Participants: Allan Handysides, Don Mackintosh
Series Code: HFAL
Program Code: HFAL000101
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00:46 Hello and welcome to "Health for a Lifetime"
00:48 We're glad that you're with us and Dr. Allan Handysides, 00:51 we're glad that you're with us as well today. 00:54 Thank you very much. 00:55 Now your role is with the 00:56 "General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists" 00:58 You are a physician that works for them, 01:01 and it's no longer Health and Temperance, 01:03 it's "Health Ministries Department" - That's correct 01:06 And you have kind of a global perspective, 01:09 and you look at the major killers around the globe, 01:12 not just maybe in one country, but you're kind of in charge 01:15 of different departments that 01:17 look around the world. That's right 01:19 Now here in America, it's my understanding that one of the 01:23 major killers is heart disease. You're right, it's serious 01:26 But what about in terms of a global health issue, 01:29 is it an important issue globally? 01:32 It's probably not as much of 01:35 a global issue in some of the developing countries, 01:38 but you must remember countries like those in Europe, 01:42 and certain parts of the Far East are becoming 01:45 very sophisticated societies, 01:47 and heart disease is becoming an 01:49 increasing problem in those societies... Like Singapore 01:54 Like Singapore and Korea, for instance is becoming 01:58 much more sophisticated. 02:00 Big cities in China? 02:02 I don't think the Chinese are probably quite into the 02:07 high-fat intake that we are as yet, 02:09 but they are moving in that direction. 02:11 So why is heart health such an important issue? 02:14 When you look at the whole body you've got... 02:16 your liver, you've got your knees, you've got your nose, 02:18 you've got your heart... why is the heart so important? 02:20 I mean, that may be begging the question, but why... 02:23 Because you're leading me on! 02:25 Why is that so important to you? 02:27 If we cut off your nose, you wouldn't look so good, 02:29 but you'd still carry on. That's right 02:31 If we cut out your heart, you'd stop dead. Right 02:34 Now the thing is that there are 02:36 half a million deaths a year in the United States 02:41 secondary to heart disease. 02:45 It's estimated that there will be about 70% of the 02:48 male population will have heart disease. 02:51 ...70%, that will be one of the causes that 02:54 leads to their demise. That's right 02:57 And women - it's a little less, maybe down to 50-55% 03:00 women will have heart disease. 03:02 That doesn't mean that they don't have heart disease, 03:07 but they don't have symptoms of heart disease, 03:10 and they don't show that they have heart disease. 03:12 Now, when you talk about heart disease, 03:13 when you're talking about heart disease, 03:15 I think about different things... 03:16 I think about, you know, an enlarged heart, 03:19 or as some people call that, congestive heart failure. 03:22 I think about a heart attack. 03:24 I think about a problem with one of the valves. 03:27 What do you mean when you say that? 03:28 Well when I say that, I'm really talking about 03:31 arteriosclerotic heart disease. 03:33 So we're talking a vascular problem feeding the heart. 03:38 Now this separates it from the children 03:41 born with congenital heart disease. 03:43 It separates off those with a quiet heart disease 03:47 such as rheumatic fever. 03:49 And I'm not really talking about people who have 03:51 an infected heart problem like some of the myocardiopathies, 03:58 nor things like subacute bacterial endocarditis 04:01 which proportionate to the rest of heart disease, 04:05 are a very small proportion. 04:06 So, infections in the heart, that kind of stuff. 04:08 Yes they occur, but they are somewhat exotic. 04:12 Now your training is with women's health issues, 04:16 and also with pediatrics, but speaking of pediatrics 04:19 or children, is it a big problem with children - heart disease? 04:22 Well, heart disease, the congenital 04:25 heart disease, is a big problem. 04:27 I remember when I worked at "The Hospital for Sick Children," 04:31 any one day, we could count maybe 65 children 04:34 in the hospital with a congenital abnormality. 04:38 And they would do, perhaps every day, 04:40 25-30 cardiac catheterizations to diagnose what the problem was 04:45 ...but very seldom, did we see arteriosclerotic heart disease. 04:50 Although our pathologist told us that when they did autopsies 04:54 on children, they could see in the children arteriosclerotic 04:58 changes in children as young as a year of age - 05:01 already beginning to see change there. 05:05 And what was that coming from - did they think? 05:07 What did they find in there? 