WEIGHT
MANAGEMENT - I know, I know
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You're going to say,
"Give up everything you
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enjoy and eat like a RABBIT"
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Well, have you ever
met a rabbit with diabetes?
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Stay tuned...
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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 problems?
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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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Nothing generates
feelings of frustration
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and sometimes outright
anger than the subject of
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WEIGHT MANAGEMENT.
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No one wants to be
told that they're fat!
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So how about
another line of thought?
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Think of excess weight as
excess risk - which it is.
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Extra pounds means extra danger.
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So today, we're not
inviting you to lose weight.
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We're inviting you to
lose danger to lower your risk
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of suffering from all manner
of ailments including diabetes.
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Now - that's
something we all need to hear
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no matter what numbers
appear on our bathroom scales.
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Dr. Marcum, when a
patient walks through your door
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and you notice that
he or she is overweight,
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how does that
alter your approach
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to diagnosing their problem?
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Well when I see someone that
carries extra weight, Charles,
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that's not an
uncommon situation now;
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in fact, most of the
people that come to see me now
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are overweight.
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In the state where I practice,
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60% of people are overweight,
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30% are morbid obese...
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And excuse the pun, but
this is a growing problem,
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and with it has come a lot
of diseases that we need to
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talk about that we
didn't see in the past that are
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associated with weight.
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One of them, you
mentioned, type 2 diabetes,
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okay, that's another one.
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Extra weight
increases the risk of cancers.
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It increases the
risk of joint problems.
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It increases the
risk of sleep apnea.
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It increases the risk
of high blood pressure.
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It increases the risk
of cardiovascular disease.
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It increases the
risk of foot problems.
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It increases the risk
of digestive problems.
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So extra weight really
affects the whole body.
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So you have to put
that into the equation when
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someone comes in with
their problem, you can say,
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"Well how much of this
problem is something that needs
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treating or how much of it just
needs to be losing weight. "
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And this is a major
issue that we talk about...
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is how do we get
people to lose weight,
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and the reason we talk
about this on this program is
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...you know, we want
to talk about situations
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that affect lots of people.
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And unfortunately, weight,
management and extra weight
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affects lots of people...
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So we have to talk about it;
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we have to come up with a plan,
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and we have to give
them something that they
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can have hope on
- if nothing else,
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at least to educate them
if you have extra weight,
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it can lead to these
dangerous health problems,
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and of course, what's
near and dear to my heart
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is cardiovascular disease.
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So, it only makes
sense is as weight goes up,
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chronic problems
are going to go up;
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chronic medication
use is going to go up...
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Well I was going to say that
everything you mentioned there
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has a pill for
it... everything you said.
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Chronic medication
use is going to go up,
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and we're not really
solving the problem of this...
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And there are some programs
that the people just want to
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quit medication to
solve weight loss management.
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And there have been
several pills that have been on,
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and one that I used when
I first started was called
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"Fen-Phen" and I talked
about it in my latest book,
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"Medicines That Kill"
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and Fen-Phen caused
problems with heart valves,
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and it had to be
removed from the market.
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Most of the weight management
medicines that have been
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out there, have been
removed from the market.
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There are 3 of them
that are coming on very soon
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that are going
to be on the market,
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and I think that
those are going to...
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hopefully they
don't have problems,
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but usually they
do have problems.
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We think about some of
the other modern medicine
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procedures that deal
with weight management;
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we talk about gastric
bypass where they bypass around
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your stomach,
make a very small patch
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so you can't eat very much.
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That has lots of
side effects too.
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I have a friend that has
that and he's running to the
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bathroom all the time.
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You know, he has
all sorts of GI issues
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because we
weren't designed for that.
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They sometimes put
bands on your esophagus
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that they can tighten up
so the food can't get through.
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Well that's not
the best method either.
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So the modern medicine
approach to weight management
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is not working.
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Then we talk about all
the diets that are out there.
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You know, all the diets there...
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There are lots of fad diets...
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You know, you eat this amount.
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You know, you've heard
about the high protein diet.
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Then next came a
low protein diet.
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High fat diet, low fat diet.
