Participants: Don Mckintosh (Host), Williams Dewitt
Series Code: HFAL
Program Code: HFAL000181
00:01 The following program presents principles
00:03 designed to promote good health and is not 00:05 intended to take the place of personalized 00:06 professional care. The opinions and ideas 00:09 expressed are those of the speaker. 00:11 Viewers are encouraged to draw their own 00:14 conclusions about the information presented. 00:49 Hello and welcome to Health for a Lifetime. 00:50 I'm your host, Don Mackintosh 00:52 we're glad that you're with us today. And, we have 00:54 a rare treat today, we have the leader of 00:57 the North American Division of Seventh 00:59 day Adventists, the Health Ministries director, 01:02 DeWitt Williams, he's with us, he has 01:04 a very busy schedule and he is in involved 01:07 in training of many people around the 01:09 world, we're glad you're with us today. 01:10 Good to be here, Don. Around the world for 01:13 several years, when you were in the Health 01:16 Ministries department for the 01:17 general conference, but now more focusing on the 01:19 North American Division, which is what Canada and 01:22 United States. And, Bermuda. 01:23 And, Bermuda. That's right. 01:25 And, you do summits or training programs, 01:28 both in Orlando, I think at the early part of 01:32 the year, last part of January. That's right. 01:34 And, then out in the West Coastal and 01:37 Portland or other. We do one in 01:39 Portland in October. Okay. 01:40 And, in 2006, we're hoping to start a new 01:43 one, a third health summit West in Montreal with 01:46 with the committee and basically and people 01:51 on the North Eastern part of the coast with a 01:52 French emphasis. Okay. So, you're 01:56 you going to still called that, health summit West 01:57 or that would be east,. We'll call, that would be 01:58 health summit North. North. Okay. 02:00 One in Oregon is health summit West and the one in 02:03 Florida is health summit. 02:04 And, people that go there, I mean they 02:05 have all kinds of different things they can be 02:07 trained on in terms of helping people with 02:10 their health needs, whether it would be like 02:11 today's program, where we talk about 02:13 hypertension or that you do, I think the breath 02:17 free training, which is smoking sensation 02:19 program, by the way I think it's one of the 02:21 best, if not the best out there, I mean 02:23 it's used in corporations and different things 02:26 in many churches, and then, and then 02:28 all kinds of other programs. That's right. 02:30 You know, 50 million people are still smoking 02:33 plus maybe another 3 million of teenagers show 02:36 its very needful, we, we've a program 02:40 on, on hypertension. Umh! Umh! 02:42 And, I wanted to talk about hypertension today 02:45 because in the African American Community 02:48 hypertension is probably three times more 02:52 prevalent, then in the white community, 02:54 and about one out of every three African 02:58 Americans is, is hypertensive, they've high 03:02 blood pressure, well, that's another term for 03:04 high hypertension is high blood pressure. 03:06 And, the interesting thing is that most people 03:10 don't realize that they have high blood pressure. 03:14 Called the silent killer. The silent killer. 03:17 You have it, and you don't know that you 03:19 have it. And, then so you have to be, and 03:22 I, I thought my, myself, I thought, I was pretty 03:25 healthful, you know, I'm not overweight, 03:26 I'm a jogger, exerciser, a vegetarian, and 03:32 I went to my doctor one year and he said, 03:35 do you know, you, you've have high blood pressure, 03:38 I said no, I don't have high blood pressure. 03:40 He said, yes you really, you have high blood 03:43 pressure, hypertension. And, that's why I'm, 03:48 that's why I'm concerned about it, because I know, 03:51 when I started studying and found out 03:53 that there was a history of it in my family. 03:55 I see. And, so I'm, I'm concerned about it. 03:59 So, how can you know what your risk is? 04:00 Well, the risk factors of course, there you're 04:04 high blood pressure, if, if when they take your 04:07 blood pressure. And, it's above a 140. 