From Sickness to Health

How Clean is Unclean?

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Participants: Rico Hill (Host), Milton Mills

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00:01 Leviticus 11 is a powerful chapter in the Bible.
00:04 In verse 2 it reads, "Speak unto the children of Israel,
00:08 saying, these are the beasts which ye shall eat
00:12 among all the beasts that are on the earth."
00:15 It goes on to mention the camel
00:17 the coney which is a rabbit, the hare,
00:20 the swine and it says, "They are unclean to you."
00:25 Leviticus 11 is a powerful chapter.
00:28 Hello, I'm Rico Hill, the host of "From Sickness to Health"
00:31 and this is--
00:34 you all right?
00:35 Yeah, I'm just feeling little sick.
00:37 Well, okay a-- wait a minute,
00:40 you go by the name sickness and you're feeling sick.
00:43 Yes, so?
00:44 I'm just saying the irony, all right.
00:46 Something I ate went down the wrong way.
00:47 Okay, stay there, I'll get you some water,
00:49 some water all right.
00:50 No, no, no I've already tried that.
00:51 All right, all right, let's try this, try this.
00:53 Here you go.Here you go. Here you go.
00:54 Ready?
00:56 One, two, three.
01:01 Oh, man, what is that?
01:04 That was dinner.
01:05 That shrimp? That's unclean food.
01:08 Man, you're eating unclean food.
01:10 Oh, that is not unclean. I washed him thoroughly.
01:13 Oh, man, you need to read to read Leviticus 11.
01:16 No, I don't want to hear it.
01:18 I love shrimp, lobster crab, anything creepy crawling.
01:21 All right, fine.
01:22 If you haven't guessed already,
01:24 today's topic is clean and unclean food.
01:27 Roll it.
01:28 Hey, which way did it go?
01:30 It ran off over there somewhere.
01:32 Ran off?
01:34 Roll it.
02:09 Hello, and thank you for joining us
02:10 here in the studio of "From Sickness to Health."
02:14 You know me I'm Rico Hill, but today I've someone
02:17 you may not have met but you are going to be happy
02:19 that you met him because he's gonna share
02:21 some wonderful information with us.
02:23 It is our good friend, Dr. Milton Mills,
02:26 who is a physician
02:29 and he is a part of the critical care
02:31 unit of the United Medical Center in Washington, DC,
02:35 that's my own town.
02:37 He is the associate director of preventative medicine
02:40 and that is for the Physicians Committee
02:42 for Responsible Medicine.
02:43 That means that he's going around lecturing,
02:46 not only is he caring for patients,
02:48 but he is also educating them,
02:50 and that's a big part of what we do here on,
02:52 "From Sickness to Health,"
02:53 because we want to see you go from sickness to health.
02:56 Welcome to the program, Dr. Mills.
02:59 I'm happy to be here, Rico.
03:00 You know, we're talking about something today
03:03 that a lot of people, they read their Bibles,
03:06 they have studied things but they miss this point.
03:08 And we're talking about clean and unclean foods
03:11 or clean and unclean meats to be more specific.
03:15 And today we're gonna break this whole thing down.
03:18 We're gonna get ridof the myths and the misconceptions,
03:20 that we're gonna get to what,
03:21 not only as science says what a good responsible
03:24 preventative positions would say
03:26 but we're gonna look at what God says as well,
03:29 as we always do.
03:30 So hang around we're gonna take a look at,
03:32 what our friend sickness has to say about it
03:34 because we want to be balanced, don't we.
03:35 So, let's see what's sickness has to say about this subject.
03:42 Thank you, Rico.
03:43 I'm preparing an exquisite dinner tonight,
03:46 for some of my frenemies, a group of health nuts.
03:50 They only eat clean and local organic non--
03:54 I don't even know.
03:55 It's kind of annoying to be honest.
03:56 Vegans, vegetarians, they annoy me a lot.
04:00 So anyway, I'm trying to be creative,
04:02 it's much harder to be sick when you're vegetarian.
04:05 So I've got to do some things that I would not otherwise do.
04:09 I'm gonna make some greens which is good for you.
04:12 But I'm gonna add in a little bit
04:15 of pig feed for flavor, which is nice.
04:18 And also, oh, I'm going to add some shrimp and some lobster.
04:22 That's gonna be great.
04:23 And then last but not least,
04:25 I'm making some vegetarian rice patties
04:28 but I'm using crab sauce for flavor.
04:31 It's going to be great.
04:32 You know, vegetarian they think they're pretty smart,
04:34 but not all of them read the labels.
04:38 That's how I get them. Lard, oh, that's a great one.
04:41 You know, lard is pork-fat, not a lot of people know that.
04:44 Sneaky, I know. So anyway, that's what I do.
04:47 I've sent out invitations to all my health nut friends.