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High carb diet,
low fat carb diet.
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And none of them have
actually shown to help people
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lose weight over the long haul.
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And many of them
have been proven to be
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very dangerous for
health. Yes, exactly
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I mean, you may
lose a few pounds,
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but they only
cost you your life!
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And unfortunately, dealing
with patients and people with
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weight management problems,
everyone wants a quick fix.
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And, it's not a quick fix,
it's a total lifestyle change;
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it involves every
part of our lives,
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and that's why when I studied
some people a few years ago
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that had weight
management problems,
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in our study we
found out that the key...
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Everyone knows
what they should do.
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Everyone knows the food.
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Everyone knows
they should exercise,
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and drink more water.
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They should
increase their metabolism.
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They know the dangers of the
pills for weight management loss
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They know the
dangers of the procedures,
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but what was the key to those
people that DID keep it off,
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was RELATIONSHIPS.
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Relationships that
they had with each other,
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encouraging relationships
and also the relationship
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with GOD - that gave them
the power to make changes,
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and to continue on that path to
help them day in and day out -
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because there are a lot
of chemical changes involved
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in weight
management and the food we eat,
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and dopamine pathways
and pathways of addiction,
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and habits that
need to be broken,
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and it really takes a
God to give us the power
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to do these things, Charles...
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And that's why this condition
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which is really a disease in
itself or will produce disease,
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is growing exponentially,
and if you think about it,
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you know -
everyone is getting heavier,
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nothing out there is working,
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so should we
look for a new path?
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Should we look for a new plan?
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Should there be a new approach?
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And medications aren't going
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to be that
answer, in my opinion.
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The fad diets aren't going to
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be the answer, in my opinion.
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We have to get back to
what I call "natural remedies"
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God's plan for weight management
and put God into the equation
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to help us lose this
weight and to gradually
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stay with this
plan over a lifetime,
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not just a short period of time.
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You know, as I look at
this situation and I look around
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at people who are overweight,
and I find them everywhere,
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I find them in church,
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I find them at parties,
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I find them in
television programs,
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I find them everywhere.
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It doesn't seem to be that
FAITH - religion is the answer,
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and why do you think that is?
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You would think that
people who worship God,
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who love God, who attend church,
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who go as missionaries,
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who spend their
time witnessing for God,
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why aren't they slender?
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What is missing in that
relationship with their God?
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Well, you know, there is
some research that suggests
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that some people have genetic
propensities to be heavy.
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But NOT 60% of the
people in the world...
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That's correct...
And you know, there are
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some people that
are on medications
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that make it
impossible to lose weight;
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some of the diabetic medicines
make it very hard to lose weight
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And there are some doctors
that are not treating any
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type 2 diabetes with medications
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because medications
make you more hungry.
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But a lot of times people -
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we've talked about
this on previous programs,
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it's the stress that we're
living under, the world stress.
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And someone looks for the
answers to stress problems.
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They want to have some
endorphins, some dopamines,
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something that
makes them feel good,
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something that
enables them to cope,
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and the easiest
thing out there is...
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"let's have some food"
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You don't have to wait for the
church service to run around,
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you don't have to... No Okay
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We know that
the food is so easy,
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the pleasure receptors go up.
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It helps you feel better
at the end of the long day.
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We have this mind set,
we don't eat for nutrition,
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we eat for
pleasure... There you go!
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and everyone has fostered this.
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Look at all the
commercials, supersize me,
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and how easy it is
to get our food now.
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We just go to the refrigerator.
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It's not like the
old days where we had to
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grow our food and go pull it out
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and harvest it, then eat it. Yes
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We just pull it out of
the refrigerator, there it is,
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freeze it, we put
it into the microwave.
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We've also had then phenomena
of food that we made it
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very small - you know
we've concentrated food.
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In the old days, for instance,
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let's say you eat an apple,
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and an apple - one bite might
have about 15-16 calories in it.
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Well you eat a sour apple,
that might have less calories.
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So you're going to go
for the sweet apples, okay...
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And so those apples
are good for us, of course,
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but people have
noticed that our brain can
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tell the difference between
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1 calorie and 2
calories in a bite.
