Participants: Don Miller, Agatha Thrash
Series Code: HYTH
Program Code: HYTH000157
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00:01 Some of the important things that people complain of
00:03 when they go to doctors' offices are allergies, backache, 00:07 "I'm tired," skin problems, headaches... 00:12 these very common things of life. 00:14 Most of these can be handled by people in their own homes. 00:18 And just ordinary people can be taught how to handle 00:21 these things responsibly in their own homes. 00:25 So, we'd like to talk with you about some of the ways 00:28 that, in your own home, you can do SAFE things. 00:30 You can do effective things for these for the GREAT bulk 00:34 of human ills that afflict people. 00:37 For the next half an hour, I and a helper from 00:40 Uchee Pines Institute will be talking with you about 00:44 these kinds of things. 00:45 I'm Agatha Thrash, one of the staff physicians 00:48 from Uchee Pines Institute. 00:49 We'd be happy to have you join us. 01:11 Welcome to "Help Yourself to Health" 01:14 with Dr. Agatha Thrash of Uchee Pines Institute. 01:17 And now, here's your host Dr. Thrash. 01:22 Skin problems make up a large part of the 01:25 afflictions of mankind. 01:27 And some of the simple ones are like eczema... 01:31 and I say simple because even though I can tell you 01:35 about how to treat it, 01:36 eczema can be a very great challenge. 01:39 But some of the things that we have tried for skin eczema 01:44 consist of soaks in cold water, 01:49 or cold water soaks on the skin, 01:53 or moisturizing, or various kinds of liniments and ointments 01:59 and you will try that too if you have eczema. 02:02 But one of the most successful things that we have tried 02:05 is... what we call "Vaseline milk" 02:07 And I have asked my granddaughter, Melissa, 02:10 if she will show you how we make up Vaseline milk 02:14 in our own home. 02:15 What you do is to simply dip the hands in water, 02:20 such as we have here, and then shake off the excess as you see 02:23 And then take a bean-sized lump of Vaseline 02:28 such as this... and rub it between the palms 02:31 And Melissa is going to do that now. 02:32 Just scoop up the Vaseline, or other types of petroleum jelly, 02:37 from the jar and then vigorously rub it between the palms... 02:43 trying to make an emulsion. 02:45 And there's a little resistance here, so you'll need to really 02:49 work at it a little bit... 02:50 and then you will see that it does get a little bit cloudy 02:53 after you have done this for a little while. 02:56 And, let's see what it looks like. 02:58 It looks a little cloudy... 02:59 a little bit milky and that's what you want. 03:01 Once it gets milky, then it's ready to smooth on. 03:04 Now, watch the way that Melissa smoothes it on... 03:07 She's going to go in the direction of the skin lines 03:11 because the eczema is usually on the hands and the skin lines 03:16 crack open. 03:18 Now if you go against the skin lines so that you pull 03:22 in a wrong direction, then of course, 03:24 you will have a tendency to open up these skin lines more. 03:29 Thank you, Melissa. 03:30 Now once you have this, of course, your hands are 03:35 sort of greasy and you won't be able to touch anything 03:38 that's paper for a little while. 03:40 So, remember that you do not pull in THIS direction... 03:49 You rub the Vaseline emulsion on the hand in 03:55 this direction only... not in this direction. 03:59 And that also brings up another thing... 04:01 and that is "no scratching" 04:02 because people usually scratch in this direction, 04:05 or even if they scratch in this direction... 04:07 it's still going to open up the skin lines 04:11 in little microscopic cracks 04:14 and doing that then keeps the eczema going 04:18 ...because it allows the substances to which the person 04:23 is sensitive, to get in those tiny, little cracks 04:26 and then it's exposed more to the skin cells 04:30 and that makes the skin continue its eczema. 