Hello, I'm Agatha Thrash
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a staff physician from
Uchee Pines Institute...
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and we train
medical missionaries there
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who go all over the world.
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And sometimes they go to
places that are not very clean.
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So we try to teach
them how to be clean...
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And a lot of things
having to do with cleanliness
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might surprise you.
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Not only is it just cleanliness
but it is also neatness...
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And just what this does to
the mind when the surroundings
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are not clean and neat.
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So we'll be talking
about some of these things...
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And we hope you will
join us during the next
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half an hour.
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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 clean,
orderly kitchen goes far toward
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making a very happy home.
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And as we think about this
matter of having a happy home,
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we want to make sure that
it's also very sweet-smelling...
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Because a sweet-smelling
home ALSO makes a happy home.
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When the kitchen has all sorts
of burned odors coming from it,
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and has soured
things coming from it,
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we don't like the
smell of those things
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and so, I recommend to
you that you try to make
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your kitchen, above ALL
places, neat, clean, orderly
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and sweet-smelling.
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Now, it's an
interesting phenomenon...
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that if the kitchen is
neat, it will look clean...
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even if it's dirty.
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But it will look dirty, even
if it's clean, if it's not neat.
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So, the first
thing you should do is to
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try to make it look neat.
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Put everything that can
be organized into cabinets,
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or shelves, or if it's something
you haven't used in a long time
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and there it is
cluttering up the deck...
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It's been there
for a long time...
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and something is over there
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and maybe last
week's mail is over there!
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Get those things
out of the kitchen...
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put them somewhere else.
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Have a place for everything.
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Don't allow anything to
accumulate in the kitchen.
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Make it so neat, that
when a person comes in
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they say... "Ah,
this is a light, clean
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airy,
sweet-smelling, sunny place. "
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And, of course, your
sweet disposition in the kitchen
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is the most sunny and
neat thing about the kitchen.
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So, the first thing to aim at
is being of sunny disposition.
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Now, sometimes for some
reason, it might be desirable
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not to eat at home... I
hope that isn't very often.
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But, if you have to eat
out, then there are some rules
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that you may want to follow.
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So I've asked Don Miller,
who is a Lifestyle Counselor
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at Uchee Pines, to join
me to talk with you about
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eating out... Don Miller
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Well, if all you say
about our own kitchens
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being light and airy and not
even having last week's mail...
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I've got last year's mail
still sitting around my kitchen.
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Ahh! I'm going to have
to make an inspection tour.
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Maybe that would help
me! That might help me a lot.
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Inspection tours are very
important for restaurants...
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...talking about
the eating out thing.
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It's important that we
know where we are eating
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and what we are eating.
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I once worked in a
food preparation facility
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back in the area
where the food was prepared
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And I remember one day, I
was opening a large #10 can
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which are quite large and they
had this MONSTER of a can opener
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that sort of went down and
sort of GLEEPED the lid off
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And I was doing this
and I sat it on a counter
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and it started to fall
and I reached for the can
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and my hand went inside...
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And it was just as the
can fell off the counter,
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and as it went down, it
took the skin off my fingers
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My thumb... I still
have the scars on my thumb
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and on my other finger
and one on my other fingers
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And... it took a lot of
skin and I bled a lot of blood.
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And, it was ketchup that I
was working with at the time
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and I had a lot to do... and
this has been many years ago,
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so don't worry
about eating out today...
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But I had to keep working.
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There was no one
else to take my job.
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and I'm afraid a few
of my body fluids went out
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with the dinner that day.
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And I don't know but that
might not be the case sometimes.
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We've all heard our
own horror stories about
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how the cooks back
there might have a competition
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going with each other, or
just try to amuse each other
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with putting strange
things into the food.
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And so, it's important that
we are aware of the reputability
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of the restaurants, or the
kitchens from which we eat.
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Cleanliness is very important
in what we're eating...
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And you know,
they're finding right now...
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in the salad bars...
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Now sometimes I used to
go the steakhouses which have
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wonderful salad bars and
you go in there and you got all
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this lettuce and tomatoes
and all these different things
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But you know, they're
finding E. coli bacteria now in
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some of the items on there...
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which can come from
2 different areas...
