Participants: Glen Wiltse, Don Mackintosh
Series Code: HFAL
Program Code: HFAL000043
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00:51 Hello and welcome to "Health for a Lifetime"
00:53 I'm your host Don Macintosh 00:55 and we're delighted today to have Dr. Glen Wiltse 00:59 with us from South Dakota. 01:01 He has practiced there many years as a physician 01:04 and also is a consultant for the 01:05 Black Hills Health and Education Center 01:08 Today, Dr. Wiltse, we're going to be talking about a very 01:11 interesting subject that is heart disease... 01:14 How to have healthy hearts! 01:15 And you know, the master physician said, 01:18 "I have come that they might have life, 01:20 and have it more abundantly!" 01:21 Let me ask you a question, doctor... 01:23 Do people live as abundantly or as long as they really should? 01:27 They really don't. 01:29 Research has shown us that today, 70-80% of the people 01:33 who have cancer, could have been prevented from having the 01:37 cancer by merely following a different lifestyle than 01:39 they had been following. 01:40 Almost 100% of the heart deaths could have been prevented 01:45 by a different lifestyle. 01:48 In fact, there was a doctor from Harvard University, 01:51 in charge of a health study at Framingham, Massachusetts 01:54 and he made this statement that... 01:57 "Heart disease is a preventable disease, and practically no one 02:01 really needs to die of heart disease. " 02:06 We all have to die sooner or later... 02:08 but that death could be put off or postponed from 02:14 from 3-12 years depending on 02:15 the lifestyle that you're already following. 02:17 If you've been on a real bad lifestyle, by making changes, 02:19 statistics show us that a person's death could be 02:23 postponed for at least 12 years 02:26 just by making some changes in our lifestyle. 02:29 So what we eat, what we drink, whatever we do, 02:31 if we looked at those types of things, 02:33 we could prevent most causes of death. 02:36 That's exactly right. 02:37 In fact, if we analyze the real causes of death, 02:42 we find that about almost 90%... between 80-90% of them 02:47 are related to lifestyle, and the changes 02:50 in our lifestyle could prevent those things like diet, 02:52 smoking, the use of alcohol, exposure to sunlight, 02:57 the occupation that we choose which could be changed... 03:00 There are few things, air pollution; 03:03 individually, we can't do much about that, 03:05 but as a population, something can be done 03:07 about that as well. 03:08 Food additives... we can choose, learn to be label-readers, 03:12 and choose the foods that don't have the additives 03:15 that we know are harmful. 03:16 So we're talking about choice, we're talking about 03:18 that frontal lobe of our brain, 03:20 using it and making the right choices. 03:22 What are the leading causes of death, say.. here in America? 03:25 Well I guess most everybody knows that heart disease 03:28 is the #1 cause of death in America today. 03:30 About 50% of the people in America who die, 03:33 and we all die sooner or later, 03:34 die of heart disease. 03:35 The various estimates have been made anywhere from 03:40 500,000 to 700,000 people die of heart disease every year. 03:44 Cancer is the next most common, 03:46 about 500,000 people die of that each year... 03:49 And following that, we have things like strokes, 03:51 around 150,000 people die of that each year. 03:54 And on down to lesser things like emphysema which is 03:58 definitely related to smoking; 04:00 about 85,000 people die of that each year. 04:03 Diabetes, around almost 50,000... 04:05 And a lot of these are diseases that something could be 04:09 done about either preventing or delaying. 04:14 At the Black Hills Center, we've had an interesting 04:16 experience, for instance with diabetes... 04:18 We've had diabetics come there taking insulin, 04:21 taking diabetic tablets... by getting on an exercise program, 04:25 starting on a change in their dietary pattern, 04:29 and on to natural foods. 04:31 These people were able to leave there, many times, 04:33 completely off medication, or at least 04:35 the medication markedly reduced... 04:37 And by continuing this lifestyle their life is going to be 04:40 greatly prolonged. 04:41 So they could just turn things around. 04:43 You know, we're talking more specifically, I think today, 04:45 about heart disease; what's really happening there? 04:48 What's really going on with heart disease? 