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Are you tired of dealing
with chronic health problems
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and taking
medications every day?
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Today on the program,
we're gonna be discussing
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the topic of food as medicine.
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We'll be sharing ideas
that you can implement today,
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regardless of where
you're starting from in health.
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The Ultimate
Prescription starts now.
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I'm Dr James Marcum.
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Are you interested in
discovering the reason why?
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You want solutions to
your health care problem.
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Are you tired of
taking medications?
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Well, you're about to be
given the Ultimate Prescription.
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Hello, and thank you
for joining us here today
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on the Ultimate Prescription.
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I'm your host Nick Evenson.
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And we're gonna talk about
food as medicine today here
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with Dr. James Marcum.
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And, Dr Marcum, thank you
so much for sharing with us.
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Well, it's nice to be here
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and this is sort of a
trend setting type series
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where we talk
about different foods
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and how the food can change
the physiology of our body,
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very similar to a medication,
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except it helps
every cell in the body.
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Today we're gonna be
talking about greens.
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Greens.
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So you know greens
are really good for you
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and I'm sure there's a lot of
important things that they do,
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but what about
prescription medications?
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We see them
everywhere in society.
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You can't hardly even watch TV
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without seeing something
about prescription medications.
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Well, have you ever seen
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a commercial about a
medication, you know?
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Yeah. Ask your doctor.
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Yeah, well, they'll show
you two people or three people
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and they take this medication
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and these people don't
look sick to begin with.
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Their lives are perfect.
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No, they look great
and they take the medicine
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and they look great
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and they feel
better and you know,
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you see all that nice
graphics and nice scenery,
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and then at the end they say,
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oh, by the way this
medication can cause blindness,
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sudden death, this, this, this,
this and they go down the list.
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Right.
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But can you
imagine this commercial,
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would you like to have
some greens in your life.
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How about some kale or
arugula or some spinach.
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And did you know
that this can help
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lower your blood pressure,
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this could help lower
the chance of you having
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a heart attack,
treat anginal symptoms,
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help improve your immune system,
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do all this and you know what?
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There is no side effects.
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So go get your greens today.
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No side effects,
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that will be a pretty
great sowing preferably.
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Yeah, won't that be pretty good.
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But can you imagine that? Yeah.
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I mean, I don't know
why we don't see those.
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Yeah.
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I guess, there's
no money to be made.
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No, that's part of the reason.
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No one's making money,
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but you know God has told us,
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you know, back in the scriptures
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that the food we eat,
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you know, this is the
plant, things that grow,
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and if you look at
greens, greens are green,
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and they have chlorophyll in it,
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they take the
energy from the sun
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and they harness
that energy from the sun,
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and plants give to us,
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you know, they give us
oxygen, they give us food,
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you know, 'cause
harness is that energy
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and it has
carbohydrates and good things,
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and we eat those greens,
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we harness that good energy
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and it does good
things to the body.
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But not only that,
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but not only is
there healthy sugars
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and carbohydrates in these,
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but if you look at the color,
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they have different
types of chlorophyll in it
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that does special things.
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We have things in
greens called phytonutrients.
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Greens have numerous...
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they have trace elements
that are important for a body,
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they've
chemicals called nitrates
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which are
important for our body.
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So greens are very
important for our whole system.
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In fact, I had a
patient not too long ago,
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he came to the office
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and he was
having a lot of angina.
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What is angina? Yeah.
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Well, angina is the
type of chest pain you get
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when your heart
doesn't get enough blood.
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Okay.
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So let's say
you're doing something,
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the heart
doesn't get enough blood,
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because we have blockages
in the arteries of the heart.
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Well, the heart
doesn't get enough blood,
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so you have a
symptom, and usually it happens
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when someone's doing things.
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That's why I put
people on treadmill test
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to see if we can
produce that symptom.
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So this gentleman would
just walk a short period,
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again he get real
tightness in his chest
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that would go
away when he walked,
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we call that angina.
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Well, he had
been through numerous,
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he had already been
through bypass surgery,
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he was a diabetic
which makes arteries smaller.
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Remember, the bypass
doesn't take away the blockages,
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there are still there.
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And some of the blockages
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through the years
were getting worse
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and now he's
having chest pain, angina.
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But he was on a lot of medicine
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and we couldn't do
any more procedures,
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so I introduced him to the MET
medicinal treatment of greens.
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So he started eating
greens three times a day,
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and his angina
started getting better.
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I'm gonna stop you
right there for a second.
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Yeah.
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How did he
respond when you told him,
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I want you to eat more greens?
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Does that and it doesn't
seem like maybe something that's
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that significant to some people.
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Good point, good
point, because he didn't.
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I had to show him the studies,
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I had to show him the
proof, and then I said,
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"Well, listen,
why don't you do it
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for one week
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and see how you feel,
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and come back and let me know."
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That's an easy
enough thing to do.
