Welcome back. We want to thank
you for staying with us here on
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the Ultimate
Prescription where we're
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discussing food as medicine.
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And someone just brought it to
our attention during the break
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that's it's actually
pronounced Chia seeds, right?
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I guess the fact checkers
are right, so I would like to
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apologize to the Chia seed
family: their mothers, brothers,
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uncles, and all the
people in the Chia family,
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and the manufacturers, for
making... What did I say? Kia?
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Kia, yeah, Kia's a car.
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Uh, you know, you
get a good few years.
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I did say pumpkin and
sesame seed right? Right?
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That's right,
that's right, yeah.
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And we can eat those raw,
we can put them in baking.
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There are lots of ways
to incorporate this to maybe
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help our physiology.
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That's right. And our
friend, Kristina McFeeters,
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has done a nice
cooking demonstration on how
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to use sesame seeds.
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So let's take a look.
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Welcome to Kristina's Kitchen.
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I'm Kristina McFeeters.
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Today we are going to
make a Toasted Sesame Salt.
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It's kind of similar to
a Parmesan, but it doesn't
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have the cheese flavor.
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It has an amazing nutty flavor.
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And you can use it to sprinkle
on salads, spaghetti, pizza,
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or any vegetable dish.
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The nice thing is
its mostly sesame seeds,
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with just a little salt.
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We're going to take a
half a cup of sesame seeds
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and put them in a dry skillet.
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And we're going to lightly toast
them to bring out the flavor.
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They may pop and make a little
bit of a mess, but it's okay.
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So we've toasted these sesame
seeds until they've turned
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nicely golden brown.
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Now they're really hot, so we're
going to let them cool for about
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10 to 15 minutes
before we grind them and add
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the other ingredients.
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Now we have our
sesame seeds nicely cooled.
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We are going to put
them in our coffee grinder.
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And then we're going to
add a half a teaspoon of salt.
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If you want it saltier,
you can put more salt in it.
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You can also put other
ingredients in with it like
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garlic powder, or even
nutritional yeast, if you want
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more of a cheesy flavor.
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You don't have to
grind it completely;
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just so its chopped up coarsely.
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And we're just going to
put it in our little shaker.
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I'm going to
make myself a funnel.
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Alright, we have it in our
shaker, and we're ready to eat.
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And this stuff is amazing.
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I wish you could
smell it right now.
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It smells so good!
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But if you don't have
the time to make your own,
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there are companies that
make something very similar.
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This one is by Celtic Sea Salt.
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It's a toasted sesame seed with
garlic, and it comes with its
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own built in grinder.
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And you can grind it
directly on your food.
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But there's nothing that
beats the smell of freshly
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toasted sesame seeds.
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This stuff smells so
good, and tastes amazing.
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It's my favorite on
salads, on spaghetti,
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on garlic toast, on vegetables.
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There's so many things you can
use with this, and it just adds
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so much flavor
with very little salt.
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Thanks, Kristina. We really
appreciate her doing these
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cooking demos for us.
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And we tasted that sesame
salt that she'd made there.
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It was delicious.
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Yeah, and you can put it on
different things like spaghetti,
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and different things you
can put it on the top of.
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Some people put it on
chili's, lots of things
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you can put it on top of.
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Very good
substitute for Parmesan cheese,
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if you want to
avoid cheese and dairy.
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Yep, it's a good substitute.
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That's great. So, you
know, people don't think about
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the power house that seeds have.
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But seeds not only do they have
a lot of good things that keep
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us going, but they
can be used in some cases
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as a substitute for medicine.
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I would much rather try
some pumpkin seeds than take an
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Ambien, which is a
pill that makes you not
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think better at night.
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I'd much rather try that to
increase my melatonin levels,
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via this tryptophan
serotonin pathway than that.
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Yeah. So there's lots of ways
that God has given us to change
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our body's chemistry.
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You know, we've had a
question come into the website
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You can send me your questions
there if you have some.
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But someone writes, What
can I do to combat depression?
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Yeah, Nick, lots of
people, unfortunately,
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suffer from depression nowadays.
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And we could go a
long time about this.
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But there's some
things that I have done that
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help with depression. Okay.
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For instance, I had
a person come with just
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postpartum depression, okay?
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And we put her on
an exercise program,
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and getting
outside with Vitamin D.
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And that helped change her
chemistry, and she didn't need
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to take a medicine.
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Now, so nutrition can
also help in depression.
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There's different foods, and
we've talked about them in other
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programs that some chemicals
decrease the monoamine oxidase.
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We talked about different
foods that would do that.
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For instance, greens increase
a chemical that can help
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butyrate, that can
help our good bowel flora.