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#1.. Whoever back
at the farm picked it
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#2.. Whoever back in
the kitchen cut it up
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#3.. The last person who decided
they didn't want that much
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and put it back
into the container.
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And so now, we're
finding E. coli bacteria
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in things that should not
have E. coli bacteria in them.
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Plus, if you are REALLY
careful with your diet...
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which I try to be... try
to be a straight vegetarian
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and a strict vegetarian...
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I don't want all
these other things in there
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But, you'll see
sometimes, dribbled across
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things you're going
to put in your salad...
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You got some egg things.
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And you got some cheese things.
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And you got some bacon things.
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And so it's best to
leave off those things
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and not get into
letting other people decide what
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you're going to eat
because of their uncleanliness,
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untidiness, or just the fact
that they just drop things a lot
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And so it's very important
to stay away from the foods
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that you're not really too sure.
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Go to some of these restaurants
where you're putting together
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I used to go to a place
to just get bean burritos...
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No cheese, no hot sauce, please.
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That was my order all the time.
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Well you look in there and
they are pulling things out with
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their hands and
sticking it on there...
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And so the same hand
that's now putting lettuce...
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...just lettuce on
yours, just put everything else
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in the world on
the last person's
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So whatever is left onto
their little rubber glove,
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is now on your particular
burrito or whatever it is.
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I'm always amazed
too... and amused...
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I go into a restaurant, if I
go into a restaurant anymore...
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and I go into the bathrooms...
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and there's always that
sign... proudly displayed
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"OUR EMPLOYEES WASH THEIR HANDS
BEFORE THEY LEAVE THIS ROOM"
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And I think, Well, that's
really good... and so I wash
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my hands too... then
I walk up to the door
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and the ONLY way out is to
reach down and grab the door
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and pull it open.
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Now, I've washed my hands...
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As a matter of fact, if
you ever see me doing it...
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I'm taking out a handkerchief,
or I'm using my shirttail
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and I'm grabbing that
door and opening it up because
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the last 12 people did NOT wash
their hands and they touched
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that doorknob or
that little handle,
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and they pulled it open
and left whatever they want to
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on that particular thing...
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And so the worker who
just washed their hands
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now has picked it up
from the door handles
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...So I'm not really
comforted by the fact that the
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workers are washing their hands.
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I would rather they wash
it back in their own place,
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very clean, sort of like
a surgeon... scrub em up and
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put on their rubber
gloves before they go handling
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the food that I'm going
to eat. So what do I do?
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There are a couple of
choices about eating out...
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#1... I can go
to a grocery store.
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I like to carry with
me, when I'm traveling,
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a plastic soap bottle with
just a little bit of soap and a
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bunch of water...
basically just some soapy water
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and I can squirt that on
an apple I've just bought
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or whatever else and I
can scrub it up really nicely
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and rinse it off in some
water I can find somewhere...
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I always carry drinking water.
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And I can eat it because I have
washed it, not somebody else.
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Another thing you'll
find in these salad bars...
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is they will put
certain products on there...
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Certain chemicals to
make them look fresh all day.
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You know, that
lettuce has been laying there
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for the last 5 hours.
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If I leave lettuce laying around
my house for the last 5 hours,
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well, it's going
to look pretty crummy.
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But they will put
different chemicals on there
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which are going to
make them look fresh...
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and trouble is, when I
INGEST those chemicals,
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they don't make ME look fresh!
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As a matter of fact, they
start wearing out my system.
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They get down into my
liver which has to detoxify
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all the chemicals, and
so my liver gets stressed.
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We have a
restaurant in Columbus, Georgia
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that Uchee Pines runs.
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It's called "Country
Life Vegetarian Restaurant and
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Health Food Store"
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And you'll find at our
restaurant, as in EVERY
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other restaurant in
this land, they'll have
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inspectors coming along.
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And they should, I believe
by law, they are supposed to
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post the last record of
that particular inspection.
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Now we've got one of
our inspection sheets
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for our Country Life Restaurant
and here's what it looks like...
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You can see on there...
you can't really read much
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what it's saying but
they write the score...
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very largely on there...
Uchee Pines Country Life
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Restaurant gets a "100"
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Now if you can
read the small print...
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You would look at this
particular form and find
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every other
restaurant in Columbus, Georgia
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on there and their
score is also listed
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And you'll find some of
them are 80, some 70, some 40
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and some get down
all the way to zero.
