We've often said that the
best medicine for fighting
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disease are found
in your grocery store.
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But you got to know
where to aim your cart.
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Stay tuned.
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I'm doctor James Marcum, are
you interested in discovering
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the reason why, do
you want solutions to your
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healthcare problems?
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Are you tired of
taking medications?
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Well you are about to be
given the Ultimate Prescription.
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It is shopping day, you
park your car out in front of
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the local grocery store
and head for the entrance.
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In your pocket is your
shopping list filled with family
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and personal
favorites. The question today is
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if you want to fight disease,
if you want to protect yourself
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and those you love
against common ailments
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as well as those
ailments that can kill us all
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what should be on that list?
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Dr. Marcum, tell us
what we need to know.
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Well Charles we need to know
a lot of things about nutrition.
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I guess the first
thing that we need to know is
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you are what you eat.
Ok! You are what you eat,
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and Hippocrates once
said let food be thy medicine,
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and medicine be thy food.
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So it's real important the
food we ingest in our bodies,
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and if we look back
at the rise of disease,
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especially chronic disease as
well as cardiovascular disease,
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cancer, all these diseases.
We look back to how our
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nutritional status has
changed and if you think back
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a couple hundred years ago
we were eating much different
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than we are
eating now. Yes! Yes!
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We're eating a lot of
fresh stuff, there wasn't a lot
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of refrigerating, there
wasn't a lot of processing,
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there wasn't condensing
food into smaller products.
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There wasn't big conglomerates
of companies trying to sell you
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more and more, we
didn't eat fast foods,
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the cooking processes,
the storage processes were
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different, we didn't use a
lot of chemicals to protect
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the food and keep
them going longer,
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we didn't have a lot of
additives that might even have
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addictive substances.
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So the way we did things
long ago were different and also
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the nutrient
composition was much different.
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Yes! That's true. Now
over the last 100 years
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we're eating more
protein and fat than we've ever
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eaten before, in fact we
haven't had this forever,
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they only really
described what protein was about
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in the 1840's, they
talked about protein and then
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everyone jumped on the band
wagon, it's we have to have it.
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And then it went to
that and then we said well,
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we have to have animal
protein and then everything said
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you know if you don't
have it you are going to die,
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your going to do poorly and
yet we made these big shifts.
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Even the Federal Drug
Administration says we
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have to have large
amounts of protein,
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we have to have large
amounts of fat in our diet.
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But if you look back at all
the cultures of all times...
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Ok! I'm going to quiz you a
little bit Charles. Ok! Alright!
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The first ones
you can probably get.
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What was the predominant
food of people that lived
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in the far east? Rice!
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Right! You got that right. A
starch based carbohydrate food,
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that's what they base things on.
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How about the Aztec's,
what did they predominately eat?
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Corn and beans.
They were people of corn.
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This one, most people
don't get this one. Ok!
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How about the Inca's,
the people that lived...
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What are the people
that lived in Peru called?
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They were Peruvians.
What were those that lived in
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the Peru? Well,
I'll give you a hint.
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They were people of potatoes.
Ok. Another starch based food.
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Yes, absolutely. Even in the
middle east there were people
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that ate lots of grains.
So all of these were starch
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based diet, they
weren't animal based diet,
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they weren't filled with
lots of protein and lots of fat.
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Ok, now follow me for a moment.
A lot of the foods we eat,
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the beans, the protein,
it still has protein in it,
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it still has a little
bit of fat, but it is mainly
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carbohydrates, but it's
the right nutrient composition.
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Yes. So as we changed
our nutrient composition
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our body was designed
to handle these foods.
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This body wasn't
handled to process...
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The processing plant
wasn't designed to handle this
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as the processing plant's
inundated with this the last
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100 years, there's
been a lot of problems.
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There has been a lot
of fat that has turns on
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cardiovascular disease,
we have a lot of protein
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that seems to activate cancers.
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We have a lot of... to many
calories in the condensed food
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which tends to activate obesity.
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So are we seeing a parallel
build of disease right along
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with the change of
diet, are they happening
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side by side like...
