It's far better to
know how to prevent disease,
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than it is to
learn how to cure it.
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I love to teach people
how to prevent disease,
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so that they're never unhealthy,
they don't ever feel bad...
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So, we're going to talk
about some of these ways of
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PREVENTION in this program...
We hope you will stay with 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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I love remedies!
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I have been gathering
remedies from all over the world
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for the last 40-45 years...
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And I'm very happy that I
can also learn some things
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about how to prevent disease.
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There are SO MANY good
things that we can do...
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just using the things of
nature that can help us to
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prevent disease.
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One of those is SUNSHINE
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And, Dr. Don Miller is
going to talk with you now
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about the benefits of
sunshine... Dr. Miller
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Well, I think one of
the greatest benefits of
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sunshine is... it's free!
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It's up there, it just
hangs out, and it gives us all
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the benefits that we could
ever want from any medication
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and even more so.
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And one of the
biggest problems we have,
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in certain
environments, is infections...
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and sunlight is a
natural bacterial agent.
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It will cleanse things.
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As a matter of fact, if you
see an animal that gets itself
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injured somehow, it will
crawl out into the sunshine
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to heal itself, rather
than crawl over into the shade.
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And so there are certainly
some wonderful benefits
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to sunshine... But
there's more than that
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I've got a list of them here...
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Besides
destroying harmful bacteria,
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it lowers the blood pressure.
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Basically, as you get
out into the sunshine,
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it allows your
vascular system to relax;
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therefore, your heart
stops pushing so hard to get the
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blood through... your
blood pressure goes down.
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As a matter of fact, you
might want to try an experiment.
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If your blood
pressure is mildly elevated,
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take your blood pressure in
the house, check what it is...
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Go outside, give
yourself a half-hour sunbath.
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Now when I say sunbath,
you don sit there and take off
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all the clothes and lay there.
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What you want to do, is
just let your legs, your arms,
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your face get exposed to
the sun for about a half-hour.
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And then, take your
blood pressure again.
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Normally, you will
find a significant drop
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in your blood pressure.
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If you couple the
sunshine with exercise,
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it goes down even further.
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And the nice thing is
the effects of that sunbath
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will maintain itself
for a couple of days.
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And so, on days when
the sun isn't shinning,
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it takes benefit of the sunshine
you got last time it did shine.
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It decreases blood cholesterol.
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Cholesterol is a major
problem in developed countries,
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but sunshine will help
the cholesterol go down.
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It increases the vitamin D.
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Now it is interesting that
increasing the vitamin D...
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is the same way in which
it lowers the cholesterol
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because we all have
cholesterol in our bodies
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just below the skin layer.
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As sunlight strikes the skin,
it converts the cholesterol
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into a pre-vitamin D form.
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And it goes out and becomes,
in the liver, into vitamin D.
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Now, since you've
taken the cholesterol out of
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that layer of the
skin, where it needs to be,
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it's been replaced by
cholesterol that's flowing
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in the bloodstream...
where it also needs to be.
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You see, cholesterol is a
very needed part of our body.
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And so, now that it has
gone down in the bloodstream,
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it's got to find some
cholesterol to replace it there.
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It's not going to send
you out to get a hamburger...
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What it will do... is
take cholesterol from plaques
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that might be building
up in your artery walls;
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therefore, bringing
you back up to the level.
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So, sunshine is good
for both of those things.
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It lowers
excessively high blood sugars!
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I know a young man...
well, he's not so young anymore,
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he's in his mid 30s.
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He is a juvenile diabetic.
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He has had this since
he was a very young child.
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To look at the man, you'd
never know he had diabetes.
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He's physically
well-proportioned.
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His eyesight is good.
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He's doing extremely well.
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But he has learned
to regulate his body...
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through diet, through
exercise and through sunshine.
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Sunshine can act as a natural
insulin agent taking glucose
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into the cells, and
so is a very nice thing.
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So if you have
somebody who is diabetic,
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SUNSHINE is extremely needed.
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It increases our
white blood cells.
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Our white blood cells are those
armies... the army that God
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has placed within our bodies
to fight infections and diseases
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Sunshine will increase the
number of the white blood cells
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And not only the
number, it will also increase
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their motility through the body.
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You see, as you get into
the sunshine, it can raise your
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body temperature
just a small amount,
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and any rise in temperature,
will increase the movement
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of these particular
army soldiers in your system.
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It lowers respiration rate.
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Therefore, your
breathing not only is slower,
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but your deeper
breaths are there.
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And most people don't breathe
properly in the first place.
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We'll talk about
that a little bit later...