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I know that one time,
there was a person marked down
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...one of their many
marks down was there was blood
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on the knife... we don't
want to determine whose blood
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that was... but
just not a clean place.
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I remember one time, I
was in a home and they were
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preparing chicken
for a particular feast
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that they were having and
the discussion as they were
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preparing the food wasn't so
much... What did they do today,
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or what are they
going to do tomorrow...
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But the discussion
was... How do they sanitize
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their cutting boards when they
get done cutting up the chicken.
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And I was amazed to find out
that, after they got done with
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this discussion...
their intention was
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to eat that chicken!
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Now if I ate that chicken,
I would probably get sick.
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And if I got sick, I'd
want to call on Melissa Thrash
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to tell me what I could
do for my sickness... Melissa
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I get some bad food, bad chicken
of all things.. what would I DO?
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Well you could try
charcoal! Charcoal?
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Yeah... Okay, I'll show you
how to make a charcoal slurry.
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Here we have some charcoal.
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To make a charcoal
slurry, it's really easy.
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All you have to do is
take some charcoal powder
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and take maybe 1 tablespoon,
2 tablespoons, 4 tablespoons,
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depending on how bad
your food poisoning was
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...and put it into the
water and stir it up and
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give the person a
straw, or give yourself a straw
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and drink the charcoal.
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BUT, some people are
sensitive to charcoal.
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They can't handle
charcoal in their stomach.
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So what you can do for them
is you can take the charcoal
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and you can put it in the
water and you can let it sit
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And the charcoal will do
down to the bottom of the glass
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what will be left,
will be slurry water.
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And, you can give them a straw
and let them drink off the water
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...and they won't get
the charcoal and it won't
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upset their stomach.
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Well let me ask
you a question...
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I've got my charcoal...
I've got my stomachache,
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I take some... I
still got the stomachache
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Can I take some more? Sure...
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You can take as
much as you want...
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as often as you want.
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You can't overdose
on charcoal... Really?
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Well, that's great!
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But what happens... if it really
gets me and I regurgitate?
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Throw it up... You take another
full dose, drink another glass.
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And if I throw up
again? Take another dose!
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And keep on
taking it until I'm okay.
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Keep on taking it
and keep on taking it...
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You won't overdose on it.
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So there's really no... I
can't overdose on charcoal?
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Never... never...
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That's a pretty amazing
little treatment, isn't it?
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It is... Who do you
think thought that one up?
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I think God made it for us.
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You know, I think so too.
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I think back in the
Garden of Eden before there was
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a fire... He says,
these people if they mess up,
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I'm going to put something in
that tree.. that if they burn it
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they'll be some POWER
that they really need.
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And we need this for
these last days, don't we? Yes
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If I go out to eat,
I'm going to take charcoal
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with me from now
on... Okay Thank you
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Okay good... You
know, charcoal comes
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in many different forms.
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And we should have some of these
forms of charcoal in our homes
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because we never know
when that time might come when
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we're going to have that event
with nausea, vomiting, diarrhea,
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food poisoning,
chemical poisoning.
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We can have it in the
powder form which Melissa used
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to make up this
charcoal slurry water
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It's a very light substance.
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We have to be very
careful when we use it as far as
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getting it blowing
all over the house.
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We can get it in charcoal
capsules which is another
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very easy way
when your traveling.
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I prefer putting it in the
water, but if you're traveling
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that's not an option.
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You can get it in a tablet form.
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I like it in
tablets for sore throats.
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I'll take one and I'll put
it between my cheek and the gums
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on both sides overnight...
that charcoal bathing my throat
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during the night will
help relieve the inflammation
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in my throat.
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Of course, most filters
will have a charcoal base
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And this one is for an activated
carbon insert for a water filter
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And, quite frankly, we're
sort of behind the power curve.
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This is a product you
can pick up in Korea...
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which is a charcoal compress.
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Already made embedded in
the material putting it over a
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venomous bite, any
type of a skin irritation...
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wonderful products
all over the world.
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And, of course, Dr. Thrash,
I think you picked this up
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in Korea a couple of years
ago, didn't you? Yes, I did.
