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01:12 Hi friends and welcome to another edition of 01:14 NEWSTART Now. I'm your host Ron Giannoni. In our studio with 01:18 me is Dana McKnight. I'd like for you to take a look at when 01:22 she first arrived. 01:27 Many reasons but the biggest reason is to get my life and 01:33 health on track to prevent disease and to not become ill. 01:39 And so mine's not a prevention. Ultimately losing 01:44 weight but the goal is for health and balance in my life. 01:48 I really need and want balance. So it's not just nutrition but 01:53 it's the whole component and I really appreciated what this 01:58 program offered because it was about the whole being. And so 02:04 that's what brought me here. I want to see myself feeling 02:10 lighter, balanced and able to incorporate the principles and 02:18 the nine elements into my every day life on a daily basis. 02:26 Welcome back friends. Help me welcome Dana. How you doing? 02:29 Great. How are you? 02:31 I'm great. Well good. The question is how'd you like the 02:35 program? 02:36 It was very informative and very beneficial. 02:41 In which ways was it beneficial to you? 02:43 I think one of the biggest benefits was practicing the 02:49 lifestyle on a daily basis and incorporating eight principles 02:55 into every day so that you can actually do it on a daily basis 03:01 and see that it's very doable and beneficial. 03:04 So what has changed since day one till now 17 days later? 03:11 I think one of the biggest things that has changed for me 03:17 is the intermittent fasting was really huge and very doable 03:23 and with no problems. Didn't have any hunger. The fasting 03:29 was a little bit of a challenge more because of the parfaits 03:33 but getting through the fasting and then recalibrating my system 03:38 through intermittent fasting was very beneficial. I also 03:43 really felt that the message of trust in God was very powerful 03:51 and that it helped me just become more conscious of things 03:57 that I was aware of and practicing every day in my life 04:04 which I was doing but it made it more deep I think and more 04:07 deep and more powerful for me. 04:12 What about medications? 04:14 I wasn't on any medications. 04:16 Hopefully you're still not. 04:19 I'm still not on any and I plan to not be on any so, so... 04:24 and I think I lost a little weight but my blood pressure 04:32 wasn't really high but it got in even a better range and my 04:39 activity level increased. I walked, but I walked a lot more 04:46 and I did go to the gym here and that was helpful and I feel that 04:55 all of the components can be transitioned into my everyday 05:01 life after leaving NEWSTART. 05:04 So you feel it's doable once you get home? 05:06 Absolutely. Yeah. The cooking classes, the recipes, you know, 05:11 cleaning out the pantry, getting everything ready, all of those 05:16 components are crucial to then just leaving and continuing in 05:20 cooking and eating this way. And again you only have to 05:26 prepare for two meals instead of three. 05:27 They're easy if you do like me. Have the same thing every 05:32 morning for breakfast. 05:34 That's actually what I'm going to do for a couple of days 05:37 you know just make it simple and then have my lunch/dinner 05:40 combo be the change. 05:44 Yeah, good for you. So what did you like best or most about the 05:51 program? 05:54 I think that they kept you busy between the classes, your 05:58 treatments, the cooking, the activity. I really liked that 06:04 on your schedule they had digestive walks because it was 06:10 a reminder to walk and I really find that that's very powerful 06:16 to walk right after you eat. I wasn't as diligent of doing my 06:21 morning walks before breakfast but the days that I did do it 06:26 were really powerful watching the sun rise and just you know 06:30 being out in nature when everything's waking up. But I 06:35 think that the digestive walks you know and reminding yourself, 06:39 even if it's just 20 minutes, even 10 you're still moving. 06:46 You're helping your food to digest. 06:50 So digestive walk, you mean a stroll. 06:53 Yeah not a power walk. 06:55 For me, if I don't walk first thing in the morning, 6:00, 07:01 6:15, it's hard for me to walk the rest of the day so I get two 07:05 to three miles first thing in the morning before breakfast 07:08 then whatever I pick up the rest of the day is just icing 07:14 so to speak. So you mentioned the cooking school. How do you 07:19 like those classes? 