Seventy-five years ago,
cholesterol was a substance
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that very few
people had even heard of.
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Now, every fourth grade school
boy knows all about cholesterol.
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I'm Agatha Thrash, a
staff physician, from
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Uchee Pines Institute.
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There, we deal quite a lot with
cholesterol and people who have
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lifestyle diseases.
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We'd like to talk with you about
cholesterol and some of the
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serious problems that
we're seeing with it today.
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We really need to get tough
with cholesterol and we can.
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So we will be talking
about some of the ways
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in the next half an hour.
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So we hope you
will 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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A long time ago, we used to
think of cholesterol as being
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something that those who
are elderly had a problem with.
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We didn't think about
it as a teenage problem...
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but today, we are seeing
it more and more in teenagers.
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In fact, one out of every
six teenagers has a problem with
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cholesterol and it is more
serious than we might think.
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And so, we need to start
very early in life teaching our
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young people how to eat,
and live, and work and be
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regular in all their habits
so that they can avoid the
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problem with cholesterol.
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Now the average teenager today
does a lot of fast food shopping
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and socializing with friends
over some kind of very sweet and
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unhealthful drink...
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But it isn't necessary
that teenagers have these sweet
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things and these
very fatty things.
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Because I know that teenagers
can enjoy their food and their
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drinks without having all
of these unhealthful things.
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And here is with me, my
granddaughter who is a teenager.
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She makes some very nice
things in her kitchen that are
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not unhealthful.
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And, what are you
going to do for us today?
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It looks like it's going
to be something with orange.
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Yes, I'm going to be making
something that is similar to an
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Orange Julius.
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All you have to use is 2 cups
of your favorite soymilk which
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I happen to be using Silk.
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Then we will add 12 ounces of
frozen orange juice concentrate
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and approximately a
teaspoon of vanilla extract
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and about 12 ice cubes.
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And then you blend it until the
ice is just a little bit chunky.
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I won't finish blending it
but this is somewhat what it
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would look like
after it's finished.
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It looks very appetizing.
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Does it taste good?
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I hope so... it
tastes good to me.
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You mean it's sweet with
just the orange juice, the
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soymilk and the vanilla?
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It is, although if you
wish for it to be sweeter,
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you can put a
little bit of Stevia in it.
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Oh, that would make
it good for diabetics...
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a little bit...
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And for people
who are overweight.
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It's very sweet.
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It also comes in powder form.
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Oh yes, that's very good
and the Stevia gives it a very
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sweet flavor without adding
calories or without making it
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so that diabetics or teenagers
who have a problem with
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overweight or with cholesterol
would not be able to take.
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And so, this is a very nice
sweet drink that a person who is
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a teenager
would certainly enjoy.
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Thank you Melissa.
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Now I'm very grateful that
we don't have to be bound to one
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set of foods or one set
of nutrients but that many
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different kinds of nutrients,
many different kinds of
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foods are present in what
God has given us in nature.
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So that without any difficulty
at all, we can be very
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well-balanced in our nutrition
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We can get everything that
is needed from the foods that we
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have without using
anything that is unhealthful.
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And the teenagers should
learn how to prepare these
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very nice things, sweet
drinks that are completely free
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from guilt and also
burgers and fries and hot dogs
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and whatever the
young people eat nowadays...
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They can learn to make
these very healthfully and there
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are cookbooks everywhere
that show young people how to do
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these things and
they are fun to make.
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They are very nice for a group
of young people to make together
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And Valerie Schreiber has some
absolutely wonderful-looking
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things here and I'm looking
forward to seeing what she has.
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This is Valerie Schreiber
who is one of my co-workers at
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Uchee Pines, a health educator
and one who is an excellent cook
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So, what have
you today, Valerie?
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Well, Dr. Agatha, I'm going
to show moms how they can do a
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transition with their children
because most children's favorite
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dinner is hamburgers and French
fries at the fast food store.
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And we want to encourage moms
and young people not to have
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fast food for the children
any longer and there's a good
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way to do it but you need
to get your children involved.
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And one way to get
your children involved...
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if you will look over here...
you will see that I have taken
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burgers and I have
bought cookie cutters.
