Participants: Agatha Thrash, Don Miller
Series Code: HYTH
Program Code: HYTH000180
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00:01 Hello, I'm Agatha Thrash, a staff physician
00:04 at Uchee Pines Institute 00:06 We talk a good bit about lifestyle at Uchee Pines 00:11 It has both good things and things that are not so good. 00:15 And during the next half an hour, 00:16 we're going to be talking about some of these good things 00:19 and not so good things about lifestyle, 00:21 and also some things about stress. 00:23 So, we hope you will join us. 00:46 Welcome to "Help Yourself to Health" 00:48 with Dr. Agatha Thrash of Uchee Pines Institute 00:52 And now, here's your host, Dr. Thrash 00:57 We have promoted country living for a long time, 01:00 and that of being a farmer. 01:02 I grew up on a farm and, when I was a little girl 01:06 I thought it was a very helpful lifestyle... 01:08 In fact, probably it was one of the most helpful lifestyles 01:12 that one could have at that time. 01:14 There was very little pollution. 01:16 In fact, we always expected that we had clean air 01:20 Anytime that you went outside, you could always expect 01:23 to breathe clean air... maybe some smoke sometimes 01:26 The neighbors might have been burning some leaves, 01:29 and would come wafting over from 1/2 mile or so 01:33 where the nearest neighbor lived... over toward our place 01:36 and we'd say, "Hmm, the Carters are burning the leaves... 01:40 They've must have just raked their yard. " 01:42 But that was about the only thing that we could think of 01:45 that would cause what we might consider to be air pollution. 01:49 But now in our day, there are certain lifestyle matters 01:54 that people who live on farms seem to be adopting 01:58 that are unhealthful. 02:00 For instance, here is a report saying that farm workers are 02:03 more diseased... 02:04 This is very distressing to me because I encourage people 02:07 to do country living. 02:09 And it says that a state agency was investigating this 02:13 matter and they found that there were higher rates of 02:15 brain cancer and leukemia, skin and stomach cancers 02:21 and many stress disorders in farm workers. 02:25 Well, I was very unhappy to hear that because 02:29 that doesn't seem very good for the idea of country living. 02:35 And so, let me say that while it is true that still the 02:39 very best place for you to live is in the country. 02:42 Don't bring those lifestyle habits with you that 02:45 will cause you to develop these serious problems 02:50 such as brain cancer, stomach cancer and leukemia 02:52 and a lot of stress-related disorders. 02:56 Now concerning this matter, I have asked that Don Miller 03:00 would talk with me now, along with you, 03:05 on some things having to do with an irregular lifestyle. 03:09 And I see you've got some things here that I suspect 03:13 with these, you're going to illustrate stress. 03:16 I'm going to illustrate stress with that... 03:17 But right now, I need to talk about this thing you talked 03:19 about... about this irregularity All right 03:22 As you know, I was in the Marine Corps for many years 03:25 and I was a competition runner but when I would take my 03:28 men out to run, some people just are not runners 03:31 And, they get out there in the field and they start 03:34 running and I'd say, "Look"... 03:35 This is a physical fitness test... they got a 3 mile run, 03:38 and some people get it in their mind... they just... 03:42 "can't do it, sir... I can't do it, I can't do it, sir" 03:44 So I said... "Keep on going," but I knew for sure 03:47 if they stopped right there, and started walking 03:50 the next day, they would stop right there 03:52 and start walking again. 03:53 Something happened in the mind because 03:55 if you got in the habit of stopping there, 03:57 and only one time... 03:59 I've found it over and over... one time was the habit-stopper 04:02 But if I get them to run the whole 3 miles... 04:05 even if I could walk next to them as they were running, 04:07 they would run better. 04:09 Irregularity means we start doing things off a schedule. 04:14 Their schedule was to run 04:15 the whole thing, but they got off schedule... 04:17 We do that thing at nighttime. 