Participants: Ron Giannoni (Host), Delray Acton
Series Code: NSN
Program Code: NSN000058
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00:23 Hi friends, and welcome to another edition of NEWSTART Now.
00:27 In our studio today we have a young man 00:29 that came to us quite ill, 00:32 and I'd like to show you a segment when he first arrived. 00:36 The reason I came to NEWSTART and Weimar is 00:40 a year and a half ago I had a detached retina, 00:43 and it left me with about two months 00:47 in bed face down, or in general face down. 00:50 Problems developed from then -- 00:53 tightness, soreness, pain in the body. 00:56 Here recently it's gotten worse. 00:59 In the last three months or so, 01:03 it's gotten to the point where 01:09 I just have thoughts that 01:12 I don't really know if I'll be here in a year or two. 01:16 It's just...seems like there was no hope physically. 01:21 Things just are going downhill and not finding answers. 01:25 I would like to have a better outlook on life, 01:28 physically, spiritually, mentally, 01:33 and get back to normal life. 01:38 Hi friends, welcome back, 01:40 and in our studio, Del. 01:41 How are you, sir? - Fine. 01:43 Good to see you. - Good to be here. 01:44 You know, something is on my mind, 01:46 I just want to ask you, and perhaps the viewers 01:49 would like to know the answer. 01:51 You said there was a point where you didn't know 01:53 whether you were going to be here in a year. 01:55 What did that mean? 01:58 Well, that meant physically I was just in so much pain 02:02 I was to the point where I didn't feel a lot of the pain, 02:06 and it seemed as though my life was not going anywhere. 02:09 I was on disability, 02:10 couldn't do a job, had a family to take care of, 02:14 and I just felt that perhaps 02:19 not being here would be just as well as being here. 02:22 So I was just...not much hope. 02:25 - I didn't really see any hope 02:27 for things getting better physically. 02:30 And I saw that, and now I have to ask you, 02:35 Do you have hope? 02:36 Yeah. Yes, I do. 02:38 You have hope. - Mhmm. 02:39 - And why do you have hope now? 02:42 Well, being here at the NEWSTART, 02:47 I've gotten in touch with the circadian rhythms 02:50 and I'm getting up earlier, and going to bed earlier. 02:54 [laughter] 02:56 That helps a great deal. 02:57 - Isn't it amazing how that works? 02:59 You go to bed earlier, it makes you get up earlier. 03:00 - Mhmm, yeah. 03:02 But continue on with that, please. 03:03 Yeah. They keep us so busy here 03:06 walking around so much. 03:10 We have to do so much exercise 03:11 just to keep up with the program 03:14 that there's not really much time for rest in between. 03:19 [laughter] 03:20 But you do get to a point where you just... 03:23 sometimes I just skip my walks and 03:25 take a little...take a little 03:27 nap, a little relaxation. 03:29 So that helps. - Now you mentioned 03:30 exercise. What form of exercise? 03:34 Well, when I came here I was 03:37 only able to walk about a mile a day. 03:39 That's about all I could handle, 03:41 and that would wear me out. 03:43 And now with the nutrition and everything else 03:46 that's going on around here, I'm up to 5 miles a day 03:49 - Wow! - before I'm really 03:51 saying that's enough. - Congratulations! 03:54 And you had a treadmill yesterday, 03:57 did you not? - Yes, mhmm. 03:58 How did you fare on your treadmill test? 04:00 Tell us about that. 04:02 Well, I just came back from seeing Doctor DeRose, 04:06 and my treadmill has improved. 04:10 I have a little minor thing with my lower heart, 04:15 with the heartbeat, 04:16 but it's insignificant, so... 04:20 I'm good to exercise. 04:21 Get my heart rate up to the maximum, 180 beats per minute, 04:26 and just keep on going till I get tired. 04:29 180 beats per minute? You're going up that high? 04:32 Yeah, that was the maximum. 04:34 I used to be runner, so my heart's pretty strong. 04:37 - Oh that's right! Yeah... 04:39 So then, 5 miles is really not a big deal for you. 04:42 Well, it is, looking at the last year and a half. 04:46 It is to me, yeah. - Okay. 04:48 If I go back 20 years ago, yeah, 5 miles was... 04:51 Twenty years ago we could all go 5 miles easy! 04:54 Running, or whatever. 04:57 So what else has happened? 04:59 Your attitude seems to have changed here. 05:03 Tell me what is going on here. 05:06 Tell our audience, if you would - our viewers. 05:10 Well, we're just... 05:12 There's just so much of the presence of God here. 05:15 All the staff, everybody's just in tune 05:18 and walking with Jesus. 05:20 And it's just evident. 