Where does a parent get
information for rearing a child?
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There's a good
bit written out there.
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What of it is good, and what
is not good has to be studied.
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We will have some principles
that may help you to sort out
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which of the information
that you have available could be
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really good...
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So we hope 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's
your host, Dr. Thrash
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Now while not everything
that you will find in print
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is going to be helpful
for you to rear your child,
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there are some things
that can be very helpful,
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but you will find a
GREAT number of journals and
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and magazines such as
this one that I hold...
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And as I have read through
this I have found that there's a
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good bit of good
information in it.
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But then there are
some things that I would be
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just as happy not to
have parents believe that
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that was something good.
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I find that the very
best thing in print all around
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is a book
called "Child Guidance"
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When my
children were very small,
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I didn't have this
book available to me,
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but, later in their
lives, I did, and I felt that
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I made some corrections that
were just absolutely wonderful
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that helped me a lot
in rearing my children.
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Some of the principles
there were of such a nature
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that I could make certain
that the program was good
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even if I didn't know
certain scientific principles...
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or averages in the
rearing of my children,
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and in the control
of their health habits.
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I have some aids, some
charts, that I would like to
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show you that will help
you to know about the average
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height of a child, and
just how nicely you can
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judge just how your children
should stack up with the
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averages.
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Now, the average
height in children...
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the age x 2 + 32
equals the height
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To give you an example...
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Let's say a 2-1/2-year-old
child multiply that by 2
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you'll get 5... then 5 + 32 =37
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So, the height at
about 2-1/2 years should be
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around 37 inches.
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Now, that can be a guideline
for you with the height.
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But now, we have the weight.
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We need to know what
the average weight is
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...what might be considered
to be a normal weight.
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Although, I guess there
is no person that actually
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fully falls in the normal range.
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We hardly even know what a
normal range is for children.
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But the birth weight should
be between 6 and 8 pounds.
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If a person is
over 8 pounds at birth,
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that increases the
risk that a person would get
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diabetes later in life...
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And it also increases the risk
that the mother will develop
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diabetes some time in her life.
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Then at 6
months, the child should
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roughly double the birth weight.
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At 12 months, roughly
triple the birth weight.
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At 24 months,
quadruple the birth weight.
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So that will help you a
lot to know about averages.
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Now an average
weight in children...
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Let's give an example...
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So that can help you with that.
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This is in the very young age,
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but now what about
after the age of 3...
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Then we have some different
parameters that we need to check
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to let us know what the person
should weigh after the age of 3
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If we take the age,
multiply that by 5 and add 17,
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that will give us the average
weight after the age of 3
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Let's notice this example...
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A 4-year-old child,
multiply that by 5, gives 20
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20 + 17 gives 37,
so at the age of 4,
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the little child
should be around 37 pounds.
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So that can be very
helpful to you to know just what
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can be the average
height and weight of children.
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If your child doesn't
fall within this range,
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don't be greatly upset,
because that probably just
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means that if your
child LOOKS normal height
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FEELS normal weight,
then you're probably all right
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with your child, even
if he doesn't fall EXACTLY
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within this range
that I gave you here.
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Children who grow up
very fast are subject to a
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wide variety of illnesses
that we never had before
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because our children
are growing up much too
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fast in our age.
Why is this happening?
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Well, it's because of our
lifestyle in this modern society
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And, if you will study
your child's lifestyle,
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study also their
height, and weight,
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make certain they
are not greatly exceeding
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the height and weight charts.
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In fact, it would be
good if they were no more
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than just average.
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Now if your child is
gaining WAY too fast,
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getting tall WAY to fast...
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they're in the husky
sizes for each of the ages that
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they pass through,
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then you need to take better
care of your child's lifestyle
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...the exercise, the
sedentary habits that they have,
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the diet that they
have, what snack foods
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they have between
meals, and personally,
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I see no reason for a child
to have any snacks between meals
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If you will train
your child correctly,
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they will not get
hungry between meals.
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Just put their meals
about 5 to 7 hours apart
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and they won't get
hungry between meals unless
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you've trained them to
get hungry between meals.
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Our schools tend to train them.
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But one of the
problems in being overweight,
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is that children are now
getting gallbladder disease
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when they NEVER used to do it.
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We used to say the signs
of gallbladder disease were
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fourfold... FAT,
FAIR, FEMALE, and 40
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We can no longer say
that because they may not be
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fair any more...
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They are now darker-skinned
individuals also getting
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gallbladder disease.
