Breast cancer is a very serious
and very common disease in women
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I'm Agatha Thrash, a
staff physician at Uchee Pines
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And during the next half an hour
I and several members of the
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staff at Uchee Pines will be
discussing the subject of breast
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cancer... not only in
women but also in men.
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We invite you to stay by
and join us for this discussion.
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Welcome to "Help Yourself to
Health" with Dr. Agatha Thrash
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of Uchee Pines Institute.
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And now here is
your host, Dr. Thrash.
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There are many lifestyle issues
involved in breast cancer.
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These lifestyle issues
are usually quite simple
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and it isn't difficult to follow
these lifestyle principles
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But sometimes people are a
little bit reluctant to do it
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because it may cut across
some of our established habits.
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Now, we would like to talk
with you about various ways of
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finding the cancer early
because that is one of the most
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important things that you
can do apart from lifestyle.
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And so with me here
is Valerie Schreiber.
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Valerie and I work together
in our helping women to know how
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to discover their breast lumps.
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And Valerie is going to
tell you some things about
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how to discover a
lump yourself, Valerie.
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Ladies, pay attention.
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Knowing how to properly examine
your breast could save your life
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And I'm going to show you
today how to do the triple touch
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method that the American
Cancer Society has for us.
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And so you're probably saying
to me... "uh, examining my
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breasts, there are so
many lumps and so many things I
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feel in there, I can't
tell one thing from another. "
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Well, you know, I've
been a product of that too
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but that's not the real
issue in examining your breasts.
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The real issue in examining
your breast is to get familiar
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with your tissues.
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Therefore, if they change
in the slightest, you will
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recognize it.
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What happens in most women
because they are not familiar
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with their breast tissue,
the lump gets quite large or
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dimpled and by then,
you're in real trouble.
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So what we want you to do
is to learn how to do this
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And I encourage you to go
to the American Cancer Society.
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They have an excellent brochure
to show you how to do the
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triple touch method.
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Now before we go into
that, I want to tell you how
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to go about doing this.
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If you have a regular menstrual
cycle, then one week after
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your cycle is when you want
to check and you do this every
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month consistently one week
after your menstrual cycle ends.
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Now, if you have irregular
menstrual cycles or none at all,
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then you pick a week every month
and you mark it on your calendar
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and you do it the
same time every month.
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That way, if anything
happens, you are going to be
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able to pick it up.
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Now let me show
you here, the risk.
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The primary risk is
age and family history.
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Your secondary risk is
reproductive history and
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menstrual history.
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However, the two major things
that also influence it is diet
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and hormones.
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Now the triple touch method
that the American Cancer Society
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teaches is, you use 3 fingers
and 3 levels of pressure.
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And you will see the 3 levels.
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First, it will be light,
then it will be medium and a
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little more firm, and how
you will do that is you can just
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watch me here, is you take your
3 fingers and you put it on the
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breast and you do
a dime-size circle.
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And so you do light, then
you go medium and then you
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go more firm and then you just
move right down to the next spot
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light, medium, firm and then you
just keep doing this all the way
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around your breast.
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Now, the other thing that
the American Cancer Society is
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showing us is, they are talking
about doing what they call
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the "lawn mower" check and so
they are going from the top of
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the shoulder all the way down
to the waist, like you would mow
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a lawn, down and
up, up and down and up.
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And then you can go across this
way and you start underneath
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your arm and you go all the
way down to the waist and you do
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those little circles with 3
fingers, light, medium and firm,
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dime-size circles.
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Now another thing you want to
do before you actually do this
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check, is to look in the mirror.
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See, and you are going to look
for color; you are going to look
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for shape; you are going to look
to see if your breasts are going
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in the right direction, or
if the nipples are going in a
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different direction.
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You are going to look to see
if there could be any dimpling.
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So you want to just stand
in front of the mirror and just
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look at yourself and you
can turn sideways and look
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at yourself and do it on
both sides and look again,
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look very closely.
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Then you are going to want to
lift your arms up like this and
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look very closely at your
nipples and your breasts and
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again, do your side.
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Then take your hand press them
real firm and look again to see
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if anything changes.
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Many times one breast will begin
to shrink or one will get larger
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I have seen that in
women with breast cancer.
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So you want to look... is one
getting much bigger, or smaller
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or anything dimpling.
