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Hi friends and
welcome to another edition of
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NEWSTART Now. I'm your host
Ron Gianonni. We have another
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amazing story, a miracle in my
mind. I want you to take a look
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at when Louise first arrived.
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I'm at the height of my
unhealthiness in life. Just
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recently diagnosed with type
II diabetes, high blood pressure
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for the last 10 years, obesity
for the last probably 10-12
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years and high cholesterol, high
triglycerides. My chemistry is
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not anywhere near where it needs
to be. And then the limitedness
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of my life from what has
occurred to my body through
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my own doing. What I want to
see when I leave, and I will be
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honest, a priority would be to
break a certain level of weight
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that I had not been able to get
into. So as a starting point, I
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want to eradicate my type
II diabetes and I don't want to
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have to deal with blood pressure
medication. Those are my three
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really main things and if those
are done I believe that the rest
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is by how I do it, it's
all going to fall in line and
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the chemistry will
align itself as well. Yeah.
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Well welcome back friends. Help
me welcome Louise. Hello Ron.
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Hello. I can't wait to do this
interview. We don't have a lot
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of time, but let's talk
about because our viewers just
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watched the first interview
and now this being the second,
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tell us about all the success.
Go one by one. How's the weight?
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Let's start right there.
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Fourteen and a half pounds.
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Fourteen and a half
pounds in 16 days. Yeah, Yeah.
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You think that's a miracle?
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I think that's amazing.
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At least.
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I don't think I lost that much
in my whole last session with
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my weight loss program. So
I'm very excited, very pleased.
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OK, blood pressure?
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Blood pressure, all
within normal ranges.
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And you're not
taking medication?
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Off all of my blood pressure
meds and my statin drug is gone.
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Good. Statin. What a joke. Yes.
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What was your blood pressure
when you were on blood pressure
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meds?
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I can recall going into the
doctor's, sitting down for blood
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pressure and getting a reading
of 180 something over a lower
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number that was
not good as well. So.
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Ninety five or over.
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Over a hundred. Oh
yeah. Not good at all.
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Now what is it now.
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Um, well. Let's see. Last night
I believe I went to bed with a
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111/68.
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Without the medication.
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Without any medication.
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Oh. Friends can you just see
what's going on here? How about
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the diabetes? You're
still diabetic I bet.
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My sugar levels are coming down
within range. I am not on the...
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I've been off of the medication
for diabetes as of the fourth
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day in.
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Four days in you
got off the medication?
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Off the medication.
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Your doctor is Dr. K?
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Dr. K, yes.
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How'd I guess?
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I don't know, yeah.
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So you're off the...
what were you taking?
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I was taking metformin 500
mg I believe, morning and night,
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twice a day, yes.
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A thousand a day.
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Yes and then they added on just
for fun, I think, the glipizide
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because it wasn't coming within
range. I was still eating an
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animal fat and dairy and
vegetable diet which, so I was
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really going in circles.
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So now your blood sugars are
normal, your blood pressure is
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normal, you've lost weight.
What else can you tell us, tell
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our viewers that you've learned
here and what you're going to
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take home.
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First of all, I am overwhelmed
with the type of program that
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it was in that the classes that
we took, the 24 formal classes
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that we took on
different subjects including the
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metabolism and nutrition,
how we got diabetes in the first
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place, not how to treat it, but
how we got it in the first place
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This really opened up my eyes
and the fellow patients that are
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here. It was a wealth of
information and I'll never look
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at food the same way again.
I will never look at food.
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I have a whole new appreciation
for the food that God created
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in the natural forms of
plant based nutrition. So that's
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awesome. I think the biggest
thing in getting on a more
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little more spiritual. We were
nourished spiritually with the
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reverend here. It was wonderful.
The praying constantly with the
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doctors, in between with
our nutritionist, our exercise
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supervisor. All those things.
