Hello! There is more to
food than just what we eat.
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There is also when we eat,
there is also how many times
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we eat.
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We'll be discussing meal
patterns and just what they mean
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from infancy to old age
in the next half an hour,
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and we hope you will join us.
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Welcome to Help
Yourself to Health
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with Dr. Agatha Thrash,
of Uchee Pines Institute,
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and now here is
your host, Dr. Thrash!
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In ancient times people
only ate two meals a day.
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Why was that?
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Well, partly because they
were rural people, and as many
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rural people do even today,
they get up in the morning
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at an early hour, they go out
and do some work in the fields
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then they come back in and
have a rather late breakfast,
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maybe eight or nine o'clock.
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Then they go back to the fields
and work until 3:00 or 2:00
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in the afternoon,
then they have their lunch,
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what would be a late lunch,
and then if they had supper
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at all, it will be
something like milk and bread,
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or juice and bread, it's
not a big meal in the evenings.
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It's essentially two meals
and a small snack in the evening
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even though they
are hard farm workers.
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So the meal pattern needs
to be studied, we need find out
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whether that's a good
meal pattern, two meals a day,
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or two meals and a snack,
or three meals or four meals.
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We need to study that
and find out what it is that
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science tells us concerning our
meal pattern, we also need to
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study what our own experience
can be, and so to help us
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to delve into some of
these things I have John Champen
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with me, who is a
Health Educator at Uchee Pines
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in administration there, so he
is going to talk with some about
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experiences with
the two meal plan.
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John Champen!
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Experiences with
the two meal plan, yes!
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I used to have a six meal
plan Dr. Thrash, I'd have my
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breakfast around 7
o'clock in the morning,
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and at 9 o'clock I would
have something, and then at
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about noon I had my second
big meal, and then at 3 o'clock
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in the afternoon I would
have a little snack, then about
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5:30 or 6 in the evening
there would be supper, and then
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sometimes a little bit
more on my way to bed in the
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evening, and then if I didn't
feel really well, I would have
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a little something on my
way from the bathroom at night
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at around 1
o'clock in the morning.
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I was eating all the time!
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I didn't feel very good!
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I felt tired all the time, I
felt irritable much of the time,
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my wife used to
wonder, what is wrong with you?
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Well I just nibbled and ate
like a lot of people do perhaps.
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Well that's what I did,
then about 27-28 years ago
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I began to learn of a new way.
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Two meal plan, I didn't
know how you could possibly live
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on two meals, I was just barely
making it on six and seven.
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But I read the material
and began to understand some of
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the principles there, and
began to try to put it together
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personally.
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My wife and I started to
try to do this, well how do you
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do it, how do you put a two
meal plan together where you
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get all of the nutrition
and vitamins that you need
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and have the health
that you need, and so forth.
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Well, we tried it, we
tried to do it, first of all
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we tried an
early morning meal...
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I used to go to work, I
would get up and have breakfast
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about 5:30 in the morning,
and I said let's have breakfast
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at 5:30, and then
when I come in the evening,
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we will have the second
meal, shall we try that.
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It didn't work very well,
it was a long time between
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the first meal and the second
meal it's a very long time
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and we were very gaseous
and of course we're going to bed
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and still had a
lot of food undigested.
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That didn't work out well,
we finally gradually shifted it
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to where it is today,
now we have a plan that works
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very well for us, we have our
breakfast at 6:30 in the morning
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and then we have our next
meal at 1:30 in the afternoon
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and the body rests for
about almost 18 hours a day
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my stomach is resting
after it finishes its work,
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so it rests and I
rest, and my wife rests.
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There are many advantages
to that, my wife used to fix
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three meals a day,
cook three meals a day,
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seven days a
week, that's 21 meals.
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Today she cooks about four
or five meals, and that's all
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that's required, the
rest things are prepared
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we learn how to do
things much more simply,
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and there are a lot
of advantages to that,
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to the two meal plan.
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It is ideal for adults,
it turns out to be also ideal
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for children to, once
they reach a certain age,
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I believe Dr. Thrash will
be talking more about that too.
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I would like to talk
about some of the advantages of
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the two meal plan:
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Skipping supper can save
costs, it can save as much
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as one third of your grocery
bill, grocery bills are high,
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and as you know, they
are only going one way,
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they are going higher
and higher, and that can put
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a little bit of jingle into
your pocket, one third savings.
