Participants: Agatha Thrash, Don Miller
Series Code: HYTH
Program Code: HYTH000142
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00:01 There is a silent killer in our land
00:04 that takes more and more 00:06 peoples' lives 00:07 as time goes by. 00:09 This is hypertension. 00:11 I'm Agatha Thrash, 00:13 a staff physician 00:14 at Uchee Pines Institute 00:16 and we'd like to discuss 00:17 the topic of hypertension 00:19 for you, 00:20 and we hope you'll stay by. 00:21 We think we have some important things 00:23 that will help you to avoid 00:24 this silent killer. 00:46 Welcome to "Help Yourself to Health" 00:48 with Dr. Agatha Thrash 00:49 of Uchee Pines Institute. 00:52 And now, here's your host 00:53 Dr. Thrash. 00:56 Now 00:57 since many people 00:58 are getting 01:00 hypertension nowadays, 01:01 more and more... 01:03 More than we've ever seen before. 01:05 This means 01:06 that we need to take 01:07 a good look 01:08 at what may be causing 01:09 our population to have 01:11 this kind of problem. 01:13 Why are we getting 01:14 so much hypertension? 01:16 Hypertension is 01:17 that the heart is 01:18 beating forcefully 01:20 but the arteries are 01:22 keeping a good, 01:23 tight hold 01:24 on themselves 01:26 and not expanding 01:27 as they should 01:28 with each heartbeat. 01:29 As the 01:30 arteries expand, 01:32 that puts less 01:33 pressure 01:34 on the blood itself. 01:36 And so blood pressure 01:37 is that 01:38 we have the forceful 01:40 beat of the heart, 01:41 and the strength of the arteries. 01:42 And especially 01:44 the tiniest 01:45 of our arteries called 01:46 arterioles. 01:47 These arteries 01:49 have lots of muscle 01:50 in their wall. 01:51 And if they hold a 01:53 very tight control 01:55 over the size 01:56 of the artery 01:58 wall, then 01:59 we're going to have high 02:00 blood pressure. 02:02 Now many people 02:03 think, "well, I have high 02:04 blood pressure. 02:05 My father had it. 02:07 My mother had it, 02:08 and maybe several 02:09 other relatives have had it 02:10 and, therefore, I can 02:12 expect that I will too. 02:14 So, I'll just 02:15 do what they did... 02:16 I'll take some medication 02:17 and then my blood pressure 02:19 will come down to normal 02:20 and I'll be fine. " 02:21 Actually, 02:23 there are often many things 02:25 that can be done that are 02:26 very natural that do not 02:27 have the side effects 02:28 that 02:30 the various drug 02:31 medications have. 02:32 And my husband 02:34 and I have written a book called... 02:36 "Natural Treatments 02:37 for (Your High Blood 02:39 Pressure) or Hypertension" 02:40 and in this book, 02:42 what we try to do 02:43 is to get all of the 02:44 natural remedies that we 02:46 could find from anywhere 02:47 in the world and 02:48 put them all together 02:49 in one book. 02:50 This book will 02:52 give to you 02:54 many, many things 02:55 that we will not be able to cover 02:57 on this program. 02:58 But we would 03:00 certainly like to cover 03:01 as many of these for you 03:03 as we can. 03:04 I'd like to 03:05 talk with you about the fact 03:06 that there is a part 03:08 of the treatment 03:09 for hypertension 03:12 that can properly 03:13 be done with a pill, 03:15 but most of the time 03:16 these are nutrients or 03:18 herbals pills 03:20 and not with drug 03:21 medications. 03:22 And progressive 03:24 physicians will 03:25 go for these 03:27 natural things now 03:28 rather than immediately 03:29 going to 03:31 a drug medication. 03:32 The American Heart Association 03:34 recommends to its physicians 03:36 that they try to 03:38 do something that's natural 03:40 first, such as 03:41 weight control or 03:42 rearranging the diet, 03:43 or helping people to 03:45 do exercise. 03:46 All of these things 03:47 can greatly help 03:49 the person 03:50 who has hypertension 03:51 not to be 03:53 struggling always with a 03:55 high blood pressure. 03:56 Now, Don Miller 03:58 is going to talk with you about 04:00 the subject of exercise 04:01 because exercise 04:02 is my very favorite 04:04 treatment for 04:05 the control of blood pressure. 