Hi friends, and welcome to
another edition of NEWSTART Now.
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In our studio
today we have a young man
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that came to us quite ill,
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and I'd like to show you a
segment when he first arrived.
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The reason I came to
NEWSTART and Weimar is
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a year and a half ago
I had a detached retina,
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and it left me
with about two months
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in bed face down, or
in general face down.
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Problems developed from then --
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tightness,
soreness, pain in the body.
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Here recently it's gotten worse.
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In the last three months or so,
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it's gotten to the point where
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I just have thoughts that
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I don't really know if
I'll be here in a year or two.
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It's just...seems like
there was no hope physically.
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Things just are going downhill
and not finding answers.
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I would like to have a
better outlook on life,
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physically,
spiritually, mentally,
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and get back to normal life.
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Hi friends, welcome back,
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and in our studio, Del.
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How are you, sir? - Fine.
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Good to see you.
- Good to be here.
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You know,
something is on my mind,
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I just want to ask
you, and perhaps the viewers
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would like to know the answer.
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You said there was a
point where you didn't know
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whether you were
going to be here in a year.
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What did that mean?
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Well, that meant physically
I was just in so much pain
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I was to the point where I
didn't feel a lot of the pain,
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and it seemed as though my
life was not going anywhere.
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I was on disability,
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couldn't do a job, had
a family to take care of,
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and I just felt that perhaps
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not being here would be
just as well as being here.
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So I was just...not much hope.
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- I didn't really see any hope
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for things
getting better physically.
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And I saw that, and
now I have to ask you,
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Do you have hope?
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Yeah. Yes, I do.
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You have hope. - Mhmm.
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- And why do you have hope now?
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Well, being
here at the NEWSTART,
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I've gotten in touch
with the circadian rhythms
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and I'm getting up earlier,
and going to bed earlier.
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[laughter]
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That helps a great deal.
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- Isn't it
amazing how that works?
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You go to bed earlier,
it makes you get up earlier.
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- Mhmm, yeah.
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But continue on
with that, please.
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Yeah. They keep us so busy here
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walking around so much.
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We have to do so much exercise
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just to keep up with the program
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that there's not really
much time for rest in between.
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[laughter]
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But you do get to a
point where you just...
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sometimes I just
skip my walks and
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take a little...take a little
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nap, a little relaxation.
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So that helps. -
Now you mentioned
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exercise. What form of exercise?
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Well, when I came here I was
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only able to walk
about a mile a day.
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That's about all I could handle,
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and that would wear me out.
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And now with the
nutrition and everything else
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that's going on around
here, I'm up to 5 miles a day
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- Wow! - before I'm really
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saying that's
enough. - Congratulations!
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And you had a
treadmill yesterday,
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did you not? - Yes, mhmm.
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How did you fare on
your treadmill test?
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Tell us about that.
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Well, I just came back
from seeing Doctor DeRose,
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and my treadmill has improved.
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I have a little minor
thing with my lower heart,
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with the heartbeat,
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but it's insignificant, so...
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I'm good to exercise.
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Get my heart rate up to the
maximum, 180 beats per minute,
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and just keep on
going till I get tired.
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180 beats per minute?
You're going up that high?
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Yeah, that was the maximum.
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I used to be runner, so
my heart's pretty strong.
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- Oh that's right! Yeah...
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So then, 5 miles is
really not a big deal for you.
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Well, it is, looking at
the last year and a half.
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It is to me, yeah. - Okay.
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If I go back 20 years
ago, yeah, 5 miles was...
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Twenty years ago we
could all go 5 miles easy!
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Running, or whatever.
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So what else has happened?
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Your attitude seems
to have changed here.
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Tell me what is going on here.
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Tell our audience, if
you would - our viewers.
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Well, we're just...
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There's just so much of
the presence of God here.
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All the staff,
everybody's just in tune
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and walking with Jesus.
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And it's just evident.
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It just shows in
everything they do--
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their
helpfulness, what they say...