04:10 For the top number. For the top number, 04:12 which we called the systolic, then and the 04:15 bottom number is the diastolic, if that's 04:17 above 90 and you've full-blown high blood 04:21 pressure. And, then this one is high-normal 04:25 130-139 and now I think we call it prehypertension 04:28 and they have instead of it's prehypertension. 04:31 You actually have it. So, the top number 04:33 be 130 to 139 and the bottom number the 04:36 diastolic will be the 85 to 89. 04:38 That's right. And, then 120/80 they say as 04:42 normal, but you know, it's not good to be 04:44 normal in America, you don't want to be normal. 04:46 you want to be below normal. Normal is not 04:49 good in the United States. And, so I 04:52 actually say the 110/70 is actually what you 04:56 want to shoot for 110/70. Now, they, these 05:00 numbers apply to people, of course that 05:01 are not taking medications. That's right. 05:03 But, if you're, if you're taking medications 05:07 that's your number too, 05:09 if it's high and you've to take medication, 05:12 that's the number that you shoot for also. 05:14 So, complications, I mean, some people say, 05:17 hey, no, no big deal, but the complications of 05:19 of hypertension, I think you're gonna work us through those. 05:21 Yes, high blood pressure is very important because 05:26 if you have it, you're more prone to strokes 05:30 and congestive heart failure. See there is 05:34 that pressure that, the top numbers, when the 05:36 blood, when the, when the heart squeezes and 05:40 pumps and the second number that bottom 05:42 number diastolic is, when it relaxes and 05:45 if the pressure is too high on those arteries 05:48 and blood vessels, you, you can, you can blow 05:51 out of, of a gasket pop. You can pop, 05:54 yes, you can pop one in the brain, you can 05:56 pop one in the heart. Let's look at the graphic 05:59 I think, we'll go through these. Okay. And, we've, okay 06:01 stroke, congestive heart failure, because it backs 06:04 upon the heart attack. Exactly, Atherosclerosis 06:07 or hardening of the arteries and then 06:11 heart attacks especially, aneurysms, kidney disease, 06:14 disease of the retina, of the eye, blood vessel 06:18 rupture, or weakened memory and mental 06:21 abilities. Many people believe that actually 06:23 what happens with, with Alzheimer is that you've 06:27 a lot of little tiny mini strokes caused by 06:31 high blood pressure and every time you've a 06:33 little mini stroke little burst aneurysm here 06:35 that you've a, area of the brain that's cut off 06:40 then you've another little mini stroke and 06:44 then another little mini stroke and pretty 06:45 soon, your, your brain has been shut down 06:46 through this high blood presume. But that's not 06:49 really a problem, Alzheimer's that afflicts 06:51 African-Americans as much as Whites 06:53 I think you've mentioned that in the previous 06:55 program with me. But what about Kidney 06:57 problems. Well, that is the problem basically 07:00 with Black people, we've, we're, we've 07:02 lots of, of kidney problems, more people 07:06 more African-Americans, who are on dialysis 07:08 machines and suffering from kidneys and most 07:10 of it comes because they don't realize that they've 07:13 high blood pressure and by the time that realize 07:15 it, it's, it's too late and there is a certain degree 07:19 of kidney failure. Let's look at that graphic 07:21 on kidney failure, in another words, you're 07:24 saying here at the, at the left of our screen 07:26 moving to the right, what's this mean? 07:28 Normal on the, on the left of the screen and 07:31 you can see that as it goes up, you over a 07:35 159/99, you've perhaps 22 times greater chance 07:40 of having kidney failure. And, by the way, kidney's 07:43 all work on this pressure gradient don't they. 07:46 Exactly. So, if it goes up, 07:48 those are little fine tubules in the 07:50 kidney and they just kind of messes them up, 07:53 Exactly. And, that's, that's a real big 07:56 problem, and then of course, we've a graphic 07:59 here that shows at as it goes up, death, morbidity 08:03 call. Yeah, morbidity, that's right. 