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But it does lower
your respiration rate.
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It strengthens your heart.
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It slows your
resting heart rate.
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The word "resting" and "heart
rate," our heart always rests
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It beats and then it
rests, it beats and it rests
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The slower the heart
rate, the longer the rest.
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And so, if you want that muscle
to rest, and that's the one
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muscle in your body that works
throughout your entire life.
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When it stops
working, you stop working.
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It allows the blood
to carry more oxygen.
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Oxygen is
absolutely vital to the body.
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As a matter of fact,
they've done some studies
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They find that if you
take a cell, and deprive it
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of adequate amounts of
oxygen, not all oxygen,
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that would kill it...
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But you just don't let it
get a good healthy amount of
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oxygen, within a short period
of time, that cell becomes
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a malignant cell. It
becomes a cancerous cell.
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And so, by getting
more oxygen in the blood,
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we've got more
health to the tissues.
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It increases our
tolerance to stress.
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We're living in
a stressful world.
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You go out in the
sunshine, and you lay there...
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Try it sometime!
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Stress situation...
usually stress happens inside.
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You go outside, and it
seems like the stress just
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sort of goes away,
because the sunlight
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has a way of
taking that stress away.
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And, it prevents
cancer of the colon.
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Isn't that interesting?
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Sunlight will
decrease cancer of the colon.
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Now, there's the
negative side of sunlight.
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You can get too much
sunlight and cause sunburns.
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Every time you cause
your skin to be burned,
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you're setting yourself up
for damage down the line...
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and other types of diseases.
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And so don't let
your skin get damaged.
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Between 10
o'clock in the morning,
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and 3 o'clock in the afternoon,
stay out of direct sunlight.
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But before then and after then,
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sunlight is not a
bad thing to have.
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Now, that's talking about sun.
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There's the other "Son. "
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TRUSTING IN THE LORD!
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TRUSTING IN
JESUS! TRUSTING IN GOD!
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And there are many, many
studies coming down the pike
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today, that talks about the
benefits of belief in something.
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On the same line, there's
been another study showing
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that a person
who believes error,
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as strongly as a
someone who believes truth,
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even believing that
error, will give them a more
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impaired immune system.
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So believing in
truth, and God is the Truth,
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believe in
Him... He will help you.
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We've seen studies...
They've done some studies
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about people who are prayed for,
... have less coronary events.
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...have less complications.
They do a whole lot better.
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And just that act of
asking God to help you...
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Going to somebody
whose beyond yourself,
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and saying, "Lord,
I need your help. "
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Just the peace of
mind, and peace has a lot
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to do with our
health can do unbelievable
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advantages to our health.
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And so, the first 2
things, sunlight and trusting
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in the Lord, are 2 very
important laws of health
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And I think you've got a
couple of others, Dr. Thrash.
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Yes, in fact, I've
got a number of more.
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But I would like to start right
away by talking about EXERCISE.
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The subject of exercise
is such an important one that
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if we know about
exercise and we DO exercise,
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then this can help us
to cover a lot of other
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broken health laws.
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Just the fact that we exercise,
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strengthens us
in a number of ways.
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And besides that,
exercise is enjoyable...
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that is if we are
accustomed to doing exercise.
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Now, if we are
normally a couch potato,
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it's going to be difficult
for us to get out of doors,
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and move around.
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But if we are
accustomed to moving,
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then to get up and
get out is going to be
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something that
makes us feel good.
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And just to feel good
even when we are sick,
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or when we have been sick...
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if we begin to move around,
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we will just
naturally feel a lot better.
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And then, the fact that
the immune system goes up
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with exercise, this is something
that be actually measured.
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So that we can have people
to do various kinds of exercise
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We can check the
number of T cells they have,
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the number of killer
cells that they have,
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and these go UP with the
amount of exercise that we do!
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And just as with sunshine,
getting exercise will make
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the cellular
portions of the immune system
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much more active.
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They move more rapidly.
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They also become more hungry.
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So that when they see
a germ, they go there,
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and they take the
germ, and destroy the germ.
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So to assist the immune system
in this way, can be very helpful
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to you in warding off
disease, not only of the body,
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but also of the mind.
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The immune system, of course,
has to do with such things as
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depression, and warding
that off, or even schizophrenia
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and the various
serious forms of mental illness
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because of the fact that people
with these kinds of illnesses
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don't live as long as those
who do not have those illnesses
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unless they work at
these natural laws of health
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in a very serious
and determined way.
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Now exercise can be too
much so that we can overdo
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the matter, and it's an
interesting thing that when we
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overdo exercise, we
actually reduce the functioning
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of the immune system.