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And we have the....
In the morning we have
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the chaplain speaking with us,
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and three
lectures a day on health,
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and there's always Bible
verses included in all that.
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And it's just...
it builds your faith.
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So then that way, it
builds the rest of you, too.
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So what did you
think when you first...
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Let me just say, when
I first visited my doctor
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and they asked if
they could pray with me,
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it really shocked me.
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A doctor that
wants to pray with me?!
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You know, at that
time I was not a Christian.
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Of course I am now, but
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tell me what you thought when
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the first staff member
asked you to pray with them,
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or did they mind.
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Yeah, that was great.
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I'm always looking for people
that want to pray with you.
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That's a nice thing.
That's a great thing.
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And when they started
doing that here, I said,
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"Wow. Maybe this is just
this one person doing this,
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you know, and they
won't do it again."
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But no - every time
you meet with somebody
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they want to pray with you.
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So you found this to be
true... How about hydro?
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Did they pray with
you at hydro? - Oh yeah.
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The hydro and massage
therapy, that was great.
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That's really done a
lot for me physically.
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And Jerry, when he'd
start to work on me he would
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stop and place his hands on me
and he'd have a word of prayer
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that God would direct his
hands to where they needed to go
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and fix the problem.
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And it works.
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So what I'm
hearing you say then,
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that all these visits
with various staff members
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from the cooking
school - Sally Christensen,
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to Doctor
DeRose, to Jerry Flores,
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to the many people
that you've met here,
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that your hope has
been built from there,
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and now you have
a trust in the Lord
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that's going to
take care of you.
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- Yes. I wish
I'd have said that.
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[laughter] I did say that!
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No, that's...
You know, that is so
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profound. I'm
so... I feel so blessed
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to hear you speak those words.
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Because you know,
whether you realize it or not,
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there's people viewing this
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that are going, "Oh,
I just needed to hear
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that God is alive and well."
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You know, for those folks,
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and our staff
members who are going,
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"Yes! What inspiration,"
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because, that's
the icing on the cake--
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your testimony.
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- Yeah. Good.
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And I want to hear more of it,
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So please, go on. What else now?
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Well, I lay in bed
for 12 hours plus a day,
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and just didn't
have the get-up-and-go.
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And with the
nutrition and the exercise,
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I'm getting up at 5
am, going to bed at 10 pm.
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And my energy is
starting to come up,
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and it's a long process,
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but I think I'm good enough
now to have cataract extraction
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and get my vision
hopefully, Lord willing,
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back to where it...
close to where it was before,
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and continue on with life.
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Well, there's
much more I could say,
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but I can't quite
think of it right now.
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[laughter] - Okay.
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Any time you feel,
just butt right in there.
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Okay, so Doctor DeRose
has given you the "go" sign
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to get back home.
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Are you going to
be the cook there,
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or what's going to
happen when you get back home?
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Well, that's a good point.
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I brought my daughter with me,
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and we have a
1-1/2 year old at home,
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so my wife stayed home,
my daughter came with me.
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So when we get back home,
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between my
daughter and my wife and I,
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we'll figure out
what we're going to do.
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And it's going to be as close to
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what we have
learned here as possible.
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So, is your wife
vegan at this point,
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or vegetarian?
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No, in the summertime we've
raised turkeys and chickens,
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for food, and eat that,
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but I've been slowing down the
past couple months anyway, so...
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this was no big shock
to my system coming here,
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and I think
when we get back home
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we'll pretty much follow the
diet that we've learned here,
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because it's helping better
than anything else so far.
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- Wonderful.
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Is there any last... We
have a few seconds left.
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Any last comment
you want to make?
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Well, the staff
here is just great.
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And I gotta say that
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I think this is
about as close to heaven
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as you're going to get on earth.
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without Jesus
actually being here in person.
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- Amen. - It's just great.
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Del, thank you so much
for coming in the studio here.
