We see the glad sunshine
and it makes us very happy.
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And there are some physical
benefits and emotional benefits
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that we get from sunshine.
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I'm Agatha Thrash, a
staff physician at Uchee Pines
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Institute and for the next half
an hour, we will be talking with
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you about the benefits and some
of the problems with getting
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too much sunshine.
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So join us won't you?
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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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I can't imagine that our
Heavenly Father could have shown
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us His love for us in a better
way, than with the sunshine.
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It's always there, though
sometimes we can't see it.
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But it is always
giving earth it's benefits.
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Without it, we cannot live, nor
could we produce any food, nor
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a place for us to have shelter.
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So, we can expect that there are
many good benefits from it that
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our physical bodies
and our minds would derive
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from the sunshine.
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And with me today is John
Champen and also, a little
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later will be Don Miller
and we will be talking with you
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about some of the benefits
of sunshine and some of the
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cautions that we need to have.
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I'm so happy that the sun
goes all around the world and it
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is able to bless and encourage
so many in so many ways.
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We are going to go to the
screen now to look at some
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of those benefits that are
ours to receive every single day
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when the sun is shining.
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We see the benefit of
outdoor exercise as opposed to
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indoor exercise.
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It also, here in graphics 2, we
have a word from the Scripture
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which encourages us.
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Our next one, and we can
testify to that, each of us has
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experienced that.
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Let's see what else it does.
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Lowers blood
pressure which we need.
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Increases white blood cells
to fight our infections and
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to keep our immune
system in the best shape.
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Also lowers respiratory
rate and slows resting heart
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rate and we need that also.
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Blood carries more
oxygen increasing our health.
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Many people are
not aware of that
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but that is a real
benefit in sunlight.
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We'd like to have that.
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The more blood the heart
pumps at each beat, the less
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it has to work; the
more resting takes place.
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The blood output increases
39% for several days and the
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benefits of this
continue to last.
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We feel better about
ourselves, about our world,
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about everything.
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Crises met with less difficulty
and we do have crises more
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and more in our lives.
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Calms the nerves and decreases
the adrenaline... what a
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blessing that is.
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Also, our next graphics shows
us that as the sunlight touches
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the water, it purifies and
kills many germs such as listed.
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We see that there is not more
water being produced every day
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but God is able to purify the
water that is, so that we can
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have clean, pure, fresh water.
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Our next graphics...
Kills bacteria on the skin.
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I remember my wife had
an operation and after the
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operation, she had a little
infection there and they wheeled
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her out into the sunlight and
the sunlight was able to kill
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bacteria that was on the skin.
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It was marvelous... without
anything else being done.
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We see that sunlight
also is good for arthritis.
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It's a very comforting
experience having the sun
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warm the joints.
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Dr. Thrash, the sun does a
lot of good things, doesn't it?
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Yes it does.
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And I'm especially interested
in your mentioning about how
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it kills germs, not only
on the skin but also in water.
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So that we could take a jar of
water and expose it to the sun
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and it may have been
contaminated before but we can
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expect that with the exposure
to sunlight, that we will have
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some benefit in purifying water
and making it so that it might
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be capable of being drunk.
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So, as each one of these
benefits of sunshine stacks up
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and we have one after the other,
we are enjoined to believe that
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our Heavenly Father loves us.
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He wanted us to meet the tempter
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Meet the great enemy
with as many tools to fight
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with as possible and the
sun is certainly one of those.
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Now Don Miller is here and he
is going to tell you some more
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things about
the benefits of sun.
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Really, I'm going to elucidate
a little bit more on what
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Brother Champen had just said
on a few of these benefits but
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I want to go back
to when I was a child.
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I remember when I was a little
child, someone said if the sun
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were one inch closer to this
earth, we would all burn up.
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I was afraid to grow.
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I was afraid to
jump for a long time.
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But the Lord has that sun at
just the right distance from us
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to give us everything that we
need for life and a lot of the
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things that
Brother Champen mentioned.
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I want to go into a little bit
more about how that really works
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Let's think about
the cholesterol thing.