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Now, the cookie
cutters look like this.
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You can get all
sorts of cookie cutters.
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This is a clown,
here's a heart, a frog...
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and if you look back down here
on the plate, I took 2 burgers
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and made a snowman.
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I took a heart, a frog and
over here is a little group
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of balloons...
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I did that for the little
tots that don't eat very much.
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You can make them
like a little balloon.
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But the thing that I encourage
you to do, moms, is to get
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these cookie cutters and
get your children involved.
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If they get involved,
they are going to eat it.
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And then again, icing
them with mashed potatoes is so
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delicious that
they will love them.
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Now over here, you will see
that I have a dish with just
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the traditional-looking burger
on a plate with French fries
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and so the
bachelors can have this...
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They can learn how to make good
burgers in place of hamburgers
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in the fast food stores and
they can have good French fries.
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Now, I want to tell you how
you can make these French fries
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that are not fried
and deep fried in fat.
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You can go ahead and take your
potatoes and you can cut them
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just real nice like this... you
can wash them very good first.
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Leave the skin on because there
is a lot of nutrition there
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with the skin and then all
you have to do is, in a bag,
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you can mix, oh... yeast
flakes, some salt, some paprika,
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some chicken seasoning, any
flavor that you may like as a
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seasoning and then you just
take your French fries like so
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and you just put them in the bag
like this and you can zip it up
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and then just shake it.
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Just shake it like this.
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And then you can just pour these
out on a pan, which I will just
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pour them back here into
this dish and they are nice and
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seasoned and you can put
them right into your oven
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and bake them.
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In fact, we just had them for
lunch and they are delicious.
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Now moms, you can make your
children a very healthy meal
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without going to the fast
food restaurant because you can
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have a burger and French fries
and Dr. Agatha is going to bring
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in Melissa's drink... instead of
getting an unhealthy milkshake,
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you can now
have an orange drink.
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And this isn't just for children
moms, it can be just for you
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And you can learn how to
make these things quickly...
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you can have all your seasonings
put together for your French
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fries and in a little bag,
so that when you come home,
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you can just pull that bag
out, put your French fries in
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and put it in the oven.
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And, the reason that I showed
you over here, how to decorate
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burgers for children, is to get
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your children involved
in this in the beginning.
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I know it looks like a lot
of work but, let me tell you,
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when you get your children
involved in doing this, it's
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so much fun for them,
that they are going to eat it.
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And so if they think they
can do this every time they have
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burgers, they're going to
be more than likely to eat them
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And they will tell their friends
about it and their friends are
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going to want to come
over and everybody is going
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to have a good time.
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Eventually you can make
more simpler things but I'm
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encouraging you in the beginning
make it fun for your children
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In fact, I have a lot of
fun in doing it and so will
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you, mom, when you get to do it.
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Thank you.
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And of course, all this
is guaranteed to have not
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one single molecule
of cholesterol in it.
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Absolutely.
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And so your children are
not going to be getting high
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cholesterol from
this kind of food.
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Cholesterol is such a problem
nowadays that we study all of
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the blood to see what other
markers there are for coronary
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heart disease.
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Markers for coronary heart
disease are generally falling in
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three categories right now.
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One is cholesterol, a
second is triglycerides
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and a third is
homocysteine, those three.
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Now just being added now
and maybe will come to be
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standard in the next few
months or few years is that
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of fibrinogen.
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Fibrinogen is also a marker and
I predict that it will become
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as common, commonly done
for predicting heart disease as
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cholesterol now is.
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But probably if you think about
the fact that cholesterol is
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not present at all in
any kind of vegetable food...
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It's only present in animal
foods and that that animal
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food has to be taken in
sufficient quantity so that
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it will raise the
blood cholesterol.
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Now, there are some people whose
cholesterol, by family origin or
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heredity, is going to be high.
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Now these individuals, even on
a totally vegetarian diet will
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still have to be very careful
not to overeat, not to eat
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too many times a day.
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The 2-meal plan for
them is usually ideal.
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And so with this, even those
who have an hereditary high
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cholesterol, will find
that they do very well.
