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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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Well, you know how it goes.
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You get sick.
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You need some help.
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You go to the doctor.
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And the doctor
writes you a prescription.
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You take it to the
pharmacy or to the drug store.
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You get your
little bottle of magic.
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You take one three times a day,
and given three or four or five
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days, you're
back to good health.
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That's pretty typical
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for those of us
living in the Western world.
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In Bible times, however,
things were rather different.
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When we consider the Bible,
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we think of God as
the Great Physician.
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And in the absence
of cardiologists and
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rheumatologists and
all the other ologists,
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people then had to deal with
rudimentary methods of healing.
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Or they dealt with
God, the Great Physician.
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Today, we're going to talk about
healing foods of the Bible.
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The thought is that perhaps
the Great Physician has given us
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medication that we can get at
other places than the drugstore.
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Perhaps at the supermarket
or right out of our garden.
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I'm being joined
today by my special guest,
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Dr. John Westerdahl,
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a nutritionist from
the Bragg Health Institute
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in Santa Barbara,
southern California.
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Dr. Westerdahl, thank
you for joining me today.
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>>Dr. John Westerdahl:
Great to be with you, John.
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>>John: Now, this idea of
health and the Christian anyway.
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Why does it matter that
Christians look after their
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health, that believers in God
should look after their health?
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>>Dr.
Westerdahl: Well, you know,
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in the Bible it
tells us that our bodies
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are the temple
of the Holy Spirit.
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In other words, we
need to take care of it,
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not defile that temple,
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but take good care of it
and put good things into it,
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is very important.
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>>John: Yeah, but, but, I don't
mind getting right into it,
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but it's my body.
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I can do
whatever I want with it.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Well actually,
we were bought with a price.
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Jesus dying on the cross for us.
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So it's not totally our body.
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God gave us this
magnificent creation
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that we need to take care of.
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>>John: As a matter of fact,
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it says right in that very
verse you were referencing,
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“for you are not your own.”
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: That's right.
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>>John: So that idea that I can
do whatever I want with my body
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because, after all, it's mine,
it isn't yours really, is it?
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>>Dr.
Westerdahl: It really isn't.
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>>John: It belongs to God.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: We
inherited it from God.
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>>John: Let me share a
Bible verse here that I think
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is very relevant to
what we're talking about.
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How about that?
Turned right to the page.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Okay.
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>>John: 3 John, verse 2.
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And John, who wrote Revelation
and wrote the Gospels,
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he wrote the little
Johns as well, three of them.
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3 John 2: “Beloved,
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I wish above all things
that thou mayest prosper
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and be in health,
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even as thy soul prospereth.”
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: That's
right. And it's connected.
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Because if we are healthy, we
can communicate better with God.
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Our minds are clearer.
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We're enjoying life.
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It's kind of hard to
be rejoicing all the time
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if you're sick.
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And by having good
health, we're of clear mind,
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we can really enjoy a personal
relationship with Jesus Christ.
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>>John: John made it very
clear that there's a direct
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relationship
between our physical health
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and our mental
and spiritual health.
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>>Dr.
Westerdahl: There really is.
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It's really a wholistic approach
that the Bible's all about.
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Wholistic with a W.
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Body, mind and
spirit, it is all related.
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And, and the things we're
going to talk about today,
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the foods that we eat,
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have a direct relationship and
helping us improve that health.
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>>John: Yeah,
this looks pretty good.
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I'm not sure whether
to talk to you or just,
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just eat the set.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: There's
a lot food here to eat today,
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and all healthy.
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>>John: Maybe a
little bit of both.
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Well, it's
interesting, isn't it,
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that the Bible talks
so much about health?
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Why do you think that is?
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>>Dr. Westerdahl:
This book, I believe,
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is one of the greatest books
ever written on total wellness,
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preventive
medicine, lifestyle medicine.
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God's concerned
about our health.
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He wants us to be healthy.
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Within the pages of the Bible
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we see a lot of health
principles given to us.
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So it's all there, and He wants
us to take advantage of this
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so that we can live
life more abundantly.
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>>John: Now, you mentioned
something just a moment ago.
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You said lifestyle medicine.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Yes.
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>>John: Now, what's that?
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>>Dr. Westerdahl:
Lifestyle medicine, it's a new,
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emerging type of medicine that's
coming into our country today.
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There's actually what we
call the American College
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of Lifestyle Medicine,
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where there are
physicians who are specializing
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in treatment with
lifestyle, diet, exercise,
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stress management,
spiritual wellness,
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as opposed to
using just medications.
