The following
program presents principles
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Designed to promote
good health and is not
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intended to take the place of
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personalized professional care.
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The opinions and
ideas expressed are those
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of the speaker.
Viewers are encouraged to
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draw their own conclusions
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about the information presented.
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Hello and welcome
to Wonderfully Made.
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I'm your host Claudio Japas.
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I'm happy to be with
you. I'm a Doctoral Student at
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Loma Linda University in
the Preventive Care Program.
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Today, we have an
interesting topic that you
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may be interested
in. With me joining me is
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Dr. Dos Santos. He
is also from Loma Linda
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University in the
Preventive Care Program.
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Welcome Dr. Dos
Santos. Thank you very much to
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be here. It is my
pleasure to share about
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health with our
audience. And you believe that
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health is something
that's very important to you and
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for me also and I hope
that everybody watching
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that health is something
that's on your to do this or
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something you look forward to.
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And today on our
program, we want to
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speak on how is health
been used to reach others,
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how is health a tool for
to not only teach health, but
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to teach about Jesus
Christ. And we often call this
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Health Evangelism. What
is Health Evangelism to you?
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Well you, you have first
to go to the word evangelism.
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So, evangelism in
Christian term means to
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bring the gospel of
Jesus Christ to people and then
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to share Jesus'
message with other people and
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Jesus' gospel of
salvation. In terms of Health
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Evangelism my definition
is that evangelism does
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not mean only for
the gospel, but it means
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promote something,
preach something, and
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then you preach health,
so Health Evangelism is to
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promote health
the community to the
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church to who ever.
It doesn't mean baptizing
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them and just in
using that as evangelism,
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but more to that? Is
more that, I believe we
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have used that
term evangelism, Health
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Evangelism, as the
right arm to bring more souls
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through Christ, but I
would say, I have a friend
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that is very interested
and do research on exercise
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and he consider
himself exercise evangelist.
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And I believe the term
is that he is for multi
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exercise. So, our function
is to use the word Health
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Evangelism to
promote health activities.
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Okay very good, so you
just point to teach a good
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news of what health can
do to you. For your body
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how to keep it healthy
and optimal, how is this
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different from conventional
or traditional evangelism
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any differences?
Well, I have my own idea
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about that, I believe
when Jesus was here, he
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promote healing and
teaching and preaching.
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So, he was at three
component of his mission.
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And if we go over and
decide to follow his steps,
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we should have the
gospel, we should have
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education and
teaching and we should have the
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Health Evangelism. The
health activities together
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and that's what I
point, even though health,
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Health Evangelism
has been used for by our
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church or by some
churches to help to bring
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source to the church.
But, the term means imitating
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the mission of Jesus
Christ that was healing
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and sometimes he was
more healing or healing
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more then preaching.
So, it's more of part thing
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going together
healing and preaching together
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not one leading the
other or following the other,
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that's how you see it correct.
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Same, yes. Okay,
you said that it is
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for the members
of the community.
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What do you mean of
is that just next door or
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bigger than that or? I
believe Health Evangelism
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as we know it, it starts
with, with members in the
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church and then it
spreads outside of the church.
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So, if you promote health
activities to a church they
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can easily invite some
friends and relatives and
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some neighbors
that they can share
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the message with them.
And this in the Adventist
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church is very common,
but not just the Adventist
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church I remember
there was, I did a study with
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the Baptist church in
United States that many
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times health activities
were run in the churches
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because somehow the
communities could not
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get health care and
then the church became the
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health provider and
that's very interesting for
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American history that
Health Evangelism is a
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component of many
churches. And so they would come
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to the churches to be
taught how to be healthy
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or how to cook healthy
or how to keep their bodies
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or may be even have
a small clinic there on
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certain days of
the week, where they
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could come to right.
Especially in the African-
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American communities, I
mean the church was very
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important to
prevent hypertension, high
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cholesterol and some
they have seminars, they have
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small clinics and
they have health fares that
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promote this
preventive activities and even
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curative activities
to promote health in the
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community that was
not being serve them that
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they didn't have
enough power or money to pay
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for a physician and
to go to a higher level.
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Right, right, sometimes
we don't think that it's
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happening so much or we
don't see it often perhaps,
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but many churches are
still doing this correct?
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Yes, many churches do
that, of course when you
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learn that this or when
you agree with me if you
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agree with me, that
this is something that church
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can do you see the power
that we have even to help
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the health care, if
we have deliver message,
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preventive
messages through the church.
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I once attended a meeting
in a conference the person
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is was talking about how
to prevent AIDS in the world.
