Syndrome X is growing worldwide.
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You may sort of like the name
of the disease, "syndrome X"
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But, it's actually
a cluster of diseases.
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We're genetically
predisposed to get syndrome X.
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We'd like to talk with
you on this program about
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some of those things that can
make it so that you will know
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more about how to avoid
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this cluster of diseases.
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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 we are genetically
predisposed to get syndrome X,
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we can do MUCH to keep
ourselves from getting this,
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and especially when we
understand the mechanisms
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that are involved
in getting syndrome X.
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One of those things
that we have with syndrome X
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is hypertension.
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Hypertension is a
problem that we can say is
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both familial, as well as
lifestyle, and the lifestyle
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is one that can
be easily changed.
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So, we'd like to talk with
you about a number of things
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having to do with this
lifestyle-triggered genetic
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mechanism... syndrome X
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First to define the
syndrome, it's associated with
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a variety of
serious adult problems...
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hypertension, diabetes,
heart disease, and strokes,
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and overweight, and
perhaps cancer as well.
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So all of this cluster
of disorders associated with
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a familial likelihood of getting
it, and called "syndrome X"
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Now it also goes by the
name of the "metabolic syndrome"
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I actually like that one
better because it describes the
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conditions that
occur a little bit better.
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It's a metabolism-driven
problem that we have.
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Now syndrome X... Let's
start with the discussion
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of hypertension, and what
you can do for hypertension.
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Of course, everybody knows that
if a person has hypertension,
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if they are also overweight,
and they lose weight,
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that can be a
GREAT help to them.
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How does one get
rid of overweight?
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Well there are a very
good variety of things that you
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can do including the kind
of exercise that you have.
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The best kind of
exercise for you is
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that kind of
exercise that YOU like to do.
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If you like
gardening, that's good.
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If you like running,
that's also good provided
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you are a constant runner,
and not just a once-a-month
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runner, and you've been
doing it all your life...
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that could be helpful
to do running or jogging.
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But, for most people, I
can say that walking is the
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very best exercise...
We NEED to do walking
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Gardening can be
both aerobic, as well as
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strength training,
and flexibility-inducing.
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So, I like gardening very much,
and it has one MAJOR advantage
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and that is
that it's coercive...
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You need to get out
there, and do your gardening.
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You look out and you
see... Oh, those weeds are
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getting higher every day!
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So you take the hoe,
and go out there and REALLY
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ATTACK IT... maybe
you only have 20 minutes
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to work in the garden, but
you've got 5 rows to hoe out.
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So, if you need to
use a hoe 30 minutes more,
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or 20 minutes for 5 rows,
you're going to have to have
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that hoe flying pretty fast.
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That gets the heart rate up,
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that gets you a
little breathless,
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and that means a
good amount of exercise...
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You're exercising
at a proper speed.
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Now, if that's
not enough for you,
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then you need to lift
some weights, or do some
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other kind of exercising
to make sure that your muscle
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masses are quite large.
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Larger muscle
masses, as a general rule,
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will produce certain substances
that help to bring the
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blood pressure down.
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So, keep good muscles!
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Make sure that your
muscles are always pretty much
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maximum for your frame,
and your kind of family.
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Now another thing that
you need to be VERY aware of
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is the kind of
diet that you take.
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Diet is important in a
number of ways for hypertension.
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#1... Don't eat too much.
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People who eat too much can
measure their blood pressure
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after the meal, and find that
the before-meal blood pressure,
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and the after-meal
blood pressure is MUCH higher
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if they have overeaten, than
if they've just eaten a little
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...or if they've
eaten a proper amount.
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How much is enough?
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Most of the time, for
most people with syndrome X,
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it's a lot less than
they thought they needed.
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It's as little as you
can get by with without being
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just exhausted
before your next meal,
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or that you lose a LOT
of weight very rapidly.
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So, try to judge the
amount of weight that you lose
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by a proper scale
which is, generally speaking,
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no more than about 1
pound a week for the long haul.
