Participants: Paula and Curtis Eakins
Series Code: AL
Program Code: AL00158A
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00:01 High calorie dense foods, high salty foods,
00:05 high sugar foods, sugary snacks everywhere, 00:09 shopping malls, gas stations, 00:11 fast food restaurants that open later and later 00:14 for your convenience, no money, no problem 00:18 they now take credit cards. We simply live in a culture, 00:21 which advised today's topic entitled snack attacks, 00:25 we'll be right back. 00:57 Hi, welcome to Abundant Living, 00:59 this is Curtis Eakins, I am glad you are with us today, 01:02 I would like to introduce my beautiful bride of 01:05 13 glorious wonderful years Paula Eakins, 01:08 how are you doing honey? I am doing wonderful. 01:10 You're looking mighty good too. 01:11 Thank you. Praise the Lord! Snack attacks. 01:14 Snack attacks, this is the culture we live in honey 01:17 I mean everywhere, every time we turn on the radio 01:20 or television, bill boards and magazines and 01:23 all these foods, it lures us to 01:25 increase our snack attacks. 01:29 And I think the thing that blows my mind is 01:30 that I have seen what you are seeing 01:32 at the super markets now. 01:34 Yes. The credit cards and not only that, 01:37 not only using the credit cards to actually buy 01:39 the food, but also at some of the fast food places 01:43 they have their own card, which you can actually use 01:46 and that is getting us into more and more trouble. 01:49 You know now this is of course is a running series 01:52 of the Winning Weigh series and this is one of 01:54 the programs on that serious, the snack attacks. 01:57 I remember I use to work with a coworker of mine at 02:00 the Huntsville hospital years ago 02:01 and she said to me she said Curtis, 02:04 the only exercise I do is when we get off from 02:08 the hospital she drive up to the fast food restaurant, 02:12 she take her finger, hit the button 02:16 and the window will come down and the only exercise 02:18 she does is she held out her hand to get the food 02:23 and then bring it back, that was it for the rest of 02:26 the day alright, and so it makes it convenient. 02:29 Yeah. They open later and later and credit cards 02:32 of course and all these advertising ads and usually 02:36 these ads are to be advertised not so much 02:38 for vegetables and fruit, but the high sugar, 02:43 high fat, high salty type foods, 02:48 the snack attacks. So we are in this 02:51 type of culture now, so part of this 02:54 the winning ways series, we are not going to just 02:56 emphasize how we can shrink those fat cells that 02:58 we talked about last time, but also there is a 03:01 spiritual warfare going on as well, 03:03 so we are going to emphasize that in 03:04 this program amongst some other things as well. 03:06 Well, lets talk about that, let's start off with the Bible 03:09 and what type of scriptures we are looking at 03:11 that might help us as we look through this 03:14 whole area of snack attacks. Okay, and again you know 03:17 we had different addictions, we have a program 03:19 some years ago called food addictions, 03:21 you know people are addicted to cigarettes and drugs, 03:23 but you know when you think about food addiction 03:26 and these are more than just desires or cravings, 03:29 people are sometimes addicted to food. 03:32 Absolutely. Now, this is also true in Biblical days, 03:37 so lets go back to God's word and lets turn to 03:40 your Bibles if you have it, if not just jot the text down, 03:44 I am reading from Deuteronomy chapter 21 03:48 and I'm going to start at verse 20, 03:50 Deuteronomy chapter 21 and verse 20, 03:53 "and they shall say unto the elders of his city" 03:55 now this is a mother and a father, 03:58 they have a son, they got some problems 04:00 with their son, so we pick up this story of verse 20. 04:03 They shall say unto the elders, 04:05 "this is our son, he is stubborn, 04:10 he is rebellious, he will not obey our voice 04:14 and he is a glutton." He is having some problems 04:21 with some snack attacks, even back in Biblical days 04:24 and again as you read on in the letter I have for 04:27 that chapter there that this is a such a severe thing 04:31 that God actually instructed the parents 04:34 there and Israelites to actually take that child 04:38 outside of the camp of Israel and stone him. 04:43 Simply because not just of snack attacks, 04:45 but also because the child was also rebellious as well. 04:47 But part of that story was because of the child 04:50 did not control the appetite. 