Today, we talk about
the elephant in the room.
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No, we're not at the zoo.
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We're in our living rooms,
our kitchens, our places of work
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Do you see it? 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 healthcare 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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I've noticed something
interesting about many of my
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friends and family members who
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haven't chosen to
live a healthy lifestyle.
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They're ignoring
evidence and that can be
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downright deadly when it
comes to health and longevity.
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Evidence can be like an elephant
in the room sitting quietly
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nearby, totally
ignored, totally wished-away.
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Dr. Marcum, what are we missing?
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Well I hope all of us aren't
missing the elephant, Charles!
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You know, that's pretty scary...
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And coming up with
different programs,
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I always like to
look at different sources,
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and sometimes our
viewers write us in,
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they send this to our
heartwiseministries. org
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and give us great
ideas, but you know what...
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Charles, after you've
made so many programs,
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you say, "Wow, what would be
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interesting for
people to know about?"
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And everyone asks me,
how do we make our programs.
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Well, one of the things I do,
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I regularly review articles in
the media and listen to people
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especially in regards to health,
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and that's how we're going
to find out a little bit about
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this elephant in the room.
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I try to read as
many sources as I can,
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but as you can imagine, Charles,
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it's sort of hard
to sort things through.
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You get the internet
and different people have
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their biases -
the modern medicine,
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and I have people that say
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that this snake oil is the
best thing ever and if you can
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run 1 mile upside-down,
that will fix you up.
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All sorts of things,
but my ears especially
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perk up when it
comes to biblical thoughts
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on health and chemistry.
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So anything biblical, I really
start paying attention to,
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and I look for evidence
and everyone out there is
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offering opinions.
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Sometimes evidence is
good, some have partial truths.
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Some people unfortunately,
Charles, are motivated by money.
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Others, just want
the truth to be known.
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So it's hard to sort
through and hopefully,
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you're out there watching today
and as you look at this program,
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you can say, "Well I'm not just
going to accept what's said,
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I'm going to look at
the evidence for everything
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that's said - both the answers
to your specific questions,
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as well as the other.
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So what I do - in
coming up with the programs,
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I look through what
all the leading editors
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and publishers are thinking
about because chances are
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if they think the topic is
important, so will the readers.
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But what I've noticed is
that the editors and publishers
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often leave out the
most important ingredient...
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That's that spiritual
point, that connection with God.
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So I bring this
information to everyone with a
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little bit different
twist, but at the same time
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remembering that information
can be presented biased...
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And I admit, I'm biased!
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Are you biased, Charles?
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I would assume so and
I love where you're going
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with this thing
because I think God is biased,
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but His bias is
pure, He wants us healthy.
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So what God says to us,
we know there is no other
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motivation other
than to make us healthy.
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Right, and I admit that when I
bring these programs to everyone
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I'm coming from a biblical bias
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and I'm biased
in that direction,
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and everyone can just look
at the truth and if you don't
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believe in the Bible, go back
and see if the Bible is true,
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go through all that, but
I think it's very worthy.
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One of the interesting
articles I read recently was the
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Associated Press, Charles...
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And I thought
this was interesting,
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and I wanted to bring it to
everyone because it's useful.
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The Associated Press, they
have a watchdog group called
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"The Center for
Environmental Health"
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Everyone is interested
in the environment now.
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You talked about the
elephant in the room,
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well one of the elephants
in our room that we're not
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paying attention to is what's
going on in our environment.
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We're paying
attention to everything else.
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Occasionally you hear about it.
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Well, this group spent
a lot of time and money
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testing this thing
called "caramel coloring"
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Have you ever heard of caramel
coloring? I've seen it used.
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Yeah, they used it
in soft drinks... Yes
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And they went and they
studied it and they found
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that there was, in
this caramel coloring,
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a carcinogen,
something that causes cancer,
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called "4-Mel" and in
the process of cooking
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this chemical compound,
this raised the chance of
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developing a
carcinogen, so guess what?