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- And folks, don't go away,
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because Doctor DeRose
will be here in just a second.
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Well, you've done very well.
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Do you have diabetes,
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heart disease,
high blood pressure,
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or do you weigh too much?
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Hi, my name is Dr. Ing,
and I'd like to tell you
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about our 18-day
NEWSTART lifestyle program.
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It includes a
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with laboratory studies
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physician consultations,
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culinary school,
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Welcome back, friends,
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and in our
studio, Dr. David DeRose.
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How are you,
Doctor? - Very good, Ron.
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Doctor, I just have to say this,
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that we do serve a God of hope.
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Oh, amazing. An
amazing God of hope.
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I mean, you hear a
story like Del's, and
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to be honest with
you, even as his physician,
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I didn't realize how bleak
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things were when
he first arrived.
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I saw it... I've
sensed it because
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I was there at
one time in my life.
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And I saw...and
particularly when he said,
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"You know, I didn't know
if I was going to be here,
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whether I even
wanted to be here."
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I don't think those
were his exact words,
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but now we see a different guy.
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Definitely. I mean, it's a
common phenomenon for people.
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If they have any
kind of chronic condition,
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chronic health problems,
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you start to wonder, I mean,
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"Am I ever going
to feel well again?"
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And you can understand
why someone would say,
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"Do I want to be around?" and
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you know, "Or is
this the end for me?"
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- Yeah.
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And so, that seems to be...
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is it fair to say, then, that
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people who are sick and tired
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enter into a
state of depression?
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Is this common?
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It's very common. We
call it a reactive depression.
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The garden variety
depression, if you will,
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is what we call an
endogenous depression.
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That means it just
kind of comes up on its own,
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but many people are
depressed for reasons.
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Technically we call
that a reactive depression.
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The body's
reacting to something,
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whether it's a loss of a spouse,
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whether it's the loss of a job,
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whether it's the
loss of finances.
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Usually some kind of a loss.
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Whether it's the loss of
health, our human response
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is typically to be depressed,
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to be down about it.
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Unless, with the Lord's
help, or for some other reason,
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we focus our
mind above the loss.
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I have to ask this because
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I remember a
runner by the name of Fisk
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who died of a heart attack.
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Oh, Jim Fixx,
yeah. - Oh, it's Fixx.
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And, yes, that was the runner.
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And I know that this
gentleman used to be a runner.
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Did that have
anything to do with his
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recuperating from
this, or can anybody expect
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to get well by being here?
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Well, I mean, the Jim Fixx
story is an interesting one.
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I actually heard one of
the doctors who knew Jim
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speak at a conference.
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He had encouraged Jim
to get his heart checked.
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Apparently he was
having some heart symptoms.
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But Fixx, who I believe
was a physician himself,
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felt that all his running
was protecting his heart.
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And he actually, you know,
overdid it apparently one day,
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and died.
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So, exercise is something...
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I share that illustration,
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we're talking about someone, and
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the first response
that many people have,
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"Well if you can die
exercising, I'm not gonna die."
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Or the other response, and I've
heard this story too before,
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where people...
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I remember the
story of one gentleman who
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was so depressed he decided
he was going to kill himself.
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And he didn't want it
to look like a suicide,
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so he'd heard that
people can die exercising,
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so he started
running as hard as he could.
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And the interesting thing was,
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he didn't drop dead
with a heart attack,
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but the exercise
improved his mood!
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- Isn't that interesting!
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- And he
overcame his depression.
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So exercise is a powerful,
mood-stabilizing activity.
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If you're down, it
tends to raise your mood,
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If you're very anxious or hyper,
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exercise tends to
help tone you down.
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So it's clearly a
part of the equation.
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But it's not the whole
part of the equation because
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if you do have a heart
condition or something,
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it can be problems.
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And that's why
when people come here
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to the NEWSTART program,
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the second day they're here
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we have them on the treadmill
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making sure that
exercise is safe for them.
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Or if it's dangerous,
we restrict their exercise.