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You can lose as much as
you can in the first week,
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but then after that, you don't
want to lose quite so rapidly.
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Now in addition to that,
you want to be certain that the
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quality of the food
that you eat is appropriate.
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#1... Be very careful
that you don't eat salty foods
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or fatty foods.
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Hypertension does not do
well with either one of those.
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The amount of salt that
you should take is about
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1/2 teaspoonful
in all that you eat.
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That's not very much salt.
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So if you prepare your
food completely without salt,
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that means no salt in the
factory, no salt at the stove,
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and no salt at the table,
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and then, measure into a
salt shaker a 1/2 teaspoon
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of salt... Then you can use that
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ANY WAY you wish, but
that's all you get all day.
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And if you have some left
over, that's all right too.
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But 1/2 teaspoonful is about
right for the amount of salt
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for a person who
has hypertension.
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Now if you don't have
hypertension, you may not
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need to be quite so
rigid in the amount of salt
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that you take, but no one
should really eat salty foods.
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If we eat very salty
foods, even one salty meal,
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can adversely affect the kidneys
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And throughout our lives,
the kidneys lose 1 nephron
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here and another nephron there,
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so that in a lifetime, you
can lose a large proportion
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of the nephrons
that you're born with...
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So you want to avoid that
loss if at all possible...
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so that the probability of
your ever having kidney failure
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is diminished.
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Now, how much
fat should one take?
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The smallest amount
probably... the better.
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I think in the Dean
Ornish Program, which is
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probably the most
famous lifestyle program
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in the world today,
Dean Ornish aims at about
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10% of the diet
in the form of fat.
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That would almost
eliminate all forms of free fat,
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such as margarine, mayonnaise,
fried foods, cooking fats,
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salad oils, and nut butters.
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You would just almost
eliminate that totally.
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And just get your
fats, you have to have fats.
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There are essential fatty acids
that are necessary for the body
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You can get those from
nuts, and seeds, and grains,
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and olives, avocado...
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In these ways, you can
get a very good quality
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fat that will supply all
your requirements for fat,
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but will not
injure your body at all.
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Now, one of the things that I've
been interested in following
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in recent years has
been the studies on soy.
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Those studies have
been very interesting.
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Here is an article
that came out in the
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"American Journal
of Clinical Nutrition"
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last year and it
showed that soy protein has a
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cardioprotective
effect, and we can capitalize
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on that... I wish it
were more strong, but
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we, at least, what we
do have in the way of the
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soy protection, we
want to capitalize on that.
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Where do you get
these protective qualities?
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It's not from the
highly refined foods...
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it's from the whole soy.
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In this way, soybeans
do us the very most good.
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Cook up the soybeans yourself,
and use very little salt in them
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No oil because soybeans
are naturally oily foods.
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That's where we get
soy oil, as you know.
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And so, if you just cook them
up, just boil them as you do
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ordinary beans, and
take about 1/4 of a cup a day
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...that's all you need to
get the protective benefits
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Then that will help you to
keep from oxidizing your LDL,
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that's the bad cholesterol...
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And the oxidized form
of LDL is the most damaging
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form that we have.
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And soy will naturally lower
the blood pressure a little bit
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in people who have
high blood pressure.
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Now if your blood
pressure is not high,
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soy won't make you drop your
blood pressure out the bottom
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You still should take soy
because it also has many other
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very good functions.
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It definitely helps you not
to get cancer of the breast.
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It probably helps you not
to get cancer of the prostate.
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So those are some features
of hypertension that can be of
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help to you, and more
information on overweight
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will now be given to
you by Dr. Don Miller.
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Well you know, Dr. Thrash
talked about salt in the diet,
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and I just want to give a little
thing before I get into the
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overweight thing.
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I was working a few years
ago, with a group of Koreans,
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at a Korean lifestyle
center, and as I went into the
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experience, I found that every
single patient was on a totally
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salt-free diet.
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And, there was one cook,
and so the patients were on a
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totally salt-free diet, and the
staff was on a totally salt-free
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diet... and that means, I
WAS ON A TOTALLY SALT-FREE DIET!
