Welcome back to the
Ultimate Prescription.
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And on today's program
we're talking about food
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as medicine and specifically,
we're talking about greens.
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And I'm Nick
Evenson, your host here,
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and we're talking
with Dr. James Marcum.
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And, Dr. Marcum, what are some
of the really practical ways
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we can apply this in our lives?
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Well, you know, we want to eat
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at least two
servings of green a day.
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Well, you can eat that
raw or added to a salad
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which is what most people do.
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And remember, it
doesn't have to be,
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you know, this is arugula
which is very good in nitrates
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which is what I
recommend to my heart patients.
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But it can be anything
that's green, you know,
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anything that green,
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some broccoli
has some advantages,
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cilantro, different green things
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have some of the same benefits,
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they all have
some of the good stuff
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that we talked
about, the chlorophyll,
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the fiber, the nitrates,
the antioxidants in them,
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it helps the bowels get going,
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give us a lot of
fiber with roughage,
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it's all good for us.
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But you know, practical
ways are very important.
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Lot of people don't
know how to prepare greens.
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That's right.
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And because of this,
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I'm not very
good in the kitchen.
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Are you, Dr. Marcum? Nope.
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All right. That's why I eat raw.
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We've asked for some
help with this next part.
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We wanted to show
some simple preparations
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for some of the different
foods that we're talking about.
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And so our friend
Kristina McFeeters,
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she runs Kristina's kitchen,
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has done a
cooking demo about greens.
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And, Dr. Marcum, tell us
just briefly who is Kristina?
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How did you meet her?
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Yeah, Kristina lives in
one of the poorest counties
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in rural
Kentucky, McCreary County.
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And she has a mission there
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of helping people
improve their health,
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introduce them into
biblical prescriptions,
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and once they get interested in
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how God wants our
bodies to feel better,
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their minds feel better,
their worship feel better,
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so she has a restaurant
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that serves whole
food plant-based food,
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and she has agreed to
help us to show our viewers
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one way that they might want to
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incorporate
greens into their lives.
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All right.
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Well, we're very appreciative
of Kristina sharing with us.
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And let's take a
look at that clip now.
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Welcome to Kristina's Kitchen.
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I'm Kristina McFeeters.
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Today we're gonna
explore one of my favorite ways
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to incorporate
kale into my diet.
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Two of my favorite types
of kale, you can see here.
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We have the little baby kale
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and then we also
have the large kale.
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Both of these you can
find in most grocery stores
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in your produce section.
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The baby kale, if
you want to eat kale raw,
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this is your best to use.
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Because it's tender,
it's very mild in flavor,
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it chops up
really nicely in salads.
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And that's one
of my favorite ways
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to use the baby kale.
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I want to show you
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one of my favorite
ways to steam kale,
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and so I'm gonna
show you on the big kale.
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The first thing
that I'm gonna do is
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I'm going to cut this spine off,
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so I have just the kale itself.
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You know, as I said,
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my favorite thing
to do is to steam it.
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A lot of people like to boil it,
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or sauté it, or roast it,
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and all of those are okay,
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but if you want the
maximum amount of nutrition,
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you want to steam your kale.
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And the reason is
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because steam never
gets above 212 degrees.
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And so you get the maximum
nutritional benefit from it
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because it's not
killing all the vitamins
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and minerals out of it.
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We're just gonna chop
this into some pieces here.
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So we're gonna
put this chopped kale
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into our steam pot here.
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And you can see
it's nice and steamy,
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and water is
boiling underneath it.
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And we're gonna
put this kale in,
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and this may look
like a lot of kale,
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but it's really not.
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It's going to shrink a
lot once it gets cooking.
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So we're just gonna put that in.
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And this type of kale
because it's more tough,
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takes longer to cook.
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So if you were to
steam something like this,
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it would steam in a
very short amount of time
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anywhere from 5 to 12 minutes.
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But if you're
steaming something more tough
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and mature leaves,
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it can take anywhere
from 10 to 20 minutes.
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We're going to add a couple
more things to this for flavor.
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Well, those are steaming.
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One of my favorite
things to put in is some onions,
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because if you're
steaming the onion in with it
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with those greens,
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it's gonna cook that
onion flavor into them,
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just make them
absolutely wonderful.
