I'm Agatha Thrash,
a staff physician at
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Uchee Pines Institute.
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Today, our topic for
you is breast disease...
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not only in women but
also in men and some in boys.
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So we'd like you to join us.
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Welcome to "Help
Yourself to Health"
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with Dr. Agatha Thrash
of Uchee Pines Institute.
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And now, here's
your host, Dr. Thrash.
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You know, a lot of
lifestyle habits have to do with
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the production of breast disease
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Now, we have learned
at Uchee Pines Institute
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that a lot of people who
have chocolate in their habit
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...that they are among
those who are likely to get
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breast disease of some kind.
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And so, we'd like to
talk with you about various
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lifestyle habits, but I'll
talk about chocolate first.
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Now the first thing that
we can say is that if a woman
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eats a LOT of chocolate,
she's very likely to develop
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a condition called
fibrocystic breast disease.
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It's a common breast disorder
that a lot of women have.
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It's characterized by
painful, sometimes swollen lumps
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that may concern her
quite a great deal because
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they may be quite hard
and not so easily movable...
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especially when
they are inflamed.
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A young woman
doctor who was about 30,
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was eating chocolate
every day of her life...
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until one day, she went
to a foreign mission field
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and while she was
there for 3 years,
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she could find no chocolate,
so she ate no chocolate
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and during that time, she
had no breast disease at all.
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Now this was quite remarkable
because she had been having
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a biopsy of her breast
for approximately 5 or 6 years
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...once every 18 months.
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So when she came back and
realized that when she started
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eating chocolate again, that
her breast disease came back,
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she spoke with her surgeon.
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The two of them began
to investigate other women
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who had
fibrocystic breast disease.
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And sure enough, they
found that a number of women
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would cease to have
fibrocystic breast disease
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if they gave up the use of
chocolate and sometimes coffee,
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tea and colas as well.
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These are
beverages that are related.
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Now because fibrocystic
breast disease occurs in women,
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and it really is
quite common in women...
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you might think...
well, women are those who
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get breast disease.
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But it isn't always so...
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There are times when
men get breast disease.
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And Dr. Winn Horsley who is
my associate at Uchee Pines,
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is going to be
talking with you about that.
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So, this is Dr. Winn Horsley.
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He is one of my
associates at Uchee Pines...
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and you're going to talk
about, is it "genicomastia?"
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or as I've heard you sometimes
say it as a Canadian...
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I've sometimes
heard you pronounce it...
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what is it... gynecomastia?
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Which do you prefer?
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Well, you know, I've
heard plenty of variation
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on so many words in medicine.
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People think that there's
only one right pronunciation...
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but reality is
different, I think.
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That is true and I think that
in the more British-speaking
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countries like
Great Britain, they have a
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a completely
different way of speaking about
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medical things and
they have have a completely
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different terminology.
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So, what do you have to
tell us about genicomastia?
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Well, gynecomastia... I would
like to just say one little word
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about the term itself.
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I haven't studied this
up in the dictionaries but I
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think the roots
are well-enough known.
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"Gyneco" is a root
that means "woman,"
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as in the word "gynecology"
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Mastia refers to the breast.
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You would think that
with that kind of a word,
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you'd be talking only
about women but, in fact,
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this is used quite specifically
for problems that men can have
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in their breasts.
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One young fellow, an adolescent,
when I was in medical school,
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came complaining...
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I think it was his
mother who actually came and
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talked to me about
him having some pain
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right under his
nipples, and little lumps there.
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I looked at it... trying to look
like I was full of knowledge,
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but I was as green as could
be just starting medical school.
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And, he told me about how
this was rather tender and
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painful and he was worried...
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You know, was
something developing here that
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would need some
drastic treatment.
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I studied up
some... on the very issue.
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And fortunately, I was able
to counsel patients at that time
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and then in
following times that I saw him
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could carry on further
in explaining that, in fact,
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this often does
happen to adolescent boys.
