Hi, friends, and welcome
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to another
edition of NEWSTART Now.
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I'm your host Ron Giannoni.
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In our studios with me I
have a lovely young lady,
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Michelle Irwin
who just happens to be
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on staff here at
the NEWSTART program
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but she's also a guest.
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Let's take a look
when she first arrived.
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When I came to Weimar
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to work here as a
cooking instructor,
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I had really good
intentions with my health.
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I am a single mom
and busy of always
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with two little children.
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My husband was
killed six years ago.
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And I think I just put my health
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in the back seat
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and so I'm here to really
work on getting my health back.
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As moms we tend to
take care of everything,
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and life gets really busy,
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and we don't take
care of ourselves.
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And I think for me
personally I would like to work
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on the trust aspect of NEWSTART,
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trusting God
that He has our health
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and our life in His hands,
spending more time in His Word,
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also walking, I have a
tendency to do more for my,
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you know, household
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than actually spend time
to go out and physically walk.
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Drinking water,
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I have a tendency of
not drinking enough water
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and even though I'm
a cooking instructor
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and I know how
to make good food,
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I don't necessarily always have
the right schedule when I eat.
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And so eating breakfast
has been something I don't do.
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And I'm coming to NEWSTART
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to really learn a
new way of eating,
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walking and making
time for all of those things
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that the
NEWSTART principles mean.
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And I want to live it,
I want to be an example
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so that when I'm
telling people to do it,
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they'll believe me
because I'm doing it too.
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So that's what I'm working on.
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So what I hope
to come away with is
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for me personally balance
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and really making the
NEWSTART principles work,
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I want to lose weight.
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Of course, that's something
you can see right away,
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but more importantly I
want to establish a habit
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so that it's not
you're constantly
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trying to lose
weight, it's just my weight,
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it's going to be
where it needs to be.
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And my walking will
just be like breathing,
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it will be all of those things
where I'm not trying to do it.
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It just becomes part of my life.
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So that's what I
want to accomplish.
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Welcome back
friends in our studio.
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Michelle. Hi.
Nice to see you, Ron.
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What a grip? Easy girl, easy.
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I got my strength back. I know.
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Now, you're just
glowing and I love it.
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I love it, yeah. Yeah.
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You know, we talked a little bit
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before the interview,
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the audience should know that,
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there are several
things you said to me
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and I'd like you
to say them again
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so, you know,
the reason why we do
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these programs is
so the viewers out
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there will be blessed
by what they're hearing.
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And I want to preface
it with the following.
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Now Michelle is our...
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You're our school...
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You're our cooking...
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Cooking school
instructor. School instructor.
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And Michelle
knows more about food
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than any ten people,
but she just said to me,
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what did you say
about what you've learned?
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I learned so much
about food as medicine.
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And I think a lot of
us eat to feel comfort,
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but we know that
God is our comforter
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and we shouldn't
turn to our food.
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I learned that we should
be eating two meals a day
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and eating them
at the right time.
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Breakfast and lunch
and we're skipping dinner.
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And don't you get
hungry? Amazingly, you do not.
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Really? You do not.
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And I was not hungry, not once.
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And at first I
thought there's no way
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I'm going to be able to do this.
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I'm a chef, I want
to taste food, right?
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So I was amazed and just amazed
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at the simplicity of
how good food tastes,
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just the simple foods.
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Isn't that amazing? Right.
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I'm blown away. Definitely.
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That's so good to
hear you're saying that.
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Yes, yes.
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So you know
who's going to prosper,
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you people are going
to benefit those of you
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who are yet to come
or want to come back,
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now you're going
to taste the food
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that Michelle's
going to help you learn
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how to cook at home.
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And it's going to
be better than ever.
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It was always
great. Always good.
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It was always good,
there's nothing bad.
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Right. No.
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I have people
here just ran ready,
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they all fall in love with you.
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They can't understand
why. Hallelujah! God's grace.
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God is grateful.