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The 40, you can
forget that number because
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we now see gallbladder
disease at almost any age...
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even in 12 year
olds, or 8 year olds...
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They may have
gallstones and have to have
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the gallbladder operations.
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We also recognize that
it's not altogether females.
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Now males also have the
problem because men and boys
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are just as overweight
as little girls are which
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did not used to be.
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It used to be that most of the
time, it was the little girls
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who tended to be overweight,
rather than the little boys.
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Gallbladder disease may
also be the herald of some other
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problems in childhood,
and sometimes we may not
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relate psychological
problems to lifestyle,
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but they certainly are related.
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One of those is delinquency,
or crime in childhood.
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With me now is Dr. Donald Miller
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and he is going to talk
with you some about crime,
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and crime in
childhood is on the rise.
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You've probably seen the study
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that was done a
number of years ago...
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what was the major
problems with children,
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teenagers in the
1950s, compared to what was
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the major problem with teenagers
I think this study was done
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in the 80s.
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Some of the major problems in
the 1950s was cutting in line,
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talking in class, chewing
gum, throwing spit wads...
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A pretty rough group back then!
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But then they looked at
the problems with the children
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in the 80s, and I
would say probably even today
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in our schools... What are
the major problems we're having?
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We're having
assaults. We're having murders.
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We're having rapes.
We're having unbelievable
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amount of problems
with the children today.
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Now I'm not saying ALL children,
but we're seeing a very
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BIG rise in the temperament
of the children in our schools
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today, and
outside of our schools.
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What is causing
this unbelievable
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rise in crime in the schools?
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One of the things can be
the unstructured home life.
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Children now come home and
they're raised by their peers.
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They're raised by
their televisions.
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And what are they
seeing on the television?
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What are they
hearing in their music?
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They've got music today,
if you listen to the words,
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and I don't, every once in a
while I hear, I catch a snatch
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while filling up gas,
the very music is promoting
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a violent lifestyle.
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There's a very
interesting quote that I have...
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It is by Aristotle...
and he basically says,
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"If you listen to
ignoble music, you will become
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ignoble yourself. "
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"If you listen to noble
music, music of a higher level,
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you will rise to
that same level. "
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Listen to the music today,
don't listen to it too long...
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But you're going to find that
it is driving a person back down
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The television is
promoting crime in the child.
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But, I think one
of the BIGGEST things
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is these video games.
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A child sits down to their
computer, and they can sit there
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and kill 100
people before breakfast.
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It's violence,
it's just pure violence.
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And you cannot be
exposed to this much violence
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for such a long period
of time and not have it make
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some type of an
effect on your mind.
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There's a very good
principle in the Bible...
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By beholding, we become
changed into the same image.
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And so what
image are you allowing
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your children to observe...
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And children out
there, what are you watching?
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WHAT do you want to be like?
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Do you want to be like
that Kung-Fu master over there?
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Or would you
like to be like Jesus?
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We need to spend more time
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looking at THAT
which we'd like to become.
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The foods that we eat today...
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They did an interesting study
called "The Tidewater Study"
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And Tidewater is a prison.
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And what they did in
this prison, is they withdrew
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3 different things
from their lifestyles.
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They withdrew
caffeinated beverages,
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cola drinks, things
like that, and chocolate.
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They withdrew
refined carbohydrates,
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and they
withdrew sugary junk foods
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...just those simple 3 things
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none of which we
need for our lives.
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None of which we
need to make us grow
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healthier,
happier or anything else.
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They withdrew these 3
things from criminals,
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these are grown
men in the prison,
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they withdrew these
things, and they found that
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assaults diminished, robberies,
thefts from other prisoners
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diminished,
malicious horseplay diminished
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Everything went down
that prisoners seemed to get
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a little bit more
together because their diet
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just those 3 things.
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Those 3 things are what our
children are living on today.
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Our children come home from
school, the first thing they do
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is grab some gooey snack food.
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Grab some soda on
the way home from school.
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And all of these things
are going to excite something
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inside their bodies.
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They did another
interesting study with rats.
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They had 1 group of rats,
and they fed it the typical
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teenage diet which
included some good things,
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some salads and green beans,
but a lot of the bad things
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that our children are
typically growing up on today.
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And then they offered
them, in the cage, 2 choices...
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Straight water, or
water with 10% alcohol
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And they observed the rats,
and they found that the rats
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went to the alcohol
about 52% of the time.
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Now you might say,
"Well, a rat doesn't know
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the difference
between water and alcohol,
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they just drank what they
had, and 50% went one way,
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and 50% went the other way.