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Now gynecomastia is
used, I would say, even more
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to describe abnormal growth of
what is actually breast tissue
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in older men.
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So, let's make it clear,
we're not talking about someone
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who's fat... especially
fatty around the breasts.
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Or, a man that's got
well-developed pectoral muscles
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that will bulge at times.
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And if you put the two together,
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sometimes it
does look like there's
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quite a breast there in a man.
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But we're talking instead
about actual growth of tissue
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and this would be
breast kind of tissue.
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The human males do
have some breast tissue...
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In fact, it was a
surprise to me not long ago,
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to learn that the
incidence of breast cancer
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in men is 1 percent.
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And, in fact, it's more
dangerous when they get it,
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than women because there's
not a large amount of tissue
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there and it will very
quickly invade the chest wall.
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Well, this issue of gynecomastia
... breasts starting to grow
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can come on...
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One of the instances that
has stuck in my mind as being
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the most
important is in alcoholics.
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Most people realize
that with alcoholism,
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you're damaging your liver.
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The liver is the big
chemical factory of the body,
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and it handles
processing of hormones.
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Both men and women
produce some of both
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of the sexes' hormones.
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In other words, men do
have things like estrogen
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in their body and, if
they're not going to accumulate,
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they have to be
gotten rid of by the liver.
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Well, a poisoned
liver, a damaged liver
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such as occurs in alcoholism
doesn't do this... well.
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And, therefore, there can
be this abnormal stimulation
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of whatever breast tissue
is there... to start growing.
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A number of other things
can lead to gynecomastia and the
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principal point here is drugs.
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There is a fair list of
drugs that will do this...
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Obviously hormone
type of drugs would do it.
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But, aside from hormones
there are others such as...
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digitalis... a drug
that used for the heart,
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Reserpine that has been used
for high blood pressure, and
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quite a long list of possible
drug causes of gynecomastia.
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Now aside from those that are
considered medical type of drugs
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We have an example
in the illicit drugs...
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marijuana use...
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It has been specifically linked
with gynecomastia in males.
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Well that's very interesting
and I appreciate that very much.
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You know, we have a lot of
problem nowadays with women
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not knowing how
to do breastfeeding.
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It has been shown that
if a woman breastfeeds,
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she's less likely to
have certain types of diseases
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especially cancer of the breast.
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And so, I'd like to show
you how a woman should know
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how to do this kind of
little office for her infant...
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And here, I have a very nice
chart which shows the positions
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that the mother can use
in helping her baby to nurse
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and that will be
comfortable for her.
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Here is one which is probably
most common when the baby
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simply sort of sits in her lap
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and she feeds the
baby with the right breast.
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The left breast can be fed with
the infant actually behind the
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mother... such as you see here.
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You can see that the
infant is sort of tucked under
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the mother's left arm
and she is feeding the baby
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from the left breast.
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Then there is also the partial
tucked under the left arm
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of the baby with the
nipple of the right breast...
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the one that the
baby is nursing from.
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But the one that many
women like a lot is the one that
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you see here... where
the mother is lying down.
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This is often what occurs
in the nighttime when the baby
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must be fed during the night,
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then she can continue to lie
down and simply take the baby
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cradled in her arm in this way.
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Now, how does she get
the baby to take hold...
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That is called "latching on"...
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And here we see that the mother
somewhat pinches up her breast
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She supports it from
below and sort of squeezes
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a little bit from above and
then makes it so that the nipple
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stands out.
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If she just strokes the
baby's cheek a little bit,
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the baby will usually open the
mouth and turn toward the breast
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And then as the baby
moves toward the breast...
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or as she moves the
baby toward the breast,
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then she puts the
nipple in the baby's mouth.
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Now, the baby gets a
good hold on the nipple
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and does not
want to turn loose...
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And so consequently,
if she wants to feed
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from the other breast,
she must disengage the baby
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who is latched on to her
with a good bit of suction,
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by simply inserting her finger
in the corner of the mouth
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of the baby and that
will allow air to go in and
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break the very tight
seal that the baby has made
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with the breast.