04:18 I was, some time ago, spending some time in an 04:22 an apartment with another person 04:24 I live by myself normally but there was another person 04:26 ...when they got up at night, they'd turn on the lights. 04:30 And, as soon as those lights would go on, 04:32 it would reset my whole circadian rhythm... 04:34 And I found that 3 to 4 nights after I got out of that 04:38 environment, I would wake up at exactly the same time. 04:41 The same time he turned on the lights. 04:42 As soon as that light went on, my body says... 04:45 "Must be something about this time" 04:46 And I woke up 3 to 4 nights after that exactly the same time 04:50 That's not so bad if it's 4:30... 04:52 I get up around 4:30, but you know, this was 04:54 1:30 in the morning. 04:55 I don't want to get up at 1... 3 hours shy of a night's sleep! 04:58 I'm not ready for that! 04:59 But, you know, they find that the morning after the time 05:05 changes... springs forward, falls backwards 05:08 The next day, there are more accidents 05:11 just about more than any other time of the year. Is that right? 05:14 One hour... because our whole rhythm is off, 05:17 we're irregular now. 05:19 My father was policeman for many years... 05:21 every... I think it was... they called it a "shift" 05:24 I think the shift changed every 8 weeks. 05:28 Every 8 weeks, they changed their whole schedule... 8 hours 05:31 They had no time to recover before it changed again. 05:34 And, I must say that many of my father's friends, 05:38 and certainly my father, were just a little bit... 05:42 Well, they had a hard time with that adjustment 05:45 and made it hard for their families because 05:46 Were they edgy and unpleasant, and difficult to live with? 05:51 You knew my father. No... 05:53 But that is the case. 05:54 But I have known people who lived on an irregular schedule 05:57 and they tend to be irritable, and cranky. 06:00 Some people aren't but many who have that kind of schedule 06:04 I think the schedule irregularity causes them 06:08 to be cranky and irritable. It does. 06:10 And now, many people say... "Well, I'm regular... 06:12 EVERY morning, I get up at 5 a. m. and I do all my things 06:16 and I go to bed at the right time" 06:18 But then one day on a weekend, they sleep in... 06:21 sometimes 2 days on the weekend... That's not regular! 06:24 And it throws their whole system off for the next 5 day cycle 06:28 of being good boys and girls and getting up at the right time 06:31 And so, we need to have a schedule. 06:33 Our whole lives should be scheduled out. 06:36 We should go to bed at the same time... 365 days a year. 06:40 Get up at the same time 365 days a year. 06:44 We should eat our meals... 06:45 Our bodies... we have a thing called a "circadian rhythm" 06:48 We've got our bodies getting all ready for this meal. 06:50 Right now, you may be sitting there and you have just 06:54 eaten some time ago, or not going to eat for 06:56 another few hours. 06:57 Your salivary glands aren't ready to get all juicy 07:00 with saliva because your body has put all those nutrients away 07:05 All that salivary amylase... and everything is put away 07:08 on the top shelf... waiting for your body to say 07:11 "We're supposed to eat in 1 hour" 07:13 But when we get off schedule, we sit there 07:15 and in the middle of the afternoon... 07:17 we might say... "I need a gummy bear" 07:18 So we get a gummy bear and we pop a gummy bear in... 07:20 whatever that thing is. 07:21 And, our body says... "Wait a minute, we don't have 07:23 ANY digestive juices to work with this thing 07:25 So we've got to get ALL this equipment together 07:28 and when we start getting all this equipment together, 07:31 it puts a terrible strain on the body. 07:34 So, the irregularity in eating, 07:36 not just your breakfast and your lunch meal, 07:38 and perhaps a small supper, but eating at different hours 07:41 all during the day, and all during the week. 07:44 If we eat breakfast Monday thru Friday, 07:46 at 6:30, we should eat breakfast 6:30 on Sabbath morning 07:51 and on Sunday morning. 