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Not that they won't use
medications for emergencies
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or as needed with patients.
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But, we are finding out more and
more, that the foods that we eat
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are healing to our bodies.
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If we eat the
right type of diet,
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we can prevent,
treat, and even reverse
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many of the diseases
that are killing us today.
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>>John: Now, I have heard
of people with diabetes...
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Yes.
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>>John: ...getting off
their diabetes medications,
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and seeing their
adult-onset diabetes going away.
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I've heard of people
reversing heart disease.
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I, I must be responsible
enough to say, perhaps
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this isn't
possible for everybody.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Right.
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>>John: But
certainly for many people,
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there are some
well-known physicians
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who have said that they can get,
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they can reverse heart disease
without using medication in,
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in many instances.
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This is very exciting.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Yes, it is.
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And it's very well documented
in medical literature.
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Lifestyle medicine, using
lifestyle to treat diseases,
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to prevent diseases, and in many
cases even reverse the diseases.
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>>John: Now, it was
Hippocrates that said,
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“Let your food be your medicine,
and your medicine be your food.”
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Yes.
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>>John: If some of us
were honest with ourselves,
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and we went into the pantry
or the food cupboard at home,
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we'd say, well, you
know, those chocolate cookies
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aren't going to be
much in the way of medicine.
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So when Hippocrates said that,
what foods was he referring to?
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: He
was talking about natural,
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whole, unprocessed foods.
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That's what he
promoted with his own patients.
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He used nutrition
with his patients.
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He used lifestyle medicine.
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>>John: You know, there are
a lot of diets available today,
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and some of the
well-known ones, South Beach,
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Atkins, Paleo,
um, seafood, that is,
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see food and eat it.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl:
That's right (laughs).
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>>John: But what about
this Mediterranean diet?
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You hear a lot about that.
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It's hyped as, or
promoted as being very good.
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Is it very good?
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And if it is, why?
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Well, the
traditional Mediterranean diet
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is very good.
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And it is healing, uh,
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because it's a diet
that's based on whole,
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unprocessed food,
mostly from plant foods.
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The types of fat that you
find in the Mediterranean diet
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are the healthier
types of fats, in general,
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as compared to the
high-saturated fats,
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high-cholesterol foods that
we eat in the Western countries.
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>>John: Well, there's a lot
of food in front of us here,
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and I'm guessing
that much of this is
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representative of
the Mediterranean diet.
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I see figs, and I see dates,
and I see grapes and raisins
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and grains, and good stuff.
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The healing foods of the Bible.
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We'll find out what
they are specifically,
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and how they can
be a blessing to you,
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with Dr. John
Westerdahl, in just a moment.
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>>John: The Bible
tells us that our body
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is the temple
of the Holy Spirit.
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God wants us to
have good health.
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We need to take
care of ourselves.
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The question is,
how do we do that?
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Let me show you how with:
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“Healing Foods of The Bible”
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which I co-wrote
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>>John: This is It Is
Written. I'm John Bradshaw.
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Thanks for joining me today.
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With me is Dr. John Westerdahl,
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a nutritionist from
the Bragg Health Institute
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in Santa Barbara, California.
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And today we are talking about
healing foods of the Bible.
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I'm interested in the idea
that foods can actually heal,
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like medicine.
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So in front of us here,
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there's all kinds
of different foods.
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Let's talk about what you have,
and how and why it's healing.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl:
Well, here you go.
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An apple a day
keeps the doctor away.
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You've heard that.
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>>John: That's good
for, good for non-doctors,
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not so good for
doctors though, I suppose.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: That's right,
because an apple is an amazing
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food, because when
you eat these apples,
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you can lower your cholesterol.
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They are high in soluble fiber
that actually binds cholesterol
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and helps you
remove that from the body.
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And studies have shown
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that people who have
a couple of apples a day
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in their diet can
reduce their cholesterol
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by as much as 10 percent.
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>>John: That's pretty good.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: And the
other amazing thing about apples
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is they're high in what we
call polyphenol antioxidants.
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These are substances
that are naturally occurring,
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primarily in the
skin of the apple,
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that have
anti-cancer properties,
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heart disease
prevention properties.
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They prevent the oxidation
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or the aging of
the cells in the body.
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There's some wonderful things.
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And, you know, this is true:
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an apple a day
keeps the doctor away.
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>>John: Very good.
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Apples.
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Wonderful.
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And an apple is
certainly biblical.