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Well, then they had a
second cage of rats...
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This cage of rats, they
gave Purina Lab Chow for rats...
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especially made for
rats living in these types of
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experimental conditions.
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Same 2 choices with the alcohol,
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these rats went to the
alcohol 18% of the time.
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But then we have a
third group of rats...
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Same 2 choices, but they
were getting a vegetarian diet.
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If I was a rat, I'd
want to be in this group
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A vegetarian diet, they went
to the alcohol 2.7% of the time.
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Unbelievable difference!
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And the alcohol is a
gateway to other problems.
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And as we go up the line...
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You see, children today
are out-of-control because
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they are into
EVERYTHING else in the world.
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We need to SLOW them down.
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Get them into something that's
going to cause their minds to be
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placed in looking
upwards to something
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far better as an example.
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So, we need to get our children
away from these things...
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the TV, the media,
the radio, the CDs...
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just unbelievable the
assault on our children today.
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And, it's going to cause a
much bigger crime wave than
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what we are seeing today,
and we need to get our children.
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We need to reclaim our children.
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Dr. Thrash... We
going to lose them.
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That's for sure.
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One of the problems with growing
up too fast and being too active
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in certain areas is
that of nearsightedness.
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I'd like to draw for you on
the board a diagram of the eye
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so that you can see just
how nearsightedness could occur
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in a person who reads too much,
and who is growing up too fast.
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Let's just say that
this represents the eye.
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This is the cornea here...
just a little bit of a bulge
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and then the eye
comes around like this,
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maybe I've made that just
a little bit off center...
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And we have then, here the
lens just at the front of the
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eye like this, and
then light rays come
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into the eye from afar,
and we can say they come in
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relatively
straight, just about like this
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And where they
come into the lens,
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they are then focused so
that the rays actually strike
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on the back part of the
retina, and focus there.
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Now that's in a person
who has a normal size eye.
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But in a child who
is reading too much,
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growing up too fast, the
eyeball will actually be larger,
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and so the person
focuses in front of the retina
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Such a person is
said to be nearsighted.
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Now, if the person
has a failure to thrive,
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they may, usually not,
but they may get a small
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eye and the
focus is behind them.
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This person is farsighted.
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So, nearsightedness with the
focus occurring before the rays
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get to the retina, this
nearsightedness is getting to be
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far more common in our day.
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So, ophthalmologists
are seeing children who are
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just 4 and 5 years of
age, who have been reading,
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or doing close work
with the eyes for many years
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...and that, of course,
encourages nearsightedness.
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Now, we have also
another problem...
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precocious puberty in children
is today a very serious problem.
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In some countries of the
world, it is considered to be
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in epidemic proportions.
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Only recently, it began to
be considered to be epidemic
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in the United States.
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Children getting their menstrual
period, or coming into their
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puberty with axillary hair,
and pubic hair FAR in advance of
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the time that they
used to many years ago.
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So, Dr. Miller is going
to talk with us a bit about
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precocious puberty,
and some of its causes.
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You know, you look back in
the 1880s, at the time a child
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would reach puberty basically
when the time that they
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could reproduce
their generation,
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it was usually between
16 and 18 years of age.
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And, there are countries in
the world today... it's still
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up in that area because of
certain lifestyle modifications.
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But we find that today, about
every decade, we're loping about
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6 months off of
the generation age.
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And today, basically,
the puberty, on the average,
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is around 11.
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I read an article which
was SO startling to me...
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It said, "1 in 6 girls
reaches puberty by the age of 8"
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That means a child, at
the age of 8 years old,
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has all the hormones, and
the developing equipment to be a
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full grown woman, but she
has the experience of a child.
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A boy has an
experience of a boy.
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And what do you do,
when you have that situation?
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It's a serious, serious
problem in the world today.
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They were
observing, epidemiologists,
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a particular problem
of precocious puberty.
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It was happening in
Puerto Rico some years ago.
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And I've seen the studies,
and I have seen the pictures
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which were some
extremely alarming pictures.
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They found a whole group
of children to be developing
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extremely quick...
we're talking about young boys
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5, 6, 7 with developed breasts.
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We're talking
about all the secondary
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sexual characteristics...
pubic hair, everything,
00:18:29.31\00:18:33.43
the voice dropping...
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We're talking about
children WAY before their teens
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coming into this problem.
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They started saying, "What is
the problem we're having here"
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This was a serious epidemic.
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So they sent the epidemiologist
down there to search out
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why are all these children...