04:50 Well in heart disease, in our country, in America alone 04:53 there are around a million people 04:55 who have a heart attack every year. 04:58 And about half of those people that have that heart attack, 05:01 will end up dying from it. 05:03 And contrary to the previously held opinion, 05:07 almost half of those are women. 05:09 We used to think that heart disease was primarily 05:11 a disease of men, but women are afflicted 05:14 with heart disease almost as commonly as men. 05:16 It comes on a little later in life due to their 05:17 hormone balance, but it does hit them sooner or later 05:21 And hypertension... high blood pressure is another one. 05:25 There are about 40 million people with high blood pressure 05:27 in America today, and this is a MAJOR problem. 05:29 A third of the people who have hypertension 05:31 don't even realize that they have it. 05:34 Silent killer! It's the silent killer. 05:36 Half of those who know they have it are on treatment. 05:39 But about a third of those who are on treatment 05:41 don't follow their treatment program properly in taking their 05:44 medications and the lifestyle that they should follow. 05:47 So we really need to do something about 05:49 some of these things. 05:51 The costs are another item too. 05:54 The cost for healthcare for these people who are 05:56 afflicted by these diseases that come as a result 05:59 of our aberrant lifestyle are really breaking our 06:02 healthcare budget to bits. 06:05 And especially probably now that a large balloon of people, 06:08 the baby boomers, are nearing those ages, I would imagine... 06:11 That's exactly right... You know, there are a lot of 06:13 people giving some serious study to our healthcare problem 06:16 and how we are going to be able to afford to give appropriate 06:18 healthcare to the people in our country 06:20 as the years go along, and as we get older, 06:21 and more people are afflicted with these diseases. 06:23 Well what about heart disease specifically, 06:25 why are we in the mess that we're in with that? 06:27 What really is happening? 06:30 You know, we hear about sudden heart attacks, 06:32 is there any such thing as a sudden heart attack? 06:33 Actually, there isn't. 06:35 There was a doctor from Mount Sinai Medical Center 06:38 who made the statement that there's no such thing 06:40 as a sudden heart attack. 06:42 It takes years to develop it. 06:44 The event... The terminal event is sudden. 06:46 But the preparation for that has been going on 06:49 for a long time beforehand. 06:51 We might just look at risk factors for a little bit, 06:54 and see what it is that really 06:55 causes people to develop heart disease. 06:58 The Heart Association has developed what they call 07:00 4 MAJOR risk factors, and all of those are in the 07:03 left-hand column on the slide here are preventable... 07:07 something can be done about them. 07:08 They include elevated cholesterol, high blood pressure 07:12 smoking and lack of exercise. 07:14 These are the 4 major things. 07:15 In addition to that, there's stress, diabetes and obesity. 07:19 There are some things that cause heart attack that we 07:21 can't do anything about. 07:22 BUT, we have found that if a person will follow a 07:25 good lifestyle and CONTROL the factors which are controllable, 07:28 it will go a long ways toward counteracting these 07:31 non-treatable factors such as heredity and age, 07:35 and gender, and the fact that the person has had a 07:38 heart attack before, before he learned how to 07:40 live a better life. 07:41 If you had to pick one of those... elevated cholesterol, 07:44 hypertension, tobacco, lack of exercise, you mentioned those; 07:47 you know, and you were doing ALL those... 07:48 You said, "Well, I'm doing all those wrong" 07:50 Which one would you pick first to change? 07:53 Well it would be a little hard to pick #1, but actually 07:56 the use of cigarettes is probably the #1, 07:59 maybe cholesterol would vie with it for first place... 08:02 But those would be the 2 most important of those. 08:05 Lack of exercise is important, 08:07 elevated cholesterol is important, 08:09 high blood pressure is important. 08:10 You can't change your age. You can't change your gender. 08:12 You can't change those types of things, 08:14 but you can make a decision about these others. 08:17 You certainly can, and I think we should do that... 08:20 We owe it to ourselves, each one of us 08:22 owes it to ourselves, and to our families 08:23 to do something about it. 08:25 Not only to ourselves and our families, 08:27 but to society in general. 