There is a silent
killer in our land
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that takes more and more
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peoples' lives
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as time goes by.
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This is hypertension.
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I'm Agatha Thrash,
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a staff physician
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at Uchee Pines Institute
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and we'd like to discuss
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the topic of hypertension
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for you,
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and we hope you'll stay by.
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We think we have
some important things
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that will help you to avoid
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this silent killer.
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Welcome to "Help
Yourself to Health"
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with Dr. Agatha Thrash
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of Uchee Pines Institute.
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And now, here's your host
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Dr. Thrash.
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Now
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since many people
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are getting
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hypertension nowadays,
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more and more...
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More than we've
ever seen before.
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This means
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that we need to take
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a good look
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at what may be causing
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our population to have
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this kind of problem.
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Why are we getting
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so much hypertension?
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Hypertension is
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that the heart is
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beating forcefully
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but the arteries are
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keeping a good,
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tight hold
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on themselves
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and not expanding
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as they should
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with each heartbeat.
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As the
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arteries expand,
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that puts less
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pressure
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on the blood itself.
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And so blood pressure
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is that
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we have the forceful
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beat of the heart,
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and the
strength of the arteries.
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And especially
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the tiniest
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of our arteries called
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arterioles.
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These arteries
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have lots of muscle
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in their wall.
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And if they hold a
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very tight control
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over the size
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of the artery
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wall, then
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we're going to have high
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blood pressure.
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Now many people
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think, "well, I have high
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blood pressure.
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My father had it.
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My mother had it,
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and maybe several
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other relatives have had it
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and, therefore, I can
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expect that I will too.
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So, I'll just
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do what they did...
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I'll take some medication
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and then my blood pressure
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will come down to normal
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and I'll be fine. "
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Actually,
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there are often many things
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that can be done that are
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very natural that do not
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have the side effects
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that
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the various drug
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medications have.
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And my husband
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and I have
written a book called...
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"Natural Treatments
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for (Your High Blood
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Pressure) or Hypertension"
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and in this book,
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what we try to do
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is to get all of the
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natural remedies that we
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could find from anywhere
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in the world and
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put them all together
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in one book.
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This book will
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give to you
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many, many things
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that we will
not be able to cover
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on this program.
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But we would
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certainly like to cover
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as many of these for you
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as we can.
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I'd like to
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talk with you about the fact
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that there is a part
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of the treatment
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for hypertension
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that can properly
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be done with a pill,
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but most of the time
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these are nutrients or
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herbals pills
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and not with drug
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medications.
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And progressive
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physicians will
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go for these
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natural things now
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rather than immediately
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going to
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a drug medication.
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The American Heart Association
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recommends to its physicians
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that they try to
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do something that's natural
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first, such as
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weight control or
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rearranging the diet,
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or helping people to
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do exercise.
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All of these things
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can greatly help
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the person
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who has hypertension
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not to be
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struggling always with a
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high blood pressure.
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Now, Don Miller
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is going to talk with you about
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the subject of exercise
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because exercise
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is my very favorite
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treatment for
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the control of blood pressure.
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And this is Don Miller
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who is a
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lifestyle counselor at
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Uchee Pines and
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in our Education Department.
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Don Miller.
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Thank you Dr. Thrash.
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I want to just
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mention one thing first
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before I talk about the exercise
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portion of high
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blood pressure.
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There is a thing called
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primary high blood pressure
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and secondary
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high blood pressure.
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What we are
basically dealing with
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is primary high blood pressure.
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Secondary means high
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blood pressure caused by
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another disease process
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which may
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or may not be affected
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by the things that we'll be
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recommending here today.
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Another thing is...
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another form of
high blood pressure
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is called "white
coat hypertension. "
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And that is the type
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of high blood
pressure caused by...
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You're feeling fine
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and everything is okay,
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and your blood
pressure is probably
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close to normal
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and you walk into the doctor's
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office and here he comes
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with the white coat on
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with the thing and
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all of a sudden,
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your blood pressure goes
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up because
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there is the doctor
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with the white coat on.
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It's called "white
coat hypertension. "
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Nothing to do with the doctor
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or the white coat...
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just your perception
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and so
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we have to make sure that
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if you're going to be monitoring
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your own blood pressure,
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you do it in a restful time,
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in a nonstressed time
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because these
things can profoundly
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affect your blood pressure
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over short periods of time.
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As a matter of fact,
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God has given us the
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ability...
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the body unconsciously,
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to alter the blood pressure
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according to the
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situation that we're in.
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But if we're
just trying to monitor
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to see where we're at,
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do it in a restful time.
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Now, one of the good
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ways to lower
your blood pressure
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is through the
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wonderful means of exercise.
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And now we're not
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saying right now, you go out
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there and buy a pair of Reebok's
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and hit the road and start
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aerobic exercising because
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you may not be ready for it yet.