08:05 So, as you go up for 120, this is. Oh! 08:09 This is your systolic your, as it starts going 08:11 up over 180 and so forth you can see that. 08:15 More, toward. Mortality rates there 08:18 on the left and the amount of blood 08:20 pressures on the bottom. That's a 170 08:22 times more probable that you will have. 08:27 Death. Death from it. So, this is not 08:30 something we should mess around with. Absolutely 08:32 not. Now, I was in you know, when I was going 08:35 to seminary, I took my practical in a, 08:38 African-American church, I was wishing I was 08:40 African-American, because I enjoy the preaching, 08:43 I enjoy the life, the vibrancy of, of the 08:46 African-American church, it's just great. And, I 08:50 I really missed that many times, but they 08:53 were these ladies there, they were the Parish 08:55 nurses, they had the white gloves on and afterwards 08:57 they did the screening in the church, because 09:02 they were so concerned about this. 09:03 Well, you know, I do that, I tell them, when 09:06 I'm coming to preaching in the church a seminar, 09:08 afterwards I, I like for us to do a blood 09:10 pressure screening, and we've almost in every 09:12 instance found somebody whose blood pressure is 09:16 just off the charts. 190, 210/150, 09:21 we've to take them to the hospital and they 09:23 didn't know it, that's the interesting 09:25 thing they never even suspected it. 09:26 So, you know, maybe, you're watching this 09:29 program and you say, hey, I'm gonna takes this 09:32 to heart, why not do a screening in this weekend 09:34 at your church, You don't have 09:36 to have Dr. Williams come, you just do it on your own 09:38 and you're gonna discover, you're gonna 09:40 really helps. You're gonna save some 09:41 lives, does you think, if they do that. 09:42 I believe so. Now, I wanna mention 09:44 that I, what happened with me. My blood 09:47 pressure in the morning is normal, but when I 09:50 go to work and the phones start ringing. 09:53 Okay. And, the people start visiting you, and 09:55 you see your desk pile up and stuff, my 09:57 blood pressure would go up. I went over to see 09:59 our nurse once and above 130, that's when 10:02 my mind start growing, I went over to see my nurse 10:04 and I said, you know, when I took my blood 10:06 pressure this morning, it was alright and she 10:09 said, well let me take it now and sure enough. 10:11 It was up. It was up. 10:12 So, what I've done, is I've actually bought my 10:15 own blood pressure machine. Keep that with 10:17 you. And, I carry it with me, I take it in the 10:20 morning and you need to take your blood pressure 10:23 four or five times a day because it varies, it 10:26 fluctuates, you, your, your blood 10:28 pressure maybe up in the morning, but it will 10:30 be down at noon, you know, I don't 10:32 know, you, you maybe different from me. 10:33 Or maybe it doesn't go up in board meetings. 10:35 Bored or what, but so it's good, you can buy 10:41 this at one of the stores for maybe 10:43 $25, but it's a good investment to know. 10:46 Many times when we go to a doctor to have them 10:49 take our blood pressure, we've what we call the white 10:52 coat effect, and you know, you rush to get to 10:55 the doctor and know you're little out of breath and, 10:58 and his stethoscope is hanging around his neck 11:00 and so forth. It terrifies you. 11:01 It terrifies you, so your blood pressure goes up, 11:03 so it's good to have your own blood pressure 11:05 machine and especially, if you've any tendency 11:08 toward blood pressure, high blood pressure, you 11:11 need to know yourself. Because once you get on 11:13 the medications. The medications are not 11:16 good for you, especially for some of the men 11:18 decrease sexual function and so forth, 11:21 so you don't want to get on them if you can. 11:23 None of the men are probably interested in 11:25 that. Okay, reduced, when, when your blood 11:28 pressure starts to go down though, you've a graphic 11:30 that shows that it starts to reduce the 11:32 cardiovascular risk and we're gonna look at that. 11:34 Yes, okay, for the general population, a 11:37 three millimeter decrease in systolic 11:39 blood pressure would yield 11 percent fewer 11:42 strokes, 7 percent fewer coronary events, and 5 11:45 percent fewer deaths. Wow! Let's just take a 11:47 little down, a little tiny bit. Let's take a bit 11:50 down, let's say your blood pressure is a 11:52 140/90 and you do down to 137, you've done 11:57 all that, that you just saw on the screen. 