04:34 And while the scratching may not have started the eczema, 04:38 the scratching does continue it. 04:39 And so your treatment will be largely ineffectual 04:43 because of the fact that you're continuing to keep it wide open. 04:46 One time I had a patient who was instructed on 04:51 not to scratch... so I saw her doing this kind of thing... 04:55 during the time that I was talking with her and 04:56 telling her what to do. 04:58 And, for a moment I thought... "Is she just being noncompliant 05:02 right here in front of me" 05:04 But, after a little bit, I said to her, when she began 05:09 to do this rubbing... "Uh uh, don't scratch it. " 05:12 She said, "Oh, I wasn't scratching it. " 05:14 And I said... then I thought, "Well she thinks that the 05:18 fingernails are the only thing that you can scratch with. " 05:21 But rubbing it against something else, 05:23 or rubbing it against your clothing, 05:25 is just as bad as scratching it with the fingernails. 05:29 You will try many things and, of course, you should try 05:32 to avoid soapy water or detergent water, 05:35 cleaning fluids and that kind of thing which makes eczema 05:39 much worse. 05:40 Now, Don Miller is here with me, who is one of the ones 05:45 that we depend on to teach about home remedies. 05:48 So, what do you have for us... Don Miller 05:50 Okay... One of the banes of many peoples lives is staying awake 05:54 They just can't stay awake in the daytime 05:56 Every time they turn around they're falling asleep again. 06:00 Now, I need to stress the fact that the best way 06:03 to keep from falling asleep in the daytime 06:06 is make sure you fell asleep in the nighttime... 06:09 at the right time in the nighttime. 06:12 The SOONER you go to sleep at night, 06:14 the BETTER will be your daytime experience the next day. 06:17 But let's say you're having a hard time staying awake... 06:21 I remember years ago when I was in college, 06:23 I was sitting there in geology class and 06:26 a classmate of mine... I was about 4 rows back 06:28 and he was about the 1st or 2nd row over to my left 06:31 and he had a very interesting technique 06:33 for staying awake while he was in the classroom. 06:36 He would sit himself at his desk... 06:39 and he would have a pencil held in his hands 06:43 sitting on top of the desk... a sharpened pencil. 06:45 And he had everything measured out. 06:47 This guy was precise. 06:49 And he'd be sitting there listening to the professor 06:52 droning on about circs and about alluvial plains 06:56 and everything and his head would slowly start going down, 06:59 down, down and he'd go down so far, he'd hit the pencil 07:02 and he'd come right back up again. 07:04 And he'd listen for a while longer and he'd start getting 07:06 tired and he'd start going back down again 07:09 ...he'd go down, hit that sharp pencil, 07:11 and right back up again. 07:12 Well, he'd leave the class every day with a little brown mark 07:15 in the middle of his forehead 07:17 But, he stayed awake for the MOST part most of the class. 07:20 And so that's one way... I don't recommend that 07:22 because, you know, the lead, the fact that you might 07:25 miss one of these days and get some other part of your head 07:27 So, let's don't do that... 07:29 Let's think about some much easier ways. 07:31 One is just... if you know you're going to be falling 07:34 asleep, OR you have a propensity to fall asleep, 07:38 carry some things with you. 07:40 You can have, in a little plastic bag, 07:42 a wet handkerchief... as cool as possible, 07:45 when you feel yourself getting tired, pull it out 07:47 and just press it on the eyes. 07:50 And that will help you sometimes. 07:52 Another thing that you can do is open your eyes 07:55 as wide as they can go and then close them as 07:58 tight as they can shut... 08:00 And usually a few actions like that will help you to stay awake 08:04 Now I don't recommend that while you're driving 08:06 down the road because that part of keeping the eyes 08:09 real closed is not very safe. 08:12 But I'll mention another way to do that in a moment. 