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Exercise and sunshine are
also important for the person
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who has an hereditary
type of high cholesterol.
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It's very important for
them that they obey all of the 8
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natural laws of health.
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Have fresh air... we've found
some people whose cholesterol
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will not come down unless
they have fresh air in their
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bedrooms at night.
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And unless they learn to be
relaxed and to exercise a lot
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and to be unstressed.
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Now, there are other
factors that are involved in
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homocysteine that
are not in cholesterol.
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Homocysteine also has some
aspects of B6 and other things
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but soy has a good affect on
homocysteine and soy also has
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a very good
affect on cholesterol.
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Soy products of all kinds
and the more close to the bean
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itself that you get, the
better it is from the standpoint
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of its benefit for the body.
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And so, Valerie, it looks
as if you've got something else
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to show us.
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Oh I sure do, Dr. Agatha.
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It looks delicious... Yes!
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And it's beautiful.
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Now what I've done
here is another one of those
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fun things.
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And I do this, again, to
help with the transition.
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Especially those
that maybe like fish.
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This is a mock salmon loaf and
if you look real close, you will
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see it looks like a fish...
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Oh there's the tail over there.
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Yeah, I've done it with lettuce.
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There's his little head
and there are his gills.
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And this is made from soybean.
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Now you can do one of two ways,
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you can get soybean flour
and that's all I really have in
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this is soybean
flour, ground up soybeans...
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and what you do is, you
soak your soybeans at night
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and then you rinse them off
in the morning, put them in the
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blender with the seasoning
that you want and blend
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them up and when you blend them
up, they'll turn out and look
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just like this.
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And you can do so many
things with ground up soy, that
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there is just no end to
the things that you can do and
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dishes that you can
make with soy like...
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egg salad, scrambled
eggs, deviled eggs, all kinds of
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loaves and burgers.
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And in my burgers, I
usually put ground up
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soy, just like you see here.
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So, in my little fish here, is
ground up soybeans, seasoning,
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tomato juice and some soy flour.
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And I just blend it all
together put it in a mold,
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put it in the oven
and then take it out.
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This makes it kind of fun,
even dad who's kind of resistant
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to this change in the
home, when he sees this,
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he'll be so amused
and it does amuse you
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You know he is going to take
a bite of it instead of being
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angry... how can you be angry
if this is sitting on the table?
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Not really, could
you, Dr. Agatha...
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No, in fact, even if I were
resistant to changing from meat
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to a vegetarian diet, I
think that with this, I would be
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willing to give it a whirl.
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Sure, and so I want to
encourage you also, moms, you
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can make a real nice
tartar sauce with this.
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Just get your favorite
vegetarian cookbook and
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there are many of them in
the health food stores today,
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Or you can even call
Uchee Pines, we have a great
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selection there.
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You can take your favorite
mayonnaise and all you have to
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do is cut up sweet pickles
in them and you can have a
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delicious tartar sauce that
you can put with your fish meal.
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Sounds very good
and very appetizing.
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And also fun.
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These are fun things to do
and if you like to putter around
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in the kitchen, you can be
very certain that you will enjoy
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doing these things.
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Now some people will need
more help than just the soy
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to bring the cholesterol
down and the exercise,
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and the sunshine.
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They will need some
other things as well.
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And, I have asked John Champen
to talk with you some about
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some studies
that have been done.
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Many have been done in many
parts of the world on a variety
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of things but at this
time, John Champen, who is my
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co-worker at Uchee Pines,
and in the administration there
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and also a health educator...
he will talk with you about
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a study done in Finland.
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Thank you.
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There have been two
recent studies; one was done in
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Finland and one was
done in Brooklyn, New York.
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It had to do with charcoal and
had to do with cholesterol...
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putting the two together.
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It's very interesting...
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The one in Finland states
that, in the Finnish studies
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7 patients were given a quarter
ounce of activated charcoal
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3 times a day for 4 weeks.
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At the end of 4 weeks, their
levels of cholesterol went down,
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the LDL went
down 41% on average.
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Now, traditional drug
therapy usually lowers LDL or
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low density lipoproteins
cholesterol, only 16%.
