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>>John Bradshaw: This is It
Is Written. I'm John Bradshaw.
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Thanks for joining me today.
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We're all familiar with dieting,
some of us very familiar.
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And dieting is today a
multi-billion-dollar industry.
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And there are diets everywhere.
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The South Beach
diet, and the Atkins diet,
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and the paleo diet.
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And many people try
these diets with success,
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and many don't.
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You're not surprised,
or wouldn't be surprised,
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if you walked by a bookstore
today and saw a brand new diet
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book right there being
advertised in the window of your
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favorite bookstore.
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You wouldn't be surprised.
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But what if I was to tell you
today that there is an original
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diet given us by God,
found in the holy Bible?
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And I might suggest to you today
that it is the most effective,
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healthy diet ever conceived.
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Well, I'm being joined
today by Dr. John Westerdahl,
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a nutritionist with
the Bragg Health Institute
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in Santa Barbara, California.
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Dr. Westerdahl,
thanks for joining me today.
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>>Dr. John Westerdahl: Oh, great
to be with you today, John.
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>>John: Now, you're of
the opinion that this book,
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the Bible,
contains the original diet.
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Tell me something about that.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Well, it does.
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I look at the Bible as the
greatest book on preventive
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medicine ever written.
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And there's a lot of things in
here about diet and nutrition,
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and mentioning all
different types of foods.
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>>John: Why should
a Christian believer
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be worried about
his or her health,
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other than you might
avoid a heart attack,
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not that that's a bad thing,
or live another year or two?
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Why is it
important to a believer?
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Well,
you know, the Bible tells us
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that our body is the
temple of the Holy Spirit,
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and that we should take
care of it and honor it,
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and put things in it
that promote good health
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as opposed to things
that may destroy this temple,
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this living temple.
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It's a
magnificent creation of God,
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and we need, need
to treat it that way.
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>>John: Tell me about
some of these health principles
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you find in the Bible.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Yes.
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>>John: Because the
Bible is good for us,
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body, mind and spirit,
containing principles that,
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that minister to
all of those things.
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Now, we can go back,
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I guess, all the way
to the Old Testament...
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Yes.
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>>John: ...and find health
principles given us by God.
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What are some of those?
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Well,
some of those principles,
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of course, in spending time with
God in prayer and meditation,
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that's a health principle.
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>>John: It's good
for your health, huh?
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>>Dr. Westerdahl:
It's good for your health.
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It helps to control stress.
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It gives us peace of mind.
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And that's really important.
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That's like
nutrition for your brain,
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and for your mind,
and for your spirit.
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Also, the Bible,
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if you go back to the
old times in the Bible,
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the Old Testament and so forth,
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there are principles that God
tells us of ways we should eat.
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From the very beginning,
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in the Garden of
Eden diet in Genesis 1:29.
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>>John: There was a, a certain
diet in the Garden of Eden.
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>>Dr.
Westerdahl: Yes, there was.
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>>John: The Garden of Eatin'.
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What were they eatin' in Eden?
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>>Dr. Westerdahl:
Well, they were eating
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an all plant-based diet.
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There's no killing
in the Garden of Eden.
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It was all plant foods.
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It was a vegetarian diet.
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>>John: So what'd they eat?
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: So
they ate fruits and nuts.
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Later on, uh,
they ate vegetables.
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God provided those foods to us,
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because He knew that those
were the best for our health.
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He supplied all the nutrients
that our body needs for good
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health and for wellness.
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And that's what
science today is showing,
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that eating more plant
foods, fruits and vegetables
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and whole grains,
nuts, legumes, beans, seeds,
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these things
actually have things in them
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that help prevent disease.
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Not only give us good nutrition,
but also prevent disease.
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And in some cases
can reverse disease,
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if we follow this type of diet.
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>>John: There's that
famous old quotation,
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“Let your food be your medicine
and your medicine be your food."
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>>Dr. Westerdahl:
Yes, that was Hippocrates,
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the father of modern medicine,
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and he, uh, pointed that out.
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And that's very good counsel.
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Because if we follow
that rule and that guidance
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that we would live
longer, healthier lives.
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And something to think about,
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when you look at all
the cultures of the world.
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Before there was
medicine, there was food.
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Food was the medicine.
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It was not only food to
give you good nutrition,
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but it also was your medicine.
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>>John: The whole
concept of food being medicine,
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the best medicine being
food, is interesting, isn't it?
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What were some of these
health laws God introduced
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back in Old Testament times?
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Well, one
of the biggest ones that I note
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is that, uh, to
not eat animal fat
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or eat the blood of animals.
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And when you think about that,
those are the disease components
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of those foods.
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>>John: God said eons
ago, don't eat fat or blood.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Yes.
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>>John: And
someone's going to say,
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well, that was Moses,
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and we don't do all
that Mosaic stuff now.