08:14 Other things that you can do is at breakfast time... 08:17 as you are peeling your orange, keep a piece of the peel. 08:21 Put it into a plastic bag, 08:23 then in the daytime when you're feeling tired, 08:25 bring that peeling out, bend it in half and squeeze it 08:29 and some of that little oil, that's in the skin, 08:32 and just smell it. 08:33 It has a way to wake you back up again. 08:37 Now, I know some people who carry a little vial 08:39 of ammonia with them and they'll open... ohhh... 08:42 and they'll wake themselves up, 08:44 and they'll wake up everyone else around them. 08:46 But you can do that... 08:47 that's what smelling salts used to be... 08:50 You can try that right there. 08:51 You can carry with you a brush and start 08:55 stimulating your skin... stimulating a part of your body 08:58 with a brush and that will help stay awake. 09:01 You can squeeze a major muscle... 09:02 You can be sitting there massaging your arm or 09:04 reach down there and grab your thigh and just squeeze 09:07 those muscles... That will help! 09:08 You can sit there and, if you are driving, 09:11 ...I've done things like hang my head out the window... 09:14 I can yell. I can sing and do all these things. 09:17 But if everything else fails, in my experience to stay awake, 09:21 there's one, especially when you're driving 09:23 which you can pretty easily do, especially if you have 09:27 cruise control, 09:28 is as you're driving down the road and you're feeling 09:31 tired, just lift one foot up off the floorboards 09:35 ...just keep it up and you can do that sitting at home 09:37 and if you're in a class and you don't want to sleep, 09:40 just lift the foot up off the floor. 09:41 And as long as that foot is off the floor, 09:44 you WILL NOT fall asleep. 09:46 Pretty soon, your whole concentration is on keeping 09:50 that foot up in the air... 09:51 And you're sitting there holding it and holding it... 09:53 and as a matter of fact, you're getting even more awake 09:56 because you're holding it there... 09:57 And when finally the forces of gravity and the weight of your 10:00 shoe and everything else says, "I can't do it anymore" 10:03 it goes down... the other leg comes up. 10:05 And basically, you pedal yourself... 10:07 all the way through class. 10:08 You pedal yourself all the way through Illinois or California 10:11 or wherever you're going... up and down, up and down. 10:13 I have found this to be a rather effective way. 10:16 Now, the great Winston Churchill had a technique which 10:21 I have found very effective for myself. 10:23 When you are so overwhelmingly tired, 10:26 take a nap! 10:28 And this is what Winston Churchill would do, 10:30 he'd be sitting there in Parliament, 10:31 and they'd be droning on... and he had a habit 10:34 He'd be sitting there and all of a sudden 10:37 his head would go down... his chin would be on his chest 10:41 It would stay down there for just 2, 3, 4 minutes... 10:46 and he'd come back up again. 10:48 And he'd be perfectly refreshed. 10:50 I find the same thing for myself. 10:52 If I'm in my office and I'm just getting overwhelmingly 10:55 tired... I just get up and I lay down on my floor 10:59 I don't sit there and go home. 11:00 I just lock the door, lay flat down on my floor, 11:04 and I'll be asleep in a second 11:06 And I find that if I just sleep for 1 minute, 11:09 I am completely refreshed... 11:11 And it really helps if I wake up to the phone ringing 11:14 or a knock at the door... 11:15 Then I've got some adrenalin flowing... 11:17 because... oh-oh, someone's going to catch me 11:19 AND the fact that I have had that little bit of rest 11:23 to get me over the hump. 11:24 So, those are some of the things I DO to keep awake 11:26 And I think they're better than taking a NoDoz 11:30 or a cup of coffee, Dr. Thrash. 11:32 I think you're right on both of those. 11:34 Afflictions in the mouth are also problematical 11:38 for a lot of people. 11:40 Something like a toothache can upset your budget, 11:44 as well as your schedule. 11:46 Especially if it comes at night and you have to get up 11:49 and call a dentist and the dentist has to come 11:53 to attend you in the middle of the night. 