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That's according to "The
Lancet," August 16, 1986 and
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"Prevention
Magazine," January 1987.
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The other study was done by the
"Sunny Health Science Center" in
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Brooklyn, New York.
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Dr. Friedman had 6 patients
take a little over 1 ounce
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of activated
charcoal for 24 weeks.
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At the end of the trial
period, the cholesterol levels
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in this group fell 43% and
their triglycerides fell 76%.
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Now that's also from "Prevention
Magazine," January 1987.
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Apparently charcoal attracts
and holds onto the cholesterol
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taking it through the entire
system without it getting into
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the bloodstream, at least a
good percentage of it does that.
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It looks like this is a possible
way to lower cholesterol
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on a regular basis.
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Sounds good. Yes
and I like charcoal.
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It's another thing that
really enforces my enjoyment
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of charcoal as a remedy.
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It's not only good on the
surface, it's good internally
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and it's good for the blood.
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It's a good blood cleanser.
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Now, we have talked about
homocysteine to some degree but
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I'd like to tell you that
it's not usually included in a
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routine set of laboratory
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testing done for
your annual physical.
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So you request
that of your physician.
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Unfortunately, it's still
a little bit expensive but I
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predict that as we get more
and more people who want the
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homocysteine test, I predict
that it will come down...
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The price will come down
and it will not be so expensive.
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Homocysteine is an altogether
separate marker for heart
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disease than cholesterol is.
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And homocysteine also indicates
your likelihood of getting
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cancer, Alzheimer's disease,
Parkinson's disease, and a
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number of other problems in life
that we have come to associate
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with a high homocysteine level.
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There are certain things
that we know will be helpful in
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bringing the homocysteine
level down and thereby reducing
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your probability of getting
any one of these disorders
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that I've mentioned.
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One of those is vitamin B12.
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Vitamin B12 is very important
in helping make the change
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in the amino acids that
result that an improper change
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there makes
homocysteine level go up.
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And so if you take B12, that
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will help with the
homocysteine level.
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Folic acid will also help
and folic acid is present in
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greens and beans and whole
grains but folic acid may also
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need to be taken by supplement
for those people who have a high
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homocysteine level.
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Vitamin B6 is also one of
those things that we give by
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supplement to people who
have a high homocysteine level.
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There are certain foods that are
high in vitamin B6 and we want
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to discuss those with you now
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And so I have Valerie here who
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is going to show you some
of these foods that are high in
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vitamin B6.
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Valerie, what do you have?
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Well vitamin B6 happens to
be one of my favorite vitamins
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to talk about simply because
it's involved in more bodily
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functions than
almost any other nutrient.
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It is involved in the
physical, as well as the mental.
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And let me just read you
a few things that it does.
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It is involved in the
production of hydrochloric acid,
00:20:16.25\00:20:19.21
in the absorption
of fats and proteins,
00:20:19.24\00:20:21.77
in maintaining sodium
and potassium balance.
00:20:21.80\00:20:25.65
It promotes red
blood cell formation.
00:20:25.68\00:20:28.12
It is needed for
normal brain function.
00:20:28.15\00:20:30.98
It aids the
absorption of vitamin B12.
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It aids the
immune system functions.
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It aids in the ability
of antibody production.
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B6 also plays a role in
cancer immunity and aids in the
00:20:39.92\00:20:44.24
prevention of atherosclerosis.
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So you can see, these are
just a few of the systems that
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B12 plays a major role in.
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So therefore, I want to show
you just some of the foods that
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have rich sources of B12...
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And bananas right here,
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have one of the
richest sources of B12.
00:21:01.96\00:21:05.30
Now let me tell
you about bananas.
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When I was a little
girl, I used to love bananas.
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And, I used to dream I
was up in a banana tree eating
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bananas and so I must have
needed a lot of B6 back then,
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I don't know, but I encourage
you to feed your children
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bananas... eat bananas.
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They are one of the
richest sources of B6.
00:21:20.25\00:21:24.08
Now other sources
of B6 are in potatoes.
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Avocados are another
very good source of B6
00:21:30.26\00:21:36.30
And, good old tomato
juice has plenty of B6 in it.