07:20 I found them very helpful because it gave guidance to what 07:25 supplies you really need as a basic and then and equipment and 07:30 then practicing making things that you wouldn't think that 07:34 you wouldn't think that you could make plant based. So it 07:37 it gave you, for me, hope that I can have events and I can have 07:43 gatherings and be able to cook food that people will eat and 07:50 enjoy that's plant based and healthy and they won't even know 07:55 that it's, you know, any different. And just some little 08:02 tidbits and ideas on how to enhance flavor and how to make 08:08 things not just taste good but look and enjoyable. 08:14 Now did Michelle take you shopping? 08:17 We did a label reading with Eileen and then we did a 08:21 shopping at the Weimar store and that was helpful to see what 08:26 some of the supplies that you don't necessarily... I was plant 08:31 based before I came here but more junk food as I had 08:33 mentioned and so was more about what is healthier and what 08:35 is more beneficial and what to avoid. That was more helpful 08:40 for me because a lot of the fake meat, I call it fake meat, meat 08:45 substitutes they have soy isolates and you don't want to 08:49 have soy isolates. So finding ways of creating recipes without 08:53 those was very helpful for me. 08:55 What do you think about having beans for breakfast? 09:00 You know I have a friend who has beans for breakfast and I 09:03 felt I will never see myself doing that. Well I see myself 09:07 doing it and I have been doing that and it's actually been very 09:11 very beneficial and my system has to adjust for about a week 09:16 to having so much beans. I like beans but I don't think of it as 09:22 for breakfast. But I actually see the benefits from a science 09:26 perspective and the fullness perspective and you can make 09:30 so many combinations that it doesn't feel foreign to me 09:35 anymore. 09:36 All right. We've run out of time I want to thank you Dana. 09:40 Thank you. 09:41 God bless you and thank you for taking your time. Friends thank 09:43 you but don't go away. Dr. Gallant is up next. 09:50 Help me welcome Dr. Roger Gallant. 09:51 Ron good to see you again. 09:53 Good to see you again. It seems like we just did this. 09:55 Yes it seems that way. Yeah. 09:57 You know, Dana. She's a big gal and although she commented I 10:03 lost a little weight. To me a little weight is four or five 10:10 pounds. But she lost a lot more than that. 10:11 She did. She lost about 11 pounds in 18 days which is a 10:16 healthy weight loss. You know, you don't to lose too much too 10:20 quickly. Yeah. I find that when people lose a lot quickly they 10:25 have something I call rebound where they kind of hit their low 10:28 and then they start bouncing back and gaining it back. 10:31 I think it's healthier to lose weight slowly and keep it off 10:36 hopefully forever rather than to go too quickly and it causes a 10:41 lot of changes in your body. 10:42 She also commented that her blood sugar is down a little bit 10:46 Her blood sugar has come down. it was high before and it has 10:50 definitely come down so I think that's a good thing. She's 10:54 reversing the disease process that she was developing which 10:58 was borderline or diabetes and so lifestyle change is a great 11:03 way to combat elevated blood sugar. 11:06 Well she's a wise gal because a lot of people would wait till 11:11 they're sick before they came. Now she might be sick in some 11:16 circles but in the world out there she was just fine. 11:21 Overweight yes, little elevated cholesterol and triglycerides 11:26 and blood sugars but none on medication yet. Right. And even 11:31 we, when I talk to guests, are you on any medication? That's 11:35 one of the things you've asked me. Yes absolutely. When they 11:39 say no I go wow, gee, they're healthy. Yeah. Well that isn't 11:42 the case is it? 11:44 No it's not always the case. You know you can have these 11:48 underlying processes that produce disease and I use a 11:52 quote that says that our body is very forgiving. You know, for 11:58 example, smoking. If the first time somebody inhaled a 12:01 cigarette they coughed and a little piece of lung tissue came 12:05 out people would never smoke another cigarette in their lives 12:08 but because our body is forgiving to a point we can get 12:13 away with a lot of things and then suddenly all of a sudden 12:18 we sort of cross this line and now we have disease and that's 12:23 when it's harder to reverse it. So it's definitely better to try 12:28 to work on changing lifestyle before you get to the point that 12:32 you're have a lot of manifestations of disease. 