04:53 So sometimes, a lot of times 04:54 the food sometimes control us 04:57 we need to take that control back 04:58 and we can control the food. 05:00 So, then in Biblical days there were some problems 05:03 with people having snack attacks and again 05:07 we'll go all the way back to the beginning of this world. 05:10 Appetite with a cause of our parents first sin, 05:14 and so Esau, you know coming from the field, 05:19 the Bible says he was very hungry and of course Jacob, 05:22 he had the beans, already prepared 05:24 and Esau, he recognized the birthright, 05:28 he saw the beans, he chose beans, 05:31 ahead of birthright. You know the food causes us to 05:35 have some misjudgment and Satan also understands 05:39 this too, so I think that's why Satan also 05:42 tempted Jesus with three temptations in the Bible, 05:44 that's recorded, but the first of the three 05:47 temptations Jesus in the wilderness was 05:50 to turn these stones into bread. 05:53 So there is a spiritual implication when it comes to 05:56 the Winning Weigh, losing weight, 05:59 we want to emphasize that Satan also knows that 06:03 this spiritual implications so far as getting us 06:06 to lose control of our appetite, 06:09 but Bible also tells us we should also keep 06:11 our bodies under subjection, 06:14 in other words under control, 06:16 so control our appetites 06:18 The only way that that can happen, 06:21 is that you really have to talk to the Lord about it. 06:24 Absolutely. You know I think about the time 06:26 when even a food, the food at one time 06:29 back in the 50s and the 60s was small, 06:33 like a muffin was a couple ounces, 06:36 you know now a muffin is mega. 06:39 So its larger food is more food and so you are more 06:43 tempted to eat it and of course like you said 06:45 before it becomes an addiction. 06:47 Yes, it is. It's an addiction to sweets, 06:49 an addiction to salt, an addiction to fat 06:51 and so with that in mind we need to have a spiritual 06:56 talk with the Lord about trying to get 06:59 ourselves under control. And I think that's where 07:01 we want to emphasize honey, right on the mark about 07:03 that, the spiritual connection as far as 07:06 this weight management is concerned and what if 07:08 God has some strong language for those 07:12 who have lost control of their appetites, 07:15 having these snack attacks. 07:16 So, lets go to our first graphic, 07:18 lets see the strong line that God has for us, 07:21 lets read it, "commit suicide 07:24 and put a knife to your throat 07:29 if you are given to gluttony." 07:33 That's very strong language, now at first, 07:37 value, face value you think that the Bible is telling us 07:41 to commit suicide, you know the Bible 07:44 could have said I have many ways of doing that, 07:46 the Bible could have said and put a gun to your head. 07:51 Well, that would do it. Or put a dagger through 07:54 your heart, that would do it, 07:57 but the Bible says and put a knife where? 08:00 To your throat. To your throat, 08:03 why the throat? Stay with me on this one, 08:06 that's the only passage the food passes from 08:08 the mouth to the stomach. 08:10 So what the Bible is saying is stop the act 08:14 of over eating right here, where the passage of food 08:18 into us from the mouth to the stomach, 08:20 so cut out that not so much to commit suicide 08:24 but Jesus came that we might have life 08:26 and have it more abundantly so he is saying that 08:28 getting control and stop the act right here 08:31 where food passes from the mouth to the stomach. 08:34 We've become a society though that are constantly 08:36 eating up, you might have a meal your breakfast, 08:39 you have your lunch, you have a supper 08:40 and then in between times and a lot of people believe 08:44 that are not Curtis actually eat from out of emotion. 08:48 You know being stressed out, that's a bad time 08:50 when you're stressed out. You eat a lot you know, 08:52 so trying to win that control, 08:55 trying to figure out what is it that causes me 08:58 to eat more and eat in between meals. 09:00 That snack attack is actually more than just 09:02 three meals a day, now we are talking about 09:04 all in between eating as well, right. 