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And she was specifically
talking about churches,
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not anything else. She
was not concerned about
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the governments and the
other agencies and school
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and she said the
church can do it. And when she
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talk about the churches,
it's not just one church,
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she said that we
have churches Protestant,
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Catholics and
several different church
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Adventists and then
if they deliver the right
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message to prevent
AIDS we can, we could have a
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big working in Africa by
instance and then we will
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have a better control
of the epidemic there.
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Right, right, so it's
very powerful, lot of change
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can happen through
the churches and using the
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health message
through this entity or
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these
organizations. Now you had some
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personal changes also
in your personal life that
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you experienced
when you were growing up,
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is that not true?
Yes, I'm from Brazil,
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so in Brazil I'm from the
south and the south is like
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Southern United
States, the South American
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cowboys, so we use to
eat meat three times a day.
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But, when I was maybe
15, 16 years old I started
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reading books that the
Adventist church has on
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health and this woke we
up to a better lifestyle and
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then I change and
then I started being more
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vegetarian and more
concerned about that and
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so that was a big change
I believe for. It was not
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easy, but was a
big change for my life.
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So, it did work in
your personal life to become
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acquainted with some
better practices for health
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that could improve your
lifestyle or improve the
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benefits that are
accompanied by that.
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And also this will led me
to enter in the health field.
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I became health
leader in the church and
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then as long as I
remember I was always a health
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leader in the place
that I move, even in America
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I always have somehow
I got to work with Health
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Evangelism in the
church. So, you became Health
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Evangelist.
Exactly, exactly, well I went
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to the American school
because of that. I mean
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this was an influence
then I went to Loma Linda and
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then I'm now teaching
desirous, but was just
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because when I was
in church I was somehow
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influenced by health
messages in the church.
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Yeah and you were just
in the church or where there
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other places that gave you
opportunities to influence.
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Well, I worked in
several different places, but
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I remember I was
worked in Hong Kong and then
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I was working for
the Hong Kong Adventist
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Hospital, but one day we
went to visit the Director
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of Public Health in
the city. The Hong Kong has
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about 7 million people, so
I visit the lady and she is
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a doctor and she
said okay you believe in
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public health. What can
you do in public health in
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Hong Kong, what public
health can do? What you
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can do about that?
Then I thought for a moment
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and then I said well
we have 13 churches in
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Hong Kong, so if we
promote health in those
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churches and turn these
churches to health centers.
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We will have a
big influence in this
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communities and
maybe the model that we
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develop can be
spread to other churches.
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I was talking about
Adventist church, but if
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the Baptist church and
Lutheran church will get
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the idea, they could
develop the same thing.
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Same model to spread,
yeah, that same concept
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of health to other
places. And of course, and
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of course we went to
other churches, I did
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lecturing, did some
lectures in other church
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non-Adventist, we went
to the schools, we went to
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corporations to
promote health I mean now is a
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big deal, worksite
wellness is a big, is a big
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important program
that we consider in public
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health one of the
best because you have a
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capped divulgence,
right, and then the employer is
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willing to do that
because some how they spend less
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costs on health insurance.
And then the employees
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are happy because they
improve their health and
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then you improve
the relationship between
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employee and employer
and you bring health to a
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very good environment
so. That's right, in fact
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I remember correctly
most of the Fortune 500
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companies almost all
of them have corporate
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wellness or worksite
wellness programs to help
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just with their concepts.
So, well Health Evangelism
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may not be the term
that they use right for that,
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there would be
something that has very same
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method teaching and
sharing the health that can
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be obtained by anyone
who wants to learn and
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apply to their life.
Yeah, I see that also in
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terms of the effects of
having a health lifestyle
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on your spiritual
performance, on your
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physical and mental performance.
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And so, I have a story to
tell you and then I want to
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show a picture of the
first native pastor in Brazil
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Jose Amador dos
Reis, he was a cousin of my
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grandfather and then I
know very well the story.
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He was a very successful
pastor the first pastor,
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who was baptized in
the Adventist church and he
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unfortunately he
die at 43 years old.
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And then I bring the
issue why did he die so young.
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I believe mostly is
because he didn't know
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about the health
message. As a nation in the
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beginning so we were in
South of Brazil, we used
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to eat a lot of meat and
lot of sugar and we didn't
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know about sleep and
stress control and other
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water intake and things
like that and fruits and
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vegetables, so we didn't
even get the whole health
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message. So, we were
not Health Evangelized.
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Right, right, so you
just obtained parts of that,
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there is some pieces of
it. Exactly and then these
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would if we, if we, I
believe if he knew about
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that and he practiced
that he could have longer time
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serving the church or
preaching that's my point.