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But let me come to
Acts, chapter 15 and verse 20,
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and this is at
the Jerusalem Council,
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where the New Testament
church, the early church,
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was wrestling
with certain ideas.
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What principles must we
enforce upon gentile believers?
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Acts 15, verse 20:
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“But that we write unto them
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that they abstain
from pollutions of idols,
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and from fornication,
and from things strangled,
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and from blood.”
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The New Testament book of Acts,
very plainly, don't eat blood.
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And again, why?
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Why, why is that principle good?
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Well,
blood carries the impurities
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of the body.
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So any illness of that cow
or whatever the animal may be,
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we're eating that.
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You know, there's been
concerns about mad cow disease
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in recent years.
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But what happens when
we eat all this blood?
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And when you eat meat,
that's what gives it its color,
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you know.
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You have blood; that juicy
hamburger has a lot of blood
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in it that you're eating.
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>>John: Um-hmm.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: So the
concept of not eating blood,
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not eating the animal fat,
is very good advice, I think,
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from the Bible.
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>>John: But
didn't Jesus eat meat?
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Yes, he did.
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>>John: The way
Jesus ate meat then,
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did it differ substantively from
the way people eat meat today?
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Well,
he followed the principles
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taught of not eating the
animal fat and the animal blood.
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He did eat fish,
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which is different than
some of those other animals.
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>>John: Now, somebody suggested
to me that in Bible times
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the way they drained the
blood out of all of the meat...
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Yes.
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>>John: ...it
wouldn't have tasted markedly
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different from the
sole of one's shoe.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: That's right.
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>>John: Unless, of course,
it had been seasoned otherwise.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: They
would, uh, actually cut it up,
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wash out all that
blood, take all that fat out,
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and it would be just the,
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the description is
it tastes like blah.
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>>John: Yeah.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl:
There's no flavor,
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but they would season it.
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>>John: Yeah.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: So, but
they would remove all the blood
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and all the fat.
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>>John: You see those pictures
of the piece of steak that has
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been cut with a knife, and it's
beautifully pink on the inside.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl:
That's all the blood.
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>>John: Jesus
wasn't eating that, was he?
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: No, he wasn't.
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>>John: And
there's no way around that.
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He, certainly he ate meat.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Yes.
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Well, Jesus ate
the Mediterranean diet.
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Now, the
traditional Mediterranean diet,
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not the
Mediterranean diet of today,
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which incorporates a
lot of Western foods.
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But, uh, that was
largely a plant-based diet.
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Lots of fruits,
vegetables, whole grains,
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beans and legumes, with small
amounts of fish and so forth.
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>>John: And another thing
too: he ate that diet without
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owning an
automobile or riding the bus.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl:
A lot of exercise.
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>>John: A lot of exercise.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: That's right.
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>>John: Yeah.
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So if we, perhaps, incorporated
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that type of exercise
regime into our diet today,
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that alone would
make a big difference.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Yeah.
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It's all part of
having a balanced lifestyle.
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And including, nutrition is key,
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but exercise is
very important too.
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>>John: The original diet.
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It's just plain good for you.
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And it comes to you
right here, from the Bible.
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How good for us is it?
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And in what ways can
we learn to incorporate
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not only the
principles of this diet,
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but the blessings of
this diet into our lives?
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I'll be back with more
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from Dr. John
Westerdahl in just a moment.
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>>John: The same killer diseases
which have taken the lives of
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millions and
millions of people every year
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are taking the lives
of Christian believers,
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even though God has
told us plainly and clearly
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how we can avoid those diseases.
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>>John: This is It Is Written.
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I'm John Bradshaw.
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Thank you for joining me today.
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I'm joined by
nutritionist Dr. John Westerdahl
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from the Bragg Health Institute
in Santa Barbara, California.
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We're talking today
about the original diet.
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Not the South Beach diet;
that came a little bit later on.
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Not the paleo diet; that
was added kind of recently.
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But the original diet.
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The Bible diet.
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Now, Dr. Westerdahl,
very interesting Bible verse
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I wanted to share with you...
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Okay.
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>>John: ...you right now.
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Exodus 15, verse 26.
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God said this:
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“If you will diligently harken
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to the voice of
the Lord thy God,
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and do that which
is right in His sight,
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and give ear to His statutes
and keep His commandments,
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I will put none of
these diseases upon you
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that I have put
upon the Egyptians.
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For I am the Lord
that healeth thee.”
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: That's right.
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>>John: So follow my plan,
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you will not get
the Egyptian diseases.
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What did those
Egyptians suffer from?
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Those
Egyptians had heart disease,
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they had cancer,
they had arthritis,
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they had diabetes.
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When we look at the
diseases of ancient Egypt,
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because they didn't follow
God's diet or His diet plan,
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we look at diseases
that are very similar
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to what we have in
the United States today.