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Then you would take your hands
and go to the back of you, like
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this, and press again real
hard and look in the mirror and
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look sideways.
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Then the next way is to put your
hands on your hips and press
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in and bend over and look very
closely at your breasts and do
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again sideways on both sides of
your breasts to see if there is
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anything that could possibly
be changing in your breasts.
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So again, I encourage you, go
to the American Cancer Society,
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their brochure is excellent that
they have for examining your
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breasts and remember ladies,
it's not just for looking for a
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lump per se each time, it's
knowing your own tissues, so
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that if anything changes,
you will pick it up right away.
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You won't have to wait
until the lump is great big.
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Dr. Agatha. Oh, I need to
show how to position yourself.
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If you can show that now,
we'll have Melissa to come up
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and I can take this away and
Melissa can actually be placed
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on the table in the way that can
let you know what position you
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should take when you are
going to examine yourself.
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This is my granddaughter.
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Now this is real important.
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You can make a choice. You could
examine your breasts one time
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in the shower, the
next time lying down.
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However, lying down spreads the
breast tissue so that you are
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able to get into it much
better and be able to cover
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it much better.
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So, what you do is, you get
yourself a towel, fold it like
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this, put it
underneath your shoulder
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and lay back down on it.
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This causes the breast tissue to
flare out more and then you lift
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your arm up this way and use
your hand to begin the check.
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And going down like a lawn mower
all the way down like this and
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then all the way back up and you
can go across this way as well.
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Okay, very good. Thank you.
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Well with these very simple
instructions, you should be able
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to handle
examining your own breasts.
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Now, there are several different
kinds of breast cancers.
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In women, there are several
kinds and in men there is also
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breast cancer in men.
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And, with me today is Don Miller
who will talk with you about
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breast cancer in men
and also how to discover it.
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Don Miller.
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It's not the most common
disease in the world for men.
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As a matter of fact, fewer
than one percent of all breast
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cancers will appear in men but
that is a significant number for
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those men who do
develop breast cancer.
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This year, probably about 1,400
men will be discovered to have
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breast cancer and of those 1,400
400 of those men will die of
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breast cancer.
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Now, we need to look at a couple
of things. One, what predisposes
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a man to breast cancer.
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What are some of the
diagnoses of breast cancer.
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What are some of the
things that we can tell.
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Now, what Valerie just talked
about as far a self examination
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men should do that too.
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Now this was a revelation to me
until just recently but we need
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to be checking
ourselves too for breast cancer.
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Now there is a condition called
gynecomastia, or depending on
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where you are from, it
may be "genicomastia. "
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It's the over-development
of the male mammary gland.
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That is not a predisposition or
a sign that you are going to get
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male breast cancer.
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It's just some men just develop
breasts and it's just unordinary
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but it's not a sign that you are
going to get the breast cancer.
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The things that will predispose
to male breast cancer is...
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One, a change in the
hormonal balance of a man.
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And this can happen by various
ways. One, testicular trauma or
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atrophy and when I mention
testicular trauma, it's very
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important for young boys
who are out there on the soccer
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field kicking that ball, a real
good kick can really traumatize
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the testicles and we need
to very much guard against that
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particular problem.
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It can also, as far as
testicular or hormonal balance,
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things like liver disease,
cirrhosis of the liver, can
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cause a change in the balance
of the hormones in a man.
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Sterilization or infertility
both are things that will change
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the balance of
the hormones in a man.
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All these things can be
a predisposition for breast
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cancer in a male.
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The other factor would be just
having a familial history or
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family history.
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It's the main thing in women and
it's also the main thing in men.
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Now there are a couple of
genes they have discovered very
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recently, "BRCA1 and BRCA2"
which predispose to breast
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cancer in humans.
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So if a man has breast cancer
in his family, as far as his
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females in his family, he may
well be in that position to be
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one of those 1,400 men who
develop male breast cancer.
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So, we need to be very careful
and check in the histories and
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then the checking ourselves.
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Now, how do we check ourselves?
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What Valerie just
described is very good.
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Now I'm just going to
show it a little bit better
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here on myself.
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Again, you take your 3
fingers the pads of your fingers
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and I'm going to do what she
called the "lawn mower" effect
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or being out here in a
field is the "farmer effect. "
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Basically, you take your fingers
and either above or below your
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your breast, it
really doesn't matter
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And you place them maybe
about the sternum of your body,
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the mid body and just start
and what I like to do is just
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do little, tiny curls as
I'm dragging across, feeling,
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always feeling.