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They found out that all of
these children were from homes
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of parents who worked right
down the road at the chicken
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factory.
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We find that a chicken... I
was raised partly on a farm,
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and every spring we'd
buy a whole clutch of eggs
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and we'd incubate
them, and they'd hatch out
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And it took about 12 weeks,
at the minimum for them to get
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to be what we call, a
garish thought... "fryer age. "
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They've got that down,
in many places, to 8 weeks.
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But I was in Japan not long
ago, and a man was telling me
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that he has a
friend in South America,
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that his father
runs one of these places,
00:19:25.68\00:19:28.59
and they've got it down
to, I don't know how they
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did this, 18 days!
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Now can you imagine
taking a little fluffy chick
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to the size so they can be
killed and eaten in 18 days.
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I mean, 8 weeks is bad enough.
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How do they do that... hormones.
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The children are receiving
these hormones through the food
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because if you give
the hormone to an animal,
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and you eat the
animal, you get the hormones.
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And these are hormones
that accelerate the growth,
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and that's what we're
seeing in children today...
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an acceleration in their growth.
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That's was we call
"precocious puberty"
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We need to slow it down.
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How do you slow it down?
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I would recommend you
get on the most simple diet
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that you can...
fruits, vegetables,
00:20:07.97\00:20:10.32
whole grains, nuts and seeds.
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If they eat those things,
00:20:12.88\00:20:14.31
they're getting all
the calcium they need.
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They're getting all
the protein they need.
00:20:16.29\00:20:18.17
Throw in some organic
vegetables, have them eat it
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without peeling it.
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You're going to
get your vitamin B12.
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Have them eat a simple diet.
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But there are other
things that cause this
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precocious puberty...
is the avenues to the soul.
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We need to guard, carefully,
the avenues to the soul.
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I've already talked about
it in the crime in children.
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We've got to watch
what goes in the ears.
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Watch what goes in the
eyes, as well as what goes
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in the mouth... and
slow this process down
00:20:41.17\00:20:43.73
because you see precocious
puberty OPENS THE DOOR
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to all kinds of adult diseases.
00:20:46.95\00:20:49.92
And we find that the
sooner a child grows up,
00:20:49.95\00:20:52.49
the sooner and the
quicker they will grow down.
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When I say grow down, start
developing the adult diseases.
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Adult-onset
diabetes, osteoporosis,
00:21:00.26\00:21:03.72
coronary heart disease...
all of these things are now
00:21:03.75\00:21:06.53
childhood
diseases... It's a crime.
00:21:06.56\00:21:08.39
It should never have happened.
00:21:08.42\00:21:09.89
But you're going to
find that a child who is
00:21:09.92\00:21:12.65
raised very simply...
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Now the trouble with our
society, you see this is also
00:21:15.28\00:21:18.16
a societal mindset.
00:21:18.17\00:21:20.92
You take the child out
in public and your child
00:21:20.95\00:21:23.58
happens to be a little smaller.
00:21:23.61\00:21:24.95
they don't have all the muscles
already and all the bulk to them
00:21:24.98\00:21:28.25
and they think that the
child is being abused...
00:21:28.28\00:21:30.25
And they look over at this
other child who already is a
00:21:30.28\00:21:32.85
foot taller, and
already developing...
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When I see a child, 10
years of age, already developing
00:21:35.07\00:21:39.41
their adulthood characteristics,
I grieve for the parents
00:21:39.44\00:21:46.43
and I grieve for the
child because that child
00:21:46.46\00:21:48.85
has things going on in their
body that they have no idea
00:21:48.88\00:21:51.74
how to control because
of their small experience.
00:21:51.75\00:21:54.83
And with that small experience,
it's going to open up a gateway
00:21:54.86\00:21:58.05
to many, many problems.
00:21:58.08\00:22:00.23
And we need to
SLOW this process down.
00:22:00.26\00:22:02.54
And if your child is
growing slowly, don't worry
00:22:02.57\00:22:05.24
they will grow as tall
as God has made them to grow
00:22:05.27\00:22:08.25
at the proper time.
00:22:08.28\00:22:09.53
Let them grow up at
18 and 19, not 8 and 9.
00:22:09.56\00:22:13.04
Those who are growing up
at 8 and 9, are going to be
00:22:13.07\00:22:15.75
old people by
the time they're 40.
00:22:15.78\00:22:17.64
Those who are growing up slower,
will live to 60, 70, 80 and
00:22:17.67\00:22:21.79
still have that youthful vigor.