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And so by doing this, she
can perform an important office
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for her baby.
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I don't make a lot of house
calls anymore since it became
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so dangerous for women to
be out at night alone or even
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out in the daytime alone.
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But generally have
people to come to me.
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But there is one reason
why I will make a house call...
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And that is if a young
mother is threatening to
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stop breastfeeding her baby.
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I generally go, study the way
that she does her breastfeeding
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...how she sits,
how she holds the baby,
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the timing of it and
all of this kind of thing
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so that I can help her
to know that she does not,
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for the most part, need
to stop feeding her baby.
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Now, we have here
some things about food...
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And... ohh, this looks SO good!
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And I think it's
made out of soy...
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It looks very much like
a dish that would be good
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for the breast because
soy is one of those foods.
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This is Lidia Seda who is
my colleague at Uchee Pines.
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She's a Lifestyle
counselor... Lidia
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Yes, Dr. Agatha, tofu is
quite good for the breast
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and for breast cancer.
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Why? Well, one thing
that it has is that it helps
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to lower LDL and LDL is a fat.
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It's not a fat that's
beneficial for the body...
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Number 1, it can
contribute to atherosclerosis
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and there have been
studies in France that show that
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women who eat
high amounts of fat,
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will have greater tendencies
of getting breast cancer.
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So this is why tofu is an
excellent meal to help reduce
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the chances or the
likelihood of acquiring
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an illness like breast cancer.
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ALSO, it is high in protein.
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It has about 7.8% protein and
is nearly nutritionally complete
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Also, it has iron...
about 4.7 mg of iron.
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Now the recommended
daily allowance is about
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15 mg for women and 12 for men.
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So if you were to eat
about 8 ounces of tofu,
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you will be getting
about a fourth of your daily
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recommended requirements.
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Yeah... that's very good.
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So soy is a very nice
addition to the American diet
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and, unfortunately, it isn't
used as much as it should...
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And I see you have a
package here of tofu...
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Where did you get that?
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Well, this was
purchased at a health food store
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but you can actually buy
this nowadays in ANY supermarket
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It's become quite
popular to purchase tofu.
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And something else very
interesting about tofu is...
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that it can help
individuals, especially women,
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who are either
premenopausal, postmenopausal,
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or who are actually going
through menopause at this time.
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What happens is,
because of its high estrogen,
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it can help not allow those
intense episodes of heat to
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be so bothersome... what we
would normally call hot flashes.
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So it's very beneficial
for women who are going
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through those experiences.
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Where do you buy this... in
the frozen foods department,
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or is it on the shelves?
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Well this particular
package would be in the
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frozen foods department.
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And now there are other
packages that you can buy
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in a box... that you would get
just off the shelf as well...
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And they can be used to make
a tofu cheesecake if you like.
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Well, do you have a
recipe for this delightful dish
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that you showed us earlier?
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Yes... This dish, right
here, is called "chipped tofu"
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and this dish... what you would
do is you would have a broth
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of what we call "chicken-style
seasoning" and water.
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As a matter of
fact, you would need:
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2 cups of water and 1 TB
of chicken style seasoning
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Along with the
following ingredients:
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And this will make a gravy.
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You have then your cubed tofu
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and then you put your
gravy with your tofu together...
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You let it boil a
little bit... a gentle boil
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And then you have
chipped tofu which you can place
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over whole grain brown rice.
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It sounds good and the
rice, as I can see there
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looks a little bit different...
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It looks a little fluffy...
How'd you get it to do that?
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Well, what I did, Dr.
Thrash, is that I placed it in a
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skillet and I dextrinized it for
about 30 seconds to 60 seconds.
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And what that does
is to help brown it.
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By dextrinize,
you mean you heat it,
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and it browns a little bit...
Exactly... that's very good.
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You heat it, it browns a
bit and this actually cuts
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the cooking time
and makes the rice taste
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a little bit nuttier. Ah ha...