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Now, for the first few days,
it seemed like a rather bland
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and insipid dietary...
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But, as we went into the program
and at the end of the 2 weeks
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that I was with them, to
me it was EXTREMELY GOOD FOOD
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I went back to my
home, being a bachelor I am,
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I was in a hurry and I
opened up my can of beans
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and dumped them in the
pot, and I ate one biteful
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As a matter of fact,
I only put one biteful
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in my mouth... I did not eat it.
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It was SO salty, I
dumped it all back out.
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We TRAIN
ourselves to like the salt.
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A half a teaspoon is
not hard to get used to
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After just a few
days, it will be something
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quite natural for you.
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When we think of
high blood pressure...
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When we think of diabetes...
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When we think of
coronary heart disease...
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We often try to look for
what might be the one thing that
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might precipitate these things.
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What might be
the very beginning?
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And basically we see these
diseases all lead to syndrome X,
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except for the
cancer, of course,
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...as being a continuum,
and many times the foundation
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of this problem is
overweight, or obesity.
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...And it is a major problem.
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A person who is overweight,
basically their cells become
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more resistant to insulin.
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We all have cells in our
bodies, and they have many, many
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sometimes hundreds of
different receptor sites...
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or thousands
different receptor sites,
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and some of these
receptor sites are for insulin.
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For some reason, the
cells become more resistant
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and it means it loses their
receptor sites for the insulin
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and so our body is full of
insulin, and full of glucose
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but the body
doesn't know this sometimes,
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and so when the cells start
crying out for more glucose,
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the body sends a message for the
pancreas to produce more insulin
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And so now you start to
wear out the pancreas with the
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increase of the insulin, and now
insulin builds up in the body
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which is one of the
steps towards syndrome X.
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And so, we need to get
the weight under control.
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Now, it's easy
for me to say this.
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It's easy for me to
talk about how it's so easy
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to be underweight...
Or to NORMAL weight,
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because I have
ALWAYS been as thin as I am.
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As a matter of fact, I
was just weighing myself
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the other day... I
weight exactly the same now
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as when I went into the
Marine Corps in my 23rd year...
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155 pounds, and
I'm thankful for that.
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And YOU also, can get back
down to where you need to be.
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Everyone has an ideal weight,
and you need to get there...
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How do you do this?
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There are a
number of simple ways.
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#1... You need to eat
the right types of food.
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Fruits, vegetables,
whole grains nuts and seeds...
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And the nuts and seeds in
moderation, but the other 3,
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eat plentifully
at the right times.
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A person with overweight...
normally they got there
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for a few bad habits.
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And if you
correct these bad habits,
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you're going to find
that you lose weight even if
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you're not even trying to.
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No snacking between meals.
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Not so much as a peanut,
not even an organic apple.
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Nothing between meals.
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You're going to find you're
going to lose some weight.
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Basically, after 3
o'clock in the afternoon,
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no more eating.
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Basically, you're
now onto a 2- meal plan.
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...A good
breakfast, and a good dinner.
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Dinner being your lunch meal.
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And then nothing else
for the rest of the day.
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If you want to lose
weight, this will help.
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Getting into an
exercise program...
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daily exercise, not
sporadic exercise...
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But you're going to
get into a plan where
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I AM GOING TO
EXERCISE EVERY SINGLE DAY.
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Now some people,
when they're overweight,
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they just have a
hard time getting into the
00:14:52.27\00:14:54.07
exercise program,
because they've got
00:14:54.08\00:14:55.85
a lot of weight to carry around.
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DO WHAT YOU CAN!
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But be FAITHFUL EVERY SINGLE DAY
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you're out there
doing some exercise.
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You're out every day...
The best one is walking,
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just take a nice walk
up to the corner and back.
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The next day, up to the corner,
around, and then back again.
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Every day, you
walk a little bit more.
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Another good clue to
help to lose weight...
