Hello, I'm Agatha
Thrash, a staff physician
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at Uchee Pines Institute
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We talk a good bit
about lifestyle at Uchee Pines
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It has both good things and
things that are not so good.
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And during the
next half an hour,
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we're going to be talking
about some of these good things
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and not so good
things about lifestyle,
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and also some
things about stress.
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So, we hope you will 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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We have promoted
country living for a long time,
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and that of being a farmer.
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I grew up on a farm
and, when I was a little girl
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I thought it was a
very helpful lifestyle...
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In fact, probably it was one
of the most helpful lifestyles
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that one could
have at that time.
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There was very little pollution.
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In fact, we always
expected that we had clean air
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Anytime that you went
outside, you could always expect
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to breathe clean air...
maybe some smoke sometimes
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The neighbors might have
been burning some leaves,
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and would come wafting
over from 1/2 mile or so
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where the nearest neighbor
lived... over toward our place
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and we'd say, "Hmm, the Carters
are burning the leaves...
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They've must have
just raked their yard. "
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But that was about the only
thing that we could think of
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that would cause what we might
consider to be air pollution.
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But now in our day, there
are certain lifestyle matters
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that people who live on
farms seem to be adopting
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that are unhealthful.
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For instance, here is a report
saying that farm workers are
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more diseased...
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This is very distressing to
me because I encourage people
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to do country living.
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And it says that a state
agency was investigating this
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matter and they found
that there were higher rates of
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brain cancer and leukemia,
skin and stomach cancers
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and many stress
disorders in farm workers.
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Well, I was very
unhappy to hear that because
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that doesn't seem very good
for the idea of country living.
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And so, let me say that
while it is true that still the
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very best place for you
to live is in the country.
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Don't bring those
lifestyle habits with you that
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will cause you to
develop these serious problems
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such as brain cancer,
stomach cancer and leukemia
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and a lot of
stress-related disorders.
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Now concerning this matter,
I have asked that Don Miller
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would talk with me
now, along with you,
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on some things having to do
with an irregular lifestyle.
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And I see you've got some
things here that I suspect
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with these, you're
going to illustrate stress.
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I'm going to
illustrate stress with that...
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But right now, I need to
talk about this thing you talked
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about... about this
irregularity All right
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As you know, I was in the
Marine Corps for many years
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and I was a competition
runner but when I would take my
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men out to run, some
people just are not runners
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And, they get out there
in the field and they start
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running and I'd say, "Look"...
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This is a physical fitness
test... they got a 3 mile run,
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and some people get it in
their mind... they just...
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"can't do it, sir... I
can't do it, I can't do it, sir"
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So I said... "Keep on
going," but I knew for sure
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if they stopped right
there, and started walking
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the next day, they
would stop right there
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and start walking again.
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Something happened
in the mind because
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if you got in the
habit of stopping there,
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and only one time...
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I've found it over and over...
one time was the habit-stopper
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But if I get them to
run the whole 3 miles...
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even if I could walk next
to them as they were running,
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they would run better.
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Irregularity means we start
doing things off a schedule.
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Their schedule was to run
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the whole thing, but
they got off schedule...
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We do that thing at nighttime.
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I was, some time ago,
spending some time in an
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an apartment with another person
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I live by myself normally
but there was another person
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...when they got up at night,
they'd turn on the lights.
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And, as soon as
those lights would go on,
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it would reset my
whole circadian rhythm...
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And I found that 3 to 4
nights after I got out of that
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environment, I would wake
up at exactly the same time.
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The same time he
turned on the lights.
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As soon as that light
went on, my body says...
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"Must be
something about this time"
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And I woke up 3 to 4 nights
after that exactly the same time
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That's not so
bad if it's 4:30...
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I get up around 4:30,
but you know, this was
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1:30 in the morning.
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I don't want to get up at 1...
3 hours shy of a night's sleep!
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I'm not ready for that!
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But, you know, they find
that the morning after the time
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changes... springs
forward, falls backwards
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The next day,
there are more accidents
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just about more than any other
time of the year. Is that right?