09:06 I think, as we look at the word of God, 09:07 Ecclesiastes 2:17, the Bible says 09:10 if it pleases eat, and in due season, yes. 09:14 When it is due. Well, how do we know 09:16 when it is due? Well, look at the digestive system, 09:18 it takes about 4 to 5 hours for the food 09:19 to digest our food, so eat at 8 O'clock in the morning, 09:22 that's breakfast food, 4-5 hours lunch, 09:24 4-5 hours supper, 4-5 hours go to bed. 09:29 So now, there is one challenge 09:31 we're gonna have in this program, 09:33 I gonna give out this challenge right now, 09:34 we are going to repeat it at the end of this program. 09:36 There is one challenge we want you to take in for the next, 09:42 for your life time basically. 09:44 This is a challenge folks and you can help repeat 09:46 this challenge, and also now we tell people kitchen 09:51 CLOSED at 6, lets say it one more time, 09:54 I don't think they were listening honey, again 09:55 Okay. Kitchen CLOSED at 6. Now we had at one time, 10:01 as a matter of fact a couple of times 10:03 we do our community programs. 10:04 That's right. And we said that and the people 10:06 just had a fit, they said, oh my goodness, 10:08 you know. But guess what well we did a week 10:10 long health program in a church, in a community 10:13 and we started on a Sabbath, 10:15 we moved through the week and we gave different 10:17 instructions each night and when they first 10:20 heard kitchen closes at 6, like that Saturday evening. 10:22 That's true. And then so many people said well, 10:23 what about tonight, you know can I eat tonight, 10:25 we said well go ahead and eat tonight. 10:26 I am going to start it on Sunday. 10:28 Okay and you believe it as we moved through 10:30 the week we were asked a question each night 10:33 and the people began to say it works. 10:35 Yes. I can actually get my food in stop at 6 o' clock 10:40 I feel better in the morning. Yeah, I think when you do 10:42 that therefore those fat cells begin to shrink, 10:47 now of course now once more eloquent audience, 10:51 it's always one in the audience, 10:52 one person said, well my kitchen is closed at 6 10:55 but the refrigerator in my bedroom it's open till 12. 10:59 Okay, no, no, no. No no no no, so that's 11:01 a big room too, the refrigerator in your bedroom Roy. 11:03 You got to hit it all. So fridge too closes 11:05 and we do that because a lot of these snack 11:07 attacks are usually in the evening. 11:10 And why is that? Because we nibble sometimes 11:13 we are bored, sometimes we watch television 11:16 we tend to eat a bag of potato chips, 11:17 a half a gallon of ice cream 11:19 and sometimes we eat when we are not hungry 11:22 and we miss queue the signal because the body 11:26 is simply full, what we think is hungry 11:29 so we eat and so those snack attacks usually 11:31 happen in the evening, so when we close at 6 11:33 that's when the holy spirit comes in folks. 11:35 Yeah. Ask the holy spirit to help us and when we do 11:38 that then the weight will also start to come down, 11:40 kitchen closes at 6. 11:41 What are some of the problems about 11:43 constant eating, what can happen as a result of that. 11:46 Well, this one inspired a lot of that we like to 11:48 quote quite often Ellen G. White, inspired by God 11:54 that most people, I believe over 12 million 11:56 people around the world, the most translated author 11:58 in the United States, number one woman 12:01 that's translated in the entire world according to 12:03 library of congress, she made a statement that 12:05 would go something like this, 12:07 I'm going to paraphrase, she says that the brain 12:09 is very closely connected to the stomach 12:12 and so when we overeat what happens is that 12:15 the brain nerve power, now she said this in 1800s, 12:20 the brain nerve power has to help out the stomach 12:25 to digest the food. Now being in neurosurgery 12:29 I know there are 12 cranial nerves, 12, 12:32 she said that brain nerve power, 12:35 so which one of the 12 cranial nerve is the nerve 12:39 that actually helps the stomach 12:41 to digest the food? We have discovered 12:44 the name of that nerve, it's called the Vagus nerve 12:48 that's the only nerve from the brain to go to 12:51 the stomach to help digest the food now when that's 12:54 constant because of overeating, 12:56 that brain nerve power comes from the brain, 12:59 then when we overeat and stuff ourselves, 13:03 the brain becomes sluggish and that's why we tend to 13:07 go to sleep and therefore when that happens, 13:10 an adjustment is impaired. 