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We read about apples in
the Bible many, many times.
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Okay.
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A healing food of the Bible.
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What else we got?
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: So
the next one is apricots.
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And, by the way, when
you read in the Bible,
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when it talks
about golden apples,
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it's probably an apricot.
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They're very rich in
the, what we call carotinoids,
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beta keratin, which makes
it that bright yellow color.
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These pigments that
you find in apricots
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also have
anti-cancer properties,
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and it's a great
food for overall health.
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It's great, and delicious too.
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>>John: Now, let me
ask a question about color.
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You should eat foods of
different colors, correct?
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And, if I'm right, why is that?
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: I recommend
eating a rainbow of colors,
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of food, because all
these different colors in food,
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God has put these colors
in all these different foods,
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and they all
have special benefits.
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The more colorful the
diet, the better it is for you,
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as opposed to the white
bread and the white sugar,
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and all those
white refined foods,
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where all the color
has been taken away.
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Well, a lot of those
nutrients have been taken away.
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So most scientists and
nutritionists will tell you
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to eat a colorful diet with
lots of fruits and vegetables.
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>>John: All right, good.
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Okay, what else we have?
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: The
other is a Bible grain: barley.
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And barley, in the Holy
Land and in the Middle East,
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is considered a heart medicine.
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>>John: No kidding.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl:
Amongst the common people.
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Because it is
high in soluble fiber,
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which can actually help
you lower your cholesterol.
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Barley has been shown to lower
the bad type of cholesterol,
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what we call
the LDL cholesterol,
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and actually help and
increase the good cholesterol,
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the good-guy cholesterol,
called HDL cholesterol.
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The high-density
lipoprotein cholesterol.
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>>John: Now, isn't
that also true of oats?
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Oatmeal.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Yes.
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>>John:
Porridge, where I grew up.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Oats is
another grain that has some
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similar properties as far as
cholesterol-lowering benefits.
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>>John: So when the
Bible was talking about barley,
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it was talking about
something that didn't just make
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a good biblical point,
but it was good for you.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: It was. It is.
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>>John: And can help to
reverse significant disease.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Yes.
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And it's a very rich
source of antioxidants,
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particularly what
we call tocotrienols,
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which is related to vitamin E.
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>>John: How do you eat barley?
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Many people are wondering,
what do I do with this?
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Do I put it in a
stew, do I fry it?
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Can I...
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: You could...
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>>John: Can I
bread it and deep fry it?
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: No,
you don't want to do that!
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>>John: All right.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: But you can
use it and make a flour with it,
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and use it in grains and
different types of healthy
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bakery-type products.
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Also, just cooking
barley up is really good.
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It's very good to
add, just as a cereal.
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And you'll find, of course,
barley a lot in vegetable soups.
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>>John: What's
next? What have we got?
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Well, the next
one is nature's candy: dates.
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Well, dates, of course,
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are very high in
calories from natural sweets.
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But they're very
high in nutrients as well,
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like potassium, magnesium.
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They're a very good
source of dietary fiber.
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This is a
healthier sweet than candy.
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>>John: Healing
foods of the Bible.
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So far, apples, they're good.
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Um, apricots, they're wonderful.
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Barley, that's good stuff.
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Dates, they're magnificent.
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This all tastes good.
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And it's
extraordinarily good for you,
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even to the
point of being healing.
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Healing foods of the Bible.
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We'll be back with
more in just a moment.
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>>John: Now I have
no idea how companies
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actually do this research,
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but a survey of two thousand
adults in the United Kingdom
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found that people there spend
more time sitting on the toilet
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than they spend exercising.
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Three hours and nine
minutes a week on the throne
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versus 90 minutes
a week exercising.
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A quarter of the people exercise
only 30 minutes or less.
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Which is surprising.
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If you're trying to figure
out how a person can spend
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189 minutes a
week... and you're going,
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“That's seven days, times...and
how long would that take...?”
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you've got to
factor in smartphones,
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which are driving
up the amount of time
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people spend... you know.
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3 John 2 says,
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“Beloved, I pray that
you may prosper in all things
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and be in health, just
as your soul prospers.”
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Might be time to get
a little more exercise,
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might be time to look
after ourselves a bit better.
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And where did you watch this?
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I'm John Bradshaw
for It Is Written.
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Let's live today by Every Word.
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>>John: This is It Is Written.
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Thanks for joining me today.
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In the Bible the wise man
urged us to eat for strength.