12:37 Absolutely, I couldn't agree more. Smoking, I used to smoke 12:43 many, many years ago and I feel in some ways it has impacted my 12:48 health. Sure. You know for recent events that have 12:52 happened and things that have happened along the way. Right. 12:57 Right. You know, you mistreat your body for so many years, 13:01 it's not like all at once it's going to say no. It's been 13:05 gathering up momentum and slowly but surely you're killing 13:10 yourself through smoking and drugs and things, even 13:14 overeating. Yes, yes. So what would you say to that about...? 13:19 Well I think we need to do a self-assessment and really be 13:23 candid and honest. 13:24 It's hard to be honest. 13:26 It is hard, it is hard. 13:27 You know I only weigh 300 pounds. My girlfriend weighs 480 13:31 And the other problem with this is if somebody else tries to 13:36 help you we get defensive. And you know, no, no, no that's not 13:41 So we really need to look at what we're doing and is it 13:46 something that puts us in position to have good health. 13:50 Because we're told that if we put our bodies in the right 13:54 condition, God has created them to be able to bring health, 13:58 healing and restoration. 14:00 You mean to tell me then that people watching us right now 14:06 have given up all hope. They know that the end is coming and 14:11 there's no way to turn things around. What about them? 14:15 Well I think it depends on where they are in that spectrum, but 14:20 I believe that there is hope for a lot of people who have given 14:26 up hope. You know, lifestyle changes can make a big difference. 14:32 They need to be made, but they need to be made in such 14:36 a fashion that they 14:38 are providing the opportunity for our bodies to heal and 14:42 repair. We've really got to do the things that are necessary 14:47 to make our bodies be in the right condition for health. 14:51 You know, one of the things I noticed, Paul and I both, when 14:55 we're interviewing guests when they first arrive, they've got 15:00 that look on their face the deer in the headlights, Oh my gosh. 15:04 And what's going to happen to me. Then during the second 15:10 interview we can see that calmness. So these are people 15:15 that have all of a sudden found hope, that's right, and 15:20 could you speak to that, we've got a few seconds left, about 15:23 coming to a lifestyle center as we have and finding new hope. 15:28 Another patient who I saw today just told me, this patient has 15:33 some kidney failure and some other things and now is saying 15:37 the best thing about being here is I now have hope. The doctors 15:41 were telling me that this, this and this was going to happen 15:45 and I didn't have a choice in the matter. Well now that 15:48 patient is realizing that there is hope. Praise the Lord. 15:52 Praise God. Thank you Dr. Gallant. 15:55 Good to see you Ron. 15:57 Good to see you. Don't go away friends because Pastor Snead's 15:59 up next. 16:04 Every year in American there are over one million deaths 16:05 because of type II diabetes and chronic obesity. This includes 16:09 heart attacks and strokes. That's six-and-a-half 747s 16:13 crashing every day. What's even more surprising is that the fix 16:17 is easy. It's your lifestyle. Wouldn't it be nice if you could 16:20 actually add quality years to your life rather than dying one 16:24 organ at a time. Obesity and diabetes are the cause of over 16:28 a million deaths per year. Most diseases are reversible because 16:32 most diseases are lifestyle diseases, especially type II 16:36 diabetes and chronic obesity. Seriously now, they can be 16:40 reversed and the quality of your life can be renewed. 16:43 Call NEWSTART today at 1-800-525-9192. You will see 16:51 dramatic changes in the first few days of our program and 16:54 you'll be on the road to a better more robust quality 16:58 of life. The NEWSTART programs are simple and effective. 17:04 Help me welcome Pastor Snead. How are you brother? 17:07 I'm doing fine, friend. 17:09 Good to see you. Thank you. 17:11 You know, I want to talk to you about Dana, obviously. But you 17:18 know I'm a little concerned with people of other faiths that come 17:24 here. They think maybe we're separate from the world. I never 17:29 got that when I came here. I felt like these were all just 17:34 really good people. I never differentiated what religion 17:40 anybody was. But one thing I did notice when I got here: 17:45 Everywhere I went people wanted to pray for me. I actually 17:49 thought that they all knew something about me that I didn't 17:54 know. This poor guy was about to die, so I needed a lot of 17:59 prayer. But isn't that pretty common? Don't you get this from 18:04 our guests, that prayer is something well accepted? 