But I think we had talked
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earlier and I had mentioned
something about that we had been
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made in the image of God and I
feel that being here at NEWSTART
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has helped me align myself to
the will and image of God now.
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Amen, amen. When was the last
time out there in the world you
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went to see a doctor and he
prayed with you? No. It never
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happened huh? Better yet when's
the last time they've been on
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time usually. I used to go to a
cardiologist in San Jose. I'd be
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in the waiting room for an hour
and a half and then I'd go in
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and see him and he'd go well
you know your blood pressure's
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high. Yes, I'm a little ticked
off right now. So you know
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these doctors here they're a
special breed of character. They
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love people. They love what
they're doing. They're here to
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help us and obviously
you've been well treated.
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Well there's a sincerity in
the time that they do spend with
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you. The kindness is shared.
And at first I was thinking what
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sort of a training program
have these guys been put through
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because they're just really
fantastic, you know. But you
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know what, they're all
different and they're all
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unique but they are all just
really tuned in to just sharing
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God's love and his plan for you.
And treating yourself the way
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God laid it out for us to
be treated, you know. To take
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advantage of what he puts before
us and just be healthier and
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heal and what an
amazing thing that is.
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How fortunate to have
Damon here and you know we just
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interviewed Damon and he's so
thrilled with the results in all
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of our guests. Couple of people
are just kind of not where they
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want to be but they're still
thrilled. I want to ask you
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about Michelle Irwin. She is our
teacher for the cooking classes.
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What'd you think of some of
those recipes she put together?
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I'm excited to get home. So when
I get home, we're going to my
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daughter's for dinner. She
cooks as you would have us cook.
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Oh good. Oh yeah. And Friday
morning she's picking me up and
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we're going to the grocery store
and that'll probably be after
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I've emptied out my
entire pantry and refrigerator.
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And I feel really very excited
about the menus that she placed
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out before us that we had a
hands on to be able to create.
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Guys and girls at the tables.
some of us not so experienced
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some of us a little more
but it all came together and we
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realized we can do this, you
know. The cook books based on
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the menus from the cafeteria,
what a great tool. I've already
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read through and starred
and made notes on certain ones
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that I feel in control to be
able to do. And given time, I
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don't know I might give
Michelle a run for her money.
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But she's fantastic.
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I want to thank you for coming
here and being able to speak
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with us.
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Thank you so much.
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And we'll be talking fairly soon
Don't go away. Dr. Kuninobo is
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is up next.
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Welcome back friends.
Dr. K how are you sir?
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Great, how you doing Ron?
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I'm doing good. First I want
to thank you for coming here and
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being on the set because I do
know you're a busy guy. You know
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I haven't met a doctor yet who
isn't busy. We've got doctors
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flying all over the world. Dr.
Nedley, doctor this and that.
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They fly to five
different countries in six days.
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Boy, I'm glad I'm not
one of those. I'm right here.
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You're flying from
one building to another.
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Well that's true.
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So, you know, I want to
get right into this subject of
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weight loss. You know, I was
pretty taken that she lost as
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much weight and give us some
history about women versus men
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as far as weight loss. And I
know that isn't the reason a lot
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of people come here. They've
taken all these medications, but
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when they start losing weight
and getting off medications at
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the same time and tell
us a little bit about that.
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Well I think the weight is
important for a lot of people.
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In fact, I have many people
who come here and that is one of
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their first things they write
down, I want to lose weight.
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Yeah. And improve diabetes or
high blood pressure, what have
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you as in the case of Louise.
But it's interesting that there
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seems to be a little difference
between the physiology of men
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and women. For better or
for worse, (why is that?) ladies
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please don't shoot because I
didn't create it this way, but
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women do seem to have a harder
time losing weight and we've had
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you know some of the biggest
losers here are usually men and
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not usually women for some
reason. And I know that most
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women out there could
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probably vouch for that,
that they have a harder time.
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Now she lost 14-1/2 pounds.