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And the same
book, the Holy Bible,
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reveals to us that
there are healing foods,
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foods that you can eat that
taste good and are good for you,
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even to the point
of helping you combat
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some pretty
significant diseases.
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Dr. John Westerdahl,
tell me about some more
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healing foods of the Bible.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl:
Well, another one is figs,
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and that can be dried
like this, or also fresh.
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These figs are, of
course, very sweet.
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They're almost
like a candy as well.
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But they're a very
good source of potassium.
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They're a very good
source of the soluble fiber,
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to also lower your cholesterol.
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And they're a wonderful food.
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They can be incorporated in
many different types of food.
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>>John: Jesus cursed a fig
tree, but I'm sure many times
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He ate figs and blessed
other fig trees as well.
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>>Dr.
Westerdahl: I believe He did.
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>>John: These
are real good things.
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Okay, so figs:
biblical, good for you.
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What else?
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>>Dr.
Westerdahl: And then garlic,
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one of my favorite vegetables.
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Garlic actually was
a food and a medicine
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with the children of Israel
long before Moses led them.
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And, uh, what's
exciting about garlic
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is it's a heart-healthy food,
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been shown in a number of
studies to help you lower your
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bad LDL cholesterol and increase
the good HDL cholesterol.
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It prevents blood clotting,
has antibacterial properties,
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and is listed as one of
the top anti-cancer foods.
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>>John: Fantastic. I like that.
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All right.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl:
And then we have grapes,
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and also raisins.
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>>John: Do you think that
grapes that were brought back
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from the Promised Land were that
size, or a little bit bigger?
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: I
think they were a lot bigger.
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>>John: A little bigger.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl:
And it's amazing how big
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some of these grapes are.
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>>John: Yeah.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: But grapes,
uh, are rich in antioxidants
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and phytochemicals.
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One of the ones that we know of,
particularly in the red grape,
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in the skins and
even in the seeds,
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is resveratrol, which is
considered a very healthy
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antioxidant that
you find in grapes.
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>>John: So, so far, you know,
out of everything we've talked
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about, you have
to cook the barley,
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and you probably wouldn't
want to eat too much raw garlic,
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but all the rest of these
things are not very expensive,
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some of them
positively inexpensive,
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and they taste good.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl:
And they taste good,
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and they add a lot of
great flavor to food as well.
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>>John: Now, there are many
people who are not convinced
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that leafy green
vegetables can taste good.
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I beg to differ.
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You've got there
collard greens and curly kale.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: That's right.
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>>John: And
spinach, by the look of it.
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And, you know, Popeye
showed us, all you need to do
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is eat that stuff
and get big muscles.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: That's right.
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And the, in the Holy Land
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they ate a lot of green
vegetables with their diet.
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And these things are
high in antioxidants,
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they're high in lutein,
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which is the antioxidant
that's good for your eyes, also.
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You can put it in different
types of recipes and flavorful
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soups, and get all these healthy
nutrients from the greens.
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And what's popular now is,
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a lot of people are
putting these in smoothies,
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mixed with apple juice
and a little bit of banana,
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and they're getting their
greens in their diet that way,
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in a nice, flavorful way.
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>>John: Drinking their greens.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl:
Drinking their greens.
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>>John: All right.
00:16:57.88\00:16:58.51
Now, I know there's more.
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There are more
healing foods of the Bible.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl:
There's a lot more to share.
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>>John: Okay, we'll be back
00:17:03.05\00:17:03.92
with those healing
foods of the Bible.
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We'll find out
exactly what they are
00:17:06.19\00:17:07.79
and how you can enjoy
them and be blessed by them.
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More in a moment.
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>>John: The Bible
tells us that our body
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is the temple
of the Holy Spirit.
00:17:15.30\00:17:17.17
God wants us to
have good health.
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We need to take
care of ourselves.
00:17:18.73\00:17:20.64
The question is,
how do we do that?
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Let me show you how with:
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>>John: This is It Is
Written. I'm John Bradshaw.
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Thanks for joining me.
00:18:17.16\00:18:18.19
In the last couple
of minutes, my guest,
00:18:18.23\00:18:19.86
Dr. John Westerdahl, has
rushed off to the grocery store
00:18:19.89\00:18:23.03
and rushed back again, with
more healing foods of the Bible.
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And they look great.
00:18:26.94\00:18:27.94
I see hummus, and
pistachios and honey,
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and olives; some
of my favorite foods.
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How are these
healing foods of the Bible?
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>>Dr. Westerdahl:
Well, they're all great,
00:18:36.38\00:18:37.28
and they're
delicious and nutritious.