00:22:21.82\00:22:24.25
You see, taking all
these things to our systems,
00:22:24.28\00:22:27.10
we do what's called,
"we use up our vital force,
00:22:27.13\00:22:30.42
our vital capacity.
00:22:30.45\00:22:31.74
Moses, we're told, that
at 120, his eye was not dim
00:22:31.77\00:22:36.84
nor his natural force abated.
00:22:36.87\00:22:39.49
But burning these
types of fuels in the body,
00:22:39.50\00:22:42.75
these unclean
fuels of these bad foods,
00:22:42.78\00:22:45.02
and this bad lifestyle, causes
an acceleration of the burning
00:22:45.05\00:22:49.94
of our natural forces...
00:22:49.97\00:22:52.18
And so that when we
get to those older ages,
00:22:52.21\00:22:54.59
we've found that
we've worn ourselves out by
00:22:54.62\00:22:57.72
the time we're 40s and 50s
00:22:57.75\00:22:59.88
I've known people in their
50s who were OLD people already.
00:22:59.91\00:23:03.42
And I've known people in
their 80s and 90s who were
00:23:03.45\00:23:06.10
still, in many
ways, young people.
00:23:06.13\00:23:08.28
I want to keep my youth as
long as possible, Dr. Thrash.
00:23:08.31\00:23:11.46
Amen!
00:23:11.49\00:23:12.95
One of those diseases that
we get from growing up too fast,
00:23:12.98\00:23:16.61
getting too large
is that of diabetes.
00:23:16.64\00:23:19.63
Again, this is a
disease now of children.
00:23:19.66\00:23:22.83
We used to call this type 2
diabetes, adult-onset diabetes,
00:23:22.86\00:23:26.94
but now, we just call
it type 2, because children
00:23:26.97\00:23:30.40
are also getting diabetes.
00:23:30.43\00:23:32.55
The cure, or the way
to help it is, of course,
00:23:32.58\00:23:35.41
to slow down the
process of development
00:23:35.42\00:23:39.02
in the ways that Dr.
Miller mentioned so that
00:23:39.05\00:23:42.70
the child does not get that
priming that will be obtained
00:23:42.73\00:23:47.84
from being
overweight, too tall, too soon.
00:23:47.87\00:23:53.12
We have found that
even the diet of the mother
00:23:53.15\00:23:57.64
primes the cells
of the unborn child
00:23:57.67\00:24:02.75
so that they are more likely
to get overweight later in life
00:24:02.78\00:24:06.74
So, for the woman to eat
LARGE quantities of sugar,
00:24:06.75\00:24:11.91
or LARGE quantities of
fat just because the appetite
00:24:11.94\00:24:14.89
calls for it during pregnancy,
is a wrong thing for the child.
00:24:14.92\00:24:19.37
Some of these things are worse
for the child, than the forms of
00:24:19.40\00:24:23.29
child abuse that everybody
makes a large outcry for.
00:24:23.32\00:24:27.56
So, we want to be careful
to handle that in a proper way.
00:24:27.59\00:24:32.41
Now, an unrelated problem,
but actually pretty common
00:24:32.44\00:24:37.80
nowadays, is
head lice in children.
00:24:37.83\00:24:42.36
In schools, they
will have an outbreak,
00:24:42.39\00:24:44.91
and it will go
through the school.
00:24:44.94\00:24:46.29
So Dr. Miller is going
to talk with you a bit about
00:24:46.32\00:24:49.38
this problem of head lice,
and what we can do about it.
00:24:49.41\00:24:52.03
I lived in
Hawaii for a few years,
00:24:52.06\00:24:55.94
and there, they call
lice a different word...
00:24:55.95\00:24:58.78
A lot of the language
in Hawaii is Hawaiian,
00:24:58.81\00:25:03.09
so they call them "ukus"
00:25:03.12\00:25:04.60
And about once a week or
so, a nurse would go through,
00:25:04.63\00:25:07.98
and check every
single child's hair for ukus.
00:25:08.01\00:25:11.08
And, of course, we
call them head lice.
00:25:11.11\00:25:13.54
We've got head lice, body lice,
and pubic lice called "crabs"
00:25:13.55\00:25:17.01
and these things are
basically transmitted by
00:25:17.02\00:25:20.22
SHARING our things.
00:25:20.25\00:25:21.67
Now we're told to
train our children to share,
00:25:21.70\00:25:24.54
and sharing is a good thing,
00:25:24.57\00:25:25.94
but it's sharing the
hats, sharing the combs,
00:25:25.97\00:25:29.21
sharing the brushes,
sharing the clothing,
00:25:29.24\00:25:31.74
that will cause us to
transmit these lice...
