Hi, friends, and
welcome to another edition
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of NEWSTART Now.
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I'm your host Ron Giannoni.
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In our studio
with me is a young man
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by the name of the Emanuel Sims.
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Emanuel come to us
pretty sick about 16 days ago,
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let's take a look at
when he first arrived.
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And the reason that I came,
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I wanted to fix
all of my diabetes,
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I have kidney
issues, higher cholesterol,
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high blood pressure.
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Well, first of all I would like
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to leave here
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learning good
health but great health,
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but l would like
to be off of insulin,
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all the medication
that I'm on right now,
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be able to control my outcome
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of my diabetes, kidney problem
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and eventually get off all
my medications that I'm on.
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So that's what I would like
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to have NEWSTART to help me do
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and control
that part of my life.
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I'm thankful for my
church for sending me
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to NEWSTART and
after they talked to Ron,
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he gave me so much information
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that I could use to come up here
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and be a part of the NEWSTART.
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And I really think it's going
to help in my life situations
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that I have today.
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Hi, friends and welcome
back, help me welcome Emanuel.
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Good to see you,
brother. Nice seeing you too.
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You know, I want to
get right into a story
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that I want to tell
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about you getting
here on the Sunday...
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Okay.
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And then having
to leave on Monday
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and, you know,
you made a commitment,
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and I applaud you for this,
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that ain't the
point of the story.
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Yeah.
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I applaud you, you made
a commitment to some kids
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that you're going
to do a barbecue...
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You know, you're a chef
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and I understand
you're a good chef.
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So you went and
barbecued for 800 children...
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Yeah.
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Two days in a row
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and when you
got back I asked you
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if you cheated at all?
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No. And you said no.
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No, not at all.
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And you're one of the few people
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I would believe...
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'Cause you're an honest man...
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You know, how you know
when someone is honest?
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By your smile?
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Maybe that's it, I don't know,
but you have something in you
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that tells me you're speaking
the truth, and I believe that.
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Right, right.
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And so you lost 25 pounds...
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And that was an opportunity
and you didn't do it,
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tell me why you didn't do it?
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Why didn't you
eat some of that pork
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or beef or sausages?
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Well, I've been
doing it so long, man,
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see I wasn't tempted
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but, you know, I've
been doing it so long,
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you just know as it
comes off the grill,
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you just know
it's right, you know...
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Right...
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'Cause I've been doing
it for 20 years plus...
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Oh, wow.
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So I just know and it's,
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you know, when
you're cooking meat,
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you know, little pieces fall off
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and back in the day
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you have a tendency to
put that in your mouth to...
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Right.
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See, that was tempting,
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I picked it, I was
like, no, I can't do that.
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Can't do this. Don't rely on me.
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You know, Dr. Gallant
was really against you going.
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Yeah, I know.
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And we all were against
it but you did so well...
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Yeah, yeah.
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In spite of that you
came back Wednesday afternoon,
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late Wednesday
afternoon about six...
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Yeah, yeah.
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'Cause I was
waiting for you, remember?
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I missed my appointment, yeah.
You missed your appointment.
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Yeah, yeah, I remember that.
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But anyway you've
done marvelously well.
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Let's talk about
your blood pressure.
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My blood pressure,
when I first came here,
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well, go back a
little bit further,
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I was in a car
accident before I came
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and my blood pressure,
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I had to go to
the emergency room,
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my blood
pressure was 220 over 120.
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And as soon as I
got into ambulance,
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they put me IV and they asked me
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where I was and you know...
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What's your name was...
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Yeah, I was cut out over
there, I wasn't seeing too good.
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But after I got here,
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you know, after
everything calm down I got here,
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my blood
pressure was 179 over 92.
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And that's what...
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With medication.
Yeah, with medication.
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How much meds
you're taking for that?
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Well, I was taking
three meds for that.
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Okay.
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And my blood pressure
was still high of course.
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You know, because
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I was just doing
everything, not...
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Everything you
shouldn't be doing.
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Yeah, what I was
supposed to be doing and...
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Well, that'd be a good
segue to go back a few months...
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To last year...
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Okay.
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Weren't you here last year?
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Yeah, I was here last year,
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done wonderfully well
on the NEWSTART program.
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What happened? Why do
you need to come back?