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And we're going to
start off with the first ones,
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and these are
beans, peas and lentils.
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These are the fava
beans from the Holy Land
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that were used quite often,
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and the white beans that were
used often in biblical times,
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as well as the lentils.
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And these
beans, peas and lentils
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are very rich
sources of vegetable protein,
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high levels of protein,
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without all that
cholesterol and saturated fat
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you get from meat
products and so forth.
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And, uh, they are also,
one of the other benefits
00:19:02.50\00:19:04.77
with this is they're
high in the soluble fiber.
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So, not only do they have no
cholesterol or saturated fat in
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them; they have a fiber
that helps you lower your
00:19:11.08\00:19:13.78
cholesterol, because
of the soluble fiber.
00:19:13.82\00:19:16.15
>>John: Something
about fibrous foods, too:
00:19:16.18\00:19:17.52
you eat them and you feel
more full than if you're eating
00:19:17.55\00:19:20.79
foods that lack fiber and
they're just kind of empty.
00:19:20.82\00:19:22.69
>>Dr. Westerdahl: That's right.
00:19:22.72\00:19:23.93
And the one thing they're
finding out more in the research
00:19:23.96\00:19:25.66
today is eating more beans
is very helpful for diabetics
00:19:25.69\00:19:29.23
trying to keep their
blood sugar under control.
00:19:29.26\00:19:30.93
>>John: Correct.
00:19:30.97\00:19:31.93
>>Dr. Westerdahl:
Now, one of the foods that,
00:19:31.97\00:19:33.60
uh, another type
of bean, actually,
00:19:33.64\00:19:36.10
a legume, is, is garbanzo beans.
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And, of course, you
make hummus with them.
00:19:39.34\00:19:41.44
And that's one of the
traditional Bible foods,
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healing foods, that was
used in ancient times as a,
00:19:44.28\00:19:47.15
as a garnish, or a
relish, I should say,
00:19:47.18\00:19:49.62
to use with, like,
that whole-wheat pita bread.
00:19:49.65\00:19:51.89
>>John: Now, in some
places we call these chickpeas.
00:19:51.92\00:19:54.12
>>Dr. Westerdahl: Yes.
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Chickpeas is another
common name for them.
00:19:55.12\00:19:56.32
>>John: But as long as you
can call the end product hummus,
00:19:56.36\00:19:58.36
you're doing okay.
00:19:58.39\00:19:59.23
>>Dr. Westerdahl: That's right.
00:19:59.26\00:19:59.93
>>John: This is fantastic stuff.
00:19:59.96\00:20:00.90
>>Dr. Westerdahl: It really is.
00:20:00.93\00:20:01.86
>>John: Okay, and
it's not hard to make.
00:20:01.90\00:20:02.96
It's easy to find.
00:20:03.00\00:20:04.20
Not too expensive to buy by
any stretch of the imagination.
00:20:04.23\00:20:06.67
Add to that some pita
bread, and you're good to go.
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>>Dr.
Westerdahl: You really are.
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>>John: And
this is good for you.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: And
it's good for you as well.
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>>John: In Bible times,
and in the Mediterranean part
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of the world, they eat this.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl:
They eat that all the time.
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It's just, it's a staple.
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>>John: Um-hmm.
Let's go to the next one.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Okay,
the next one is a grain,
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and this is millet.
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When someone tells
you they eat like a bird,
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they're probably eating millet,
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because that's
what bird seed is.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: But millet
is used in many bread products.
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It's a grain in
itself that you can cook up
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and make as a hot cereal.
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And it's a very
good source of fiber,
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and provides some
vegetable protein as well.
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>>John: And what I can,
what I can see here is that
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if somebody's eating stuff
they know is just not real good,
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you can
substitute some things out
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and some things in
to take their place.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Yes.
00:20:49.04\00:20:49.94
>>John: And just
simple changes result in
00:20:49.98\00:20:51.25
really good
benefits to the health.
00:20:51.28\00:20:52.61
>>Dr. Westerdahl: Right.
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Getting the wide
variety of foods is important.
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And, you know, choose
the ones that you like,
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and try different recipes.
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Now, of course, since
the Garden of Eden times,
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nuts were eaten all the time by,
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in the Middle East
and in Bible times.
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You've got pistachios, as
you mentioned, walnuts, almonds.
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All these were favorite nuts
and are still used traditionally
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in the Mediterranean diet.
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>>John: Um-hmm.
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Very good for you,
they taste wonderful.