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So we want to be
careful about that.
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As to how often
we should exercise,
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I can give you a quote
that "some portion of every day
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be spent in outdoor exercise. "
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And having the exercise
out of doors, is more favorable
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than having the
same amount of exercise,
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and the same
quality of exercise indoors.
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Now, in addition to exercise,
there is another aspect
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of this matter of prevention
of disease, and that is water.
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So frequently,
people get sick because
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they don't drink enough water.
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One of the simple
things that people get is
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they simply don't feel strong.
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They feel tired, or
they have lassitude that
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just saps their
energy, and because of this,
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they want to stay indoors.
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They want to just read, or
do some kind of indoor game,
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or just sit and shell
beans, or whatever they can do
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inside... rather than
getting up and MOVING.
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And when they move, they
have so many good benefits,
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that water plays right into
this, that the amount of water
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that we take gets
us over many an illness
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that we otherwise would have.
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Now WATER, is the most
abundant element on this planet
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apart from air,
and has been made by a
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loving and all-wise Designer
to be the universal solvent
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And while it won't
dissolve everything,
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it certainly does
dissolve a lot of things,
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and most of those things
that are inside the body,
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it does dissolve those.
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It acts as a vehicle for
the transport of quite a lot
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of wastes and raw
products and nutrients
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that come into the body.
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It also is a vehicle
for the transport of oxygen
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and other forms of
gases that we require
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so much in the human body.
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Wastes are also
carried on this vehicle...
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the vehicle of water,
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and the various organs of
the body... including the skin,
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are kept healthy, the
joints are kept mobile,
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and strong, and gliding nicely
because of plenty of water.
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So use this universal
solvent to good advantage.
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And now, we have
another one, and that is AIR.
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Air is a
precious boon of heaven!
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And, Dr. Miller, what
can you tell us about air?
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You know, we can be very
thankful if we live in an area
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where we do have good air.
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I've been in
countries like Tokyo, Japan...
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Many times the policeman will
have stations they can go to
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and put on a mask and
breathe oxygen because there's
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just not that much
around because of all the
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pollutions and the exhaust
that surround them all the time.
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But air is an
extremely beneficial thing that
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God has given to us...
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And He has given it to
us in exceeding abundance.
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Now, thinking about
air, when and where are you
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when it just feels the best...
as far as the air around you.
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Let me put this
a different way...
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How do you feel
when you go to the beach
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when there are waves coming in?
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Or how do you feel when
you are near a waterfall?
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Or, how does it feel to
walk outside after a storm?
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All of these things are
doing something very special
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to the air... they are
releasing negative air ions
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Now, an ion is basically
a molecule that has either
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gained or lost
its electronic charge.
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...And these
things are extremely
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sedating and
soothing to the body...
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And so what we need
to do is get plenty of
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negative air ions.
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Now I've already mentioned
where you can get those.
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Some of the
places... around moving water,
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where there are
rapids, waterfall, ocean surf.
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You can get them after a storm.
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Have you ever smelled
the air after a storm?
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It just smells cleaner...
it's because it's full of
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negative air ions.
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You can get it
amongst evergreen trees.
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I once heard an inspired
person say that there is
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healing in the
balsam and in the pine...
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just breathing
the air in this area.
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There's also negative air
ions in natural settings...
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Out in the
forest, out in the woods,
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up in the mountains...
you're going to find
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your negative air ions.
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But on the same turn,
there are things that destroy
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these negative air ions.
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One, is recirculated air.
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We live in houses and
work in buildings now that have
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no windows that will open...
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Everything is recirculated...
they are recirculating
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positive air ions
which cause depression,
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which causes mood
swings, which causes headaches,
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and MANY other problems...
and so recirculated air.
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Pollution decreases negative
air and adds positive air ions.
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Cigarettes smoke
will do the same thing.
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So what we need to do
is get out into nature.
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Get away from the cities,
get out into the country,
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and breathe the good, fresh air.
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Now, along with the
air... all right, I want to add
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one last thing to the air part.
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At nighttime, no
matter how cold it is outside,
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you should always have
fresh air in your bedroom.
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Turn down the
heat, pile on the covers,
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open up the window.
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Now we're not talking
about opening it all the way,
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open it just enough to
get enough air circulating
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in your room; otherwise,
you're going to wake up,
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feeling a little bit drugged,
perhaps a little bit grouchy,
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a lot of problems come down the
pike because we have not gotten
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adequate amounts of air at
nighttime when we are sleeping.
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Now, in saying that, at
nighttime besides sleeping,
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we're doing something else.