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Well, you know, it's like,
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when you first got
here at least in my case,
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Ron, there was
too much information
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and I was overwhelmed with all,
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just believing the
program because, you know,
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it just sounds
too far fetched that,
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you know, you can
cure your diabetes
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or get your kidneys better,
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you know,
because all of my life,
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you know, I was saying,
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we need to do this
and we need to do that...
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So anyway you've
backslidden, right?
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Yeah.
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Then I backslidden.
But now you're a believer.
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Now you're,
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I see the
difference in your attitude,
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in the way you're
believing and you know,
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you know that this
will straight it out.
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Yes, right. Yeah.
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Well, this time
when I came this time,
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it's just like reading the Bible
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or you hear things
about in the Bible,
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the Lord said,
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"I want you to come
with an open mind..."
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"And receive that
what I have to give you."
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So I heard a sermon
one time, the pastor said,
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"You know, we've
been writing our own story
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for years and years and years
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and we haven't
gotten it right yet.
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So now it's time for the
Lord to write your story."
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So that's what I do
when I came this time.
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I came with an open
heart, listen to what I,
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even though I've heard,
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you know, things
over and over again
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and people at NEWSTART
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begin to came
to me and you know,
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"Well, why are you here?
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Why did you come back again?"
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And I was, you know,
just spitting out these words
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and I said, "I
sound like Dr. Gallant."
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Yeah, you do.
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So, you know, I said,
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"Man, why don't
you listen to yourself?
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You know, you tell
a lot of these people
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what's good about NEWSTART
and you didn't follow us."
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Let's take a
look at that picture."
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So you know I just,
like I said I had a open mind
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and I know I'm not going to say
I was a failure the first time
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but I just needed more
information to know that,
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you know, this is
the program for me.
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Yeah...
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You know, I'm so
happy to hear you
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say all this
because, you know, I see that,
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I recognize what
you've gone through
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and what you're
going through now
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and all the stress and anxiety
and but get back to the pills,
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the blood pressure pills,
are you on all three still?
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Actually I'm only on two
now. And you've cut those down?
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And I only take half a pill.
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And your blood
pressure is now what?
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Today it was 130 over
72, yeah. Man, you're there.
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Yeah. You're there.
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Yeah.
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So I'm just so happy,
the Lord has blessed me...
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Yeah.
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And it's all because,
you know, of the Lord,
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you know, but the
walking and the food
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and listening to the
doctor, with the help,
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you know, they got me
back on the right path again.
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Amen, amen. Yeah, yeah.
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Well, we run out of time...
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But I want to thank
you and let you know
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that I'm going
to be following up
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and checking in on you.
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Oh, yeah, I'm
coming back up here, yeah.
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Yeah, I got to
believe it. Yeah, yeah.
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But thank you. Yeah.
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But I'll be in
touch. Okay, all right.
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And thank you, friends,
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but don't go away
'cause Dr. Gallant 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 6.5, 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.
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Wouldn't it be nice
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if you could actually add
quality years to your life
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rather than dying
one organ at a time?
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Obesity and
diabetes are the cause
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of over million deaths per year.
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Most diseases are reversible
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because most diseases
are lifestyle diseases,
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especially Type 2
diabetes and chronic obesity.
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Seriously now,
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they can be reversed
and the quality of your life
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can be renewed.
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Call NEWSTART today
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in the first few
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and you'll be on
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more robust quality of life.
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The NEWSTART programs
are simple and effective.
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Welcome back, friends,
help me welcome Dr. Gallant.
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Ron, good to be with
you. It's good to be with you.
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I like your shirt by
the way. Thank you, you too.
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You know, here's a guy Emanuel,
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I said before we sat down,
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this is the kind of guy
I want to have as a friend.
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Amen. I agree.
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He's just such a
sweet soul, a loving spirit.
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Yeah, he's like
a big teddy bear.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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You know, it's
interesting you say that,
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when he first came using a
room that was a little bit tight
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and he's a big guy and
somebody had moved rooms
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and so room became
available, so I said to him,
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"Hey, Emanuel, I think we
can get you a better room,
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a bigger room."
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'Cause he needs a
little space to stretch
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and we did and
he was so thankful,
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he was so appreciative.
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So when I would
go in to see him,
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I had to take a chair
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in because there
weren't two chairs
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in his room.