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Walnuts loaded with Omega-3s,
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which are, uh...
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>>Dr. Westerdahl: Yes.
00:21:20.01\00:21:20.84
>>John: ...good
in combatting cancer
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and other illnesses as well.
00:21:22.41\00:21:23.61
>>Dr. Westerdahl: Yes. They
have the healthy types of fat.
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And antioxidants,
particularly vitamin E.
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>>John: Great.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl:
And, of course, there's
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olives and olive oil, when you
think of the Mediterranean diet,
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is very important.
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All types of
different olives were eaten.
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Olive oil, and
olives, of course,
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have the
heart-healthy type of fat.
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When you look for an olive oil,
you want to make sure you get,
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ideally, organic,
extra virgin olive oil.
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First cold press
is really important.
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So it's a healthier type
of fat, mono-unsaturated fat.
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And also with olive oil, you
see this one here from Greece,
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has, you see it's cloudy.
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That means it's
unfiltered and unrefined.
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Many of the olive oils you
get in the market are filtered,
00:22:01.75\00:22:04.99
so they're clear, but you're
losing a lot of those important,
00:22:05.02\00:22:08.06
healthful benefits when you,
when you refine the olive oil.
00:22:08.09\00:22:10.79
>>John: I'll
give this back to you.
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Is there a wrong way to use oil?
00:22:11.73\00:22:13.46
I mean, should I
deep-fry my candy bars in this,
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in this good,
unfiltered Greek olive oil?
00:22:16.77\00:22:19.87
>>Dr. Westerdahl: No, that
would ruin this Greek olive oil.
00:22:19.90\00:22:22.20
In fact, it would
damage it and destroy a lot of
00:22:22.24\00:22:24.47
the health
properties that you find in it.
00:22:24.51\00:22:26.21
>>John: How should I eat this?
00:22:26.24\00:22:27.38
>>Dr. Westerdahl: To use
olive oil, first, cold pressed,
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lower temperatures like on your
salad-type foods is very good.
00:22:30.01\00:22:34.62
But if you do it with cooking,
00:22:34.65\00:22:35.95
use it at low
temperature cooking,
00:22:35.98\00:22:37.49
because cooking
high temperatures
00:22:37.52\00:22:38.85
with oils really destroys it.
00:22:38.89\00:22:40.19
>>John: And clearly
there's a way to eat
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that doesn't contribute
to your overall well-being.
00:22:42.19\00:22:44.63
>>Dr. Westerdahl: Right.
00:22:44.66\00:22:45.63
>>John: So that's
why we're talking about
00:22:45.66\00:22:46.36
healing foods
of the Bible today.
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And these are
all the good things.
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>>Dr. Westerdahl:
Then we have leeks,
00:22:51.03\00:22:52.90
and that's a
famous Jewish food, right?
00:22:52.93\00:22:55.77
And onions.
00:22:55.80\00:22:57.41
>>John: The Welsh love leeks.
00:22:57.44\00:22:58.67
>>Dr. Westerdahl: And these have
a lot of the similar properties
00:22:58.71\00:23:00.78
that I mentioned
earlier with garlic.
00:23:00.81\00:23:02.61
They have
antibacterial properties.
00:23:02.64\00:23:04.41
They have
heart-healthy properties.
00:23:04.45\00:23:06.05
And, of course, the great
thing about onions and leeks,
00:23:06.08\00:23:08.62
they add great
flavor to your recipe.
00:23:08.65\00:23:10.85
>>John: Oh yeah.
They smell great.
00:23:10.89\00:23:12.32
>>Dr. Westerdahl:
Then comes pomegranate.
00:23:12.35\00:23:14.12
And pomegranates
are an anti-aging food
00:23:14.16\00:23:16.89
that has become
very popular lately.
00:23:16.93\00:23:19.33
And what's nice, you can get the
pomegranates and cut it open,
00:23:19.36\00:23:22.20
try to get these
little insides out.
00:23:22.23\00:23:25.17
But now you can go
to the grocery store,
00:23:25.20\00:23:27.00
and they're all
opened up for you,
00:23:27.04\00:23:29.17
and you can buy them all
peeled and all that for you.
00:23:29.20\00:23:32.91
>>Dr. Westerdahl: And,
of course, pomegranate juice
00:23:32.94\00:23:34.71
is another
concentrated way of getting it,
00:23:34.74\00:23:36.81
and that's also
very popular these days.