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When you get
done with your meal,
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LEAVE THE SCENE OF THE CRIME.
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Basically, many
people... and I find myself
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even doing this sometimes.
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I get done eating, and
I just want to sit back
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and going to start gabbing
with the people at the table
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And as you're sitting
there talking, you reach over
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and you grab one
more of those things...
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and put that in your mouth
and chew it, and you swallow
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that thing, and
you're talking some more,
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and there's another little
piece you're going to clean off
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...Well, this
bowl is almost empty,
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let's clean this one off too!
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And you eat
that, and you chew it,
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and you keep on
eating, and eating, and eating
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LONG after you
should have stopped eating,
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so stay away from
that particular problem.
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Drink plenty of
water in-between meals.
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Many times, you know,
the body sends signals
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that you are thirsty, and the
trouble with that signal is...
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sometimes the body translates
that signal as "hunger"
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So, midday, you feel
like, "Man, I am really hungry"
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and if you feel that way, drink
yourself a BIG glass of water,
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and you're going to find that
most times, that desire for the
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food goes away quite quickly.
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You need to stay
away from "free fats"
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That means butter, margarine,
fried foods, salad oils,
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cooking fats,
mayonnaise, and nut butters.
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If you are overweight,
stay away from these.
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These have a number of bad
implications in your health.
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#1... They're going to cause the
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fat to go to places
where you don't need it.
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We DO need fat, as
Dr. Thrash mentioned,
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but we don't need
as much as we have.
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It goes to the wrong places...
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Plus, it makes the
blood a little bit thicker...
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And, it will make your cells
less able to receive the glucose
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through the insulin receptors.
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And so, stay
away from free fats.
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Eat a good dietary of good food.
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No snacking between meals.
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Nothing late at night.
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Nothing after 3 p. m.
is really the best way.
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Get the weight under
control. Those simple things...
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I knew a young woman one time...
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She was EXTREMELY overweight.
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And she did just 2 things...
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She stopped eating junk foods,
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and she started
exercising every day,
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and within 1 year...
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As a matter of fact, I once
mistook her for somebody else
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who was a THIN person!
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And I called this person's
name, and it turned out to be
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the OTHER person who,
the year before, had been
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extremely obese.
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DO these simple things...
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And you're going to MISS your
appointment with hypertension,
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MISS your
appointment with diabetes
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MISS your
appointment with syndrome X
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MISS your appointment
with an early appointment
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with the undertaker.
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That's very good...
we all want to DO THAT!
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Now with diabetes, which
is probably the first of the
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syndrome X
diseases that we discovered,
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diabetes we can do far
more good with than most
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of the others by
simply losing weight.
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How do you lose weight?
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Well, Dr. Miller
mentioned a few things.
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We have mentioned also
the fact that LONG periods of
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exercise are better
than short periods...
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And the reason for that is
that during the first 30 minutes
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of exercising, you are
mainly burning the carbohydrates
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that you stored in
muscles, and skin, and kidneys
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and liver...
where we can stash away
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some carbohydrate for
storage, we first deplete
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those
carbohydrate storage areas,
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and THEN we start using
the fat that we have stored.
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Once we get past
about 30 minutes,
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fat starts being metabolized
to furnish energy and heat
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for the exercise, and
both of those can go far toward
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helping you to lose weight.
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Now if you exercise
even more than an hour,
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the longer you exercise,
the more weight per minute
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you're actually losing.
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It's getting to that
first hour, that's the thing...
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and especially to
the first 1/2 an hour.
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Then past that, you
will start losing weight.
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We have reversing
diabetes programs that
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are very helpful to people.
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I recommend to
people who have diabetes,
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that they get on a program,
and in a GROUP of people
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If they get in a group,
they are more likely to stay
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with a weight loss program,
than if they don't have a group.
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It's the matter
of accountability.
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You go there once a
week, you weigh in...
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and not that you tell people
what you weigh necessarily,
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but you can say, "I
LOST a little bit. "
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Or, "Unfortunately, I
GAINED a little bit. "
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And in both of those
instances, the accountability
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will go far toward helping you
to lose weight for your diabetes
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Another very helpful thing,
is simply keeping a diet list.