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One hour... because
our whole rhythm is off,
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we're irregular now.
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My father was
policeman for many years...
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every... I think it
was... they called it a "shift"
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I think the shift
changed every 8 weeks.
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Every 8 weeks, they changed
their whole schedule... 8 hours
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They had no time to
recover before it changed again.
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And, I must say that
many of my father's friends,
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and certainly my father,
were just a little bit...
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Well, they had a hard
time with that adjustment
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and made it hard for
their families because
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Were they edgy and unpleasant,
and difficult to live with?
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You knew my father. No...
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But that is the case.
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But I have known people who
lived on an irregular schedule
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and they tend to be
irritable, and cranky.
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Some people aren't but many
who have that kind of schedule
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I think the schedule
irregularity causes them
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to be cranky and
irritable. It does.
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And now, many people
say... "Well, I'm regular...
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EVERY morning, I get up at
5 a. m. and I do all my things
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and I go to bed
at the right time"
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But then one day on a
weekend, they sleep in...
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sometimes 2 days on the
weekend... That's not regular!
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And it throws their whole system
off for the next 5 day cycle
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of being good boys and girls
and getting up at the right time
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And so, we need
to have a schedule.
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Our whole lives
should be scheduled out.
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We should go to bed at the
same time... 365 days a year.
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Get up at the same
time 365 days a year.
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We should eat our meals...
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Our bodies... we have a thing
called a "circadian rhythm"
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We've got our bodies
getting all ready for this meal.
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Right now, you may be
sitting there and you have just
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eaten some time ago,
or not going to eat for
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another few hours.
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Your salivary glands
aren't ready to get all juicy
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with saliva because your body
has put all those nutrients away
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All that salivary amylase...
and everything is put away
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on the top shelf...
waiting for your body to say
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"We're supposed
to eat in 1 hour"
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But when we get off
schedule, we sit there
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and in the middle
of the afternoon...
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we might say...
"I need a gummy bear"
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So we get a gummy bear
and we pop a gummy bear in...
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whatever that thing is.
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And, our body says...
"Wait a minute, we don't have
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ANY digestive juices
to work with this thing
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So we've got to get
ALL this equipment together
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and when we start getting
all this equipment together,
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it puts a terrible
strain on the body.
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So, the irregularity in eating,
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not just your
breakfast and your lunch meal,
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and perhaps a small supper,
but eating at different hours
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all during the day,
and all during the week.
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If we eat
breakfast Monday thru Friday,
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at 6:30, we should eat breakfast
6:30 on Sabbath morning
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and on Sunday morning.
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If we eat lunch at 1
o'clock Monday thru Friday,
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then on Sabbath and Sunday,
we should eat lunch at 1 o'clock
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Now, there's a way around that!
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Don't eat the meal at all.
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As a matter of fact,
here's a rule which is very
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hard to follow but, if you're
trying to live the very best
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...and basically our plea is,
One step better every single day
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If you are going to miss a
meal time, your meal schedule
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by as much as 15 minutes,
you should fast that meal.
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Not eat it at all.
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Now that's a high standard,
I realize, and especially
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in today's world
that we're living in.
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I travel around the world...
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and in one day travel to India
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When I traveled
the last trip to India,
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I was 12-1/2 hours
off what I was back home.
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And it's going
to take a while...
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I find that the best
thing there, because now
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I'm going to be extremely
irregular to do anything
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I just should not
eat for a whole day
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I should try to get as
much exercise and water as I can
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And then start a new schedule
and let your body adjust.
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You know, it's sort of
like flying an airplane.
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I've always found that if
you're flying an airplane,
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and you go into a
spin, usually the best plan
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for the spin is... if
you're flying a small airplane
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like I fly... is just let go!
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The airplane will
take care of itself.
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And the same
way with the body...
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Just quit forcing it into a mold
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Quit doing everything...
fast for a day or 2,
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and let yourself go back
into a very regular schedule.
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And I think, Dr. Thrash,
this irregularity is causing
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a lot of problems in our world
today and we need to get regular
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Yes, one of the things
that irregularity causes
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is loss of sleep.