00:23:36.85\00:23:38.55
Pomegranates are
high in antioxidants,
00:23:38.58\00:23:40.45
and particularly ellagic acid,
00:23:40.48\00:23:42.95
which seems to have
some anti-cancer properties
00:23:42.98\00:23:45.42
as well as
heart-health benefits as well.
00:23:45.45\00:23:48.02
>>John: Now, I
see in front of you,
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you have wheats, and then bread,
which is a product of wheat.
00:23:49.29\00:23:52.93
So what is it about wheat
that's particularly good for us?
00:23:52.96\00:23:55.43
>>Dr. Westerdahl: Well, wheat
has a lot of B complex vitamins.
00:23:55.46\00:23:58.10
It has a lot of fiber.
00:23:58.13\00:23:59.47
And you've got to get
the whole wheat bread,
00:23:59.50\00:24:01.20
and whole wheat, to
make sure you get that fiber.
00:24:01.24\00:24:03.74
And it has some other
interesting antioxidants that
00:24:03.77\00:24:06.57
can be beneficial to
our heart health as well.
00:24:06.61\00:24:08.88
And, of course,
wheat provides a lot of
00:24:08.91\00:24:10.35
good healthy
calories to our diet.
00:24:10.38\00:24:12.75
>>John: What we know,
just to reiterate here,
00:24:12.78\00:24:14.72
a lot of people who are sick
today wouldn't be if they had
00:24:14.75\00:24:17.52
adopted a healthy diet
earlier in their lives.
00:24:17.55\00:24:19.95
>>Dr. Westerdahl: Yes.
00:24:19.99\00:24:20.96
>>John: So we're
encouraging people today,
00:24:20.99\00:24:22.62
to really preserve
their health, eat well,
00:24:22.66\00:24:25.63
live long, and prosper.
00:24:25.66\00:24:27.40
>>Dr. Westerdahl: That's right.
00:24:27.40\00:24:28.16
>>John: All
right, the Bible way.
00:24:28.20\00:24:29.30
>>Dr. Westerdahl: The Bible
way. And then we have honey.
00:24:29.33\00:24:31.37
There's one thing the Bible
talks about: a little bit of
00:24:31.40\00:24:33.77
honey's good for you, but
too much can make you sick.
00:24:33.80\00:24:37.47
It adds a lot of great
flavor sweetness to foods
00:24:37.51\00:24:39.94
and your recipes,
and putting on some food.
00:24:39.97\00:24:42.01
But use it in moderation.
00:24:42.04\00:24:43.31
>>John: And in the Bible,
00:24:43.35\00:24:44.28
God used honey as a
symbol of good things.
00:24:44.31\00:24:46.21
Even a symbol of his law.
00:24:46.25\00:24:47.95
“Sweeter also than
honey and the honeycomb,”
00:24:47.98\00:24:50.52
we read in the word of God.
00:24:50.55\00:24:51.79
Now, I'm fascinated
because in the Bible
00:24:51.82\00:24:54.36
there's actually a bread recipe.
00:24:54.39\00:24:56.19
>>Dr. Westerdahl: There is.
00:24:56.22\00:24:57.19
>>John: No kidding.
I'm going to read it.
00:24:57.23\00:24:58.83
It's in Ezekiel, chapter 4.
00:24:58.86\00:25:01.36
Ezekiel 4:9.
00:25:01.40\00:25:03.16
“Take thou also unto
thee wheat, and barley,
00:25:03.20\00:25:06.37
and beans, and
lentils, and millet,
00:25:06.40\00:25:09.67
and fitches, and
put them in one vessel,
00:25:09.70\00:25:13.11
and make thee bread thereof,
according to the number of the
00:25:13.14\00:25:15.78
days that thou
shalt lie upon thy side.”
00:25:15.81\00:25:17.78
And he specifies those days.
00:25:17.81\00:25:19.35
And the fitches is
spelt, another grain.
00:25:19.38\00:25:21.72
And we have it here.
00:25:21.75\00:25:23.05
Lentils and millet and
spelt and wheat and barley,
00:25:23.08\00:25:28.29
and those beans there.
00:25:28.32\00:25:29.86
And here's the bread.
00:25:29.89\00:25:32.33
Uh, the recipe found
in Ezekiel 4 and verse 9.
00:25:32.36\00:25:36.16
Smells good,
and it tastes great.
00:25:36.20\00:25:39.37
>>John: Ezekiel 4:9.
00:25:39.40\00:25:40.94
Who knew that God put a bread
recipe right there in the Bible?
00:25:40.97\00:25:45.34
Well, some did.