04:07 And this is Don Miller 04:08 who is a 04:09 lifestyle counselor at 04:11 Uchee Pines and 04:13 in our Education Department. 04:14 Don Miller. 04:16 Thank you Dr. Thrash. 04:18 I want to just 04:19 mention one thing first 04:20 before I talk about the exercise 04:22 portion of high 04:23 blood pressure. 04:24 There is a thing called 04:26 primary high blood pressure 04:27 and secondary 04:28 high blood pressure. 04:30 What we are basically dealing with 04:31 is primary high blood pressure. 04:32 Secondary means high 04:33 blood pressure caused by 04:35 another disease process 04:37 which may 04:38 or may not be affected 04:40 by the things that we'll be 04:41 recommending here today. 04:42 Another thing is... 04:43 another form of high blood pressure 04:45 is called "white coat hypertension. " 04:47 And that is the type 04:49 of high blood pressure caused by... 04:50 You're feeling fine 04:52 and everything is okay, 04:53 and your blood pressure is probably 04:54 close to normal 04:55 and you walk into the doctor's 04:57 office and here he comes 04:58 with the white coat on 04:59 with the thing and 05:00 all of a sudden, 05:02 your blood pressure goes 05:03 up because 05:04 there is the doctor 05:05 with the white coat on. 05:06 It's called "white coat hypertension. " 05:07 Nothing to do with the doctor 05:09 or the white coat... 05:10 just your perception 05:11 and so 05:12 we have to make sure that 05:14 if you're going to be monitoring 05:15 your own blood pressure, 05:16 you do it in a restful time, 05:18 in a nonstressed time 05:20 because these things can profoundly 05:21 affect your blood pressure 05:23 over short periods of time. 05:24 As a matter of fact, 05:26 God has given us the 05:27 ability... 05:28 the body unconsciously, 05:30 to alter the blood pressure 05:32 according to the 05:34 situation that we're in. 05:36 But if we're just trying to monitor 05:38 to see where we're at, 05:39 do it in a restful time. 05:40 Now, one of the good 05:42 ways to lower your blood pressure 05:43 is through the 05:45 wonderful means of exercise. 05:46 And now we're not 05:48 saying right now, you go out 05:49 there and buy a pair of Reebok's 05:51 and hit the road and start 05:52 aerobic exercising because 05:53 you may not be ready for it yet. 05:55 If you are 05:56 depending on your age, 05:57 your physical condition, 05:59 the sedentary lifestyle 06:01 you may have been living, 06:02 you need to move 06:03 into an exercise program 06:05 slowly 06:06 but move in that direction. 06:07 And no matter what 06:09 exercise you do, 06:10 you've GOT to do something. 06:12 I remember a few years ago 06:13 we had a neighbor at 06:15 Uchee Pines... 06:16 she was basically... 06:17 came to the point where 06:18 she just could not get around 06:19 much and she was pretty much 06:21 confined to a bed 06:22 or a chair. 06:23 And this lady had been 06:24 so active and she 06:26 wanted so much to exercise 06:27 and I said, "well, 06:28 try this. " She had a cane 06:30 I said, "hold onto your cane 06:31 and hook it over your foot... 06:33 and then push and pull, 06:35 and push and pull, 06:36 and get some exercise going. 06:38 Because as we exercise 06:40 our muscles, 06:41 we're exercising our heart 06:42 muscle, which is going 06:44 to increase its strength 06:45 and as we increase 06:47 its stroke strength, 06:48 we increase the 06:49 volume of blood it can 06:51 send through the body 06:52 and it will lower our 06:53 blood pressure. 06:54 There have been various studies done... 06:56 looking at how to 06:57 lower blood pressure. 06:59 There is one study done 07:00 a 16-week study 07:02 with a number of people, 07:03 and they basically 07:04 put them on an exercise 07:06 bike for 45 minutes a day 07:08 3- days a week. 07:09 Not a very vigorous 07:10 exercise program 07:11 And, as a matter of fact, 07:12 their exercise 07:14 would have been considered moderate. 