05:09 We felt that that was probably related to the fat content, 05:13 the high-fat content in even infant formulas - 05:17 the diets that children were 05:19 receiving that weren't being breastfed. 05:21 Well let's talk about that fat intake... what's that? 05:25 What's the relationship between fat and heart disease? 05:28 Can I beg to just go back a little bit 05:33 and to talk about heart disease... Sure 05:35 Perhaps the underlying lesion in heart disease 05:40 is what we call "plaque" 05:42 Underneath the intima or the lining of the blood vessel, 05:46 ...here's the blood vessel, underneath the lining - 05:49 the little tiny one cell skin of the lining, 05:54 there is an accumulation of material. 05:57 Now we've tended to think that's just fat... 05:59 Well that's just erroneous, it's not just fat. 06:02 Probably there's a damage, first of all, an intimal damage 06:05 takes place - damage to that lining. 06:07 That may be because of oxidized low density lipoproteins, 06:14 a form of cholesterol. 06:15 It may be because of bacteria. 06:17 There's even an association between dental health, 06:20 and heart disease. 06:22 So it may be bacteria similar to those that are 06:25 around our teeth and gums in gingivitis. 06:28 So whatever the trigger is, 06:30 it sets up an inflammatory process... 06:34 and that inflammatory process 06:35 calls in tissue- white blood cells; 06:39 macrophages, platelets, clot onto this damaged area, 06:44 fibrin- which is a proteinaceous material, is released in there, 06:48 and so we get a buildup of these various substances - 06:52 it's not just pure fat sitting on the blood vessels. 06:55 So damage to that inner layer and whatever that damage 06:59 comes from, could be different factors, you're saying, 07:01 it causes these other blood clot type things to come to the area. 07:06 Well, what it does is it gradually expands, 07:08 and closes down the space within the vessel. 07:13 Now, if you take 1/2 inch pipe, in plumbing, 07:18 and you compare it to a 1 inch pipe in plumbing, 07:21 you'd say, "Well, I'm getting half the flow 07:23 through the 1/2 inch pipe than I'd get through the 1 inch. " 07:27 That's not correct! 07:28 The flow is not just hard when you go from 1 inch to 1/2 inch, 07:33 it's to a factor of about 16 07:35 for same pressure and things like that. 07:37 So in other words, this narrowing of the blood vessels 07:39 particularly in our heart vessels, 07:41 is very, very significant and very important. 07:44 Sort of like a garden hose when you squeeze it... 07:47 REALLY has a lot of change on those vessels. 07:52 Well what about the fat thing, let's come back to that. 07:55 How does fat relate to heart disease then? 07:57 Well the fats that are carried around in our body, 08:01 fats are very important to them and we can't live without fats.. 08:04 More important to some people than others... Definitely! 08:08 But the balance of the fats have a very important role to play 08:13 in heart health. 08:14 Remember I said that one of the triggers is the 08:17 oxidized low density lipoproteins - the LDL 08:21 Now, if you have an elevated level of LDL, 08:25 then you're going to find that there is more chance of it 08:27 than being oxidized and, of course, that is where 08:30 antioxidants come in and protect against that, 08:32 and they will then be deposited part of that motley crew of 08:36 substances in that plaque. 08:37 And that's the thing that messes up the intima, 08:41 the little, inner layer... That is what will mess up the intima. 08:43 High density lipoproteins, on the other hand, 08:46 they are important for removing oxidized low density 08:51 lipoproteins from the clot. 08:52 So if we have higher levels of high density lipoprotein, 08:55 we get a better balance... 08:56 And of course, the total cholesterol has a bearing 08:59 on all of these factors. 09:01 Now where do these come from? 09:03 They come from the fats that we eat. 09:06 So if we, as the average American, 09:09 is eating 40% of our calories from fat, 09:12 we're taking far too much for our body's needs; 09:15 far too much for our body to be able to cope with, 09:17 and so we throw these fats in our blood - 09:20 we throw them into imbalance. 09:23 Now the saturated fats, which come from animal sources, 09:29 are by far and away, the most dangerous of the fats. 09:33 And we would like to see saturated fats reduced, 09:36 reduced, reduced, reduced, reduced, brought right down low. 09:39 There are some other fats that are good for us, 09:42 although nothing is absolutely black and white in this area, 09:48 but they are better for us, so we should have 09:50 proportionately more and those are the unsaturated fats, 09:54 and particularly the monounsaturated fatty acids 09:58 which we call "MUFAs" 09:59 So what would be some examples of the MUFAs? 