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Dr. Hans Diehl is one of
America's 20 superheroes of
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health. He's a bestselling
author, researcher, speaker and
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clinical professor of preventive
medicine at Loma Linda
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University in California. He's
at the forefront of the emerging
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field of lifestyle medicine. The
clinical results of his research
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have been published in over 20
medical journals. Through world
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class CHIP programs he advocates
a simpler saner diet that
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prevents, arrests, and reverses
many common diseases including
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heart disease. His best
selling book Health Power
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had two million
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copies in circulation and
has been translated into 21
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languages.
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Dr. Hans Diehl, I'm delighted
that you're with us again. Now
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our topic today is a fascinating
one, The Killer Comes to Dinner.
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What's that all about?
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It's actually pretty serious.
Oh? He's fed three times a day,
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he doesn't pay for his meals,
he's a free loader, he loves
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cholesterol, fat and grease,
that's his favorite foods and he
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gets bigger and bigger and he
grows more and more and he grows
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and takes up more and more room
within our arteries. The killer,
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he strikes without
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any warning and in one
out of three cases the first
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sign that he's there is also the
last sign. Oh this is serious.
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Sudden death. Atherosclerosis,
hardening of the arteries. And
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somehow the killer is directly
associated with what we put into
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our systems, food.
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So what we put on our tables,
The Killer Comes to Dinner.
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Yeah, we feed him and he
takes up residence inside of our
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arteries and then without any
warning, he's not very grateful,
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he just strikes. The first sign
for most people is sudden death.
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Let me show you what that killer
really looks like. Let's take
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I first woke up, so to
speak, when I was working on the
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anesthesia service learning how
to put people to sleep. And I
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was seeing my patients for the
next day's surgery for coronary
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artery bypass surgery
in order to bypass clogged
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arteries in their
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heart. Because it was late
at night I drew the man's blood
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test and when I took the blood
to the laboratory and had it
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processed I couldn't believe my
eyes. Now normally this liquid
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layer floating on top of the
blood clot is quite transparent,
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yellow, but quite clear. You can
see right through it. The blood
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in this patient's tube, however,
was anything but clear. The
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serum floating on his clot
was thick and greasy white, it
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looked like glue, in fact it
stuck to the sides of the blood
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tube when I shook the tube. I
went back to the patient. I said
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Mr. Phillips did you eat before
you came to the hospital tonight
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He said yes. I said, what did
you have? He said I had a cheese
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burger and a milk shake.
And when he said that I realized
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that what I was looking at in
his tube was all the fat in the
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beef burger, all the butter fat
in the cheese and the butter fat
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in the ice cream and in the
milk shake. And all this fat had
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oozed out into his blood and
actually turned his blood fat.
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Well 30, 40, 50 years of keeping
your blood very fatty creates
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changes in the blood vessels
that are very dangerous. Over
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the years arteries can become
clogged with fatty material.
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Then a blood clot can
form blocking the blood flow
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completely. If the artery leads
to the heart a lack of oxygen
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can cause heart muscle to die.
That's a heart attack. If the
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clogged artery leads to the
brain, the patient has a stroke.
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The next morning we took Mr.
Phillips to the operating room
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and I put him to sleep and
the surgeon opened up his chest.
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And from these arteries he
began pulling out yellow greasy
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deposits of fatty
material called atherosclerosis.
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It's really amazing isn't it? If
you're an Australian, if you're
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an American at 20 years of age,
you have 20 percent narrowing
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already of these coronary
arteries. By time you're 50 you
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probably have 50, 60 percent
narrowing already and you have
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no symptoms. The killer is
enjoying his presence within
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your arteries, you're feeding
him every day. By the time
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you're 70 years of age you
might have 70, 80, 90 percent
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narrowing and you still don't
have any clue what's going on.
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The first sign, if you're lucky,
is angina pectoris, that's sort
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of a chest pain like an elephant
sitting on your chest. It comes
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and then you relax and it goes.
That means the artery is not
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blocked but it's narrowed.
But it's blocked and you have a
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blood clot. You know, that's
when no blood is reaching the
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heart anymore and the heart
begins to, the muscle begins to
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die. Now it's really
heart disease. You know, the
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interesting part is that this
disease, atherosclerosis, is not
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just affecting the coronary
arteries, but the arteries in
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the brain, to the ear, to the
eyes, to the carotids, they're
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affecting the kidney arteries,
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it affects the penal arteries
responsible for impotence, to a
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large extent it has to do with
the femoral arteries to the legs
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Then you have claudication
or you have gangrene. So this is
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really a very systemic disease
process. It's really one disease
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called atherosclerosis even
thought they give it different
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names based on the location.
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Then it affects the whole body.
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Yeah and so therefore if we take
care of coronary artery disease
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we actually take care of the
whole circulatory system right?