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We're always sweating...
that's how we stay cool.
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And so, as we sweat,
we let off that moisture,
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and so, going back
to the sunshine thing,
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every once in a
while when you get a nice,
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sunny, low-humidity day,
take your mattress outside
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and get it aired out.
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You're going to find
that you're going to sleep
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a whole lot better
after that experience.
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There's another part of the
"A" that we're looking at...
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besides air... It is ATTITUDE.
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Our attitude has a lot
to do with how we feel.
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There was a recent study
done by Kansas State University
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that basically showed that
people who are always grouchy
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get sick more,
and are sick longer.
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The Bible says, "A merry heart
does good like a medicine. "
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Find something
to be thankful for.
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I learned an extremely
good principle some years ago.
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It's called "the law
of reciprocal influence. "
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Basically,
biblically, it says...
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"As a man thinketh in
his heart, so is he. "
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My recommendation is,
when you wake up grouchy,
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here's what you do, you
sing praises to the Lord.
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Sing a hymn, sing a happy
song, and you're going to find
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that your mood starts to rise.
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But it's people who are
ALWAYS ANGRY who are ALWAYS SICK
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are going to be the
ones that are always grouchy,
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and discontented
with life. BE HAPPY!
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And if you're going to be happy,
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you're also going to
find yourself being well.
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There's a lot to
do about attitude with
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good health, Dr.
Thrash. ... Yes there is!
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And in addition to attitude...
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we could say that REST...
rest from a number of things
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It's not just rest from labor,
but it's also rest from noise.
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It's rest from food sometimes.
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You take a small rest
from food, and that gives you
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a GOOD overall rest.
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If you turn off a
whirring machine of some kind,
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the relief that you
get, is a kind of rest,
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and so that can be
very helpful to you.
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We need, sometimes,
a rest from people...
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so that we can commune with God.
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And don't forget...
that you have essentially
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a person in your automobile
in the form of the radio
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Some people get in the
car, turn the ignition,
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and the radio comes on...
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so that they're
never really alone.
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And that time when they
could be in their vehicle
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communing with God, they
lose, because the radio is on,
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and that's a constant presence
of someone else with them.
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Now, rest can be a
rest from our activities,
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our secular
activities once a week,
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so that we have a Sabbath rest.
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What an important time
for a human being to take
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that rest from all
secular activities and live in a
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holy atmosphere for a whole day.
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What a privilege that is.
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Now as we are going
through these things,
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I am beginning to
recognize that you have arranged
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these, Dr. Miller, in such a
way that these things that we're
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talking about spell
a word. Yes, they do.
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And I'm delighted
to see that that it is.
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Would you like to show
what we've got here. Okay.
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We have Sunshine, Trusting
in the Lord, Exercise, Water,
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Air and Attitude,
Rest... that's as far as we've
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gotten so far...
let's keep going...
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Diet and Dress... a lot of
things to do with diet and dress
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Self-Control, Hygiene
or Cleanliness, and Herbs,
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Innocence or a Clear Conscience,
and then the last one
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would be Purity of
Life... and don't we need more
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of that in this world that
we're living in... Dr. Thrash
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So we have the
acronym, "STEWARDSHIP"
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God has given us bodies.
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He says, "You're stewards. "
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Paul says, in Romans 12:1,
"Present your bodies a LIVING
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sacrifice," and we're
stewards over this body.
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Oh yes, and a
part of that is DIET,
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and you want to
put the "D" in now.
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Diet is a topic that we need
to, very clearly, understand.
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I'm going to be very
short with the diet part.
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3ABN talks a lot about diets,
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and we have cooking
schools and everything else.
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I want to read
you one case history.
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You can do a search on the
internet, and look up a man
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by the name of Thomas Parr.
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He was born in 1483.
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He was born to a
farmer there in England,
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and he sort of tooled along...
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went out as a tradesman
some time during that time.
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In the year 1563, he got
married for the first time.
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He was 80 years old.
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He fathered 2 children.
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Time went on, his first wife
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having died by
the time he was 120...
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he married the second
time, had another child.
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He kept on going and he was
doing great living on a very
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simple abstemious diet.
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He had a very simple
diet out there on the farm.
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Working on the farm, he
was still working his fields
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when he was in
his 130s and 140s.
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But at 153 years of age, he
was discovered by the earl that
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sort of was over the
land on which he lived.
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And he didn't know
this guy was living there...
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He said, "Wow! Wait
until the king sees this man!"
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And so he took Thomas
Parr to the king's palace
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there in London, and he said,
"I want you to meet this man"
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Can you imagine the
stories this guy would tell?