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This group put a lot
of pressure on the makers,
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who've been making it for
years and years and years.
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So we've been
getting this carcinogen,
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this environmental toxin
for years and we didn't know it,
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and they said, "Listen,
if you don't take it out,
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we're going to put a
cancer label right on your thing
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just like we do on
cigarettes. Wow, wow!
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So they got their attention.
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But when I look - now
let's look at the big picture...
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If you look at
things objectively,
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and I want everyone out there
to look at things objectively...
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Now when you look
at the rates of cancer,
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is it going up or down?
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It's going up. Right
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Chronic pain, mental
health, heart attacks,
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prescription medications!
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The number of DEATHS -
nothing is really getting better
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So are we really
addressing the problem?
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So part of the problem
we talked about before...
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What's stressing the system?
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What is ALSO going up there?
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If these disease rates are going
up, is there something else
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in our lifestyle
that's going up as well?
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We talked about brain stress...
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But now, today, I want
to talk about a bit about
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this "toxin" stress.
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These toxins that
are everywhere around us,
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not that we're going to
be able identify them all,
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but just to
realize, just like this
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caramel-4 and this
Mel, it's out there.
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Because our toxic levels have
gone up right in concert with
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everything else.
EVERYTHING ELSE... Yes
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With our modern
society, with our technology,
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the toxins have gone up as well,
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and with that, has
come a chemical consequence,
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stress on the system
which creates these symptoms.
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A lot of the cancers have been
associated to all the toxins.
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Now let me give
you another example.
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The group called
"The Natural Society"
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They just reported in
the "Journal of Hematology"
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a very well known journal,
that showed this Bt toxin.
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This Bt toxin is a toxin
that's found in biopesticides.
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Have you ever heard
that? I've heard of it, yes.
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We're going to talk a
little bit about that.
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But that's used in
almost all GMO foods,
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this biopesticide, to keep
the insects from eating it.
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And right now, GMO foods in
the United States are planted on
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about 3.9 million
acres in the United States.
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So in order to grow the
crops to feed the world,
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a toxin has been built
into the fabric of the food
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to protect the
food from the insects.
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For instance - genetically
corn, you've heard about that.
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Well anyway, they've
showed that all these chemicals
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that we've produced to
protect these products,
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ALSO could cause
other health problems,
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and other environmental toxins.
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Charles - and these aren't the
only toxins that are out there.
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Now, let's just
think for a second...
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I've got a bunch more toxins.
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I just want people to realize
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that there's lots of
toxins out there - mercury
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Mercury is
still floating around.
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We didn't know it
was a toxin for years.
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Mercury has been out
there, it's not good for us.
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Toxins like arsenic - it's
out there even though in trace
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amounts, it's out there.
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Copper? Copper can be a problem
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for us in too much.
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So there's lots of environmental
toxins that are out there
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that are affecting us
in many different ways.
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It's sort of scary
when you think about it.
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Now we're just going to
talk a little bit about the
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toxic chemicals, but
what about the toxic noises?
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What about the
toxic air that we breathe?
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It's all in there... you
know, the air that we breathe
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is filled with bad things
and we breathe it in and out,
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in and out, in and out.
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The noise that we bring
in, that's not good either.
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Even some of the visual things
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can be actually
toxic to our environment.
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So the GMOs,
that's a big concern.
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A lot of people
are looking at that.
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But I want to ask people
- how many other chemical
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additives are out there
that have not even been tested.
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I just want to share something
here that would help our
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viewers...
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Every Sunday in West
Virginia where I live,
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I go to the little
farmer's market they have there
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in my small town
and I asked the venders,
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"Is this organically grown?"
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And one vender smiled and very
proudly took me over to where
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the lettuce was and showed
me a little piece of lettuce
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and there was a little hole
or 2 right there in the lettuce,
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and he looked and
said, "Now that proves that
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it IS organically grown because
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an insect wanted to eat that
lettuce and what's good for the
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insect, is good for people. "
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So if you find a
fruit or a vegetable that is
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ABSOLUTELY PERFECT,
an insect hasn't come
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within 20 miles of
this thing, BE-WARE
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because insects
are pretty smart.