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So that's a very important
concept to get across I think.
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So this is a very insidious
disease. It works by stealth.
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Well that means that how
can I know if I've got it?
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Now you're worried then?
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Yes. How can I tell?
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You know you don't have a clue.
And so the government became
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very interested. Why is
this? What is the nature
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of this disease?
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And they began to launch a major
study called the Framingham
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study. It's a town of about
50,000 people. They enrolled in
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1949 some 5200 people who
probably had no obvious disease
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processes. And they said we want
to follow these people. Every
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three years they had
examinations and they watched
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these people year after year
after year and they recorded the
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diseases. They recorded the
hospitalizations. They recorded
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the deaths. This was all done
before computers. This was a
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monumental study. The study's
still even today going on. It's
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now a three generation study.
It's the gold standard. It's the
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ultimate study that helps us
understand what heart disease
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was. You asked the question,
how can I tell? You really can't
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tell because it's asymptomatic,
it has no symptoms. That says
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almost too late, isn't it?
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So who is at risk from this
hardening of the arteries, this
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cardiovascular disease? I mean
it affects 100,000 Australians
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with heart attacks, with strokes
each year. It kills over 50,000
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Australians. It costs our
economy eight billion dollars.
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Who's at risk?
Who does it affect?
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You know that's so interesting.
This disease is not really a
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respecter of persons, their
gender or their color or their
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origin. It strikes anywhere. But
in general, it has to do with
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our understanding of the disease
and what we're willing to do for
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it. Now coming
back to Framingham.
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The little town
outside of Boston?
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That's right, that's right.
So they started that program and
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within six to 10 years
they began to recognize that the
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people that had high cholesterol
levels compared to those with
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low cholesterol levels in
the study, they had three, four,
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five times more often a heart
attack. They said, ah, maybe
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cholesterol is one of these
factors that places you at risk.
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Then they found out that those
who were smokers had much more
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heart disease than those
who didn't. In those days they
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always thought smoking caused
lung cancer. But this is the
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first time now, oh, it's related
to heart disease as well. They
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looked at blood pressure
problems, they looked at
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diabetes and they looked at
overweight and they looked at
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inactive lifestyle and they
began to realize that these were
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the risk factors, the factors
that are drivers of this disease
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I put these risk factors into an
arch for educational purposes.
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Just take a look here. The more
risk factors the greater the
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risk. It's not one plus one plus
one plus one or two plus two
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plus two. No. It's three times
three. So it's a multiplication
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here. So the more risk factors
the higher the risk. So these
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risk factors then drive this
disease process. But there is
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something aside from these
mathematical predictions, the
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estimates that we can make for
all populations based on these
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risk factors and that is that
when you look at the next risk
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arch as you see here, you notice
that I have given them a special
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color; that is the cholesterol,
the high blood pressure, the
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triglycerides and then you see
the diabetes and the obesity.
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These one, two, three,
four, five risk factors are very
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unique because
there's something in common.
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And what are they?
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What do they have in common?
There's something in common and
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that is these risk factors,
cholesterol, high blood pressure
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triglycerides, diabetes and
obesity, they relate to largely
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what we put between our lips.
The diet related risk factors.
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So just think. The majority
of risk factors that drive this
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disease cause atherosclerosis
and all the other diseases that
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come with it are largely
determined by what we put
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between our lips. Our diet
becomes very, very important.
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How do we go about
getting our cholesterol down?
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Well you know medication
is sort of the second line of
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defense the way we
look at it. If we cannot get
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the cholesterol to
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come down with dietary means
then we always are very happy to
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take a look at medications.
That's what we think is the
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second-best option because
if you use diet then you have no
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side effects and you can reduce
your food bill and so on and so
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forth. So but how do you do
it dietarily? There are three
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things.
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That's what we all want to know.
What are these three simple
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things?
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Number one: Don't eat
cholesterol. Where do you find
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the cholesterol? Only animal
products. Liver is the highest,
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then egg yolk, then shrimp and
then beef, pork, and chicken is
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the same amount of cholesterol.
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So what are you saying? Are you
saying that chicken has the same
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amount of
cholesterol as red meat?
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You seem to be surprised. Yes.
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You know everybody's surprised.
When I say that people say no
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that cannot be possible. Because
they remember that chicken
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probably has some advantages.
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And it does. We
usually recommend white meat.
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That's right and it is lower in
fat content, which is important.
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Although the way chickens are
raised nowadays a lot of things
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are changing. They're already
prepared when they come to you.
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Whether it's white meat or red
meat and whether it's pork or
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not you know the amount of
cholesterol is about the same.
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So you want to reduce
cholesterol which means you
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better cut back on all animal
products, okay? Of course, that
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also includes eggs and so on.