18:09 Nearly every guest will bring that up. I've never been prayed 18:13 for by so many people. And it's something too, I've been here 18:17 for over two years now. We've never had a staff meeting where 18:22 we said OK remember to pray for people. It's just kind of built 18:26 into the kind of people that come here. They have a heart 18:29 for mankind and everyone... I was really shocked to find out 18:32 that I wasn't the only one praying for people. I knew the 18:35 doctors were but I found out the therapists were and even the 18:39 secretaries and you know just everyone is praying and that has 18:44 an effect on our guests. If you believe in God, God's going to 18:48 honor those requests and those prayers. 18:50 But even if the folks that we're praying for don't believe 18:55 in God it's a special moment in time where we've got to 19:02 recognize that if I want to pray for you or with you and I say 19:08 prayers they're generally words of endearment and kindness and 19:14 love. Who wouldn't appreciate that? Who wouldn't accept that 19:19 as something wonderful. I think where the rubber meets the road 19:24 and correct me please is when we as Seventh-day Adventists 19:31 try to cram down people's throat the health message that 19:37 we're above this and that and the other and we're better than 19:40 they are. What do you have to say about that? 19:43 Well that has never been what we're supposed to do. Obviously. 19:47 And even with Dana, and one of the things that I explained to 19:51 her that as a church this message was a gift to mankind. 19:55 You know this message given in 1860 to 1863. It was intended to 20:01 reach out to our brothers and sisters. And she appreciated 20:03 that being from Unity background was her religion. 20:06 She appreciated the kind of idea that it was intended to go 20:11 to everyone as a gift. But there are always well meaning people 20:16 that know the message, Adventists in particular, 20:20 that tend to get a little pushy with it and that can come off 20:22 really, even among our own people, as a negative, 20:27 whereas it was intended to be a gift, an invitation, a chance to 20:31 exercise your free will towards it. That was one thing she 20:34 brought up. Free will, God gives us free will. She chose to be in 20:37 this program and she enjoyed that aspect of it. We're just 20:44 saying here's some information, you know it's for you. It's not 20:47 convert you. We're not here to convert people. We want people 20:51 to be converted but we're not here for that. 20:55 I particularly want people to give their heart to Jesus and 20:59 you know if they want to become seventh day then fine or 21:03 whatever walk they are. We've got people who are Baptists, 21:06 all over the world. 21:08 Atheists, all kind of people coming here. 21:11 Most of them are just joyful about the prayers that we have 21:15 for them and I think we need to continue that for sure. 21:21 And I appreciate the work you do here. 21:25 Yeah, I get to work with all these different groups and 21:28 totally from a pastoral point of view I've become much more 21:30 sensitive to other religions and how truly this message of health 21:36 is received by most. If it's correctly given out there it's 21:40 received as a message of love and kindness and caring and it 21:43 does open doors. And it will lead people to say OK what have 21:48 they got to say about Christ. And with Dana she came to me 21:52 and my Fresh Start lectures in the beginning because of that 21:56 kind of trust issues, this is a good message, so what do they 22:00 have to say in this area? And that's where we're hoping that 22:04 you know if you don't know Christ you'll get to know him. 22:07 If you know him, you'll get to know him better, is the idea. 22:10 We're out of time, brother. Thank you for your time. 22:14 Friends thank you, but don't go away. We have a message for you. 22:22 Welcome to Weimar Institute Research. We not only treat 22:25 patients here at Weimar Institute through NEWSTART and other 22:30 types of programs but we also do research on sometimes thousands 22:36 of people. And the research is so important it does get 22:40 published in peer review journals. Dr. Ramirez, our head 22:44 of research at Weimar College. By the way, tell us a little bit 22:48 about Weimar College. 