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Now, she mentioned
something very important...
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Get to know what you feel like.
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If all of a sudden, the first
time you do it, you feel a lump
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that lump might have been
there since you were born.
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Know what you feel like.
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As a matter of fact, I would
recommend for all these things,
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is you make a body chart.
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Every mole, every dimple, every
thing that you know when it
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starts changing.
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So you go across, little... I do
little curly-Q's but very small
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ones and while I'm
doing it, I'm doing the light,
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medium and heavy.
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I do a little bit light,
and press a little bit harder,
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harder, harder.
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Now we have to realize also that
really traumatizing the breasts
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are not good, so you don't
sit there and smash all the way
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through to your spinal cord.
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You're just pressing in there.
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Once you are across, you go back
and then wherever your bottom
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finger was, that is
where you put your top finger.
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And, so you are
overlapping one finger width.
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And you are going across,
feeling, feeling, feeling.
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And I would recommend you do
this by yourself in the quiet
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so you can be doing all of
your concentration just on the
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central touch of your fingers to
see if you are feeling anything.
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Once you have covered the
entire breast area, then I would
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recommend you go down
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So now you plow the field, or
you cut the grass in the other
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direction... going down, feeling
that thing, feeling, feeling,
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feeling... go back up 1 finger
width overlapping, pressing
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hard, medium, soft...
going all the way down doing it
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in both directions.
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If you feel that lump, I would
have a doctor check it out.
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It's a... granted only 400 men,
"only 400 men" may die of it
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and that may not be a very
significant number but if you
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are one or if someone you love
is one, it becomes an extremely
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meaningful number.
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Breast cancer is a meaningful
disease, Dr. Thrash, and I
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think we need to
really be careful with it,
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males and females.
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Yes, it is a very serious
disease and, of course, it is
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getting much
more common nowadays.
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So, we want to do what we
can to discover the lump early
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both in men and in women.
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Now in women, we recommend...
you will notice that the
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technique was different in
as Don Miller showed it, in one
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respect for men, than for women
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And that is that you reach
across the chest with one hand
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you reach across the chest
to examine the opposite breast
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because it's more difficult
for a woman to do the same side
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breast because of the way
that the breast needs to fall to
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spread, so that she can
feel the breast more easily.
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Now in lifestyle things, there
are so many different things
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that a woman can do to make
certain that she doesn't have
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breast cancer or she does
what she can to make certain she
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doesn't have breast cancer.
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Of course, with everything good
and perfect in lifestyle, not
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everybody is going
to avoid breast cancer.
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And if you have breast cancer,
you should not blame yourself,
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nor feel guilty that your
lifestyle maybe has not always
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been what it should have been
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but we go from what we
have and go from this point.
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So if you should discover a
lump then, of course, you need
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professional help right away.
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Now with some of the lifestyle
things, of course food always
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looms up as one of
the very first things.
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And Valerie Schreiber is a
master of the kitchen and can
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turn out some
positively wonderful foods...
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So she is going to tell you
a few things about what you can
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do to make protecting
yourself against breast cancer
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actually fun...
Valerie is able to do that.
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So, Valerie, what do
you have here for us?
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Well, we are going to talk
a a little bit about flaxseed
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and flax is an essential
fatty acid that we need for our
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body and it is an oil and
contrary to popular myths,
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the body does need fats but
it needs the right kinds of fats
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And flaxseed, which we
have right here in the bowl, are
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these pretty little brown
seeds as you can see here.
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You can use them in many ways
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and I'm just
going to show you how.
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I have a little nut mill
here that I can grind them in;
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however, if you don't have
a nut mill, you can do it in
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your blender as well.
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But you can just put this on
and just push it down like this
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and grind them.
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When you get done, this is
essentially what they look like.
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All ground up and you can grind
them a little finer if you like
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and they will
get just like powder.
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And what is so wonderful
about the flaxseed, the ground
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flaxseed like this, is you can
sprinkle it over your cereals,
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you can sprinkle
it over your salads.
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You can put it over
the top of any vegetables.
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It's kind of got a nutty
little flavor to it but it
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is quite delicious.