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So we're gonna peel this onion,
and then we're gonna chop it,
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and then we will also
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mince some garlic
cloves with it as well.
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So the onion doesn't have
to be chopped in small pieces,
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you can chop them
fairly large if you like.
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All right, so we
have our onion now.
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We're gonna put that
in with the steaming kale.
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And while you got it here,
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we're gonna just mince
some garlic directly into it.
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I've got two
cloves of garlic here.
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So there's one and there's two,
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and we're just
gonna mince that right in.
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Put that on top and
cover the lid back on
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and let that
steam, until it's ready.
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See how fun and simple this is.
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It's full of
nutrition, delicious,
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great source of
fiber, and it's so easy.
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Be sure and try this at home.
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Now, Dr. Marcum, I'm
not very good in the kitchen
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but that did look pretty simple.
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I think I could do it.
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Well, you know, Nick,
she said the word fun.
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I would have a hard time
saying that that would be fun,
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but I like things that are easy,
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you know, if
that's easy for people
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to incorporate
greens into their lives,
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I think that's a
great thing to do.
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That's right.
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And we'd really
like to thank Kristina
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for sharing her talents with us.
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You know, not everybody
can prepare food easily
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and then communicate well
on others on how to do it.
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So we really appreciate that.
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You can visit Kristina's website
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at Kristinaskitchen.org.
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Now, Dr. Marcum,
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we know there's lots of
different kinds of greens,
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there is bok choy,
arugula, all different kinds.
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And they're all delicious
and have different flavors.
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But is there any cautions,
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is there any
particular groups of people
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that need to be concerned
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about eating too much
greens of certain kinds.
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That's a good
question because the people
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that are on blood thinners,
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specifically the blood
thinner called coumadin,
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warfarin, jantoven
are other names of it.
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This can interact
with that medication.
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Okay.
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So greens actually, if
they're on these medicines
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makes the blood thicker, okay.
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So for instance, if
you're on blood thinners,
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because of a heart valve
and you're taking coumadin,
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right, to make the blood thin
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because you don't want to
have a stroke from that valve.
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If you take greens that
might make the blood thicker,
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increasing your
risk of having a stroke.
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Now there are some
newer blood thinners
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that we use for other
things like atrial fibrillation
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that doesn't have
a green interaction.
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So whenever you
start eating greens
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and you let your doctor know.
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Now and my patients they
say, "I want to eat greens,
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I want to eat
greens, Dr. Marcum."
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I say, well, if you eat
the same amount everyday
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and we check your blood thinner,
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then we can sort of monitor
the dose of the blood thinner
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based on the amount of greens.
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So that's one group
that has to be very careful
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with how much greens they
eat, and let your doctor know,
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you know, what
you're eating every day.
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But greens is very beneficial
and the studies have all shown,
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how many great
things it does for a body.
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So I'm gonna make
that commercial someday
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about how greens
they do our body good.
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That's right.
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And you know, greens are great,
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you just give us a
little bit of a disclaimer
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that there may be
some interactions.
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But as all advice you
may hear from Dr. Marcum
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here on this program,
always work with your physician
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and ask them if this is
something that will help you.
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Right. That's a
good point. Yeah.
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You know, one interesting fact
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that I looked up
about greens is that,
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you know, we talked
about Hippocrates previously.
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Back 400 years before Christ,
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Hippocrates is rumored
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to have started his
first hospital next to a stream
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so that he can grow watercress.
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Yup. Is that for his patients?
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That's interesting
that way back then,
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you know, God recommended these,
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you know, fruits,
vegetables, nuts, and grains
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to treat different diseases,
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these are indeed
biblical prescriptions
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that we can use to
change the cells in our body.
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That's right.
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And on that note we have a
short message from Dr. Marcum
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and it's called our
Biblical Prescription for Life.
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And Dr. Marcum
gives you just a snippet,
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a 60 second
clip that you can use
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to share with your
friends, family, church,
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and help point people
back towards the Bible.
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Let's take a look
at a clip right now.
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I'm Dr. James Marcum with your
Biblical Prescription for Life.
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One of my patients
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came in the other
day having more angina,
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that's pain when
you walk and do things.
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He was already on medications
and it had some procedures.
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I suggested a
Biblical Prescription for Life,
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Genesis 1:29.