10:02 Well, the MUFAs - if you read in the common literature, 10:07 they'll talk about fish oils. 10:09 They'll be talking about fish oils as being a "good source" 10:12 of MUFAs... Flaxseed though 10:13 Ah ha, but you see, when you take something 10:16 that may be polluted... look at the mercury levels 10:20 in the sea or in the dioxins and so forth, 10:23 then you're running into problems 10:25 of these other contaminants. 10:27 Whereas if you take the MUFAs, say - in flaxseed, 10:31 then you're going to be able to take a higher level 10:35 of monounsaturated fatty acids WITHOUT the collateral problems 10:39 that come along with some of those other contaminants. 10:41 But if you just say "no fat," you may cut out 10:43 the omega-3s and that could be damaged to what? 10:45 That's right... nobody, today, is saying "no fat" 10:49 You know, I don't think anybody who is current is saying- no fat 10:53 We all know - we don't want the cholesterols to go to nothing 10:58 because cholesterols are important for brain function, 11:01 neuro function and so forth. 11:03 In fact, there have been some studies that were done on 11:06 excessively low cholesterol levels being associated with 11:09 depression, psychiatric disorders, 11:12 even increased suicide rates have been correlated 11:15 with very low cholesterol levels. 11:18 So what we try to aim for is the healthiest levels, 11:22 and they've just revised the cholesterol levels. 11:25 What are they now... what should they be? 11:28 Okay, they've left the total cholesterol level 200 mg/100 ml 11:37 that stayed the same; although there has been some 11:39 thought that maybe they should lower that, 11:40 but they've left that the same. 11:42 But they have raised the level of high density lipoproteins; 11:47 they now say - instead of 35 being the low, 11:49 they'd like to see... in other words, you should be 11:51 above 40 with your high density lipoproteins. 11:53 And then for your low density lipoproteins, 11:57 they would like those a little lower... 11:59 And so, they now look at a level, 12:01 once you start getting above 65, 12:04 they say that's not a good level. 12:06 They are adjusting now, these levels at a national level 12:10 or international level and they are saying... 12:13 They are saying, "Let's be more 12:14 stringent on our cholesterol control. 12:17 When should we start checking our cholesterol, and how often? 12:20 I mean, you are a pediatrician, 12:22 should children have cholesterol checks? 12:23 I think we should start at maybe about age 20. 12:26 The reason I would recommend that is that it's a 12:29 national recommendation, but also because 12:33 you will pickup those people who have familial 12:36 inherited problems with fat regulation, 12:40 and those people need to be very, very careful about 12:44 their diet and their lifestyle, 12:47 and they may even need to go on 12:49 cholesterol-lowering medications because they have an 12:52 abnormal high enzyme problem. 12:56 Even if it is familial, in other words... 12:58 let's say you had someone that is not eating high fat foods, 13:01 not eating high cholesterol foods, 13:03 but they still have a high cholesterol. 13:05 They are in real danger. 13:07 Yes, so they have a metabolic disorder. 13:12 If you were to compare them to the diabetics, 13:14 we'd say they are like the type 1 diabetics. 13:16 They are genetically in trouble. 13:18 Then there is the vast majority of us who run into 13:21 cholesterol troubles because we are like the 13:24 type 2 diabetics - we're out of whack with our lifestyle... 13:27 But that group, they will be benefiting by having their 13:30 cholesterols measured when they are early, 13:32 and then maybe every 5 years 13:34 thereafter we should have this profile to keep an idea 13:37 as to where we are going with our cholesterols and fats. 13:40 So we need to know our numbers... 13:41 We need to know our numbers, arithmetic - basic stuff. 13:43 Know where they are. 13:45 Okay, other important aspects of heart health... 13:48 We talked about cholesterol; 13:49 we've talked about the vascular narrowing... 13:53 We can't leave it without talking about smoking. 13:55 Smoking! Okay... 13:56 No way that we can leave without talking about smoking. 13:58 Smoking is one of those factors that damages the intima. 14:02 So it is an initiating factor in setting up the process. 14:08 So how does that work? You smoke, it goes into your... 14:11 The nicotine goes in the neck, causes vasoconstriction, 14:13 maybe hypoxic damage - we don't know, 14:15 maybe direct chemical damage 14:17 from some of the contents of the smoking... 14:19 And here you've got the beginning... the seed is sewn 14:23 for arteriosclerotic heart disease. 