05:23 It just shows in everything they do-- 05:24 their helpfulness, what they say... 05:27 And we have the.... In the morning we have 05:31 the chaplain speaking with us, 05:34 and three lectures a day on health, 05:37 and there's always Bible verses included in all that. 05:42 And it's just... it builds your faith. 05:45 So then that way, it builds the rest of you, too. 05:50 So what did you think when you first... 05:54 Let me just say, when I first visited my doctor 05:57 and they asked if they could pray with me, 05:59 it really shocked me. 06:01 A doctor that wants to pray with me?! 06:05 You know, at that time I was not a Christian. 06:08 Of course I am now, but 06:10 tell me what you thought when 06:13 the first staff member asked you to pray with them, 06:15 or did they mind. 06:17 Yeah, that was great. 06:20 I'm always looking for people that want to pray with you. 06:23 That's a nice thing. That's a great thing. 06:26 And when they started doing that here, I said, 06:28 "Wow. Maybe this is just this one person doing this, 06:31 you know, and they won't do it again." 06:33 But no - every time you meet with somebody 06:35 they want to pray with you. 06:37 So you found this to be true... How about hydro? 06:40 Did they pray with you at hydro? - Oh yeah. 06:42 The hydro and massage therapy, that was great. 06:46 That's really done a lot for me physically. 06:48 And Jerry, when he'd start to work on me he would 06:51 stop and place his hands on me and he'd have a word of prayer 06:54 that God would direct his hands to where they needed to go 06:58 and fix the problem. 06:59 And it works. 07:01 So what I'm hearing you say then, 07:04 that all these visits with various staff members 07:08 from the cooking school - Sally Christensen, 07:11 to Doctor DeRose, to Jerry Flores, 07:13 to the many people that you've met here, 07:16 that your hope has been built from there, 07:19 and now you have a trust in the Lord 07:21 that's going to take care of you. 07:23 - Yes. I wish I'd have said that. 07:25 [laughter] I did say that! 07:28 No, that's... You know, that is so 07:31 profound. I'm so... I feel so blessed 07:34 to hear you speak those words. 07:37 Because you know, whether you realize it or not, 07:40 there's people viewing this 07:42 that are going, "Oh, I just needed to hear 07:44 that God is alive and well." 07:46 You know, for those folks, 07:48 and our staff members who are going, 07:50 "Yes! What inspiration," 07:52 because, that's the icing on the cake-- 07:55 your testimony. 07:56 - Yeah. Good. 07:58 And I want to hear more of it, 07:59 So please, go on. What else now? 08:03 Well, I lay in bed for 12 hours plus a day, 08:09 and just didn't have the get-up-and-go. 08:14 And with the nutrition and the exercise, 08:18 I'm getting up at 5 am, going to bed at 10 pm. 08:24 And my energy is starting to come up, 08:27 and it's a long process, 08:30 but I think I'm good enough now to have cataract extraction 08:34 and get my vision hopefully, Lord willing, 08:37 back to where it... close to where it was before, 08:40 and continue on with life. 08:48 Well, there's much more I could say, 08:49 but I can't quite think of it right now. 08:51 [laughter] - Okay. 08:54 Any time you feel, just butt right in there. 08:57 Okay, so Doctor DeRose has given you the "go" sign 09:02 to get back home. 09:04 Are you going to be the cook there, 09:05 or what's going to happen when you get back home? 09:07 Well, that's a good point. 09:09 I brought my daughter with me, 09:11 and we have a 1-1/2 year old at home, 09:13 so my wife stayed home, my daughter came with me. 09:16 So when we get back home, 09:17 between my daughter and my wife and I, 09:19 we'll figure out what we're going to do. 09:22 And it's going to be as close to 09:24 what we have learned here as possible. 09:27 So, is your wife vegan at this point, 09:28 or vegetarian? 09:30 No, in the summertime we've raised turkeys and chickens, 09:34 for food, and eat that, 09:36 but I've been slowing down the past couple months anyway, so... 09:40 this was no big shock to my system coming here, 09:43 and I think when we get back home 09:45 we'll pretty much follow the diet that we've learned here, 09:49 because it's helping better than anything else so far. 09:53 - Wonderful. 09:54 Is there any last... We have a few seconds left. 09:56 Any last comment you want to make? 10:00 Well, the staff here is just great. 10:03 And I gotta say that 10:05 I think this is about as close to heaven 10:07 as you're going to get on earth. 10:09 without Jesus actually being here in person. 