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If you are
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depending on your age,
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your physical condition,
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the sedentary lifestyle
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you may have been living,
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you need to move
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into an exercise program
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slowly
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but move in that direction.
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And no matter what
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exercise you do,
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you've GOT to do something.
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I remember a few years ago
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we had a neighbor at
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Uchee Pines...
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she was basically...
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came to the point where
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she just could not get around
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much and she was pretty much
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confined to a bed
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or a chair.
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And this lady had been
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so active and she
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wanted so much to exercise
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and I said, "well,
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try this. " She had a cane
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I said, "hold onto your cane
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and hook it over your foot...
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and then push and pull,
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and push and pull,
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and get some exercise going.
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Because as we exercise
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our muscles,
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we're exercising our heart
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muscle, which is going
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to increase its strength
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and as we increase
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its stroke strength,
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we increase the
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volume of blood it can
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send through the body
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and it will lower our
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blood pressure.
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There have been
various studies done...
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looking at how to
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lower blood pressure.
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There is one study done
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a 16-week study
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with a number of people,
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and they basically
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put them on an exercise
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bike for 45 minutes a day
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3- days a week.
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Not a very vigorous
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exercise program
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And, as a matter of fact,
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their exercise
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would have been
considered moderate.
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It wasn't heavy-duty,
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just sitting on that exercise
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bicycle for
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45 minutes a day,
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3- days a week.
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But even in that,
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their systolic fell
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7 mm
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and their diastolic,
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the low number, 5 mm
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in just the
3-week period of time.
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Not a bad experience
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a lot better
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than a lot of
medications could do.
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Now I want to mention this
... as I talk about exercise
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If you do not
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enjoy the exercise
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that you are doing,
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it could even have a negative
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effect upon your body.
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So, if you
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hate... if you have
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one of those
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exercise
bicycles in your basement,
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and you just hate
getting on that thing,
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and that's with all
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your force of will power
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you get down there and
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climb on to that thing
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that hurts every part
of your body to do it,
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perhaps that's not
the best one for you.
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Maybe that's why...
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if you wanted
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to pick up a good
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exercise bicycle,
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go to a thrift store because
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they're in
there by the dozens...
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because people
just don't like them.
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Some people do...
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that's the one for you.
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Find an exercise that you
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enjoy doing.
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There was another study done
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that took a group of people
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Most of these people were
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around the age of
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65 years old...
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There were 70 people in this
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particular study...
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Another 3-week period
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of time they had them on
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They did 3 things for them...
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1. No coffee.
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No nicotine
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and no alcohol...
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which... those things
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should be out of
our lifestyles anyway.
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2. They put them on a
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vegetarian diet
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which we will talk about later.
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3. Put them on
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aerobic exercise.
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Now what's aerobic exercise?
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Aerobic exercise is
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basically when we get our heart
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and our lungs going
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at the same time.
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We're out of breath
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because our
lungs and our heart...
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and the reason why
we are out of breath
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is because the body says...
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"okay, we need some more oxygen"
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and it turns up the need
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and pretty soon, we're getting
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what we call
"aerobic exercise. "
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They put them on this
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aerobic exercise experience.
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At the beginning of the study,
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at the very first day,
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they took the blood pressures
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Their average
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blood pressure was
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150/81.
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Now that's considered
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high blood pressure...
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150 is much too high
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for the systolic...
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81 is about
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okay for the diastolic.
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But that was high
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blood pressure.
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After 3-weeks of just
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those three things,
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the no alcohol,
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tobacco and
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nicotine,
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vegetarian diet
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aerobic exercise,
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their finishing blood
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pressure average was
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125/78...
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Unbelievable fall...
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right down to the area
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where we like to see it.
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AND...
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better than that,
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80% of them
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got off their blood
pressure medications.
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And now, we
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want to say at this point...
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blood pressure medications
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should only be taken
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from you by your doctor.
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Never just say...
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...Well, I'm going
to go on this program,
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and throw these pills out...
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because you may have a
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rebound effect,
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and so you want to
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stay away from the
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the getting off
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the medications
all by yourselves.
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Slowly let your doctor say...
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"Wow, your blood pressure
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is doing much better.
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We can take you off
some of your medication. "
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Let him take it away
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as you improve yourself.
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And you will find yourself
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in a whole lot
better situation for that.
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Exercise is a great
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blessing of God.
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And we find also,
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as we exercise outside,
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the sunshine has a way
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to lower our blood pressure...
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Fresh air has a relaxing
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experience on our bodies.
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You get into a good
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exercise program
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and you'll find that after
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the exercise program
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is over,
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and you've done
your exercise period,
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you will find yourself
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much more relaxed...
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Your blood
pressure normally lower,
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and you're going to find it
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falling, falling, falling
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over a
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week's period of time...
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And, Dr. Thrash,
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I think that's a
good thing to do.
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Yes... and one of the nice
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things about exercise
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is that it has SO many
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other benefits.