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For example, if I have a patient
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and we're exercising
them and I start to see
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changes on their EKG,
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I will either stop the test or
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after we finish the
test instruct the person,
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"Look at...." Show
them their test, say,
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"You started showing changes
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when your heart
rate got to be 120.
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I want you to keep
your heart rate below 120,
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because it's potentially
dangerous to go above that.
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So we try to cover that.
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when we have people come
here to the NEWSTART program.
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Now I know that the day
before the treadmill test
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you do a blood draw, as well.
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Is that correct? -
That's right, that's right.
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And then you visit our guests
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the first day they're
here, is that correct?
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That's right. The
first full day they're here
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--they arrive on a
Sunday, that's a partial day.
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They're getting in,
they get some orientation.
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First full day, Monday morning,
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we do some baseline blood work,
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just see where they stand.
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We do a nice,
fairly complete panel
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that looks at
everything from the thyroid
00:16:19.70\00:16:21.54
to the kidneys, to the liver,
00:16:21.55\00:16:22.72
cholesterol, blood sugar,
00:16:22.73\00:16:24.63
complete blood
count, urine assessment.
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And then, we
actually that same day,
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a little bit later, we see
them in the medical clinic.
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There's three of
us physicians here.
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Each one has their
own personal physician.
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We go over
their medical history,
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do an exam.
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And then the next day
we're doing the stress test
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and working with them
throughout the program.
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Now of course if someone
has recently had a stress test
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or there's some
reason not to do that,
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it's all individualized. - Yes.
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And so we're not just putting
people onto some assembly line
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and then they all have to have,
you know, such and such done.
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But we find that
there's some things that can
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really streamline the program,
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give us a lot
of information that
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we give back
then to the patient.
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This is not kind
of a black box program
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where we get information,
we don't tell the patient,
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we just say, you
know, "Take this pill,
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do this, do that."
It's an educational program.
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- Right.
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You know, I understand
that there's approximately
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five or six
visits in those two weeks
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that the guests are
here. Is that correct?
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Typically we're
seeing them at least 6 times.
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- Six times. Over the
course of the 3 weeks.
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Now I have to tell you this.
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I thought it was
just a great benefit
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that I could eat
breakfast with my doctor
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and lunch,
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and of course they
talked me out of eating dinner,
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because I could
lose weight faster.
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But that is so inspirational
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to see the doctor right there
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eating the same food,
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and you could ask him questions.
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I think that
was exciting for me.
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Yeah, there's a lot of social
interaction with the staff here.
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Different staff members
are there for different meals.
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Some of the doctors
are frequent features there
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at the mealtime.
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And sometimes the patients joke,
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"Well, you know, it's
hard to not follow a good diet
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when your doctor
is watching you."
00:18:09.27\00:18:10.72
[laughter]
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But really, it's more
of a family atmosphere
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where we're interacting with you
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in a variety of
settings as a team.
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Now I want to get back to
Delray who had this problem
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with his eye, and I
assume that's corrected
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and now he's going to
have cataract surgery.
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What else, aside
from the depression,
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was he dealing with that
you were able to help him with?
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Well, I mean, I think you caught
00:18:38.69\00:18:40.63
from Del, you know,
from his perspective,
00:18:40.66\00:18:42.78
the fact that he
came here, like you said,
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quite depressed,
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he had a number
of health concerns,
00:18:47.43\00:18:49.27
and you mentioned the
vision-- that was a huge thing.
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But just put yourself in
the position of someone like Del
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who had a detached retina.
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What they do is they
often put a bubble in the eye,
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and that's why they
have to lay on their stomachs
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so that bubble
rises with gravity
00:19:03.66\00:19:06.78
and keeps the retina pushed
up against the back of the eye.
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The retina is kind of the
back membrane, if you will,
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the visual membrane
in the back of the eye.
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He was laying face down
for two months, he said!