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So what did you,
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I know the food
was a real crucial part
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of the program for you,
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but what else did you
like about the program?
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What was new and invigorating?
Okay, I'll tell you.
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I'm the kind of person
that burn the midnight oil,
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I'd not slept
till 2 in the morning,
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studying or whatever
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just trying to
have that alone time.
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And I would not get probably
more than four to five hours
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of sleep per night and
still not fully rested.
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So going to bed at 9 o'clock
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is a totally
foreign concept to me,
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but the way they
had it scheduled here,
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we caught on real quick
and I've been in bed 9 o'clock
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because the most important sleep
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that you get is between
the hours of ten and two,
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and that's where your
healing hormones are made
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and your body rebuilds itself.
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And God designed us to
sleep at a decent hour, not to,
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you know, so I
had lot of problems.
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Not four or five hours. Correct.
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So now I'm in bed by
nine and I'm awake by four.
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Are you sleeping well?
I'm sleepy really well.
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And that was just unheard of.
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Why do you think
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that you're sleeping well
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all of a sudden,
it's not the food, is it?
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It's everything.
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It's exercising...
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You're exercising? Yeah.
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Oh no. There's the E
word. Yes, exercising.
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And you'd be amazed at
how healing walking is.
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It's really what God does
as He allows us to receive
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these gifts freely.
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Now how many miles
did you walk on Sunday?
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I walked 12.
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Twelve miles? Twelve miles.
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Come on. Yep.
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You used to do
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that all the time
though, didn't you?
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Not in the Army
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'cause we don't walk, we ran.
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Oh, you ran. Okay.
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Not 12 miles though.
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But before you
started the program,
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did you do
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that while you're
teaching people classes?
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Like I've walked
max maybe three miles
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and that was
once or twice a week,
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it was not consistent.
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Yeah. So is that
your new exercise?
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Definitely. Definitely.
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Now you told us during
the first interview you want
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to lose a couple pounds.
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How much weight have
you lost this session?
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I lost 18 pounds.
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Eighteen, do you know how
amazing that is for a woman
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to lose 18 pounds.
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Well, I needed
it but God is good.
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God is good. He is really good.
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And I'll tell you the truth.
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When I came into this program,
I was not expecting that.
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I didn't think it
would work for me,
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I thought it
works for everybody else
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but, you know, why me?
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Why would it work for me?
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And God is so sweet in
this program if you work it,
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it will work but you have
to do all of the health laws.
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You need to pray,
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and you need to walk, and sleep,
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and drink water, and
all these things are free.
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You're so inspiring.
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Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! It's right.
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But let me share with you. Okay.
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You know, one of my
jobs is to talk to people
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when they call in
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and I sign them up
to the NEWSTART program.
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And invariably I get
the one that's vegan.
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Yeah.
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Or vegetarian, and they know
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the program isn't
going to work for them.
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It might work for everybody else
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but look, I'm a
Seventh-day Adventist,
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and I've been all my life,
and I got the health message,
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and I am really good.
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Well, how taller
you are, I'll ask.
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Well, I'm 5'4''.
How much you weigh.
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One hundred ninety pounds.
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Well, how do you think
you got to be a 190 pounds,
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not through the health message.
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Right.
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So we see that there are people
who are watching, Michelle.
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That really think
they know and they don't,
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and they're wondering
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why they got
high blood pressure,
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diabetes, cardiovascular disease
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and a host of
other lifestyle diseases
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that go along with
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and not to exclude inflammation.
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So you didn't have
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any of these
conditions, did you?
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I was kind of on the
verge. You were on the verge.
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I had a little bit
of my high blood sugar.
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That was starting to creep up.
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And I'll tell you,
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I've been an
Adventist since 1998.
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I came into the church then.
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And I've studied health
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and I can be so honest with you,
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I did not know half of the stuff
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that they taught us here.
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There's so much
information that is,
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that the
doctors are teaching you
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and they use scripture
and they show you exactly
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in the inspiring words.
