Some people blame all
their problems on their parents.
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If I had just been reared right,
I wouldn't have this problem
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or that problem.
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Sometimes parents are blamable
but sometimes they aren't.
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We're going to have a discussion
on some of the problems
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that teens have now-a-days,
and see if we can't get at the
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cause of some of these so
that we can have a remedy.
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We hope that you will
join us for this program.
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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 is
your host Dr. Thrash.
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There are some problems
that youngsters have that
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older people have
that can be blamed on their
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parents deficiencies.
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I remember one that a
lot of people tell me is that
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Oh, I wish my parents
had made me practice the
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certain musical instrument, then
I could be quite accomplished
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today, but at it is, I am not
accomplished on this instrument
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and if only my parents had
done the right thing by me.
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Now sometimes the
parents should be blamed,
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but sometimes the child is
so resistant to any kind of
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suggestion by the parents
that a great deal of maneuvering
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has to occur by the parents
in order to acquire cooperation.
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To practice piano was one
that I studied a good bit.
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My children didn't
want to learn music,
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they wanted to be out
of doors, they wanted to be
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doing some other kind of
activity, they loved to read,
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they wanted to
do library research,
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they did not want
practice a musical instrument.
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Well, they had certain chores
that they always had to do,
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one of those was clear
the table and wash the dishes.
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So I would say to them,
now I will do this chore
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for you as long as I
hear the piano going,
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but once the piano
stops, then you have to come
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and do the chore.
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So you can imagine that I
heard a lot of piano practice
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as long as I was
still washing dishes,
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but when I got
through with the dish washing,
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then the piano stopped too.
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Then with making beds, another
of my children had to make
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all of the beds in the house.
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I would make the beds if he
would do the piano practice.
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So in this way I maneuvered
things so that he would do
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the practicing.
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Now if I had not in some way
been able to require my children
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to learn music, they
would today not be very musical
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because they were certainly
not interested in disciplining
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themselves to do that.
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But there are certain problems
that parents need to take more
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action in their children's
lives, and one of those is
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the physical problem
involving the facial complexion.
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Acne can be to a large degree
helped by the kind of program
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that the child is on.
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First if the child is not
pushed so that maturity occurs
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to early, there is a good chance
that the child will have a
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smooth complexion
right from the cradle on.
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How is it that one can
slow down the maturation
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of the person?
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Well that will be the
subject of some our topics
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in this program.
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Now with acne, once the
person has it, then there are
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some things that you
can do that will help.
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Eliminate all junk
foods, whatever it may be,
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just get rid of them.
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Eliminate all dairy products,
I have found that dairy products
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are often
involved in a child's acne.
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If it isn't involved if you
eliminate the dairy products,
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or any other food, and
eliminating it does not cause
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a regression in the
pimples or the red spots,
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then you may if you wish
to add that back to the diet
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you may go back to it.
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Now with fats, fatty
foods, especially things like
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peanut butter, chocolate,
hot chocolate, candies
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of various kinds which often
have shortening of some kind
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in them.
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All sorts of little snack
crackers, those should all be
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eliminated, any kind of junk
food, anything that comes from
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a vending machine, most things
that come from fast food places,
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all of those
should be eliminated.
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We should build the
menu from the ground up
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so that all the dishes are made
from the best foods we can find.
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Now modern dermatologists
will sometimes tell you that
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food has nothing to do with
acne, that it isn't involved
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with it at all.
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In my experience, I say that
these are young men and they
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have not yet had
enough experience to know that
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foods are sometimes involved
in acne, and a person can
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eliminate a certain aspect
of their diet and they are
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much better becoming
a full vegan vegetarian
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will go far in eliminating
acne in some individuals.
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So I recommend that for people
who have acne and it can be
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persons who have acne can
sometimes be helped remarkably
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by some changes in diet.
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Also by drinking plenty of
water, getting good of exercise
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keeping the extremities warm,
all of these things can help
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with acne in some individuals,
unfortunately not all of them.