08:28 So underlying... You said that there is 08:30 no such thing as a sudden heart attack. 08:33 There are things that are underlying that maybe we could 08:36 deal with that we're not dealing with. 08:39 What are some of those things, 08:41 more specifically, that we're not dealing with? 08:44 I mean it doesn't knock on our doors. 08:45 It's not saying... "Take care of me today" 08:47 What are some of the things that we need to just really 08:49 be thinking about? 08:50 Well why don't we zero in on hypertension, 08:52 high blood pressure. Okay 08:53 This is one of the things that is so common. 08:55 As I said, there are about 40 million hypertensives 08:57 in America today, and we need to do something about that. 09:01 Hypertension not only causes heart attack; 09:04 not only is it one of its complications, 09:06 but there are other things that occur as a result. 09:09 Kidney failure. 09:10 And that's not good; that's not fun at all, is it? 09:12 That's a very serious thing. 09:14 Strokes are another thing that occurs very commonly 09:17 with hypertension, that their blood pressure is so high 09:19 in the brain that it blows out a blood vessel, 09:21 and you have a hemorrhage in the brain, 09:22 the person has a stroke... 09:24 and, of course, we know how devastating this is. 09:26 And a thrombotic stroke, one that's caused by a clot, 09:29 can be treated today. 09:30 There are clot-dissolving medications, 09:31 but the hemorrhage, we don't have any treatment for that. 09:35 Once that blood is flowing freely in the brain, it's there! 09:38 Then in addition to that, there's the eye damage 09:41 that comes as a result of the high blood pressure. 09:43 Retinal damage, so that persons lose their eyesight. 09:46 And a thing that I failed to put on the slide here is 09:48 also congestive heart failure... another thing that occurs, 09:52 and when it occurs, it usually occurs as an acute situation. 09:55 And I can recall seeing patients in my practice 09:57 who had this, and it's serious and many times, untreatable. 10:01 uncurable. 10:03 How can we prevent these types of things? 10:07 There are a number of things that a person can do 10:09 to keep from getting hypertension. 10:11 You cannot prevent EVERY case, but by-and-large, 10:14 hypertension is a preventable disease. 10:17 A low salt diet has been a traditional therapy for 10:20 probably 40 years, at least, when I was in even 10:23 medical school... longer ago than that, 10:25 that was taught as one of the things that we should do. 10:28 #2... Of course, we all should have an ideal weight, 10:31 and hypertension is usually helped if a person is overweight 10:34 by losing weight; although slender people do sometimes 10:37 have high blood pressure. 10:38 But if a person is overweight, and loses, it will help. 10:41 Non-use of tobacco in any form is helpful. 10:45 Nicotine is a vasoconstrictor, it causes constriction of the 10:50 blood vessels and elevation of pressure. 10:52 Alcohol, strangely enough, is also... 10:55 even though it's taken by some people as a sedative, 10:58 it actually is associated with high blood pressure, 11:01 and increases the risk. 11:02 Exercise, even though when a person is exercising, 11:05 his pressure is higher, 11:06 the effect upon the circulation, 11:09 the effect upon the blood vessels tends to be 11:11 lowering of the blood pressure, so that's effective. 11:14 Another thing we should do... 11:16 All of us should get an adequate amount of exercise, 11:18 20-30 minutes a day. 11:20 In addition to that, a diet. 11:22 A diet that's rich in grains, fruits, nuts and vegetables... 11:25 Avoiding foods that have been processed by an animal, 11:28 and you're eating them secondhand. 11:30 All of these things can help and prevent hypertension. 11:32 So really, we talked about hypertension, 11:34 we talked about this because it's an underlying cause, 11:38 or a silent cause for many people... of heart disease. 11:42 What really causes heart dis-EASE? 11:47 Okay, the basic problem here is an elevation of 11:52 blood cholesterol with precipitation of the cholesterol 11:55 into the arteries of the heart, 11:57 and of all the arteries in the 11:59 body, in fact, not just the heart. 12:01 Cholesterol is the basic ingredient, 12:03 then are some other substances, 12:04 calcium and fibrin, and platelets... 12:06 And that all goes in to the arteries of the heart. 