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You know, we've
got good cholesterol.
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As a matter of fact, sometimes
we think that cholesterol
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is a four-letter word.
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Well, it is not.
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Cholesterol is good.
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If it wasn't good, our
bodies would not produce it.
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We produce all the
cholesterol that we need.
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Now, why do we
produce the cholesterol?
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We've got these natural
oils in cholesterol in our skin.
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As the sun strikes the skin,
it turns that cholesterol into
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vitamin D.
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And, of course, we need
vitamin D in our bodies.
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And so that is one of
the good reasons it is there.
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Now the sunshine reduces our
cholesterol through that method
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and there was a study once done,
not a study, a case history
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of a woman who had her blood
taken and her cholesterol was
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333 and her
triglycerides were 229.
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They put this lady on
a strict sunbath regimen,
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did not change her diet,
no exercise, did nothing else
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but put her on a sunbath.
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Gave her four days of sunbath.
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Now, I'm not talking about just
laying out in the sunshine for
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four days long.
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But each day, she
got a couple of sunbaths.
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In those four days, her
cholesterol fell to 221 and her
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triglycerides to 197.
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That is over a 100-point
drop in four days just from the
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application of the
sunshine to the skin.
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I'd say it's a
pretty good benefit.
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Now, so we got our
cholesterol coming down...
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How about our blood pressure?
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Well, let's take the
step one step further with
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the cholesterol thing.
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We've got the cholesterol in
the skin... the sunshine strikes
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the skin, turns the
cholesterol into vitamin D
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But, we have to have cholesterol
in the skin and so the body says
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"hey, hey, we need some
more cholesterol in the skin...
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where are we going to get it?"
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Where does it get it?
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It gets it out of the blood.
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It gets it off of
the artery walls and
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so it sends it up there.
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Now, in doing that, it lessens
the fat in the blood which
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brings our blood pressure
down because now the heart
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is not having to pump so hard
through those narrow streets.
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Just imagine if you will...
(many of you probably live in
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large cities)... the interstate
going around your city or the
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largest street in your city...
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rush hour
traffic completely full.
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What happens, and this happens
quite often in many major cities
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...they are fixing four of
the lanes and only two are open
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one going in one direction
and one in the other direction.
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Everything gets slow.
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Same thing in your body.
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As these main arteries, our main
highways, our main streets in
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our body get smaller,
it slows down the traffic.
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But as we open that up, our
traffic moves better; therefore,
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our blood pressure gets lower.
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Now also sunshine increases
the oxygen-carrying capacity
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of our blood.
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How does it do that
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Well, step one, our
cholesterol is going down and
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if our cholesterol
goes down, we've got less
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cholesterol in the blood.
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Now, we do need cholesterol
in the blood as part of our
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clotting mechanism but
many people have far too much
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serum cholesterol.
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That's when you go to the doctor
or the lab and have your blood
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drawn... that's called
your serum cholesterol.
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And we recommend that
your cholesterol be about
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100 plus your age.
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And most people, it's 100 plus
their age, plus their mother's
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age and someone
else's age in the house.
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We want to keep our
blood cholesterol down.
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So, as our cholesterol falls,
that means less fat in our blood
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our red blood cells aren't
aggregating or sticking together
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And they are more capable of
carrying a larger load of oxygen
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down to the cells
where it needs it.
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And so, therefore, less
cholesterol, more oxygen
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to the cells.
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It also reduces
the resting heart rate.
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Now, how does it do that?
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Well, we have to go
back to the same steps again.
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When our cholesterol is falling
down, our blood pressure is
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going down and we are
getting more oxygen to the cells
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and to the muscles and so,
therefore, our heart is saying
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"I don't have to
work quite so hard. "
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Now how does your heart rest?
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It beats and it
rests, it beats and it rests.
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Some people's heart goes like
a like a humming bird's heart,
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pumping so fast.
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But you get your heart rate
down to 60, 56, 54, there is
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a lot of rest in
between those beats.