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The same diseases
they had in ancient Egypt
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are the same
diseases we have today.
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You know, it's getting back to,
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going back to God's
principles of healthful living.
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And if we follow those, we
would not have those diseases.
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>>John: Now,
there are some cancers
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that are going
to get you anyway.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Yes.
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>>John: It might be because
of environmental factors.
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It might be hereditary.
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It might have genes
that are predisposed.
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So we can't be
too strident and say,
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everybody who eats
like me will never get sick.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Okay. Yeah.
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>>John: Can we?
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>>Dr. Westerdahl:
What you would do,
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you would reduce your
risk of those diseases.
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>>John: Enormously, right?
00:12:02.92\00:12:03.79
>>Dr.
Westerdahl: And enormously.
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>>John: Yeah.
00:12:04.95\00:12:05.72
>>Dr.
Westerdahl: Seventy percent
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of all hospital admissions are,
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the patients that
are in the hospital today
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are there because of
their diet and lifestyle.
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So if we followed more
healthful living principles,
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uh, a lot of those
people won't be there.
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By following this original
diet that God has given us,
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we can substantially reduce
those risks of those diseases.
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>>John: The point is, by simply
making some small changes,
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by incorporating God's
principles into our lives,
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there are many people who
are flat out going to avoid
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doctor's visits,
emergency room visits.
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And they're going to arrive
20 years later to their funeral.
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>>Dr.
Westerdahl: That's correct.
00:12:43.39\00:12:44.49
And what's
interesting to see is,
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when you take people who are
following the typical American
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diet, we call it the
standard American diet,
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SAD, S-A-D,
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when you take people
away from that and get them on
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a plant-based diet,
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they can actually
reverse some of these diseases,
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such as diabetes.
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And there have been
studies by one of my friends
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and colleagues, Dr.
Dean Ornish, for instance,
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who did a study where he
put people on an all plant-based
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diet, a
vegetarian diet, low fat,
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and showed that you can
actually reverse heart disease.
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Actually, the plaque buildup
on the walls of the arteries
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can actually be
reversed to some degree.
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Actually, 82 percent of the
patients he put on this diet,
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uh, had reversal
of heart disease.
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>>John: And this is
important we reiterate,
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because the
Bible says our bodies
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are the temple
of the Holy Spirit.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Yes.
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>>John: You've
got people who say,
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well, you gotta
die of something,
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as they eat
another T-bone steak.
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And my response is,
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yeah, but you don't
have to die of everything.
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Now, I spoke to a
doctor friend of mine,
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and he told me about
some of the frustrations
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that he has working with people.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Yeah.
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>>John: He said
this in a very nice way.
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He said he had a
patient there coming to see him,
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and he said to the patient,
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“You know, if you just
drank more water, you'd be okay.
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If you just drank more
water.” That's a simple change.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Yes, it is.
00:14:01.80\00:14:03.04
>>John: And the
patient responded by saying,
00:14:03.07\00:14:04.04
so I'm sharing this
with you to challenge,
00:14:04.07\00:14:06.54
to challenge
people watching right now.
00:14:06.57\00:14:08.31
The patient responded by saying,
00:14:08.34\00:14:09.81
“Doctor, are you going
to write me a prescription,
00:14:09.84\00:14:12.78
or am I going to have
to go to another doctor
00:14:12.81\00:14:14.75
who will write
me a prescription?”
00:14:14.78\00:14:16.42
>>Dr. Westerdahl: Yeah.
00:14:16.45\00:14:17.32
>>John: So
unfortunately, in many case,
00:14:17.35\00:14:19.39
some cases, the remedy
is there and it's available,
00:14:19.42\00:14:22.79
but there's a little
unwillingness on the part of
00:14:22.82\00:14:25.36
some of us to make
even slight changes.
00:14:25.39\00:14:27.96
>>Dr. Westerdahl: Right.
00:14:27.96\00:14:28.86
I've known people,
young men, in fact,
00:14:28.90\00:14:31.13
I remember one young man
that told me he's taking blood
00:14:31.17\00:14:33.84
pressure medications, he
was just like in his thirties,
00:14:33.87\00:14:36.27
blood pressure medication
and high cholesterol medication.
00:14:36.30\00:14:39.77
And I told him, um, “Well, what
if I work with you and I can
00:14:39.81\00:14:44.51
help you get off
those medications by
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following a
healthy diet?” And he said,
00:14:47.02\00:14:50.05
“Well, I don't know if I
want to make those big drastic
00:14:50.09\00:14:52.29
changes in my
lifestyle to do that.
00:14:52.32\00:14:53.96
I'd rather eat
the way I want to.”
00:14:53.99\00:14:55.82
And that's where we are today.
00:14:55.86\00:14:57.79
We have to get into what
we call lifestyle medicine.