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And I didn't know,
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I just did not
know and here I thought,
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I knew everything,
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you know, not
everything but I'm blown away.
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I was blown away.
Yeah, yeah. I can see it.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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And I do that at church
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because I help out a
church with the health ministry.
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And I don't need that,
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I, you know, like
Dr. Bevens is going to be
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with us Monday night.
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Yeah.
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We're going to have
dinner with the doc,
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where you can have some
soup and some bread and stuff,
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and then you get
to ask any questions
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you want from a doctor.
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And you know Dr. Bevens
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had his credential
in internal medicine.
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Right. And then he changed.
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Right.
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So he is a wealth of knowledge
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and you know, we
have Dr. Cooney Noble,
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we have Dr. Gallant
and your doctor was...
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I had Dr. Gallant.
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Yes, you did have
Dr. Gallant. Yeah.
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And Dr. Lukens. And
then you have Dr. Lukens.
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Yeah. All these
guys are so bright.
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They are.
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And, of course, God
is so willing to heal us.
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I know. Hallelujah.
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If we just reach out
and do all the right things.
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Amen. And this
place is very special.
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I can say that God has placed
these people for this time
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for such a time as this
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because there are so many people
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who are sick and are
dying to know this message.
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And I just really believe
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that God is using these doctors.
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And who gets a doctor
that will pray with you?
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When you go to the doctor
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and who really
asks God please heal.
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Please heal this
person and shows you exactly
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what you need to do to be well.
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And a dietician who shows
you exactly the kind of foods
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and the amount portion
control which I knew nothing of,
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you know, I'm vegan, I
can eat whatever I want
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but I didn't know.
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And so, it's just a
really special place,
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and I think anybody
who would want to come here
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would be so
thankful having knowing
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what they know from this place.
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Yeah. It's special.
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Michelle, I really like
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to thank you
for taking your time
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and being so brave to
come up in front of camera
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and admit certain
things that you are admitting.
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And God bless you.
Thank you so much, Ron.
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God bless you.
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And we'll see you in
campus, I know for sure.
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Yeah. Definitely.
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Friends, thank
you, but don't go away
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because Dr. Gallant
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is up next.
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Every year in America,
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there are over
one million deaths
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because of Type 2
diabetes and chronic obesity.
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This includes heart
attacks and strokes.
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That's six and a half
747s crashing every day.
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What's even more surprising
is that the fix is easy.
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It's your lifestyle.
00:13:00.58\00:13:01.91
Wouldn't it be nice
00:13:01.94\00:13:03.28
if you could actually add
quality years to your life
00:13:03.31\00:13:05.28
rather than dying
one organ at a time?
00:13:05.31\00:13:08.22
Obesity and
diabetes are the cause
00:13:08.25\00:13:09.88
of over million deaths per year.
00:13:09.92\00:13:12.49
Most diseases are reversible
00:13:12.52\00:13:14.59
because most diseases
are lifestyle diseases,
00:13:14.62\00:13:17.49
especially Type 2
diabetes and chronic obesity.
00:13:17.53\00:13:20.93
Seriously now,
they can be reversed
00:13:20.96\00:13:23.20
and the quality of
your life can be renewed.
00:13:23.23\00:13:26.74
Call NEWSTART today
00:13:26.77\00:13:28.10
at 1-800-525-9192.
00:13:28.14\00:13:32.97
You will see dramatic changes
00:13:33.01\00:13:34.54
in the first few
days of our program
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and you'll be on the road
00:13:36.58\00:13:37.91
to a better more
robust quality of life.
00:13:37.95\00:13:40.68
The NEWSTART programs
are simple and effective.
00:13:40.72\00:13:47.56
Welcome back, friends.
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Help me welcome
Dr Roger Gallant.
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Ron, good to see you.
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It's always good
to see you too, Doc.
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And especially today
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because we're
going to talk about
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one of my
favorite people on staff.
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Yes. Yeah.
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Michelle. Michelle.
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What a sweet lady. She is.