00:25:45.37\00:25:46.34
Most people have no idea.
00:25:46.37\00:25:47.54
>>Dr. Westerdahl: That's right.
00:25:47.58\00:25:48.64
>>John: And these are
healing foods of the Bible.
00:25:48.68\00:25:50.95
>>Dr.
Westerdahl: They are, John.
00:25:50.98\00:25:51.95
And we want to get as
much of these types of,
00:25:51.98\00:25:54.45
varieties of foods
in our diet every day,
00:25:54.48\00:25:56.08
so that we can enjoy
good health and wellness.
00:25:56.12\00:25:58.02
>>John: Um-hmm.
00:25:58.05\00:25:59.32
It's important, too, because
that's God's plan for us.
00:25:59.35\00:26:01.06
>>Dr. Westerdahl: It is.
00:26:01.09\00:26:01.89
>>John: To live
well in this world,
00:26:01.92\00:26:03.93
to enjoy good
health in this world,
00:26:03.96\00:26:05.33
to fend off as many illnesses
and diseases as we can.
00:26:05.36\00:26:08.10
If we live longer,
we have more time to
00:26:08.13\00:26:09.76
donate and dedicate to God.
00:26:09.80\00:26:10.73
>>Dr. Westerdahl: Correct.
00:26:10.77\00:26:12.00
>>John:  If we live healthy, we
have more energy to give to God.
00:26:12.03\00:26:14.07
If we adopt God's
diet, healthy body,
00:26:14.10\00:26:17.31
healthier mind, we can
hear God's voice better.
00:26:17.34\00:26:19.61
Isn't that true?
00:26:19.64\00:26:20.34
>>Dr. Westerdahl: That's right.
00:26:20.38\00:26:21.28
>>John: And Jesus,
in John 10, verse 10,
00:26:21.31\00:26:23.04
said one reason He came to
this world is that we might have
00:26:23.08\00:26:26.35
life, and have it
more abundantly, not less.
00:26:26.38\00:26:30.89
And too many of us
are ripping ourselves off,
00:26:30.92\00:26:33.56
because we're not eating
the healing foods of the Bible.
00:26:33.59\00:26:37.13
Dr. Westerdahl, thank
you for joining me today.
00:26:37.16\00:26:39.29
This has been a blessing.
00:26:39.33\00:26:40.40
>>Dr. Westerdahl: Great
being with you today, John.
00:26:40.43\00:26:41.60
>>John: And I'm hungry now.
00:26:41.63\00:26:42.76
>>Dr. Westerdahl: I am too.
00:26:42.80\00:26:44.07
>>John: But let's pray, because
some of us have got some work
00:26:44.10\00:26:45.63
to do in our diet,
00:26:45.67\00:26:46.70
and all of us want to
enjoy the blessing of God.
00:26:46.74\00:26:50.21
Let's thank Him for these
healing foods of the Bible.
00:26:50.24\00:26:53.11
Our Father in
Heaven, we are grateful,
00:26:53.14\00:26:55.48
that You have put
into these wonderful,
00:26:55.51\00:26:57.88
natural things the
very things we need
00:26:57.91\00:27:02.38
to do well in this world.
00:27:02.42\00:27:04.32
Right there on the
shelves of the supermarket,
00:27:04.35\00:27:07.12
or in the gardens
that grow where we live,
00:27:07.16\00:27:10.06
You have loaded into
these wonderful things
00:27:10.09\00:27:13.09
health and wellness,
00:27:13.13\00:27:15.53
in such a way that it
will bless us in this world
00:27:15.56\00:27:17.73
and into the world to come.
00:27:17.77\00:27:20.94
So guide and bless us, please.
00:27:20.97\00:27:22.40
I want to thank You for
providing that which You have
00:27:22.44\00:27:25.07
provided, the
healing foods of the Bible.
00:27:25.11\00:27:28.21
May they bring
healing and life to us.
00:27:28.24\00:27:31.28
I pray with
thanks in Jesus' name,
00:27:31.31\00:27:35.25
Amen.
00:27:35.28\00:27:36.85
>>John: I'm glad
you've joined us today.
00:27:36.89\00:27:38.49
I look forward to
seeing you again next time.
00:27:38.52\00:27:40.66
Until then, remember:
00:27:40.69\00:27:42.36
“It is written:
00:27:42.39\00:27:43.59
‘Man shall not
live by bread alone,
00:27:43.63\00:27:46.09
but by every word that proceeds
from the mouth of God.'”
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