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It was a product that
was being marketed there,
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and they're going to also
market it here in this country,
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so you should be able to look
for it in health food stores
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and drug stores in
this country... Super!
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And makes it so that it's
very easy, then if you need to
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deodorize
something... and, of course,
00:14:26.89\00:14:29.52
deodorizing is so
wonderfully done with charcoal.
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You can deodorize a
house, a wound, dresser drawers
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It's just really easy to
use charcoal as a deodorizer.
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Now, there are other ways
that we need to be clean besides
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just in our premises and
on the surfaces in our home
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We also need to have
pure, clean, sweet-smelling air.
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And, I have a report here
about the pollution in the air
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and the costs to the
health of outdoor air pollution.
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This can be by traffic, it
can be by industrial fumes.
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A large number of things
can cause pollution of the air
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and ALL of these are
very difficult for us to clean
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out of the air and makes it
so that we have a very serious
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health and economic
problem just by air pollution...
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So each of us should do whatever
is possible to make it so that
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we're not likely to
have such a problem.
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Now, I'd like to talk with
you a bit about hepatitis...
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And hepatitis has
SO many aspects to it
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One of which is cleanliness.
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And when you are in a
place that you don't know
00:15:43.49\00:15:46.71
whether they might have some
kind of hepatitis such as in
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a public bathroom, or anywhere
downtown, or anywhere overseas
00:15:50.08\00:15:56.64
then you need to be
careful about the soaps.
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A lot of us feel very
comfortable about antibacterial
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soaps... We take these
soaps, we wash the hands with it
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And we aren't so very
careful because, after all,
00:16:05.61\00:16:07.87
we're using an
ANTIBACTERIAL SOAP!
00:16:07.90\00:16:10.16
Well I'd like to sort of
burst a bubble here because
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antibacterial soaps
are no better in preventing
00:16:12.90\00:16:16.74
hand bacteria, than plain soap.
00:16:16.77\00:16:18.96
That's what it says right
here in this research paper
00:16:18.97\00:16:21.53
where they cultured people's
hands after they had washed
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the hands with
various kinds of soaps.
00:16:25.76\00:16:30.43
Now, about hepatitis...
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As you know, there are MANY
different kinds of hepatitis...
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A, B, C, D, E and so forth.
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A... is a filth-borne hepatitis.
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It's passed from one
person's gastrointestinal tract
00:16:41.48\00:16:45.54
to another through
filth-borne contamination.
00:16:45.57\00:16:50.46
And so, by washing the
hands and being very clean,
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one can usually avoid
this kind of hepatitis...
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unless it's put in our
food and we're eating out
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In which case, we would not
be able to protect ourselves.
00:17:01.28\00:17:04.13
Type B... is spread mainly
through blood and blood products
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Type C... through
blood and body fluids.
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And the type C gives
very few or no symptoms...
00:17:13.78\00:17:19.22
Whereas types A and B may
give some very serious symptoms.
00:17:19.25\00:17:22.46
They may turn a VERY deep
yellow, a sort of golden yellow
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They may also get
nausea and vomiting, backache.
00:17:27.48\00:17:32.18
They may have weakness and
fatigue and just feel terrible.
00:17:32.21\00:17:36.08
These are some
of the signs of...
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And their stools may
turn very pale-colored,
00:17:38.59\00:17:42.15
even like pale clay.
00:17:42.18\00:17:44.76
And these individuals
are sometimes VERY sick,
00:17:44.79\00:17:48.75
and they may require
several weeks of being in bed
00:17:48.78\00:17:51.68
to get over their problem.
00:17:51.69\00:17:53.91
Now is there anything
that we can DO for hepatitis
00:17:53.94\00:17:57.82
once we have contracted it?
00:17:57.85\00:17:59.79
Well there are a
number of things...
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And I have a report
here about silymarin...
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You may have heard of
milk thistle which has
00:18:04.02\00:18:09.23
the Latin name of silymarin.
00:18:09.26\00:18:13.35
Silymarin is very helpful
for the liver for any kind of
00:18:13.38\00:18:17.52
liver afflictions.
00:18:17.55\00:18:18.92
Now, with liver afflictions,
we want to also give them
00:18:18.95\00:18:23.69
hot compresses over the
abdomen, over the liver.
00:18:23.72\00:18:27.36
And we may want to give
them a special type of diet...