11:54 That will be very straining on your budget. 11:57 So, there are some things that you can do that will sometimes 12:00 will tide you over and get you through a night. 12:02 Or can sometimes get you over the toothache. 12:06 One of those is clove oil. 12:09 You can find this sometimes at a grocery store, 12:12 or at a department store, or anywhere they sell 12:15 aromatic oils. 12:16 Just get a little bit of clove oil and take up 12:21 something like a Q-tip or the end of a Q-tip 12:27 that has the cotton on it, 12:28 wet it with the clove oil and put it right against the 12:31 tooth that aches. 12:33 Now as you put it there, you will immediately recognize 12:37 that your gum begins to have a little anesthesia. 12:41 And it isn't long before the tooth nerve itself 12:44 begins to have a little anesthesia. 12:46 And that's, of course, very delightful because 12:48 the toothache begins to subside. 12:51 Another thing for a toothache... 12:52 is a little compress made of charcoal. 12:56 Take a little piece of paper towel, 13:00 which you can cut in a little square, 13:03 maybe an inch or 2 inches in a square. 13:07 And just make up a little thick paste of charcoal 13:11 Put it on that little square. 13:12 And I like to have people put it on a spoon... 13:15 and then they can maneuver it a little better back into 13:19 the jaw where the tooth is aching 13:23 And in this way, they can get it into the proper place 13:27 and pull the jaw down, or the lip down over it 13:30 and hold it in place 13:31 And often within 5 minutes or so, 13:34 the charcoal paste will cause the toothache to be going away. 13:41 Another thing in the mouth that you can use 13:43 the charcoal for is a gum boil. 13:46 Sometimes you'll have a little swelling on a gum, 13:49 or you may even have an abscess. 13:52 And the charcoal compress is good for that. 13:55 If you have a tooth abscess, you do need the services 13:59 of a skilled dentist but, before you can get that, 14:02 you may need to treat it somewhat yourself. 14:04 So the charcoal compress will sometimes take the pain 14:08 and swelling out of the gum where the abscess is 14:13 and so will aloe vera. 14:15 If you have aloe Vera growing in your home, 14:17 take a little bit of one of the blades... a little segment of it 14:21 Peel one side of it only. 14:24 Leave the other side unpeeled because that makes it stiff 14:28 and holds it stiff long enough for you to get it into place. 14:30 So then you put it in the gutter... either up or down 14:35 where you have the abscessed tooth and that will also 14:38 help to remove the inflammation and pain 14:44 from the abscessed tooth. 14:45 Turmeric mouthwashes... Hot turmeric mouthwashes 14:49 can also be helpful. 14:50 Take a tablespoonful, or even a teaspoonful 14:53 of turmeric and stir it in a large glass of water 14:56 and gargle with that, or do your mouthwash with that. 15:01 You can then expectorate that, or you can swallow it... 15:05 either way. 15:06 If you swallow some of it, 15:07 it acts as an anti-inflammatory agent. 15:10 It is also a local anti-inflammatory agent on 15:14 your abscessed tooth. 15:16 Now aphthous ulcers, or mouth ulcers 15:19 can be treated extremely simply. 15:22 When you recognize that you're getting a mouth ulcer, 15:25 you feel it there, or you see that swollen 15:30 taste bud on your tongue... 15:33 and you know that the mouth ulcer is coming... 15:36 At that point, don't delay... 15:38 at that point, drink a glassful of water 15:41 every 10 minutes for an hour. 15:42 And in most cases, the mouth ulcer will not develop. 15:46 But if it does develop, then you can use the turmeric 15:49 mouthwash, or take a little paste of turmeric 15:52 and simply put it on the place where you have the 15:56 mouth ulcer and it will help a lot. 15:58 But even after it develops, if you've neglected it, 16:02 or it comes on and you weren't able to take the glassful 16:05 of water every 10 minutes for an hour at the beginning, 16:08 when you do recognize that it's there, then take the water. 