11:58 So, every point you can bring it down is better 12:01 for you and I think you're gonna show 12:03 us some ways to do that, the first one you 12:05 mentioned to me is oatmeal? Eat oatmeal 12:07 Yes. Oatmeal, well let's look at that. 12:09 Okay, let's look at the oatmeal slide, 12:12 you know, 150 people were categorized for the 12:16 amount of oatmeal they consumed and you can 12:19 see that. The result here. 12:20 One-bowl-per-day users had lower blood pressure, 12:23 that's right and lower cholesterol, you hear a 12:26 lot about blood pressure and I mean you're about 12:28 oatmeal and cholesterol, but it also lowers blood 12:31 pressure. And, the effect was independent of age, 12:34 weight, and intake of sodium, potassium, 12:36 and alcohol. So, oatmeal or what about 12:40 cereals that are made of oats, would that be good. 12:42 No, I don't think it has. Not as good as oatmeal. 12:45 But it would have some, because it has the 12:48 oats in there and I've oatmeal pretty much everyday. 12:51 Now, on Sabbath and Sunday I change a little 12:53 bit, but on five days of the week oatmeal. 12:56 I'm hungry enough right now, if you've 12:58 some, break us some oatmeal, we could just take some 13:00 right now. Now, I don't know, if I took your 13:02 blood pressure as a result being on this 13:04 program, I wonder if it's up or down, we will take 13:06 it right afterwards. Probably up. 13:07 Okay, what about salt? Now, sodium chloride, 13:13 that's what salt is the, the sodium is not good 13:17 for most people. And, so salt does raise 13:22 blood pressure, and you'll find out that in 13:25 societies that ingest little or no salt, they 13:27 don't have hypertension. The teenagers blood 13:30 pressure is the same as somebody 90 years of 13:33 age, when diets very low in salt, such as. 13:36 The rice and fruits diet. The rice and fruits diet, 13:37 given to hypertensive patients, blood pressure 13:39 often falls and returns to normal. Changing to 13:43 diet that is only moderately low in salt 13:45 produces only small reductions and 13:47 salt-induced hypertension has been produced in both 13:50 man and experimental animals. Well, we're 13:53 gonna comeback and talk about salt topic, 13:54 salt some more because I mean you need to have 13:59 some salt, but lower salt is better and 14:03 I want to ask you about that, when we 14:04 comeback. Hope that you join us. 15:09 Welcome back, we're talking with DeWitt 15:10 Williams. He is the Health director for the North 15:13 American Division of Seventh-Day Adventists. 15:15 And, in that role, he does training seminars 15:18 around the country and you see a lot of health 15:21 problems and one of your concerns is 15:23 African-American Health because of the silent 15:26 killer, hypertension, high blood pressure 15:29 and you do screenings and you help people 15:31 with that, we were talking at the break 15:33 you know, about how salt is related to 15:36 increase in blood pressure, but we do need 15:39 some salt right or wrong? We do need, it's 15:41 absolutely necessary to have salt, so we're 15:43 not against all salt, but the American diet 15:46 is so high in soy foods, you've heard of 15:49 soul foods? Oh! Man I've tasted some 15:51 of it, but maybe I, I'm sure, I don't understand 15:53 that all whole point of it. 15:54 Well, soul food is very tasty, but it's high in 15:58 salt. And, you know, the we've barbecue beef, 16:01 a lot of meats and almost all meats 16:03 you know, have high sodium content, 16:05 and so, you just, we say instead of soul food, 16:10 there is a dash diet. Dash diet, yes. 16:13 The dietary approach to stop hypertension, 16:15 dash, dietary approach to stop hypertension. 16:17 And, that's a diet, that's low in salt. 16:20 And that's what we recommend that, if, if 16:24 you know, or maybe you'll have soul food, 16:26 maybe once a week, but dash diet the 16:29 other days of the week. Dash away from the 16:32 soul food. So, reduce salt then you've a 16:35 graph that shows us that, when you 16:36 reduce it, the blood pressure will go down, 16:38 here it is. Reduce salt and blood pressure. 