07:15 It wasn't heavy-duty, 07:17 just sitting on that exercise 07:18 bicycle for 07:20 45 minutes a day, 07:21 3- days a week. 07:22 But even in that, 07:23 their systolic fell 07:24 7 mm 07:26 and their diastolic, 07:27 the low number, 5 mm 07:29 in just the 3-week period of time. 07:31 Not a bad experience 07:33 a lot better 07:34 than a lot of medications could do. 07:36 Now I want to mention this ... as I talk about exercise 07:40 If you do not 07:41 enjoy the exercise 07:42 that you are doing, 07:43 it could even have a negative 07:45 effect upon your body. 07:46 So, if you 07:47 hate... if you have 07:49 one of those 07:51 exercise bicycles in your basement, 07:53 and you just hate getting on that thing, 07:54 and that's with all 07:56 your force of will power 07:57 you get down there and 07:58 climb on to that thing 07:59 that hurts every part of your body to do it, 08:01 perhaps that's not the best one for you. 08:03 Maybe that's why... 08:04 if you wanted 08:05 to pick up a good 08:06 exercise bicycle, 08:09 go to a thrift store because 08:10 they're in there by the dozens... 08:11 because people just don't like them. 08:13 Some people do... 08:14 that's the one for you. 08:15 Find an exercise that you 08:16 enjoy doing. 08:18 There was another study done 08:19 that took a group of people 08:21 Most of these people were 08:22 around the age of 08:23 65 years old... 08:24 There were 70 people in this 08:26 particular study... 08:27 Another 3-week period 08:28 of time they had them on 08:30 They did 3 things for them... 08:31 1. No coffee. 08:33 No nicotine 08:35 and no alcohol... 08:37 which... those things 08:38 should be out of our lifestyles anyway. 08:40 2. They put them on a 08:41 vegetarian diet 08:42 which we will talk about later. 08:44 3. Put them on 08:45 aerobic exercise. 08:46 Now what's aerobic exercise? 08:48 Aerobic exercise is 08:49 basically when we get our heart 08:51 and our lungs going 08:52 at the same time. 08:53 We're out of breath 08:55 because our lungs and our heart... 08:57 and the reason why we are out of breath 08:58 is because the body says... 08:59 "okay, we need some more oxygen" 09:00 and it turns up the need 09:02 and pretty soon, we're getting 09:03 what we call "aerobic exercise. " 09:05 They put them on this 09:06 aerobic exercise experience. 09:08 At the beginning of the study, 09:11 at the very first day, 09:12 they took the blood pressures 09:14 Their average 09:15 blood pressure was 09:16 150/81. 09:19 Now that's considered 09:20 high blood pressure... 09:21 150 is much too high 09:22 for the systolic... 09:23 81 is about 09:25 okay for the diastolic. 09:26 But that was high 09:27 blood pressure. 09:28 After 3-weeks of just 09:29 those three things, 09:31 the no alcohol, 09:33 tobacco and 09:34 nicotine, 09:35 vegetarian diet 09:36 aerobic exercise, 09:37 their finishing blood 09:39 pressure average was 09:40 125/78... 09:42 Unbelievable fall... 09:44 right down to the area 09:45 where we like to see it. 09:46 AND... 09:47 better than that, 09:48 80% of them 09:50 got off their blood pressure medications. 09:52 And now, we 09:53 want to say at this point... 09:54 blood pressure medications 09:57 should only be taken 09:58 from you by your doctor. 09:59 Never just say... 10:01 ...Well, I'm going to go on this program, 10:02 and throw these pills out... 10:03 because you may have a 10:04 rebound effect, 10:05 and so you want to 10:07 stay away from the 10:08 the getting off 10:09 the medications all by yourselves. 10:11 Slowly let your doctor say... 10:13 "Wow, your blood pressure 10:14 is doing much better. 10:15 We can take you off some of your medication. " 10:17 Let him take it away 10:18 as you improve yourself. 10:20 And you will find yourself 10:22 in a whole lot better situation for that. 10:23 Exercise is a great 10:25 blessing of God. 10:26 And we find also, 10:27 as we exercise outside, 10:28 the sunshine has a way 10:29 to lower our blood pressure... 10:31 Fresh air has a relaxing 10:32 experience on our bodies. 10:34 You get into a good 10:35 exercise program 10:36 and you'll find that after 10:37 the exercise program 10:38 is over, 10:40 and you've done your exercise period, 10:41 you will find yourself 10:42 much more relaxed... 