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Just write down
everything that you eat.
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If you take your breakfast, and
just write down everything...
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the quantity that you ate.
00:20:08.74\00:20:10.57
The next thing and the quantity.
00:20:10.60\00:20:12.76
And the next
thing and the quantity.
00:20:12.79\00:20:14.57
Try to keep the number
of things at a meal down to
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3 or 4 things, even down
to 2... that's not wrong.
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A fresh thing and a dish that's
not fresh... that's cooked.
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You can have a very nice meal
on just those very simple things
00:20:28.20\00:20:34.22
and that helps
you to lose weight.
00:20:34.25\00:20:35.78
Something about having to
write down what you have eaten
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makes it so that
you can lose weight.
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It inhibits your desire
for that dish of seconds.
00:20:43.09\00:20:48.05
Many good principles can be
learned by being with a group
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so I recommend that for you.
00:20:53.18\00:20:54.85
Now, another part of
these related diseases is gout.
00:20:54.88\00:21:01.89
And while we don't generally
think of gout as being a part
00:21:01.92\00:21:04.88
of syndrome X, it
is so closely related,
00:21:04.91\00:21:07.98
that we're going to
discuss that for you right now.
00:21:08.01\00:21:10.11
Dr. Miller is going to
present a few things for you
00:21:10.14\00:21:12.91
on the subject of gout.
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Well the reason why it
is so closely connected is
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because the lifestyle
that will lead to syndrome X
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is the same lifestyle
that's going to lead to
00:21:20.27\00:21:22.12
things like gout.
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Gout is an extremely
inflammatory form of arthritis.
00:21:23.35\00:21:28.66
And, if anyone has
it, they'll know usually
00:21:28.69\00:21:31.27
where it was first felt.
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As a matter of fact,
that's a good diagnostic tool.
00:21:33.76\00:21:36.73
Someone sits there and says,
"I've got this terrible pain
00:21:36.76\00:21:39.99
in my big toe," that is where
00:21:40.02\00:21:42.78
you normally
find gout beginning.
00:21:42.81\00:21:44.95
Gout is basically caused
by a buildup of uric acid
00:21:44.99\00:21:50.80
in the bloodstream.
00:21:50.83\00:21:51.97
The bloodstream
goes through the kidneys,
00:21:52.00\00:21:54.53
it tries to excrete it,
but the higher the levels are
00:21:54.56\00:21:57.46
in the bloodstream;
finally, the kidneys say,
00:21:57.49\00:21:59.68
"I can't do all this," and
so it stays in the bloodstream
00:21:59.71\00:22:02.80
and it begins to crystallize.
00:22:02.83\00:22:04.59
And it will crystallize...
that's why the big toe,
00:22:04.62\00:22:07.45
about as far as it can get.
00:22:07.48\00:22:08.79
It goes all the way down to
the big toe, and it begins to
00:22:08.82\00:22:11.46
crystallize in the articulating
joint of the big toe
00:22:11.49\00:22:14.93
where the 2 bones come together,
00:22:14.96\00:22:17.40
and will crystallize in
there; therefore, the PAIN
00:22:17.43\00:22:20.08
when that joint
moves, becomes rather severe.
00:22:20.11\00:22:24.04
You find that if a
person has that pain down there,
00:22:24.07\00:22:27.59
if you press the
toe, or you move the toe,
00:22:27.62\00:22:31.04
if it exacerbates the
pain, makes the pain much worse,
00:22:31.05\00:22:34.41
it's a good clue that
this is, indeed, gout.
00:22:34.44\00:22:37.82
If it does not, that
probably is not the problem.
00:22:37.83\00:22:40.44
But pressure and
movement, accelerates the pain.
00:22:40.45\00:22:44.32
It heightens the pain.