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All right, how about blood sugar
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It will lower your blood sugar.
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Now this is for people
who have a high blood sugar.
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It's not going to hurt your
blood sugar if you are a regular
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person but what it does is
it sort of works on an enzyme
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action and it changes the
glucose in your blood, that's
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your blood sugar, into glycogen
and that is your stored sugar,
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it stores it in the liver and
it stores it in the muscles...
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so that basically
your blood glucose is going
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down just by a sunbath.
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I know a young man who
is a juvenile diabetic.
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He is in his mid 30s.
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He has no manifestations,
physical manifestations
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of juvenile diabetes.
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But he has learned how to
control his blood sugar by his
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diet, by
exercise and by sunshine.
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Now, yes, he does take some
insulin but as a maintenance
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dose, because he's got his
body finely-tuned and in control
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of his own intelligence and
he can take care of it that way.
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The immune response
goes up when we get sunbaths,
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also through this whole
mechanism... the immune response
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is encouraged by a
healthy condition of the blood.
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Our blood fats go down,
the oxygen comes up, therefore,
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our immune system is
stronger and it raises, as
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Brother Champen already
mentioned, our white blood cells
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in our body.
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Energy and endurance also
are increased by the application
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of the sun to the body.
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How does that work?
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Again, we've got to go
back through those steps.
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Energy, what
gives your body energy?
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Now, granted one of the things
that we've not talked about
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is drinking water, that is one
of them, but the other one is
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oxygen.
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Now, if you're
not getting oxygen...
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You ever notice how
when you run what happens?
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You start breathing
deeper because your body says,
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"we need more oxygen" and
so you start breathing deeper
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getting more
oxygen to the tissues.
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Well, if you have less fat,
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if your blood is pumping
better and stronger and more
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effectively, you're pumping
more blood with more oxygen
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to the tissues, therefore,
increasing your strength.
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How about the endurance thing?
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What gives you endurance?
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What do you need for endurance?
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You need the energy.
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Where do you get the energy from
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You get the
energy from the glucose.
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We've already told you that by
the sunshine converting glucose
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into glycogen, which is
the stored condition of sugar,
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in the blood, now it
comes out of the muscles,
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it comes out of the liver and
when we really need that burst
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of energy, that extra work
because we're really working
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hard, one day we've got
all the energy that we need
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to give us those things.
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It increases our muscle strength
not just because of the oxygen,
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not just because of the glucose
but because the sunshine somehow
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They've done studies showing
that those people who really
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wanting to get into building
their bodies, the best month
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of the year to build
muscle mass and muscle strength
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is the month of July.
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Now why would it
be the month of July?
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Well, because the month of
July the sun is out the longest.
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And you know, I'm often
amazed at people who go to spas
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to work out.
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Have you ever noticed...
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I drive by spas sometimes and
I look over, I've never seen any
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windows in these places.
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They are inside this closed-in
place, breathing everyone else's
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carbon dioxide, laying
in everyone else's sweat
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when they could be out in the
sunshine, fresh air and getting
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more muscle mass, more oxygen
more everything they can get
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from being out in God's nature.
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God has given us the sun
for a very special reason.
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And, we have listed a
whole bunch of these reasons
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Sometimes we just think it's
so we don't have to bump into
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trees in the daytime.
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No, it's so we can have
healthy happy, holy lives.
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And that's what God wants us
to have, Dr. Thrash, is happy,
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healthy and holy lives.
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Yes, I like those, the three H's
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Happy, healthy and holy.
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And, of course, that's the
status that our Heavenly Father
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wants us to have.
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Now, since the time of the
flood I suppose, when the canopy
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that we had over the earth
in the form of the firmament...
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when that collapsed, and fell in
and all the water up there came
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down through the
windows of heaven onto the earth
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and we lost that protective
canopy there, that filtered out
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all the cosmic rays of the sun
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Since that time, the sun has
not always been only beneficial
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to us but now sun
can be harmful to us.
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And I have a report here that
tells about skin cancer as a
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result of too much sunning.