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But they may help, it
may not totally eliminate
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and so even if
they get some benefit,
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that can be very helpful.
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Another problem that children
have now-a-days that they didn't
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used to have is intertrigo.
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Intertrigo is a rash where
two skin surfaces fit together,
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so between the folds of the
buttocks, under the breasts,
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in any place where there
are two... under the arms
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where two skin surfaces
maybe in close apposition
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to each other.
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In these instances you may
have an intertrigo or a rash
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which often has both the
sweat as well as some infectious
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agent, it can be a bacterium,
it can be fungus involved
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in the intertrigo.
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The important thing is
if the person is over weight
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to have the person loose weight
and to keep those surfaces
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separated by some kind of
fabric or garment that can be
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worn that holds the surfaces
apart, and that can be very
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helpful for that.
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One may also need to
use an anti fungus remedy
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such as vinegar, plain vinegar
may be all that is required
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if the surface is raw.
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I don't have to tell you that
the patient won't want you to
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use vinegar and so you
should not, unless you dilute it
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really quite a lot such
as one tablespoon in a quart
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of water, then you can acidify
the skin and that also helps
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quite a lot.
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Now these problems with
teens are on the minor side
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but they can be very irritating
and annoying, but there is
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another one teens are now
involved in, they didn't used to
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be involved in, and
that is osteoporosis.
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I have here Dr. Don Miller
who is going to talk with us
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about the
subject of osteoporosis,
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especially in young people.
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Do you know that I
used to play the piano?
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No, I didn't!
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Well, I took the lessons,
and Dr. Thrash has mentioned how
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it's usually the child who
doesn't really stay with it...
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I played that Pompa Haydenstead
and Gone so many times my family
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says quit playing the piano.
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But she mentioned
something interesting,
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that her children would
rather be outside playing or
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doing other things, or reading.
Those are good things too.
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We have a major
problem going on today.
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A few years ago I was
flying back from Germany,
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and I was reading one
of the airline magazines,
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there was a wonderful article,
the title was Sick Kids.
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It said that children today
have almost all the diseases
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of older people, and
osteoporosis was the first thing
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they talked about.
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It mentioned a number of things,
basically three main things
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that's causing the
osteoporosis today.
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The first thing
that they mentioned,
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and you are going to see
this in the literature a lot
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is the over use of soft drinks.
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Now they will go on to say
it's replacing milk in the diet.
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That's not the problem, it's
just the soft drinks themselves,
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high in phosphoric acid,
which causes... matter of fact
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I think that's why
they call them soft drinks.
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It causes the bones to
loose calcium, making them soft
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and making them brittle,
causing their bones to become
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osteoporotic at very young ages.
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So it is lots of
colas, whatever the sodas are,
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the children need to get off
of the sodas and start drinking
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more decent things like water.
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Water is the best thing in
the world that they can drink.
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The second thing is,
the junk foods that we have.
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Junk foods are going to be
high, almost always in sodium.
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Sodium also, when it's
high in the body, causes calcium
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to fall, children need to get
away from the high sodium foods.
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Also when they eat a lot of
meat products, high in protein,
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when the protein goes
up, the calcium goes down.
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And now we are into
this protein craze...
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It seems in this country
for people who are overweight
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and children are becoming
major problems with obesity.
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So we want to get away
from the junk foods and
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the high protein foods,
get away from the soft drinks,
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and the third thing quite
simply get them off the couch
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and out the door,
doing something more active.
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We are finding that we
are growing a generation,
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maybe even for the
last couple of generations,
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that's fixed to the TV,
which is fixed to the monitor
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of the computer, which
is fixed to the video games,
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and children are no
longer getting the exercise that
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they used to get.
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I remember when I was a child,
no one stayed in the house
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on a nice day.
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Even when it was a bad day
you did not want to stay in
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the house, you are outside
playing, whatever it was that
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you were going to play but
we were always in the streets.