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That's the medicine
of the 21st century,
00:15:01.10\00:15:03.43
where doctors are treating
their patients with lifestyle,
00:15:03.47\00:15:07.50
instead of all these medications
and medical procedures.
00:15:07.54\00:15:10.17
>>John: I want to ask you about
the article that I have here.
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It's from the
Wall Street Journal.
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I'm not going to drill
down too deep into the article.
00:15:13.51\00:15:16.64
>>Dr. Westerdahl: Okay.
00:15:16.68\00:15:17.65
>>John: Headline:
“The Questionable Link
00:15:17.68\00:15:19.98
between Saturated
Fat and Heart Disease.”
00:15:20.02\00:15:22.72
And I saw this
just the other day
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from another perspective in a
British newspaper, front page.
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Why we can now
eat, bup, bup, bup,
00:15:28.29\00:15:30.63
unhealthy food.
00:15:30.66\00:15:32.06
Why is it that increasingly
there's pushback against this,
00:15:32.09\00:15:35.93
and people are reading
in reputable newspapers and
00:15:35.96\00:15:38.63
reputable websites, it's
okay to eat this bad stuff?
00:15:38.67\00:15:45.04
>>Dr. Westerdahl: Well,
this is one of the frustrations
00:15:45.07\00:15:46.88
most Americans have today,
00:15:46.91\00:15:48.11
‘cause they read one
day you should eat this way,
00:15:48.14\00:15:50.31
and the next day you
should go another way.
00:15:50.35\00:15:52.48
And sometimes it
happens, in this case,
00:15:52.51\00:15:54.92
for instance, a study has
come out where they're saying,
00:15:54.95\00:15:57.69
well, it looks like
saturated fat and cholesterol is
00:15:57.72\00:16:00.52
not all that bad for you.
00:16:00.56\00:16:02.32
That is totally
contradictory to the,
00:16:02.36\00:16:05.26
the decades of
research which, uh,
00:16:05.29\00:16:07.30
substantiates that eating a
diet high in saturated fat and
00:16:07.30\00:16:11.37
cholesterol will increase
your risk of heart disease.
00:16:11.40\00:16:15.60
You know, people like to
hear good news about bad habits.
00:16:15.64\00:16:18.24
When these studies come out,
00:16:18.27\00:16:19.97
they promote them
in the news media,
00:16:20.01\00:16:22.28
you'll see on the time, top
of Time magazine and so forth.
00:16:22.31\00:16:25.75
But there are a lot of very
reputable scientists that are
00:16:25.78\00:16:28.68
questioning the results of this
study and the way it was done.
00:16:28.72\00:16:31.82
I think the thing
is, we need to look at,
00:16:31.85\00:16:34.99
as opposed to just one
study, look at the hundreds,
00:16:35.02\00:16:38.63
thousands of studies that
have been done over the years,
00:16:38.66\00:16:41.23
decades, actually, that
are saying the opposite.
00:16:41.26\00:16:44.90
>>John: And there might
be a couple of other things
00:16:44.93\00:16:46.17
that we could factor in here.
00:16:46.20\00:16:47.17
One, common sense.
00:16:47.20\00:16:48.64
>>Dr. Westerdahl: Yes.
00:16:48.67\00:16:49.90
>>John: Feed a guy junk food,
feed his brother healthy food.
00:16:49.94\00:16:53.61
After a couple of years,
they're going to look different.
00:16:53.64\00:16:55.61
After a few decades,
00:16:55.64\00:16:57.18
they're going to
look very, very different.
00:16:57.21\00:16:58.68
We all know.
00:16:58.71\00:16:59.25
>>Dr. Westerdahl: Right.
00:16:59.28\00:17:00.22
>>John: Eat
better. Exercise more.
00:17:00.25\00:17:01.48
Lose weight.
00:17:01.52\00:17:02.55
Do better.
00:17:02.58\00:17:03.55
There's the common sense aspect.
00:17:03.59\00:17:05.35
And then,
there's the Bible aspect.
00:17:05.39\00:17:07.66
>>Dr. Westerdahl: That's right.
00:17:07.69\00:17:08.62
>>John: What did God
say in the beginning?
00:17:08.66\00:17:10.46
And, in fact,
00:17:10.49\00:17:11.66
I think what I'll do is
I'll read this Bible verse.
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We eluded to it a moment ago.
00:17:13.03\00:17:15.63
In Genesis,
chapter 1 and verse 29:
00:17:15.66\00:17:18.80
“And God said,
00:17:18.83\00:17:19.97
Behold, I have given
you every herb bearing seed,
00:17:20.00\00:17:23.47
which is upon the
face of all the earth,
00:17:23.51\00:17:25.34
and every tree, in the which
is the fruit of a tree yielding
00:17:25.37\00:17:28.64
seed; to you it shall
be for meat.” Or for food.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: That's right.