12:09 That's right, and the other vessels in the body as well. 12:12 The brain, the kidneys, the peripheral vessels, 12:15 all of these are affected by atherosclerosis, 12:17 but the ones in the heart cause the heart attack. 12:20 There's an interesting story that helps us to have insight 12:25 as to what can happen to a group of people. 12:27 There's a little island in the South Pacific called "Nauru," 12:31 about 7,000 or 8,000 population; 12:33 for years they lived a primitive culture, 12:36 but they found that it was a rich source of phosphate 12:39 fertilizer deposited there by birds on their migration flights 12:43 over a period of centuries. Someone else discovered that. 12:46 And the Nauruans then found that there was a market for this 12:50 and they started selling; these people became affluent. 12:52 They started importing things from you-know-where. 12:55 They got fast-food restaurants. 12:57 They got this, They got that! 12:58 And before long, their heart attack rate which had been 13:01 practically nil, when they were on the native 13:03 homegrown foods, skyrocketed until it was 13:07 even worse than it is in the United States. 13:09 I think it's just an example of what can happen... 13:11 It's not the people, it's what we put into ourselves. 13:15 It's our lifestyle that really 13:16 causes the heart attack that we have. 13:18 So, you know, I've heard that story in many places, 13:21 not just Nauru which I hadn't 13:24 heard of before I talked with you... 13:25 But other places around the world, Australia. 13:28 Just recently I was in Romania, 13:32 and they just LOVED things from the Western diet. 13:35 Really a problem as it leads to that building block 13:38 of heart disease. 13:39 We've been talking with Dr. Glen Wiltse 13:41 from South Dakota. 13:43 He's a physician. He's a health educator. 13:45 We've been talking about heart disease. 13:47 We've been talking about what causes it; 13:49 the underlying problems... hypertension. 13:51 We've found out that many of the things that we do, 13:54 many of the ways we live directly lead to 13:58 heart disease, heart attacks. 13:59 There's no such thing as a sudden heart attack. 14:01 When we come back, we want to see how we can AVOID this. 14:03 We want to talk a little bit more about some real 14:06 practical things, and some GOOD NEWS as we end out 14:09 the program, we hope that you'll join us! 14:24 Have you found yourself wishing that you could shed a few pounds 14:28 Have you been on a diet for most of your life, 14:30 but not found anything that will really keep the weight off? 14:33 If you've answered "yes" to any of these questions, 14:35 then we have a solution for you that works. 14:39 Dr. Hans Diehl and Dr. Aileen Ludington 14:41 have written a marvelous booklet called... 14:43 "Reversing Obesity Naturally" 14:46 and we'd like to send it to you FREE of charge. 14:48 Here's a medically sound approach successfully used 14:51 by thousands who are able to eat more, 14:53 and lose weight permanently without feeling guilty or hungry 14:57 through lifestyle medicine. 14:59 Dr. Diehl and Dr. Ludington have been featured on 3ABN 15:03 and in this booklet, they present a sensible approach 15:05 to eating, nutrition, and lifestyle changes 15:08 that can help you prevent heart disease, diabetes, 15:10 and EVEN cancer! 15:12 Call or write today for your free copy of... 15:14 "Reversing Obesity Naturally" 15:16 and you could be on your way to a healthier, happier YOU! 15:19 It's ABSOLUTELY free of charge, so call or write today! 15:35 Welcome back, we've been talking with Dr. Glen Wiltse. 15:38 We've been talking about heart disease. 15:40 We've been talking about what causes it. 15:43 We've been talking about what we can do to prevent it. 15:46 And in this segment, we're going 15:48 to talk a little bit more about that. 15:49 Doctor, you were sharing some interesting research with me 15:53 about heart disease. 15:55 There are a lot of epidemiologic studies been done to 15:58 help us gather information. 16:00 Epidemiologic studies is one in which they study 16:02 an entire group of people; 16:04 find out what diseases they have, 16:06 what they die of, what age they die of, and so forth. 16:08 The first researcher on this was actually 16:10 Dr. Ancel Keys, of the University of Minnesota. 16:12 That's probably been 40 or 50 years ago that he began 16:15 studying different populations in different 16:18 parts of the world, and found that there was 16:20 a relationship between lifestyle and a number of 16:22 different diseases. 