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As Don Miller was saying,
when you get off your schedule,
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many things go
wrong at one time.
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And, not going to bed
at the same time every day
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can make it so that the body
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gets so it doesn't know
when it supposed to go to sleep.
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If you will allow it to,
the body will tell ITSELF...
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...This is the
time to go to sleep,
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this is the time to eat,
this is the time to exercise
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this is the time to wake
up and do your office work
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or whatever...
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And if you will be
regular in your schedule,
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it will help you a lot.
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there are some other things
that will help you to sleep...
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If you will exercise every day,
that will also greatly increase
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your likelihood of having a
good, regular sleep pattern.
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Then another thing...
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If you have difficulty
getting to sleep at night,
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if you will limit the
number of foods you have at your
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last meal... just
the number of dishes
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...You can eat an
adequate quantity, but don't eat
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too many dishes, such
as potatoes, and beans,
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and strawberries, and lemons,
and squash... ALL at one meal
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If you have it all at one meal,
then the more things you add
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to the meal, the less
likely you are to have a
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GOOD night of
sleep that very night.
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And so, try that as a
way to get to sleep on time.
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Another thing that will
help you to get to sleep is
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to be certain that
you're comfortable.
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Sometimes, a person will
have a backache, or knee aches,
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or foot pains, or headaches,
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and they aren't certain
exactly why they have these
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and they're just a little bit
achy but it's not so definite
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that they think
I'm sick with it...
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So they think, "Well, I'll
just go to bed, and go to sleep
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and it will go away. "
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So they go to bed, and maybe
the headache does cease to be
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noticed, but
still they can't sleep.
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Sometimes the reason for
that is that the ache or pain
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is still there...
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You just, now, don't have
it right up to the edge of your
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consciousness, so that
you can put your finger on it.
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So, try to get rid of
any kind of ache or pain
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with some kind of hydrotherapy
such as a nice neutral bath
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before you go to bed...
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Or drink a glass of water.
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Many people will not
drink at night because
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they think... "Well if I
drink, well it's for sure
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going to get me up,
and then I won't be able
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to go back to sleep. "
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If you have that
problem, set a cup of catnip tea
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on the nightstand, so
that if you should wake up
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then you can drink the
tea and then go back to bed.
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That's a good habit to drink
at night, because people who
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drink when they get up at
night, reduce the likelihood
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that they will get a stroke.
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And so you can see that as
we do one good lifestyle habit,
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that tends to lead into another
very good feature of our health.
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And so we always want
to make certain about that.
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Be careful also about eating too
frequently and eating too much.
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Both of these accelerate
the rate at which you age
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...they interfere with sleep,
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they increase the rate
at which you accept stress.
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They are more likely to
make you so that you become
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frustrated, or
angry, or irritable...
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so that life does not
treat you as well as you think
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it should.
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Now Don Miller is
going to talk with you about
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foods that are too rich.
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In addition to our having too
much and eating too frequently,
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we can overeat by simply eating
foods that are too rich...
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So Don Miller, what do
you have to tell us about
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foods that are too rich?
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Well you know, most of
the foods that we do eat
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in the Western
world are too rich,
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and they are too high in fat,
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too high in
refined carbohydrates...
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too high in too many things.
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I've got just a couple of
things I'd like to read...
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This comes out of the
magazine called "East West"
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Listen to this...
"For better or for worse,
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the nutrients from your
last meal are influencing your
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mood and
thinking at this moment. "
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So whatever you ate, is
what you are becoming right now.
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We realize that...
going back into the Bible
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and the Bible says that
the life is in the blood.
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And so whatever
you've eaten in your food,
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has become your blood
and it is what is making your
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thoughts, your
hormones, your tissues...
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Everything about
you is from your food.
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And so what are some of
the results of this food thing
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This is a scientific study...
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It says, "A high fat diet
induces aggressive behavior
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in male mice and rats. "
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Now granted, you may
not be a mouse or a rat,
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but these high fat
diets, they say, are inducing
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aggressive behavior.