07:53 If we eat lunch at 1 o'clock Monday thru Friday, 07:56 then on Sabbath and Sunday, we should eat lunch at 1 o'clock 07:59 Now, there's a way around that! 08:00 Don't eat the meal at all. 08:02 As a matter of fact, here's a rule which is very 08:04 hard to follow but, if you're trying to live the very best 08:08 ...and basically our plea is, One step better every single day 08:12 If you are going to miss a meal time, your meal schedule 08:18 by as much as 15 minutes, you should fast that meal. 08:22 Not eat it at all. 08:23 Now that's a high standard, I realize, and especially 08:26 in today's world that we're living in. 08:27 I travel around the world... 08:31 and in one day travel to India 08:33 When I traveled the last trip to India, 08:35 I was 12-1/2 hours off what I was back home. 08:40 And it's going to take a while... 08:41 I find that the best thing there, because now 08:43 I'm going to be extremely irregular to do anything 08:45 I just should not eat for a whole day 08:48 I should try to get as much exercise and water as I can 08:51 And then start a new schedule and let your body adjust. 08:55 You know, it's sort of like flying an airplane. 08:57 I've always found that if you're flying an airplane, 09:00 and you go into a spin, usually the best plan 09:02 for the spin is... if you're flying a small airplane 09:04 like I fly... is just let go! 09:06 The airplane will take care of itself. 09:09 And the same way with the body... 09:10 Just quit forcing it into a mold 09:14 Quit doing everything... fast for a day or 2, 09:16 and let yourself go back into a very regular schedule. 09:19 And I think, Dr. Thrash, this irregularity is causing 09:24 a lot of problems in our world today and we need to get regular 09:26 Yes, one of the things that irregularity causes 09:29 is loss of sleep. 09:30 As Don Miller was saying, when you get off your schedule, 09:34 many things go wrong at one time. 09:37 And, not going to bed at the same time every day 09:40 can make it so that the body 09:42 gets so it doesn't know when it supposed to go to sleep. 09:45 If you will allow it to, the body will tell ITSELF... 09:49 ...This is the time to go to sleep, 09:50 this is the time to eat, this is the time to exercise 09:53 this is the time to wake up and do your office work 09:56 or whatever... 09:57 And if you will be regular in your schedule, 10:00 it will help you a lot. 10:02 there are some other things that will help you to sleep... 10:04 If you will exercise every day, that will also greatly increase 10:09 your likelihood of having a good, regular sleep pattern. 10:14 Then another thing... 10:16 If you have difficulty getting to sleep at night, 10:19 if you will limit the number of foods you have at your 10:23 last meal... just the number of dishes 10:26 ...You can eat an adequate quantity, but don't eat 10:29 too many dishes, such as potatoes, and beans, 10:34 and strawberries, and lemons, and squash... ALL at one meal 10:40 If you have it all at one meal, then the more things you add 10:45 to the meal, the less likely you are to have a 10:48 GOOD night of sleep that very night. 10:50 And so, try that as a way to get to sleep on time. 10:55 Another thing that will help you to get to sleep is 10:57 to be certain that you're comfortable. 10:59 Sometimes, a person will have a backache, or knee aches, 11:03 or foot pains, or headaches, 11:06 and they aren't certain exactly why they have these 11:09 and they're just a little bit achy but it's not so definite 11:13 that they think I'm sick with it... 11:15 So they think, "Well, I'll just go to bed, and go to sleep 11:17 and it will go away. " 11:18 So they go to bed, and maybe the headache does cease to be 11:23 noticed, but still they can't sleep. 11:25 Sometimes the reason for that is that the ache or pain 11:29 is still there... 11:30 You just, now, don't have it right up to the edge of your 11:35 consciousness, so that you can put your finger on it. 11:37 So, try to get rid of any kind of ache or pain 11:40 with some kind of hydrotherapy such as a nice neutral bath 11:45 before you go to bed... 11:46 Or drink a glass of water. 