00:18:27.39\00:18:32.56
Maybe liquids,
maybe a high carbohydrate,
00:18:32.59\00:18:37.11
not-very-high protein diet.
00:18:37.14\00:18:40.18
Or, we may want to have a
totally vegetarian diet...
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that's probably the
most favorable for hepatitis.
00:18:44.41\00:18:47.70
And then some exercise.
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There was a time when we
put the person with hepatitis
00:18:49.28\00:18:51.79
right down to bed, but after
the U.S. Army actually ran their
00:18:51.80\00:18:58.54
hepatitis patients down
the road in their experiments
00:18:58.57\00:19:03.74
to see if exercise
would help hepatitis...
00:19:03.77\00:19:06.82
And sure enough, those
soldiers who were exercised
00:19:06.85\00:19:11.12
...and I don't think that
running is as good as just
00:19:11.15\00:19:13.47
being normally
active, around the house and
00:19:13.50\00:19:16.69
around your grounds...
00:19:16.72\00:19:17.93
They did much better than
those that were just put to bed
00:19:17.96\00:19:21.53
and kept there for a long time.
00:19:21.56\00:19:23.67
So, we know that there
are many things that we can do
00:19:23.70\00:19:27.58
for hepatitis and if you would
like to get a full discussion
00:19:27.61\00:19:32.03
of that, if you will just
log in on the 3ABN web site
00:19:32.04\00:19:37.00
WWW.3ABN.org
00:19:37.03\00:19:41.80
and then click on LINKS
and go to the Uchee Pines link
00:19:41.83\00:19:47.40
Then, you can log in with
us and you can find how we
00:19:47.41\00:19:52.63
treat hepatitis with
just very natural things
00:19:52.66\00:19:55.71
and we have had some
very good success with this.
00:19:55.74\00:19:59.24
Of course with hepatitis C,
that's the one that we expect
00:19:59.27\00:20:02.39
is going to slip up on us.
00:20:02.42\00:20:04.01
It doesn't give
very many symptoms...
00:20:04.04\00:20:05.67
Sometimes people are totally
asymptomatic when they have
00:20:05.70\00:20:08.96
the acute hepatitis.
00:20:08.97\00:20:10.49
They don't even
know when they got it.
00:20:10.52\00:20:13.21
But it is sometime
later when they develop the
00:20:13.24\00:20:17.79
chronic, active form of it,
00:20:17.82\00:20:20.08
and a fair number of
these cases are going to develop
00:20:20.11\00:20:24.43
some serious and
life- threatening problem
00:20:24.46\00:20:27.13
like cancer of the
liver, or cirrhosis.
00:20:27.16\00:20:29.49
These individuals
are prone to do that.
00:20:29.52\00:20:33.48
Now, another form of disease,
sort of changing gear a bit...
00:20:33.49\00:20:40.31
is that of the aging,
which we call Alzheimer's.
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Aging is something
that everybody fears
00:20:46.25\00:20:49.93
...not because necessarily
a person fears getting old,
00:20:49.94\00:20:54.73
but simply because
one fears getting sick.
00:20:54.76\00:20:57.26
But I would like to say to
you that... just because you get
00:20:57.29\00:20:59.77
old, is no reason
why you should get sick!
00:20:59.80\00:21:03.30
Nor is getting old necessarily
a reason why you should
00:21:03.33\00:21:07.75
expect that you're
going to lose your mind.
00:21:07.78\00:21:10.25
And I think the most
frightening thing that we can
00:21:10.28\00:21:12.31
think of is losing
the mind as we get older.
00:21:12.32\00:21:15.77
And the older person
who gets what we might call
00:21:15.80\00:21:18.97
Alzheimer disease, may get
quite agitated, and may have
00:21:19.00\00:21:23.46
quite a serious problem
with being difficult to manage.
00:21:23.49\00:21:28.12
So I'd like to show you one
of the ways that a person can
00:21:28.15\00:21:33.09
be handled if they
are difficult to manage
00:21:33.12\00:21:37.05
And Shannon Jenkins is
going to show you that...
00:21:37.08\00:21:39.63
and here is Shannon, who is
a Lifestyle educator student
00:21:39.66\00:21:44.83
at Uchee Pines and she
has with her, Melissa Thrash,
00:21:44.86\00:21:48.29
and I understand that Melissa
is going to be the one who's
00:21:48.32\00:21:52.08
going to get the treatment here.