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It has good benefits
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for the bones and the muscles
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and the gastrointestinal
tract and the skin.
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And so, we can expect
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that exercise
will do much for us.
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It will also make it
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so that we are
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better able to sleep.
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And sleep is
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that mystical
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not-very-well-understood
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activity which
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scientists
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continue to study
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and try to learn what it is
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but we know that it is
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essential for our refreshment
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and restoration
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both of body
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and of mind.
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The first thing to do
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in getting good sleep
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a wonderful lifestyle
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law
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is that of being regular.
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That's another
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lifestyle law.
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Regularity in all things
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is essential
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for a good life style.
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So, make everything
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in your life that you can put,
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make it a regular
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schedule.
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Now you will find that
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even with the very best
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effort that you have
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to make your life regular,
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and well-balanced,
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that there will be things
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every day that will
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come up, that will throw things
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off kilter.
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But you keep
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remembering your
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schedule and trying to
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make it work for you
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and especially trying
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to turn off the lights
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when the time to turn off
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the lights comes.
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If you set your bedtime
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at 9 o'clock,
which is very good,
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or 9:30, or 10...
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Ten is about the latest
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that you can get a good
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1-1/2 hours of sleep
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before midnight.
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But just required in order
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that we produce enough
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growth hormone
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to give us efficiency
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in a lot of our
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body processes.
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So, try to get
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to bed early
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so that you can get
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at least 1-1/2 hours
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of good quality sleep
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before midnight.
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Then the second thing...
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If you have difficulty
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sleeping, learn those
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things that make it so
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that it's difficult
for you to go to sleep.
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Some people
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go to sleep very well
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if they have a
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neutral bath.
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Other people find
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that if they have something
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like a shower,
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or if they go through
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any of the process
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of getting
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in the bathtub,
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that this is
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stimulatory to them...
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The body sort of feels...
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"this is morning-time
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and I need to be
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waking up now. "
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So it depends on who you are...
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as to whether
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a shower or
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a bath
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will be helpful
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to make you so that you
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can go to sleep.
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Then aim
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at some 6 to 9
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hours of sleep.
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No less than 6.
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We find that good
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health cannot be maintained
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if you have less than 6 hours
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every day.
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And you will
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also not maintain good
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health if you have much
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over 9 hours...
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unless you are under the age
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of... say, 20.
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You might be able
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to take a little more
than 9 hours every day.
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But for adults, it's
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about 6 to 9 hours
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with a good time
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being probably around
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7-1/2
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to 8-1/2 hours
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of sleep every day.
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So, aim at that.
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Now, you need to have
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a good bed.
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Some people like it soft
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Some people like it firm
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...whatever
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is your preference,
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that may be the bed
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that you sleep the best in.
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So try to make it
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just that way.
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You may need to invest in a
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new mattress
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if you don't sleep
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well on the mattress
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that you have.
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Keep your extremities
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warm.
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A lot of people will
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sleep with their extremities
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out from under the cover
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and their extremities
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get chilled during the night.
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Chilling makes a certain
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tension.
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So tension on the skin
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and tension on
the blood vessels,
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and eventually that tension
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is shed also into the brain.
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And the brain then becomes
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more alert
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and more likely to be
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awake.
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Also, you should be
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very careful that your
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surroundings are quiet.
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If there is noise
in your background,
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then you are very likely
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to listen to that some.
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Then,
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try to have a good
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atmosphere in your home.
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Make things pleasant
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in your home.
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Have people who
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live in your
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household
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enjoy being together.
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Make your home
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a sunny place...
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so that
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even at night,
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you can relax
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and you can enjoy
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the wonders
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of good sleep.
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Now,
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many of these very same
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things apply
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to the diet.
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The diet is
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important in blood
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pressure and Don Miller
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is going to discuss for you
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the importance of diet.
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Don Miller
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Diet is something that
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we all have to do.
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I've just talked about exercise.
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We all need to do that too
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But too often
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the tool
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of the digging of our graves
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is something like our spoon
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or our forks.
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We dig ourselves into
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bad situations
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of health because we just
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cannot control
this little thing.
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This spoon
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can be the
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bearer of blessings
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or curses to our body
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depending on what we put in it
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and what we put into our body.
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Now I want to mention one thing.
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Dr. Thrash has just talked
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about being restful
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and peaceful environment.
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Mealtimes
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should be the most pleasant
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time of the day for a family.
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There's nothing worse
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for the body
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than to sit down at a mealtime
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and your stressed out
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because if you say a word,
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if you say something wrong,
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if you spill something,
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or something goes
wrong at the table,
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it's going to be a bad scene.
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And this can cause bad
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digestion.
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It can cause
just a bad situation
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causing your
blood pressure to go up
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and basically, no matter
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what you eat is going to become
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a bad thing in your body
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because your body is not
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able to receive it.
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So we should have
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extremely restful times
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at our mealtimes.