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And you know, I don't
know if everybody's aware
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but she's been teaching
here our cooking school classes
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for how long, you know?
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I think it's been
six or seven years.
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It's been a long
time. It's been a while.
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She's written a book,
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she's an officer
and a gentle lady.
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Yes, yes. And
done many, many things.
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Yeah.
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And as she shared with
us, she came here to want to,
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kind of freshen up
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and maybe lose
a couple of pounds
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and she's done quite well there.
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She has, she has.
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You know, she came
and she confided in me
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that she was a little skeptical
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when she first came
how this would work.
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But she made up her mind,
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she was going to do all
the things we asked her to.
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Now why would she be skeptical,
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you know, maybe
you can share that
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because she is like
a nutritionist kind of,
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not really but because
of her expertise in cooking.
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She knows what to
eat not to eat, right?
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She is an excellent
cook. Excellent cook.
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And she was skeptical I think
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because she has
tried other things before,
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she has tried to
do this different ways
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to improve her health and lose
some weight without success.
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And she just thought
nothing will ever work for me.
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Yeah.
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And so having her come
and experience what we do
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with the
NEWSTART patients gave her
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a totally different perspective.
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You know, it's really funny.
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I'm laughing
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because you just said
what a lot of people think,
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"Oh, I know it worked for
them but it can't work for me."
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Look, I've tried everything,
I've went to my doctor,
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he put me on this pill
on that pill, nothing works.
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I fasted and then they come here
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and they get well.
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And what I want to say about
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that is it's
nothing special that we do.
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Amen. It's
nothing special in us.
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It's God. Amen.
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It's God
working through the plan
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that he has instituted.
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I'm so glad you brought that up
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because many times
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we get our fellow
Christians calling
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and saying to me,
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"Well, what makes you
think this is going to work?
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I already know
the health message."
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Well, in my own church,
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they all know
the health message,
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but how many
people really practice
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the health message,
let alone that trust in God
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which they learn here because...
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Look, I've
never been to a doctor
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that wanted to pray with me
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and when I came
here to see you guys,
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the first thing you
wanted to do is pray.
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So I saw
something really special
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and unique
happening in this program
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that isn't anywhere else.
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And I just applaud you
and your fellow doctors
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for what you do here.
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Well, you know,
exactly what you're saying
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could be applied to Michelle.
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She's on staff, she knows
what we do for the most part,
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and when she came
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and actually got to
experience what we do.
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She has told me that
she learned a few things
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she didn't know,
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and she gets to see
how it all integrates
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and comes together
and how it all works.
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And that to her
has been a blessing.
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And I think that's
going to be a blessing
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for the program moving forward
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because we'll all
be on the same page,
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you know, so that's a blessing.
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Couple of people
asked me in the past,
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"Well, you know Michelle said
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to do this and that, the other."
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Why Michelle?
"She's the one teaching?"
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You know, you can't just
rub against the grain and now
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because she has
gone through the program,
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she knows it more
fully I guess is a good word.
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Yes.
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And I'm just, I'm so elated
and excited about the future
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for the NEWSTART program
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because we, you know,
that bicycle tire rolls nicer
00:18:06.41\00:18:11.19
when all the
spokes are lined up.
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That's true.
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And all of us who participate
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in the program
need to be in alignment.
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So we're not going
in different directions.
00:18:18.66\00:18:21.53
And I can tell you Michelle
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has been up early
every morning walking.
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She's putting in a lot of miles.
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And praise God,
00:18:27.60\00:18:28.94
His program is
helping her to lose weight,
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something she had
never done before.
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Eighteen pounds.
Eighteen pounds in 18 days.
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That's unusual for a woman
to lose that kind of weight.
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Yeah.
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She's so excited
about losing the weight.
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Oh, yeah. No, praise the
Lord. She's doing very well.
00:18:41.85\00:18:45.09
And she's feeling better,
00:18:45.12\00:18:47.06
her blood sugar had
risen up a little bit,
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she was
technically in the category
00:18:50.09\00:18:52.79
that would make her
like a borderline diabetic.