10:44 Your blood pressure normally lower, 10:45 and you're going to find it 10:47 falling, falling, falling 10:48 over a 10:50 week's period of time... 10:51 And, Dr. Thrash, 10:52 I think that's a good thing to do. 10:54 Yes... and one of the nice 10:55 things about exercise 10:56 is that it has SO many 10:58 other benefits. 10:59 It has good benefits 11:00 for the bones and the muscles 11:02 and the gastrointestinal tract and the skin. 11:04 And so, we can expect 11:05 that exercise will do much for us. 11:07 It will also make it 11:08 so that we are 11:10 better able to sleep. 11:11 And sleep is 11:13 that mystical 11:15 not-very-well-understood 11:17 activity which 11:18 scientists 11:20 continue to study 11:22 and try to learn what it is 11:23 but we know that it is 11:25 essential for our refreshment 11:26 and restoration 11:27 both of body 11:28 and of mind. 11:29 The first thing to do 11:31 in getting good sleep 11:33 a wonderful lifestyle 11:34 law 11:35 is that of being regular. 11:37 That's another 11:38 lifestyle law. 11:39 Regularity in all things 11:41 is essential 11:42 for a good life style. 11:44 So, make everything 11:45 in your life that you can put, 11:46 make it a regular 11:48 schedule. 11:49 Now you will find that 11:50 even with the very best 11:51 effort that you have 11:52 to make your life regular, 11:53 and well-balanced, 11:55 that there will be things 11:56 every day that will 11:57 come up, that will throw things 11:59 off kilter. 12:00 But you keep 12:02 remembering your 12:03 schedule and trying to 12:04 make it work for you 12:06 and especially trying 12:07 to turn off the lights 12:09 when the time to turn off 12:10 the lights comes. 12:11 If you set your bedtime 12:12 at 9 o'clock, which is very good, 12:14 or 9:30, or 10... 12:16 Ten is about the latest 12:18 that you can get a good 12:19 1-1/2 hours of sleep 12:21 before midnight. 12:22 But just required in order 12:23 that we produce enough 12:24 growth hormone 12:26 to give us efficiency 12:28 in a lot of our 12:29 body processes. 12:30 So, try to get 12:31 to bed early 12:33 so that you can get 12:34 at least 1-1/2 hours 12:36 of good quality sleep 12:37 before midnight. 12:38 Then the second thing... 12:40 If you have difficulty 12:41 sleeping, learn those 12:43 things that make it so 12:44 that it's difficult for you to go to sleep. 12:46 Some people 12:47 go to sleep very well 12:49 if they have a 12:50 neutral bath. 12:52 Other people find 12:53 that if they have something 12:54 like a shower, 12:56 or if they go through 12:57 any of the process 12:58 of getting 12:59 in the bathtub, 13:01 that this is 13:02 stimulatory to them... 13:04 The body sort of feels... 13:05 "this is morning-time 13:06 and I need to be 13:07 waking up now. " 13:09 So it depends on who you are... 13:11 as to whether 13:12 a shower or 13:13 a bath 13:15 will be helpful 13:16 to make you so that you 13:17 can go to sleep. 13:19 Then aim 13:20 at some 6 to 9 13:21 hours of sleep. 13:22 No less than 6. 13:24 We find that good 13:25 health cannot be maintained 13:26 if you have less than 6 hours 13:28 every day. 13:29 And you will 13:31 also not maintain good 13:32 health if you have much 13:33 over 9 hours... 13:35 unless you are under the age 13:36 of... say, 20. 13:37 You might be able 13:39 to take a little more than 9 hours every day. 13:42 But for adults, it's 13:43 about 6 to 9 hours 13:45 with a good time 13:46 being probably around 13:47 7-1/2 13:49 to 8-1/2 hours 13:51 of sleep every day. 13:53 So, aim at that. 13:55 Now, you need to have 13:57 a good bed. 13:59 Some people like it soft 14:00 Some people like it firm 14:02 ...whatever 14:03 is your preference, 14:04 that may be the bed 14:06 that you sleep the best in. 14:07 So try to make it 14:08 just that way. 14:09 You may need to invest in a 14:10 new mattress 14:11 if you don't sleep 14:13 well on the mattress 14:14 that you have. 14:16 Keep your extremities 14:17 warm. 14:18 A lot of people will 14:19 sleep with their extremities 14:21 out from under the cover 14:22 and their extremities 14:23 get chilled during the night. 