But number two: Really cut back
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on saturated fats and trans fats
Yeah, the trans fats are the
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fats that you find in cakes and
pies, the hydrogenated oils that
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don't turn rancid and that's why
they are liked by the industry.
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So that's trans fats and that's
what you find on the nutrition
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label listed. Because even if
it lists two grams it's really
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pushing the liver into overdrive
to make the cholesterol. So it's
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trans fats. Then you have
the saturated fat. These are the
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fats that you find in animal
products and maybe some coconut.
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And the third one is use more
soluble fiber because it kind
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of ushers the cholesterol
out and that's what you find in
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beans and in oats. It's in
oat bran. This is what helps you
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there. The average of
cholesterol levels of people who
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attended the Pritikin Longevity
Center and this is within less
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than four weeks you can drop
your cholesterol levels by 25
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percent. The higher the
cholesterol initially the bigger
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the drop. We find the same
thing in our CHIP program, the
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Complete Health Improvement
Program. Those people come to
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us with the highest cholesterol
levels. They have dropped for
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25, 30, 35 percent within four
weeks. So the dietary approach
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works very, very well. And what
the Pritikin people found in the
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center was that people came to
them because of heart disease.
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They also found that the
diabetes improved. They could be
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off medication many times. They
found that the blood pressure
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came down. They found that they
were eating more food than ever
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before and yet they lost weight
because the food they were
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eating were foods that were
basically low-fat foods and as
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you know that is the most
concentrated source of energy
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in the diet. So when you cut
back on oils, fats, and grease
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you immediately lower your
calorie intake and so weight
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loss is being facilitated and
with that blood pressures come
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down, diabetes comes down,
heart disease. All these kind of
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things begin to happen.
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In the meantime a young
cardiologist at Harvard began to
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think of what could be
done to build on the encouraging
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outcomes in the Pritikin
Longevity Center program, right?
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So what he did, he took 48 heart
disease patients and he put half
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of them on the common American
Heart Association diet, not
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quite as strict and rigid as the
one that he put the other half
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on and these were now people
that he placed on a diet that
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had only less than 10 percent of
the calories in fat. Now just to
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explain that, an Australian
diet American diet is about 35
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percent fat. Now this is less
than 10 percent so it's a very
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strict diet. Also he didn't
allow them any cholesterol to
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speak of. So that means it was
basically a plant based diet.
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Lots of fiber. And then he
followed them up for one year
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and he noticed that on
this program 25 percent drop in
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cholesterol. Moreover he found
that American Heart Association
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diet only lowered the
cholesterol by five percent.
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And then he looked at the
very sophisticated technologies,
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space age technologies, when he
looked at the coronary arteries
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he began to realize that 82
percent of the plaques, those
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pimples on the inside of the
arteries wall, that 82 percent
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had begun to melt down.
The disease reversal was taking
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place. The melting down was
beginning while on the control
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group, the American Heart
Association, he found that 53
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percent of the plaques
had progressed. To reverse the
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disease we've got to go
further you have to go further
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towards a diet that
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is very lean and basically free
of cholesterol. And you know the
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results speak for themselves.
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So this is now a major
breakthrough. It's been
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demonstrated not just in
monkeys but also in humans.
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Right. We're speaking of
everything. Because we thought
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that bypass surgery was the
answer, placing stents was the
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answer and now something as
simple as a dietary change can
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produce these changes. It was
big news. Then of course shortly
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thereafter the reports came
out from the Cleveland Clinic, a
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famous heart center in
America and their Dr. Esselstyn
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demonstrated that he was able
to take patients that were the
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walking dead as he called them.
They already had bypass and
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everything else and nothing
could be done for them anymore.
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And he placed them on a
very simple diet similar to what
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Ornish had done, basically a
vegetarian diet, foods as grown,
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high in fiber, you know lots of
vegetables, fruits, whole grains
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and legumes and he brought their
cholesterols down to less than
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4.0 and over the next five
years the results were there. He
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followed them up for another
seven years, that's 12 years'
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results. Great, great
success. And now he wrote a book
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chronicling 20 years of these
patients, many of whom had been
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given five, six months to live.
And all of them but four are
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alive and doing well. And when
you make some of these simple
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lifestyle changes as we do
in the CHIP program, here's what
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can happen to people. And here's
now something that I want to
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show you that we picked up the
other day from Mark McNeill, a
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graduate of CHIP, Complete
Health Improvement Program. Take
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a look. He's following a very
simple diet. Just take a look.
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I'm so glad, life is just great.
I've felt well and then bang
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then I was told you've got six
arteries that are blocked and
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99 percent blocked. And so that
was a bit of a surprise. I had
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to have five bypasses. After
that after getting out of the
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operation what had
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happened there I went back onto
my normal diet which I thought
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was great. I had a good diet I
thought. Went back and had blood
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tests and I was surprised.