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Of course back then the
streets were a little bit safer,
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and I know that parents are in
between a rock and a hard place
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today.
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Send them outside the door,
it's no more safer in there
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than maybe it is in front
of your television, but find
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a safe place and find some
type of activity a child can get
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involved in and this
scourge of today's society of
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childhood osteoporosis...
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The last thing the author
of this article said in this
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magazine is, parents, your
children are just little yous,
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and his recommendation
was, clean up your act,
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your children are
going to see you, they can do
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exactly what you do.
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Get your life together, show
your children a good example
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of health and of a healthy
lifestyle, and your children
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will try to
emulate that pattern.
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I remember one time I was
sitting there at the table
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when I was just a little
boy, and my father was eating,
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I wanted to be just like
my dad, so every time he put
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that spoon to his mouth,
I put the spoon to my mouth
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I was amazed to find out
that I finished my bowl of soup
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the same time he
finished his bowl of soup.
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Children will look at their
parents and try to emulate them,
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give them something to
emulate, very few parents today
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Dr. Thrash do that.
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Yes, that is a major problem
that the parents do not make
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proper role models.
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Another way that parents need
to supervise the work of their
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children is in the way
that they brush the teeth.
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They need to teach their child
exactly how to brush the teeth,
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and the proper way is
with the tooth brush they do a
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jiggling motion at about a
45 degree angle with the teeth.
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so at the gum line, the
brushing is done at that area.
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Then some brushing down
in this way so that almost
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individual teeth are brushed,
that can be very helpful
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as well to remove
food particles from between
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the teeth.
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Carious teeth are a
serious problem with children
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and as a child grows older,
the carious teeth that they
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develop in early childhood
can become a thing that
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shortens their life, or
makes them more susceptible to
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other kinds of diseases
including such things as
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heart disease and strokes.
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The strength of the
teeth is an important thing.
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Flossing should never be
overlooked once a child is
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old enough and has permanent
teeth, they should be taught
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how to take off a piece
of dental floss, maybe about
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a foot long, wrap it around
the fingers and learn how to
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tease it between the teeth
and remove everything that is
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between the teeth, including
the plaque that builds up
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between meals and overnight.
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So the floss should actually
be rubbed against both tooth
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surfaces in between the teeth,
so it is rubbed against this
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tooth and it is rubbed against
this tooth to remove the plaque
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that might be building up there.
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Dried fruits are very
important as a caries promoter,
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so dried fruit should always
be followed by brushing and
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flossing. Dried fruit
can be used for a meal
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and two or three times a
day should both floss and brush.
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Especially important is that
the third meal, if there is a
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third meal of the day,
that meal be brushed and flossed
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after so that there will
not be a build up overnight
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of acids inside the mouth.
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Now an appeal for a two meal
plan for children, most children
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in today's world
need only two meals a day,
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that's at beginning
about the age of two or three.
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You can train the child to
a two meal plan that instantly
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diminishes the risk
of getting cavities.
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The more times a day that a
person eats, the greater the
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risk of getting cavities.
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This can be minimized
by flossing and brushing
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that a person can do.
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It's an important thing for
us to know that our children
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today are very much overweight,
parents in fact they control
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the weight of the child,
and they should be assertive
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in this area and make certain
that their children are not
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overweight, so I've asked
Dr. Miller to talk with you
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about this problem
in teens and children.
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I remember when I was
in grade school there was
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a very fleeting
instance of an overweight child
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and they were always the brunt
of all of the jokes and they are
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always on the low side of the
pecking order, which was really
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unfortunate things
for the poor children.
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Things haven't changed as
much as being on the lower end
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of the pecking order, but
it certainly has changed in
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how many people fall into that
category now in our schools.
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Young people are plagued today,
it is a pandemic, of basically
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a problem with the western
world of obesity in children.
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Of course that opens the
door to many many other problems
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and they are going
to come down the line.
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What causes obesity in children,
well, it basically takes it's
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very beginning in
infancy, the way a child is fed.