00:21:52.11\00:21:54.77
We'll say that Melissa is quite
agitated, difficult to manage
00:21:54.80\00:21:58.88
and so Shannon is
going to try to help her
00:21:58.91\00:22:03.38
to calm down...
So what will you do?
00:22:03.42\00:22:04.98
We're going to put a wet
sheet pack on her. Oh, very good
00:22:05.02\00:22:09.62
Lay down... You'll want to
lay a sheet down lengthwise
00:22:09.65\00:22:14.53
this way so that you'll
have enough to wrap around her.
00:22:14.56\00:22:16.79
And, you will need a blanket
00:22:16.82\00:22:20.49
And what you do is, this
will be done on bare skin.
00:22:20.52\00:22:24.35
Now what is this?
00:22:24.38\00:22:25.94
This is a sheet...
And it's a WET sheet
00:22:25.97\00:22:31.40
I believe you
said... Yes, yes, definitely.
00:22:31.41\00:22:33.27
It's a COLD WET
sheet... Wet and cold... yes.
00:22:33.30\00:22:36.46
Well that sounds
like one of the things
00:22:36.49\00:22:37.97
they did in the Middle Ages.
00:22:38.00\00:22:39.11
Is she going to be
ice cold for a long time?
00:22:39.14\00:22:42.41
No, not at all. She
will warm up quite quickly.
00:22:42.44\00:22:45.30
Okay, how are
you going to do this?
00:22:45.33\00:22:47.01
She raises her arms, and
you wrap this around like this
00:22:47.04\00:22:52.83
and tuck this side under the leg
00:22:52.86\00:22:57.54
so that she CAN move
her legs when we're all done
00:22:57.57\00:23:00.05
and then tuck it
snuggly all the way around here.
00:23:00.08\00:23:04.54
And then you
can lower your arms.
00:23:04.57\00:23:07.49
Now, if this patient is
agitated and is uncooperative,
00:23:07.52\00:23:11.22
you may need a helper
to hold her down while you
00:23:11.25\00:23:14.33
put this wet sheet... Yeah...
or she might not lie still.
00:23:14.36\00:23:18.61
Then you wrap this side around.
00:23:18.64\00:23:20.61
This goes ALL the way around
to the other side and wraps
00:23:20.62\00:23:23.69
around this leg. Ah ha
00:23:23.72\00:23:25.63
I see... so the idea is to
get the wet against her skin
00:23:25.66\00:23:30.18
everywhere... Yes.
00:23:30.21\00:23:32.19
Nice and snug...
kind of like a mummy.
00:23:32.22\00:23:35.40
Ah ha... Looks
sort of like a mummy.
00:23:35.44\00:23:37.59
And THEN, take a towel
and just wrap it around...
00:23:37.62\00:23:42.75
that brings the wet
sheet right up against her neck
00:23:42.78\00:23:46.13
and then keeps
it from drying out.
00:23:46.16\00:23:50.22
Now you MIGHT ask her
reach her hand up there and
00:23:50.25\00:23:53.07
help you... But I can tell you,
00:23:53.10\00:23:55.09
she can't do that... No.
00:23:55.12\00:23:56.63
Because if you
wrapped it snuggly enough,
00:23:56.66\00:23:58.47
it does have a
slightly restraining influence
00:23:58.50\00:24:02.43
for the patient,
which is good. Um hm
00:24:02.44\00:24:05.06
It doesn't encase them in
a straight jacket but it is
00:24:05.09\00:24:08.28
slightly restraining...
All right then what?
00:24:08.31\00:24:09.60
Then you would
take this blanket and
00:24:10.43\00:24:14.08
wrap it around...
ALL the way around
00:24:14.11\00:24:17.61
and tuck it
in... all the way down
00:24:17.64\00:24:25.33
and then pull the other...
00:24:25.36\00:24:27.10
Now this one is
dry... Yes, this one is dry.
00:24:27.13\00:24:30.15
The sheet is the
only thing that is wet.
00:24:30.18\00:24:34.77
And just tuck it in and
THEN we will lay a blanket
00:24:34.80\00:24:41.41
ALL the way across...