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But God has given us
00:16:40.98\00:16:42.02
a good diet that we
should be following.
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And, the main
00:16:43.99\00:16:45.77
things that we can talk about
00:16:45.80\00:16:47.36
as far as diet
00:16:47.39\00:16:48.42
would be a salt-free diet.
00:16:48.45\00:16:49.96
I'm going to talk
about that in a few minutes.
00:16:49.99\00:16:51.32
I'm not going to
get into the salt-free.
00:16:51.35\00:16:52.65
We realize that a
00:16:52.68\00:16:54.13
person who is hypertensive,
00:16:54.16\00:16:55.29
should be on a salt-free diet.
00:16:55.32\00:16:56.93
But other than that,
00:16:56.96\00:16:58.22
we should be on a diet that
00:16:58.25\00:16:59.60
is low in fat.
00:16:59.63\00:17:01.06
As a matter of fact,
if a person is truly high
00:17:01.09\00:17:03.04
in their blood pressure,
00:17:03.27\00:17:05.42
I suggest they get off
00:17:05.45\00:17:06.58
of all fats
00:17:06.61\00:17:07.77
for a period of time.
00:17:07.80\00:17:08.81
All visible fats...
00:17:08.84\00:17:10.25
things like butter, margarine,
00:17:10.28\00:17:11.60
fried foods, salad oils,
00:17:11.63\00:17:13.08
cooking fats
00:17:13.11\00:17:14.08
and nut butters.
00:17:14.09\00:17:15.72
No visible fats at all.
00:17:15.75\00:17:17.80
If they want some fat,
they should eat a few nuts.
00:17:17.83\00:17:19.96
Nuts are very good for the body.
00:17:19.99\00:17:21.60
Very good for
the vascular system
00:17:21.63\00:17:24.10
Eat the nuts but don't
00:17:24.13\00:17:25.25
turn it into the butter
00:17:25.28\00:17:26.25
because the fat does not
00:17:26.26\00:17:27.71
know how to act in the body...
00:17:27.74\00:17:29.16
It likes to go to
00:17:29.19\00:17:30.80
the artery walls
00:17:30.83\00:17:32.06
rather than into
the liver to become
00:17:32.09\00:17:33.56
energy for the future.
00:17:33.59\00:17:35.01
So we need to find
00:17:35.04\00:17:36.35
ourselves eating a
00:17:36.38\00:17:37.94
diet low in fat,
00:17:37.97\00:17:40.14
and basically
00:17:40.17\00:17:41.74
for a high
00:17:41.77\00:17:43.24
blood pressure person,
00:17:43.27\00:17:44.33
the vegetarian diet
00:17:44.36\00:17:45.33
is the superior diet...
00:17:45.34\00:17:46.98
no matter how you look at it.
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For a number of reasons...
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1. You are getting
00:17:49.46\00:17:50.77
no cholesterol
00:17:50.80\00:17:51.99
in the diet if you're eating
00:17:52.02\00:17:52.99
a vegetarian diet.
00:17:53.01\00:17:53.99
We realize that cholesterol
00:17:54.02\00:17:55.09
is going to cause
00:17:55.12\00:17:56.45
the blood cells
00:17:56.48\00:17:57.97
to aggregate, to clump together,
00:17:58.00\00:17:59.26
to get sticky
00:17:59.29\00:18:00.26
which is going
to cause the heart
00:18:00.27\00:18:01.24
to have to pump harder
00:18:01.25\00:18:02.23
to push them through the
00:18:02.26\00:18:03.61
little streets of our bodies
00:18:03.64\00:18:05.08
And so, we can stay
00:18:05.11\00:18:06.26
away from the cholesterol,
00:18:06.29\00:18:07.71
we have a little bit less
00:18:07.74\00:18:09.16
viscid blood.
00:18:09.19\00:18:10.16
2. We don't have
00:18:10.17\00:18:11.56
the secondary stress hormones.
00:18:11.59\00:18:13.39
All those animals
00:18:13.42\00:18:14.52
that were going to market...
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You know, this little
piggy went to market...
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type of a thing...
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They know where they were going,
00:18:18.37\00:18:19.64
and they knew what was happening
00:18:19.67\00:18:20.90
up in front of them somewhere.
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And they have the same
00:18:22.63\00:18:23.89
stress responses
00:18:23.92\00:18:25.05
you and I have when we
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get into a
00:18:26.17\00:18:27.40
dangerous situation.
00:18:27.43\00:18:29.04
Trouble is...
theirs stops there.
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And all those stress
00:18:31.34\00:18:32.60
hormones are stuck in
00:18:32.63\00:18:34.09
that body and then we
00:18:34.12\00:18:35.44
eat the animal and we're
00:18:35.47\00:18:36.78
trying to lower our stress
00:18:36.81\00:18:38.43
but we're eating an animal
00:18:38.46\00:18:39.57
full of stress.
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And we are taking in
00:18:40.58\00:18:41.94
secondary stress hormones.