16:40 This was an actual experiment, they 16:42 did 20 patients with average blood pressure 16:44 of 161/101 that's very high, reduced their salt 16:48 intake for a year. And, after one year, their 16:51 average systolic pressure was lowered by 19 points 16:54 and diastolic by 14 and the blood pressure of 16:57 16 of the 20 patients was well controlled by 17:00 simply restricting their salt intake. 17:02 Wow! So, this, this for many people and a lot of 17:06 people, there are some people, they're not as salt 17:08 sensitive, but for most people they're and this is 17:10 gonna really help. And, especially with 17:12 Black people. And, the average America diet 17:15 is high in salt, we don't realize it, and we 17:18 probably only need about 250 mg a day, but here is 17:23 the average diet, 4000 mg a day. Normal blood 17:28 pressure 240000 mg. 2400 mg a day, I'll still stay 17:34 normal, okay. Yeah, yes that's right. High blood 17:36 pressure, let say what is that, 2000 mg a day. So, 17:41 for high blood with congestive heart failure, 17:44 you need to come down as you see, you only 17:46 need about 250 mg a day, that's what you need. So, 17:50 we're just, just going way over that. What 17:53 are the some of the foods that are high in sodium. If 17:56 you buy anything in a box, or in a bag. 17:59 Or in a can. Or in a can, or in a restaurant, you 18:02 go to a restaurant to eat. Let's see some of 18:05 them because, corn chips, a cup 163 that's not so 18:08 bad, but cured ham, loot at that. Wow! And, 18:11 one thing about most foods in a can are gonna 18:15 high in sodium because the peas there, they're 18:18 frozen, that's 70, but when you put them in 18:20 the can, they go way up. Can foods are always, 18:23 somebody said because they've to cook them, and 18:26 when you cook them, you take away some of the 18:28 flavors, so they add salt in to get back some of 18:30 that flavor. Chinese, rice style Chinese, a 18:34 whole bunch of sodium, look at that, and then 18:37 dairy products, of course have a lot of sodium many 18:39 times in them. That's right, is there 18:40 another one up there, that will see the next 18:41 one. I don't think to have another one I think 18:44 this is the one that kind of gives us a sample, 18:46 but there is all kinds of them. Even pastries, 18:48 you have down here. Danish pastries, 371, 18:51 man some of these things they look and they, they 18:56 taste good, but we've to be careful. We've to be 18:58 careful. And, specially as you say, if you 19:00 know, that you've high blood pressure, you 19:02 need to take steps to control it, and one of 19:05 the steps is being very sensitive to salt, be 19:07 careful. Now, you're the Health Ministries 19:09 Director for the North American Division. 19:11 Right. And, you know, Adventists are known for 19:15 two things, the Sabbath, you know, and also 19:18 they're known for, for their health habits. 19:20 Habits, yes. And, you want to talk 19:22 just little bit about what the blessing of 19:26 being a Seventh-day Adventists or at least 19:27 following those health principles could be and 19:30 you've down here a graphic about the recent 19:33 article in the National Geographic. Yeah, I was 19:35 little pleased with this National Geographic, the 19:39 cover story was the secrets. The secrets of 19:42 living longer and they feature three groups in 19:45 here, they are feature the, the Sardinians from 19:48 Italy, and the feature the Okanawa from Japan, and 19:51 then the feature the Seventh-day Adventists. 19:53 And, I was just overwhelmed, they print 19:58 about 22 millions copies of this magazine. Lot of 20:02 people see that. Lot of people and they, there 20:03 was a follow up on ABC twice and the CNN 20:08 had a, Anderson Cooper had a segment on it and I was 20:10 just overwhelmed. And, the article it says that 20:15 the Seventh-day Adventists are the longest living 20:17 Americans. That's right. And, now you told me, in 20:20 your own family, you've some pretty long living, I 20:22 mean this profiled more the look like Caucasians 20:25 in the article, but African- American, Seventh-day 20:28 Adventists live a long time too. 20:30 And, that's what I, I like about it, as you see 20:33 it didn't come out in the story that this lifestyle 20:36 effects all cultures, effect all races, 20:40 the lifestyle, the new style of lifestyle, 20:43 a plant based diet, runs across and brings 20:50 better health to, no matter, who follows it. 20:51 Now, you tell me, one of your aunts was a 107. 