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It seems like mothers now are
going more and more away from
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breast feeding and going into
putting them on to the formulas
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and the formulas are often
based on some animal products
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in there which is going
to accelerate the growth
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and as the child grows
more they are weaned on to more
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animal products, which
are all basically made.
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You think back in the 1950's
the average cow was producing
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about 12 quarts of milk
per day, now it's up to around
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23 or 24 quarts a day.
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There is something that
has changed drastically,
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in the 50's the 12 quart of
milk cow was one of the champion
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cows, it was more
like 8 to 9 quarts.
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All of these growth hormones
are passing into the child
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causing them to get more weight,
also the junk foods of today,
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they are empty calories,
they have a lot of calories,
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they are going to go straight
to the wrong places of the body,
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we need to get away from there.
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But another one of the main
problems is the way they spend
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their lives, they spend
their lives in front of monitors
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basically television
and computer monitors.
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They have found that children
who watch television have a
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slower metabolism, than a child
who is sort of sitting down
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doing nothing else
besides watching television.
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Metabolism gets very slow, which
means that you are going to
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start getting very large.
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I've often been asked
this question after I've said
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something like this,
well do you mean watching 3ABN
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is not good for my child?
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I want you to do a little
experiment, watch this program
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and mark on a piece of
paper for the time that you are
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watching this half hour, how
many times the scene changes,
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then the next time that you
are in a department store that
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has one of those big
banks of televisions,
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I want you to stand back
so you aren't infected by
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what they are showing, and
mark down, have a stop watch
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or a watch with a second hand,
and see how many times the scene
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changes in even one minute.
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You are going to find the
scene changes many many times
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sometimes every three to four
seconds you have a different
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scene, a different
shot, a different camera,
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a different whole
situation, and when this happens
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the mind finally gets
to the point where it says,
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we are out of here, it
goes into a sort of delta wave
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pattern, you are not processing
the information which sometimes
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is good, but the bad part
of it is, if you are seeing it
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it is going
somewhere in this head.
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When you watch your television
like this, it slows down your
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process and you start
getting a larger frame, but also
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as you are watching these
programs they are advertising
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things that are
made to promote obesity.
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They are not going to say eat
these things and it is going to
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make you fat, no that's
not what they are saying,
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but they are going to make you
fat, they are going to be high
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in fat, high in sugar, high in
sodium, high is whatever it is
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that causes our
bodies to grow larger.
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So we need to stay away
from those types of things that
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causes a child...
I've been in grocery stores
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and you see the mother pushing
the child through the isles
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and pretty soon they
come to a certain product that
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apparently that child saw
on cartoons just this morning,
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I WANT THAT, and they will
throw a tantrum until the mother
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puts two boxes of it into
the cart, and the child is now
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satisfied.
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The trouble is that very food
is going to cause them to be
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obese, which is going to make
them handicapped in many ways
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for the rest of their
lives, both psychologically,
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emotionally, socially,
physically, every way that
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you can think of.
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Obesity is not a good thing,
now if you are trying to go
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assume a wrestler, go
right ahead, but I would suggest
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that we do not turn our children
into Sumo wrestlers in their
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infancy and in their childhood
and in their teen years,
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you are just short
changing them in their lives,
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so get them out exercising,
get them on good food
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and we might
eliminate this problem.
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It would certainly go
far toward helping with that.
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While I have not seen a child
have a heart attack, I have seen
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children with hardening of the
arteries at a very early age.
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We used to say that hardening
of the arteries was a problem
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with advanced old age, but now
we are seeing it in children.
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In fact, even in World War
II there was not an autopsy done
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on an American soldier
that didn't show rather advanced
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hardening of the arteries,
reports are rather stunning
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in this regard.
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We want to do what we can to
keep our children from getting
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heart disease later in life.