00:18:52.83\00:18:55.03
I think she mentioned
that to me at one point but...
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And now her
blood sugars are normal
00:18:57.43\00:18:59.70
and she is just excited,
and I'm excited for her.
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And I want to really see
how this progresses over time
00:19:04.17\00:19:07.64
because she has a
testimony to share with others
00:19:07.68\00:19:12.88
about what God
has done in her life
00:19:12.91\00:19:14.72
that she
thought couldn't happen.
00:19:14.75\00:19:18.62
Well, that's a
biggie. You can't beat that.
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No, nothing, you know,
Dr. Bevens said to me one day,
00:19:21.56\00:19:27.40
"Testimony out
trumps everything."
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Yes.
00:19:29.30\00:19:30.63
And to hear her story
00:19:30.67\00:19:32.90
is just going to
be such a blessing
00:19:32.93\00:19:34.97
for our viewers right
now that are watching.
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Other vegans or vegetarians
that know what they're doing
00:19:37.64\00:19:44.18
are now watching
Michelle going through a program
00:19:44.21\00:19:47.48
that knows as much as they do,
00:19:47.52\00:19:48.88
maybe even more,
and she's nailed it.
00:19:48.92\00:19:52.02
Yeah. So praise God.
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Praise God is right. Amen.
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So you're going to be
watching after her I know.
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Yes. Of course, you do.
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Yes, yes, absolutely.
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She works here and...
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She's one of the family
00:20:02.26\00:20:03.60
and you know you always
look after family, right?
00:20:03.63\00:20:06.20
Amen.
00:20:06.23\00:20:07.94
I'll expect you
to look in on me now.
00:20:07.97\00:20:09.74
Absolutely, absolutely.
00:20:09.77\00:20:12.27
Well, anything else that
we can say to the viewers
00:20:12.31\00:20:17.35
that might encourage them
or give them the confidence
00:20:17.38\00:20:22.75
or trust that
they may need to want
00:20:22.78\00:20:25.12
to be here to this program.
00:20:25.15\00:20:27.36
You know what I
would say is this,
00:20:27.39\00:20:29.99
trust in God because
don't give up on Him.
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You've tried other things,
maybe with or without success.
00:20:34.56\00:20:37.90
Trust in God
because God can give you
00:20:37.93\00:20:41.57
the healing that you can't
get from the ways of the world,
00:20:41.60\00:20:45.37
from medications,
from different things.
00:20:45.41\00:20:47.91
Change your lifestyle,
00:20:47.94\00:20:49.38
bring it into accordance
with His will and trust in God,
00:20:49.41\00:20:52.68
and I think you'll find
00:20:52.71\00:20:54.05
that He will bless you
beyond what you could expect.
00:20:54.08\00:20:56.52
Amen.
00:20:56.55\00:20:58.02
And I want to ask you
some doctor stuff about people
00:20:58.05\00:21:01.92
who are coming to the program,
00:21:01.96\00:21:04.63
can they choose
you to be their doctor?
00:21:04.66\00:21:06.76
You are the director
for the medical clinic.
00:21:06.80\00:21:10.13
Can they actually ask for you
and would you watch after them?
00:21:10.17\00:21:14.14
Sure. Absolutely.
00:21:14.17\00:21:15.50
They can ask for me but
they don't have to see me
00:21:15.54\00:21:18.21
in order to
greet these benefits.
00:21:18.24\00:21:19.97
We have two other
excellent physicians
00:21:20.01\00:21:22.21
who are part of the program.
00:21:22.24\00:21:24.38
I can't see everybody
so we try, we pray before
00:21:24.41\00:21:29.98
we start assigning
patients to doctors,
00:21:30.02\00:21:32.62
and we ask God to direct them
00:21:32.65\00:21:35.19
to who would be
best to help them.
00:21:35.22\00:21:36.59
Yes.
00:21:36.62\00:21:37.96
And I'm happy to see people,
I'm happy to help people.