00:17:31.75\00:17:32.65
>>John: That's
how God described it.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: That's
the original diet of man.
00:17:33.95\00:17:34.75
>>John: Okay, yeah.
00:17:34.78\00:17:35.95
Now, Dr. Westerdahl, there
are eight biblical principles,
00:17:35.98\00:17:40.99
eight biblical
laws that kind of sum up
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God's optimal
original dietary plan.
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In just a moment,
those eight natural laws
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and the example of Daniel,
00:17:51.93\00:17:54.34
who incorporated
those laws into his life
00:17:54.37\00:17:56.67
and saw enormous
spiritual benefits as a result.
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We'll be back in just a moment.
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A provincial government in the
Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu
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is about to ban junk food.
00:18:28.74\00:18:30.57
The reason is,
massive amounts of Vanuatuans
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are suffering from lifestyle
diseases including diabetes.
00:18:32.97\00:18:36.18
While the United States
has a diabetes rate of 9.3%
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which is a disaster.
00:18:39.78\00:18:41.42
Vanuatu has a rate of 24%,
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closely linked one study says
00:18:43.72\00:18:45.72
“with consumption
of animal proteins
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and simple carbohydrates.”
00:18:47.92\00:18:49.86
They are sick of being sick,
00:18:49.89\00:18:51.39
and so they're
getting rid of a major cause.
00:18:51.43\00:18:53.53
So, are there things in
your diet that are harming you
00:18:53.56\00:18:56.50
that you ought
to just get rid of?
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And number two,
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are there things in your life
that are harming you spiritually
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things you could just let go?
00:19:02.74\00:19:04.87
Jesus said in Matthew 18:8,
00:19:04.91\00:19:07.21
“If your hand or
foot causes you to sin,
00:19:07.24\00:19:09.01
cut it off and
cast it from you.”
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It's better to stumble into
heaven that to run into hell.
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Let's live today by every Word!
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>>John: Thanks for joining
me today on It Is Written.
00:19:21.92\00:19:24.29
My special guest
today is a nutritionist,
00:19:24.33\00:19:26.96
Dr. John Westerdahl.
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Dr. Westerdahl, a moment ago
I mentioned that there are eight
00:19:29.13\00:19:32.57
natural health laws.
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Real simple points...
00:19:34.94\00:19:37.21
>>Dr. Westerdahl: They are.
00:19:37.24\00:19:38.07
>>John:
...people can remember easy
00:19:38.11\00:19:39.64
and incorporate
into their lives.
00:19:39.67\00:19:40.81
I'd like you to walk
me through what those are.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Okay.
00:19:42.18\00:19:42.94
They are nutrition.
00:19:42.98\00:19:44.25
They are
exercise, water, sunshine,
00:19:44.28\00:19:47.78
temperance, being moderate in
all things and abstaining from
00:19:47.82\00:19:50.92
harmful items, air, rest,
and trust in divine power.
00:19:50.95\00:19:56.19
>>John: Okay, let's
walk through these...
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Okay.
00:19:57.33\00:19:58.16
>>John: ...set
them up a little bit.
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>>John: Nutrition.
00:19:58.69\00:19:59.89
>>Dr. Westerdahl: Nutrition we
talked about quite a bit today.
00:19:59.93\00:20:01.03
>>John: So be
careful about what you eat.
00:20:01.06\00:20:02.20
>>Dr. Westerdahl: Be
careful about what you eat.
00:20:02.23\00:20:03.47
You know, you are what you eat,
and medical research is showing
00:20:03.50\00:20:06.07
that you've got
to eat healthy foods.
00:20:06.10\00:20:07.14
And, and we talked
about the original diet
00:20:07.17\00:20:10.01
that God has given us.
00:20:10.04\00:20:11.04
>>John: Okay.
00:20:11.07\00:20:12.31
>>Dr. Westerdahl: Exercise,
we don't get enough exercise.
00:20:12.34\00:20:13.31
We're sitting
around all the time.
00:20:13.34\00:20:14.94
You know, we're
sloths in many ways,
00:20:14.98\00:20:16.91
just sitting in
front of, watching TV.
00:20:16.95\00:20:19.55
>>John: Something I read
that bothered me somewhat.
00:20:19.58\00:20:21.85
The longer people sit down...
00:20:21.88\00:20:23.55
>>Dr. Westerdahl: Yeah.
00:20:23.59\00:20:24.75
>>John: ...the more
prone they are to die early.
00:20:24.79\00:20:27.56
And clearly, it's not
just sitting or standing,
00:20:27.59\00:20:29.39
I wouldn't think, but
if you're sitting down
00:20:29.42\00:20:31.29
you're not exercising.
00:20:31.33\00:20:32.56
>>Dr. Westerdahl: That's right.
00:20:32.59\00:20:33.66
And at the workplace,
get up and get some walking.