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We are seeing heart
attacks earlier and earlier,
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and the more the person weighs,
the greater the chance is that
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they will get both the
heart attack and a stroke,
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so we are combating that
by combating the wrong habits
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in childhood.
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Make certain that your
child's cholesterol is not high,
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that the triglycerides are not
high, blood sugar is not high,
00:21:09.81\00:21:13.35
and that their homocysteine
level is not high, they can get
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high homocysteine
even very early in life.
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There also may be some other
markers of potential problems
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in the future, Fibrinogen
may be high, C-reactive protein
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may be high, these
are all laboratory tests,
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one can easily obtain
these from ordinary clinical
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laboratories, such as in
a hospital, or one of the
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stand alone laboratories
that are very freely available
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now-a-days.
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Now along with these dietary
problems and physical problems
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comes some mental
problems such as depression.
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Depression is childhood
is becoming far more common,
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even in infancy, and I would
like Dr. Miller to talk with us
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a little bit about the subject
of Depression in Childhood.
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I mentioned a little bit
ago about this article I read
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in this magazine in the
airline flying out of Germany.
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One of the thing that he
mentioned was depression,
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and he said something so
startling in this article
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he said that children today...
your average child out there
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in the homes has more
anxiety than a child who is a
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psychiatric
patient in the 1950's,
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there is something
gone wrong with our society.
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I read an interesting book
a few years ago and it's...
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Forgive the subject, or the
title, it's called On Killing,
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basically it was a book
on the subject of killing,
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not murder, but
basically the mindset of the
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military man going to the
Revolutionary War up to Vietnam.
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I would say that now it
goes beyond Vietnam to the
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other wars that have
come since then, and basically
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what they found out is
back in the Revolutionary War,
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the war of 1812, the Civil
War, World War I, World War II,
00:23:02.07\00:23:07.07
even Korean War, that
only about 10% of the soldiers
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in combat actually aimed their
gun with the intent to take
00:23:11.14\00:23:14.84
a man's life, because there
is something in a human body
00:23:14.87\00:23:19.35
that says this isn't what
I want to be doing right now.
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They found in Vietnam
it was reversed 90% did.
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What made the
difference in all these years?
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There is one instance in
this book, it talked about a
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Civil War Confederate
soldier who was at the
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Battle of Gettysburg.
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As he was marching
through that field, across that
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long field, up to that wall,
they said that upon his death,
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because he was killed in this
battle, they checked his weapon
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and they found 26
loads in his weapon.
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That means that he would walk
a ways, stop and ram another
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one down there, walk a
ways, stop, ram another one,
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he never fired his gun one time.
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Something has changed, we
feel like the depression we have
00:24:03.21\00:24:08.37
right now is because we have
changed in our whole society.
00:24:08.40\00:24:12.01
We have things called
situational ethics today,
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it depends on the situation,
how you are going to respond
00:24:15.41\00:24:18.15
to something.
00:24:18.18\00:24:19.15
We find that most teenagers
feel like sometimes lying
00:24:19.16\00:24:25.59
is necessary, it depends on
the situation, they find that
00:24:25.62\00:24:29.76
suicide is a viable
option for their problems.
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There are these things
creeping into the society today,
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and I believe it's the society
at fault because we are giving
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them false messages.
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They are watching lifestyles
on television which are totally
00:24:40.99\00:24:45.52
aberrant, totally
foreign to the human organism,
00:24:45.55\00:24:49.44
you see, there is something
inside this body that says
00:24:49.47\00:24:52.39
do this, do this right, but they
receive these mixed signals.
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A number of years ago when
I was in the Marine Corp we
00:24:55.80\00:24:59.75
had a video monitor rolled
into our office because they
00:24:59.78\00:25:04.85
had made an advertisement for
the Marine Corp, and we wanted
00:25:04.88\00:25:08.56
to watch it to see how it was
because I was in Public Affairs,
00:25:08.59\00:25:11.25
it was in the middle of the day,
and you know what is on in the
00:25:11.28\00:25:14.92
middle of the day on anything
besides 3ABN, it's Soap Operas.