10:12 - Amen. - It's just great. 10:13 Del, thank you so much for coming in the studio here. 10:17 - And folks, don't go away, 10:18 because Doctor DeRose will be here in just a second. 10:22 Well, you've done very well. 10:30 Do you have diabetes, 10:32 heart disease, high blood pressure, 10:34 or do you weigh too much? 10:36 Hi, my name is Dr. Ing, and I'd like to tell you 10:39 about our 18-day NEWSTART lifestyle program. 10:43 It includes a comprehensive medical evaluation 10:46 with laboratory studies and an exercise stress test, 10:49 physician consultations, 10:52 culinary school, 10:53 and an opportunity to walk on beautiful trails 10:56 in the foothills of the Sierras. 11:00 Your health is one of the most 11:02 important things that you have. Don't wait. 11:04 Give us a call at: 11:09 Or visit our website: 11:28 Welcome back, friends, 11:30 and in our studio, Dr. David DeRose. 11:32 How are you, Doctor? - Very good, Ron. 11:34 Doctor, I just have to say this, 11:36 that we do serve a God of hope. 11:38 Oh, amazing. An amazing God of hope. 11:40 I mean, you hear a story like Del's, and 11:43 to be honest with you, even as his physician, 11:45 I didn't realize how bleak 11:47 things were when he first arrived. 11:49 I saw it... I've sensed it because 11:52 I was there at one time in my life. 11:55 And I saw...and particularly when he said, 11:58 "You know, I didn't know if I was going to be here, 11:59 whether I even wanted to be here." 12:01 I don't think those were his exact words, 12:04 but now we see a different guy. 12:06 Definitely. I mean, it's a common phenomenon for people. 12:09 If they have any kind of chronic condition, 12:11 chronic health problems, 12:12 you start to wonder, I mean, 12:14 "Am I ever going to feel well again?" 12:16 And you can understand why someone would say, 12:19 "Do I want to be around?" and 12:21 you know, "Or is this the end for me?" 12:22 - Yeah. 12:24 And so, that seems to be... 12:26 is it fair to say, then, that 12:29 people who are sick and tired 12:33 enter into a state of depression? 12:35 Is this common? 12:36 It's very common. We call it a reactive depression. 12:39 The garden variety depression, if you will, 12:42 is what we call an endogenous depression. 12:44 That means it just kind of comes up on its own, 12:47 but many people are depressed for reasons. 12:50 Technically we call that a reactive depression. 12:54 The body's reacting to something, 12:55 whether it's a loss of a spouse, 12:58 whether it's the loss of a job, 12:59 whether it's the loss of finances. 13:01 Usually some kind of a loss. 13:02 Whether it's the loss of health, our human response 13:06 is typically to be depressed, 13:08 to be down about it. 13:09 Unless, with the Lord's help, or for some other reason, 13:14 we focus our mind above the loss. 13:18 I have to ask this because 13:21 I remember a runner by the name of Fisk 13:24 who died of a heart attack. 13:26 Oh, Jim Fixx, yeah. - Oh, it's Fixx. 13:29 And, yes, that was the runner. 13:31 And I know that this gentleman used to be a runner. 13:34 Did that have anything to do with his 13:37 recuperating from this, or can anybody expect 13:41 to get well by being here? 13:43 Well, I mean, the Jim Fixx story is an interesting one. 13:47 I actually heard one of the doctors who knew Jim 13:51 speak at a conference. 13:53 He had encouraged Jim to get his heart checked. 13:56 Apparently he was having some heart symptoms. 13:58 But Fixx, who I believe was a physician himself, 14:03 felt that all his running was protecting his heart. 14:06 And he actually, you know, overdid it apparently one day, 14:10 and died. 14:11 So, exercise is something... 14:15 I share that illustration, 14:17 we're talking about someone, and 14:18 the first response that many people have, 14:20 "Well if you can die exercising, I'm not gonna die." 14:24 Or the other response, and I've heard this story too before, 14:27 where people... 14:28 I remember the story of one gentleman who 14:30 was so depressed he decided he was going to kill himself. 14:34 And he didn't want it to look like a suicide, 14:36 so he'd heard that people can die exercising, 14:39 so he started running as hard as he could. 14:41 And the interesting thing was, 14:44 he didn't drop dead with a heart attack, 14:46 but the exercise improved his mood! 14:49 - Isn't that interesting! 14:50 - And he overcame his depression. 14:52 So exercise is a powerful, mood-stabilizing activity. 14:57 If you're down, it tends to raise your mood, 15:00 If you're very anxious or hyper, 15:02 exercise tends to help tone you down. 15:04 So it's clearly a part of the equation. 