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We've talked about flax
and nuts via the Omega 3 might
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help with depression.
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Here today we've talked about
tryptophan, which might increase
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serotonin, which is the chemical
that they try to increase
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in people that are
depressed are serotonin.
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A lot of these medicines,
their whole purpose is to boost
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serotonin levels. Okay.
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Well, if you can boost that
by adding tryptophan, Omega 3's
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in your diet, increasing your
butyrate, doing some of these
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other things; remember we
talked about some of the teas.
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Those are the ones that help.
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These are natural
things that we can do.
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But I think one of the big ones
that I want to encourage people;
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is make sure you don't
have low vitamin D levels.
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The people that have some of
the highest depressions are the
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ones that don't get outside.
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They make vitamin D.
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Vitamin D is important.
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It's an important pro hormone
that makes serotonin levels.
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And in fact, for years
people in the higher latitudes,
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as it got dark, you'd get cabin
fever; you don't feel well.
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So those are some little
things that people can do.
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If you have more
questions, go to the website.
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We can get into it in
a little bit more detail.
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But those are some
things that we can do to help
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fight off depression.
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That's right. You know, God's
given us a lot of great advice.
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He's given us a lot of
great things we can eat,
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but let's take a look at one
of our Biblical Prescriptions
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for Life, for a
little bit more guidance.
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I'm Dr. James Marcum with your
Biblical Prescription for Life.
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A patient came to
the office the other day,
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and I noticed that
they were complaining of
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frequent viral infections.
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They couldn't seem to
shake these infections
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three or four times a year.
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Well, I suggested a
Biblical Prescription for Life.
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And that was found in
Genesis where God created light.
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Light is not only an
energy source for the world,
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but light also changes
the physiology of the body.
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When we're not in
the light, guess what?
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Our body just
doesn't work as well.
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Light helps
improve the immune system.
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Our cells fight
off infections better.
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My patient started going out
in the sunlight thirty minutes,
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three or four times a week,
and sooner rather than later
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their infection
started to go away,
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and their immune
system became stronger.
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Light is your
Biblical Prescription for Life.
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And if you'd like to learn more
about Biblical Prescriptions,
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and following God's plan for
our health, you can visit our
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website HeartwiseMinistries.
org or you can go directly to
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BiblicalPrescriptions. com/3abn
and there's a special gift
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waiting for you there.
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And you can also order a copy
by calling 3ABN at 618-627-4651.
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Dr. Marcum thank you for sharing
with us about the power of nuts,
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and how they might help
us sleep better at night
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among other things.
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Yeah, well seeds are
very powerful, you know.
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Nuts are good, too.
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I think I said nuts;
I think I meant seeds.
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Yeah, you meant seeds.
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But you're welcome, Nick.
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I appreciate that.
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Alright. Well,
there's more to come.
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Thank you for watching
our Biblical Prescription.
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And Dr. Marcum is going
to close with a few final
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thoughts in just a moment.
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We've learned today how with
God's help we can make changes
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in our nutrition
one step at a time.
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We've also learned that there's
studies done that show that when
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we eat food it can
also be used to change the
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physiology of our body.
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We specifically showed
that today with pumpkin
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seeds and sesame seeds.
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You want to
sleep better at night?
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Well, maybe try
some pumpkin seeds.
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You want some trace
elements in the body?
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Well, these seeds are loaded
with good things in our body:
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magnesium, potassium,
zinc; good things that our body
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needs to function well.
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If you might have a
question about today's program,
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or if you might want
prayer, go to our website:
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HeartwiseMinistries. org
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There you'll find a prayer page
where we're praying for each
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other, encouraging
each other to do better.
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And I want you to pray for our
friends and neighbors as well.
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And there's lots
of other resources.
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I would like to end today in
prayer, specifically praying for
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those who need a
little extra help to maybe
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have better health.
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Let's bow our heads.
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Dear Heavenly Father, there are
some out there that are having
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a hard time
changing for the good.
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We pray that You show them
truth, and give them the power
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to make changes one step
at a time according to how
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You lead in their lives.
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Some of them out
there, Father, need healing.
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We pray for their
healing, and You know best how
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to heal in Your time.
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Father, thank You for
this day and for giving us the
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opportunity to
serve such a loving God.
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This is our prayer today, Amen.
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Well, again if you have
questions go to our website:
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HeartywiseMinistries. org and
try to find some creative ways
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to substitute
seeds into your diet.
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It might be in the baking,
it might be the sesame seeds
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like Kristine showed.
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Well, we want you
to think about this.
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And I'm Dr. James Marcum
wishing you the best of health.
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