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Yeah, so what I
did is I explain to him
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how greens and spinach
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had a chemical
called nitrates in them.
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And nitrates when
it gets in the body
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is converted to nitric oxide.
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Right.
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Nitric oxide makes
the arteries get bigger,
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in the heart they got
bigger but it helps everywhere.
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It helps in the
brain, throughout the body,
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it helps our blood
vessels get bigger when we have,
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more have nitric oxide.
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And I also said, there is
foods that we put in our bodies
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that decrease the amount
of nitric oxide that's made.
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Fatty foods, you
know, processed foods
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that decreases nitric oxide,
so when you eat those things,
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the arteries don't get as big,
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but when you eat
these it gets big,
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just like if I
gave you nitroglycerin,
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that's a nitrate.
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And so I taught him
to eat these things,
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so he started
eating just a handful.
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He would just eat arugula,
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a handful of this
about three times a day.
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And guess what?
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All of a sudden he
could start walking more.
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Now the walking
helped his health as well,
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but when his arteries
got a little bit bigger,
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he notices that his
angina got better quite a bit.
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Now the arugula you
said it has a nitrates in it
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which make your blood
vessel or your, what are they?
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Not blood vessel bigger.
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Well, it's nitric
oxide to the endothelium
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which is sort of the
brains in the blood vessel,
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it makes the artery
start to get bigger.
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If you remember, it's
not how much blockage,
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it's how much the
arteries get bigger
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when we need them to get bigger.
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That was my question. Yeah.
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Is the blockage still there?
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Did the green helped to
get rid of the blockage?
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In certain situations if
we get our cholesterol down,
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and if we get our stress down,
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if we eat a healthy enough diet,
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get our fats out of the body,
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it could help in the
process of reversing it,
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but for him it just gave
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the endothelium
nitric oxide more of that,
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and it made the
arteries get bigger.
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Now he started, when
he started eating greens,
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Nick, he also
started eating less
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of the other bad
foods he used to eat.
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Okay.
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He used to eat less
of the fatty foods...
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Okay.
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The processed foods or
things that would cause...
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He liked ice
cream a whole lot. Yeah.
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And including the ice cream
which had a lot of fat in it,
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he started substituting greens
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and he got fat
and once he learned
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the less fat he eats,
the more greens he eats,
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the better he feels.
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Yeah.
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The more he can do and he
started enjoying his life.
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But remember, greens,
you know, this is arugula.
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Okay.
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And arugula is a very
good concentrator of nitrates,
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but lots of
greens have beneficial,
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you know, effects.
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You know, spinach...
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Right.
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Kale, you know, collards,
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you know, anything that's
green has beneficial effects,
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and there's lots of studies
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that show that the
arteries get bigger.
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So not only does it help angina
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but it can help
lower blood pressure,
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'cause the arteries get bigger.
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It has also in
addition to nitrates,
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it has antioxidants in them.
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Right.
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You know, you've heard
of oxidation in the body,
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that's the body
just getting older,
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we say it's oxidizing.
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Kind of like
rusting in the inside.
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Yes, rusting in the inside.
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You know, how...
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a good example of that
is you eat a piece of fruit
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and you see it get
brown, that's oxidation.
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Okay. It getting older.
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That's happening
inside of us all the time,
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so these have things
that counteract that process,
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it's called antioxidants.
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It helps with our, what we
call free radicals in the body,
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so greens can in theory
help prevent slow down aging.
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It helps make
our arteries bigger.
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And there's lots of good studies
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that have been done it helps us.
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One of the studies from
the Annals of Internal Medicine
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around 2000
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show that people
that ate greens regularly,
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had a 20% reduction in strokes.
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Really?
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So greens help
strokes and it probably helps
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on many mechanisms,
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it makes arteries bigger,
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helps inflammation in the body,
it does a lot of good things.
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Another thing that the
greens are very useful with
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is the green,
the green remember...
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Have you heard
that word chlorophyll?
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Okay. Yeah. Yeah.
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Chlorophyll helps many
different things in our body.
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Some people think it helps
remove toxins from our body,
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but one of the things it helps
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is it decreases
damage done to our DNA,
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so when we have less mutations,
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we have less
chance of getting cancer.
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So greens have been shown
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to lower the risk
of getting cancer.
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One of the, another
things that greens do
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is when we eat
greens, they go in our body.
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Now sunlight hits greens
and you know, that's, you know,
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how the greens, you
know, greens needs sun.
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Yeah,
chlorophyll needs sunshine.
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But when greens are in our body,
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we have a type of sunlight
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called red
sunlight hat hits in us,
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that goes through us, it
gets into our deep organs,
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and actually studies have
shown that it can activate
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the greens in our body,
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that activates a chlorophyll,
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and the chlorophyll
makes an antioxidant
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called ubiquinone
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which is turned into a substance
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called coenzyme Q10.