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Also skipping supper gives you
some extra time, that you don't
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have to prepare this
meal, time that you can spend
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with your family, time
that you can spend on an extra
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project, time that you
could spend doing something
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that you need to
do or like to do.
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A letter that you need to
write, a meditation or whatever,
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you can do that, you
have that extra time.
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It also can cut your kitchen
chores, less dishes to wash
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and put away, less
cooking to prepare, that's the
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real benefit, I think
the Madame would like that if
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your husband would
insist on a two meal plan,
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It would be a
real benefit to them.
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The two meal plan helps
regulate the body weight,
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over weight people usually
loose weight, and those that
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are underweight gain weight.
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Now that's interesting for
myself, I actually weigh about
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five pounds more now on the
two meal plan, than I weighed
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on my six meal plan, now
you try to figure that out.
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We saved a lot of money
as a result of that too.
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Without supper to burden
the stomach, the mind is alert
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for evening
worship, for socialization,
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for anything like that,
that you would like to do.
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The mind is clear, it's an
old saying that if your stomach
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is operating you mind is slowing
down and not running at all
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very well.
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So you have time to think,
you have better thoughts and
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you are able to do much more
with the thinking processes.
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With an unburdened stomach which
is what you have because the
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the second meal is early enough
in the day so that you can
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go to bed with an empty stomach,
I know it sounds like a crime.
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I've heard it so many
times, you wouldn't want to send
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a child to bed on an
empty stomach, would you?
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Yes! That is exactly
what you would like to do.
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When you go to bed at night
you would like to have your
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stomach finished so that you
are resting, and your stomach
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is resting, and every time that
your little valve is opening
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in your stomach and you
are turning back and forth
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you don't have that
experience, you are resting,
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your body is resting,
and you feel a lot better.
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When the digestive system is
at rest, the entire body rests
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better, less sleep is needed,
and the sleep is more peaceful,
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more restful, you
get more out of it.
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That's a wonderful benefit
right there, you do not wake up
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groggy in the morning.
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Without food in the stomach
to draw the blood away from
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the skin, the body can sleep
comfortably in a cooler room
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with fresh air.
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That's a real benefit also,
you have fewer problems with
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a chilly night.
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In the morning you don't
wake up with bad breath and eyes
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that are red and your mind is
alert, and you don't have those
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heavy bags under the eyes,
and you don't need that makeup.
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When you wake up in the morning
the window has been opened,
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and you are just refreshed, you
are ready for whatever the next
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day offers, and that's good,
it gives you a lot of energy.
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The stomach instead of
having that all gone feeling
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from exhaustion, feels at peace,
no gnawing beast in the stomach.
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Regularity which the
two meal plan offers to us,
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regularity allows the body
system to move very smoothly.
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All of nature is on a
system, the sun rises on time,
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and goes down at a certain
time, it's all very predictable,
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and when you are on a
two meal plan and you stick
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with the proper times
of eating, which ever times
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you have selected, you find
that your digestive juices flow
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at a certain time, you are ready
for whatever comes your way.
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When breakfast time
comes your stomach is ready...
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I notice in the morning,
we have breakfast at 6:30,
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at 6:00 in the morning,
when the table is being set,
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very interesting, there
is no sensation of hunger
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what-so-ever.
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I was telling my wife
the other day, you know
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Louise, I don't feel hungry
at all, she says well I don't
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either, at 6:30 when it's time
for us to eat, we began to feel
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things happening within,
and we are ready for the meal
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and when you start eating
your meal, we eat hardily,
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and we eat gratefully, we
are very thankful for what
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the Lord has provided, and
then we are off to our work.
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It's a real blessing not
to have a sense of hunger
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in between meals, where
we used to feel all the time
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because we were so
irregular in our eating.
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Now we don't worry about
that at all, we don't even think
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about food until
it's time for us to eat.
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We found that those on a two
meal plan have less temptation
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to eat in between meals
and can comfortably wait until
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mid afternoon for the second
meal, and an evening snack
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we don't usually need, we rarely
ever have an evening snack.
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You find also that when
you are on a two meal plan
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it's a lot easier to deal with
irregularities, if you have to
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miss a meal because of traveling
or it's inconvenient for
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whatever reasoning, it's no
problem, if you need to fast
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for a meal or a day
or so, it's no problem.