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Now your corn flakes whole grain
cereals are fortified with B6,
00:21:41.36\00:21:47.68
so are grains and seeds
which I have right here.
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Here are some good
old sunflower seeds
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and they are so delicious
and they're just filled with B6.
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We also have here a soy product,
which is tofu, but it has a good
00:21:57.31\00:22:03.14
amount of B6 in it as well.
00:22:03.17\00:22:04.82
And there are many other
vegetables like green beans,
00:22:04.85\00:22:08.62
and sweet potatoes that have
a good amount of B6 in them.
00:22:08.65\00:22:12.82
And I want to show you, we
also have some herbal teas...
00:22:12.85\00:22:15.65
believe it or not that have
a good source of B6 in them.
00:22:15.68\00:22:19.60
And this is oat straw.
00:22:19.63\00:22:21.38
Here is catnip and this is
very good if you want to relax.
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Catnip is a good herb to help
you relax your nervous system.
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So that's why B6
plays a role in that.
00:22:32.91\00:22:35.35
Now we know why
it helps so much.
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Alfalfa also has
quite a bit of B6 in it.
00:22:37.57\00:22:42.25
So if you are not eating
vegetables and you want to
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be sure that you are
getting some good amounts of B6,
00:22:43.84\00:22:46.89
you can be
drinking your herbal teas.
00:22:46.92\00:22:48.58
So you will be getting
it whatever you are doing,
00:22:48.61\00:22:51.35
whether you are
drinking teas or eating your
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fruits and vegetables.
00:22:52.38\00:22:53.35
That sounds good and not
only is this nice to talk about,
00:22:54.00\00:22:57.48
but it is also good to
contemplate what nice things
00:22:57.51\00:23:00.28
that we have that
are high in vitamin B6.
00:23:00.31\00:23:03.11
And so, we can see by
these very simple things,
00:23:03.14\00:23:06.94
that we can learn what we can do
that will reduce our likelihood
00:23:06.97\00:23:12.20
of getting heart disease.
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Heart disease is not nice
and I will show you why right
00:23:13.29\00:23:18.52
here with these two
specimens from my museum.
00:23:18.55\00:23:21.14
These hearts are actual
human hearts and they have been
00:23:21.17\00:23:25.47
treated in such a way that
when I prepared them this way,
00:23:25.50\00:23:29.26
the first thing was
to fix them with formalin
00:23:29.29\00:23:31.73
Then to replace the water little
by little with a fat soluble
00:23:31.76\00:23:37.81
substance and
eventually end up with paraffin.
00:23:37.84\00:23:40.71
The whole process
takes about one month
00:23:40.74\00:23:43.45
and for me, that was
quite a long time to spend on
00:23:43.48\00:23:48.02
these... of course, I
didn't have to do it full-time.
00:23:48.05\00:23:50.08
But, I felt like one of the head
shrinkers from some of these
00:23:50.11\00:23:53.17
countries that shrink
heads because the process is
00:23:53.20\00:23:57.13
somewhat similar.
00:23:57.16\00:23:58.13
Now you will notice in
this heart... this is the normal
00:23:58.14\00:24:01.94
heart... that's the back
that you've just been seeing
00:24:01.97\00:24:04.54
and this is the front.
00:24:04.57\00:24:05.77
It's about the size of
your loosely-clenched fist.
00:24:05.80\00:24:08.87
And it sits in the
chest upside down so that the
00:24:08.90\00:24:11.36
point goes down as you see here.
00:24:11.39\00:24:13.88
Now, if you will
notice carefully,
00:24:13.91\00:24:15.93
you can see a thin line
right down here representing
00:24:15.96\00:24:21.00
the major coronary
vessel, major coronary artery.
00:24:21.03\00:24:26.87
Now I have here a heart of
a man the very same age as the
00:24:26.90\00:24:34.27
normal heart but this
heart is very abnormal.
00:24:34.30\00:24:37.18
You will be able to see
immediately that the same artery
00:24:37.21\00:24:40.59
that you could barely see,
is now very easily seen because
00:24:40.62\00:24:44.47
it has so much
calcium deposited in it.