16:23 And since that time, of course, we've had a large study in China 16:26 The Chinese people make an ideal study group 16:28 because they don't tend to move 16:29 around over the country as much as we do. 16:31 They can take a group of people in a community, 16:34 and they'll stay there. 16:35 The same people will be there year, after year, after year. 16:38 And then there's the Framingham Study 16:40 that was done in Boston under Harvard University 16:42 with Dr. William Castelli. 16:43 They got a tremendous amount of information there, 16:45 and then the MRFIT Study was another large study. 16:48 A study of the Japanese people has also been very interesting 16:52 because the Japanese tend to be rather homogeneous, 16:55 and maintain a consistent lifestyle... 16:58 and they've also, a lot of them move from their country 17:01 to Hawaii and then over to the United States, 17:04 and to notice the changes in the diseases that they have 17:07 from the home country, to Hawaii, 17:10 and then to the United States, has been very interesting. 17:12 And we find that as far as heart disease is concerned, 17:15 there is a tremendous increase when they move to America 17:17 and begin to adopt the American lifestyle. 17:19 So they don't have the heart disease in their countries, 17:23 in China and Japan, and these places like we do here. 17:25 Japan has about one-ninth of the heart disease 17:28 that we have in America, 17:29 and their diet contains only about one-fifth 17:31 of the cholesterol that people in America tend to eat. 17:34 Another interesting thing about it that's come out of these 17:37 studies is that atherosclerosis, hardening of the arteries, 17:40 the underlying problem of heart disease, 17:42 actually begins in childhood. 17:44 And this was first really brought to the forefront 17:48 during the Korean, and then during the Vietnamese conflict; 17:51 when they did autopsies on our servicemen, a young fellow 17:54 from 18-25 years of age. 17:56 They found out that they already had the early signs, 17:59 and the early changes of atherosclerosis... 18:01 Whereas their counterparts, the Korean young people, 18:04 and the Vietnamese young men; 18:05 they did autopsies on them after they had died from accident, 18:09 or from gunshot, and they found their arteries 18:11 were perfectly clean. 18:13 Well, tell me exactly what happens... 18:15 I worked with one of these men that actually was doing 18:18 those autopsies once. 18:20 He worked with me in a hospital I worked in, and he said, 18:21 they would cut open that artery and they would look at it 18:25 Explain to us what does really happen in those arteries. 18:28 Okay, well I think we'll introduce a couple of pictures 18:32 here that will show some research work that was done 18:35 in the University of Oregon. 18:37 The picture on the right... correction, the one on the left 18:40 shows a normal situation; whereas the red blood cells 18:43 are coming along the capillary, and they're flowing real nicely. 18:46 There's a distance between them and they're just kind of... 18:48 And when they come to that junction there, 18:50 and have to go one way or the other, 18:51 those capillaries are so small that the red cells 18:54 HAVE to go through single file. 18:56 This doctor in Oregon took these... 19:00 this was on hamsters, laboratory animals; 19:02 they gave them a meal of cream, 19:04 and then they looked at their red cells, 19:06 and the way they flowed afterwards, 19:07 and that's in the picture on the right side of our screen. 19:09 The one of the left is no cream, 19:11 and the one on the right is with cream... Right 19:14 And so we can see what has happened. 19:16 The red cells have become sticky. 19:17 This cream has made them so 19:18 that they're just like they have glue on them. 19:19 They come up to the bifurcation in the capillary 19:22 where they have to go through single file, 19:24 and they can't make it because they're all 19:25 stuck together. 19:26 And if that capillary happened to be taking blood to 19:30 the cartilage of your knee, for instance, 19:31 or to the muscle of your heart, 19:33 it's just not getting the circulation that it should have. 19:36 So is this a clot? 19:37 It actually is not a clot because it does dissolve 19:40 as the fat is absorbed and taken out of the vessel. 