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It's very interesting,
if you are going to fast,
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at the regular time for your
eating, you feel a little bit
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of hunger, if you don't take
it at that time during that meal
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period, after that, the
hunger is gone, you have no more
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sensation of it until it's
time for the regular next meal.
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That's a blessing, the body
can become as regulated as all
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of nature can, and that's
what we are talking about.
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Finally getting our bodies
back in harmony with nature.
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What is best for us, a
clean rested stomach is the
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prerequisite to
having good blood.
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We are told that perfect health
requires perfect circulation,
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well it also is important
what is being circulated,
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good clean blood is possible
there with the regularity.
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With the stomach
enjoying longer periods of rest
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the danger of ulcers is lessened
and if you have an ulcer it's
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not irritated quite as much
because of these untimely meals
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that you would be
taking, snacking and what not.
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Even in pregnant ladies,
we find that pregnant ladies
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that are on a two meal plan,
they have more milk, in fact
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that it's a real
blessing for them.
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Some have gone on a two
meal plan, had a nice flow of
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milk supply, gone off
the two meal plan, gone back
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to the third meal and their
milk stopped, and didn't return
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again until they went
back to the two meal plan.
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Dr. Thrash, I think there is
something to the two meal plan,
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what do you say? - Oh yes!
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It's a physiologic thing, and
I've been very pleased to study
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about the two meal plan.
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The year was 1960 when I
first became interested in this,
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I was teaching at Columbus
University at that time,
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Anatomy and Physiology,
which at that time was a
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required course for all
of the graduates from the
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university system.
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So I had a lot of students
and enjoyed teaching the class
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and one of the things
that I had I had while I was
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presenting the Anatomy and
Physiology the gastrointestinal
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tract was the
various phases of digestion.
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I learned from studying this,
and getting prepared to teach
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my class, that the best
plan for human beings is a
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two meal pattern, that we
do best on that kind of thing.
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So as I began to
study about this I thought,
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I should try to put this
into effect in my own life,
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and that's something
that I recommend for you too.
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Once you learn something,
something that is beneficial
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start immediately making
plans, you may not make an
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instantaneous change, but
you should start immediately
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to making plans for that change,
and as soon as it is feasible
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you begin to slide into it.
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Well that's what we
began to do in our own home,
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and we had quite an
experience with changing from a
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three meal plan to a two
meal plan, that experience being
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extreme hunger during
that time for a third meal.
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It just seemed that the appetite
was the very best at that time
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that it ever could possibly be.
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So I made a New Year's
Resolution on January 1st,
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I was going to eat nothing
else in the evening, and for
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three months, until
the first day of April,
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I struggled with that
every day, I could think about
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how much food I had in certain
places in the refrigerator
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and how nice it
would be to eat that food.
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But by careful discipline and
training and protecting myself
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from having to think about
or having to see that food.
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I came to the place where I
did not have to eat that food
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so about three months is
what it took and now it never
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crosses my mind, it
never enters my head to eat
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in the evening, I have really
no appetite for evening food.
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Yet I eat a hardy
breakfast and a hardy lunch,
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not so hardy as breakfast,
and then I have no appetite
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no desire to eat from then on.
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I can be around other
people who are eating and I'm
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perfectly fine, I
have no desire to eat.
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Now there are some other
parts of the two meal plan
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and for that John Champen
is going to talk with you some
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more about the two meal plan.
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John Champen!
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I would like to share a few
ideas here about instruction
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on eating.
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Some counselors eat largely
fruits and vegetables prepared
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in a natural and tasty way,
it's best also if the two are
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separated, we in our
home we have a vegetable meal,
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basically vegetables and
grains and nuts and seeds,
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and things like
that for one meal.
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Then fruits at another meal,
primarily fruits and grains
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and nuts and so forth, or
seeds, and we find that it
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works best that way.
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Because both of these two groups
of foods require different
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enzymes to digest, and
it's best that they are digested
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separately.
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Number two is that you should
vary your diet from meal to meal
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it's not best to eat the
same thing every day prepared
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the same way, variety is
good, but it shouldn't be
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to great of a variety,
two to four items per meal
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is probably the best, besides
bread and spread and so forth.
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Three is what most
people use in some form:
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Whole grains should be
used instead of bolted wheat,
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whole wheat bread, whole
wheat flour, rye and oatmeal,
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and less of the polished
and prepared things that are
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already precooked.
