Have you ever sat down to take
your medications and wondered,
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How did I get here?
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Maybe you'd rather use nutrition
rather than medications.
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On today's program we're going
to talk about that very thing,
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of using food as medicine.
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Stay tuned. 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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Do 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 today for the
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Ultimate Prescription.
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My name is Nick
Evenson, and I'm your host,
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joined by Dr. James Marcum.
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And on today's
program we're going to be
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discussing food as medicine.
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Dr. Marcum,
welcome to the program.
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Thank you, Nick, and this is
a very special program for the
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Ultimate Prescription.
It is indeed. Yeah.
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Why's that? Well,
this is program number 100,
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according to my calculations.
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So you've done about 100
tapings of these programs?
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Is that right? Yeah,
more or less, you know.
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And I'm probably... Everyone's
getting tired of hearing this
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same thing over and over.
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But sometimes repetition
helps us remember things.
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So I sort of have
talked about different things.
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And what I try to do in making
these programs is try to take
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a little bit different
perspective than's out there.
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You know, add
something new to the mix.
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You know, a lot of people
are doing programs about modern
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medicine, and nutrition.
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But we try to sort of
have that balanced approach.
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Now you're not getting paid to
be here to make these programs.
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Why do you spend the time?
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You know, you could be
just fine practicing cardiology
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like you do
every day of the week.
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Why do you do this in addition?
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Well, because I, in my office
I don't have enough time to
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sometimes express
some of the things that
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a patient should know.
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Yeah. So this expands some
of the things that I've learned
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and also gives people
a different perspective,
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something else to think about.
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And some people are interested
in using a Biblical Prescription
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to change their physiology.
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And I like to go back.
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It helps me grow as a physician,
because I can go back and look
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at the different studies, the
different things that have been
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proven, and teach
people how to apply it to their
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lives one step at a time.
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And that's some of the biggest
challenges; getting other people
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to apply this and see
that God's way is more
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valuable than man's way. Yeah.
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Not that there's not a
place for medicines; there is.
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But it's not what
we've really created.
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And we've
dedicated today's program to
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discussing food as medicine.
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But before we go down that
road, let's talk about what all
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makes the
complete picture of health.
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It's not just nutrition.
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It's not just exercise.
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What all
encompasses a holistic approach?
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That's a great question
for everyone to think about.
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And if you think about it just
a little bit, all the inputs of
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life change our chemistry,
changes our physiology.
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It could be the
food we eat. Right.
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It could be the air we breathe.
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It could be the thoughts
we have in our brains. Uh huh.
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It could be our
genetics that we're wired with
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that we can't do anything about.
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It might be the
toxins in the environment.
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It might even be our belief
systems; the things we believe.
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All of these things have been
shown to change your physiology.
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And all of part of
this makes up health.
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Nutrition is just
one part of health.
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Some people talk about
that, and we talk about that.
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But I want to let
people know that it's much more
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complicated than nutrition.
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So when I see a patient in
the office, Nick, I try to...
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First of all I try to
deal with their acute symptom.
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You now, get
their symptom better.
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Then when their symptom's better
we try to get at the cause.
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And I try to identify, Well,
what is stressing the body that
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might be triggering this?
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Now sometimes it's
food, sometimes it's beliefs,
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people have unhealthy beliefs.
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Sometimes it's relationships.
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Sometimes people
are not getting enough
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rest; they're too busy.
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Sometimes it's in the
worship and belief systems.
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Right. So it's much more
complicated than just the food.
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But the food is important.
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And that's what
we're doing on this series.
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And I see we got
some interesting things
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on the table today.
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Yep, we've got some
beets, and beet greens.
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And you'll have to forgive us,
these are a little battered and
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beaten, because they've been
in the car on the way up here.
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But these are beets.
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And are beets
something that you enjoy eating?
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Yeah, I do in some ways.
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And I really enjoy it once
I found out how the studies on
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beets, how beneficial
they were for my body.
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I started really
enjoying them more.
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And while I don't
really eat the beet whole
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like this, the beet greens,
but in my store they have beets
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chopped up into little
strips, and I put them on
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my salad almost every day.
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I'll get a handful, maybe
a quarter of a cup of beets,
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and put it in my
salad already cut up.
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It's very convenient for me.
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I don't know if I would
get up and cut the beet,
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and the beet greens
are very valuable too.
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Did you just come
from your garden, Nick?
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No, it didn't. This
came from the supermarket.
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But they're pretty tasty though.
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I tell you, as a kid
though, I despised beets.
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You didn't like beets?
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My Mom would try make me
eat beets and I told her,
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I told my Mom, Mom,
why do I want to eat that?
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It tastes like dirt. Yeah.
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You know, it just
did not taste good.
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However, now that I'm getting
a little older, and more mature,
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a little wiser, I
realize there's a lot of
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good health benefits.