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And I placed it in a slow
cooker, actually a crock pot
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and after 2 hours, I have
nice fluffy rice, not gummy rice
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but fluffy rice.
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I like sticky rice too but most
Americans like nice fluffy rice.
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And the wonderful thing about
whole grain rice, brown rice...
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is that it has ALL the
nutrients that you need,
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especially if someone is
trying to combat a cancer
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It has the
antioxidants and phytochemicals
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that the individual needs
to help guard against cancer
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And it's true that some white
rice has the nutrients placed
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back in but usually
not ALL the nutrients...
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And we need all the nutrients
we can get to be able to
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fight these types of
illnesses like breast cancer.
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So that's why I
recommend the brown rice
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instead of the white rice.
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Very good, and in places
of the world where they use
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a lot of rice, of course,
they do have healthier breasts
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and they are much more
likely to be strong and
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resistant against a
variety of diseases.
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And we have also
a number of other
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lifestyle problems
that can make us more
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susceptible to disease.
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Another problem that
women have is that they often
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wear a lot of padding across
the chest and this padding
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or even padded bras
or very thick vests,
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that they may wear
across the chest... all of these
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can cause a problem for a
woman who has a susceptibility
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to problems with the breast...
like fibrocystic breast disease
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or cancer of the breast.
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So, one thing that I
always teach women to do is
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to be careful about
excessive padding on the chest.
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Uplift bras which change
the configuration of the breast
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may also be a problem and a
source of breast disease for
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women, and of
course, a lot of discomfort.
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So the newer bras that do
not count on a lot of padding
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and a lot of
uplift... these are more helpful
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than the kinds of bras
that women have been wearing
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in recent years.
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Now, not only do we have these
kinds of lifestyle problems,
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but a lot of other
kinds of things are
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involved in the breast.
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And I have here, Don Miller,
is one of my counselors at
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Uchee Pines... He's
a Lifestyle counselor
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and a longtime colleague...
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And he's going to talk
with you now about some other
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lifestyle issues.
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There are some real
important things we can do...
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and I want to
start with children.
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Even a young girl who
takes soybean products
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and Lidia just got
done talking about tofu
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which is a popular tofu product,
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but a young girl
who takes soy products,
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as a young girl, reduces
her risk of breast disease
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by 50% as she gets older.
00:19:26.28\00:19:28.39
And that woman who
continues to take soy products
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throughout her life
reduces her chances even more.
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And the instance of
soy products on the market
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are just unbelievable.
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I use a soymilk all the time.
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And that's my
favorite type of milk.
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As a matter of fact, we
recommend for women with
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breast disease and breast
cancer not to use cow's milk
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because that increases
the growth of breast cancers
00:19:50.89\00:19:54.99
But we have soy products...
00:19:55.02\00:19:56.82
As a matter of fact,
this one has that little
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international
symbol of breast disease,
00:19:58.72\00:20:02.07
or sympathy for
people with breast disease...
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The little pink ribbon... and
this comes on these containers.
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And they're telling
you, "This is good. "
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Another nice thing
about soy products,
00:20:10.16\00:20:12.35
and I like this...
is normally if it's a
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soy product, you don't have
this long list of ingredients
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This is the way
I do my shopping...
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Whenever I go shopping, if
I want to find if a product
00:20:21.03\00:20:24.47
that I want to eat is
good, I take off my glasses
00:20:24.48\00:20:28.24
and I look at the ingredients.
00:20:28.27\00:20:29.99
And if I can't read
the ingredients, which are
00:20:30.02\00:20:32.27
usually in very,
very small print,
00:20:32.30\00:20:34.17
I figure there are
things in there I don't think I
00:20:34.20\00:20:36.61
want to put in my body.
00:20:36.64\00:20:37.81
As a matter of fact, sometimes
I have to take a magnifying
00:20:37.82\00:20:41.12
glass just to discover
what other people are eating
00:20:41.15\00:20:43.35
and say, "I don't think we
want those things in our bodies"
00:20:43.38\00:20:45.88
As a matter of fact,
I'm reading in this one...