00:18:41.97\00:18:44.85
Another good thing
about a vegetarian diet
00:18:44.88\00:18:46.74
it's very weight-friendly.
00:18:46.77\00:18:49.04
It will bring your weight down
00:18:49.07\00:18:50.57
to where it should be.
00:18:50.60\00:18:51.58
And we realize
00:18:51.61\00:18:53.29
that one of the problems
00:18:53.32\00:18:54.29
normally with a
person who is overweight...
00:18:54.30\00:18:55.77
they will become
00:18:56.52\00:18:58.02
hypertensive.
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They WILL get
high blood pressure.
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It's very hard
00:19:00.64\00:19:02.34
to be overweight
00:19:02.37\00:19:03.77
on a good vegetarian diet.
00:19:03.80\00:19:05.94
Now when I say a good
00:19:05.97\00:19:07.27
vegetarian diet,
00:19:07.30\00:19:08.27
I stress the word...
00:19:08.28\00:19:09.47
a GOOD vegetarian diet.
00:19:09.50\00:19:12.24
We're talking about a
00:19:12.27\00:19:13.93
VEGAN diet really...
00:19:13.96\00:19:15.03
You have to look at
the different definitions.
00:19:15.06\00:19:16.96
Years ago,
00:19:16.99\00:19:18.23
we'd say the word
00:19:18.26\00:19:19.47
"vegetarian" and to me
00:19:19.50\00:19:20.61
that meant...
00:19:20.64\00:19:21.61
as a matter of fact,
00:19:21.62\00:19:22.59
when I was a child, I thought...
00:19:22.60\00:19:23.57
"oh, vegetarian...
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they don't eat anything but
00:19:24.59\00:19:25.64
carrots and lettuce,"
00:19:25.67\00:19:26.84
and just the
thought of it made me ill.
00:19:26.87\00:19:28.99
And I said, "I don't know
how you can live like that.
00:19:29.02\00:19:30.68
Well now I know
how you can live.
00:19:30.71\00:19:32.44
But now, you
have people saying...
00:19:32.47\00:19:34.25
"Yes, I'm a vegetarian
00:19:34.28\00:19:35.57
and I eat some eggs
00:19:35.60\00:19:36.99
and I do some dairy products.
00:19:37.02\00:19:38.45
Well, that's a lacto-ovo
00:19:38.48\00:19:40.78
vegetarian.
00:19:40.81\00:19:43.06
And now we have
lacto-ovo-fisho-chicko
00:19:43.71\00:19:45.72
vegetarians...
00:19:45.75\00:19:47.30
because "I'm a vegetarian.
00:19:47.33\00:19:49.15
I just eat a
little bit of chicken,
00:19:49.18\00:19:50.22
and a little bit of fish. "
00:19:50.25\00:19:51.29
Well no... all of these things
00:19:51.32\00:19:52.72
are high in cholesterol,
00:19:52.75\00:19:54.15
stress hormones and
00:19:54.18\00:19:55.42
these are not good.
00:19:55.45\00:19:56.42
But when I say
00:19:56.43\00:19:57.73
a good vegetarian diet,
00:19:57.76\00:19:59.01
that means a vegan diet.
00:19:59.04\00:20:00.38
And if you are
00:20:00.41\00:20:01.89
hypertensive and overweight,
00:20:01.92\00:20:03.41
leaving off the free fats,
00:20:03.44\00:20:04.70
you're going to find that your
00:20:04.73\00:20:06.03
weight will fall down
00:20:06.06\00:20:07.42
to where it needs to be
00:20:07.45\00:20:08.71
to have a good blood pressure.
00:20:08.74\00:20:10.95
For every pound of
extra weight that you
00:20:10.98\00:20:13.48
put on... a pound of fat,
00:20:13.51\00:20:14.71
you are building MILES
00:20:14.74\00:20:15.96
of capillary system.
00:20:15.99\00:20:17.10
That means the heart has to work
00:20:17.13\00:20:18.18
all the harder to push
00:20:18.21\00:20:19.68
that blood through the system.
00:20:19.71\00:20:20.98
Give your heart a break...
00:20:21.01\00:20:23.03
give it less roads
00:20:23.06\00:20:25.45
to have to push its blood down
00:20:25.48\00:20:27.11
by losing some weight...
00:20:27.14\00:20:28.59
A vegetarian diet will do that.
00:20:28.62\00:20:30.17
And you are going to
feel a whole lot better
00:20:30.20\00:20:31.44
for the situation.
00:20:31.47\00:20:33.86
And, if you think
00:20:33.89\00:20:35.07
that you cannot survive
00:20:35.10\00:20:36.28
on a vegetarian diet,
00:20:36.31\00:20:37.50
that you would be weak
00:20:37.53\00:20:38.63
and emaciated...