13:12 So this is a very close connection between 13:14 the brain and the stomach and that's one of the 13:16 problems of having these snack attacks 13:19 and it's usually in the evening time. 13:22 Vagus nerve. The Vagus nerve, 13:24 it's a big nerve, we did a carotid 13:25 endarterectomy where we actually see that nerve, 13:28 that nice sized nerve that comes from the brain stem 13:30 down to the stomach Well, I guess the question 13:33 then is what about calorie dense foods 13:35 because that's also a major culprit, 13:37 we talk about identify, when you say calorie dense, 13:41 yes, what type of foods are we talking about? 13:42 Yeah calorie dense simply means there is a lady 13:44 named Dr Barbara Rose she is an nutritionist 13:49 at the university of Penn State and she does 13:52 some good research on calorie dense food 13:55 for over 20 years and she is a author of the book 13:58 called volumetrics, what kind of dense food 14:00 is simply this, is the amount of calories 14:03 in a gram of food. In other words, 14:08 certain foods have high calories in a small amount 14:12 of weight, we call that food calorie dense, 14:16 it's very dense in calories, 14:18 let me give you some examples, 14:20 potato chips is a calorie dense food, you know 14:24 one chip has a lot of calories yet is light, 14:27 but it's calorie dense, you know 5.5, mayonnaise 14:33 and butter is a calorie dense food 7.2, 14:38 the food has the highest amount of calories 14:41 per weight is oil 8.8, therefore when we fry foods 14:51 that oil seeped into that food that is fried, 14:54 therefore that baked potato which is only 14:56 60 calories but when it is fried, it's now 14:59 a calorie dense food because of the oil 15:02 that's been absorbed in that food. That's why 15:04 the Bible in the King James version no where 15:08 has the word fried or frying found in God's word, 15:12 so therefore its not only what we eat and we base 15:15 that on Genesis 1:29 and Genesis 3:18, but also 15:18 how the food is prepared determines whether or 15:22 not that food is going to be fattening, 15:23 whether it can enlarge those fat cells. 15:26 So calorie dense foods, so again, 15:28 what we want to do is switch from those foods to 15:32 light calorie foods, therefore 15:35 when the main components of plant based diet is 15:38 the lot of water content, water has volume. Yes. 15:43 Therefore we can eat more of those foods 15:45 with less calories, because 15:48 water doesn't have any calories. 15:50 Now you're talking about the fruit and vegetables. 15:51 Exactly. Yes. That's why we want to shift from 15:54 the calorie dense foods to those foods that are 15:57 plant based has a lot of water content, 16:00 it has the volume so you have the sense of 16:03 fullness, satiety mechanism is completed 16:06 but yet still the calories are not high 16:09 at all, that's what we want to do. 16:10 You know I think that the thing that's so amazing 16:12 was that the new dietary guidelines when it came out 16:15 it actually addressed the whole issue. 16:17 That's true, of food, but something 16:19 happened this time. Yes. Not only did 16:21 it talk about the foods that we should have 16:23 according to the pyramid chart, it also talked about 16:25 exercise now nowhere have they ever put 16:27 the food and exercise together. 16:29 It's the first time happening. 16:30 And that's because of the problem in America 16:32 of the obesity factor, and they even say the word 16:35 morbid obesity factor which means we used to 16:37 have a problem with the weight then the obesity 16:39 and now morbid obesity which means that 16:41 we are way out of line when it comes to our diet 16:44 and exercise and of course we used to exercise a lot 16:46 before in the past and so you could eat more 16:48 and of course the exercise kind of helps to 16:51 balance it out. But we now just kind of sit 16:54 around you know we got the buttons we're pushing 16:56 you know, we were fighting somebody in front of 16:58 the parking lot to get to the store faster 17:01 you know I was there first, it's just a lot of things 17:03 going on. Yes. But dietary guidelines 17:05 this time came out and was speaking about 17:07 they wanted us to look at the foods, the fats, 17:12 trans fats, they want out. Okay. Alright, that's, 17:15 we will talk about that when we go into the kitchen. 