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And after the second visit,
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he started bringing a
chair in for me to sit on
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so I didn't have to take one in,
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just the thoughtful
kind of guy that he is.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah...
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You know, a good friend.
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I think so and you know,
what really impressed me?
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Now I know this guy,
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you know, how
sometimes you talk to someone
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and they say something
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and you know it's
the absolute truth,
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you know, we all
have that ability...
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Yeah, yeah.
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When he said he was going away
and you were all against that,
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I remember it.
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Yeah, we talked...
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I don't want him
to go and I said,
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"Well, I don't
either but he is committed."
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He goes to a
barbecue for 800 children...
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Yeah.
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For two days he's
gone and we're both...
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Oh, no, look
what's going to happen.
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He didn't eat any of that food.
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No, no, he didn't, he
didn't, he didn't even taste it.
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Isn't that's
amazing? Praise the Lord.
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You know, though he
came and saw me the week
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before the program started.
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Emanuel had been here before
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and he came to
see me in the clinic
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and when I saw him,
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I knew that
things were not good.
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Yeah.
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And I said, you
need to get back here.
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Yeah.
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And he says, "Well,
I've got this commitment."
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And I said, is there any way?
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He says, "Well, I might be able
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to get somebody
to cover it for me."
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I remember we
talked about that, yeah.
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But he couldn't.
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But he realized when we
talked how serious this was,
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this was life
threatening for him
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because again, another
patient with kidney problems
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that they're
threatening to put on dialysis.
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I know.
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The week we started our program,
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he was supposed to go
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and get a shunt to
start his dialysis.
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And you know, I praise the
Lord that he took it seriously.
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Yeah, he did.
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He called me, you know, after...
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That this is, yeah...
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After his visit with you. Right.
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He said, "Dr. Gallant
thinks I need to come back."
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And after I talked to him,
I said, "You certainly do."
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So we did a lot to get him here.
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Praise the Lord
and I'm so glad...
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But he really,
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he was a testament to
some of the other guests
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by the fact that he
could do what he did
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and still stay on the program
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'cause at that time we were
even doing something fast...
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Oh, right.
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And he fasted
through his going to work.
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All he did was drink water.
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Can you imagine barbecuing,
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you know, the
smell of all that food...
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Yeah.
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And then you're not
eating and you're fasting, oh...
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But praise the Lord,
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it worked out
because that helped him
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to get some of the
money he needed to be here.
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That's right, that's right.
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Now what about those
numbers? How do they all look?
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Well, you know, he did well.
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He lost 23 pounds
while he was here.
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When he came,
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you know, he was
really challenged
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before he got here.
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I think he might have
talked about this too.
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He had a little
accident with a vehicle...
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Oh, yeah. Ran over his foot.
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So when he first
came he could barely walk,
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but praise the Lord,
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he didn't have any broken bones,
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he didn't have any cuts
and scrapes and anything,
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he looked pretty healthy.
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And as he was here,
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many a morning I would
see him up early, 5:30.
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6 o'clock out walking
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and he had a special loop
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that he did and
he walked on that
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and while I was walking
we'd say hi to each other
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and by the time he left,
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he was able to
walk four miles a day.
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Wow.
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That's quite a testimony
there. It makes a difference.
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It does make a difference.
It makes a difference.
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But you know, I'll bet
he came in all the meetings.
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He did, he did.
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You know, like we
talked about in the past,
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some people will pay
all this good money...
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It's kind of like,
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"Oh, I'll pay the
money and I'll get well."
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And they don't show up
for some of the meetings...
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Some, they come in late,
they don't do the walking,
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they go to a store,
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down the street at
one of the grocery stores
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and they buy the,
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what's a little candy and so on,
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he stuck to the program...
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Because again, he realizes...
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This is it.
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This is it, you've got to do it.
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He got little fire under him.
Yeah, well, praise the Lord.
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But no, he's, you know,
I just, I appreciate him,
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I appreciate him,
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he's got this booming deep voice
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and every now and then
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he'd speak up in
lecture and he would say,
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we had this little
saying from the time
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he was here before,
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when something was put
up on the screen in lecture
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or so on that was
worthy of taking notice,
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he would say, "That's deep."
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But it would be,
"That's deep!" "That's deep!"
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Yeah, yeah, well...