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They're smarter than we are;
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they're not going
to eat that stuff...
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But when you find a fruit
that might have a little defect
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in there, a little
nibble here and there,
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insects are loving
it, you will love it,
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and your body will love it too.
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Well that's a
great point, Charles,
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and I think as you were
talking and I was thinking,
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you know, we worry about
disease and what causes disease,
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well all these
chemicals upset that beautiful
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orchestra to balance and
the less toxins we can have
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from any source, the
better we're going to be.
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So our goal here is to
let people know that there are
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toxins out there, not
be scared of the toxins.
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You know, this is
the world we live in...
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let's talk about
what are some practical...
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You could only
minimize it... Right
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You can't get away from
it, you can only minimize it.
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What are some
practical things that we can do
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to help deal with all
of our different toxins.
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What are some things that we
might do to DETOXIFY ourselves,
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that we can maybe help pull
the toxins out of ourselves.
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These are some things
we want to talk about,
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but before we go to break,
I want to just list, quickly,
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8 chemicals that I want people
to think about in their diets
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that could be dangerous...
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Artificial food dye -
We see that in cake mixes,
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colored foods - these
are made from petroleum.
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Petroleum is not good.
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You're eating
gasoline? Yes, that's not good.
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Olestra - Have you heard
of that substance, Olestra.
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This lowers calorie counts, but
also decreases the absorption
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of vitamins and
causes leaky bowels.
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It's found in things
like fat-free potato chips,
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and it was used as a
substitute for cooking oil.
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Brominated vegetable oils -
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Brominated - that
doesn't even sound good.
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Just "brominated" strikes fears.
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But bromide is a chemical
used to keep carpets from
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catching on fire.
We're eating this stuff?
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Yes, and it's been linked to
birth defects, schizophrenia,
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growth problems, hearing loss.
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Many countries are already
banning these substances.
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Another one - potassium bromate.
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This is found in some
wraps and rolls, bagel chips.
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It's used to decrease
baking time so people can
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bake things quicker...
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But it's been linked
to kidney damage, cancer,
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central nervous system disorder.
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Europe, China, Canada
have already banned it.
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Already banned it!
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This big one
called "azodicarbonamide"
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This is found in beached
flour, yoga mats, tennis shoes,
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as well as plastic - all
sorts of problems with that one.
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Another one - we've
heard of this one "BHA-BHT"
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Those help keep
food from spoiling,
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but they are also another
food that linked to cancer.
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We've heard of things
like "growth hormones"
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These can be found
in milk, dairy products
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passed from animals
to us; delays fertility,
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has fertility
problems, muscle growth.
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Arsenic - That's
found in chicken feed -
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that can be passed on to us,
so there's lots of different...
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and these are just
the ones we know about.
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The point I want to
make is these are the ones we
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know about that are getting
press that have been banned
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in other countries.
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There are toxins around
us; we have to be careful.
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We have to come up with a plan.
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So in a minute, we're
going to talk about...
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Well, what's a reasonable
plan that we can take today
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to stay healthy to help us
avoid some of these toxins.
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It is just amazing to me
what we have allowed to happen
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in this
country... How can this be?
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How can people be putting
known toxins, known carcinogens
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in our food supply
on a regular basis,
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and have been
doing it for years!
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The reason they've
been able to do that is
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because we haven't stopped them!
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We haven't said "no" to that.
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We keep buying this stuff.
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If we would stop buying it,
they'd stop putting it in there.
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If we'd start
making some noises...
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and here's a good opportunity.
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You've given us a
list, we can follow that list
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We can say, "Well no,
I'm not going to buy this"
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and as the sales go
down, they'll take notice.
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They'll see and I
think we need to do that.
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We need to become proactive in
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what we're
putting in our bodies.
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