15:05 But it's not the whole part of the equation because 15:08 if you do have a heart condition or something, 15:10 it can be problems. 15:11 And that's why when people come here 15:13 to the NEWSTART program, 15:14 the second day they're here 15:16 we have them on the treadmill 15:18 making sure that exercise is safe for them. 15:21 Or if it's dangerous, we restrict their exercise. 15:24 For example, if I have a patient 15:27 and we're exercising them and I start to see 15:29 changes on their EKG, 15:31 I will either stop the test or 15:33 after we finish the test instruct the person, 15:36 "Look at...." Show them their test, say, 15:38 "You started showing changes 15:40 when your heart rate got to be 120. 15:42 I want you to keep your heart rate below 120, 15:44 because it's potentially dangerous to go above that. 15:47 So we try to cover that. 15:49 when we have people come here to the NEWSTART program. 15:52 Now I know that the day before the treadmill test 15:55 you do a blood draw, as well. 15:57 Is that correct? - That's right, that's right. 15:59 And then you visit our guests 16:03 the first day they're here, is that correct? 16:05 That's right. The first full day they're here 16:06 --they arrive on a Sunday, that's a partial day. 16:09 They're getting in, they get some orientation. 16:11 First full day, Monday morning, 16:13 we do some baseline blood work, 16:15 just see where they stand. 16:17 We do a nice, fairly complete panel 16:19 that looks at everything from the thyroid 16:21 to the kidneys, to the liver, 16:22 cholesterol, blood sugar, 16:24 complete blood count, urine assessment. 16:27 And then, we actually that same day, 16:30 a little bit later, we see them in the medical clinic. 16:32 There's three of us physicians here. 16:34 Each one has their own personal physician. 16:37 We go over their medical history, 16:39 do an exam. 16:40 And then the next day we're doing the stress test 16:44 and working with them throughout the program. 16:47 Now of course if someone has recently had a stress test 16:50 or there's some reason not to do that, 16:51 it's all individualized. - Yes. 16:53 And so we're not just putting people onto some assembly line 16:57 and then they all have to have, you know, such and such done. 17:00 But we find that there's some things that can 17:03 really streamline the program, 17:04 give us a lot of information that 17:07 we give back then to the patient. 17:08 This is not kind of a black box program 17:11 where we get information, we don't tell the patient, 17:13 we just say, you know, "Take this pill, 17:14 do this, do that." It's an educational program. 17:17 - Right. 17:18 You know, I understand that there's approximately 17:22 five or six visits in those two weeks 17:25 that the guests are here. Is that correct? 17:27 Typically we're seeing them at least 6 times. 17:29 - Six times. Over the course of the 3 weeks. 17:30 Now I have to tell you this. 17:32 I thought it was just a great benefit 17:34 that I could eat breakfast with my doctor 17:37 and lunch, 17:38 and of course they talked me out of eating dinner, 17:40 because I could lose weight faster. 17:42 But that is so inspirational 17:44 to see the doctor right there 17:45 eating the same food, 17:47 and you could ask him questions. 17:49 I think that was exciting for me. 17:51 Yeah, there's a lot of social interaction with the staff here. 17:54 Different staff members are there for different meals. 17:58 Some of the doctors are frequent features there 18:02 at the mealtime. 18:03 And sometimes the patients joke, 18:06 "Well, you know, it's hard to not follow a good diet 18:09 when your doctor is watching you." 18:10 [laughter] 18:12 But really, it's more of a family atmosphere 18:16 where we're interacting with you 18:19 in a variety of settings as a team. 18:21 Now I want to get back to Delray who had this problem 18:26 with his eye, and I assume that's corrected 18:29 and now he's going to have cataract surgery. 18:33 What else, aside from the depression, 18:35 was he dealing with that you were able to help him with? 18:38 Well, I mean, I think you caught 18:40 from Del, you know, from his perspective, 18:42 the fact that he came here, like you said, 18:45 quite depressed, 18:47 he had a number of health concerns, 18:49 and you mentioned the vision-- that was a huge thing. 18:52 But just put yourself in the position of someone like Del 18:56 who had a detached retina. 