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And so I just, I
love hearing him say that,
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you know, it just does
makes my heart feel good.
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Yeah, that's deep.
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Yeah, that's
right. That's right.
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That's real deep. Yeah.
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His heart...
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Yeah, exactly.
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Well, God bless
that man. Yeah, yeah.
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You know, we'll
follow up. I know you will.
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Absolutely.
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He's going to be
coming and see you...
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And yeah, he's promised me,
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he said, you know,
he wants to come see me
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about every six
weeks in the clinic.
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Good.
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Because he wants to use
that as a motivating tool
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to keep him on track.
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Because he can't
afford to slip again.
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And so I admire him.
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I really, I'm pleased
for what has happened already
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but I know
God's not done working
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with him yet,
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He's going to
finish the good work
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that He has started in him.
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Dr. Gallant, I
want to thank you.
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Thank you, Ron, good to be here.
00:17:05.05\00:17:06.39
I know your valuable
time and it's precious,
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especially on your
anniversary, happy anniversary.
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Thank you.
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Well, friends,
thank you for being here
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but don't go away,
Pastor Snead is up next.
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Welcome back, friends,
help me welcome Pastor Snead.
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How you doing?
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I'm doing good, good to see you.
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Thank you, friend.
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You know, we're
going to talk about Emanuel
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and I got to start this off,
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if you don't mind
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'cause really this is your show,
00:17:35.82\00:17:37.85
this next segment,
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but Emanuel came to me
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and he said he had to leave,
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I said, "Wait a
minute, you just got here,
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what do you
mean you're leaving?"
00:17:43.96\00:17:45.39
He said, "Well, I
promised 800 children
00:17:45.43\00:17:48.30
that I'd be
barbecuing for them."
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You know, this guy can
cook, you know what I mean?
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So he goes and leaves Monday,
00:17:53.60\00:17:56.00
he doesn't get
back till Wednesday
00:17:56.04\00:17:58.24
and I'm thinking, oh,
oh, we lost him again.
00:17:58.27\00:18:03.04
So he gets
back, let's take it up
00:18:03.08\00:18:05.01
from there or
somewhere in the middle, okay...
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Yeah, with Emmanuel, the
first time I met him was,
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you know, the first
time he came here...
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And we go through the
whole paradigm of spirit,
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spiritual teachings,
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really going through
the message of the gospel,
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salvation and
what God can do for you
00:18:24.00\00:18:25.83
and how when we get to that idea
00:18:25.87\00:18:27.20
and sanctification,
00:18:27.24\00:18:28.57
it's really for God to
come in and transform and help,
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his problem was his
diet, his lifestyle.
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And we went through everything,
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I remembered
some of our sessions,
00:18:35.24\00:18:36.61
we talked about how
God's going to help you,
00:18:36.64\00:18:38.48
well, he leaves like
everyone else graduates
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and then I get this
story that he's coming back
00:18:42.62\00:18:45.59
and when he comes back,
he's worse than when he left.
00:18:45.62\00:18:49.06
That's right. That's right.
00:18:49.09\00:18:50.99
And I'm like, "Well,
what happened, brother?"
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'Cause my first
interview with him,
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when he came into
the counseling session,
00:18:56.97\00:18:59.03
we were going through the plan
of salvation again and he said,
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"No, Pastor. No, I
didn't believe you."
00:19:02.47\00:19:08.28
You know, he
believed it theoretically,
00:19:08.31\00:19:10.71
but unlike what we
talked about with Michelle
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who actually
implemented into her life,
00:19:12.81\00:19:15.72
he heard it and
many people do this,
00:19:15.75\00:19:17.42
they hear this
idea of the gospel
00:19:17.45\00:19:19.69
and how God can help you,
00:19:19.72\00:19:21.06
but they really don't embrace it
00:19:21.09\00:19:23.59
and experience it.
00:19:23.63\00:19:25.29
And so with Brother Sims,
00:19:25.33\00:19:27.93
he realized that
he's got to embrace it.
00:19:27.96\00:19:30.73
He must embrace this
thing and if he will,
00:19:30.77\00:19:34.10
he can have the same results
as our sister Michelle did.
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So what do you think,
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did he eat any of
those ribs he was cooking?
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No. No and I believe it.
00:19:39.21\00:19:41.68
I believe, he told
me he didn't but...