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She actually was, yes, she did
marvelously. I mean she was not
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like most women who have just
five pounds after working really
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hard, seven maybe, maybe
10. Yeah, 14-1/2 pounds. She did
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really, really well.
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I guess. And we've seen women
here much larger that hardly
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lose any. Here she comes. She
was really thrilled about this.
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Yeah, but more important
than the weight lost was body
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composition, and we don't
have numbers here on that but we
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usually measure people too. I
remember her numbers are pretty
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astounding, how many inches she
lost. I think it's an important
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concept for viewers at
home to work and to try and get
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themselves better is body
composition. And I think that
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your relating to somebody that
may be larger we've had in the
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past who maybe didn't lost
as much weight or any weight and
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it can be very discouraging.
But the health on the inside is
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equally important to how things
look on the outside. Amen. And
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so for example I've thinking of
one person in particular who had
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trouble losing weight but
we know that this person got
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healthier because the inches
got better. And that's really
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important because muscle does
weight more than fat. So if you
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you come to your program or
to a lifestyle change and you've
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really let yourself go and
there's not a lot of muscle
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there because you've been very
sedentary and when you start
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working out and the muscle
starts building, that weighs
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more than the fat you're burning
so you may not see the change
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on the scale when you look
at it in the morning but you are
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going to start
noticing it in your clothes.
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That's what's amazing, just
amazing. We have a story of a
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lady who lost four dress sizes
here; didn't lose any weight.
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Correct. Yeah, Dr.
Lukens loves to tell that story.
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He loves to tell that story and
she just went like this you know
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But her weight
didn't change at all?
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No and I say the same thing
about Louise. She lost 14-1/2
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pounds but if we had weighed
her the other method like in the
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water, holding her breath
it would have been a lot more
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dramatic. And I myself, when
I came through I lost 22 pounds
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For a guy that was pretty good
but many people will lose more
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than that.
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And I've lost a lot
for my height as well.
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You are, I mean you have?
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I'm about 40 pounds lighter
than when I was at my highest.
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Really? Through the principles
of the NEWSTART program.
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Was it since you been here?
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No, I started the
principles before coming here.
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OK. But God finished up after
I arrived here a year and a
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half ago. Yeah. Never
felt better in my life.
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Good, good job. By the way,
before I forget, what about her
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diabetes and high blood pressure
What's going on with that?
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OK, so her diabetes, vastly
better. She came, if I remember
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correctly, on two medications
and we were able to take her off
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of those medications and her
blood sugar was looking good.
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And her blood pressure-she was
still having trouble controlling
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her blood pressure on the
medicine she was on. By the time
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she left her blood pressure
was normal without medication.
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So if she continues on the
path she'll do very, very well.
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So we've got a few seconds left.
What could you tell our viewers
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right now that are on medication
they're overweight they have
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high blood pressure?
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Definitely find a way to get
to a lifestyle program like the
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NEWSTART program.
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Amen, and they're all
over the country right?
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There are programs all over
the place. Of course we think
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NEWSTART's pretty special.
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Well we do.
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Of course, but find help and
get on a lifestyle program that
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includes a whole food, plant
based diet and preferably one
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that has God as a
component in it as well.
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Amen. You know we do have a lot
of fine lifestyle centers around
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but and I refer people to these
centers if they can't make it
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here. Nonetheless I want
to thank you. God bless you.
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Your welcome. God bless you Ron.
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And we'll see you around. Don't
go away. We'll be right back.
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Every year in America there are
over one million deaths because
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of type II diabetes and chronic
obesity. This includes heart
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attacks and strokes. That's
six and a half 747s crashing
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every day.
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What's even more surprising is
that the fix is easy. It's your
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lifestyle. Wouldn't it be
nice if you could actually add
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quality years to your life
rather than dying one organ at
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a time? Obesity and diabetes
are the cause of over a million
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deaths per year. Most diseases
are reversible because most
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diseases are lifestyle diseases
especially type II diabetes and
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chronic obesity. Seriously
now, it can be reversed and the
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quality of your life can be
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Welcome back
friends. Damon how are you?