14:26 Someone told me once that in that layer - 14:28 and I'm just checking with you to see if that's true, 14:29 there is a substance that is released right in that layer, 14:33 inner layer, that sort of like nitroglycerin. 14:35 It's sort of like that and it can help it relax, 14:38 but when you smoke, that disrupts that. 14:41 Am I correct on that? That's right 14:43 It interferes with the vasoactive components 14:46 in the vessel and it causes spasm, 14:49 and in and of itself, narrows the vessel. 14:54 I had a colleague - he was a physician, 14:56 should have known far better. 14:57 He got chest pain; he sat down and he said, 15:00 "I think I'll have a cigarette, I don't feel good" 15:03 Took the cigarette and he was found dead in the office. 15:05 Is that right? The cigarette probably 15:08 was the straw that broke the camel's back 15:11 in his particular situation. 15:12 What would be the most dangerous? 15:14 And I hate to put you on record of saying what this is 15:16 and maybe you don't want to be on record... 15:17 But let's say you had to choose between that very 15:20 high fat diet and cigarette smoking, 15:22 which is the most dangerous of those two? 15:24 Oh, that's like saying... Which would you rather be 15:27 run over by a Mack truck or be run over by... 15:30 you know - a train or something. 15:31 They are both bad - they are very, very bad. 15:34 Now one thing - another factor is exercise. 15:39 And in our lifestyle, we love to talk about foods, 15:43 but exercise - we talk about it a little bit, 15:46 we don't like to do it. 15:48 You know to get that sweat there and to work it up, 15:51 and 20 minutes a day of, you know, come out in a light sweat, 15:55 and you sort of feel hot for the next hour... 15:57 We don't like that kind of feeling. 16:00 We don't want to be uncomfortable. 16:01 And yet, statics show that a fit smoker, 16:08 as far as health risk is concerned, 16:10 is no worse off than an unfit nonsmoker. 16:15 A fit smoker is no worse off than an unfit nonsmoker. 16:22 You've heard it right here. 16:23 That's kind of bad news maybe for some of us. 16:25 We're talking to Dr. Allan Handysides 16:27 Join us when we come back to talk about heart health. 16:37 Have you found yourself wishing that 16:38 you could shed a few pounds? 16:40 Have you been on a diet for most of your life, 16:42 but not found anything that will really keep the weight off? 16:45 If you've answered "yes" to any of these questions, 16:48 then we have a solution for you that works! 16:51 Dr. Hans Diehl and Dr. Aileen Ludington 16:54 have written a marvelous booklet called... 16:56 "Reversing Obesity Naturally" 16:58 and we'd like to send it to you FREE of charge. 17:01 Here's a medically sound approach successfully 17:03 used by thousands who were able to eat more and lose weight 17:07 permanently without feeling guilty or hungry 17:10 through lifestyle medicine. 17:11 Dr. Diehl and Dr. Ludington have been featured on 3ABN 17:15 and in this booklet, they present a sensible 17:17 approach to eating, nutrition and lifestyle changes 17:20 that can help you prevent heart disease, diabetes, 17:23 and EVEN cancer. 17:24 Call or write today for your free copy of... 17:26 "Reversing Obesity Naturally" 17:28 and you could be on your way to a healthier, happier YOU! 17:31 It's ABSOLUTELY free of charge, so call or write today. 17:39 Welcome back, we've been talking about your heart 17:40 and health, and we've been talking about the fact 17:43 that there are a lot of things we can do to avoid heart disease 17:45 ...one of America's #1 killers and a global concern as well. 17:49 When we left, we were talking about exercise, 17:52 and you were telling me that a smoker who is fit 17:54 is no better off really, than the person that's 18:00 NOT fit who doesn't smoke. 18:02 They are about the same and you were telling me 18:04 it's a one-pack-a-day type smoker. 18:05 That's on a one-pack-a-day, yes. 18:08 A person who smokes one-pack-a-day, 18:10 but is an athlete and is fit is no worse off than the 18:14 nonsmoker who is a couch potato. 18:16 So we do need to be exercising, that's what you're telling us 18:18 that for - to underline that. Yes, that's what we're saying. 18:21 And when we say "exercise," does this have to be 18:23 aerobic exercise... or does anything help? 18:27 Well, I suppose anything is better than nothing, 18:32 but there are some things that are better than others. 18:35 Walking for most people is probably the easiest 18:40 and simplest way of achieving heart health. 18:45 Now you need to walk probably briskly for about 20 minutes, 18:49 but people must not go out - anybody listening to this 18:51 program must not go out and walk briskly for 20 minutes. 