14:25 Chilling makes a certain 14:27 tension. 14:28 So tension on the skin 14:29 and tension on the blood vessels, 14:30 and eventually that tension 14:32 is shed also into the brain. 14:36 And the brain then becomes 14:37 more alert 14:39 and more likely to be 14:40 awake. 14:41 Also, you should be 14:43 very careful that your 14:44 surroundings are quiet. 14:46 If there is noise in your background, 14:48 then you are very likely 14:49 to listen to that some. 14:51 Then, 14:52 try to have a good 14:54 atmosphere in your home. 14:55 Make things pleasant 14:57 in your home. 14:58 Have people who 14:59 live in your 15:01 household 15:02 enjoy being together. 15:05 Make your home 15:06 a sunny place... 15:08 so that 15:09 even at night, 15:10 you can relax 15:11 and you can enjoy 15:13 the wonders 15:14 of good sleep. 15:16 Now, 15:18 many of these very same 15:19 things apply 15:20 to the diet. 15:21 The diet is 15:23 important in blood 15:24 pressure and Don Miller 15:26 is going to discuss for you 15:27 the importance of diet. 15:29 Don Miller 15:30 Diet is something that 15:32 we all have to do. 15:33 I've just talked about exercise. 15:35 We all need to do that too 15:36 But too often 15:38 the tool 15:39 of the digging of our graves 15:41 is something like our spoon 15:43 or our forks. 15:44 We dig ourselves into 15:46 bad situations 15:48 of health because we just 15:49 cannot control this little thing. 15:51 This spoon 15:52 can be the 15:53 bearer of blessings 15:54 or curses to our body 15:56 depending on what we put in it 15:57 and what we put into our body. 15:59 Now I want to mention one thing. 16:01 Dr. Thrash has just talked 16:02 about being restful 16:03 and peaceful environment. 16:06 Mealtimes 16:07 should be the most pleasant 16:08 time of the day for a family. 16:10 There's nothing worse 16:11 for the body 16:12 than to sit down at a mealtime 16:14 and your stressed out 16:15 because if you say a word, 16:16 if you say something wrong, 16:18 if you spill something, 16:20 or something goes wrong at the table, 16:21 it's going to be a bad scene. 16:23 And this can cause bad 16:25 digestion. 16:26 It can cause just a bad situation 16:27 causing your blood pressure to go up 16:29 and basically, no matter 16:31 what you eat is going to become 16:32 a bad thing in your body 16:33 because your body is not 16:35 able to receive it. 16:36 So we should have 16:37 extremely restful times 16:39 at our mealtimes. 16:40 But God has given us 16:42 a good diet that we should be following. 16:43 And, the main 16:45 things that we can talk about 16:47 as far as diet 16:48 would be a salt-free diet. 16:49 I'm going to talk about that in a few minutes. 16:51 I'm not going to get into the salt-free. 16:52 We realize that a 16:54 person who is hypertensive, 16:55 should be on a salt-free diet. 16:56 But other than that, 16:58 we should be on a diet that 16:59 is low in fat. 17:01 As a matter of fact, if a person is truly high 17:03 in their blood pressure, 17:05 I suggest they get off 17:06 of all fats 17:07 for a period of time. 17:08 All visible fats... 17:10 things like butter, margarine, 17:11 fried foods, salad oils, 17:13 cooking fats 17:14 and nut butters. 17:15 No visible fats at all. 17:17 If they want some fat, they should eat a few nuts. 17:19 Nuts are very good for the body. 17:21 Very good for the vascular system 17:24 Eat the nuts but don't 17:25 turn it into the butter 17:26 because the fat does not 17:27 know how to act in the body... 17:29 It likes to go to 17:30 the artery walls 17:32 rather than into the liver to become 17:33 energy for the future. 17:35 So we need to find 17:36 ourselves eating a 17:37 diet low in fat, 17:40 and basically 17:41 for a high 17:43 blood pressure person, 17:44 the vegetarian diet 17:45 is the superior diet... 17:47 no matter how you look at it. 17:48 For a number of reasons... 