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Right. You will increase
both the performance and
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your life is gonna be
longer with a healthy lifestyle.
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For yourself and also
for anyone who is watching
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or wanting to participate
or take those effects that
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could extend your life
and your quality of life.
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So, those are excellent
things that are priceless,
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I mean big companies
are taking advantage of that
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and making use of
it, everybody should as a
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matter of fact. Now I'm
excited, I like health, how
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could I make it as I'm
learning more, how could
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I take this to an
practical level to my community,
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to my church?
Well I, one thing that
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I believe is to develop
health support groups and
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when I was in Hong
Kong we would develop
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this in the community.
So, we chose the church
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that was very central
and then we apply there
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support groups. We
develop support groups
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for cholesterol, for
high cholesterol, for high
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blood pressure, for
diabetes, for smoking
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cessation and then
this was the way to attract
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people that in
the community and help
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people in the
church. Some members of the
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church were having
this, this, this problem and
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then when we bring them
together, so was a share
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of ideas and share of
knowledge and it was a
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very good way. I have
one slide that show my
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cholesterol support
group if we can show now.
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I remember when I was
on that group I have a
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lady there that
had a cholesterol
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level of 300 mg/dL.
And then she followed
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the guidelines and her
cholesterol after three
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months dropped
to 150 and that was
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I even didn't even
ask. Good improvement.
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Yeah, she volunteer
to tell us about that
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and that was excellent.
Now you are a doctor and
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maybe somebody has a
equal degree, you are in
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the health field or
DRPH preventive care person,
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but can any lay person
do this or any community
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member or church
member do a program like this?
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Of course the
everybody can do depends on the
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level that you have,
so when we work there the
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cholesterol group was
based on me. And I try
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to put someone else
their and a nurse and I believe
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if you having a church
a nurse, a doctor, a nurse
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practitioner, a
physical therapy, a dentist.
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So, those could be the
health leaders, but if you
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don't have the knowledge
to develop support group
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you can do as the
alcoholic anonymous do things.
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So, what they do is
that they have one alcoholic
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that recovered and
then they set up a group of
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ex-alcoholics and
then they get together.
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And then they
support each other.
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Once in a while they
bring one specialist to do
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a lecture, to do a
support, to do some counseling.
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So, the same thing we can
apply for the support group.
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You can bring them, you
can if there is no health
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director in the church,
so the person can go to the
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community invite people
to With common entrance.
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Exactly. With common
situations they wanna
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decrease or work on and
have that one each other
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support each other with
what they are learning or
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each one present apart.
But, what I mean is that
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they can find in the
community a nurse that
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could give the
guidelines to start the thing.
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Okay, and then later
on they get this group
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together and then they
continue, but they always
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looking for resources
outside of the church and
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the activities don't need
to be just health related.
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They can develop other
activities relaxing things
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and even the spiritual
activities that will help
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the group to
maintain echo system.
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And continues and in
other objects or subjects
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that would be of
interest to them. Now, are those
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are the main results
of Health Evangelism or
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what are the some of
the results that could be
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obtained from that, is
just learning and everybody
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leaves and goes back
and would you train other
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leader, so that they
can lead in more groups or
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other, other things. We
are not talking about baptism.
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Unnecessarily.
Yeah, I think, I think
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there are several
levels for improvement that we
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have one is that
our nation already you
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increase the health of
the person in the church, then
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this person might
have more energy, more
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opinions, and more a
better performance to do
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evangelism and to
help other people.
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And to have other
people that have other disease.
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So, then other problem,
health problems and then
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this will reach
the community as the
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surrounding community.
Many times, I ask about
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baptisms because
sometimes we like to use,
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I mean is an Adventist
tradition to use Health
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Evangelism together
with a gospel to bring people
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to the church. And I
believe we forget that
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many people leave the
church by the back door
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and why they
leave because they are
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inactively they don't
have many friends in the
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church and that's
why I believe Health
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Evangelism is important
because we will keep the
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community active in
promoting these groups
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and promoted these
activities we will make
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this church to
be an active church.
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I develop one health
fare in Chino for the
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Portuguese speaking
church in California.
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And then we brought
all the church together and
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the youth to promote I
mean several areas of health.
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And we have blood
tests and you have.
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Invite. Invite the community.
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Church members or
community members.
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Yeah, the church
members were in the
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booths and then
inviting everyone else to
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To work together.
To work together and
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to participate
in the health fare.