18:54 They need to know where they are at before they try that. 18:59 But they need to be able to, in graduated exercise, 19:03 get to the point that they can walk 20 minutes briskly, 19:07 and breaking a light sweat and that would give definite 19:14 and proven benefits. 19:16 Now if you're out there walking briskly or whatever, 19:19 and you've been cleared by your doctor or lightly 19:21 and what are the symptoms of heart disease, 19:25 maybe not just for walking but other symptoms as well? 19:27 What are warning signals that you better go in and get 19:29 checked out by your physician? 19:30 Interestingly, they are different between 19:32 males and females. 19:33 We've traditionally taught, both physicians and the public 19:39 that the crushing pain in the chest - you know the elephant 19:42 foot just on there - that tightness that comes on 19:46 with exercise or with exertion, anger or stress - 19:52 that could be a sign of cardiac disease... 19:55 And in the male, he may develop angina, 19:59 and angina is symptoms of the pain that may be 20:06 is associated with a heart attack, 20:07 but it disappears when the activity is stopped, 20:11 and it repeats - the pattern repeats itself - that's angina. 20:17 Angina doesn't last for just a couple of seconds. 20:21 Angina isn't something that you can induce by 20:24 pressing on your chest. 20:25 A lot of people have tenderness on the chest... 20:27 They think that that's heart pain. 20:29 That's not heart pain - that's connective tissue, 20:32 muscle, joint - something like that. 20:35 The difference with women is that women will often 20:39 have associated nausea, or fatigue and the pain 20:46 often goes up into the neck and into the jaw. 20:49 So they may be getting a jaw pain or a neck pain, 20:53 referred pain and not recognize it... 20:55 And for many years, doctors misdiagnosed women 20:59 because they were looking for 21:01 something other than heart disease. 21:03 We also thought that women were protected 21:05 against heart disease, but now we know 21:07 within 7 years of the menopause, women are just as likely 21:11 as men to have cardiovascular problems. 21:14 So we have to keep aware of the symptoms are 21:17 different for men and women. 21:18 What is the youngest person you've seen 21:20 that has had a heart attack? 21:21 I saw a 14-year-old boy die of a classical myocardial infarction 21:26 at "The Hospital for Sick Children" 21:27 Now, he was a diabetic which brings us to another factor, 21:32 but he was a diabetic and he died. 21:34 And at autopsy, his vessels 21:36 looked like those of a 75-year-old man. 21:38 The diabetes maybe just accelerated 21:41 the problems with his vessels. 21:43 Well, the diabetes definitely accelerates the problem. 21:46 The diabetes causes atherosclerosis; 21:49 it causes small vessel disease, 21:52 and it interferes with fat metabolism, 21:55 and, of course, insulin resistance is very present 21:59 in a lot of diabetics. 22:00 So, the youngest I ever saw when I was working 22:03 in the emergency department, we'd see a lot of people 22:05 come in and we'd have 5 or 6 heart attacks 22:07 at a time in the morning, in the hospital there, 22:10 was a 17-year-old that had none of this; 22:14 not a diabetic or anything. 22:15 So I don't know - the reason I asked 22:17 the question was to see if I was right which 22:19 I was going to say - "Look this is something we need to 22:21 think about a lot younger. " 22:22 But those are the exceptions, but we do need to think of it. 22:26 In fact, what we need to do is, we need as a people 22:29 here in North America to think about our lifestyle. 22:32 We need to say - When are we going to 22:36 take care of ourselves. 22:37 Stop being couch potatoes, reduce that fat content. 22:40 Watch out for the smoking. 22:42 When are we going to sort of protect our young people 22:46 against these evils that are health hazards. 22:51 So those are really things that you're 22:52 clicking out there that we can 22:53 do to PREVENT heart disease. That's right! 22:55 Get them out there working, not being couch potatoes. 22:58 I know there is an exercise program, 23:00 have them eating the right kind of food so they don't 23:03 like that fat taste and just subsist on that, 23:05 and what else to prevent... 23:07 Well the other thing, of course, is the positive benefits 23:09 that come from all these antioxidants. 23:11 If you're going to talk about foods that are protective 23:14 antioxidant foods, you have to think about the rainbow. 23:17 We just had a thunderstorm going on outside 23:20 which I hope that they haven't heard on the program here... 23:25 But the colors of the rainbow, 23:28 if you look for the colors of the rainbow in your diet, 23:30 you KNOW you're getting the right foods... 