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In the last few years, because
of continued dissipation of
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those protective elements
in the outer stratosphere of
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earth's various layers...
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Because of that, we are now
getting more radiation down to
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the earth and that is causing
us to have more skin cancer.
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Basal cell carcinoma, squamous
cell carcinomas and the most
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treacherous and malignant of
all skin cancers, the melanoma.
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But, it has been found
and this report mentions that,
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that the diet can be helpful
in reducing the likelihood that
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a mole or a previous sunburn
could turn into a melanoma.
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The diet needs to be low in fats
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It also needs to be
high in fruits and vegetables
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and backed up by plenty
of vitamin C and selenium...
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All of which we can get in
fruits, vegetables, whole grains
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nuts and seeds.
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And leave off the refined
and fermented products as much
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as we can.
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Now we know also that blistering
early in life has a more
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deleterious effect on
the skin than blistering even
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later in life.
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And so we want to protect
our children very carefully from
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the blistering sun, so
that they never have a sun burn.
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And even a little bit of
reddening should be avoided
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if we can possibly do so.
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We should protect the skin
in such ways as by umbrellas,
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and also by hats.
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Now here is an umbrella...
this is a major size umbrella.
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And it is, of course, for
more than one person, or a
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very large person.
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But because of the fact that
it is so nice, you can see that
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it's very good
protection for one.
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Now, I don't usually take a walk
with that but when I'm going
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for a walk on Sabbath,
I usually take a parasol.
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When I was a little girl, I
had these very beautiful ones
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that were hand-painted
and silk that came from Japan.
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But now I usually
use one that's like this.
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Just enough to give me a nice
shade and it's very helpful.
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Now when I work out in my garden
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I take something like this.
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This is a sun hat and you
want a sun hat that will shade
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the face as much as possible
and make it so that especially
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vulnerable parts are shaded
by the broad-brimmed sun hat.
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The nose, the chin, the cheeks
and the forehead are those areas
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that are most likely
to be burned by the sun...
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And so, of course, we want
to be very careful to protect
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those areas.
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Now, as we think about other
things that are a problem with
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our exposure to sun, then we
need to think about things that
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are problematical
for the mind as well.
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Now in dealing with the mind,
we know that there are several
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things, several features of our
life style that can elevate the
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spirits and make it so that we
are more likely to have a bright
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spirit, rather than a gloomy
or dull spirit and the sunshine
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is one of those.
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And apparently, it's the very
light itself getting into the
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eyes that acts as a re-setting
stage for the entire psyche
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and makes it so that we are more
likely to have a glad heart.
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So reset your set point
there for being glad-hearted by
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getting out in the
sunshine as early as possible
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Especially for women, it's
good if women go out into the
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sunshine very early in
the morning and take their
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exercise early.
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In the morning, when I get up
early, I first go outside to get
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my outdoor exercise
before the sun gets hot.
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And, before the sun's rays
are directly down which are more
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damaging than sun rays
coming in from the side.
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Now, so far as exercise is
concerned, one of the very best
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times for us to exercise
is early in the morning.
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And after a meal,
rather than before the meal,
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although before the
meal is fine too if you don't
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overdo the exercise.
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But after the meal, if it's
mild exercise, it stimulates
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digestion and gets things
started with the digestive
00:21:02.79\00:21:06.59
process and makes it so that
the individual is more capable
00:21:06.62\00:21:11.47
of digesting food.
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In Alabama, I like to go out
in the cool of the day, either
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early in the morning
or late in the afternoon.
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Early in the morning when
the sun's rays are not very hot
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one can exercise more vigorously
than one can in the middle of
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the day, or even middle of
the morning when the sun gets
00:21:30.24\00:21:34.35
very hot and, of
course, one gets overheated if
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one is not careful.
00:21:37.99\00:21:39.08
One should not exercise just
before bed if one is the kind of
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person that exercise
stimulates their mind.
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Some people can exercise
just before they go to bed
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and they don't sleep.
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Other people are not
that temperament at all.