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And I've discovered that
actually when I'm exercising
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at a high level for
a long period of time,
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beets actually make it
less painful. Oh, less painful.
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Well, the reason I wanted
to talk about beets as medicine
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is because there's been some
great studies that have been
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done studying beets.
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I guess the beet
industry must have paid for it,
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but there's great
studies with beets. Right.
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And I wanted to talk to our
viewers about how beets can be
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used as a treatment for
different medical conditions.
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Of course, it can be part
of a good diet as well. Right.
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Beets do stain. And I admit
I'm not... I don't love beets.
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But as cut up as
strips into a salad with
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greens, it's very good.
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And now, have you ever
had beet greens before?
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You know, I
don't know if I have.
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Well, are you brave?
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Are you brave? Sure, sure.
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Well, why don't you taste
some of the beet green while I'm
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talking about
some of the studies?
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Alright. I just
rinsed it very well.
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They were very dirty, kind of
sandy, but we'll give it a try.
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Tell me what it tastes like.
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Well, one of the
studies that was done was in the
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Journal of Hypertension in 2008.
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And Dr. Webb studied different
people, and he found that giving
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them just a cup of beet
juice, okay, they could lower
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their blood pressure; the
top number, which is called the
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systolic blood
pressure, about ten points.
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So let's say you had
a blood pressure of 150.
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By having a cup of beet
juice they could lower it to,
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guess what? 140. Wow!
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So when they studied
that they found that beets
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had nitrates in them.
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Nitrates, when they got in
the body turned to nitric oxide,
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which relaxed the smooth muscle,
helped the endotherm relax it,
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which lowered
blood pressure. Wow!
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So that was pretty interesting.
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So the British Heart
Foundation in 2015 wanted
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to study this more.
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And they took another cup of
beet juice, and they had people
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drink it daily for
four weeks; beet juice.
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Now have you ever
done the beet juice?
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That's how I do
it when I drink it.
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Well, what's it taste like?
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I have never drank beet juice.
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It just tastes like
beets; kind of like dirt,
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but you get used to it.
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Well, how was the
green there? was that?
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The green? I didn't finish it.
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Was it bitter? What's it like?
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It was actually, it
was pretty delicious.
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Not very bitter. It
tasted almost a little citrusy.
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Okay. Kind of like, not too
different from arugula maybe.
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Yeah, okay. Well,
they repeated this study,
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the British Heart
Foundation repeated this study,
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and they, again, found that
beets lowered blood pressure
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by about eight points.
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And the optimal dose that they
had in their study was not one
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cup but a half cup. Okay.
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So a half cup lowered it.
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Then as they learned more about
beets they started studying
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beets and athletes. Yeah.
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Okay, because the
theory is if you make nitrates,
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nitrites makes arteries bigger.
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Arteries can carry more blood,
more oxygen, more nutrients to
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your muscles; get you to
perform a lot better. Yeah.
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So now there's been some studies
done that show athletes that
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drink beet juice can improve
their athletic performance.
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Yeah. And think I've
experienced that same thing.
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Sometimes I go ride
my bike for a couple of
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hours with my friends. sometimes
my heart rate will get up to
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Sometimes my heart rate will get
up to 170, 180 beats a minute.
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And you can't stay there
for too long, because it hurts,
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and it's just uncomfortable.
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But I've noticed that when
I take beet juice I can stay
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in the zone
longer with less pain.
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Right. And it seems to have
something to do with nitrates.
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Uh huh. Now this, the
beets, we chose the beets,
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because the beets
have been studied.
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You know, there's two studies.
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We have some proof.
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They've looked at
people and studied it.
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But it seems like nitrate rich
foods are what really helps.
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So we want
foods rich in nitrate.
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And here's the big quiz
of the day: Do beets have the
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highest rates of nitrates?
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You know, we've got a
fun fact here I think.
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What can you
tell me about a beet?
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The leaves of beets
were historically consumed
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before the roots were. Okay.
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And today many people
prefer to eat the roots
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and discard the bitter
more beneficial greens.
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But I don't think
they're that bitter though.
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But they were first consumed
in Africa, and then they spread
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to Asia and Europe.
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And ancient Roman populations
were some of the first people
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to harvest the beets and eat
their brightly colored roots.
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But they're actually not
the highest source of nitrates,
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is that correct? That's correct.
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I think that's arugula, right?
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Right. Arugula is much higher.
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You know, in fact
it rates number 1.
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They did a study that
showed which has the most.
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So it has about 400 milligrams
of nitrate rich. Right.
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So arugula is up there.
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Rhubarb number 2,
cilantro number 3.
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This is with nitrates.
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As in cilantro.
Yeah, it's up there.
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I just use those like a topping.
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So I would, if I wanted to
improve athletic performance.
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So if you think about it, if
beets will lower blood pressure,
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if beets improve athletic
performance, these other foods
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if they did the studies,
probably would, too. Yeah.