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Yeah, it's a
very difficult thing,
00:19:19.00\00:19:21.21
and you can just
imagine what that does
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to your energy
level, your strength.
00:19:23.75\00:19:25.87
One of the most efficient ways
00:19:26.00\00:19:27.78
to rob you of
strength and mobility
00:19:27.87\00:19:29.81
is to put you at bed rest.
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And so you can just
imagine what anyone goes through
00:19:31.84\00:19:34.69
who deals with
a detached retina.
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So when Del shared with you
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that he was only
able to walk a mile
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before getting very fatigued,
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for someone who had
been as he indicated,
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highly fit before,
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this was, you know,
a dramatic decrease.
00:19:46.75\00:19:50.48
in his mobility,
in his functioning,
00:19:50.66\00:19:52.57
in his energy level.
00:19:52.60\00:19:54.00
And when you have
that kind of a change,
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that really puts
a toll on a person.
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We see such a
blessing in him now.
00:19:58.66\00:20:01.15
I was so inspired and
so grateful I should say,
00:20:01.33\00:20:04.42
to see him feeling better
00:20:04.69\00:20:07.27
and knowing he had this hope
00:20:07.28\00:20:09.06
and he could move forward.
00:20:09.21\00:20:11.57
Will you be
staying in touch with him
00:20:11.69\00:20:14.30
and your other
patients that you're seeing?
00:20:14.45\00:20:16.72
One of the things we do is
00:20:16.75\00:20:18.00
it's basically kind of an
open phone line, if you will.
00:20:18.06\00:20:20.48
All our patients leave
with our contact information
00:20:20.66\00:20:23.57
And we don't force
ourselves on anyone
00:20:23.69\00:20:26.33
who comes through the program.
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If they had enough
of me after three weeks,
00:20:27.45\00:20:29.66
you know, I'm not going to
00:20:29.72\00:20:30.72
harass them for
the rest of their life.
00:20:30.73\00:20:32.60
But the point is,
00:20:32.69\00:20:34.15
I just had someone call me who
00:20:34.21\00:20:36.03
left the
program a few weeks ago.
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They had questions.
00:20:37.81\00:20:39.15
Someone the other day from a
program several months ago...
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So basically,
whether we're calling,
00:20:42.48\00:20:45.12
checking up on someone,
00:20:45.21\00:20:46.30
whether they're
taking the initiative,
00:20:46.31\00:20:48.09
some real close contact.
00:20:48.12\00:20:49.45
You're part of the Weimar family
00:20:49.48\00:20:51.12
when you go through
the NEWSTART program.
00:20:51.15\00:20:52.66
If you don't
want to hear from us,
00:20:52.72\00:20:54.03
we respect that,
00:20:54.04\00:20:55.09
but we want to be available
00:20:55.18\00:20:57.30
if you have needs
when you're back home.
00:20:57.42\00:20:59.12
And I thought that was a
tremendous benefit for me
00:20:59.51\00:21:01.84
that I could call
Dr. Michael Orlich,
00:21:01.87\00:21:04.51
which was my doctor,
00:21:04.54\00:21:05.72
and I could call him
any time of day or night.
00:21:05.75\00:21:08.15
And I want to
thank you for that,
00:21:08.39\00:21:11.66
and thank you for being here,
00:21:11.75\00:21:13.12
and thank you for
being on our show.
00:21:13.21\00:21:14.54
- Oh, it's a tremendous
blessing and privilege.
00:21:14.57\00:21:16.66
It's always good to see you.
00:21:16.75\00:21:17.78
Thanks so much. - Yeah.
00:21:17.81\00:21:19.21
And folks,
that's it for right now,
00:21:19.22\00:21:21.57
but don't go away.
00:21:21.63\00:21:22.72
We have an important
message right after this.
00:21:22.81\00:21:25.48
Welcome to NEWSTART at Home.
00:21:40.21\00:21:41.75
I'm Dr. David
DeRose, your host today,
00:21:41.78\00:21:44.24
and we're going to be
looking at a fascinating topic.