11:48 Many people will not drink at night because 11:51 they think... "Well if I drink, well it's for sure 11:53 going to get me up, and then I won't be able 11:55 to go back to sleep. " 11:56 If you have that problem, set a cup of catnip tea 11:59 on the nightstand, so that if you should wake up 12:02 then you can drink the tea and then go back to bed. 12:05 That's a good habit to drink at night, because people who 12:08 drink when they get up at night, reduce the likelihood 12:11 that they will get a stroke. 12:13 And so you can see that as we do one good lifestyle habit, 12:17 that tends to lead into another very good feature of our health. 12:24 And so we always want to make certain about that. 12:27 Be careful also about eating too frequently and eating too much. 12:33 Both of these accelerate the rate at which you age 12:36 ...they interfere with sleep, 12:37 they increase the rate at which you accept stress. 12:41 They are more likely to make you so that you become 12:44 frustrated, or angry, or irritable... 12:47 so that life does not treat you as well as you think 12:51 it should. 12:52 Now Don Miller is going to talk with you about 12:54 foods that are too rich. 12:56 In addition to our having too much and eating too frequently, 12:59 we can overeat by simply eating foods that are too rich... 13:03 So Don Miller, what do you have to tell us about 13:05 foods that are too rich? 13:06 Well you know, most of the foods that we do eat 13:08 in the Western world are too rich, 13:10 and they are too high in fat, 13:12 too high in refined carbohydrates... 13:14 too high in too many things. 13:16 I've got just a couple of things I'd like to read... 13:18 This comes out of the magazine called "East West" 13:21 Listen to this... "For better or for worse, 13:25 the nutrients from your last meal are influencing your 13:28 mood and thinking at this moment. " 13:31 So whatever you ate, is what you are becoming right now. 13:35 We realize that... going back into the Bible 13:37 and the Bible says that the life is in the blood. 13:40 And so whatever you've eaten in your food, 13:43 has become your blood and it is what is making your 13:45 thoughts, your hormones, your tissues... 13:47 Everything about you is from your food. 13:49 And so what are some of the results of this food thing 13:54 This is a scientific study... 13:56 It says, "A high fat diet induces aggressive behavior 14:00 in male mice and rats. " 14:03 Now granted, you may not be a mouse or a rat, 14:05 but these high fat diets, they say, are inducing 14:09 aggressive behavior. 14:11 And I believe that because we've been using 14:13 mice and rats for many, many years as a pre-human study 14:19 This is going to be proved out in a human study, 14:21 and so, the high fat diets that we have in this world... 14:24 especially in the Western world 14:26 Now, one of the greatest manifestations of the 14:29 high fat diet is obesity... 14:31 And we can see that that is a very real 14:33 problem in this country. 14:34 I travel to areas where you don't see obesity, 14:37 except for in those people who have the money 14:41 to adopt the western lifestyle. 14:43 I go to India. I go to Africa. 14:46 I go to Eastern Europe... 14:47 And you don't see that many real fat people... 14:50 because they've got to live very simply 14:52 And so one of the downsides of the diet too rich, 14:56 is the fact that we're eating too much fat. 14:58 Here's an interesting statement here... 15:01 "Americans drank, this is in the year 2000, 15:05 15 billion gallons of pop in the year 2000." 15:10 ...15 billion gallons! 15:12 Basically, it says here... that American children between 15:16 the ages of 12 and 19 consume about 1/2 quart of pop a day 15:20 or almost a gallon a week. 15:23 And, they get my share and all of our students at 15:26 Uchee Pines share... They get all of their share. 15:27 But some students are eating a whole lot more than that 15:30 in their too rich of a diet. 15:32 So we need to get back to simple diets. 15:34 All right, what's the opposite of a rich diet? 15:36 The opposite of a rich diet is a complex carbohydrate diet, 15:40 eating fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts and seeds. 15:44 It's the diet of Eden. 15:46 It's the diet I think God wants us on today 15:48 that we could live better, longer, healthier 15:50 and some day live forever, Dr. Thrash... Amen 15:53 I mentioned to you some things that can help you to 15:57 sleep and I would like to say that a simple device such as 16:00 this... you may not always find 16:03 this kind of thing in this country. 