17:49 1. You are getting 17:50 no cholesterol 17:52 in the diet if you're eating 17:53 a vegetarian diet. 17:54 We realize that cholesterol 17:55 is going to cause 17:56 the blood cells 17:58 to aggregate, to clump together, 17:59 to get sticky 18:00 which is going to cause the heart 18:01 to have to pump harder 18:02 to push them through the 18:03 little streets of our bodies 18:05 And so, we can stay 18:06 away from the cholesterol, 18:07 we have a little bit less 18:09 viscid blood. 18:10 2. We don't have 18:11 the secondary stress hormones. 18:13 All those animals 18:14 that were going to market... 18:15 You know, this little piggy went to market... 18:17 type of a thing... 18:18 They know where they were going, 18:19 and they knew what was happening 18:20 up in front of them somewhere. 18:22 And they have the same 18:23 stress responses 18:25 you and I have when we 18:26 get into a 18:27 dangerous situation. 18:29 Trouble is... theirs stops there. 18:31 And all those stress 18:32 hormones are stuck in 18:34 that body and then we 18:35 eat the animal and we're 18:36 trying to lower our stress 18:38 but we're eating an animal 18:39 full of stress. 18:40 And we are taking in 18:41 secondary stress hormones. 18:44 Another good thing about a vegetarian diet 18:46 it's very weight-friendly. 18:49 It will bring your weight down 18:50 to where it should be. 18:51 And we realize 18:53 that one of the problems 18:54 normally with a person who is overweight... 18:56 they will become 18:58 hypertensive. 18:59 They WILL get high blood pressure. 19:00 It's very hard 19:02 to be overweight 19:03 on a good vegetarian diet. 19:05 Now when I say a good 19:07 vegetarian diet, 19:08 I stress the word... 19:09 a GOOD vegetarian diet. 19:12 We're talking about a 19:13 VEGAN diet really... 19:15 You have to look at the different definitions. 19:16 Years ago, 19:18 we'd say the word 19:19 "vegetarian" and to me 19:20 that meant... 19:21 as a matter of fact, 19:22 when I was a child, I thought... 19:23 "oh, vegetarian... 19:24 they don't eat anything but 19:25 carrots and lettuce," 19:27 and just the thought of it made me ill. 19:29 And I said, "I don't know how you can live like that. 19:30 Well now I know how you can live. 19:32 But now, you have people saying... 19:34 "Yes, I'm a vegetarian 19:35 and I eat some eggs 19:37 and I do some dairy products. 19:38 Well, that's a lacto-ovo 19:40 vegetarian. 19:43 And now we have lacto-ovo-fisho-chicko 19:45 vegetarians... 19:47 because "I'm a vegetarian. 19:49 I just eat a little bit of chicken, 19:50 and a little bit of fish. " 19:51 Well no... all of these things 19:52 are high in cholesterol, 19:54 stress hormones and 19:55 these are not good. 19:56 But when I say 19:57 a good vegetarian diet, 19:59 that means a vegan diet. 20:00 And if you are 20:01 hypertensive and overweight, 20:03 leaving off the free fats, 20:04 you're going to find that your 20:06 weight will fall down 20:07 to where it needs to be 20:08 to have a good blood pressure. 20:10 For every pound of extra weight that you 20:13 put on... a pound of fat, 20:14 you are building MILES 20:15 of capillary system. 20:17 That means the heart has to work 20:18 all the harder to push 20:19 that blood through the system. 20:21 Give your heart a break... 20:23 give it less roads 20:25 to have to push its blood down 20:27 by losing some weight... 20:28 A vegetarian diet will do that. 20:30 And you are going to feel a whole lot better 20:31 for the situation. 20:33 And, if you think 20:35 that you cannot survive 20:36 on a vegetarian diet, 20:37 that you would be weak 20:38 and emaciated... 20:40 I was, for many years, 20:42 a distance runner and ran marathons 20:44 and you ask anyone 20:46 who is distance runner, 20:47 anyone who is getting ready 20:48 to run a marathon 20:49 "What foods do you eat?" 20:51 They do not go out there 20:52 and eat hamburgers and steaks. 20:54 Instead... 20:55 they bulk up on carbohydrates... 20:57 the energy food. 20:59 And so as we eat the carbohydrates, 21:01 as complex as possible... 21:03 that means it's the way God 21:04 packaged them in the first place... 