00:21:44.36\00:21:46.54
To help us do that
is Hildelisa Flickenger.
00:21:46.55\00:21:49.78
Hildelisa, it's wonderful
to have you with us today.
00:21:49.79\00:21:52.15
Nice to be here.
00:21:52.24\00:21:53.30
For some of our viewers,
they may not have met you.
00:21:53.33\00:21:56.09
You've got some very impressive
credentials when it comes to
00:21:56.24\00:21:59.03
the subjects of nutrition.
00:21:59.04\00:22:01.00
You have a masters
of science in nutrition,
00:22:01.03\00:22:02.78
is that correct? - I do.
00:22:02.79\00:22:04.24
- You're also a
registered dietician,
00:22:04.25\00:22:06.48
you've worked with very
difficult clinical patients,
00:22:06.72\00:22:09.84
some of the most
difficult in the hospital,
00:22:10.33\00:22:12.03
dealing with things like what
we call parenteral nutrition.
00:22:12.06\00:22:14.78
What is just
parenteral nutrition,
00:22:15.12\00:22:17.36
for those who
aren't in the know?
00:22:17.37\00:22:18.87
Parenteral
nutrition is a specialty
00:22:19.09\00:22:21.66
within the field of
dietetics or nutrition
00:22:21.67\00:22:24.15
that deals with
the critically ill,
00:22:24.27\00:22:26.09
often patients
that are in the ICU,
00:22:26.24\00:22:28.63
and basically gives
them nutrition through an IV.
00:22:28.64\00:22:31.84
Okay, so you've dealt with
this very high-tech science,
00:22:32.12\00:22:35.42
you've been in the
intensive care units, the ICUs,
00:22:35.43\00:22:38.21
and yet you have a
special interest in helping
00:22:38.36\00:22:41.48
people in every walk of life
00:22:41.69\00:22:43.69
really have better
health. Isn't that right?
00:22:43.72\00:22:45.33
Definitely, and we do need that.
00:22:45.36\00:22:47.30
And Hildelisa, you have some
00:22:47.51\00:22:49.27
interesting roles
here on the Weimar campus.
00:22:49.28\00:22:51.87
Tell our viewers
a little bit about
00:22:52.03\00:22:53.51
what you're
involved with currently.
00:22:53.52\00:22:55.09
I'm one of the instructors for
00:22:55.27\00:22:57.24
the Amazing Facts
Center of Evangelism.
00:22:57.25\00:23:00.60
I'm one of the
health instructors there.
00:23:00.63\00:23:02.57
Tremendous. I know a lot of
00:23:02.69\00:23:03.72
exciting things
are happening there.
00:23:03.73\00:23:05.12
Young people,
people of all ages,
00:23:05.18\00:23:07.54
getting
energized about how health
00:23:07.55\00:23:09.27
can make a difference in
00:23:09.36\00:23:10.42
ministering to
their communities.
00:23:10.43\00:23:12.03
And today we want to look at a
00:23:12.09\00:23:13.33
very important
health topic, don't we?
00:23:13.34\00:23:14.81
- Definitely.
00:23:15.00\00:23:16.00
We're going to look at
00:23:16.01\00:23:17.66
a little bit about the
obesity crisis in America.
00:23:17.72\00:23:21.09
And we know that we also have
00:23:21.18\00:23:23.12
a crisis in the
diet-related diseases,
00:23:23.21\00:23:26.84
such as diabetes, and
hypertension, and cancer.
00:23:27.12\00:23:31.12
So Hildelisa, when we speak
about overweight and obesity,
00:23:31.78\00:23:35.36
most people don't like
the term "obesity," but
00:23:35.51\00:23:39.00
many people, whether they
meet the medical definition of
00:23:39.15\00:23:42.12
being obese, or
whether they just know
00:23:42.15\00:23:44.27
they've got to trim down,
00:23:44.30\00:23:45.84
the same issues
are really relevant,
00:23:46.15\00:23:48.81
aren't they, as far as
just losing some pounds?