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This text talks about
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how we get back to
God's plan of eating,
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eating more fruits, and grains,
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and seeds that
our body does better.
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Numerous studies have
shown that when we eat this way,
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our body makes substances
that make our arteries bigger.
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When he started to eat this way,
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his arteries got bigger,
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he had less chest pain,
and he had less symptoms.
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So he did this almost
everyday he ate his greens.
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Think about it.
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A Biblical Prescription
for Life is eating the plants
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where God put
everywhere throughout the world.
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I'm Dr. James Marcum
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and this your
Biblical Prescription for Life.
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That's a great
message, Dr. Marcum,
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thank you for that, and...
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It is sort of like a commercial.
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That's right.
Little bit, a little bit.
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And that's part
of a larger program
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that we may call
Biblical Prescriptions for Life.
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It's a video and a study guide,
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and it's made to be
use of smaller group.
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And if you'd like to
share these resources,
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these are to be used not
just for you and your family,
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but also as an evangelist tool.
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And we would like
you to visit our website
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at
biblicalprescriptions.com /3abn
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and you can learn more there,
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you can download these videos
to share with other people
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and introduce them to the idea
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of following God's
design for our life.
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Yeah, and it's a great
way of introducing people
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to things that God's given us
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and also eventually ends up in
talking to them about worship,
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and how God, when
the body's better,
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the worship is better,
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when the worship's
better the body is better,
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it all works together.
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Very, very neat.
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So there was a commercial
about greens that we made it.
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A little bit. That's
right. I like that, I like that.
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That's right.
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You know, Dr. Marcum, there's
a lot of great information
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but there's a lot more
out there for people to learn,
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and one of the ways
that we provide for people
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to get more health
education on food, on medicine,
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on lifestyle,
here is our website
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at www.heartwiseministries.org.
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You can list a prayer
requests on a prayer form
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and that's one of the
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really important
parts of our ministry,
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where we try and
reach out people,
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let them share with us
what's going on in their lives,
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and then we pray for them
and let them know that we care
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and that we're asking
God to provide healing.
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And there's also a radio
broadcast they can listen to,
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there is blog
articles by Dr. Marcum,
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and there's a lot of different
health benefits you can get
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from visiting the website
and reading the content there.
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So thank you so
much, Dr. Marcum,
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and thank you viewers at
home for joining us today.
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We're gonna be
back in just a moment
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as Dr Marcum shares a
few closing thoughts with us.
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Today we've been talking about
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how greens can
improve your body.
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Greens can not
only treat disease,
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but it can also be
used to prevent disease.
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We've learned how
greens have nitrates in them
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and when you eat
them, it makes nitric oxide,
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which makes our arteries bigger.
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When our arteries are bigger,
it lowers blood pressure,
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it improves oxygenation
to every cell in the body,
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it helps our
body save nutrients.
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So greens are a
biblical treatment for life.
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Not only do greens help
make our arteries bigger
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but it has other substances
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that improve our body
like antioxidants, and fiber,
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many good things from
green, even the chlorophyll
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has some beneficial effects.
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I'm just glad that we have a God
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that's given us things
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that we can use to
improve our bodies,
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so we can worship Him better.
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Speaking of
worship, let's take some time
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and just thank God
for giving us greens.
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Father in heaven, we
just want to thank You
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for giving us so many good
things to improve our bodies,
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and thank You for
the greens You gave us
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so that we can think
better, and feel better,
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and worship You better.
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Many of us need healing, Father,
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and we just pray
that You heal in our lives
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in a very special way today.
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Thank You for being
with us is our prayer.
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Amen.
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So I want
everyone to go out there
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and try to at least
eat something green today.
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It could be something fresh,
it can be something frozen,
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but try to eat
something green in your life.
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If you might have
questions or concerns
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or even want to be
on our prayer list,
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I want to encourage you
to go to our prayer site,
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that's heartwiseministries.org.
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You're gonna see
a lot of prayers,
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and I want you to encourage
you to pray for each other
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and write out your prayers,
and we'll be praying for you.
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And I want
everyone to understand
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how important to us green is,
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so next time you
hear a commercial
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about a pharmaceutical,
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think about a
commercial about a green
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and eat some
greens in your life.
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I'm Dr. James Marcum
wishing you the best of health.
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