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Yeah, well, that's
amazing and that goes to show
00:19:44.65\00:19:47.22
because when I
talked to him later,
00:19:47.25\00:19:48.85
you know, this past week
00:19:48.88\00:19:50.25
when we went right
back into that room
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and serve an idea,
00:19:51.79\00:19:53.12
the battle between
the flesh and the spirit,
00:19:53.15\00:19:54.72
he put his head down, he says,
00:19:54.76\00:19:56.09
"I know, Pastor,
00:19:56.12\00:19:57.46
I know that it's a
battle and when..."
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I said, "So what
are you going to do
00:19:59.53\00:20:00.86
when you feel that,
00:20:00.90\00:20:02.40
you know, fallen nature
coming back wanting to eat,
00:20:02.43\00:20:05.17
wanting to express
itself, wanting to have,
00:20:05.20\00:20:08.20
you know, these
feelings of satisfaction?"
00:20:08.24\00:20:10.17
He said, "I'm gonna call
on the name of the Lord."
00:20:10.21\00:20:11.91
Amen, amen. I
said, "That's right.
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You call on His name
00:20:13.31\00:20:14.64
and the moment
you call on His name,
00:20:14.68\00:20:16.01
almost instantaneously
00:20:16.04\00:20:17.55
you'll desire to
do what's right."
00:20:17.58\00:20:19.31
And so he's been doing that here
00:20:19.35\00:20:21.15
and I got great
hope for the guy,
00:20:21.18\00:20:22.52
I think that he's
going to be a real success.
00:20:22.55\00:20:23.99
I got great hope.
00:20:24.02\00:20:25.35
I believe him, the
man speaks the truth,
00:20:25.39\00:20:28.86
he wouldn't lie if he was dying.
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That's right.
00:20:30.83\00:20:32.16
You know, he's just a great guy
00:20:32.19\00:20:33.96
and, you know, I'm
pleased to even meet him,
00:20:34.00\00:20:37.03
back then and now too.
00:20:37.07\00:20:39.00
But so we both agree,
00:20:39.03\00:20:41.30
he didn't eat
'cause he said he didn't,
00:20:41.34\00:20:43.77
but what can we do in
the future for Emanuel
00:20:43.81\00:20:48.51
and all the Emanuels
that come through our program?
00:20:48.54\00:20:51.35
I think from the
pastoral point of view here
00:20:51.38\00:20:54.48
at fresh start or NEWSTART is
00:20:54.52\00:20:57.52
I want to stay in touch
with these guys and keep them,
00:20:57.55\00:21:00.19
I'm trying, I'm working on
a follow up program with them
00:21:00.22\00:21:02.79
so that I can
keep in touch with them
00:21:02.82\00:21:04.79
at least on a
weekly basis reminding them
00:21:04.83\00:21:07.70
of the spiritual battle.
00:21:07.73\00:21:09.10
You know, when you
wake up in the morning,
00:21:09.13\00:21:10.83
it ain't business as usual,
00:21:10.87\00:21:12.20
you've got to know
00:21:12.23\00:21:13.57
the minute your
feet hit the floor,
00:21:13.60\00:21:14.94
you're going to want to go back,
00:21:14.97\00:21:16.30
you're going to want to eat,
00:21:16.34\00:21:17.67
you're not going
to want to exercise,
00:21:17.71\00:21:19.04
you're going to want to forget,
00:21:19.07\00:21:20.41
you're going to
let stress or lie
00:21:20.44\00:21:21.78
for all the world come in
00:21:21.81\00:21:23.14
and that is where
we've got to be vigilant,
00:21:23.18\00:21:25.01
that is our skin in
the game is to be vigilant
00:21:25.05\00:21:28.15
and call on God and
remember that it's a battle.
00:21:28.18\00:21:30.85
And I think if he'll do that
and I'm pretty sure he will...
00:21:30.89\00:21:33.96
Because he's
committed to that idea.
00:21:33.99\00:21:36.22
Yeah, see that.
00:21:36.26\00:21:37.59
I think that's a
powerful word, commitment.
00:21:37.63\00:21:40.46
He's committed this time.