00:23:48.82\00:23:51.24
Definitely.
00:23:51.27\00:23:52.45
Now, you know, I meet a
lot of people that are ready
00:23:52.51\00:23:55.18
to make changes,
especially in their diet habits.
00:23:55.21\00:23:58.15
And the federal government
has issued different models
00:23:58.30\00:24:02.12
to guide the
American public as to
00:24:02.15\00:24:04.66
what a healthy diet should be.
00:24:04.81\00:24:06.57
And we've all seen the
food guide pyramids, of course.
00:24:06.69\00:24:10.78
And actually, the
first food pyramid
00:24:11.12\00:24:13.78
was issued
about two decades ago.
00:24:14.09\00:24:16.60
- But it's interesting
to know that since then,
00:24:17.21\00:24:19.66
diabetes and
obesity are commonplace.
00:24:19.78\00:24:23.48
And just a couple of
impressive statistics,
00:24:23.60\00:24:26.33
27 percent of young adults
00:24:26.45\00:24:29.42
are too overweight to
qualify for military service.
00:24:29.57\00:24:32.57
- Twenty-seven
percent? Twenty-seven.
00:24:32.60\00:24:34.66
And 1 in 3 children born
in 2000 will develop diabetes.
00:24:34.67\00:24:40.42
Wow. So we got a huge problem.
00:24:40.51\00:24:42.54
The food pyramid
hasn't solved it.
00:24:42.57\00:24:44.24
Is there a better way
of planning our nutrition
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beside using the food pyramid?
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Yes, there is a better way.
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Now, the good thing
about the food pyramid is that
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it does tell people to eat
more fruits and vegetables.
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However, it does
recommend that they eat
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two to three servings
each from the meat group
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and the dairy products.
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And that's in spite
of studies that show that
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these foods increase
risk for chronic disease
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and increase obesity.
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So you're saying that the
meat and the dairy products
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are not good things if
we're trying to lose weight?
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Definitely not.
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Now just some interesting facts.
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Do you know that the
average American eats
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more than 215
pounds of meat a year?
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And that's up from
144 pounds in 1950.
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215 pounds, the
average American.
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Now Hildelisa, I'm
going to be honest with you,
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I'm a vegetarian.
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- So there's
going to be someone else
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who's eating those 215 pounds
that they attribute to me.
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- That's right.
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So something is
maybe a bit confusing
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about this food pyramid,
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and it recommends
foods that are unhealthful
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and unnecessary.
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But fortunately, like you said,
there is an option out there,
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and it's called the Power Plate.
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And it
basically... It's put out by the
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Physicians' Committee
for Responsible Medicine,
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and it has recommendations
based on research
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that shows that
plant-based foods
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are the most nutritious,
and protect against diseases.
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- This is tremendous. So
really, we want to be eating
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more of those
fruits, grains, legumes,
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the bean family, and vegetables.
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This is powerful
stuff, Hildelisa.
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I hope you've enjoyed
this brief look at nutrition,
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how you can, by
choosing more plant foods,
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make a
difference in your weight.
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If you want more
information, you can go to our
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NEWSTART Lifestyle Club.
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Simply:
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for that additional information.
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Modern views of
evolution stem all the way back
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to theories
developed in the mid-1800s.
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Out of the same time
period came ideas that shape
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our educational system today.
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The Common School
Movement, for example,
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saw schools more like a factory,
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with students blindly
memorizing instruction
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rather than
thinking for themselves.
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Their curriculum was
rigid and theoretical.
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Instead of being
flexible and practical,
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it was designed to
conform the individual
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into a specific ideological mold
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that fit the needs
of an old industrial era
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long since passed.
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Just like our view of
creation in six literal days,
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we believe the Bible contains
an educational blueprint
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radically different
from the one we see now.
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Well friends,
that's it for today.
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