00:20:33.70\00:20:35.20
But getting out,
getting what we cardiovascular,
00:20:35.23\00:20:37.87
respiratory type of exercise.
00:20:37.90\00:20:39.60
Getting fresh air.
00:20:39.63\00:20:40.64
Get that heart beating.
00:20:40.67\00:20:42.30
It's very important.
00:20:42.34\00:20:43.34
It's one of the, um,
things for longevity.
00:20:43.37\00:20:46.01
>>John: Water?
00:20:46.04\00:20:47.01
>>Dr. Westerdahl: Water.
00:20:47.04\00:20:48.14
Now, that's water on the
inside, getting fresh water,
00:20:48.18\00:20:51.38
pure water,
drinking it, because,
00:20:51.41\00:20:53.58
you know, 70 percent
of our bodies are water.
00:20:53.62\00:20:55.78
We need water.
00:20:55.82\00:20:56.69
>>John: So soda
doesn't count for water?
00:20:56.72\00:20:58.42
>>Dr. Westerdahl: Soda
does not count for water.
00:20:58.45\00:21:00.32
You've got to
drink that pure water.
00:21:00.36\00:21:01.22
>>John: Coffee?
00:21:01.26\00:21:02.42
>>Dr. Westerdahl:
Coffee, there's water in it,
00:21:02.46\00:21:04.06
but there's diuretics in it
too, in the form of caffeine,
00:21:04.09\00:21:06.76
so you're losing
a lot of that water.
00:21:06.80\00:21:08.23
>>John: Okay.
00:21:08.26\00:21:09.16
>>Dr. Westerdahl:
So getting pure water.
00:21:09.20\00:21:09.70
>>John: Pure water.
00:21:09.73\00:21:10.97
>>Dr. Westerdahl: And then water
on the outside is important too,
00:21:11.00\00:21:12.87
because what that does,
00:21:12.90\00:21:13.94
it helps with our
hygiene, cleanliness.
00:21:13.97\00:21:16.27
There's what we
call hydrotherapy,
00:21:16.30\00:21:17.87
people getting into Jacuzzis and
getting water treatments that
00:21:17.91\00:21:21.21
are healing, and they
are natural remedies as well.
00:21:21.24\00:21:24.05
>>John: Now, the T,
the first T in these eight,
00:21:24.08\00:21:27.62
the fourth point was...
00:21:27.65\00:21:29.72
>>Dr. Westerdahl: Temperance.
00:21:29.75\00:21:30.52
>>John: Okay, so.
00:21:30.55\00:21:31.75
>>Dr. Westerdahl: And
that's an old term that's used,
00:21:31.79\00:21:32.85
uh, Christians of old
time knew that all the time.
00:21:32.89\00:21:35.69
The temperance
movement, you know.
00:21:35.72\00:21:37.03
>>John: Temperance.
00:21:37.06\00:21:38.13
Moderation in all things.
00:21:38.16\00:21:39.19
Does that mean
moderation in M&Ms
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and moderation in pork chops,
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or does that mean
moderation in the good stuff?
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>>Dr. Westerdahl:
In the good stuff.
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Temperance means staying
away from the bad things.
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And even the good
things, you need to be balanced
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and be
temperate, and not overdo.
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>>John: You know what we did?
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We missed one. We missed...
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Oh, sunshine.
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>>John: We
missed S for sunshine.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Yeah.
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>>John: Now, somebody
like me, I mean, look,
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I'm the whitest
guy that ever lived,
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and I can get, I can
get sunburned in the dark.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Yes.
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>>John: Sunshine.
What's the deal there?
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: There's
temperance with that too.
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Sunshine is really good for you.
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In fact, there's a certain type
of cholesterol under your skin
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that, when the sun shines on it,
it converts it into vitamin D.
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It's important to help in making
certain hormones in the body.
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And you need some sun every day.
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It's very important.
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However, don't overdo it,
because too much can lead to
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skin cancer and, uh,
premature aging of the skin.
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>>John: Okay. The A is for air.
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We all know we need air.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Yes.
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And yes, getting out
and getting some fresh air.
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Some people are more fortunate
to live in non-polluted cities
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where they can get
really good fresh air.
00:22:38.45\00:22:40.72
But, uh, getting
out, getting fresh air,
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is really important
because we need that oxygen.
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And air is the, uh,
invisible staff of life.
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>>John: Umm.
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R for rest.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Rest.
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>>John: How much, how much sleep
should a person be getting?
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Well, you
know, there's debate on that.
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You know, I think most experts
would say try to get at least
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eight hours of
sleep a day, if possible.
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So that's important.
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We need to take some
time to get some rest.
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And it's not just sleeping.
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It's taking some
time during the week
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to get away from the
stresses of daily life.
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And another biblical principle
is having a Sabbath day.