20:54 My father lived to be 93, which is long for man and 20:58 I had one of my father's mother's sisters lived to 21:03 be 99, another lived to be a 100, one 104 and 21:07 one lived to be a 107, if she lived another 21:09 month, she would be an 108. Wow! I hope, 21:12 I've her genes. Now, you know, you, you, you told 21:14 me how old you're, I don't wanna bring that on television, 21:16 but you. I don't mind telling my age. 21:18 How? 67 on my next birthday. You don't even look 67, 21:21 I mean I look older than you do on the 21:24 camera, you look good to me. Well! Thank you. We'll, 21:27 pay you for that afterwards, but so, so this, 21:29 this what are the things about the Adventists, 21:32 so called Adventists lifestyle that can help 21:35 us with hypertension. Well, in this slide, 21:39 we've been following Adventists for many, many 21:40 years, since we've had that, we've had the first 21:44 1960 to 1985. We had a study done in 21:47 Lomaland, we called them the mortality study. 21:49 And, they compared Seventh-day Adventists 21:52 with Californians. The American Cancrum 21:55 provided those people and we were shown to 21:59 live a longer time and then we did the first 22:01 health study in 1974-1988, and over 22:05 and over 200 scientific studies have been 22:08 produced showing the, the results of that, and the 22:14 results show that we can get ten years just by 22:18 following five little things. What are these 22:22 five things. Regular exercise. 22:23 Eating a plant-based diet, eating small 22:26 amounts of nuts regularly, maintaining 22:28 normal body weight, and then not smoking 22:31 So, then this is what you've been talking about, exercise, 22:33 plant-based diet, all these different things 22:36 that are also good for hypertension as well. 22:38 Good for hypertension. And, now the interesting 22:43 about plant-based diet is very low in salt, 22:46 very few, very little sodium in a plant-based 22:52 food, where as big foods have lots of, of 22:56 sodium and of course not smoking. 22:57 We've a graphic here that I want to just 23:00 show you here. You know, we've all 23:03 kinds of Adventists, and if you take the 23:05 Adventists who don't follow those five habits 23:09 You can see that there is a ten. Difference 23:12 Ten year. Yeah, the ones that are do better, the best 23:15 is 87 years for man, 88 for women, but 23:18 when they do poor, it drops ten years 23:21 doesn't. That's right. And, we, we classify 23:23 the better as those who are following those 23:25 five habits, exercising, keeping the body weight, 23:28 plant-based diet, so forth, so a ten year 23:30 difference can come about just by following 23:34 those five habits. A lot of people were 23:36 a little bit concerned, when you saw one about 23:38 nuts and somebody said, well you're a little bit 23:42 nuts, but we're finding out that nuts 23:43 actually produce the largest lifestyle 23:47 difference, adding nuts into your diet, it lowers 23:51 your blood pressure, a man who eats nuts five times 23:54 a week has less heart disease, there are all 23:57 kinds of chemicals, all kinds of vitamins, 23:59 all kinds of phytochemicals, that's what 24:02 I mean, phytochemicals in nuts and vitamins 24:04 and so, I don't know, are you eating your nuts at least 24:07 five times a week. You know, when I was 24:08 working as a nurse in the hospital, a number 24:10 of years ago. You know, what they called me, they 24:12 called me a peanut, because I brought 24:14 nuts every time, they say your one of those 24:15 peanuts. Oh! And, now I see that, that 24:18 was a compliment, back then I thought 24:19 maybe that's not so nice, you know. 24:21 Well, the study actually was actually talking 24:25 about tree nuts. Tree nuts. 24:27 More so the peanuts. Well, that they would 24:29 just call me a peanut, I was eating tree nuts, 24:31 they were calling me a peanut. Okay. 24:33 But now you guys that were calling me that, you can 24:36 see, that was really good what I was 24:38 doing. That was good, yeah, so nuts, add them 24:42 into your diet. Okay, then you, 24:44 you said that, there is a one of the 24:46 discoveries they made in the Adventist Health 24:48 study was one of the first time ever they made 24:50 a discovery. I think you have a graphic on that. 24:52 On water? Yeah. 5 glasses of water 24:55 a day, and. Does that help with hypertension? 