00:25:31.77\00:25:34.88
and they are a real problem.
00:25:34.91\00:25:36.51
I remember a number of
years ago, some friends of mine
00:25:36.54\00:25:39.96
at Uchee Pines had
gone out in the community
00:25:39.99\00:25:41.79
and found 2 young
children living in a home,
00:25:41.82\00:25:45.90
and being raised
by their grandparents,
00:25:45.93\00:25:48.67
and their grandparents
were willing to let them be
00:25:48.70\00:25:50.79
taken over and every once in
a while, they'd come to visit
00:25:50.82\00:25:54.24
and these children's hair
were unbelievably infected
00:25:54.27\00:25:57.87
with lice.
00:25:57.90\00:25:58.88
You could look and almost
every hair follicle had a number
00:25:58.91\00:26:02.12
of these little white things
called "nits," the little eggs
00:26:02.15\00:26:04.87
and their hair was just teeming.
00:26:04.88\00:26:07.03
And, back then, I'm
afraid what we used was some
00:26:07.06\00:26:10.22
of these antilice-type
shampoos which are all toxic.
00:26:10.25\00:26:14.87
They all cause problems...
we do not recommend them
00:26:14.90\00:26:17.22
anymore, and they
didn't work anyway.
00:26:17.23\00:26:19.98
We had tried a nit comb,
and tried to comb the nits out,
00:26:20.02\00:26:22.41
and they just would not get
them all until we finally just
00:26:22.45\00:26:25.35
had to cut their hair
off and start over fresh.
00:26:25.39\00:26:29.02
But trouble is, we take
them back to their homes,
00:26:29.05\00:26:32.64
and in their homes, the
bedding would be infected,
00:26:32.65\00:26:34.74
their clothing
would be infected.
00:26:34.77\00:26:36.60
When you have lice,
everything has to be cleaned up.
00:26:36.63\00:26:39.61
Also, you might
think that washing you hair
00:26:39.64\00:26:42.98
and staying clean will
help avoid getting these lice
00:26:43.01\00:26:47.06
Lice like cleanness,
especially those head lice
00:26:47.09\00:26:50.56
They LIKE clean hair.
00:26:50.59\00:26:51.87
What they do, is
they get up there...
00:26:51.88\00:26:53.02
they lay some eggs, and
they live by sucking your blood.
00:26:53.05\00:26:55.56
There are a few
things you CAN do besides
00:26:55.59\00:26:58.29
avoiding getting them by not
00:26:58.32\00:26:59.91
sharing with people,
and every once in a while
00:26:59.94\00:27:02.18
checking to make
sure you don't have them.
00:27:02.21\00:27:03.41
You can take some Neem
oil, mix it with some turmeric,
00:27:03.45\00:27:08.38
and make a paste, and
apply that to the hair,
00:27:08.41\00:27:10.75
and leave it on
for a couple of hours.
00:27:10.76\00:27:13.14
You can take some
kerosene, be careful with this,
00:27:13.17\00:27:15.21
but you can take some kerosene,
work that into the hair,
00:27:15.24\00:27:18.20
wrap it up with a towel, leave
that for a couple of hours.
00:27:18.23\00:27:21.45
Garlic is another one...
00:27:21.48\00:27:22.69
Make some garlic paste,
work that into some oil,
00:27:22.72\00:27:25.71
work that into the hair.
00:27:25.74\00:27:27.12
The lice won't like this.
00:27:27.15\00:27:28.95
There are a number
of things you can do...
00:27:28.98\00:27:30.45
The body lice don't like heat.
00:27:30.48\00:27:32.51
If you have the lice,
you've got to sit there and wash
00:27:32.54\00:27:34.97
EVERYTHING in
your surroundings...
00:27:35.00\00:27:36.41
ALL your
clothes, ALL your bedding.
00:27:36.44\00:27:38.18
Take everything
out, get everything clean
00:27:38.21\00:27:40.41
so you do not
re-infect yourself.
00:27:40.44\00:27:42.28
There are some
other things you can do
00:27:42.31\00:27:44.07
Citronella oil... we
use that for mosquitoes.
00:27:44.10\00:27:47.46
But there are lots
of things we can do for
00:27:47.49\00:27:48.89
nits and lice and I like them.
00:27:48.90\00:27:51.54
I'm sure that all these
things will be very helpful
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for you in dealing with
these problems of children.
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