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In fact, taking one day in seven
is a restful thing spiritually,
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it's important for
our spiritual nutrition,
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but it also helps
us in having physical,
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mental and
spiritual rest at one time.
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>>John: The final
T in this thing...
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Yes.
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>>John: ...T for trust in God.
00:23:29.80\00:23:31.51
How does trust in
God benefit a person,
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body, mind and
spirit, regarding,
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in terms of their health?
00:23:37.45\00:23:39.05
>>Dr.
Westerdahl: Well, you know,
00:23:39.08\00:23:39.95
it's interesting
you brought that up,
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because there's some
scientific evidence now to show
00:23:41.12\00:23:42.68
that people who go
to church regularly,
00:23:42.72\00:23:44.65
that have a faith,
00:23:44.69\00:23:46.62
that practice and live a faith,
00:23:46.65\00:23:48.36
have lower risk
of heart disease.
00:23:48.39\00:23:50.89
They're able to have
lower rates of blood pressure,
00:23:50.93\00:23:53.29
better marital satisfaction,
generally being able to control
00:23:53.33\00:23:57.30
and handle the stresses
of daily living as well.
00:23:57.33\00:24:00.44
>>John: Now, let's look at
a biblical example of somebody
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who put these good
biblical health principles
00:24:03.17\00:24:05.17
into practice and was
blessed spiritually as a result.
00:24:05.21\00:24:09.14
The Israelites
had just suffered a,
00:24:09.18\00:24:12.25
a crushing blow.
00:24:12.28\00:24:13.82
Nebuchadnezzar from
Babylon had come up to Jerusalem
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and destroyed the place,
00:24:16.45\00:24:17.82
sacked the temple,
00:24:17.85\00:24:19.39
and taken many of
the people prisoners,
00:24:19.42\00:24:21.69
marching them across
the desert to Babylon.
00:24:21.72\00:24:23.63
It was terrible.
00:24:23.66\00:24:24.63
Daniel was now a
slave in Babylon.
00:24:24.66\00:24:28.70
And the Bible says,
00:24:28.73\00:24:30.27
“The king appointed them a daily
provision of the king's meat,
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[the king's food],
00:24:33.40\00:24:34.64
and of the wine which he drank:
so nourishing them three years,
00:24:34.67\00:24:38.01
that at the end thereof they
might stand before the king.”
00:24:38.04\00:24:41.18
So the king
said, "Dinner's on me."
00:24:41.21\00:24:44.95
Daniel said, "no way."
00:24:44.98\00:24:46.98
Verse 8: “Daniel purposed
in his heart that he would not
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defile himself with the
portion of the king's meat,
00:24:51.29\00:24:54.62
nor with the
wine which he drank:
00:24:54.66\00:24:56.86
therefore he requested
of the prince of the eunuchs
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that he might
not defile himself.”
00:24:58.99\00:25:01.36
And as we come
down a little further,
00:25:01.40\00:25:04.03
uh, in verse 12,
Daniel requested,
00:25:04.07\00:25:07.54
“Prove your servants,
I beseech thee, ten days;
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and let them give us pulse
to eat, and water to drink.”
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Firstly, what's pulse?
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>>Dr. Westerdahl:
Some people refer to it as,
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like lentils might be a pulse.
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>>John: All right.
00:25:18.78\00:25:19.58
So it's
certainly, uh, plant-based,
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and it's healthy stuff.
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How well did Daniel do as a
result of this dietary plan?
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Well,
they were healthier and stronger
00:25:26.65\00:25:28.92
than the king's men.
00:25:28.96\00:25:30.56
>>John: In fact, if
I were to look at this,
00:25:30.59\00:25:32.69
I would find where the Bible
says that when the king checked
00:25:32.73\00:25:36.87
them out, he found
them to be ten times wiser.
00:25:36.90\00:25:42.04
>>Dr. Westerdahl: That's right.
00:25:42.07\00:25:43.07
>>John: Isn't that remarkable?
00:25:43.10\00:25:43.77
>>Dr. Westerdahl: It is.
00:25:43.81\00:25:44.34
>>John: Ten times wiser.
00:25:44.37\00:25:45.57
Now, I don't know
if there was an IQ test
00:25:45.61\00:25:47.04
and they had ten times the
IQ points or not, but still,
00:25:47.08\00:25:49.68
the biblical
terminology makes it dramatic.
00:25:49.71\00:25:53.01
Daniel and his
friends prospered.
00:25:53.05\00:25:54.78
>>Dr. Westerdahl: Yes.
00:25:54.82\00:25:55.88
>>John: If they
were just healthier,
00:25:55.92\00:25:57.92
that would be one thing.
00:25:57.95\00:26:00.22
>>John: But I believe it's no
coincidence that the very next
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chapter, Daniel, chapter
two, finds a spiritual crisis.