00:20:38.66\00:20:40.77
I was, for many years,
00:20:40.80\00:20:42.27
a distance
runner and ran marathons
00:20:42.30\00:20:43.99
and you ask anyone
00:20:44.02\00:20:46.00
who is distance runner,
00:20:46.03\00:20:47.06
anyone who is getting ready
00:20:47.09\00:20:48.59
to run a marathon
00:20:48.62\00:20:49.80
"What foods do you eat?"
00:20:49.83\00:20:51.24
They do not go out there
00:20:51.27\00:20:52.48
and eat hamburgers and steaks.
00:20:52.51\00:20:54.44
Instead...
00:20:54.47\00:20:55.46
they bulk up on carbohydrates...
00:20:55.49\00:20:57.64
the energy food.
00:20:57.67\00:20:59.01
And so as we eat
the carbohydrates,
00:20:59.04\00:21:01.21
as complex as possible...
00:21:01.24\00:21:02.97
that means it's the way God
00:21:03.00\00:21:04.17
packaged them in
the first place...
00:21:04.20\00:21:05.76
fruits,
vegetables, whole grains,
00:21:05.79\00:21:07.37
nuts and seeds.
00:21:07.40\00:21:08.37
As we eat these high energy
00:21:08.38\00:21:09.88
foods, we'll have
the energy we need
00:21:09.91\00:21:12.09
to go out and get the exercise
00:21:12.12\00:21:13.40
I just talked about
00:21:13.43\00:21:14.68
and you'll feel better...
00:21:14.71\00:21:15.92
you'll look better...
00:21:15.95\00:21:16.92
your blood
pressure will come down,
00:21:16.94\00:21:18.46
and you will, truly,
00:21:18.49\00:21:19.65
as the Bible says...
00:21:19.68\00:21:20.68
"Present your body
00:21:20.71\00:21:21.83
a living sacrifice. "
00:21:21.86\00:21:23.60
And Dr. Thrash,
00:21:23.63\00:21:24.67
Paul says that's a
reasonable service.
00:21:24.70\00:21:26.75
Yes it is, a reasonable service.
00:21:26.78\00:21:28.40
Let me ask you something...
00:21:28.43\00:21:29.90
I assume
00:21:29.93\00:21:31.58
you never eat peanut butter...
00:21:31.61\00:21:32.88
is that right?
00:21:32.91\00:21:34.88
Well... BY THE SPOONFUL!
00:21:34.91\00:21:37.74
And the reason why I do
00:21:37.77\00:21:39.67
is because I have been
00:21:39.70\00:21:41.16
advised by my doctor
00:21:41.19\00:21:44.51
to eat some free fats.
00:21:44.54\00:21:46.24
Now, I don't
overdo the free fats.
00:21:46.27\00:21:48.44
I like my nut butters.
00:21:48.47\00:21:50.01
But, I'm one of those types...
00:21:50.04\00:21:51.99
I want to taste it
but I don't want to
00:21:52.02\00:21:53.31
have to feel it
coming out of my pores.
00:21:53.34\00:21:55.15
And so, I put a moderate amount
00:21:55.18\00:21:57.35
of nut butters on my bread
00:21:57.38\00:21:59.23
because...
00:21:59.26\00:22:00.23
there's a test you can take...
00:22:00.24\00:22:01.21
If you want to
take the test to see
00:22:01.22\00:22:02.27
whether you can
have some free fats,
00:22:02.30\00:22:03.83
it's a very easy test.
00:22:03.86\00:22:04.98
Get yourself a tape measure
00:22:05.01\00:22:06.85
and you run it
around your waist.
00:22:06.88\00:22:08.34
And then you
look at the numbers.
00:22:08.37\00:22:09.85
If you're happy
with the numbers,
00:22:09.88\00:22:11.34
you can have some nut butters.
00:22:11.37\00:22:12.89
I am very, very happy with
00:22:12.92\00:22:14.73
my numbers
00:22:14.76\00:22:15.88
and with my nut
butters, Dr. Thrash.
00:22:15.91\00:22:18.86
I think you could pass the
tape measure test all right.
00:22:18.89\00:22:20.40
In any part of my body.
00:22:21.16\00:22:23.02
Now, there is another part of
00:22:23.05\00:22:25.61
a good diet
00:22:25.64\00:22:27.10
that we want to mention...
00:22:27.13\00:22:28.51
we want to
illustrate this for you...
00:22:28.54\00:22:30.01
And that is the
00:22:30.04\00:22:31.13
salt-free diet.
00:22:31.16\00:22:32.93
And just how to do
the salt-free diet.
00:22:32.96\00:22:35.76
Now if you
00:22:35.79\00:22:37.35
remove all the salt
00:22:37.38\00:22:38.54
from your vegetables
00:22:38.57\00:22:40.02
and your fruits and your grains,
00:22:40.05\00:22:41.88
and you put those on the table,
00:22:41.91\00:22:43.88
it may not taste very good.