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So there are these
receptors in the brain
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that scientists said -
these are the dopamine,
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these pleasure
receptors that can tell this...
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Well, the more I
concentrate the food,
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the more these dopamine
pleasures will have to be fed.
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So it's like taking a medicine-
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a little bit will
feed these receptors,
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but sometimes you
need a little bit more.
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So all of a sudden,
instead of eating an apple
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with 15 or 16 calories a bite,
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you eat a piece of chocolate
with 300 calories a bite.
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Right, or an apple, you
know, you can get what is this
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very concentrated so these
dopamine receptors are happy now
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and before you know
it, it takes a little more
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to keep them happy -
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You just need this
sort of chronic fix,
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and that's why many people
think overeating and eating
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is an addiction - we
definitely know it's a habit,
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it's definitely
a lifestyle change,
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and the media hasn't helped us,
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no one has helped us get off.
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Unfortunately doctors
are not trained for this.
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You go in a visit for 5 minutes;
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their not going to talk
about how to lose weight,
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but we eat these
concentrated foods;
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our stomach, the stretch
receptors aren't stretched out,
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and yet the
dopamine guys are saying,
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"Hey, I want more, more, more,
feed me, feed me, I'm hungry"
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So we get hungrier, we
need more and more food,
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and this is
just a vicious cycle.
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We have more stress in our life;
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we look for somewhere to go;
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we eat more food and
you can see how the cycle
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is gaining weight, so
the solution is guess what?
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You develop these things,
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so I'm going to give
you a pill for diabetes.
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You can't sleep at night
because of the extra weight;
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I'm going to give
you a pill to sleep.
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Your joints hurt, I'm
going to give you a pill.
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You're anxious and don't feel
good, I'm going to give you that
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You have too much
acid, here's a pill for that.
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And the cycle is just terrible.
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And we're not fixing
this, so we have to re-think
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the way we're dealing
with weight management,
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and meet people at a different
level and try to work with them,
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and let them know
that it is a problem.
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Now I'm not saying
we have all the answers,
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but we have to let people
know that weight management
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is a problem - there are answers
but it's not the easiest thing.
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It takes a lot of
prayer, a lot of work,
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a lot of education
and it's just a journey
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that we must start on.
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You bring up a very
interesting point there on the
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concentration of food.
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I read someplace that
there is as many calories in a
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teaspoon of corn oil as there
is in 12 ears of corn. Yeah...
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So if you had those 12 ears
of corn, you probably couldn't
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eat that much
and you wouldn't even
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come up with that many calories,
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but that 1 teaspoon of corn
oil that you put on your food
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without evening thinking
or maybe even a half a cup of
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or olive oil or whatever -
you put that stuff on there
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HUGE amounts of calories in
a very small amount of space.
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Also another thing I
heard - this is from Dr. Diehl
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from the CHIP Program,
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is that the fat content
of today's animal products,
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the steak you eat, the
chicken, even the fish,
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the pork and whatnot...
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The fat content is 4
times as much as it used to be
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100 years ago because
of the way they process
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the animals as
they're growing up.
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They put a lot of fat on there.
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They put a lot of
feed for them to eat
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that makes them
nice and fat - 4 times...
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So when you eat a hamburger NOW,
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you're getting 4
times the amount of fat
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that you got 100 years
ago eating the same hamburger
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because of the way
the meat is processed.
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So the real demon
here is PROCESSING.
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The real demon here is
concentrating these things,
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and processing, then adding the
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salt and the fat
and all those things.
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We need to be so careful
whether we are Christian or not,
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or whether we are an atheist,
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or whether we are an agnostic,
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or whether we are a Hindu
or a Seventh-day Adventist
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or a Baptist or
Catholic, or whatever,
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we need to be very careful
when we eat because our food
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is different; our
lifestyle is different;
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our level of
exercise is different;
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our level of STRESS is MUCH
different than it used to be.
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That's why we have to have
weight management procedures
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in place and we'll talk
about that more on our return,
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so everybody stay
RIGHT where you are!
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