21:05 fruits, vegetables, whole grains, 21:07 nuts and seeds. 21:08 As we eat these high energy 21:09 foods, we'll have the energy we need 21:12 to go out and get the exercise 21:13 I just talked about 21:14 and you'll feel better... 21:15 you'll look better... 21:17 your blood pressure will come down, 21:18 and you will, truly, 21:19 as the Bible says... 21:20 "Present your body 21:21 a living sacrifice. " 21:23 And Dr. Thrash, 21:24 Paul says that's a reasonable service. 21:26 Yes it is, a reasonable service. 21:28 Let me ask you something... 21:29 I assume 21:31 you never eat peanut butter... 21:32 is that right? 21:34 Well... BY THE SPOONFUL! 21:37 And the reason why I do 21:39 is because I have been 21:41 advised by my doctor 21:44 to eat some free fats. 21:46 Now, I don't overdo the free fats. 21:48 I like my nut butters. 21:50 But, I'm one of those types... 21:52 I want to taste it but I don't want to 21:53 have to feel it coming out of my pores. 21:55 And so, I put a moderate amount 21:57 of nut butters on my bread 21:59 because... 22:00 there's a test you can take... 22:01 If you want to take the test to see 22:02 whether you can have some free fats, 22:03 it's a very easy test. 22:05 Get yourself a tape measure 22:06 and you run it around your waist. 22:08 And then you look at the numbers. 22:09 If you're happy with the numbers, 22:11 you can have some nut butters. 22:12 I am very, very happy with 22:14 my numbers 22:15 and with my nut butters, Dr. Thrash. 22:18 I think you could pass the tape measure test all right. 22:21 In any part of my body. 22:23 Now, there is another part of 22:25 a good diet 22:27 that we want to mention... 22:28 we want to illustrate this for you... 22:30 And that is the 22:31 salt-free diet. 22:32 And just how to do the salt-free diet. 22:35 Now if you 22:37 remove all the salt 22:38 from your vegetables 22:40 and your fruits and your grains, 22:41 and you put those on the table, 22:43 it may not taste very good. 22:45 But there are ways 22:46 that you can PERK-UP 22:48 vegetables and make them 22:49 so that they taste really good... 22:51 even though you don't 22:52 have a bit of salt in them. 22:54 And now, I'd like to ask 22:56 Valerie Schreiber, who is 22:58 one of my co-workers at Uchee Pines, 23:00 a health educator and a GOOD cook... 23:03 How do you perk-up vegetables 23:05 when you have a patient who 23:07 needs to have a salt-free diet? 23:10 Dr. Agatha, there is a way to do this. 23:12 And I want to encourage 23:13 the audience out there, 23:14 there is a way that you can perk-up 23:16 your vegetables and make them 23:17 very tasty. 23:18 Now, it takes a couple 23:20 of weeks of going through 23:22 the transition... 23:23 And really, when you go through 23:24 the transition and you go back 23:25 and you eat a 23:26 regular, salty diet again, 23:28 you'll find that... 23:30 it tastes too salty 23:31 and I've had patients say that over and over again... 23:33 "I can't eat what I used to eat before. 23:35 It's just too salty. " 23:37 So, there's hope for you... 23:38 that if you go into this transition, 23:40 You will find that you can 23:42 acclimate very nicely. 23:44 And so down here... 23:46 or actually, I'd better hold it up... 23:48 Here on the table is 23:49 one of my favorites, 23:50 and this is hickory-smoked flavor 23:52 And, let me tell you, 23:54 if you put this in your 23:55 salad dressings, 23:57 in the loaves 23:58 or the burgers that you make, 23:59 almost anything, 24:01 it will give it sort of that 24:02 hickory smoked flavor 24:04 it will really take away 24:08 the desire for salt 24:09 because it has such an excellent flavor 24:11 and it's absolutely harmless. 24:13 I've called the company 24:14 to see how they make them, 24:17 it's just steam that turns 24:19 into water and they add water and they bottle it 24:21 It has no carcinogens in it. 24:23 It has no msg. 24:25 No chemicals, no sodium, or nothing. 24:26 It's just pure water basically 24:28 that has been flavored 24:29 with smoke from the hickory wood. 24:31 So, it's very delicious. 