16:14 Sometimes people will get a mouth ulcer to develop 16:16 from a place where they have bitten the tongue, 16:18 or bitten the inside of the mouth... 16:20 Again, it's the glassful of water every 10 minutes 16:23 for an hour and in most cases, the water itself 16:26 will have a healing effect on the place where you have 16:29 bitten it and the interior of the mouth heals, 16:33 and so does the entire gastrointestinal tract 16:37 has an extremely fast rate of healing... 16:40 It's one of the fastest tissues in the body to heal 16:43 and so it will often heal very nicely without any further ado. 16:48 And now... Don Miller. 16:50 It looks as if you've got some nice things here to show. 16:53 Well every time you talk, I think of other things 16:55 about what you're talking about. 16:56 You've got a show and tell. 16:57 I do have a show and tell but I want to tell something 16:59 about what she was just talking about... 17:01 Because I used to be plagued with these canker sores 17:04 or mouth ulcers. 17:08 And I have found in my experience, 17:09 if I allow myself to become dehydrated, 17:12 I am much more likely to develop a mouth ulcer. 17:16 And so, if I'm brushing my teeth, 17:18 and I jam my gums with my toothbrush, 17:20 I KNOW I'm going to get a mouth ulcer. 17:23 At that point, as Dr. Thrash says, 17:26 I drink a glass of water every 10 minutes for an hour. 17:29 And normally, it will not develop. 17:31 Other things you can use on a mouth ulcer... 17:34 I have used, at times, goldenseal paste 17:37 A little bit of goldenseal... 17:38 I just sprinkle it right onto the ulcer once it has developed 17:42 and it has a very nice antiseptic effect 17:45 and will sometimes completely take it away overnight. 17:48 I've also used things like... 17:50 I do really strange things to myself... 17:53 I'll do ANYTHING to get rid of a mouth ulcer. 17:55 I have tried putting cayenne pepper directly on 17:59 the mouth ulcer trying to cauterize it because 18:02 maybe that came from the thought years ago... 18:05 I was stationed in Key West, Florida... 18:06 a good friend of mine who was a doctor, 18:08 I had a REAL bad one on the inside of my lip and he said... 18:11 "No problem, I'll take care of it" 18:12 Went into the clinic there at the Naval Air Station... 18:15 He took out this long stick... 18:18 it looked like a match with a black head on it 18:21 And he opened my lip up and he dried it off, 18:25 and he took this thing and just touched it. 18:27 Well it was silver nitrate. 18:29 It burned like fire for about 5 seconds 18:33 and that's the last I ever felt of that particular canker sore. 18:36 It was gone with the wind. 18:37 And so sometimes the cayenne pepper WILL help. 18:40 Sometimes putting salt on it... 18:42 I put salt... I've done EVERYTHING I could 18:44 to get rid of these things. 18:46 But I find if I keep from traumatizing myself, 18:49 and if I keep myself well-hydrated, 18:51 I'm a whole lot better off. 18:52 Now I've just mentioned salt... 18:53 Let me give you a nice remedy that we can do with salt. 18:56 Many times we have sinus infections... we have sinusitis 18:59 We've got stuffed up sinuses. 19:01 MANY people have these things. 19:03 First of all, why do you have a stuffed up sinus? 19:06 Probably an allergy. 19:07 Find out where your allergen is and get rid of it. 19:09 But a GOOD thing to do for this type of a problem, 19:14 OR at the beginning of the cold and flu season... 19:17 I recommend that everybody at the beginning of the 19:20 cold and flu season... 19:21 OR if people in your environment are coming down sick, 19:24 do a nasal irrigation. 19:27 Very simple to do. 19:28 All it takes is... get a pint of water. 19:31 This isn't a full pint but you get a pint jar, 19:35 and that's the best way to do it. 19:36 You just get a pint jar... don't sit there and have to figure out 19:38 ...all right 2 cups is this thing or that thing. 19:40 2 cups - 1 pint of water that's body temperature... 19:44 Just slightly warm water and then take a teaspoonful 19:49 of salt... place it into the water. 19:52 This becomes what we call a saline solution 19:55 because your body is saline. 