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It is not offensive in any way
but you will get your omega 3
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fatty acids as a result of it.
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Now there are other places
that you can get the essential
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fatty acids and that is in your
legume family, your nut family,
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and your seed family.
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So there are those
places that you can get the
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essential fatty acids.
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Now, they play a major
role in hair loss, in your skin,
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prevention of arthritis.
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We use it for an
anti-inflammatory.
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It is excellent in that.
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It lowers
triglycerides and cholesterol.
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And, it plays a major
role in cardiovascular disease.
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Dr. Agatha will
continue to talk to us about it.
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In fact, I might eat
some of those flaxseeds. Yeah.
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Because I really enjoy flaxseed.
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When I first started, I have to
admit that I didn't really like
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flaxseed all that well.
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But, as I became accustomed
to it and also as I learned
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that in many countries of
the world, flaxseed are a staple
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article of food, then I began
to think, "well, it's not too
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bad, you could get so
that you could enjoy that. "
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So I started sprinkling it on
cereal and stirring it in fruit
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juice or in many ways, trying
to increase the exposure that
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my family have to flaxseed.
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You can put it in breads or put
it in waffles and that can be
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helpful but we just grind
it and use it in that way.
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Now, you might be interested
in the fact that there are many
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different aspects of soy, some
of which are anticancer and also
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in anything of this nature, you
can expect that there is some
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controversy concerning it.
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And there is right now, a
conflict over the scientific
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benefits of soy in one's diet.
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Whether or not one should
actually use soy in the diet or
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whether it might be harmful.
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>From the best that I can tell,
soy is not harmful to you...
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although there have been some
research projects, mainly 2 or 3
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that show that there
might be some deleterious effect
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especially if a women
with breast cancer is taking
00:18:50.09\00:18:53.18
tamoxifen, which is a
chemotherapeutic agent used in
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breast cancer.
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It may be that those who
are taking tamoxifen should
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leave off soy.
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But in all other cases, it seems
to me there is just too much
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evidence that soybeans have
a beneficial effect for women's
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health, especially in helping
to prevent cancer or even in
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treating cancer of the breast
that is not of the hormone-
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dependent variety.
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So, with those remarks, then
we can say that there are many
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other things that
soy can be useful for.
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Osteoporosis is one of those
and women who have osteoporosis
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can take soybeans and use soy
in many different kinds of ways.
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The commercial products may
or may not be that beneficial.
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As an example, soy milk may not
have the essential portions of
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soy that would make the soy
milk beneficial for a woman.
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But that it will, to some degree
perhaps help but she should not
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depend on soy milk
as her source of soy.
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I like to recommend to
women that they take the
00:20:10.24\00:20:13.63
soybeans themselves, or they
actually purchase the beans or
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grow them in her own garden.
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That would give her
more benefits than one.
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And as she develops her interest
in soy, she will find many, many
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many recipes, both those
that are on the market and those
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that she develops herself.
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And, we have developed
several soybean recipes
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at Uchee Pines and I
like to experiment with these.
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We use it for breakfast.
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We use it as sandwich spreads.
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We use it for lunch and we
can fix them ahead of time and
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freeze recipes.
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And so Valerie is going to show
you some of the recipes that
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we have developed at
Uchee Pines and some ways
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that you can use these.
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We have a number of products
to show you here today that are
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readily available on the market.
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You can find many of these in
your local grocery stores today,
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as well as your
local health food store.
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But I'd like to read a quote to
you that has meant a lot to me
00:21:16.69\00:21:19.69
and really says it
all about soy bean.
00:21:19.72\00:21:21.57
It is by Dorothy Van Gundy Jones
00:21:21.60\00:21:23.95
She says, "Soybeans are one
of the best sources of protein
00:21:23.98\00:21:26.89
in the vegetable kingdom. They
can honestly claim the title
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the meat that grows on vines. "
00:21:30.69\00:21:34.03
And really, that is true.
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It is the meat
that grows on vines.
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You can do everything
in the world with soybean.
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And it has wonderful
minerals in it, vitamins in it.
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It's rich is
calcium, phosphorus and iron.
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Now, it has very little starch.
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It's high in your B
vitamins, B12, your vitamin E
00:21:51.38\00:21:56.24
and your omega 3 fatty acids
which are your essential fatty
00:21:56.27\00:22:00.52
acids that everyone
is concerned about today.