00:21:53.69\00:21:57.16
They get out and
exercise and go to bed
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and sleep like a baby.
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So, you have to
decide which kind you are...
00:22:01.93\00:22:05.04
Whether you are the kind
that benefits from exercise or
00:22:05.07\00:22:08.75
whether you do not benefit
from exercise just before bed.
00:22:08.78\00:22:13.80
Now another thing that you need
to know is that you should not
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exercise if the area where
you would exercise is dangerous.
00:22:18.08\00:22:22.62
If you are likely to slip or if
you're likely to encounter dogs
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or unfriendly people, then
you would exercise indoors...
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which means that you need
some kind of exercise equipment.
00:22:34.25\00:22:36.96
But exercise will do you
a lot more good if it's done
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in the sunshine.
00:22:41.27\00:22:42.78
So if you have a sun porch,
or any place, even a large
00:22:42.81\00:22:47.04
window where you can put
the exercise equipment there and
00:22:47.07\00:22:51.36
do your exercising on the
indoor equipment in the sunshine
00:22:51.39\00:22:55.36
and an open window where
the air would be fresh...
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that can be very helpful.
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So, I think that if you
understand these things, it can
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be helpful to you to know
how to handle your sunning and
00:23:05.75\00:23:10.87
your exercise better.
00:23:10.90\00:23:12.14
And now, Don Miller is going
to give you another aspect of
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helpfulness in these areas.
00:23:15.87\00:23:18.53
You know Dr. Thrash has
mentioned the parasol and the
00:23:18.56\00:23:22.78
umbrella and the hat and
I'd feel sort of funny walking
00:23:22.81\00:23:25.56
through the woods
holding an umbrella.
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And so, I
usually do wear a hat...
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But you know, there are
things that we should do.
00:23:29.95\00:23:32.77
Many people, when it
gets warm out in the west,
00:23:32.80\00:23:36.40
they take off clothes, thinking
that that's going to make
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them cooler.
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And I have found, in my own
experience, the more clothing
00:23:40.34\00:23:43.51
I put on, as far as covering
my skin surface, the cooler that
00:23:43.54\00:23:47.26
I will be.
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I usually always wear a long-
sleeved shirt even in Alabama.
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You see I'm from north, up in
Ohio and Alabama is a hot place.
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And I find that I'm much cooler
wearing a long-sleeved shirt
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because it's the skin being
struck by the sunlight itself
00:24:00.37\00:24:04.53
which will cause some
damage, especially during those
00:24:04.56\00:24:07.47
dangerous hours about 10 o'clock
in the morning to o'clock
00:24:07.50\00:24:10.41
in the afternoon.
00:24:10.44\00:24:11.88
And so it's best to
keep yourself well-robed.
00:24:11.91\00:24:14.71
I have yet to see someone over
there in Arabia wearing Bermuda
00:24:14.74\00:24:18.60
shorts and a tank top.
00:24:18.63\00:24:19.78
They keep
themselves well- covered.
00:24:19.81\00:24:22.43
In Bible times, in Christ's
day they always wore the longer
00:24:22.46\00:24:26.41
robes, because that is a
way to keep yourself cooler.
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I remember one time I was in the
Philippines, in the Marine Corps
00:24:29.59\00:24:34.01
and a buddy and I were walking
out in the jungle and we came
00:24:34.04\00:24:37.76
to a little village
on the South China Sea...
00:24:37.79\00:24:41.31
and we decided we would like
to use one of their outriggers
00:24:41.34\00:24:44.04
to go canoeing.
00:24:44.07\00:24:45.30
And so we talked with the
person, we paid them some money
00:24:45.33\00:24:48.33
and we took their
little outrigger out into this
00:24:48.36\00:24:51.71
beautiful lagoon.
00:24:51.74\00:24:52.83
The trouble was, it was in the
heat of the day, very tropic...