Well, let's look at where
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we've been over the last hundred
years, what would you say?
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You know, why is the cancer
rate, cardiovascular disease
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rate getting worse? Yes!
Why are we heavier than ever?
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Why are these things happening?
And we look back in some
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segments of our world
that don't eat these things,
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they don't have these problems.
The Africans don't have a lot
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of cardiovascular
disease, they eat a lot of fiber
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they don't have a lot of
bowel disease and bowel cancers.
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The people of those
times mainly designed to eat a
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starch based diet, they
seem to be doing a lot better
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in the way they live.
So if you look at all this
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disease, our solution
to the problem has been,
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hey, let's just keep making
this more and more, storing it,
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let's bring it a large ways
to the market, let's do this
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and rather than to
deal with the real problem,
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let's deal with the
symptoms of the problems,
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it's much more
lucrative to do that.
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So as we've developed these
disease, we have spent a lot of
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effort in educating people on
the modern medicine part of it
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which is great for acute disease
but it doesn't get at the core
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of the problem. So if
you look back over the
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last 200 years, you have
to surmise that maybe it's in
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the food and what I've
learned is that doctors are so
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frustrated now days,
they don't have the tools.
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No one is getting better,
they keep coming back for more.
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Well if you give
doctors good tools to work with
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and I think nutrition
should be one of those tools,
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they feel good. In medical
school I did not take nutrition,
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most medical doctors
don't have much nutrition.
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In fact much people
don't understand nutrition,
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they understand these
food pyramids that we get
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and those are very good at all.
So I am just so thankful that
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there is giants in
the field of nutrition,
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giants like T. Colin Campbell.
Giants like Joel Firman,
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Dean Ornish, the Esselstons,
and there is more and more
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you know. Physicians Committee
for Response and Well...
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Dr. Barnard. There is giants
out there that are now proving
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that there is something key
and Dr. Hippocrates was right...
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Let food be by medicine
and and also your poisons.
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So now we figure this out,
that this rich diet is not good.
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Now I am not alone in
this there are some strong
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Bible texts that
promote this as well.
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You know, you think
back to the Garden of Eden...
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their diet fruits,
nuts, vegetables, and grains.
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You look back, even
the middle eastern diet
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a lot of people say
Christ ate some of the things,
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but you know He also
had the percentage of food
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in good shape. It wasn't
predominantly protein and fat.
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Yeah, there wasn't a
McDonald's on every corner...
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Exactly! Jerusalem, ok.
There was a balance in all this
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and we look back on
the story of Daniel,
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you know the story
about Daniel and his friends
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and after a short period of
time they ate a healthy diet
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they were much more lively
in their brains than their
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counterparts
that ate a rich diet.
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So it's really...everyone
can draw their own conclusions,
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but I would say that one of
the causes of chronic disease
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that contribute to heart
disease, cancer, obesity,
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and all the
related diseases, diabetes,
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if we could get people eating
right, or at least thinking
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right, or heading in that
direction, we've done more
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to help the cause of medicine
than you can even imagine.
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You know when you
talk about food like this,
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I am reminded of
comedian Tim Hawkins,
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he has a routine
where he talks about the
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impossible prayer for God
to answer that we are always
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asking God to do the impossible
like when it comes to our diet.
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We will say oh Lord,
thank you for this food,
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thank you so much, help
it to nourish our bodies,
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thank you for these cheese
balls, and we thank you for
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this hamburger, and
these deep fried French fries.
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Lord, we pray that you will
change the molecular structure
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of this food as it passes from
these lips down to our stomach,
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that it will arrive
down there maybe as a carrot,
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or possibly as a sprig
of broccoli. Lord we pray
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that you will put a hedge of
protection around our stomach,
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our liver, and our
kidneys as we put this poison
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in our bodies. How is
God supposed to answer
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that kind of prayer when
we say Lord bless the poisons
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that we eat. Yeah, and
you know a lot of people are
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so wrapped up in this,
this is the way it's done,
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I have to eat this way,
this is the way I was raised,
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I can't do anything different,
my receptors say that I have to
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have this, I can't
afford... Here's another excuse,
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I can't afford it, it's to hard.