00:22:00.55\00:22:03.51
And, it is abundant in fiber.
00:22:03.54\00:22:06.05
So, you get plenty of fiber.
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And, ladies, those that are
having trouble with hot flashes
00:22:07.42\00:22:11.00
out there today, one-half cup
of soybeans daily can reduce or
00:22:11.03\00:22:17.12
stop your hot flashes.
00:22:17.15\00:22:18.57
So it is very good for
women that are in menopause.
00:22:18.60\00:22:23.08
Also, women eating soybeans also
experience a drop in their LDL
00:22:23.11\00:22:27.75
cholesterol, so those that are
concerned about high cholesterol
00:22:27.78\00:22:31.44
eat your soybeans.
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Now let me just show you a
few products that you can get at
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your local grocery
stores or health food stores.
00:22:36.58\00:22:38.73
This one here, which is
"Silk," it happens to be readily
00:22:38.76\00:22:43.26
available in almost all grocery
stores and it is an excellent
00:22:43.29\00:22:46.40
milk product for soy.
00:22:46.43\00:22:47.40
And they also have a very
delicious yogurt that they make
00:22:47.43\00:22:53.17
in various
flavors, as well as plain.
00:22:53.20\00:22:54.17
that you can use.
00:22:54.20\00:22:56.53
And, you can take the Silk
yogurt, that I have right here,
00:22:56.56\00:23:04.25
and you can take
and make sour cream.
00:23:04.28\00:23:08.74
You can make tartar sauce.
00:23:08.77\00:23:12.21
You can do various
things with just this product.
00:23:12.24\00:23:14.88
So, it makes it very simple for
those moms out there that are
00:23:14.91\00:23:17.87
having to work and don't have a
lot of time to prepare products.
00:23:17.90\00:23:21.93
There are cream cheeses that are
already prepared, right here...
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"Better than Milk" makes
a real nice cream cheese.
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Then there are some other soy
products and you can find these
00:23:30.95\00:23:35.37
usually in your local grocery
store, as well as in your
00:23:35.40\00:23:38.27
health food store.
00:23:38.30\00:23:39.71
The Vitasoy makes
wonderful products.
00:23:39.74\00:23:40.71
There are many other products
such as your TVP which is not
00:23:42.16\00:23:48.87
flavored and you can use these
TVPs and flavor them yourself
00:23:48.90\00:23:53.39
and this sort of like
takes the place of chicken.
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We also have another one that is
in a dark color and that would
00:23:55.56\00:24:00.71
take the place of your
beef and you can flavor it.
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There are many flavorings that
you can buy in your local health
00:24:03.05\00:24:05.31
food store that have a beef-type
flavoring or a chicken-type
00:24:05.34\00:24:08.69
flavoring and you can make
wonderful things with this.
00:24:08.72\00:24:12.20
For instance, you can soak it in
water or in your flavoring and
00:24:12.23\00:24:16.79
then you can make burgers,
you can make chicken salad that
00:24:16.82\00:24:19.56
is absolutely scrumptious...
the chicken salad that I make.
00:24:19.59\00:24:22.46
Now, there are a few other
things that I want to show you
00:24:22.49\00:24:25.95
that you can use and one of
the other ones is the chunks.
00:24:25.98\00:24:30.38
Now, this is like
a beef-like chunk.
00:24:30.41\00:24:33.01
In fact, we had a meal yesterday
that had this in it, a Chinese
00:24:33.04\00:24:36.40
meal and it was
absolutely delicious.
00:24:36.43\00:24:39.03
So, you can soak this and
make whatever flavor you want.
00:24:39.06\00:24:41.76
You can use it in
Oriental dishes or spaghetti or
00:24:41.79\00:24:46.41
stews, or soups and it is very,
very good and takes the place
00:24:46.44\00:24:50.63
quite well of eating meat,
especially when you are in this
00:24:50.66\00:24:53.95
transition of going from
eating a meat diet, this is very
00:24:53.98\00:24:57.29
good to use.
00:24:57.32\00:24:58.29
Now, I would like to just show
you another way to use soybeans
00:24:58.30\00:25:02.93
because it is really nice if
you can use the whole soybean
00:25:02.96\00:25:06.76
And I have a bowl of soybeans
right here that I have soaked.