00:25:14.95\00:25:18.56
They filmed this thing...
so they put the video into the
00:25:18.59\00:25:23.70
machine, and we watched, of
course we got a big section of
00:25:23.73\00:25:27.52
Soap Opera before the add
came on because they didn't
00:25:27.55\00:25:29.73
know exactly when it was going
to come on, so we sat there,
00:25:29.76\00:25:32.90
it was about 5 minutes worth
of Soap Opera before it came on.
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What I saw in that 5 minutes
did not leave me for months
00:25:36.84\00:25:41.43
afterwards, there was one
bad situation after another
00:25:41.46\00:25:44.86
bad situation, and it made
me depressed just to watch it.
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We find that the atmosphere
of society that the person is
00:25:48.51\00:25:53.32
growing up in
today is depressing.
00:25:53.35\00:25:55.20
Food is depressing, the
lifestyle is depressing,
00:25:55.23\00:25:58.30
the fact that there is just
no ambition, no drive to get on,
00:25:58.33\00:26:02.54
there is nothing better.
00:26:02.57\00:26:03.86
We are finding today that
God has been taken out of the
00:26:03.89\00:26:06.70
schools, out of the
homes, out of everywhere,
00:26:06.73\00:26:08.91
and when you are in that
situation you cannot help
00:26:08.94\00:26:12.46
but be depressed, so what we
need to do is get children back
00:26:12.49\00:26:16.01
in to knowing that there
is someone out there that
00:26:16.04\00:26:18.37
really does care.
00:26:18.41\00:26:19.38
We've got to many broken
homes, I'm from a broken home,
00:26:19.39\00:26:21.70
broken homes cause a
child to loose their bearings,
00:26:21.73\00:26:25.54
and if they have no
place else to turn to,
00:26:25.57\00:26:27.65
they are going to turn to
things, and we have been seeing
00:26:27.68\00:26:29.83
a lot in the press in the last
months about what's happening
00:26:29.86\00:26:33.11
with the anti-depressive
drugs for children.
00:26:33.14\00:26:36.80
They are leading them to
suicide, which they already
00:26:36.83\00:26:39.85
feel as a viable
option Dr. Thrash,
00:26:39.88\00:26:41.91
depression is a major
problem with children today.
00:26:41.94\00:26:44.80
Yes it is, and one good
thing that we know that can help
00:26:44.83\00:26:47.73
depression is exercise.
00:26:47.76\00:26:49.91
If a person gets out in
the sunshine and exercises
00:26:49.94\00:26:53.84
vigorously, that goes far toward
taking away the depression,
00:26:53.87\00:26:58.65
and if a person eats a
very simple diet, that goes far
00:26:58.68\00:27:02.81
toward taking
away the depression.
00:27:02.84\00:27:04.67
If the relationship between
the parents and the child
00:27:04.70\00:27:08.08
is a very good one, that also
goes far toward helping a person
00:27:08.11\00:27:12.52
to get rid of a depression.
00:27:12.55\00:27:14.22
Now parents sometimes
feel that they have no control
00:27:14.25\00:27:19.47
over these matters, but
often it is because they
00:27:19.50\00:27:23.63
don't really try.
00:27:23.66\00:27:24.75
I you will make an attempt
to get close to your child,
00:27:24.78\00:27:29.94
to have your child to love you,
and that you obviously love them
00:27:29.97\00:27:34.59
and that what you are doing
for them, the council that you
00:27:34.62\00:27:37.50
give them is for their
good, they will often be very
00:27:37.53\00:27:41.96
cooperative with any kind
of suggestion that you give.
00:27:41.99\00:27:46.10
If your child loves you,
they will usually want to do
00:27:46.13\00:27:49.81
what you want them to do.
00:27:49.84\00:27:51.04
I hope that some of these
suggestions will find a good
00:27:51.07\00:27:54.56
lodging for you, and it
will help you with your child.
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