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And I believe that
because we've been using
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mice and rats for many,
many years as a pre-human study
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This is going to be
proved out in a human study,
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and so, the high fat diets
that we have in this world...
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especially in the Western world
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Now, one of the
greatest manifestations of the
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high fat diet is obesity...
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And we can see
that that is a very real
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problem in this country.
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I travel to areas
where you don't see obesity,
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except for in those
people who have the money
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to adopt the western lifestyle.
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I go to India. I go to Africa.
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I go to Eastern Europe...
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And you don't see that
many real fat people...
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because they've
got to live very simply
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And so one of the
downsides of the diet too rich,
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is the fact that
we're eating too much fat.
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Here's an
interesting statement here...
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"Americans drank,
this is in the year 2000,
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15 billion gallons of
pop in the year 2000."
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...15 billion gallons!
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Basically, it says here...
that American children between
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the ages of 12 and 19 consume
about 1/2 quart of pop a day
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or almost a gallon a week.
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And, they get my share
and all of our students at
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Uchee Pines share...
They get all of their share.
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But some students are eating
a whole lot more than that
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in their too rich of a diet.
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So we need to get
back to simple diets.
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All right, what's the
opposite of a rich diet?
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The opposite of a rich diet
is a complex carbohydrate diet,
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eating fruits, vegetables,
whole grains, nuts and seeds.
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It's the diet of Eden.
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It's the diet I
think God wants us on today
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that we could live
better, longer, healthier
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and some day live
forever, Dr. Thrash... Amen
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I mentioned to you some
things that can help you to
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sleep and I would like to
say that a simple device such as
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this... you may not always find
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this kind of
thing in this country.
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I picked this up in Korea
where they tend to have a lot
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of things that can
help people to feel better
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about themselves.
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So if you should have a backache
or if one of these muscles here
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besides your spine aches,
or is tender, then you just do
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this kind of thing with it
and this is peculiarly adapted
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...it just has just the
right angle to rake right across
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some of those
very tender muscles,
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and can make that very nice.
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Then you can also find something
that's made in this country
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I got this from a drug company
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and it's actually
for doing a knee jerk,
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but it also works
very nicely on the back!
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All you have to do is just
... these little rubber parts
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that you can see
here... you just tap yourself
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with it like that, or tap
up on the shoulder like that
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And, as you do this, it
just relaxes those muscles
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and I can feel it right now...
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As I do that, it's
just relaxing and very nice.
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Now some people actually
have an "itch" on the back.
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You can't reach the
back very well and so
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there are these
"scrubbers" that you can buy...
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I've seen them
in Chinese shops...
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These long sheets of very
coarse, I guess, sort of plastic
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sheets, and you can
just do this kind of thing
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and rub the dead
skin off your back,
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and it's a good
practice to do that.
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Some people don't do that but
you can get this kind of thing
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and this is dry... and
with a DRY bush such as
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you can buy down at Wal-Mart,
or any other department store
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You can just work the
back with this and as you
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rub the back, you'd be
surprised how it's very much
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like a massage...
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And you may not be a
professional person but
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you can certainly massage
your back a little bit with
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something as simple as this.
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Then another thing
that will relieve tension...
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is a simple hand-gripper.
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Just use a
hand-gripper like this,
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and as you work
the hand-gripper...
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Do you know that a
hand-gripper like this will also
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lower your blood pressure.
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And they have also found
that a hand-gripper such as this
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will lower the
pressure inside your eyes.
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In other words, it will make
it so that you're less likely
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to have glaucoma.
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Interesting things
that are being learned today
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I wouldn't miss living in
this age of earth's history
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for anything... there's
just so much scientific that's
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being learned today.
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Now I have a number of
scientific articles just like
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Don Miller had that I'd
like to just mention for you
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It's a great temptation
to not just share all of
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the things that we learn
from the scientific literature.
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But here is one about
having a quiet stomach.
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If your stomach is
troublesome to you,
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either while you
eat, or after you eat,
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here is something that
will help you to know what to do
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to quiet your stomach.
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Chewing quiets the stomach.
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Did you know that before?