00:25:06.79\00:25:12.22
Now, what you do is, you just
take your soybean and you soak
00:25:12.25\00:25:15.16
it for several hours, or all
night and then run that water
00:25:15.19\00:25:19.00
off and then you can take your
soybeans and you can put them in
00:25:19.03\00:25:22.33
several packages and put them
all ready in your freezer, so
00:25:22.36\00:25:25.73
that you will have either a cup
or 2 cups, whatever you want to
00:25:25.76\00:25:28.20
use and then you can take your
soybeans and you can grind them
00:25:28.23\00:25:35.40
the next morning in your blender
with whatever flavorings that
00:25:35.43\00:25:39.46
you would like to use,
and it turns out like this.
00:25:39.49\00:25:42.72
We make egg salad out of
this, deviled eggs out of this,
00:25:42.75\00:25:46.46
scrambled eggs out of this.
00:25:46.49\00:25:48.39
You can just do almost anything
and you can put this in corn
00:25:48.42\00:25:52.71
muffins and it will make them
just puff up and get real light
00:25:52.74\00:25:56.38
and beautiful.
00:25:56.41\00:25:57.51
You can put it in your bread.
00:25:57.54\00:25:59.03
You can put it in almost any
loaf that you would choose to
00:25:59.06\00:26:02.23
make and it makes it light and
fluffy and very delicious and
00:26:02.26\00:26:06.04
then you are going to get your
quota of your soybean and your
00:26:06.07\00:26:10.14
essential fatty acids,
your minerals, your calcium,
00:26:10.17\00:26:13.16
your phosphorus.
00:26:13.19\00:26:14.16
You will get everything you
need and high fiber at that.
00:26:14.17\00:26:16.84
Thank you.
00:26:16.87\00:26:18.71
And I want to know how
you make a chicken salad
00:26:18.74\00:26:22.76
sandwich out of this.
00:26:22.79\00:26:23.91
Well, first off, I
take this and I scramble it.
00:26:23.94\00:26:28.54
I put it in a frying pan, and
I scramble it with water and I
00:26:28.57\00:26:34.82
put all my seasonings in it and
I put a little turmeric so that
00:26:34.85\00:26:38.88
I can make it yellow.
00:26:38.91\00:26:39.88
And when I get all that
done and it's all cooled down,
00:26:39.97\00:26:44.06
then I put it over in another
bowl and I add my homemade
00:26:44.09\00:26:47.39
mayonnaise and I
dice up onion and...
00:26:47.42\00:26:50.99
Was it egg salad
or chicken salad?
00:26:51.02\00:26:52.57
Um, either one.
00:26:52.60\00:26:53.58
Either one, you
can do either one.
00:26:53.61\00:26:54.70
And I put pickle relish in
it and diced up onion and diced
00:26:54.73\00:26:59.76
up celery and I mix it all up
and I'm telling you, it tastes
00:26:59.79\00:27:03.78
like egg salad.
00:27:03.81\00:27:04.99
But, I tell you,
I do it two ways.
00:27:05.02\00:27:06.81
Before that, I will take a
little bit of this out and I
00:27:06.84\00:27:10.56
will go ahead and make a home-
made mustard and my mayonnaise
00:27:10.59\00:27:13.83
and dice up real, real
fine onion and that makes like a
00:27:13.86\00:27:18.62
deviled egg and so then I take
a glob of that and I put it on
00:27:18.65\00:27:23.42
like a corn chip, like a round
corn chip and I put it right
00:27:23.45\00:27:27.46
on there and it makes
a wonderful deviled egg.
00:27:27.49\00:27:30.53
You could do so
many wonderful things.
00:27:30.56\00:27:32.20
Get a good cookbook.
00:27:32.23\00:27:33.43
It's all in nice cookbooks.
00:27:33.46\00:27:34.44
Thank you.
00:27:34.47\00:27:36.05
Well, I'm quite certain after
this very good discussion about
00:27:36.08\00:27:40.88
soy, that no one should
be in the dark about how one
00:27:40.91\00:27:44.72
can use it.
00:27:44.75\00:27:45.72
There are so many good things
to do that are beneficial, that
00:27:45.73\00:27:50.03
there is no reason for anyone
to feel that they are trapped
00:27:50.06\00:27:52.77
in a bad program, so
God's blessings to you.
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