19:57 Now the first time I heard about this treatment, 19:59 I sat there and listened and I said... "Good treatment. " 20:03 And I learned this treatment by using a Waterpik. 20:07 There is a special attachment for a Waterpik that has a 20:10 bulb on the end and you just sit there and you put this 20:13 bulb up one nostril and you turn the machine on 20:16 and it just pumps that water up, it goes through your sinuses 20:20 comes out your other nostril, 20:21 comes out your Eustachian tube... you're spitting it 20:23 But it's really GREAT and I thought... 20:26 "That's a nice treatment. " 20:27 Well, about a month or so later, 20:29 I felt like I wanted to try it because I probably 20:32 needed it at the time. 20:33 And I forgot one part that I don't want you to forget. 20:37 I forgot the salt. 20:39 I just put warm water in there... 20:42 stuck this Waterpik thing up my nose, 20:44 turned it on and it felt like I had a bunch 20:47 of little guys in my head with hammers just hammering away. 20:50 Now I thought... Hmm, I must really be sick... 20:53 so I've got to go ahead and endure this pain. 20:55 And I endured a whole pint of warm straight water up my nose 21:00 And then it struck me later on "ah... saline" 21:03 Use saline. 21:04 Now you may not have a Waterpik... 21:06 You may not have all this fancy equipment, 21:08 but there's one piece of equipment that 21:10 almost all of us have and that is the good old hand. 21:13 And all I do when I'm doing this thing is I pour some 21:17 water in the palm of my hand... 21:18 I hold one nostril shut and just sniff it up your nose. 21:24 And I keep doing that a few times on this side, 21:26 a few times on this side... back and forth, back and forth 21:30 If you don't want to use your hand, 21:31 I've used a large spoon. 21:32 Just take a large spoon, hold one nostril shut 21:35 and... breath it ALL UP in... 21:38 You're not going to drown in the spoon, 21:40 or in the palm of your hand. 21:41 It doesn't go down into your lungs... 21:43 it just goes into your sinus passages, 21:45 down your Eustachian tube... 21:46 And this has a very nice clearing process 21:49 and clearing effect on the sinus passages 21:52 AND it will protect you 21:54 from the colds that are coming down the road. 21:56 At the beginning of cold season... 21:58 stay well-hydrated, do some nasal irrigations, 22:01 stay away from the sweets... 22:03 And just like Dr. Thrash mentioned, 22:05 if we have one of these things developing in us, 22:08 a cold... she mentioned this about a mouth ulcer... 22:12 If you feel that first symptom of a cold, 22:15 the treatment of choice... 22:16 a glass of water every 10 minutes for an hour. 22:19 You do that and then in-between the glasses, 22:22 you walk outside and you take 40-50 deep inspirations of air 22:30 And almost ALWAYS, this will shortstop the disease 22:35 as long as you are doing everything else right... 22:36 staying away from the sweets, getting to bed on time, 22:40 getting your sunshine, and exercise, 22:43 Paul says, "It's your reasonable service to present your body 22:47 a living sacrifice. " 22:48 And I think these are pretty reasonable, Dr. Thrash. 22:50 That's why they're called simple home remedies. 22:52 Simple home remedies. 22:54 Earaches are another part of the bane of mankind. 22:58 And earaches can be due to a stopped up Eustachian tube. 23:03 It can be due to an affliction in the external ear 23:07 in what we call the ear canal. 23:10 Or, it can be an infection in the middle ear which 23:14 has the ossicles... the hammer, anvil and stirrup in it, 23:18 just behind the eardrum. 23:21 Wherever it may be, you can always treat it by treating 23:25 the back of the throat 23:26 because the Eustachian tube which comes from the middle ear, 23:29 down through the head and the end of it 23:33 is back on the back of the oropharynx, way into the 23:39 nasopharynx. 