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I didn't know that
before I read that but
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when a person chews,
the very act of chewing
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makes it so that the stomach
is a little bit more quiet
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than it would be.
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Then as soon as you
begin to load the mouth,
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then the stomach
picks up it's activity
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and moves a little bit.
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Then you begin to chew again,
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and then your
stomach is quiet again.
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So it rests the stomach when
you chew... so remember that!
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They used to say
"fletcherize" your food...
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Well that, I think, was 40
times you were supposed to chew
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I don't think you ought
to count but, at any rate,
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you should know that you
should chew your food well.
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Now a high fat meal will
cause the interior of your
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blood vessels to malfunction.
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Now the lining of the blood
vessels called the "endothelium"
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controls, to a large
degree, our blood pressure,
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and also the FLOW of blood
through the blood vessels...
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And so we want to be
very careful not to eat high
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fatty meals because it
damages the endothelium.
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And, oats and vitamin E...
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Foods that are high in vitamin E
such as ALL of the whole grains
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and nuts and seeds,
and things like avocado
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with very nice fat
that it has and olives...
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these are all very good
foods that help to PREVENT
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this endothelial problem.
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Now, another thing
that's a big trial to us
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and that's the
stress of kidney stones.
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Kidney stones are
related to stress.
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The more stress we have,
the greater the likelihood
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that we will get a
problem with kidney stones.
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So I'd like just to tell
you some of the things that
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can cause kidney stones.
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...A high protein
diet, milk-drinking,
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refined carbohydrates,
animal products, alcohol
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If you take too much of vitamin
A or vitamin C supplements,
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that can cause kidney
stones in some people,
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Worcestershire sauce,
sedentary lifestyle...
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And the preventive for
all of these is, of course,
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doing the opposite...
A low protein diet, or
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avoiding dairy
milk, a vegan diet,
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and so forth... these
things can control many of these
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serious causes of kidney stones.
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Now there are so many
things about kidney stones...
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I'm sure that there are
many who would like to know
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just how they can
avoid kidney stones...
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But let me just say
this, if you take a lot of
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ascorbic acid or
vitamin C, some people will form
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kidney stones from that.
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And women who are
susceptible to iron overload,
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also need to be careful
not to take too much vitamin C
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because it can
encourage iron overload in some.
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Phytate which is
present in grains, can reduce
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kidney stone
formation that would make
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oxalate stones.
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And, of course, if
you reduce your stresses,
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that will reduce
your kidney stones.
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Exercise neutralizes stress.
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Remember that little jingle
that we try to teach everyone...
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So if you are prone to
kidney stones, remember to get
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exercise and that will
neutralize your stress.
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And remember that
lemon juice can help to
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prevent kidney stones...
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That was a very
nice study that was done.
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I was happy to see
that... something so simple as
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lemon juice, of course
it has citric acid in it
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and that can be
helpful for that.
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And lemon juice... just
squeeze a lemon in some water
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every day and that
can be helpful to you.
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Don Miller, what can
you tell us about stress and
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and how to control stress?
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Well, I like the
subject of stress.
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I was in Africa
teaching anatomy and physiology
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...when I got to the part
about the different hormones
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we have in our body,
and I was talking about the
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sympathetic nervous
system and I thought...
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"I really want to TEST my
sympathetic nervous system"
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And so every day, I would
walk up on what's called the
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escarpment out into the bush,
00:23:10.50\00:23:11.80
and I was hoping to come
across either a black mamba,
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or a puff adder or
a cobra, just to see
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what happens in the body...
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I never did run into one,
but when I was down in Zimbabwe
00:23:20.77\00:23:23.65
one day with my friend,
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we ran into a couple of LIONS!
00:23:25.17\00:23:28.39
And, we wanted to take
the pictures of the lions
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and everything and it was sort
of exciting... I can imagine.
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The male lion was just
laying there looking at us.
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Just head down on his hands.
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I said... "Lion you gotta
get up and do something...
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This isn't very exciting. "
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And so, I hit
the car door to see
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if maybe I could
get him to do something.
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He just blinked... I opened
the car door and I closed it.