24:33 Now a few other things that we have... 24:35 You can go to your local 24:36 health food store 24:37 and there are many 24:38 different flavorings 24:40 that you can buy 24:41 in a shaker form 24:43 that have different herbal combinations 24:45 and they're quite delicious. 24:46 And they flavor the food very nicely. 24:49 There is another one 24:51 that's called "Spike... All Purpose" 24:53 and it has again 24:54 a number of herbs in it... 24:56 and will make the food taste very delicious. 24:59 Now another thing that you can do 25:00 that really works 25:01 quite well is lemon. 25:03 You can put lemon 25:05 over a salad 25:06 or over other vegetables 25:08 and it just somehow... 25:10 and I don't know how it does it, 25:12 but it just takes away 25:13 the need for salt. 25:14 But ANOTHER ONE that 25:16 is really excellent 25:17 and that happens to be 25:18 in your garlic and onion family. 25:20 Garlic can really give 25:22 a kick to food, 25:24 as well as give a good seasoning. 25:26 And when you put garlic in anything 25:28 to take away the place of salt, 25:30 you will find 25:31 that you won't need the salt 25:33 because it gives it such a good flavor... 25:35 And onion does the very same thing... 25:36 and sometimes you can combine 25:38 various things 25:39 that I have just shown you. 25:40 You can combine them 25:41 into the foods 25:42 and you will find that 25:44 the foods will be flavored 25:45 very nicely. 25:47 There are some other seasonings 25:49 like basil and bay leaf 25:50 with curry 25:52 and ginger and thyme, 25:53 oregano, rosemary. 25:54 You can just have 25:56 a lot of fun really... 25:57 Go to your health food store and 25:58 just go through the herbal 25:59 section 26:01 and you'll find various things. 26:02 Now, animal studies 26:04 show that a high diet 26:06 in the early years 26:08 of your children 26:09 can perpetuate 26:10 high blood pressure later. 26:12 So moms, I 26:13 encourage you to 26:14 put your family on a 26:16 low salt diet. 26:17 Wouldn't you think 26:18 that is the best thing for us to do, 26:19 Dr. Agatha? Yes... to start early. 26:21 Yes, low in salt 26:22 and start very early. 26:23 Now I've noticed another thing about your cooking... 26:27 and I think this is probably 26:28 a characteristic... 26:29 and that is that you 26:31 don't use a lot of water 26:32 when you cook vegetables. 26:33 I ate lunch with you yesterday and 26:35 we had asparagus and 26:37 some broccoli and some carrots 26:39 and as it appeared to me, 26:42 you had prepared those 26:44 without a lot of water... Right. 26:45 Is that correct?... Right. 26:46 And the reason that I prepare them 26:47 without a lot of water... 26:49 I usually steam them 26:50 or you can buy some 26:52 of your frozen vegetables 26:53 which is another nice way to do it. 26:55 You can buy the mixed vegetables like 26:57 broccoli, cauliflower, snow peas. 26:58 Run hot water over it 27:00 and eat them. 27:01 It retains the flavor. 27:03 If you put them in water, 27:04 it will take the flavor out of 27:05 the vegetables and then you'll feel like... 27:07 "Oh, I've got to put salt, 27:08 I've got to put a lot of seasoning in it. " 27:09 So if you steam them, 27:10 that will not be the case 27:12 and that's the reason that I do that. 27:13 Steaming and baking make 27:16 your vegetables 27:18 almost as if you were eating them raw 27:20 except it develops 27:21 the flavor a good bit 27:22 and so you're quite content 27:24 to eat the vegetables 27:26 if they've been steamed 27:27 or baked 27:28 without using any 27:30 salt in them at all. 27:32 Now, we have gone over 27:34 a lot of principles 27:35 for you in the control 27:37 of blood pressure... 27:38 And we hope that you will 27:39 be mindful of these and 27:42 if you are the kind of 27:43 person who has 27:45 high blood pressure in your family, 27:47 you should get your own blood pressure cuff 27:49 and keep up with these things 27:51 and then work carefully 27:52 with all the Eight Natural Laws 27:54 of Health. |
Revised 2014-12-17