00:22:44.35\00:22:45.60
And what's going to
happen if you have this problem,
00:22:45.63\00:22:48.42
it's going to start
moving to other joints
00:22:48.43\00:22:50.30
...your other toes, your
ankles, your knees, your hips.
00:22:50.33\00:22:52.72
And pretty soon, you've
got these uric acid crystals
00:22:52.75\00:22:56.59
in ALL of your
joints, and you're in pretty
00:22:56.62\00:22:58.66
miserable condition.
00:22:58.69\00:22:59.70
So what do you do?
00:22:59.73\00:23:01.12
First of all, you quit putting
high amounts of uric acid
00:23:01.15\00:23:04.70
into your body...
Where do you get that?
00:23:04.73\00:23:06.11
By a high level of meat
products in your diet purines
00:23:06.14\00:23:10.31
These things all are
carrying lots of uric acid.
00:23:10.34\00:23:13.53
Basically, when
the animal was killed,
00:23:13.54\00:23:17.63
it had uric acid
in his bloodstream...
00:23:17.66\00:23:20.68
It's in the meat. That's
what gives it the flavor.
00:23:20.72\00:23:22.80
You eat it. It's
in your bloodstream
00:23:22.83\00:23:24.51
and now we've got
the major problem.
00:23:24.54\00:23:25.98
And so, get away
from the animal products.
00:23:26.01\00:23:28.96
Completely away from
the ALL the animal products
00:23:28.97\00:23:31.03
will help extremely much.
00:23:31.06\00:23:32.61
And then take the universal
solvent... drink LOTS of water!
00:23:32.64\00:23:36.96
The more water, the better.
00:23:36.99\00:23:38.56
You're going to find that
it will start to break down
00:23:38.59\00:23:41.94
these acid crystals...
00:23:41.97\00:23:43.01
As your kidneys say, "Okay,
we can handle all this now"
00:23:43.04\00:23:45.91
The blood will start
reabsorbing these crystals
00:23:46.81\00:23:50.02
take them to the kidneys,
and they're out of the body.
00:23:50.05\00:23:52.00
There are some other very
NICE things that you can do
00:23:52.01\00:23:55.77
for this problem.
00:23:55.80\00:23:57.27
One of them is cherries.
00:23:57.30\00:23:58.89
Cherries is an extremely good
food for the gouty condition
00:23:58.92\00:24:03.99
And so, when it
comes into cherry season,
00:24:04.02\00:24:06.24
I wouldn't get the kind
you get in a can which have
00:24:06.27\00:24:08.42
lots of sugar in them...
00:24:08.45\00:24:09.57
But as soon as
cherry season comes along,
00:24:09.60\00:24:11.97
you're going to be off meat
for all this time between then
00:24:12.00\00:24:14.89
unless we're in cherry
season now... EAT THE CHERRIES
00:24:14.92\00:24:18.02
You're going to find that you're
going to be able to get rid
00:24:18.03\00:24:20.35
of those things doing this.
00:24:20.38\00:24:22.90
Lose weight.
00:24:22.93\00:24:24.28
We've already
mentioned how to do that.
00:24:24.31\00:24:26.69
And then, increase your
carbohydrate intake in your body
00:24:26.72\00:24:30.27
which will help get
rid of the gouty condition.
00:24:30.30\00:24:32.99
Another nice thing you can
do is make some potassium broth.
00:24:33.02\00:24:38.41
Very simple to do this...
00:24:38.44\00:24:40.92
Take some white
potatoes, peel them,
00:24:40.95\00:24:44.07
just really healthy
peelings, don't try to scare
00:24:44.10\00:24:47.03
2 potatoes out of 1 peeling...
00:24:47.06\00:24:48.39
But get A LOT of
peeling on there.
00:24:48.42\00:24:50.30
BOIL these peelings
until you've got a broth.
00:24:50.33\00:24:53.56
Drink this
broth... it's extremely good
00:24:53.59\00:24:56.40
in taking care of
the gouty condition.
00:24:56.43\00:24:59.12
And it may take a while.
00:24:59.15\00:25:00.67
It took a while
to get the problem.