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He didn't do anything and
I opened the car door and I
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stuck my leg
out... Didn't even move!
00:23:53.12\00:23:55.64
So I got skinny legs, I put
another leg out next to that one
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and it didn't move and so I
stood up and behind the door
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looking out there and
the lion just stood there...
00:24:02.84\00:24:04.56
So I stepped away, kept holding
the car door, he just laid there
00:24:04.59\00:24:07.32
and then I took a walk
away from the vehicle...
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And at that point, the back end
of the lion went up in the air
00:24:10.02\00:24:13.60
and I got my first REAL test
of my sympathetic nervous system
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I didn't have to
ask my legs to do it,
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I didn't have to ask my
blood pressure to go up,
00:24:20.43\00:24:22.36
my vascular system to open up,
my eyes to get really dilated,
00:24:22.39\00:24:26.16
I just had to stand
by and let it take over
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and I was in
that vehicle so fast!
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So it really does work!
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That's stress...
that's the type of a stress
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that we get, Dr. Thrash.
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But we get the SAME
stress reaction when I'm sitting
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there trying to get
to the airport in my car
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and I see that
I'm going to be late.
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The same stress!
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So how do you handle that?
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I can't run down the road.
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I can't jump in the vehicle.
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I'm in the vehicle and
I've got all this stress.
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And it's how we
manage the stress.
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People manage it different ways.
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Some people manage
stress sort of like this...
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They get bent by
circumstances of life...
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the vicissitudes and everything
in life and they just bend
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and when you let go...
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they go right back,
before long they're going to be
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right back in the
same old way again.
00:25:08.92\00:25:10.60
And that's the way I want to be.
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You have other people
that they get into a stressful
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situation and it bends
them and it bends them and
00:25:14.52\00:25:17.75
pretty soon... I can't even bend
this thing... you get kinked!
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And, once you get kinked,
it's going to take some work
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to get it back into
the same shape again.
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But it will
eventually get back there.
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But then we get some
people, because they allow
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stress to build
up in their system...
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they don't go out
and get some exercise,
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which will neutralize it.
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If you're stuck in traffic,
trying to get to the airport,
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and you're going
to miss your airplane,
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and your car is not
moving, get out and run around
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your car a few times.
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Otherwise, you might be like
this type of a stressful person
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and it's going to
bend until it breaks!
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And then you're
really in trouble because
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some people DO
break because of stress.
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God has given us
a stress response.
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I'm thankful for it
because there have been times
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in my life, I've needed it
and I was thankful to have it...
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But when I DON'T need it,
and it's just going to do me
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damage, I've got to
sit there and I've got to
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give it to the Lord because
He can take care of my stress.
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Yes, He can.
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And it's also a fact that
there are things that we can do
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in lifestyle that can
help us to deal with stress.
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We've mentioned exercise...
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but let me say that
exercise itself can become
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stressful if we OVERDO it.
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Almost anything in life that we
OVERDO on can become stressful
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for us, even going to
bed on time and eating our
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meals on time.
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If we're too punctilious with
this and it absolutely must be
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RIGHT NOW, or we're
going to be most unhappy,
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then this kind of thing
itself can become stressful.
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We know that we should
not, generally, take a lot of
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liquid foods when
we're eating solid foods.
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I have an article from the
"Journal of Gastroenterology"
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here published
just this past year,
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on gastric emptying of
liquids when there are also
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solids in the stomach
and the delay that's caused
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from the improper digestion
that occurs because of that.
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But if we are so punctilious
about this... that we cannot
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take ANYTHING... we
couldn't even take a little soup
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because we cannot tolerate
to have anything that's not
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precisely on what we
consider to be our definition of
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a perfect lifestyle... even
THAT can also become stressful.
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But regularity, having a
proper eating routine that we do
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every day and a
proper way that we eat,
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and we know the way
that we should eat...
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And we do these things always,
then this can allay stress
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and can make it so
that we can talk with our
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Heavenly Father.
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We can put these things
that are stressful to us
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and that we don't understand,
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right in His lap and
receive His comfort, and receive
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His peace.
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And may the Lord
give YOU that very peace.
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