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It's best to do your
own, we want maximum nutrition
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as well as maximum taste.
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It is interesting how
those two go together,
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nutrition and natural
taste go very closely together.
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We should limit our intake
of sugars, if we do have a
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sweet tooth, there are a
lot of things that can provide
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for that sweet tooth.
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There are dried fruits
that are excellent and delicious
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and nutritious, and you
shouldn't find any problem
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with them, they go down
very easily, very nicely.
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It is very important in our
two meal plan to have a set time
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to eat, it's not a matter of
being rigid, it's a matter of
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getting in harmony with nature.
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When you have that set
time to eat, and eat on time
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your body does much better,
oh you feel so much better.
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You rest much better at night,
you don't have that fuzzy tongue
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as I mentioned before,
when you wake up in the morning
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you are just ready for the
next meal, and you are ready for
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whatever takes place, and
you shouldn't have anything
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in between meals except water.
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Water is the only thing that
we should take in between meals,
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that is a very
important part of the program.
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If you eat something else
in between meals, even so much
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as a peanut, it interferes
with the digestion, and causes
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the stomach to hold what
you have already taken in
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and longer than
what it needs to.
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If your stomach is holding
food in it longer than it
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needs to, to process
that, it winds up fermenting,
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it winds up not
making the best blood.
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Remember it is the object
of all that you eat, to make
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good blood, so you want
to take what is best in,
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and then you want to let
it have the time that it needs
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to digest.
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Eat all you need but don't
overdo it, moderation is very
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important, we can enjoy our
food and we should eat slowly.
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Eat slowly, chew, take your
time enjoyment is in the mouth,
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the taste is in the
mouth, there is no taste in the
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stomach, there is no
taste as it is going down,
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it's in the mouth, so chew
slowly, let it be mixed with
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the saliva real well, and
enjoy all that God has planned
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for you in that meal.
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Drink enough water daily,
which is a very important part,
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again water, so that
your urine remains pale,
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and you will find that
you will have better health.
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This two meal plan I believe
is heaven sent and it provides
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all that we need Dr. Thrash.
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Yes it does, it provides
all that we need and any more
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than that is really to much.
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Now there have been
a number of experiments
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scientifically performed
that help us to know that the
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two meal a day
plan is quite good.
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First is a large experiment
that was done in this country
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on various animals.
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These animals showed a
very important improvement
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in their health and in
their longevity by eating a
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two meal plan,
they could learn better,
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they had a better memory, they
had fewer cases of dermatitis,
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and gastroenteritis,
and various problems that
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animals often have, and
interestingly enough they had
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93% fewer cancers than
did animal that were on an
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adlib plan, they could eat
any time they chose and the food
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was always there.
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Then in Australia a
study was done on human beings
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showing that those
who took a two meal plan,
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and had those two meals
between a six hour span,
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lets say at six and twelve,
they had their two meals.
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Then they had an 18 hour
fast, these individuals had less
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allergies, less asthma,
less arthritis, less cancer,
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and a number of other
diseases and of course followed
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long enough, they also
showed a longer span of life.
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There have been several studies
that show a longer span of life
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in those individuals
who take a two meal plan,
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so we can recognize that it
is physiologic, it is helpful
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and we can benefit much by it.
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Calorie restriction, simply
reducing the number of calories
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that you take in a day
also helps us to live longer.
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It exposes us to fewer allergens
therefore we are less likely
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to have allergies,
less likely to have asthma,
00:21:50.83\00:21:53.96
of course these things
are all just self explanatory,
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they are just as we
think they should be.
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A restriction in calories is
inevitable with a two meal plan
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and as John Champen told
you it around a third less food
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that you take in, maybe
as little as a quarter for
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some people, but for
many people it's significant
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quantity of saving of money,
and saving of the number of
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calories.
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Then we understand
that the likelihood of
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Parkinson's disease and
Alzheimer's disease is also
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much less with a two meal
plan, and since the weight
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is down, then of course
a hypertension and cancer
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and heart disease are also
less likely to be afflictions
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that people would experience
who are on the three meal plan.
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The cognitive decline, or
the ability to recognize things
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to think and to remember things,
to plan and execute those plans,
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all of those are also better
in individuals who take in
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fewer calories, whose
calories are restricted.
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So far as infants are concerned,
infants are on a different
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pattern, their physiology
is different, their anatomy
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is different than
that of the mature person.