19:46 An interesting thing though, 19:48 that this work was followed up by a doctor in San Francisco 19:51 who did this same type of experiment on human beings 19:54 in which they looked at the capillaries 19:56 back in the back of the eye. 19:57 They found out that no matter what kind of fatty meal 20:00 they gave... it could be corn oil, 20:01 it could be cream, it could be lard, it could be butter, 20:03 no matter what type of fat it was, 20:06 any refined fat... that caused the capillaries 20:09 to be obstructed by these red blood cells that stuck together 20:13 So it can even be "healthy" fat. 20:16 Right! That's exactly right. 20:17 So, the conclusion that we get out of this is that we should 20:20 avoid refined fats in our diet... 20:23 And even so-called "good fats" can be harmful to us, 20:25 especially when used in too large a quantity, 20:28 and it's hard to know exactly how much 20:30 too large a quantity really is. 20:32 So probably the best thing is just to eat the sunflower seeds, 20:35 eat the corn, eat the soybean, 20:38 but NOT to use the refined product. 20:42 So once you have this problem, atherosclerosis, 20:47 can you treat it? Can it be reversed? 20:50 You really can! There have been a number of 20:52 researchers that have demonstrated, definitely, 20:55 that it can be reversed. 20:57 One of the first ones of these that was done on animals 21:01 initially by a couple of doctors, 21:03 Dr. Vesselinovitch and Dr. Wissler, 21:06 and they showed on animals, that they fed them a 21:09 high fat diet, and then they put them on a 21:11 so-called "good diet," we call it a good diet, 21:14 that the atherosclerosis that developed as a result of 21:18 the bad diet, actually was healed up; it was reversed. 21:21 So atherosclerosis IS a reversible disease. 21:25 And there have been others that have demonstrated 21:27 this as well. 21:29 One of the most recent one of these was done by 21:32 Dr. Dean Ornish, who was a Professor of Cardiology at 21:35 the University of California in San Francisco. 21:38 And he put his people, people who had atherosclerosis; 21:43 they had had angiograms where they take the x-rays 21:46 of the arteries of the heart. 21:47 Put that dye in there, and then they look at it on the x-ray. 21:52 And they show the narrowing of the vessels. 21:55 He took a group of these people and half of them, 21:58 he put on a diet that we would consider a good diet. 22:02 It was a diet that about 10% of the calories were from fat. 22:05 It had a lot of complex unrefined carbohydrates. 22:09 It had no simple sugars, no caffeine. 22:12 These people were also put on a program of exercise, 22:15 and they had stress-control programs, 22:18 group therapy, and so forth. 22:19 And, what happened is extremely interesting. 22:22 At the end of 1 year on this program, 22:25 we found that the artery stenosis they had, 22:29 which is the narrowing; those narrow spots, 22:32 that the people who were on this diet, 22:33 their narrowing had decreased by 4%... 22:36 Whereas the other half of the people who were on the 22:38 American Heart Association heart diet, 22:40 theirs had actually gone up almost 3%. 22:44 So there's something beyond what the 22:45 American Heart Association is saying. 22:47 You really need a lower fat diet than what they had... 22:50 Especially if they had these problems! 22:51 That's exactly right! 22:53 The angina decreased 91%. What's angina? 22:56 That's chest pain that comes as a result of 22:58 poor circulation of the heart. 22:59 The heart not getting enough supply... 23:01 So 91% of them no longer had the chest pain. 23:03 That's exactly right! Amazing! 23:05 And the ones that were on the control diet, 23:09 theirs became worse. 23:11 Also, their LDL, the bad cholesterol, 23:14 went down on the diet that we call a good diet, 23:19 the ones that were on the control, theirs went up. 23:21 So LDL, that's BAD cholesterol. That's "lousy" 23:25 That's right. "L" stands for lousy. 23:28 That's right... and so it went down. 23:30 So this was an interesting thing. 23:33 So this is really showing that you cannot only 23:37 address the problem and stop it, 23:39 you can even REVERSE it! Exactly right 23:42 An interesting is that just a few months ago, 23:45 in the "Journal of the American Medical Association" 23:48 I read the report of a 5-year follow-up. 23:50 The first statistics I gave there were at 1 year. 23:54 At the end of 5 years, the results were even better. 23:57 There was even less angina, 23:59 and some of the people who were on the control group, 24:02 the ones who were on the Heart Association diet, 24:04 actually became so bad that they had to take 24:06 them out of the study completely. 