17:17 Okay. Trans fat go low in cholesterol okay, 17:20 but there was something strange this time 17:22 that was really wonderful it was almost like 17:24 somebody was reading the word of God 17:25 because they actually talked about 17:27 more of the plant based diet. 17:30 That's true. They said nine servings, 17:34 nine servings, that's four servings of 17:36 fruits and five servings of vegetables alright 17:40 and you know once before on Abundant 17:42 Living we spoke about what's a serving, 17:44 half a cup of fruit or vegetable is consider as 17:48 a serving because it's more dense, 17:50 its been cooked. That's right. 17:51 And then a fresh, then we are talking about one cup 17:54 and so with that in mind you have to kind of 17:57 juggle those out to know when you meet that nine 18:01 servings size okay, now that's separate from 18:04 the grain and cereal kingdom, away with all that white rice 18:08 that white flour, pastry flour, 18:10 whole wheat flour is the way to go, 18:12 brown rice is the way to go, 18:14 brown whole wheat bread is the way to go, 18:16 those whole grains, that was really being 18:19 pushed a lot this time as well and then also 18:21 that sodium level, lowering the sodium level, 18:24 getting that sodium level down no more than 18:26 one teaspoon. And that's the entire day, okay, 18:28 one teaspoon, so when you look at your sodium 18:30 we talked about that before, 18:32 sodium levels we said one gram is equal to 1000 mg 18:37 and every time you look at salt, 18:39 an item that has salt, you will always see in 18:41 milligram amounts and so you want to curb that, 18:42 since you're salt sensitive, 18:44 so that's an issue as well. And so with that in mind 18:46 it also talked about exercise and exercise 18:49 we are going to be holding on to that 18:50 until we get to the program, 18:52 its going to be talking about and I am sure 18:53 we are going to get on that program 18:55 as well exercise, 'cause that's the next 18:56 component as well. That right, okay. 18:58 Well, I guess one of the things I was thinking 18:59 about was people like that high fat. 19:02 They do. And high sugar. 19:04 They do. And so how can they make a change. 19:06 Well you know again sometimes peoples taste 19:10 buds have been so perverted over 19:12 the years because we, lot of people like 19:15 the salty foods, the sugary foods, 19:17 the high fats foods, when we were born 19:20 outside the sense of pain, taste is the sense that's 19:25 most fully developed, this sense of taste, 19:30 we have 9000 taste buds on our tongue, 19:35 they die and regenerate every 10 to 14 days. 19:38 Lets go to our last graph and lets look at 19:41 the taste buds on your tongue, let's talk about 19:44 this because we can simply change 19:47 our taste buds, now you see those projections 19:49 there, those are what we call papillae and 19:52 at the tip of those projections there, 19:55 in the back there you have taste buds, 19:57 it seems like they had a bad hair day, 20:00 those are taste receptors and so therefore sometimes 20:05 those taste receptors that you see there, 20:07 some look like mushrooms, some look like small 20:09 volcanoes, there taste buds sometimes been 20:14 perverted over the years and we simply need to 20:17 retrain those taste buds. Thank you for that graphic, 20:20 so what we need to do is to shift and those 20:24 high fat foods, high sugar foods, keep in mind 20:28 those taste buds can be retrained about every 20:32 two weeks, so in time we can change the way 20:35 we taste foods, so in time we don't like the high salty 20:39 high sugary foods because the taste buds 20:41 have be retrained. So again folks, 20:43 but again our last challenge, 20:45 we are going to leave with you in this part of 20:48 the program is kitchen CLOSED at 6 alright. 20:53 Well, our kitchen is open right now 20:55 because we're getting ready to do, 20:56 as we are going into the kitchen and 20:58 we are going to make a Mediterranean vegetable. 21:00 So lets just get your paper and pencil and stay by. |
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