00:21:37.99\00:21:43.16
You know, we even have
people from the community
00:21:43.20\00:21:44.97
who are coming
to our clinic here
00:21:45.00\00:21:46.33
on campus asking for help
with decreasing medications,
00:21:46.37\00:21:51.31
doing things more
naturally, changing lifestyle.
00:21:51.34\00:21:54.81
And so, it's a great opportunity
00:21:54.84\00:21:57.08
to be able to share
information with them.
00:21:57.11\00:21:58.45
Yeah.
00:21:58.48\00:21:59.81
We do have two other doctors
that work with you, Dr. Lukens,
00:21:59.85\00:22:03.32
Dr. Cooney Noble.
00:22:03.35\00:22:04.69
Yes.
00:22:04.72\00:22:06.05
I understand Dr.
Cooney Noble has an MPH.
00:22:06.09\00:22:07.72
He does.
00:22:07.76\00:22:09.09
He has a
Master's of Public Health.
00:22:09.12\00:22:10.46
Yeah.
00:22:10.49\00:22:11.83
And the viewers may want to know
00:22:11.86\00:22:13.40
that they might want to
pick him instead of you.
00:22:13.43\00:22:15.56
Absolutely. How
would you feel about that?
00:22:15.60\00:22:17.23
I would be happy as long
00:22:17.27\00:22:18.60
as they're here to
see one of us, I am happy.
00:22:18.63\00:22:20.64
Doc, I want to thank you.
00:22:20.67\00:22:22.00
God bless you.
It's always a pleasure.
00:22:22.04\00:22:23.37
Likewise.
00:22:23.41\00:22:24.74
And friends don't go away,
00:22:24.77\00:22:26.11
Dr. Nedley and Dr.
Ramirez are up next.
00:22:26.14\00:22:29.58
Welcome to NEWSTART Now.
00:23:05.95\00:23:07.35
I'm Dr. Neil Nedley
00:23:07.38\00:23:08.72
and with me today
is Dr. Eddie Ramirez,
00:23:08.75\00:23:11.39
one of the researchers and
physicians here at NEWSTART
00:23:11.42\00:23:15.69
who actually has published
scores of peer reviews,
00:23:15.72\00:23:19.79
scientific studies in
the medical literature.
00:23:19.83\00:23:22.50
And today we're going to be
00:23:22.53\00:23:23.87
highlighting particularly
one aspect of NEWSTART
00:23:23.90\00:23:28.40
which is what
the "N" stands for,
00:23:28.44\00:23:30.37
the area of nutrition.
00:23:30.41\00:23:32.21
And I know there's a lot
of controversy out there,
00:23:32.24\00:23:35.41
people think
maybe the Paleo diet
00:23:35.44\00:23:37.81
is the best diet,
00:23:37.85\00:23:39.41
maybe the Mediterranean
diet, maybe you know,
00:23:39.45\00:23:43.59
some sort of
modified Florida beach diet
00:23:43.62\00:23:47.16
but actually
NEWSTART has demonstrated
00:23:47.19\00:23:50.53
that an ideal diet,
00:23:50.56\00:23:52.03
not just NEWSTART
but other places as well.
00:23:52.06\00:23:54.66
An ideal diet is one
that is modeled at NEWSTART
00:23:54.70\00:23:58.10
and it's actually
00:23:58.13\00:23:59.47
the easiest diet to comply with.
00:23:59.50\00:24:02.14
A lot of people think,
00:24:02.17\00:24:03.51
"Hey, this diet at
NEWSTART is too extreme,
00:24:03.54\00:24:05.87
how am I going to be
able to comply with this."
00:24:05.91\00:24:08.21
Actually you'll
be much better comply
00:24:08.24\00:24:10.31
with this diet than you will
00:24:10.35\00:24:11.75
even the American
Diabetes Association diet,
00:24:11.78\00:24:15.12
because once you learn
it, it's pretty simple.