16:04 I picked this up in Korea where they tend to have a lot 16:08 of things that can help people to feel better 16:12 about themselves. 16:13 So if you should have a backache or if one of these muscles here 16:16 besides your spine aches, or is tender, then you just do 16:20 this kind of thing with it and this is peculiarly adapted 16:23 ...it just has just the right angle to rake right across 16:28 some of those very tender muscles, 16:31 and can make that very nice. 16:32 Then you can also find something that's made in this country 16:35 I got this from a drug company 16:37 and it's actually for doing a knee jerk, 16:41 but it also works very nicely on the back! 16:45 All you have to do is just ... these little rubber parts 16:47 that you can see here... you just tap yourself 16:50 with it like that, or tap up on the shoulder like that 16:53 And, as you do this, it just relaxes those muscles 16:57 and I can feel it right now... 16:59 As I do that, it's just relaxing and very nice. 17:02 Now some people actually have an "itch" on the back. 17:06 You can't reach the back very well and so 17:09 there are these "scrubbers" that you can buy... 17:13 I've seen them in Chinese shops... 17:16 These long sheets of very coarse, I guess, sort of plastic 17:21 sheets, and you can just do this kind of thing 17:23 and rub the dead skin off your back, 17:26 and it's a good practice to do that. 17:27 Some people don't do that but you can get this kind of thing 17:31 and this is dry... and with a DRY bush such as 17:35 you can buy down at Wal-Mart, or any other department store 17:38 You can just work the back with this and as you 17:43 rub the back, you'd be surprised how it's very much 17:47 like a massage... 17:48 And you may not be a professional person but 17:51 you can certainly massage your back a little bit with 17:55 something as simple as this. 17:57 Then another thing that will relieve tension... 17:59 is a simple hand-gripper. 18:01 Just use a hand-gripper like this, 18:03 and as you work the hand-gripper... 18:05 Do you know that a hand-gripper like this will also 18:09 lower your blood pressure. 18:10 And they have also found that a hand-gripper such as this 18:14 will lower the pressure inside your eyes. 18:18 In other words, it will make it so that you're less likely 18:21 to have glaucoma. 18:23 Interesting things that are being learned today 18:25 I wouldn't miss living in this age of earth's history 18:28 for anything... there's just so much scientific that's 18:31 being learned today. 18:33 Now I have a number of scientific articles just like 18:36 Don Miller had that I'd like to just mention for you 18:39 It's a great temptation to not just share all of 18:43 the things that we learn from the scientific literature. 18:46 But here is one about having a quiet stomach. 18:50 If your stomach is troublesome to you, 18:52 either while you eat, or after you eat, 18:55 here is something that will help you to know what to do 18:58 to quiet your stomach. 19:00 Chewing quiets the stomach. 19:03 Did you know that before? 19:05 I didn't know that before I read that but 19:07 when a person chews, the very act of chewing 19:11 makes it so that the stomach is a little bit more quiet 19:14 than it would be. 19:15 Then as soon as you begin to load the mouth, 19:18 then the stomach picks up it's activity 19:20 and moves a little bit. 19:21 Then you begin to chew again, 19:23 and then your stomach is quiet again. 19:26 So it rests the stomach when you chew... so remember that! 19:30 They used to say "fletcherize" your food... 19:33 Well that, I think, was 40 times you were supposed to chew 19:37 I don't think you ought to count but, at any rate, 19:39 you should know that you should chew your food well. 19:42 Now a high fat meal will cause the interior of your 19:48 blood vessels to malfunction. 19:51 Now the lining of the blood vessels called the "endothelium" 19:55 controls, to a large degree, our blood pressure, 19:59 and also the FLOW of blood through the blood vessels... 20:03 And so we want to be very careful not to eat high 20:06 fatty meals because it damages the endothelium. 