23:32 those beautiful REDS, and those lovely GREENS and... 23:37 This isn't red Jell-O, green Jell-O... 23:38 No, this isn't artificial flavoring, 23:40 this is the red tomato, this is the red berries, 23:43 the deep plums - the fruits 23:46 and the vegetables that are rich like that... 23:48 And when we take these multiple colors in our diet, 23:53 and that's an easy way - 23:54 Anybody, you don't have to be a 23:55 dietitian to put color in your diet. 23:58 You know, those nice sweet potatoes with the orange hues. 24:02 All those things are really healthy for your heart. 24:04 Very healthy - good antioxidants 24:06 Remember I said - "the oxidized low density lipoprotein" 24:10 Okay, antioxidants are going to protect better. 24:12 It's a WONDERFUL net - this health business makes me just 24:17 over and over again - say, "what a wonderful Creator 24:22 when He created us" 24:24 He gave us the right kind of food to protect us. 24:26 He gave us the right kind of food; 24:27 He gave us the right system! 24:29 You know, He created the metabolism in such a way 24:32 that He could truly say when He created Adam and Eve, 24:35 they are not only good... VERY GOOD! Yeah! 24:39 Now, what if you've had a heart attack... 24:40 I mean, we're talking about preventing, avoiding... 24:43 If you've had a heart attack, is there any hope that 24:44 you could give someone that has had a heart attack? 24:46 Of course! People live for YEARS after 24:49 a heart attack. 24:51 Of course - that's if they take heed of the warning! 24:54 They say - "My goodness, I've had this heart attack, 24:56 I'd better mend my ways. " 24:57 And they go through the same things that we've talked about. 25:00 Although they now need to do it under medical supervision. 25:04 The exercise needs to be very graduated. 25:06 But in this area, a very interesting study... 25:09 showed that men who had had heart attacks 25:12 who did not have social support, 25:14 they didn't have a wife and a family. 25:16 They were lonely people. 25:19 Those people died at 40-50% higher rates 25:25 than the people who had the social support. 25:27 Now there is something that we 25:28 can do to help people who have had a heart attack. 25:31 We can go and visit them. 25:32 We can show them that we do care. 25:35 And by the spirit of community, the spirit of social support, 25:39 we can impact on the people's lives. 25:42 So there's a role for a church group; 25:44 there's a role for a civic group; 25:47 there's a role for getting people involved, 25:50 and this can really save their life. 25:51 This save their life... just the fact that they belong, 25:55 the effect of connectedness is very important. 25:59 Any other advantage you'd like 26:02 to share in the last 2 minutes we have? 26:04 Okay, well you know, people are very interested in advances. 26:08 Nowadays, they are talking about threading tiny little probes 26:13 into the cardiac vessels and maybe put a stent in there, 26:18 or they blow up a balloon and they crush the plaque down, 26:21 or they are even talking about lasers to vaporize the plaque. 26:25 And, what do they call these, you know, microwaves - 26:28 they are experimenting with all these kind of things. 26:31 And it sounds very wonderful and I think it's VERY exciting 26:35 as long as it's your heart that is being catheterized not mine! 26:38 And, I mean, I feel great if I'm an interventional radiologist, 26:42 but really, the thing is - Wouldn't it be better 26:46 NEVER to need all these wonderful advances? 26:49 So the greatest advance would be to 26:52 not have to have the greatest advance. 26:53 THAT'S THE GREATEST ADVANCE! YES 26:55 And I think we could do that! 26:56 With this program that you have here, 26:58 I congratulate you on this program... 27:00 of constantly repeating and educating the public 27:03 as to ways and means that they can impact their own lives 27:07 to the glory of God and to the enjoyment of life. 27:10 So it's true or false - it can be reversed. 27:13 You can have a plaque that then diminishes over time... 27:16 Yes, you can reverse it - not in everybody, not everyone. 27:22 I would think that probably 27:23 you can also dilate the blood vessels. 27:25 You can restore some of the elasticity to the vessels. 27:28 But overall, you can definitely improve the situation. 27:31 And in some cases, the plaque 27:33 has been demonstrated to be removed. 27:36 That's good news! Real good news! 27:39 We've been talking with Dr. Allan Handysides 27:42 He has given us not only a picture of heart disease 27:45 in America but globally and he has shared some good news. 27:48 There are some things that we can do to prevent, 27:51 reverse or better yet, AVOID heart disease. 27:53 We can exercise and we can eat right. 27:55 We can trust in God and have a social support system. 27:58 We hope this has been helpful. |
Revised 2014-12-17