You can do a show on that...
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I can't do it and everyone
just goes on and on and there is
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always someone that has an
excuse of why can't they do it,
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but if you look at the evidence
the people that do the best
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in society are the people
that eat the best in society.
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So if you want to feel well
and do well, I want you to come
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away from this program and
say maybe I can eat better,
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we all can eat better no matter
where we are at in that walk.
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We can always do better, and
you know what as we learn to eat
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better, guess what, we
feel better, we think better
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we have to take less medicines,
everything starts working
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together. I can't tell you
how many medicines I've taken
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people off of through the
years just because they start
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to eat better and they
put the connection between
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what I eat, health, what I eat,
this is a treatment for disease
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it causes disease. You know
I could be my best doctor by
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just choosing good
things to put in my body.
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It makes a big difference.
I'm reminded, I think it was
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Joel Firman's family
that told me that one of their
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children were asked at
school, you don't eat meat?
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No, I don't eat meat.
You don't eat animal products
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at all? No, no eggs,
and no fish and no milk.
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Well if you don't eat
meat, what do you eat?
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And the answer was
everything else. Yeah!
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God has made sure that there
is plenty of food out there,
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plenty of
variety, plenty of colors.
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I know when I go into the
grocery store I aim my cart
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right to the produce section,
that's where I go first.
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And I think of the
Garden of Eden, I think of how
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Adam and Eve would
wander through the garden,
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all these beautiful colors
and all these beautiful flavors
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and all these
wonderful foods there.
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Healing foods were so available
and I want you to have that
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experience too. When
you go to the grocery store
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aim your cart towards that
produce section and look at
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the grapes and the potatoes
and the apples, and the oranges,
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and the broccoli and the
kale, love kale, kale chips
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number one. Wonderful foods
there that you can learn how
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to make. Food as your medicine,
absolutely, and if you need help
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to figure out how to do
that, the internet is marvelous
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at this for giving you recipes
and there is all kinds of books
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out there. But food
should not be an issue
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to someone who wants
to do it God's way because
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God has provided
such an abundance of food
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no matter where you
live things will grow,
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you can eat, you can be healthy.
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You know, I don't want
to let people know that
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maybe not eating optimally
that God doesn't love them...
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It has nothing to do with
love, it does not have to do
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with love. God
loves you He accepts you,
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all this is... you know you
can still walk with Him... Yes!
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But He wants you
to feel better. Yes!
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He wants you to do better
so you can serve Him better,
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because that is
really why we're here
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I've often said, it is
not about God loving us,
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it's about us
loving God in return.
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When we have
healthy bodies and minds,
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we have the better
ability to love God in return
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and to see the nuances
of His love in our lives
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and His guidance in our lives.
So this health is so we can
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understand God
better and love God better,
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He loves us no
matter what we are eating.
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A hundred years ago
Charles, if I said you know
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if you become a
vegetarian, or even a vegan,
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they would laugh at you
or not even know what you are
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talking about, but now
it's in our vocabulary.
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It's out there.
People are talking about it,
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people are doing it. It
seems like this is going to be
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the next Health Revolution
to get people eating healthier,
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smarter, doing better things
to take care of their bodies
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so we don't have all
this chronic disease.
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Well, I know that you may
have some questions listener
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as a matter of fact, we
have received a lot of questions
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at heartwiseministries.org
on this subject.
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A lot of them on nutrition
and it's very important
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that you understand
what you need to do,
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and how you need to feed
your family and feed yourself
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for that optimum
health that we want.
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You can send your questions
to Heartwise ministries.org,
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please do so, we form
these programs based on
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those questions. That
is Heartwiseministries.org.
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We will take a short
break and when we come back
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let's address some of the
questions that have come into
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the website on the
subject of nutrition.
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You might want to get a
pen and paper so you can
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take some notes here,
because this is important stuff.
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Stay tuned!
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