00:24:41.44\00:24:50.91
Just lay it ALL the way over.
00:24:50.92\00:24:51.92
Now this is for the
purpose of HOLDING the heat in
00:24:54.37\00:24:57.81
So she's going to
warm up quickly and...
00:24:57.84\00:25:00.23
Let's say she says
she's still a little chilly...
00:25:00.26\00:25:02.95
Then what can you do?
00:25:02.98\00:25:04.13
Then you can take
a hot water bottle,
00:25:04.16\00:25:06.31
put some hot water in
it and lay it at her feet
00:25:06.34\00:25:15.29
And that will help
to warm up the feet.
00:25:15.32\00:25:18.00
And you cover that back up and
it's all up in there with her
00:25:18.03\00:25:21.26
and then she warms up.
00:25:21.29\00:25:23.05
She's smiling, so she
must be feeling a lot better.
00:25:23.06\00:25:26.64
Not agitated anymore.
00:25:26.67\00:25:29.07
Did you learn to do all this
in the Lifestyle Educator Course
00:25:29.10\00:25:32.91
at Uchee Pines?
Yes... Very good.
00:25:32.94\00:25:35.15
All right, okay, well you
can take Melissa out of that
00:25:35.18\00:25:39.41
and when you take her
out, after a hour or 2 or 3,
00:25:39.44\00:25:42.15
they can in for a long time
00:25:42.18\00:25:43.85
And, as long as they feel
comfortable and you're with them
00:25:43.88\00:25:47.67
there, they can stay in this.
00:25:47.70\00:25:50.78
And then, at the
end of that time,
00:25:50.81\00:25:53.20
you just take them out
of it and do a friction dry
00:25:53.23\00:25:56.50
on the skin and let
them go to bed and sleep
00:25:56.53\00:26:00.92
for a good little while if
they would like to do that,
00:26:00.95\00:26:03.00
or you can take
them for a nice walk,
00:26:03.03\00:26:04.55
and that's also very good
for the agitated person...
00:26:04.58\00:26:07.63
the one with Alzheimer
disease is often agitated.
00:26:07.66\00:26:12.25
And so, there are
many things that the
00:26:12.28\00:26:16.26
Alzheimer patient may need...
00:26:16.29\00:26:18.63
Sometimes they
wander around at night
00:26:18.66\00:26:21.03
And we have found that
if you just take their shoes
00:26:21.07\00:26:23.77
away, so that they
can't find their shoes,
00:26:23.80\00:26:25.82
often that will do
wonders to make it so that they
00:26:25.85\00:26:29.33
are not able to wander around.
00:26:29.36\00:26:32.24
They don't feel so
inclined to wander around.
00:26:32.27\00:26:36.37
And then, we also find
that if you will play music
00:26:36.40\00:26:40.52
for them... sometimes they
will listen for hours to music
00:26:40.55\00:26:44.54
or to a single sermon tape.
00:26:44.55\00:26:46.25
You have it so that it will
continuously play and they will
00:26:46.28\00:26:50.83
sometimes
listen to it for hours.
00:26:50.86\00:26:53.18
Another thing that you can
do for the Alzheimer's patient
00:26:53.21\00:26:56.22
who is difficult to handle,
is to furnish them with a mirror
00:26:56.25\00:27:00.09
and let them talk to
themselves in the mirror.
00:27:00.12\00:27:03.35
They often get very agitated
just being alone and being
00:27:03.38\00:27:07.91
sorry that they
can't participate in things
00:27:07.92\00:27:11.13
and somehow, they know
they should be doing something
00:27:11.16\00:27:13.09
but they always do it wrong.
00:27:13.12\00:27:15.59
And so, they get agitated
and frustrated with the fact
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that they can't do anything.
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And that they don't have
anybody who is close to them
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who can talk with them.
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And so you can, at
that point, introduce them
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to the mirror.
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And sometimes by
talking to themselves,
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that can be very helpful.
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Now there are
Alzheimer's support groups
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and by joining these,
you can learn a lot about how
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you can help the
Alzheimer's patient
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to tolerate their
lives and for you to be able
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to take care of them.
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Depression should not
exist in either the Alzheimer's
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patient, or the caretaker.
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And may God bless you richly.
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