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So leaf lettuce is high
up there, greens, basil,
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oak leaf lettuce,
and number 10 was beets.
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So it's not number
1, but it's nitrates.
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Now there's other
things in beets that are very
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helpful, too. What's that?
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You know, beets are in the soil.
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Right. And in the soil roots
tend to pick up things in the
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soil; trace elements.
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You know, the magnesium's, the
potassium, the iron, the trace
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elements that our body
needs for chemical reactions.
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You know, you need iron to
make red blood cells. Right.
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You need magnesium, potassium,
to regulate your heart rhythms,
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and the nerve cells, and
lots of different things.
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So beets have
trace elements in them.
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They have nitrates in them.
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Lots of good things that
help us become super healthy.
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So I want to... I ask everyone,
you know, if you don't like
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a beet, you don't like the beet
juice, try what I do is I get
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some of those beet
strips in the store.
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I cut them up and I
put them in my greens.
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And I do really well with that.
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I put some balsamic
vinaigrette on that. Right.
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And I mix other
different colors.
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And let's face
it, beets are purple.
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How many things
that you know are purple?
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Yeah. You know? Not a lot.
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No, not a lot of purple food.
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And, again, we talked earlier
on other programs about pigment.
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Right. How pigment might
have different value as well.
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We talked about, remember
turmeric and its pigment?
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We've talked about other colors.
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How it's
blueberries, and anthocyanins.
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Well beet purple pigment
probably has chemicals in it
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as well that help
our bodies do better.
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We want lots of different
colors, lots of different
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pigments in our
bodies to make us healthier,
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and to help us feel better.
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So this is another study that
again showed that to lower your
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blood pressure, maybe your
doctor will consider beet juice
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if you didn't want
to take a medication.
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Maybe that could reach your
goal other than taking a pill,
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which all pills
have side effects.
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Beets don't have a lot of
side effects unless you eat just
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way, way too many of them.
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I guess they could stain your
hands purple if you didn't...
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If you're not careful.
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...weren't careful with that.
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Yeah, that's right.
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Well, you know, we
went and visited our friend,
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Kristina McFeeters, and
she showed us the way that she
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likes to prepare beets.
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And we want to
take a look at now.
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Welcome to Kristina's Kitchen.
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I'm Kristina McFeeters.
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Today we'll explore one of
my favorite ways to incorporate
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beets into my diet.
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Not everyone likes them.
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Some people love them.
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Some people hate them.
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Beets can be sweet,
and they should be sweet.
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But if they're grown
in poor soil they can
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sometimes be not sweet.
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But today we're
going to pickle them.
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We're just going
to take our beet,
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and we're going to peel it.
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And, yes, our hands are
going to get all nice and
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beautiful rosy red.
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Now we're going to chop our
beet into bite sized pieces.
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And we're going
to put our beets,
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this is about a quart of beets.
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We're going to put
them in our kettle.
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And we're going to chop up the
beet greens that came with the
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beets and put that in with it.
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We're not finely
chopping these greens.
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We're just putting
them in big chunks.
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And they're going to go right
into this kettle with the beets.
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Okay, now we're going to put
the flavor in with our beets.
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So we're going to
start with some lemon juice.
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We need about a quarter
cup of fresh lemon juice.
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And if you don't have
fresh, you can use bottled.
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You may want to use just
slightly less, because bottled
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lemon juice has
a stronger flavor.
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We want about a
quarter cup of lemon juice.
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And our next ingredient
is a quarter cup of honey.
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If you don't have
honey you can use any kind of
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your favorite sweetener.
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To help get the honey out, I'm
going to put a little bit of oil
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on the measuring cup.
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And next is a
little bit of salt.
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I use about a quarter
teaspoon to a half teaspoon,
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depending on how
salty you want them.
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And then lastly we're
going to add some water.
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It's about one cup of water.
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And we're going to put our lid
on, and we're going to simmer
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the beets for about 20
minutes, 15 to 20 minutes,
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until they're soft.
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See how simple and easy that is?
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And beets are so full of
nutrition, and they taste
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absolutely delicious.
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Be sure and try this at home.
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Thanks Kristina. We
appreciate you showing
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us how to make beets.
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That looks like
probably a better way than I
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usually had them as a kid.
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Yeah, and I think, for many
beets are an acquired taste.
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Remember, you don't have
to eat beets as a stand-alone.
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You know, you can add
beets to a lot of other things,
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and mix it with different
tastes, and get sort of
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a synergistic taste.
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You know, put a lot
of things together and
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boom, that's your taste.
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That's right. And as I've drank
beet juice, at first it was
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really hard to swallow, but I've
gotten used to it. Yeah. Yeah.
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Alright, well we've got a
lot more great stuff to cover
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when we're talking
about food as medicine.
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So stay with us.
But we're going to take
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just a quick break.
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