00:25:00.68\00:25:02.36
You see, people are
looking for the quick fix.
00:25:02.39\00:25:04.32
It takes a while
to get the problem,
00:25:04.35\00:25:06.09
it will take a while to
get rid of the problem...
00:25:06.12\00:25:08.13
But you WILL get rid
of the problem if you're
00:25:08.16\00:25:10.71
DILIGENT with this program.
00:25:10.74\00:25:12.24
And, I'm thankful my big
toes don't hurt, Dr. Thrash,
00:25:12.28\00:25:16.00
but if they did, I'd be eating
cherries and drinking water!
00:25:16.03\00:25:18.31
That's a very
good remedy for this.
00:25:18.34\00:25:21.50
Now heart disease and strokes
are also a part of syndrome X
00:25:21.53\00:25:26.29
And, in addition to the
things we've already mentioned
00:25:26.32\00:25:30.21
with hypertension,
and diabetes, and gout,
00:25:30.24\00:25:33.81
those very same
things will also work
00:25:33.84\00:25:36.17
for heart disease and stroke.
00:25:36.20\00:25:37.63
Major changes in lifestyle...
these are really needed
00:25:37.66\00:25:41.87
...high salt, high
fat, high sugar diets,
00:25:41.90\00:25:45.52
these are out for the
person with heart disease,
00:25:45.55\00:25:48.59
as well as people who
have these other aspects
00:25:48.62\00:25:53.17
of syndrome X.
00:25:53.20\00:25:54.20
Always bear in mind that
with this cluster of diseases,
00:25:54.23\00:25:59.15
the basic problem is
a high level of insulin.
00:25:59.18\00:26:04.18
Insulin is also the best
appetite stimulant known to man
00:26:04.21\00:26:08.44
And so, if you recognize
that when you're appetite is
00:26:08.47\00:26:12.43
clamoring for some
kind of food that you know
00:26:12.46\00:26:15.03
you should not have,
simply speak to yourself
00:26:15.06\00:26:17.87
and say... "It is not
that I NEED this food...
00:26:17.90\00:26:20.70
it is simply that the
high insulin level in my blood
00:26:20.73\00:26:24.42
is stimulating my appetite so
that I WANT to take this food"
00:26:24.45\00:26:28.40
But you don't really need
to answer that call to eat
00:26:29.02\00:26:32.67
every time your
appetite sends you a signal.
00:26:32.70\00:26:35.32
Now another BIG
thing in avoiding both
00:26:35.35\00:26:39.31
heart attacks and
strokes is that of drinking
00:26:39.34\00:26:43.22
plenty of water.
00:26:43.25\00:26:44.70
It has been shown that
people who are prone to strokes
00:26:44.73\00:26:48.07
if they simply drink 1 glass
full of water during the night,
00:26:48.10\00:26:51.94
when they get up
to go to the bathroom,
00:26:51.95\00:26:54.16
they drink one glass of water,
00:26:54.19\00:26:55.75
that it will ENORMOUSLY
benefit their vascular system,
00:26:55.78\00:27:02.70
and their blood, so that
the blood will not form a clot
00:27:02.73\00:27:06.40
before it is
spilled on the outside...
00:27:06.43\00:27:10.90
which is when we should
form clots, and not while
00:27:10.93\00:27:13.02
it's still in the blood vessels.
00:27:13.05\00:27:15.25
Now, TIAs, or
transient ischemic attacks
00:27:15.28\00:27:19.23
are reversible tiny strokes.
00:27:19.26\00:27:23.09
We might consider
them to be a stroke.
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They are often characterized
by being unable to speak,
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or unable to think, but
the person is usually conscious
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...and they sit for a
while, and rest for a while
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and then they have a complete
reversal of their symptoms.
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They may get so that they
are as if they have never had
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that problem at all.
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Now we've covered a lot
of ground in this syndrome X
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and we hope that our remarks
will be so beneficial to you
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that you can REVERSE your
problems if you have them.
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