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Yeah that can be
very bonding, very
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contributing to the
community and of course
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all things can start
from their and you know you
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can have people go to
if they find the risk or
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something you could go
to your personal medical
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doctor or to different
clinics or different places,
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where you could treat
those things, so it's a
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good preventive measure
to for diseases and so forth.
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One thing that I forgot
to mention is that just an
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illustration of
the cholesterol group.
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When I mentioned about
this lady I brought here
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what she did? Okay.
And then what I promote
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so we have a research
by Dr. Jenkins from Canada
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that he use this
type of things to lower
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cholesterol is a combination
of grains and almonds
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and one of type of fat
that is a natural fat, so we
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have, I adopted Dr. Jenkins
diet and so I will tell you
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what I change from that,
but is one cup of beans in
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this case I put lentils
here so one cup of lentils,
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one cup of oatmeal and
then this is traditional we
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know that oatmeal
helped to drop cholesterol.
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As we know also that
beans also help to drop
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cholesterol then when
handful of almonds, so if
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you can put the almonds
like that you have a little
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bit of more of handful,
but this is what they have
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to eat everyday. Then
we have here a substance
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called psyllium and I
told the lady today about
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psyllium and nobody
knows what the psyllium,
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but is more known by
Metamucil and if you use
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Metamucil should be
without flavor and then
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this one is a fiber and
you have to be careful to not
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eat too much of that
because then you may get
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diarrhea and gas.
So, should be one or two
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tablespoon and then you
have to measure the effect
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on yourself. You
mentioned something about not
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having flavors or
sugars, is there a particular
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reason for that. Oh,
it's just because sugar
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will increase the calorie
content and so we don't in
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sugar we don't
wanna promote sugar, okay,
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in health environment.
So, we are not sugar
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favorite person. Perfect.
And then the other thing
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is avocado. So, the as
I mentioned Dr. Jenkins
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from Canada he advised
people to use a kind of
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margarine that is
reach in beta-sitosterol,
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beta-sitosterol, okay,
and is a substance that drop
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cholesterol is a type of
fat that drop cholesterol.
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Okay. Then I was
researching and then
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I found that avocado has it.
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So, I don't like margarine,
I don't like, and some will
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go to natural
way, I notify, yeah,
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and so this is what
the lady was using that
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everyday, I don't
know how much more she
00:23:21.17\00:23:23.46
could eat everyday,
but she did that and that's
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why her cholesterol
dropped for 50% lower
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and then I advised I
mean there are some research
00:23:31.57\00:23:34.04
with avocado that if
you eat one avocado per day
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you can drop cholesterol
and increase the HDL.
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The HDL is the good
cholesterol that protects
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against heart disease and
then the new thing is that
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is not a low fat diet that
is good. But, light fat diet
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not a high fat, light
fat diet and diet that have
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some good fats that are
found in both in avocado
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and almonds.
And with avocado you
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are this is a
medium or small avocado.
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Because there are some
avocados are pretty big,
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so when you need one avocado per
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day medium or small?
Yeah, I would say one
00:24:13.37\00:24:16.49
Haas avocado. Oh!
One-half. That is a Californian,
00:24:16.52\00:24:19.06
no Haas is HAAS is
the, okay, brand name is a
00:24:19.09\00:24:23.94
type of avocado. So,
should be a California
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avocado not the
Filipino or Florida
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avocado, which is too
big. Those are too big and
00:24:30.35\00:24:33.76
maybe the part of
them you have them.
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Yeah, take a part
similar to this size.
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Okay, perfect, perfect.
So, this was the good way
00:24:37.02\00:24:39.90
that somebody was
able to learn though Health
00:24:39.93\00:24:42.29
Evangelism, how to take
care of their cholesterol
00:24:42.32\00:24:44.46
levels and if it was
done by a church, it's a good
00:24:44.49\00:24:47.84
way to make the
friends and the connection and
00:24:47.87\00:24:50.16
that's why I see the
similar method of what
00:24:50.19\00:24:52.41
you mention Jesus
was doing, you know, he
00:24:52.44\00:24:54.73
would walk around or
go wherever the God send
00:24:54.76\00:24:57.47
him to and he was
preaching the good news
00:24:57.50\00:25:00.19
and healing those
that needed the healing and
00:25:00.22\00:25:02.79
the church has the same
commission, the same job
00:25:02.82\00:25:05.76
in all days to do the
same and this is probably the
00:25:05.79\00:25:09.05
best way to do
it. And we think about
00:25:09.08\00:25:11.38
health messages in terms
of doing a health fare or
00:25:11.41\00:25:14.67
big health fare, health
lectures, but it can be,
00:25:14.70\00:25:19.33
can be simple like
that and it can be a food
00:25:19.36\00:25:21.95
demonstration, a
cooking demonstration.