23:41 It's right there where you want to get the treatment 23:44 at the end of the Eustachian tube. 23:46 And so, if you gargle, you will gargle so that 23:50 the fluid that you're gargling with will be hot against the 23:54 opening of the Eustachian tube 23:56 And that reflexively gives a treatment to the middle ear. 24:00 So for children and for others that you don't want to 24:04 irrigate the ear, or they will not allow you to put a 24:07 compress on the side of the head, 24:09 they may allow you to either irrigate, again with a Waterpik 24:13 or with a plain bulb syringe that you just inject the water 24:18 into the back of the throat as far as you can. 24:21 With this, you may get a very good treatment to the ears. 24:25 So remember that... that it doesn't have to be 24:27 always on the outside that you treat the ear... 24:30 You can treat the ear through the gargles in the mouth. 24:34 Gargling may also be good for a cough. 24:39 You might think that gargling would not help with that, 24:42 but because the gargle also helps the sinuses, 24:45 and a postnasal drip from inflamed sinuses often goes 24:51 down into the bronchial tubes and that causes you 24:55 to have a cough... that can be treated also by the gargle. 25:01 Now I'd like to say a word to people who are overweight... 25:05 A lot of times, people who are overweight 25:08 make a BIG mistake. 25:10 They say... "I'm going to go on a diet and 25:14 I heard Dr. Thrash say you eliminate free fats and you 25:17 just take 2 meals a day, 25:19 and you eat nothing between meals, 25:20 and you become a total vegetarian, 25:22 and eat nothing after 4 o'clock in the afternoon," 25:26 and these are all very good things. 25:29 They are good things that I can almost guarantee 25:32 they will cause you to lose weight. 25:35 Almost ALL people will lose weight just on those things. 25:38 Eliminating the free fats... that's margarine, 25:40 mayonnaise, fried foods, cooking fat, salad oils, 25:43 and even nut butters for a while. 25:45 And then being a total vegetarian. 25:48 A person can eat a sufficient quantity... 25:51 so that they do not feel uncomfortable. 25:53 And then, another thing is that of omitting the 3rd meal. 25:58 Just taking 2 meals a day, and omitting supper. 26:02 And in this way, I can almost guarantee 26:06 that you will lose weight. 26:08 But many people say, "Well I will do that but 26:11 then I will take a vacation every once in a while. 26:14 I will perhaps use one weekend a month 26:18 that I will eat this or I will eat that... that's off my diet" 26:21 Let me encourage you not to do that. 26:23 Because anytime you do that, it is no kindness to yourself. 26:27 You may think, I will sort of pat myself a little bit... 26:31 I will give myself this kind of vacation, 26:34 and I will feel better about everything 26:37 and I will not TOTALLY leave ALL those things 26:40 that I once enjoyed. 26:42 I can almost guarantee on this too... 26:44 that if you take that attitude about it, 26:47 the time is coming when you will be back on the same 26:50 kind of diet that you have already PROVEN 26:52 You've already PROVEN that that kind of diet 26:55 makes you overweight. 26:56 And so, if you go back to that even one weekend a month, 26:59 or when somebody has their 50th wedding anniversary, 27:03 or whenever... 27:04 That vacation from your diet, will do the same thing for you 27:08 that a vacation from your MARRIAGE 27:10 would do to your marriage. 27:11 If you took a vacation from your marriage 27:13 one weekend a month, that would not do anything 27:17 very beneficial for it. 27:18 And the same thing is true with any lifestyle habit. 27:21 Let us say you're stopping smoking, 27:23 do not take a cigarette every once in a while. 27:26 Some people say, "Well, I'll only take 1 cigarette 27:28 per day... and that's all... just one. 27:31 To these individuals, I can almost guarantee 27:33 that you will be back on the cigarettes full force 27:37 before too long. 27:38 Simple things make for a strong life... 27:44 And our lifestyles are a lot of habit 27:49 and a lot of hard work at times 27:51 ...But they very much pay off. 27:53 And I recommend to you, that you establish 27:56 the very BEST habits 27:57 that you can for a good life. |
Revised 2014-12-17