18:57 What they do is they often put a bubble in the eye, 19:01 and that's why they have to lay on their stomachs 19:03 so that bubble rises with gravity 19:06 and keeps the retina pushed up against the back of the eye. 19:10 The retina is kind of the back membrane, if you will, 19:13 the visual membrane in the back of the eye. 19:16 He was laying face down for two months, he said! 19:19 Yeah, it's a very difficult thing, 19:21 and you can just imagine what that does 19:23 to your energy level, your strength. 19:26 One of the most efficient ways 19:27 to rob you of strength and mobility 19:30 is to put you at bed rest. 19:31 And so you can just imagine what anyone goes through 19:34 who deals with a detached retina. 19:36 So when Del shared with you 19:37 that he was only able to walk a mile 19:40 before getting very fatigued, 19:42 for someone who had been as he indicated, 19:45 highly fit before, 19:46 this was, you know, a dramatic decrease. 19:50 in his mobility, in his functioning, 19:52 in his energy level. 19:54 And when you have that kind of a change, 19:56 that really puts a toll on a person. 19:58 We see such a blessing in him now. 20:01 I was so inspired and so grateful I should say, 20:04 to see him feeling better 20:07 and knowing he had this hope 20:09 and he could move forward. 20:11 Will you be staying in touch with him 20:14 and your other patients that you're seeing? 20:16 One of the things we do is 20:18 it's basically kind of an open phone line, if you will. 20:20 All our patients leave with our contact information 20:23 And we don't force ourselves on anyone 20:26 who comes through the program. 20:27 If they had enough of me after three weeks, 20:29 you know, I'm not going to 20:31 harass them for the rest of their life. 20:32 But the point is, 20:34 I just had someone call me who 20:36 left the program a few weeks ago. 20:37 They had questions. 20:39 Someone the other day from a program several months ago... 20:42 So basically, whether we're calling, 20:45 checking up on someone, 20:46 whether they're taking the initiative, 20:48 some real close contact. 20:49 You're part of the Weimar family 20:51 when you go through the NEWSTART program. 20:52 If you don't want to hear from us, 20:54 we respect that, 20:55 but we want to be available 20:57 if you have needs when you're back home. 20:59 And I thought that was a tremendous benefit for me 21:01 that I could call Dr. Michael Orlich, 21:04 which was my doctor, 21:05 and I could call him any time of day or night. 21:08 And I want to thank you for that, 21:11 and thank you for being here, 21:13 and thank you for being on our show. 21:14 - Oh, it's a tremendous blessing and privilege. 21:16 It's always good to see you. 21:18 Thanks so much. - Yeah. 21:19 And folks, that's it for right now, 21:21 but don't go away. 21:23 We have an important message right after this. 21:40 Welcome to NEWSTART at Home. 21:41 I'm Dr. David DeRose, your host today, 21:44 and we're going to be looking at a fascinating topic. 21:46 To help us do that is Hildelisa Flickenger. 21:49 Hildelisa, it's wonderful to have you with us today. 21:52 Nice to be here. 21:53 For some of our viewers, they may not have met you. 21:56 You've got some very impressive credentials when it comes to 21:59 the subjects of nutrition. 22:01 You have a masters of science in nutrition, 22:02 is that correct? - I do. 22:04 - You're also a registered dietician, 22:06 you've worked with very difficult clinical patients, 22:10 some of the most difficult in the hospital, 22:12 dealing with things like what we call parenteral nutrition. 22:15 What is just parenteral nutrition, 22:17 for those who aren't in the know? 22:19 Parenteral nutrition is a specialty 22:21 within the field of dietetics or nutrition 22:24 that deals with the critically ill, 22:26 often patients that are in the ICU, 22:28 and basically gives them nutrition through an IV. 22:32 Okay, so you've dealt with this very high-tech science, 22:35 you've been in the intensive care units, the ICUs, 22:38 and yet you have a special interest in helping 22:41 people in every walk of life 22:43 really have better health. Isn't that right? 22:45 Definitely, and we do need that. 22:47 And Hildelisa, you have some 22:49 interesting roles here on the Weimar campus. 22:52 Tell our viewers a little bit about 22:53 what you're involved with currently. 22:55 I'm one of the instructors for 22:57 the Amazing Facts Center of Evangelism. 23:00 I'm one of the health instructors there. 23:02 Tremendous. I know a lot of 23:04 exciting things are happening there. 23:05 Young people, people of all ages, 23:07 getting energized about how health 23:09 can make a difference in 23:10 ministering to their communities. 