00:26:22.98
pates' you have ever put
in your mouth, and that's what
00:26:23.01\00:26:25.62
I did with this, I sautéed up
sesame seeds and I just ground
00:26:25.65\00:26:35.74
up garbanzo's, and mom's,
you know it's important in the
00:26:35.77\00:26:40.36
kitchen to make it easy for
yourself because at first you
00:26:40.39\00:26:43.67
look at this and you go "oh
my dear, we've got to cook like
00:26:43.70\00:26:46.64
grandma did and how
am I going to do it all.
00:26:46.67\00:26:48.72
Let me just tell you real quick
how to set up your kitchen,
00:26:48.75\00:26:51.42
I do it just like this, here
is lentils, everything for this
00:26:51.45\00:26:57.04
loaf is in here, except for
the lentils, and you cook the
00:26:57.07\00:27:02.78
lentils and you put all of this
right in your freezer so when
00:27:02.81\00:27:05.56
you get ready to make a lentil
loaf you can just pull this out
00:27:05.59\00:27:07.86
put it in the bowl, mix it up
and put it in the oven and you
00:27:07.89\00:27:10.93
have it in less
than five minutes.
00:27:10.96\00:27:12.31
My kitchen is called the fast
food painless cooking kitchen.
00:27:12.34\00:27:16.06
- I like that,
thank you very much!
00:27:16.09\00:27:18.62
Now you know when was it
that God put all these wonderful
00:27:18.65\00:27:24.18
nutrients in all these foods?
Did He do that when we started
00:27:24.21\00:27:28.13
having heart disease, and we
starting having a problem with
00:27:28.16\00:27:31.43
Spinal Bifida, did
He do it at that time?
00:27:31.46\00:27:34.60
No He had done that way back
in the great riches of antiquity
00:27:34.63\00:27:41.19
and as I contemplate these
things I think how wonderful
00:27:41.22\00:27:45.57
our God is, how Ingenious
He is to have made so many
00:27:45.60\00:27:50.96
wonderful things for us,
and I'm thankful for that.
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