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But as the gastrointestinal
tract and its accesory organs
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mature through the years
they gradually develop the adult
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type pattern, so we might
ask the question, at what time
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of age would it be
proper to take a two meal plan?
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Well for most children between
the ages of one and three
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you can train them
to a two meal plan.
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We have found and I have
observed as I have seen children
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in my own family as well
as in other people's families,
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I have observed that it
goes against nature to give them
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a third meal.
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You have to call them in from
play and say "It is now time
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to come and have your evening
meal" or as many people call it
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a dinner, and dinner should
not be held in the evening,
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if you are going to
have something in the evening
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it should be a light supper.
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But even that, children
very quickly get so that they do
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not need... And
if food is not out
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and other people are not eating,
or if they do not know that
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meal time is supposed
to be served at this time
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they will not ask for
food, they are not hungry
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and so they go to bed with
a empty stomach which means
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they will rest better, and
will wake up more refreshed
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and in a much
better mood the next day.
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Now when an infant is born,
what kind of schedule do you
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put the infant on at that time?
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Well perhaps various authorities
will have different ideas
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and I will tell
you what my idea is.
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If a child is born underweight
and we are concerned about
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it's weight, then I say let
the child eat when the child can
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but as John Champen mentioned
in the talk that he gave
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he actually gained a little
weight when he went on the
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two meal plan, the reason
for that is a greater efficiency
00:25:02.35\00:25:06.38
of the digestive system.
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Your infant may also have
a better digestive efficiency
00:25:07.97\00:25:13.28
on fewer meals per day
than on an on demand schedule
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so you need to do a little
experimenting with your child.
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But as long as the child
is underweight, then you may
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properly think an on
demand feeding schedule would be
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fine, but as certainly
by the child reaches 8 Ibs,
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then the child can be put on
a schedule, every four hours,
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and possibly going all through
the night, certainly going
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six hours during the night time
hours without eating at all,
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and that's a great help to
the mother who doesn't have to
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get up so many times.
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I remember the story about
a German nanny who was taking
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care of an infant, and a
doting father and doting mother
00:25:55.83\00:26:00.71
wanted to go in and feed
the child when the child cried
00:26:00.74\00:26:04.94
during the night, but
German nanny was standing there
00:26:04.97\00:26:08.23
with her hands on her hips
right besides the child's door
00:26:08.26\00:26:11.07
and the child cried a little
while, then stopped crying
00:26:11.10\00:26:14.18
and went back to
sleep, so this we can do also
00:26:14.21\00:26:18.31
with our children.
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Once we put them on a
schedule and they stick to it
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then they are happier
and we are happier as well,
00:26:22.66\00:26:25.83
we have time to do
other things with the child.
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You should not
think that a child has a
00:26:29.88\00:26:32.08
perverted appetite because
they eat enough that even
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at infancy they may
even regurgitate a bit.
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That does not mean that
they have a perverted appetite
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because they eat that
much, generally a child has not
00:26:41.70\00:26:45.65
lost it's signals that
tell it when it has had enough
00:26:45.68\00:26:50.06
and when it should quit eating
when it is still just an infant.
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So it is proper for the
mother to say that that child
00:26:53.15\00:26:58.32
can eat as much
as the child wishes.
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Now once the child gets
to be five or six or seven,
00:27:00.72\00:27:04.17
that is no longer the case,
then at that point the mother
00:27:04.20\00:27:07.98
needs to make the
decision as to how much
00:27:08.01\00:27:10.20
the child should eat.
00:27:10.23\00:27:11.37
Then the mother judges
by such things as bloating,
00:27:11.40\00:27:15.97
gas, bad breath, the
bowel movement pattern,
00:27:16.00\00:27:21.43
and some other things to
help her to decide if the child
00:27:21.47\00:27:26.12
has eaten to much.
00:27:26.15\00:27:27.18
Now with the signals,
then the mother can be guided
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if the child is gaining
weight and gaining strength
00:27:31.90\00:27:35.74
at a proper speed, then of
course we can understand that
00:27:35.77\00:27:39.51
the child is
having enough to eat.
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Our heavenly Father loves
to have us eat the food that
00:27:41.81\00:27:45.32
He has provided, He has made
it delicious, He has made it
00:27:45.35\00:27:48.93
abundant, He has made it
very varied, and so we can
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thank the Lord
when we eat His food.
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