00:24:44.50\00:24:48.00
The calcium is deposited because
of the fact that the artery
00:24:48.03\00:24:52.34
got sick and the fat that
first deposited in the artery
00:24:52.37\00:24:57.39
then drew the calcium to it and
now we have a stiffened artery
00:24:57.42\00:25:03.40
filled with material that makes
00:25:03.43\00:25:06.32
it difficult for
blood to go through.
00:25:06.35\00:25:08.12
It also makes it so that the
artery cannot make its normal
00:25:08.15\00:25:13.40
pulsation and that, of course,
00:25:13.43\00:25:15.60
alters the blood
pressure as well.
00:25:15.63\00:25:17.22
It makes the heart have to pump
harder in order to get blood
00:25:17.25\00:25:20.68
through this stiffened artery.
00:25:20.71\00:25:23.08
Now some people feel, well I
will not be very disturbed about
00:25:23.11\00:25:28.02
my hardened arteries
because they have techniques now
00:25:28.05\00:25:31.30
that they can go up and strip
all this material that's on the
00:25:31.33\00:25:35.45
inside of the artery...
they can just strip that out
00:25:35.48\00:25:38.01
Or, they have certain bypass
procedures that they can do
00:25:38.04\00:25:42.66
and so if my artery gets very
badly damaged like this one is,
00:25:42.69\00:25:48.66
and you can see
the artery right here.
00:25:48.69\00:25:51.79
This artery is very
calcified, very small.
00:25:51.82\00:25:56.42
This is the aorta which should
be almost twice that size.
00:25:56.45\00:26:00.92
This is the
lower end of the aorta
00:26:00.95\00:26:02.91
And what happened here
was the same kind of calcium
00:26:02.94\00:26:06.10
deposits following the fat, like
cholesterol and triglycerides
00:26:06.13\00:26:10.64
that deposited in the aorta
00:26:10.67\00:26:13.94
Those then made the aorta itself
so that it was nonfunctional.
00:26:13.97\00:26:18.92
And so the surgeons went in
and did a bypass for the man
00:26:18.95\00:26:24.73
and gave him an aorta.
00:26:24.76\00:26:26.95
They also
replaced another artery...
00:26:26.98\00:26:29.98
I think it was the renal artery.
00:26:30.01\00:26:31.88
And made a nice, new
aorta for him with the tributary
00:26:31.91\00:26:38.54
arteries but unfortunately,
it only functioned for
00:26:38.57\00:26:42.23
about 18 months and then
it got a clot in it as you can
00:26:42.26\00:26:46.16
here... you see this
dark clot here inside of it.
00:26:46.19\00:26:50.34
And that made it so that the
artery was then nonfunctional
00:26:50.37\00:26:54.27
and when that happened, of
course, the man lost his life.
00:26:54.30\00:26:57.56
So that isn't the way to
go, not with surgeries, not even
00:26:57.59\00:27:02.04
with drugs that promise
you that they will bring your
00:27:02.07\00:27:06.75
cholesterol down.
00:27:06.78\00:27:07.81
The very best that you
could hope with a cholesterol
00:27:07.84\00:27:12.65
lowering drug is perhaps 15%
reduction in your cholesterol
00:27:12.68\00:27:17.67
But you may need 50 or 60%
reduction in your cholesterol.
00:27:17.70\00:27:21.61
And of course, that could
not be achieved with these
00:27:21.64\00:27:26.58
artificial things.
00:27:26.61\00:27:28.89
So the natural thing such
as diet and exercise and these
00:27:28.92\00:27:34.46
things that God has
provided for us in abundance,
00:27:34.49\00:27:37.40
showing His great love for
us and making it so that we are
00:27:37.43\00:27:40.64
not just cast out here in
the earth with a serious foe
00:27:40.67\00:27:45.75
like Satan without many
tools that we can use to fight
00:27:45.78\00:27:50.32
against Satan's sophistries.
00:27:50.35\00:27:52.26
So, may this be your experience.
00:27:52.29\00:27:54.43
May God bless you.
00:27:54.46\00:27:55.43