My cholesterol was raised, blood
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pressure was up and at that
point I was introduced to the
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CHIP program. I went onto
it immediately, straight away.
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I had to do that. Within
two months of going on the CHIP
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program my cholesterol was half,
blood pressure was down. In fact
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I had to lower my blood pressure
pills because I was getting
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dizzy. I had to_. And then
that allowed me now to get back
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into things I loved. Two weeks
ago I got back on the bike.
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One thing I really
noticed I used to bike before
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I was always out of breath.
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I went out two weeks ago. I hit
the hills. I didn't even get a
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sweat. I was doing some
marvelous riding. You know, I
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was getting back on the bike,
biking with my friends, living
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life to the full. And my
life was just beginning again.
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You know, when I see that,
that's payday for me. I mean it
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makes me feel so good that we
can do something about a disease
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that is so devastating.
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So a simple, natural
diet is really a blessing.
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The evidence is piling up
strongly every day. We are what
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we eat. And the former surgeon
general, Dr. Koop, said it very
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well. He said, no prescription
is more valuable than knowledge
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when it comes to health and
disease. People, you are what
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you eat. Make better choices
because you can prevent this
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disease and you probably
can also reverse this disease.
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Dr. Hans, this is information we
need. Thank you for joining us
00:21:14.17\00:21:18.97
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Our story begins with the
destructions of the sacred city
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of Jerusalem during a series of
fierce battles that started in
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605 B.C., just over 2600 years
ago. The greatest empire of the
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ancient world, Babylon, attacked
and plundered the nation of
00:25:21.85\00:25:26.29
Judah taking many of the people
captive. Among the captives were
00:25:26.32\00:25:32.03
four gifted young Jewish
men. They were brought into the
00:25:32.06\00:25:35.73
luxurious palace of King
Nebuchadnezzar where they were
00:25:35.76\00:25:39.13
to serve at the king's whim.
The whole idea was to reprogram
00:25:39.17\00:25:44.01
these young men and give them
a totally new world view, one
00:25:44.04\00:25:48.78
based on the values and
principles of Babylon. Before
00:25:48.81\00:25:53.11
long the young captives faced
a test. And it arose over the
00:25:53.15\00:25:57.49
issue of food. You see, although
they were captives they were
00:25:57.52\00:26:01.89
being treated like royalty.
They could even eat the king's
00:26:01.92\00:26:05.26
special food and sit at his
table, but to do so meant to be
00:26:05.29\00:26:11.03
disobedient to the God of heaven
God had given instructions
00:26:11.07\00:26:15.34
regarding what food was best for
people to eat. These young men
00:26:15.37\00:26:21.24
had been taught about the
importance of eating the right
00:26:21.28\00:26:24.15
food that was best for them and
avoiding food that was harmful
00:26:24.18\00:26:27.98
to their health. But now they
faced a real dilemma. To fail to
00:26:28.02\00:26:34.82
eat at the king's table meant
to be disobedient to the king of
00:26:34.86\00:26:39.03
Babylon who was treating them
so favorably. They had to make a
00:26:39.06\00:26:43.97
difficult decision. Who would
they obey, God or the king?
00:26:44.00\00:26:49.64
Well, Daniel and his friends
didn't hesitate in making a
00:26:49.67\00:26:54.08
decision, an important decision.
We read about it in Daniel
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chapter one and verse eight:
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There was no question in
Daniel's mind. Loyalty to God
00:27:10.99\00:27:15.80
was more important than loyalty
to the king. He resolved that he
00:27:15.83\00:27:21.44
would be faithful to the
Lord of heaven and earth.
00:27:21.47\00:27:23.97
He would honor his God
00:27:24.01\00:27:25.71
in all the details of life, even
in what he ate and drank. So
00:27:25.74\00:27:31.31
begins the book of Daniel, which
right away, sets a theme that
00:27:31.35\00:27:36.08
would be found throughout the
entire book, obedience to God
00:27:36.12\00:27:39.82
versus obedience to man. And
it presents us with a challenge.
00:27:39.85\00:27:45.69
Do we do what is right and what
we believe is right or do we go
00:27:45.73\00:27:50.30
with the majority to be popular
to be liked and maybe even to
00:27:50.33\00:27:54.67
advance our career? The test
described in chapter one seemed
00:27:54.70\00:27:59.54
very mild in comparison to the
much greater test to come later
00:27:59.57\00:28:04.01
in the book. But the lesson of
chapter one is that only those
00:28:04.05\00:28:08.18
who pass the minor test will
ever pass the major test. You
00:28:08.22\00:28:14.09
see, if we cannot remain loyal
to God when the test is easy,
00:28:14.12\00:28:17.73
we will never be obedient
when real trouble comes. How
00:28:17.76\00:28:22.43
important then that we be
faithful to God at all times.
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