22:50 Yeah, Weimar College is an undergraduate program. We offer 22:56 things like premed and also nursing and psychology and 23:02 business and it's a different angle of your usual college. 23:08 There is health culture running in all the college and the 23:13 students generally learn the theoretical knowledge but we 23:18 like the students to be involved in practical type of things. 23:23 One of them is research. So in the premed program, the average 23:27 student that graduates there has many published works already 23:32 on the CV at their undergraduate level. 23:35 And that's one of the reasons why they have the highest 23:38 acceptance rate really to U.S. medical schools right here from 23:41 Weimar College. You don't have to do your education anywhere 23:45 else. It's a great place to get into medical school and be ahead 23:49 of the game. Many doctors don't even publish their entire 23:52 careers but these students are publishing even before they get 23:56 to medical school and so the medical schools are really 24:00 interested in our students here at Weimar. Well this particular 24:03 study was actually done by one of our students in conjunction 24:09 with Dr. Ramirez and myself. It was looking at the popular 24:15 cultural dogma of the day. The popular cultural dogma said as 24:21 long as sex is consensual it's good for you and do it as much 24:26 as you can, as often, as long as it's congenital. Of course 24:32 Hollywood advertises this and even some pop psychology sites 24:37 really advertise this and we actually took a look at how many 24:41 patients here? 24:43 5,621 patients from all over the world. 24:47 OK, so this wasn't just some cultural norm small group we 24:51 were looking at. These are from many different countries and it 24:56 was taking a look at particularly if they were 24:58 having sexual relations outside of a marriage relationship. 25:03 So it was consensual but it was not really that intimate 25:09 marriage lifelong committed relationship and the world is 25:14 into this sort of thing. In fact they think somehow that you 25:17 might actually 25:19 come out better if you can sneak around and do this 25:21 even if you are in an intimate relationship with a lifelong 25:24 partner getting more of it with someone consensual somehow is 25:27 going to help you. So what was measured here? 25:31 We were measuring emotional intelligence. 25:34 OK. And what did we find out. Those that were having sex 25:38 outside of marriage, did it help? 25:39 Actually they were worse, they were below the average of 25:43 emotional intelligence of the population if they were involved 25:47 in sexual relationships outside of marriage. 25:49 Yeah, it was significant. It was over half of standard 25:53 deviation below. Now they actually went to an eight-week 25:56 course, both the ones having sex outside of marriage and the 26:00 ones that were not having sex outside of marriage to improve 26:03 their emotional intelligence. And what did we find out? 26:07 We found out that actually by the end of the eight-week 26:12 program that included some CVT principles those that 26:17 continued with that behavior of sexual relations outside of 26:21 marriage, they actually just became normal regarding their 26:24 emotional intelligence while those that stopped that behavior 26:28 actually went above what is average for emotional 26:32 intelligence. 26:34 It was very significant. By average they went up to, let's 26:38 see, 102 by going to this course to improve their emotional 26:42 intelligence, the depression/ anxiety recovery course. 26:44 But if they quit that behavior and went to that course, their 26:50 scores on average were 109, 109.2. 26:55 We had a median of 110. 26:56 OK, and that's a whole standard deviation above the rest of the 27:02 population and so in reality the cultural dogma that we have been 27:07 fed is false when it's put to the test. 27:11 We actually have a second one published on depression and we 27:14 actually found more depression. They actually liked this study 27:18 so much they invited me to the sexual medicine meeting so that 27:23 I could present this study from the front. 27:25 That's great. Well Dr. Ramirez we're happy to see this 27:29 documented in research that we can be solidly assured that 27:33 following God's plan regarding sex in marriage is actually the 27:38 best for our mental health and our future happiness and success 27:43 Thank you for joining us at NEWSTART Now. 27:47 ¤ ¤ |
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