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You see, the king on
the throne at that time,
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was the 10th monarch
since Thomas had been born.
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So 10 monarchs had passed.
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The guy's mind was completely
intact... he was great stories.
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They enjoyed him so much...
that night the king said,
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"Look, come and live
in the castle with me...
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And eat at my table,
and just live a good life
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from now on out. " And
the guy said, "Good idea. "
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He did. Two weeks
later, he was dead.
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Upon autopsy, they found
his internal organs to be
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organs of a young man,
except for one problem,
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they were extremely inflamed.
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It was the diet.
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The inflammatory diet of the
rich foods and the rich drinks
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that put the man who, 153
years, that could not kill
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put him in the grave
after 2 short weeks' diet.
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Dr. Thrash, the foods that
we eat are extremely important!
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They're very
inflammatory that's for certain.
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Then also, in "D"
is the matter of DRESS.
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Dress can be
healthful, or unhealthful.
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One of the ways
that it's unhealthful,
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is that it's too tight.
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It can be too tight in the
waist, or around the knees,
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around the
ankles, around the wrists,
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around the upper arms,
anywhere that a garment
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is so tight that it
leaves a red streak when the
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garment is removed, that
is, of course, too tight.
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Then it can be
inadequate for proper warmth.
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A lot of people,
for one reason or other,
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expose their extremities,
and that leads to a reduction
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in the efficiency
of the immune system.
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And so with these things...
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Oh, there's one other
thing that you need to know
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and that's MODESTY.
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Modest dress relieves
of anxiety and a sense of
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inhibition... that a person
does not have when one has
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completely modest dress.
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So I recommend these
things for the "D" part.
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And now let's go to
self-control... Dr. Miller
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SELF-CONTROL... You know,
normally when we talk about
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self-control, we talk
about don't smoke, don't drink,
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and don't take drugs, and
these are extremely important.
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But there are other
areas of our life where we need
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self-control.
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I would say, probably
one of the runaway problems
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with us in today's
especially Western world,
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is something as
simple as overeating,
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or eating too
many things at a meal.
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We need to be under
control in ALL that we do.
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You know, it's
amazing... you see somebody
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training for the Olympics,
and they train diligently...
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They've got to the point
where they can slow their
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pulse rate; they can
slow their respiration down
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on command, because they want
to win that little piece of gold
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And here we are, with
streets of gold in which to gain
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We need to do the
same type of training.
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Paul says, "I
keep my body under,"
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under control, under
self-control that everything
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that we do might be
to the glory of God.
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As a matter of
fact, the Bible says that,
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"Whatsoever you eat,
whatsoever you drink,
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whatsoever you do, do
ALL to the glory of God. "
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Self-control...
extremely important.
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And then, a part
of the "H" is HERBS.
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Herbs are provided
by a Loving Creator,
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and if we learn about the
herbs, there are many of them
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that can help us to get
over disease without taking
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any kind of serious
life-threatening drug.
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And now we have 2 more things...
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Dr. Miller, do you want to
tell us about 2 more things?
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Very quickly,
talk about HYGEINE.
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Quickly, I'll just give
you another case history.
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A doctor from
Hungry named, "Semmelweis"
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...A good friend cut his
finger while doing an autopsy
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and he died of the same
diseases killing the women
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in the hospitals
and he thought...
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"Hmmm, I think what the
problem is... we're transferring
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the diseases from the corpses
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to the women that
we're delivering. "
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So he came up with a
very simple solution!
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"Why don't we wash our
hands between patients. "
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And as soon as he
did, death rates fell.
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As a matter of fact, the
midwife hospital near them
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had no where near the death
rate that the regular hospital
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did... who went
through these things.
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The other one is
things like "INNOCENCE. "
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The clear conscience.
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You know, when we feel
guilt, we are hurting our
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immune system, so we
need to make sure we have a
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conscience, the Bible
says, "Void of offence. "
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And the last one
is, "PURITY OF LIFE "
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We need to look at things
that will give us pure thoughts.
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Listen to things that
will give us pure thoughts.
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And quite frankly, we
are surrounded in a world
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that is steeped in impurity.
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God is looking
for a pure people,
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a special people
in these last days.
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And as we do
these laws of health,
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God's 14 Laws of Health,
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we're going to find
that we're far better able
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to help our fellow
man, help ourselves,
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and to give glory to God!
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Now all of these 14
Laws of Health are very
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clearly defined by
nature, and by reason.
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So we hope that you have
studied these very carefully
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that you might
prevent disease, and then
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not have to worry so
much about learning how
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to treat disease
once it has occurred.
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