00:24:52.86\00:24:56.65
The sunshine was coming straight
down on us and as I held that
00:24:56.68\00:25:00.71
paddle in my hand, my knuckles
were blanched... which meant
00:25:00.74\00:25:06.48
the blood wasn't there
to carry away the heat and
00:25:06.51\00:25:09.86
I got an extremely
bad sunburn on my knuckles
00:25:09.89\00:25:13.92
as I was out there rowing.
00:25:13.96\00:25:15.78
As a matter of fact, even today
my knuckles are more sensitive
00:25:15.82\00:25:19.34
to sunburn because once you've
burned it, it's more sensitive
00:25:19.37\00:25:23.16
to the sunburn in the future.
00:25:23.19\00:25:24.73
It was burned so badly that
they put me on light duty and I
00:25:24.76\00:25:27.58
couldn't go rappelling the next
day, which really broke my heart
00:25:27.61\00:25:30.14
But we need to protect ourselves
even our hands, especially where
00:25:30.17\00:25:34.22
we have bones right underneath,
it will really give us a problem
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I want to give you a few facts
and figures about the sun...
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Because the sun, we realize
is 93 million miles away.
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It takes about 8 minutes for
sunlight to get all the way from
00:25:43.47\00:25:46.66
the sun to this earth.
00:25:46.69\00:25:48.50
That's a pretty quick trip.
00:25:48.53\00:25:49.89
And so whatever sunlight
is striking outside your house
00:25:49.92\00:25:54.49
right now... if the sun
is shining, it got out of the
00:25:54.52\00:25:57.34
sun 8 minutes ago.
00:25:57.37\00:26:00.53
Also, about 4.7 million tons
of sun mass is lost every single
00:26:00.56\00:26:09.26
second because of the fact that
it's burning, burning, burning
00:26:09.29\00:26:12.46
But they have estimated...
00:26:12.49\00:26:13.70
Now when I listen to
man's thinking about how long
00:26:13.73\00:26:17.73
things are going to last,
that the sun will last so many
00:26:17.76\00:26:19.78
millions and billions of years.
00:26:19.81\00:26:21.28
It will probably last
forever because God has made it
00:26:21.31\00:26:24.72
to last that way.
00:26:24.75\00:26:25.75
And other nice facts and figures
about sunshine but you can read
00:26:25.78\00:26:30.01
it in the encyclopedia.
00:26:30.04\00:26:31.16
Dr. Thrash, what else to
you have to say about sunshine?
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I should say a few words about
some of the skin problems that
00:26:33.11\00:26:38.35
come with the sun.
00:26:38.38\00:26:40.33
Aging of the skin is largely
due to the exposure that we have
00:26:40.36\00:26:45.81
to the sun.
00:26:45.84\00:26:46.81
And, we can have skin cancer
as we've mentioned already.
00:26:46.82\00:26:50.06
We can also get cataracts
because of too much sun.
00:26:50.09\00:26:53.83
And, we can get osteoporosis
if we have too little sunning.
00:26:53.86\00:26:59.21
So, we need to be
careful about that one also.
00:26:59.24\00:27:02.58
Breast cancer is more likely
to occur in those who never see
00:27:02.61\00:27:06.64
the sun, than in those who
are regularly out in the sun.
00:27:06.67\00:27:10.71
Then, of course, there is
the "SAD" disease, or seasonal
00:27:10.74\00:27:14.77
affective disorder that people
in the far north who rarely
00:27:14.80\00:27:18.76
see the sun... they have a
depression and a sense of not
00:27:18.79\00:27:24.31
being very well because of
not being able to see the sun.
00:27:24.34\00:27:28.27
Then there are such things
as solar blindness and solar
00:27:28.30\00:27:32.83
cheilosis which is an
inflammation of the lips and a
00:27:32.86\00:27:36.77
variety of other problems
that can come from too much
00:27:36.81\00:27:40.68
sun exposure.
00:27:40.71\00:27:41.68
But let us not let things keep
us from enjoying the wonderful
00:27:41.69\00:27:45.35
things about the sun.
00:27:45.38\00:27:47.18
The benefits that God has built
into these are a sign of His
00:27:47.21\00:27:51.95
great love for man.
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