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So greens and
sunlight tend to help us
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even in ways we
are just now learning.
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Isn't that pretty cool?
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So everybody has heard that
the sun is good for your skin,
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you need it to hit your skin,
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but you're saying it
goes deeper than the skin,
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it goes into the organs even.
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Yes, we're now learning
that it can go into the organs,
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it can also hit the greens
that are already in your body
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and the
chlorophyll is already there
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to do some wonderful things
like make some antioxidants,
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help your coenzyme Q10
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which is needed
for muscle health.
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Wow.
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These are antioxidant
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so it does a lot
of different things,
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there's been
studies done with kale.
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Do you like kale?
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You know, it's not
my favorite green but...
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Yeah, one up.
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Well... I think it's...
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I don't know it's
just a little tougher.
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Yes, I think so too. Yeah.
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Yeah, but you know,
you've heard a lot of,
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lot of studies
have been done on kale,
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the kale industry realized,
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"Hey, if we can do some studies,
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we can sell more kale."
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Yeah. Just like
the drug companies.
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So kale has been shown to
improve the immune system.
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Kale's been shown to decrease
inflammation in the body,
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improves the
way our bowels work.
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You know, greens have fiber,
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fiber helps our
bowels do better.
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Right.
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It helps everything in our body,
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you know, improve,
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so a lot of
people have saw that,
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you know, if I eat
greens of any source,
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it improves all of
these different things,
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I can lower my blood pressure,
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make all the arteries bigger,
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and all the arteries
get bigger everywhere,
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guess what happens?
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The body gets more oxygen,
better energy utilization,
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less aging
through the antioxidants,
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so these studies have shown that
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when we incorporate
greens into our diets,
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now when can we treat things
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like high blood pressure,
angina, help inflammation,
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help speed up our
bowels, change our bowel flora,
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but not only we do that,
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but we also can maybe
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not eat as much of the bad stuff
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which can damage our bodies.
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You know, kale
is not necessarily
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my favorite green,
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but when we do have it,
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we like to put it
in smoothies sometimes.
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How do you like to
have greens in your diet?
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Yeah, well...
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Listen, I will just pick this up
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and I would just eat it now.
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I just eat like it raw. Okay.
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But some people they
don't like it raw some things
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that I like to add to it
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or things like balsamic,
vinaigrettes not much bad.
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Right.
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You put apples on it,
nuts in it, seeds in it,
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you know, all
these have lemon juice,
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some people add figs to it,
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Some people just eat it plain,
some people like to cook it,
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some people like to
put it with other things,
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but once you start
eating it, you can realize,
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they have different taste.
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Now this is one of
my favorite greens,
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arugula, and arugula probably
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has one of the best
greens for nitrates in them.
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Okay.
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Lots of nitrates in arugula,
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but you know, the
greens are out there,
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they all have different taste.
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Collards, mustards, have
you tasted mustard greens?
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You know, that will
really clear your sinuses too.
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But once you start eating greens
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and realize the
variety in the green kingdom,
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you say, wow, God has given us
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a great variety
of different greens
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we can try, and I like to
eat greens every single day.
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So almost every day for lunch,
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I have some type
of greens in my diet,
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and I'll eat it plain,
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usually I put it with the salad,
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I mix other things with it,
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so greens is my base
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and I put other vegetables with,
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I might put some beans in there,
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I might put some balsamic
vinaigrette, some onions,
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some peppers, I love peppers.
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Throw in some
jalapenos in with my greens,
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do all that kind
of stuff and eat it
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and it just makes me feel good
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because my
arteries are getting better,
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I'm lowering my blood pressure,
I'm improving my immune system,
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I'm making every part of my body
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a little bit better.
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You know, it sounds
kind of insignificant,
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you need to eat more greens,
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and it seems like that someone
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who's not a
medical professional,
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how could that
make a big difference
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but it sounds like
it's really significant.
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It does.
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When you do it
on a regular basis,
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some people can't get,
you know, fresh greens.
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If you can't get them,
you can get them frozen,
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you know, you can
get frozen greens,
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you can get them pre-washed,
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you know, you
can do those things
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and those greens are
still beneficial to you,
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maybe not as good as fresh,
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but there's lots of ways
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that we can help these greens
increase our nitric oxide,
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increase our ability
to anti-oxidize aging.
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So greens is truly not
only a prevention for disease,
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but it's used to treat disease.
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So I want to see a commercial
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that says how important
greens are in our lives.
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That's right.
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You know, and I'll do it myself.
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I'll get it today,
hey, listen you know greens,
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it does a body good.
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You know, eat your greens today.
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That's right.
Really, no side effects.
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That's right. You
know, good stuff for you.
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And it could
change the chemistry
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of every cell in the body.
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That's right.
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We've got a lot
more to talk about
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regarding health and greens
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and how you can
incorporate them into your diet.
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So stay with us,
we're gonna be right back
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after a break.
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