00:26:02.69\00:26:07.50
King Nebuchadnezzar has a
dream that he can't remember.
00:26:07.50\00:26:10.60
None of the wise men can
tell him what the dream was
00:26:10.63\00:26:13.17
or what it means.
00:26:13.20\00:26:14.94
But Daniel and his
friends pray to God.
00:26:14.97\00:26:17.97
God gives Daniel the
interpretation of the dream.
00:26:18.01\00:26:22.24
I think it's fair to say that if
Daniel had not been preserving
00:26:22.28\00:26:25.18
himself physically, God would
not have been able to bless him
00:26:25.21\00:26:28.38
so well spiritually.
00:26:28.42\00:26:29.98
Would you agree?
00:26:30.02\00:26:30.62
>>Dr. Westerdahl: I agree.
00:26:30.65\00:26:31.59
>>John: Dr. Westerdahl,
00:26:31.62\00:26:32.49
God's healthcare
plan is pretty simple.
00:26:32.52\00:26:34.89
>>Dr. Westerdahl: Yes, it is.
00:26:34.92\00:26:35.96
>>John: No trips to
the bookstore necessary
00:26:35.99\00:26:37.43
unless you don't
have one of these Bibles.
00:26:37.46\00:26:39.39
It's pretty
succinctly explained,
00:26:39.43\00:26:42.13
and the science demonstrates
00:26:42.16\00:26:43.87
that it's
effective and it works.
00:26:43.90\00:26:46.17
>>Dr. Westerdahl: Yes, it does.
00:26:46.20\00:26:47.47
>>John: What's your
advice, in a nutshell,
00:26:47.50\00:26:48.94
to somebody thinking, I
need to make some changes?
00:26:48.97\00:26:52.64
>>Dr. Westerdahl: I
would say go back to this book.
00:26:52.67\00:26:54.24
Look at the original diet of
man that was given to us by God,
00:26:54.28\00:26:58.11
and it'll make some
great changes in your life.
00:26:58.15\00:27:01.78
>>John: The same killer diseases
which have taken the lives of
00:27:02.75\00:27:05.25
millions and
millions of people every year
00:27:05.29\00:27:08.36
are taking the lives
of Christian believers,
00:27:08.39\00:27:09.99
even though God has
told us plainly and clearly
00:27:10.03\00:27:12.53
how we can avoid those diseases.
00:27:12.56\00:27:15.13
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>>John: Today we've
looked at the original diet,
00:28:04.21\00:28:07.02
given to us by God
and promised by God
00:28:07.05\00:28:11.29
to be a blessing in our lives.
00:28:11.32\00:28:13.69
Dr. John Westerdahl, thank you
so much for joining me today.
00:28:13.72\00:28:16.52
>>Dr. Westerdahl: It's great
to be with you today, John.
00:28:16.56\00:28:18.29
>>John: It's been a
pleasure to have you here.
00:28:18.33\00:28:19.49
You've blessed immensely.
00:28:19.53\00:28:20.30
Let's pray together...
00:28:20.33\00:28:21.13
>>Dr. Westerdahl: Sure.
00:28:21.16\00:28:22.20
>>John: ...and ask
God's blessing on all of us,
00:28:22.23\00:28:24.13
particularly those of us who've
decided that we're going to make
00:28:24.17\00:28:27.14
some changes in our lives.
00:28:27.17\00:28:28.67
Our Father in Heaven, we
thank you today for Jesus,
00:28:28.70\00:28:32.14
the Great Physician.
00:28:32.17\00:28:33.58
We thank you for the Bible,
00:28:33.61\00:28:35.68
the best book on
health ever written,
00:28:35.71\00:28:37.98
and for that original diet that,
00:28:38.01\00:28:39.88
when followed has been
demonstrated again and again
00:28:39.91\00:28:43.39
not only to make us healthier,
00:28:43.42\00:28:45.42
but happier and contribute to us
being holier, more like Jesus.
00:28:45.45\00:28:51.03
Fill us with your Spirit,
and guide us in your way.
00:28:51.06\00:28:53.70
I pray that we can
live that more abundant life
00:28:53.73\00:28:56.80
promised us by God.
00:28:56.83\00:28:58.57
We thank you
today for being with us,
00:28:58.60\00:29:00.07
and we pray, gratefully,
00:29:00.10\00:29:02.17
in Jesus' name.
00:29:02.20\00:29:03.77
Amen.
00:29:03.81\00:29:05.14
>>John: Thank you
for joining me today.
00:29:05.17\00:29:06.24
I'm looking forward to
seeing you again next time.
00:29:06.27\00:29:08.41
Until then, remember:
00:29:08.44\00:29:10.28
"It is written:
00:29:10.31\00:29:11.85
'Man shall not
live by bread alone,
00:29:11.88\00:29:14.62
but by every word that proceeds
from the mouth of God.'"
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