24:09 Several of them had heart attacks, 24:12 and some of them were also put on lipid-lowering drugs 24:15 that the Heart Association diet was not going to... 24:17 So after 5 years, we're seeing here that the narrowing 24:21 went down, what does it say... 7? 24:23 Yes, the narrowing went down almost 8% 24:27 And the angina, chest pain, went down 72%. 24:32 Their LDL, the "lousy cholesterol went down 20% 24:36 And their cholesterol was down 62% 24:38 This was over a 5-year period. 24:40 I guess the important thing about this to me is 24:42 some people will say, "Well I could never change, 24:45 and I never could stick with this. " 24:46 This is saying that people not only change for a 24:48 momentary program, but they stick with it. 24:50 They did stay with it. 24:52 It takes some will power. 24:53 It takes some dedication. 24:54 It takes some commitment. 24:55 But these people who did do that, 24:57 found that it was worthwhile for them. 25:01 So atherosclerosis IS a reversible disease. 25:07 I might just quote the summary from Dr. Ornish's study 25:12 that he did in the article in the 25:13 "Journal of the American Medical Association" last December. 25:16 He said, I'm quoting... "Experimental patients 25:19 showed even more regression of the coronary atherosclerosis 25:22 after 5 years, than 1 year. " 25:24 In other words, they got better. 25:25 "In contrast, patients following 25:27 a more conventional lifestyle recommendation 25:28 showed even MORE progression of the coronary atherosclerosis 25:32 after 5 years than after 1, and had more than 25:36 twice as many cardiac events. " 25:38 In other words, they were having more angina, more heart attacks, 25:40 more cardiac surgery. 25:42 So that the program that with the refined diet, made it worse. 25:48 That's right. But with the simple diet, 25:49 and those things, we can reverse it. That's right 25:51 Do you have any advice for us 25:53 as we're closing out the program, we have 2 minutes left. 25:56 People are saying, "Well what can I do?" 25:58 How can I start on this journey of REVERSING heart disease? 26:01 Okay, well we have one more graphic that we 26:04 can do real quickly, I think, from Dr. Castelli, 26:06 from the Harvard Framingham Study in Boston... 26:10 He makes the statement that atherosclerosis is 26:13 100% reversible if we maintain a cholesterol level of 150 26:17 and 60% reversible at a cholesterol level of 170. 26:21 Now, these are certainly attainable. 26:23 It takes some judicious effort, but it certainly can be done. 26:26 And so how do we attain it? 26:27 And so we attain that by starting to eat a diet that's 26:30 heavy in UNREFINED foods; 26:32 grains, fruits, nuts and vegetables 26:35 in their unrefined state. 26:37 Don't add excitotoxins to them. 26:40 Don't add a lot of fat to them. 26:41 Don't add sugar to them. 26:42 Just use them in the way that 26:45 the Lord caused them to grow for us. 26:47 We can prevent the heart disease if we will 26:50 ...we will go ahead and leave this slide on here 26:52 and just real briefly go over it. 26:54 Low salt diet, maintain an ideal weight, avoid tobacco, 26:58 get a regular exercise program 30 minutes a day, 27:01 and then eat that diet that I mentioned... 27:03 a diet low in refined products, or avoiding refined products, 27:07 grains, fruits, nuts and vegetables in the way that 27:10 they grew, the way the Lord designed them for us to eat. 27:13 So research is showing us what we've probably had a 27:17 sneaking suspicion all along... 27:19 That our mothers were right about saying eat our fruits 27:21 and vegetables, but more than that, 27:23 that the Master Physician was right when He said, 27:25 "Hey, fruits, nuts, and grains" 27:28 We have about 30 seconds. 27:29 I want you to take 15 of that and say... 27:31 Is there anything we really should bypass? 27:33 We should bypass the refrigerator, bypass McDonald's, 27:37 bypass Pizza Hut, bypass Wendy's bypass the local greasy spoon. 27:42 Leave those things alone. 27:43 Go out to your garden and get your food! 27:45 We've been talking with Dr. Glen Wiltse 27:49 from South Dakota where he works with the 27:51 Black Hills Health and Education Center, 27:54 and we hope that as a result of this program, 27:56 you will avoid heart disease, heart attacks, 27:59 and have health that lasts for a lifetime! |
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