00:24:15.15\00:24:17.85
Tell us about what
this diet is, Dr. Ramirez.
00:24:17.89\00:24:19.42
Yes.
00:24:19.45\00:24:20.79
This diet consists
of the best ingredients.
00:24:20.82\00:24:24.39
Okay.
00:24:24.43\00:24:25.76
It's that
vegetables, fruits, legumes,
00:24:25.79\00:24:29.73
whole grains and a
little bit of nuts,
00:24:29.76\00:24:32.43
that's what we call
a good complete diet.
00:24:32.47\00:24:35.44
It tastes good,
it's good for you
00:24:35.47\00:24:37.74
and as we were
publishing in this paper
00:24:37.77\00:24:40.21
that will be coming up later
00:24:40.24\00:24:42.14
in the journal
atherosclerosis thrombosis
00:24:42.18\00:24:44.41
and vascular biology.
00:24:44.45\00:24:45.95
It helps improve
glucose metabolism,
00:24:45.98\00:24:49.18
a huge problem today.
00:24:49.22\00:24:50.62
Yes.
00:24:50.65\00:24:51.99
And, or it tends to occur
00:24:52.02\00:24:53.46
when you have
the gene for diabetes
00:24:53.49\00:24:56.16
and you have the lifestyle
that's conducive for it,
00:24:56.19\00:24:59.73
diabetes is not
just a genetic condition.
00:24:59.76\00:25:03.23
Genetics loads the gun
00:25:03.26\00:25:04.73
but lifestyle pulls the trigger.
00:25:04.77\00:25:07.00
And so, how many patients
00:25:07.04\00:25:08.94
were studied in
this particular paper?
00:25:08.97\00:25:10.31
So in this paper
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we were studying 1,827 patients,
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a good big nice
group of patients
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that that went
through our 18 day program
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and including in that group
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were very vulnerable populations
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to diabetes such as
Native Americans, Hispanics,
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half African-Americans
and Asian people
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which are very
vulnerable as they gain weight,
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they develop many
metabolic problems.
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Ethnic groups really
throughout the ethnic spectrum
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but one thing that tended
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to be similar among
most of these diabetics,
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no matter what their
ethnicity was being overweight.
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And how overweight
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were some of these
people, Dr. Ramirez?
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Yes.
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Some actually had
severely morbid obesity.
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We're talking about 495 pounds
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some of the
participants in this study.
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Okay.
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So almost 500 pounds,
these are people that probably
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would have difficulty
walking across a room.
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They're so big but
they were able to come
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to NEWSTART and
what happened to them?
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And that's the beauty of this,
even those people have hope
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as they come to
the NEWSTART program
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and we start
changing their lifestyle.
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That group in particular,
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the people that had
that severe obesity,
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it was 20 plus pounds
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that they were able to
lose during this 18 day program.
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And as we've highlighted
before, that's just the start.
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Many of them are
losing 140 pounds
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by the time a
year and a half goes by
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because this is a diet
that you can actually stay on.
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We train you here at
NEWSTART to be on the best diet
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and stay on the
best diet at home.
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Anything else you'd like
to reveal about this day?
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Yes.
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On average 108 of glucose,
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at the end they
had 102 on glucose
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and that's after some
of them actually decrease
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in their
medication for diabetes.
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So their blood sugars went down
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while their medications
were able to be reduced
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at the same time.
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So that's something beautiful
we'd like for you to reach
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under a 100 here in
the American measurement,
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European and Australian
is a little bit different
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but that's the goal
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that we would
like for you to have.
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Under a 100 and so by the time
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they were through
with the program 102
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but that means
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they're still going to
stay on the program at home
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and easily be able
to make it under a 100.
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Really what we're
training you for is for life
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and you're just
doing the first 18 days
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of the rest of your
life here at NEWSTART.
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And so I would encourage you
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to consider come into
Weimar to get a NEWSTART Now.
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And for NEWSTART
Now, I'm Dr. Neil Nedley,
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join us again next week.
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