20:09 And, oats and vitamin E... 20:12 Foods that are high in vitamin E such as ALL of the whole grains 20:16 and nuts and seeds, and things like avocado 20:20 with very nice fat that it has and olives... 20:23 these are all very good foods that help to PREVENT 20:26 this endothelial problem. 20:29 Now, another thing that's a big trial to us 20:32 and that's the stress of kidney stones. 20:36 Kidney stones are related to stress. 20:38 The more stress we have, the greater the likelihood 20:41 that we will get a problem with kidney stones. 20:45 So I'd like just to tell you some of the things that 20:48 can cause kidney stones. 20:50 ...A high protein diet, milk-drinking, 20:52 refined carbohydrates, animal products, alcohol 20:56 If you take too much of vitamin A or vitamin C supplements, 21:01 that can cause kidney stones in some people, 21:03 Worcestershire sauce, sedentary lifestyle... 21:08 And the preventive for all of these is, of course, 21:10 doing the opposite... A low protein diet, or 21:12 avoiding dairy milk, a vegan diet, 21:16 and so forth... these things can control many of these 21:21 serious causes of kidney stones. 21:24 Now there are so many things about kidney stones... 21:27 I'm sure that there are many who would like to know 21:30 just how they can avoid kidney stones... 21:32 But let me just say this, if you take a lot of 21:35 ascorbic acid or vitamin C, some people will form 21:41 kidney stones from that. 21:44 And women who are susceptible to iron overload, 21:47 also need to be careful not to take too much vitamin C 21:52 because it can encourage iron overload in some. 21:55 Phytate which is present in grains, can reduce 22:00 kidney stone formation that would make 22:03 oxalate stones. 22:05 And, of course, if you reduce your stresses, 22:07 that will reduce your kidney stones. 22:11 Exercise neutralizes stress. 22:14 Remember that little jingle that we try to teach everyone... 22:17 So if you are prone to kidney stones, remember to get 22:21 exercise and that will neutralize your stress. 22:23 And remember that lemon juice can help to 22:26 prevent kidney stones... 22:28 That was a very nice study that was done. 22:29 I was happy to see that... something so simple as 22:33 lemon juice, of course it has citric acid in it 22:36 and that can be helpful for that. 22:38 And lemon juice... just squeeze a lemon in some water 22:43 every day and that can be helpful to you. 22:46 Don Miller, what can you tell us about stress and 22:50 and how to control stress? 22:51 Well, I like the subject of stress. 22:54 I was in Africa teaching anatomy and physiology 22:56 ...when I got to the part about the different hormones 23:00 we have in our body, and I was talking about the 23:02 sympathetic nervous system and I thought... 23:04 "I really want to TEST my sympathetic nervous system" 23:07 And so every day, I would walk up on what's called the 23:10 escarpment out into the bush, 23:11 and I was hoping to come across either a black mamba, 23:15 or a puff adder or a cobra, just to see 23:18 what happens in the body... 23:20 I never did run into one, but when I was down in Zimbabwe 23:23 one day with my friend, 23:25 we ran into a couple of LIONS! 23:28 And, we wanted to take the pictures of the lions 23:31 and everything and it was sort of exciting... I can imagine. 23:35 The male lion was just laying there looking at us. 23:38 Just head down on his hands. 23:40 I said... "Lion you gotta get up and do something... 23:43 This isn't very exciting. " 23:44 And so, I hit the car door to see 23:46 if maybe I could get him to do something. 23:48 He just blinked... I opened the car door and I closed it. 23:50 He didn't do anything and I opened the car door and I 23:53 stuck my leg out... Didn't even move! 23:55 So I got skinny legs, I put another leg out next to that one 23:58 and it didn't move and so I stood up and behind the door 24:02 looking out there and the lion just stood there... 24:04 So I stepped away, kept holding the car door, he just laid there 24:07 and then I took a walk away from the vehicle... 