00:22:43.91\00:22:45.16
But there are ways
00:22:45.19\00:22:46.81
that you can PERK-UP
00:22:46.84\00:22:48.31
vegetables and make them
00:22:48.34\00:22:49.54
so that they
taste really good...
00:22:49.57\00:22:51.46
even though you don't
00:22:51.49\00:22:52.77
have a bit of salt in them.
00:22:52.80\00:22:54.74
And now, I'd like to ask
00:22:54.77\00:22:56.54
Valerie Schreiber, who is
00:22:56.57\00:22:58.23
one of my
co-workers at Uchee Pines,
00:22:58.26\00:23:00.48
a health educator
and a GOOD cook...
00:23:00.51\00:23:03.94
How do you perk-up vegetables
00:23:03.97\00:23:05.80
when you have a patient who
00:23:05.83\00:23:07.06
needs to have a salt-free diet?
00:23:07.09\00:23:10.08
Dr. Agatha, there
is a way to do this.
00:23:10.11\00:23:12.15
And I want to encourage
00:23:12.18\00:23:13.45
the audience out there,
00:23:13.48\00:23:14.47
there is a way
that you can perk-up
00:23:14.50\00:23:16.08
your vegetables and make them
00:23:16.11\00:23:17.53
very tasty.
00:23:17.56\00:23:18.53
Now, it takes a couple
00:23:18.56\00:23:20.21
of weeks of going through
00:23:20.24\00:23:22.04
the transition...
00:23:22.07\00:23:23.04
And really, when you go through
00:23:23.05\00:23:24.44
the transition and you go back
00:23:24.47\00:23:25.75
and you eat a
00:23:25.78\00:23:26.83
regular, salty diet again,
00:23:26.86\00:23:28.71
you'll find that...
00:23:28.74\00:23:30.15
it tastes too salty
00:23:30.18\00:23:31.56
and I've had patients say
that over and over again...
00:23:31.59\00:23:33.54
"I can't eat what
I used to eat before.
00:23:33.57\00:23:35.71
It's just too salty. "
00:23:35.74\00:23:37.16
So, there's hope for you...
00:23:37.19\00:23:38.85
that if you go
into this transition,
00:23:38.88\00:23:40.79
You will find that you can
00:23:40.82\00:23:42.53
acclimate very nicely.
00:23:42.56\00:23:44.87
And so down here...
00:23:44.90\00:23:46.77
or actually, I'd
better hold it up...
00:23:46.80\00:23:48.05
Here on the table is
00:23:48.08\00:23:49.13
one of my favorites,
00:23:49.16\00:23:50.37
and this is
hickory-smoked flavor
00:23:50.40\00:23:52.90
And, let me tell you,
00:23:52.93\00:23:54.24
if you put this in your
00:23:54.27\00:23:55.61
salad dressings,
00:23:55.64\00:23:57.32
in the loaves
00:23:57.35\00:23:58.80
or the burgers that you make,
00:23:58.83\00:23:59.95
almost anything,
00:23:59.98\00:24:01.03
it will give it sort of that
00:24:01.06\00:24:02.03
hickory smoked flavor
00:24:02.04\00:24:04.27
it will really take away
00:24:04.30\00:24:08.48
the desire for salt
00:24:08.51\00:24:09.74
because it has
such an excellent flavor
00:24:09.77\00:24:11.13
and it's absolutely harmless.
00:24:11.89\00:24:13.68
I've called the company
00:24:13.71\00:24:14.68
to see how they make them,
00:24:14.69\00:24:17.86
it's just steam that turns
00:24:17.89\00:24:19.13
into water and they add
water and they bottle it
00:24:19.16\00:24:20.48
It has no carcinogens in it.
00:24:21.05\00:24:23.37
It has no msg.
00:24:23.40\00:24:25.03
No chemicals, no
sodium, or nothing.
00:24:25.06\00:24:26.74
It's just pure water basically
00:24:26.77\00:24:28.32
that has been flavored
00:24:28.35\00:24:29.54
with smoke from
the hickory wood.
00:24:29.57\00:24:31.56
So, it's very delicious.
00:24:31.59\00:24:33.09
Now a few other
things that we have...
00:24:33.12\00:24:34.54
You can go to your local
00:24:35.18\00:24:36.15
health food store
00:24:36.16\00:24:37.13
and there are many
00:24:37.15\00:24:38.80
different flavorings
00:24:38.83\00:24:40.86
that you can buy
00:24:40.89\00:24:41.86
in a shaker form
00:24:41.87\00:24:43.25
that have
different herbal combinations
00:24:43.28\00:24:45.32
and they're quite delicious.
00:24:45.35\00:24:46.96
And they flavor
the food very nicely.
00:24:46.99\00:24:49.44
There is another one
00:24:49.47\00:24:51.16
that's called
"Spike... All Purpose"
00:24:51.19\00:24:53.19
and it has again
00:24:53.22\00:24:54.82
a number of herbs in it...