00:21:40.50\00:21:43.47
He's committed to do
all and use all the tools
00:21:43.50\00:21:47.04
that you've taught him,
00:21:47.07\00:21:48.57
that the doctors have taught him
00:21:48.60\00:21:50.04
and all the lectures,
00:21:50.07\00:21:51.57
he's there, this guy,
he's going to do great,
00:21:51.61\00:21:54.48
he's going to be one
of our next poster child.
00:21:54.51\00:21:57.51
I thinks so. Yeah.
00:21:57.55\00:21:58.88
I really believe so,
00:21:58.91\00:22:00.25
and I think this guy
has got great potential.
00:22:00.28\00:22:02.92
I believe from
his own admission,
00:22:02.95\00:22:05.62
I'm going to follow
these spiritual tools
00:22:05.65\00:22:07.96
and mix them with
the health and together
00:22:07.99\00:22:10.53
he's going to be all right.
00:22:10.56\00:22:11.89
We're going to hear
great things from him.
00:22:11.93\00:22:14.13
I want to thank you
again, thank you so much,
00:22:14.16\00:22:17.17
God bless you, brother.
00:22:17.20\00:22:18.53
God bless you too,
00:22:18.57\00:22:19.90
don't go away,
Dr. Nedley is up next.
00:22:19.93\00:22:25.41
Welcome to NEWSTART Now.
00:22:25.44\00:22:27.18
I'm Dr. Neil Nedley
00:22:27.21\00:22:28.54
and with me today
is Dr. Eddie Ramirez,
00:22:28.58\00:22:31.18
one of the researching
00:22:31.21\00:22:32.55
physicians here
at Weimar Institute
00:22:32.58\00:22:35.22
who also teaches
00:22:35.25\00:22:36.58
the research
methods and design class
00:22:36.62\00:22:39.09
at the Weimar Institute College
00:22:39.12\00:22:41.19
which is an
exciting place for pre-med
00:22:41.22\00:22:43.73
and health career
type of searching students.
00:22:43.76\00:22:48.83
But today, we are actually going
00:22:48.86\00:22:51.17
to discuss a study
00:22:51.20\00:22:52.53
that has been accepted for
publication in The Journal,
00:22:52.57\00:22:55.37
atherosclerosis,
thrombosis and vascular biology.
00:22:55.40\00:23:00.11
And many of our studies
that we produce here at Weimar
00:23:00.14\00:23:03.78
is looking at
thousands of patients
00:23:03.81\00:23:06.25
or at least
hundreds of patients.
00:23:06.28\00:23:08.28
Sometimes we'll take a look
00:23:08.32\00:23:09.65
at like just the pediatric group
00:23:09.68\00:23:12.52
and look at, you
know, 11 child cases
00:23:12.55\00:23:15.92
that came through with obesity.
00:23:15.96\00:23:17.93
But today,
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I'd just like to
focus in on a study
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that was
published for one patient.
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Now why is The
Journal allowing one patient?
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Here is the thing,
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every one of our
studies is actually real people,
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this isn't data and
we're dealing hundreds
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and tens and
thousands of patients,
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those are all real
lives and sometimes
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it's good to just
focus in on one patient
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and what they came
with here to NEWSTART.
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And this guy was a sick guy,
tell us a little bit about him?
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He had what we called
the metabolic syndrome.
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He had diabetes,
he had hypertension,
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his lipids were not
very good and even though
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he was taking three medications,
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he was out of control.
00:24:05.14\00:24:07.11
His blood
pressure were 150 over 78
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when he came first
here to the NEWSTART,
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he was taking three medications
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and still his glucose
was not under control,
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his blood pressure
was not under control.
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Now ideally, you're
systolic blood pressure
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should be less than a 115
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and so he was 150
despite three different...
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That's right, two medications
for the blood pressure.
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Okay, so he used two
medicines for blood pressure,
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plus he was on a
medicine for diabetes.
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How much did
this gentleman weigh?
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Well, when he came here
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he was weighing 381 pounds...
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And just in 18 days,
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he was able to lose 16 pounds
and one of the first things
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that change was
his blood pressure,
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he end up with a blood
pressure of 116 over 72,
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we have to actually decrease
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some of the
medication he was taking.
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Okay.
00:25:04.73\00:25:06.07
So now he's getting
close to that ideal 116
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and that's very
good coming down from 150
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and you're actually reducing
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the medicines at the same time,
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otherwise it really
would have gotten too low.