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something that's not
good for women who have breast
00:20:47.77\00:20:50.47
disease... and that
would be a hydrogenated fat.
00:20:50.50\00:20:52.87
And so, if you see hydrogenated
fats, or partially hydrogenated
00:20:52.90\00:20:56.58
fats... don't use those things.
00:20:56.61\00:20:58.26
They're bad for
women with breast cancer.
00:20:58.29\00:21:01.38
And so, find things that you
can read without your glasses
00:21:01.41\00:21:04.90
and if you got great eyesight,
still... only 4 or 5 ingredients
00:21:04.93\00:21:08.83
But there are many,
many soy products out there.
00:21:08.86\00:21:11.74
There are the soymilks...
00:21:11.77\00:21:12.95
There is the tofu
that Lidia talked about...
00:21:12.98\00:21:14.85
There are soy cheeses.
00:21:14.88\00:21:16.20
There are soy cream cheeses.
00:21:16.21\00:21:17.99
There are soy sour
cheeses... yeah, right.
00:21:18.02\00:21:20.95
There are soybeans.
00:21:20.98\00:21:22.73
There are baked
soybeans and Henry Ford once
00:21:22.76\00:21:24.85
made a soy car.
00:21:24.88\00:21:26.09
And so, there are lots of
things you can do with soybeans
00:21:26.12\00:21:28.82
and I suggest that
we eat those things
00:21:28.85\00:21:30.55
because they'll make our
bodies feel a whole lot better.
00:21:30.58\00:21:32.54
But there are other
things besides soy products
00:21:32.57\00:21:35.04
that we can eat that
will make our bodies safer
00:21:35.07\00:21:37.53
and NOT just the women
who might get or do have
00:21:37.56\00:21:40.36
breast cancer, but ALL of US
should be eating these things
00:21:40.39\00:21:43.38
As a matter of fact, our
mothers have been telling us
00:21:43.41\00:21:45.18
how to prevent all these
cancers since we were children.
00:21:45.21\00:21:47.74
She'd lean over and she'd
say, "Eat your vegetables"
00:21:47.77\00:21:50.83
And so, we should
eat our vegetables.
00:21:50.86\00:21:52.32
The Brassica family...
The cruciferous family...
00:21:52.35\00:21:55.08
The mustard family...
00:21:55.09\00:21:56.06
All of these foods... Now
what are in these families?
00:21:56.09\00:21:58.17
Well, you've got your
bok choy, your cauliflower,
00:21:58.18\00:22:01.93
your brussel sprouts...
all these different foods
00:22:01.96\00:22:07.96
You got your mustard
greens, your collard greens,
00:22:07.99\00:22:10.70
your kohlrabi...
00:22:10.71\00:22:11.89
A lot of different
foods in these families
00:22:11.92\00:22:13.97
Just eat your green leafy
vegetables... that's a nice
00:22:14.00\00:22:16.72
way to put it... eat
your green leafy vegetables,
00:22:16.75\00:22:19.28
it will help with
the breast cancer.
00:22:19.31\00:22:21.31
Other things that you can do...
00:22:21.34\00:22:22.68
I've already talked
about staying away from
00:22:22.71\00:22:24.71
the hydrogenated fats...
00:22:24.74\00:22:26.56
Flaxseed!
00:22:26.59\00:22:27.78
Flaxseed is a
nice anti-inflammatory
00:22:27.81\00:22:30.50
I would suggest you
get some flax SEEDS...
00:22:30.53\00:22:32.95
Don't get ground
flaxseed because it oxidizes
00:22:32.98\00:22:35.88
very, very fast... it goes
bad and it will become rancid
00:22:35.91\00:22:38.87
in just a couple of days.
00:22:38.90\00:22:40.37
Get some flaxseed
and every morning,
00:22:40.40\00:22:42.96
grind you up a tablespoonful
and put it over your food.