00:25:21.98\00:25:23.75
I remember one activity
that I like the most and
00:25:24.38\00:25:27.53
I was the
person doing is promote
00:25:27.56\00:25:30.50
ice cream in the
church. You say ice cream you
00:25:30.53\00:25:34.44
just mentioned about
sugar, how can you do that.
00:25:34.47\00:25:37.33
The thing is that we
just froze the fruits and then
00:25:37.76\00:25:41.97
we have a blender a
special type of blender
00:25:42.00\00:25:44.49
that we put frozen
fruits there and we produce the
00:25:44.52\00:25:47.85
fresh fruits, fresh fruit
ice cream that was kind of
00:25:47.88\00:25:52.42
delicious and we can
do some different flavors
00:25:52.45\00:25:55.88
with no single gram of
fat. No single gram of sugar.
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And so all natural. All natural.
00:26:00.63\00:26:02.25
All healthy, yeah,
so you could eat as
00:26:02.28\00:26:04.22
much as you wanted. We
have to have moderation
00:26:04.25\00:26:07.50
in all things so.
Exactly so, yeah, I'm just
00:26:07.53\00:26:11.25
playing a joke there,
obviously food is to be
00:26:11.28\00:26:14.45
enjoyed, but in moderation
even the good foods that
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we have been talking
about. Now Dr. Dos Santos
00:26:17.29\00:26:19.84
we have been talking
about Health Evangelism.
00:26:19.87\00:26:21.45
Do you have any
concluding thoughts of
00:26:21.88\00:26:23.48
what Health Evangelism
is? I think Health Evangelism
00:26:23.92\00:26:27.69
is health promotion in
the church using the church
00:26:27.72\00:26:31.34
as a tool and I believe
the church is that don't have
00:26:31.37\00:26:34.59
that I mean are just
missing a part of the
00:26:34.62\00:26:37.60
evangelism that
total evangelism that is
00:26:37.63\00:26:40.08
bringing health that is
a part of the abundant life
00:26:40.44\00:26:43.85
that Jesus is providing
to us. And I believe one
00:26:43.88\00:26:49.49
important part is that
we should imitate somehow
00:26:49.52\00:26:53.11
the ministry of Jesus that
included a health component.
00:26:53.14\00:26:57.85
Right and that reminds
me of the verse in Luke
00:26:58.26\00:27:01.19
9:11, which says that
Jesus welcome them and
00:27:01.22\00:27:04.68
then spoke to them
about the kingdom of heaven,
00:27:04.71\00:27:06.83
the kingdom of his
father, the gospel and then
00:27:06.86\00:27:09.70
healed those
that needed healing.
00:27:09.73\00:27:11.18
So, the same thing
should be applied to what we do,
00:27:11.89\00:27:14.81
where we will have
health together with the
00:27:15.18\00:27:18.10
message, the message of
Jesus Christ dying for us
00:27:18.13\00:27:20.66
and given us hope and
have both of them work
00:27:20.69\00:27:22.95
together just like
Jesus. Jesus gave us a perfect
00:27:22.98\00:27:25.13
example. And we
wanna do that with Health
00:27:25.16\00:27:27.36
Evangelism to bring
people to Christ and not
00:27:27.39\00:27:30.42
only bring them, but
to keep them in Christ and
00:27:30.45\00:27:33.24
growing in Christ and
that has a combination with
00:27:33.27\00:27:36.20
health very much
like we saw with Jesus.
00:27:36.23\00:27:38.46
So, we hope that you
have enjoyed watching
00:27:39.00\00:27:41.29
about Health Evangelism
and that you partake in
00:27:41.32\00:27:44.07
the Health Evangelism
that you may see in your
00:27:44.10\00:27:45.90
church or your community
and if there is nothing
00:27:45.93\00:27:47.63
going on there that
you maybe able to start
00:27:47.66\00:27:50.29
something or ask for
more information of how
00:27:50.32\00:27:52.76
you can not only
participate, but lead in
00:27:52.79\00:27:55.75
something never think
that you don't have the
00:27:55.78\00:27:57.85
knowledge there is plenty
of material to learn, to be
00:27:57.88\00:28:00.45
trained in. So, let us
once again remember what
00:28:00.48\00:28:04.08
Jesus did and that he
was our perfect example in
00:28:04.11\00:28:07.29
Health Evangelism. Thank
you for joining us today.
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