00:24:54.85\00:24:56.55
and will make the
food taste very delicious.
00:24:56.58\00:24:59.06
Now another
thing that you can do
00:24:59.09\00:25:00.64
that really works
00:25:00.67\00:25:01.95
quite well is lemon.
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You can put lemon
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over a salad
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or over other vegetables
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and it just somehow...
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and I don't know how it does it,
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but it just takes away
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the need for salt.
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But ANOTHER ONE that
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is really excellent
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and that happens to be
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in your garlic and onion family.
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Garlic can really give
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a kick to food,
00:25:22.21\00:25:24.25
as well as give
a good seasoning.
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And when you put
garlic in anything
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to take away the place of salt,
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you will find
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that you won't need the salt
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because it gives it
such a good flavor...
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And onion does
the very same thing...
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and sometimes you can combine
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various things
00:25:38.09\00:25:39.38
that I have just shown you.
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You can combine them
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into the foods
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and you will find that
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the foods will be flavored
00:25:44.07\00:25:45.94
very nicely.
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There are some other seasonings
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like basil and bay leaf
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with curry
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and ginger and thyme,
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oregano, rosemary.
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You can just have
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a lot of fun really...
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Go to your health food store and
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just go through the herbal
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section
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and you'll find various things.
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Now, animal studies
00:26:02.78\00:26:04.36
show that a high diet
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in the early years
00:26:06.28\00:26:08.42
of your children
00:26:08.45\00:26:09.42
can perpetuate
00:26:09.43\00:26:10.62
high blood pressure later.
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So moms, I
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encourage you to
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put your family on a
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low salt diet.
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Wouldn't you think
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that is the best
thing for us to do,
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Dr. Agatha?
Yes... to start early.
00:26:19.84\00:26:20.81
Yes, low in salt
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and start very early.
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Now I've noticed another
thing about your cooking...
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and I think this is probably
00:26:27.15\00:26:28.62
a characteristic...
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and that is that you
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don't use a lot of water
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when you cook vegetables.
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I ate lunch with
you yesterday and
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we had asparagus and
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some broccoli and some carrots
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and as it appeared to me,
00:26:39.59\00:26:42.73
you had prepared those
00:26:42.76\00:26:43.99
without a lot of water... Right.
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Is that correct?... Right.
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And the reason
that I prepare them
00:26:46.39\00:26:47.75
without a lot of water...
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I usually steam them
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or you can buy some
00:26:50.57\00:26:52.09
of your frozen vegetables
00:26:52.12\00:26:53.17
which is another
nice way to do it.
00:26:53.20\00:26:54.42
You can buy the
mixed vegetables like
00:26:55.10\00:26:57.06
broccoli,
cauliflower, snow peas.
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Run hot water over it
00:26:58.81\00:27:00.21
and eat them.
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It retains the flavor.
00:27:01.79\00:27:03.28
If you put them in water,
00:27:03.31\00:27:04.33
it will take the flavor out of
00:27:04.36\00:27:05.56
the vegetables and
then you'll feel like...
00:27:05.59\00:27:06.56
"Oh, I've got to put salt,
00:27:07.11\00:27:08.15
I've got to put a
lot of seasoning in it. "
00:27:08.18\00:27:09.58
So if you steam them,
00:27:09.61\00:27:10.73
that will not be the case
00:27:10.76\00:27:12.08
and that's the
reason that I do that.
00:27:12.11\00:27:13.18
Steaming and baking make
00:27:13.94\00:27:16.37
your vegetables
00:27:16.40\00:27:18.11
almost as if you
were eating them raw
00:27:18.14\00:27:20.38
except it develops
00:27:20.41\00:27:21.81
the flavor a good bit
00:27:21.84\00:27:22.91
and so you're quite content
00:27:22.94\00:27:24.30
to eat the vegetables
00:27:24.33\00:27:26.00
if they've been steamed
00:27:26.03\00:27:27.42
or baked
00:27:27.45\00:27:28.42
without using any
00:27:28.43\00:27:30.45
salt in them at all.
00:27:30.48\00:27:32.53
Now, we have gone over
00:27:32.56\00:27:34.06
a lot of principles
00:27:34.09\00:27:35.57
for you in the control
00:27:35.60\00:27:37.02
of blood pressure...
00:27:37.05\00:27:38.72
And we hope that you will
00:27:38.75\00:27:39.72
be mindful of these and
00:27:39.73\00:27:42.39
if you are the kind of
00:27:42.42\00:27:43.74
person who has
00:27:43.77\00:27:45.67
high blood
pressure in your family,
00:27:45.70\00:27:47.87
you should get your
own blood pressure cuff
00:27:47.90\00:27:49.75
and keep up with these things
00:27:49.78\00:27:51.30
and then work carefully
00:27:51.33\00:27:52.96
with all the Eight Natural Laws
00:27:52.99\00:27:54.46
of Health.
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