00:22:42.99\00:22:45.91
Very, very good for
women who have breast cancer
00:22:45.94\00:22:48.66
It's as a
preventive of breast cancer,
00:22:48.69\00:22:50.81
and a good food for
anybody with any inflammatory
00:22:50.84\00:22:53.75
response anywhere in their body.
00:22:53.78\00:22:56.29
There are other things that you
can do for your breast cancer...
00:22:56.32\00:23:00.33
Stay away from dairy milk.
00:23:00.36\00:23:01.60
I think I've
already mentioned that.
00:23:01.63\00:23:02.90
Dairy milk promotes
breast cancer and it's best to
00:23:02.91\00:23:06.37
stay away from the dairy milk
00:23:06.40\00:23:07.99
and the dairy
products altogether.
00:23:08.00\00:23:09.73
And if we do some of
these very SIMPLE things,
00:23:09.76\00:23:12.16
that God has shown us to do,
we will have a good chance to
00:23:12.19\00:23:14.97
fight the breast
cancer and, even better,
00:23:15.00\00:23:17.21
to avoid getting the
breast cancer in the first place
00:23:17.24\00:23:19.79
and so, mothers, feed
it to your children...
00:23:19.82\00:23:22.49
Mothers, feed it to yourselves.
00:23:22.52\00:23:24.19
Fathers, boys, everybody...
eat the soy products
00:23:24.22\00:23:27.78
because I believe this is
the way we should be going
00:23:27.81\00:23:30.36
in our society
today... Dr. Thrash.
00:23:30.39\00:23:32.85
And also... there
are just soybeans...
00:23:32.88\00:23:35.95
We can just take the soybeans...
00:23:35.98\00:23:37.50
There are nice recipes
for scrambled soybeans.
00:23:37.53\00:23:40.84
I like that very much and
then just boil up some nice
00:23:40.87\00:23:44.25
soy limas... they
are also delightful.
00:23:44.28\00:23:47.39
And, eaten every day,
they encourage good, strong
00:23:47.42\00:23:52.12
bones and a lot of other things.
00:23:52.15\00:23:53.49
And you can roast them
like peanuts... Oh yes!
00:23:53.53\00:23:55.28
And there is soy peanut
butter... soy nut butter
00:23:55.31\00:23:58.11
So, these are all very good.
00:23:58.14\00:23:59.41
A lot of GOOD soy
products today on the market.
00:23:59.44\00:24:02.63
So I'm very thankful that
we can have all these products
00:24:02.66\00:24:06.54
that are so
strengthening to the body.
00:24:06.57\00:24:10.54
We've talked about gynecomastia,
as the Canadians say it.
00:24:10.57\00:24:15.50
And I'd like to find out a
little bit about the treatment
00:24:15.53\00:24:20.05
And so, I have asked
that Dr. Winn Horsley
00:24:20.08\00:24:24.00
would talk with you
again, a little bit about the
00:24:24.03\00:24:26.71
treatment for gynecomastia.
00:24:26.74\00:24:28.68
Okay, Dr. Thrash.
00:24:28.71\00:24:31.04
Well the
treatment is very simple.
00:24:31.07\00:24:34.81
We've mentioned that
in the cases of drugs,
00:24:34.84\00:24:40.18
you can get quite a few
different drugs that will
00:24:40.21\00:24:42.20
CAUSE gynecomastia.
00:24:42.23\00:24:44.79
We didn't even list them
all but they're really quite
00:24:44.82\00:24:46.56
common drugs.
00:24:46.59\00:24:49.11
Stopping them... generally
brings about healing...
00:24:49.14\00:24:52.50
Brings about total
resolution of the problem.
00:24:52.53\00:24:54.95
If we're talking about the
young man that I mentioned,
00:24:54.98\00:24:59.59
the adolescents that sometimes
get these little tender areas
00:24:59.62\00:25:03.53
in their breasts, just
wait... just give a few weeks
00:25:03.56\00:25:06.99
to months and that
generally clears up quite well.