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So this was in
August when he came.
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After he
finished, he didn't say,
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"Oh, I finished,
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I'm going to go back
to my old lifestyle."
00:25:26.62\00:25:27.96
No, he made a commitment
00:25:27.99\00:25:29.52
to change his
life so permanently.
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So in August he comes,
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by the time that he
continues interacting
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with his head physician,
by May, the next year,
00:25:35.83\00:25:39.80
his physician had to
suspend old medication,
00:25:39.83\00:25:42.50
he no longer
needed that medication.
00:25:42.54\00:25:45.07
So now he's off all medicines
00:25:45.11\00:25:47.01
and what is he
weighing about this time?
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Two hundred and seventy pounds.
00:25:49.28\00:25:51.35
Okay, so he's lost a 100 pounds,
00:25:51.38\00:25:55.22
that's amazing
00:25:55.25\00:25:56.58
and that's
without the complications
00:25:56.62\00:25:58.69
of this gastric bypass surgery.
00:25:58.72\00:26:00.06
That's right.
00:26:00.09\00:26:01.42
Lot of people are
going for gastric bypass
00:26:01.46\00:26:03.32
and I can tell you,
00:26:03.36\00:26:04.83
if you would find out
00:26:04.86\00:26:06.19
the
complications of this surgery,
00:26:06.23\00:26:08.36
vitamin deficiencies,
all sorts of things,
00:26:08.40\00:26:11.10
the skin
changes that take place,
00:26:11.13\00:26:13.27
all of a lifestyle change
00:26:13.30\00:26:14.67
that you're going
to be forced to do,
00:26:14.70\00:26:17.17
you're much better
coming to NEWSTART,
00:26:17.21\00:26:19.37
not only is it
far less expensive
00:26:19.41\00:26:21.41
but it's a much
healthier way to go.
00:26:21.44\00:26:23.81
And then by July,
that happened in May,
00:26:23.85\00:26:26.01
by July we do a lab test,
everything perfectly normal,
00:26:26.05\00:26:29.52
cholesterols
and most encouraging
00:26:29.55\00:26:32.39
hemoglobin A1c of 5.5,
00:26:32.42\00:26:36.16
he was no longer
consider a diabetic,
00:26:36.19\00:26:38.76
he actually had stopped
his diabetes completely.
00:26:38.79\00:26:42.16
Wow, so he
reversed the diabetes,
00:26:42.20\00:26:44.93
so he didn't even have
to be called a diabetic,
00:26:44.97\00:26:47.50
no longer having
high blood pressure
00:26:47.54\00:26:49.77
and what is his
weight around this time then?
00:26:49.80\00:26:51.64
So I don't have the
weight by then but by August,
00:26:51.67\00:26:56.28
I do have his final weight,
00:26:56.31\00:26:59.65
so we started in August 2003,
00:26:59.68\00:27:02.22
by January 2005 he
had lost 141 pounds.
00:27:02.25\00:27:07.22
A 141 pounds.
00:27:07.26\00:27:10.56
So a totally new
person, now energetic,
00:27:10.59\00:27:14.06
now able to sleep
because of the excess weight
00:27:14.10\00:27:18.87
he was having
issues with sleep apnea
00:27:18.90\00:27:21.24
and these type of
things, those things reversed
00:27:21.27\00:27:23.91
as a result of this intensive
lifestyle intervention.
00:27:23.94\00:27:27.74
A normal, healthy,
00:27:27.78\00:27:29.44
good looking
individual now disease free
00:27:29.48\00:27:33.72
as a result of
coming to NEWSTART.
00:27:33.75\00:27:36.02
He was 380 pounds
00:27:36.05\00:27:37.59
and way out of control at first.
00:27:37.62\00:27:40.06
Well, Eddie it's exciting,
00:27:40.09\00:27:41.42
I know why The Journal accepted
00:27:41.46\00:27:42.96
this for publication
00:27:42.99\00:27:44.33
because this can also be someone
00:27:44.36\00:27:46.86
you know or maybe yourself.
00:27:46.90\00:27:49.03
And I'm Dr Neil Medley
and this is NEWSTART Now.
00:27:49.06\00:27:52.13
Join us again next week.
00:27:52.17\00:27:53.57
Well, friends,
that's it for today
00:27:57.01\00:27:58.64
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