24:59 It help for hypertension, hypertension, the blood can get 25:03 thick, especially, during the night, you know, 25:07 you, most people don't drink water 25:08 at night, when they try to stop cutting, 25:10 they you wanna start cutting down on water 25:12 before they go to bed, and so we don't 25:13 have to get up, and so actually in the morning 25:16 your blood is quite thick and most heart attacks 25:18 occur probably before 10 'O clock in the 25:21 morning, because the blood is thick. 25:24 Dehydrated. Dehydrated and so, when 25:27 you get up in the morning you ought to drink two 25:29 glasses of warm water, and kind of thin the 25:32 blood out, the heart doesn't have to pump 25:34 so hard and doesn't. You know, what you're 25:36 saying is exactly right. When I worked in an 25:38 emergency department, most of the heart attacks, 25:40 7 to 11 AM, that's right. People coming in and the ambulance is 25:44 all heart attack, all dehydrated, that's 25:46 good advise. Hey, look you know. And then they 25:47 eat that big breakfast of bacon and eggs and 25:50 and fried biscuits or whatever you know, 25:53 and they end up in the emergency rooms, it's 25:54 good for the business of the hospital, but if 25:56 you wanna put the hospitals out of 25:57 business, drink that water. Hey, thank you, 26:00 so much for spending time to be with us, 26:02 you know, as the Health Ministries Director, 26:04 you trained people, those I want to mention those 26:08 summits again and they can always go to 26:10 plus line or they can go to the website 26:12 for the North American Division, and they can 26:14 figure out, what's happening, how they 26:16 can get trained. Could we just say, put 26:19 in a little plug about the Adventist 26:20 Health study two. I was gonna mention 26:22 that, yeah. Okay. Look, that's, that's 26:24 going on a lot of our members, we were and 26:27 trying very hard to, to get a 125,000 26:31 people. I don't know, where that's gonna be 26:33 when you see the program, but there is 26:35 always ongoing studies of Adventists because 26:37 of the benefits we see, and no matter when you 26:40 see this program, just you know, look on the 26:42 website, call the general conference, 26:44 call the little Linda school of health, 26:46 whatever and you could be above and doesn't 26:48 matter, if you're doing everything right, 26:50 does it. No, you can have, whatever your 26:52 lifestyle, that's how we compare. 26:53 You know, we've Adventist, who are, 26:56 who are not vegetarians, and we've some 26:58 Adventists who are vegans, and we've some 27:00 Adventists who only clean. Right. 27:02 And, so we've some Adventists who eat 27:04 anything. They've fallen off the wagon. 27:06 Fallen off the wagon and the only way we can 27:08 find out that is to compare. Right. 27:11 And, so we what and especially African- 27:13 American, we've a cohort of 45000 particularly 27:18 put into this new Adventist Health Study, 27:19 and we're not doing too well in getting the 27:21 the service return to us. So, if you've not signed 27:25 up, now it's the time to sign up. Hey thank 27:27 you, so much first of all for providing what 27:31 you do at the you know, division level for 27:35 health and beating the drum, but you know, 27:37 more importantly, as I talk with you, you, 27:39 you've taken the message that you preach and you 27:41 put into your own life. Thank you, very much, 27:43 it's a joy for me to be here. 27:44 And, we're glad that you've been here with 27:46 us and we're glad that you've been here with 27:48 us, and if you haven't become a part of that study, 27:50 become a part of it now, follow these 27:53 habits and I know, you'll have health that lasts 27:55 for a lifetime. |
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