00:25:07.02\00:25:10.40
Well, that's all we need to
know then... thank you so much.
00:25:10.43\00:25:14.37
For women who have a family
history of having problems
00:25:14.40\00:25:21.22
with the breast, they need to
understand the number of things
00:25:21.25\00:25:23.77
in the care of the breasts.
00:25:23.80\00:25:26.38
Let me just mention
several things that we have
00:25:26.41\00:25:29.22
in our counseling
sheet for patients.
00:25:29.25\00:25:31.80
One is to keep the
breasts very small...
00:25:31.83\00:25:35.07
Doing so has
multiple advantages.
00:25:35.10\00:25:37.35
One is that you, yourself,
can feel any abnormal density
00:25:37.38\00:25:42.71
or a lump that may
develop in the breast.
00:25:42.74\00:25:45.77
Also, when you're
getting a physical examination,
00:25:45.80\00:25:48.16
the physician can
locate breast problems better
00:25:48.19\00:25:53.52
in the small breast...
00:25:53.55\00:25:54.76
And a second thing, the
more overweight the breast is,
00:25:54.79\00:25:58.22
the more likely it
is to develop a cancer.
00:25:58.25\00:26:01.04
Then, daily cleansing of
the nipples with a daily shower
00:26:01.07\00:26:06.73
especially for
younger women whose breast
00:26:06.76\00:26:10.05
secretions are quite a lot...
00:26:10.08\00:26:12.96
this will help to keep
the nipples in good shape.
00:26:12.99\00:26:17.17
Then an injury of the breast...
00:26:17.20\00:26:19.44
Which we now know is
a precursor of cancer
00:26:19.47\00:26:22.81
of the breast in some women...
00:26:22.84\00:26:24.05
Injury to the
breast should be treated.
00:26:24.08\00:26:26.53
Such as with
contrast baths... hot and cold
00:26:26.56\00:26:29.72
Hot compress for 3
minutes, and a cold compress,
00:26:29.75\00:26:34.26
or even an ice
compress for about 30 seconds
00:26:34.29\00:26:36.75
Repeat this again and
again for about 3 to 5 exchanges
00:26:36.76\00:26:42.76
on a daily basis until
the breast is no longer tender
00:26:42.79\00:26:46.61
or blue if there
was a bruise there.
00:26:46.64\00:26:51.12
Then the first day of
each season, a woman needs
00:26:51.15\00:26:55.68
to examine her breasts herself.
00:26:55.71\00:26:58.50
That means that she
should look at the breasts
00:26:58.51\00:27:01.30
in a mirror... especially with
a light coming in from the side
00:27:01.33\00:27:05.40
so that any highlights of
any lump, or increased density
00:27:05.43\00:27:11.22
in the breast
could be easily seen.
00:27:11.25\00:27:13.50
Then, she needs to
have the hands very slippery
00:27:13.53\00:27:17.20
such as might occur
if she were in the shower
00:27:17.23\00:27:20.75
or when she's lying
down to massage the breasts
00:27:20.78\00:27:26.87
with her hands in all
quadrants so that she can
00:27:26.90\00:27:30.20
turn up any
kind of breast lesion
00:27:30.23\00:27:33.04
that might be there.
00:27:33.07\00:27:34.75
It is our Heavenly
Father's desire that we should
00:27:34.78\00:27:37.79
prosper and be in health.
00:27:37.82\00:27:40.07
In fact, He has had His
prophet to say that very thing.
00:27:40.10\00:27:42.96
"That above all things,
He desires that we prosper
00:27:42.99\00:27:46.70
and be in health. "
00:27:46.73\00:27:47.80
It is our desire that we
can teach you some things
00:27:47.83\00:27:50.78
that will be of eternal blessing
00:27:50.81\00:27:52.65
to you and to your family.
00:27:52.68\00:27:53.65