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I'm doing fine my friend.
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You know, before we begin I've
just got to let the viewers know
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that this is NEWSTART Now
and many people call me and they
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go well why can't I do NEWSTART
at home? All I need to know is
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what to eat and what to do. I
go well wait a minute. It's far
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more involved and
that's where you come in.
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Right, right.
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I have noticed since you've been
here, if I may say, that our
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attendance for morning worship
is greater than it's ever been.
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I want to get right back into
Louise now and talk about her
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experience here and how
you've enjoyed her company.
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Ah, yeah, Miss Louise, she's
been great. She's one of these
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ones that you want to get a hold
of. The first counseling session
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I had with her and the second
one it kind of deepened, but she
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told me, she said there's
something here that I can't
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quite get my mind around
that's very spiritual. So she's
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conveying this to me. So the
second counseling session she's
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like this is spiritual. She got
the spiritual connections. She
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is a very good Catholic
woman the magodai, the image of
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of God she was telling me I
realize now that this health
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message is mostly about
restoring the lost image of God
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in man. And I've never
heard anyone tell me that in 17
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months. So she's grasping
the deeper concept of why we do
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health here.
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Praise God. That's wonderful.
I'm sure you helped that along.
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Oh yeah, she looked at me
one day; this really touched my
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heart, from a pastor's point
of view we want this evangelism
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to kind of come out of
the health message and she was
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looking on my wall and I have a
picture of Jesus with the woman
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at the well. And she looked
at it and she was just sitting
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there staring at it, she was
looking contemplatively at it,
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and she says you know what I
see in that picture. She says I
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see the Catholic church as that
woman and I see Jesus as the
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Adventist church reaching out
to Catholics. And I just thought
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that that was such a powerful
statement because she perceived
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it was that and that we are
trying to help our brothers and
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sisters of other faiths.
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Oh, absolutely, yeah. I'm glad
to hear you say that because
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a lot of folks, again, when they
call in I'm generally the guy
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who answers the phone for the
NEWSTART program. They tell me
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well I'm Buddhist or I'm
a Muslim or I'm Catholic or
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Jewish. I go you know God
doesn't care what religion you
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are. He's calling all of us
to come home. And so being here,
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even though we are Seventh-day
Adventist, I have never heard an
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unkind word about our staff. In
most cases, people say so this
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is somewhat like
heaven. You know.
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Yeah, she had many kind words
to say. You know, even about
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the Adventist literature. Ellen
White's writings on health. She
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recognized that. She said that
her feeling of Ellen White was
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God sent someone to the world
foreseeing in the future what
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health would be like toward the
end of time and she recognized
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that this woman had a message,
a gift from God, to proclaim
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a message of health, to bring
healing to a world when it was
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needed the most. This is all
coming from someone that is not
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familiar with the
Adventist message.
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Isn't that amazing. So she's...
sounds like the Holy Spirit's
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in there somewhere.
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She sees the love aspect of this
health. The desire of a church
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wanting to see people whole and
stop dying and feel better and
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then the spiritual component of
it. She grasped that right off
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the bat.
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Oh wow. That's so good to here.
Well she's such a lovely lady.
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You know, you
call her Miss Brown.
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But being from Texas
don't you call every...
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Everybody's miss. I call my
wife Miss Mary, yeah, Miss Mary.
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Don't call me Miss Ron.
I might take offense. Well
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anything you might want
to add about Miss Brown?
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Miss Brown, Yeah. I would like
to say she is a very wonderful
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lady. She had this excitement
and enthusiasm. She's going to
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go home and work the program.
You know she lost a lot of
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weight here and you could tell
in her face. I love... I took a
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picture this afternoon. I said
this is you when you got here.
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I said this does not look like
you now. I can see... and she
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said I know. She said I can
see my face. She goes, you know
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for a while the only place
I could look at my face that
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wasn't overweight was my nose.