24:10 And at that point, the back end of the lion went up in the air 24:13 and I got my first REAL test of my sympathetic nervous system 24:18 I didn't have to ask my legs to do it, 24:20 I didn't have to ask my blood pressure to go up, 24:22 my vascular system to open up, my eyes to get really dilated, 24:26 I just had to stand by and let it take over 24:29 and I was in that vehicle so fast! 24:31 So it really does work! 24:33 That's stress... that's the type of a stress 24:35 that we get, Dr. Thrash. 24:36 But we get the SAME stress reaction when I'm sitting 24:40 there trying to get to the airport in my car 24:42 and I see that I'm going to be late. 24:45 The same stress! 24:46 So how do you handle that? 24:48 I can't run down the road. 24:50 I can't jump in the vehicle. 24:51 I'm in the vehicle and I've got all this stress. 24:53 And it's how we manage the stress. 24:56 People manage it different ways. 24:57 Some people manage stress sort of like this... 25:00 They get bent by circumstances of life... 25:02 the vicissitudes and everything in life and they just bend 25:05 and when you let go... 25:06 they go right back, before long they're going to be 25:08 right back in the same old way again. 25:10 And that's the way I want to be. 25:11 You have other people that they get into a stressful 25:14 situation and it bends them and it bends them and 25:17 pretty soon... I can't even bend this thing... you get kinked! 25:20 And, once you get kinked, it's going to take some work 25:23 to get it back into the same shape again. 25:25 But it will eventually get back there. 25:27 But then we get some people, because they allow 25:30 stress to build up in their system... 25:32 they don't go out and get some exercise, 25:33 which will neutralize it. 25:34 If you're stuck in traffic, trying to get to the airport, 25:37 and you're going to miss your airplane, 25:38 and your car is not moving, get out and run around 25:40 your car a few times. 25:42 Otherwise, you might be like this type of a stressful person 25:45 and it's going to bend until it breaks! 25:47 And then you're really in trouble because 25:48 some people DO break because of stress. 25:50 God has given us a stress response. 25:53 I'm thankful for it because there have been times 25:55 in my life, I've needed it and I was thankful to have it... 25:59 But when I DON'T need it, and it's just going to do me 26:01 damage, I've got to sit there and I've got to 26:03 give it to the Lord because He can take care of my stress. 26:05 Yes, He can. 26:07 And it's also a fact that there are things that we can do 26:10 in lifestyle that can help us to deal with stress. 26:13 We've mentioned exercise... 26:15 but let me say that exercise itself can become 26:18 stressful if we OVERDO it. 26:19 Almost anything in life that we OVERDO on can become stressful 26:24 for us, even going to bed on time and eating our 26:27 meals on time. 26:28 If we're too punctilious with this and it absolutely must be 26:31 RIGHT NOW, or we're going to be most unhappy, 26:35 then this kind of thing itself can become stressful. 26:38 We know that we should not, generally, take a lot of 26:42 liquid foods when we're eating solid foods. 26:44 I have an article from the "Journal of Gastroenterology" 26:49 here published just this past year, 26:52 on gastric emptying of liquids when there are also 26:57 solids in the stomach and the delay that's caused 27:00 from the improper digestion that occurs because of that. 27:04 But if we are so punctilious about this... that we cannot 27:07 take ANYTHING... we couldn't even take a little soup 27:10 because we cannot tolerate to have anything that's not 27:15 precisely on what we consider to be our definition of 27:18 a perfect lifestyle... even THAT can also become stressful. 27:22 But regularity, having a proper eating routine that we do 27:30 every day and a proper way that we eat, 27:33 and we know the way that we should eat... 27:34 And we do these things always, then this can allay stress 27:38 and can make it so that we can talk with our 27:40 Heavenly Father. 27:41 We can put these things that are stressful to us 27:44 and that we don't understand, 27:46 right in His lap and receive His comfort, and receive 27:50 His peace. 27:51 And may the Lord give YOU that very peace. |
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