23:12 And today we want to look at a 23:13 very important health topic, don't we? 23:15 - Definitely. 23:16 We're going to look at 23:17 a little bit about the obesity crisis in America. 23:21 And we know that we also have 23:23 a crisis in the diet-related diseases, 23:27 such as diabetes, and hypertension, and cancer. 23:31 So Hildelisa, when we speak about overweight and obesity, 23:35 most people don't like the term "obesity," but 23:39 many people, whether they meet the medical definition of 23:42 being obese, or whether they just know 23:44 they've got to trim down, 23:46 the same issues are really relevant, 23:48 aren't they, as far as just losing some pounds? 23:51 Definitely. 23:52 Now, you know, I meet a lot of people that are ready 23:55 to make changes, especially in their diet habits. 23:58 And the federal government has issued different models 24:02 to guide the American public as to 24:04 what a healthy diet should be. 24:06 And we've all seen the food guide pyramids, of course. 24:11 And actually, the first food pyramid 24:14 was issued about two decades ago. 24:17 - But it's interesting to know that since then, 24:19 diabetes and obesity are commonplace. 24:23 And just a couple of impressive statistics, 24:26 27 percent of young adults 24:29 are too overweight to qualify for military service. 24:32 - Twenty-seven percent? Twenty-seven. 24:34 And 1 in 3 children born in 2000 will develop diabetes. 24:40 Wow. So we got a huge problem. 24:42 The food pyramid hasn't solved it. 24:44 Is there a better way of planning our nutrition 24:47 beside using the food pyramid? 24:49 Yes, there is a better way. 24:51 Now, the good thing about the food pyramid is that 24:54 it does tell people to eat more fruits and vegetables. 24:58 However, it does recommend that they eat 25:01 two to three servings each from the meat group 25:04 and the dairy products. 25:06 And that's in spite of studies that show that 25:09 these foods increase risk for chronic disease 25:12 and increase obesity. 25:13 So you're saying that the meat and the dairy products 25:16 are not good things if we're trying to lose weight? 25:19 Definitely not. 25:20 Now just some interesting facts. 25:22 Do you know that the average American eats 25:24 more than 215 pounds of meat a year? 25:29 And that's up from 144 pounds in 1950. 25:33 215 pounds, the average American. 25:36 Now Hildelisa, I'm going to be honest with you, 25:38 I'm a vegetarian. 25:40 - So there's going to be someone else 25:41 who's eating those 215 pounds that they attribute to me. 25:44 - That's right. 25:46 So something is maybe a bit confusing 25:49 about this food pyramid, 25:50 and it recommends foods that are unhealthful 25:53 and unnecessary. 25:55 But fortunately, like you said, there is an option out there, 25:59 and it's called the Power Plate. 26:02 And it basically... It's put out by the 26:04 Physicians' Committee for Responsible Medicine, 26:07 and it has recommendations based on research 26:12 that shows that plant-based foods 26:14 are the most nutritious, and protect against diseases. 26:18 - This is tremendous. So really, we want to be eating 26:20 more of those fruits, grains, legumes, 26:23 the bean family, and vegetables. 26:24 This is powerful stuff, Hildelisa. 26:26 I hope you've enjoyed this brief look at nutrition, 26:30 how you can, by choosing more plant foods, 26:32 make a difference in your weight. 26:34 If you want more information, you can go to our 26:37 NEWSTART Lifestyle Club. 26:39 Simply: 26:41 for that additional information. 26:52 Modern views of evolution stem all the way back 26:54 to theories developed in the mid-1800s. 26:57 Out of the same time period came ideas that shape 27:01 our educational system today. 27:03 The Common School Movement, for example, 27:06 saw schools more like a factory, 27:08 with students blindly memorizing instruction 27:11 rather than thinking for themselves. 27:13 Their curriculum was rigid and theoretical. 27:16 Instead of being flexible and practical, 27:19 it was designed to conform the individual 27:21 into a specific ideological mold 27:24 that fit the needs of an old industrial era 27:27 long since passed. 27:29 Just like our view of creation in six literal days, 27:33 we believe the Bible contains an educational blueprint 27:37 radically different from the one we see now. 27:52 Well friends, that's it for today. 27:54 Pick up that phone and give us a call at: 28:03 Have a great day. 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