She said but now I can see my
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face coming back. And I thought
well that's awful cute and
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wonderful, you know.
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We've run out of time. I want
to thank you brother. We'll talk
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again I know. Don't got
away folks. We'll be right back.
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Weimar Institute not only
treats patients with significant
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chronic diseases but also
does research on thousands of
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individuals. And this research
is getting published in peer
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review scientific publications.
Now many people don't realize
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that the NEWSTART program is
also the home of Weimar College.
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And Weimar College is a pre-
medical institution, nursing
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program, business program,
theology, education; also music,
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psychology is taught here.
And this is a higher education
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program that actually is above
many bachelors programs because
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for the type of research that is
done and published by students
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and professors here. One of our
professors today who actually
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heads our research department
at Weimar College is Dr. Eddy
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Ramirez. Dr. Eddy,
glad to have you here today.
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Thank you for the invitation.
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All right. Well this was a study
that was done by who, now who
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was involved in research?
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Students were involved in this
study. There were actually two
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students in this study. This
was published in the Journal of
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Biological Psychiatry. We're
studying a little bit about
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emotional intelligence.
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OK, well emotional intelligence
of your ability to manage your
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emotions, to understand your
emotions and the emotions of
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others and respond to
those emotions in a healthy way.
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And we have found out,
Dr. Ramirez, that emotional
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intelligence has more to do
with your future success and
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happiness than other
measurements. It's even more
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important than your IQ. And of
course these were people coming
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because of depression. They
had significant depression and
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anxiety and how many people
were involved in this study?
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This was a big sample,
5621 people in the sample.
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Wow! And was this all from
North America or were there
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other countries involved?
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This is worldwide. Four
continents were represented in
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this sample.
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OK and so at the beginning
of the data analysis they were
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coming to a program. This was
an eight week program. So this
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wasn't actually done at Weimar
Institute but it was done in
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those countries, a lot of
different satellite sites; may
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have been churches or health
centers or mental health clinics
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where this program would have
been run. So they were coming
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because of their need and
depression and anxiety. It was
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an educational program and this
educational program included
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what? What types of things might
they have been experiencing?
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So basically the NEWSTART
principles plus a mental
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education focus on the
principles of cognitive
behavioral therapy.
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OK. So you have NEWSTART plus
cognitive behavioral therapy.
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This gets into your thoughts,
emotional intelligence is tied
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to our thoughts because it's
actually our thoughts that cause
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our emotions and behavior.
And that's actually good news
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because we can change
our thoughts into what's more
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rational and true and then our
emotions and behavior can also
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improve. And so as a result
of this... I mean, was this an
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intense program where they were
there all day for eight week?
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Once a week for two
hours for eight weeks
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OK, so not a lot really,
just once a week, two hours of
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education and they would watch
a little DVD and they would also
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have a little group health
coaching type session and so
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about a total of 16 hours
invested and what happened at
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the end of the eight weeks?
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As a result of that, by the end
of that program their emotional
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intelligence was above the
average emotional intelligence
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of the population.
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They came in below average
and they ended up above average.
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In fact, I'm looking at the
statistics here and 46 percent
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were below average and at the
end only 23 percent were below
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average so over half of them
went to above average that were
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below and then there were 56
percent that were somewhat above
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average and a total of 20
percent were in the top tier of
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the nation now as a result
of going through this program.
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How much of a
shift was there total?
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The switch was about 30
percent, the ones that were able
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to reach that
very high level of EQ.
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OK about 30 percent in the
total emotional intelligence
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scale went up by I think
eight points. Is that right?
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That's right,
eight points on average.
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Yeah, actually almost
nine points and that's a whole
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standard deviation. Significant
improvement in their future
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success and happiness just by
going to this eight week program
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Depression and anxiety recovery.
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Thanks for joining us on
NEWSTART Now and I hope you
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also can improve your
emotional intelligence.
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