04:50 They're coming expecting this great meal
04:52 and I'm gonna make sure it's amazing.
04:55 You know, one last ingredient,
04:56 I had to consider is, you got to make sure,
05:00 some of these guys are technically not unclean.
05:03 So I'm gonna scrub them down real nice.
05:06 Back to you, Rico.
05:09 So shrimp, lobster, lard.
05:14 So let's start out by what's the Book of Leviticus tells us
05:20 that there're some issues.
05:21 God says there's an issue with eating certain foods.
05:25 He deems them unclean to us,
05:28 as we saw in the opening of the program.
05:31 But let's hear from you.
05:32 What's wrong with lobster?
05:34 What's wrong with shrimp? What's wrong with pork?
05:39 Okay.
05:40 Well, first of all as a physician
05:43 I just have to point out that
05:47 that chapter in Leviticus makes it clear
05:50 that God actually wanted
05:53 the Israelites to be plant eaters,
05:56 but they demanded meat.
05:58 And that upset Him because that wasn't His original plan.
06:02 Genesis makes it clear
06:04 that He designed us to be pure plant eaters.
06:09 When He brought them out of Egypt
06:11 he fed them only with manna,
06:13 which Psalms 78 describes being as being the corn of heaven--
06:18 Angels' food.
06:19 Angels' food, absolutely.
06:20 But the Israelites demanded flesh
06:23 because they were so addicted to eating animal flesh
06:27 from their the time that they spent in Egypt
06:29 and we can do-- You can, maybe, at some point
06:33 do another program on why animal--
06:35 eating animal flesh is so addictive.
06:38 But that's for another time.
06:40 But they were addicted to it. So God said, "Okay, fine.
06:43 If you're going to eat it, there are certain types
06:47 that you can eat but other types you can never touch."
06:51 Under no circumstances.
06:53 Under no circumstances.
06:54 And so He gave them a list of the clean and the unclean.
06:58 But wait a minute now.
06:59 That's the Law of Moses that's found in,
07:02 you know, the Old Testament.
07:03 And that's what people would say.
07:04 No, that's not true.
07:06 The concept of clean versus unclean
07:09 existed from the very beginning
07:11 because Noah took the clean animals into the Ark by sevens
07:15 and the unclean, he only took in by twos.
07:19 And that was because one,
07:21 the clean animals were to be used both,
07:24 for sacrifice and temporarily for food
07:27 because all of the vegetation was going to be destroyed
07:30 post flood and it need time to regenerate.
07:33 But the unclean were never to be eaten.
07:37 Oh, wait, wait, wait so there was a specific purpose
07:43 for the unclean one so there's must have been"
07:45 because God said, "Take them onto the boat."
07:47 Right.
07:48 So there's must have been-- So what is the purpose,
07:50 if we are not supposed to eat them,
07:51 what are we supposed to do with the shrimp
07:53 and the lobster and the crab.
07:55 People love their crab. You're from the Maryland area.
07:58 They say, you know, crab lovers is Maryland, right.
08:02 Right.
08:03 They are designed to clean up the environment.
08:07 Any dead thing that floats to the bottom of the ocean
08:12 crabs will immediate-- crabs,
08:14 lobsters will immediately gravitate towards that dead
08:20 whatever it is and begin to eat it.
08:23 And they essentially clean it up by ingesting it.
08:28 That's there job.
08:29 Mussels and clams will actually filter
08:34 waste material out of the water.
08:37 You can actually take raw sewage
08:40 and pass it over a bed of oyster and mussels
08:44 and it will come out crystal clear at the other end.
08:48 Why?
08:50 Because they actually filter all of that organic material
08:54 out of the water and they consume it.
08:57 That's their job.
08:58 That's what they are designed to do.
09:00 They do it very well but if you then turn around
09:03 and ingest their tissues you are in essence eating
09:07 fickle material, which is disgusting.
09:10 When you said raw sewage,
09:12 that's what you were talking about.
09:13 That's exactly what I'm talking about.
09:14 So we find now that a lot of the sewage
09:17 for whatever reason is finding its way into our waterways.
09:21 Is that correct?
09:23 And that's so-- that's exactly
09:26 what our sewage treatment plants do.
09:28 They take the raw sewage, we flush down our toilets,
09:32 emulsify it and it goes out into the waterways,
09:35 the shellfish actually take that stuff, they consume it,
09:40 clear the water and they actually incorporate
09:44 the sewage into their tissues.
09:48 That's what they're designed to do.
09:50 That is the way God designed them to clean the environment.
09:54 So God had a design to actually clean our waterways,
09:59 so that they would be safe?
10:00 Absolutely.
10:01 But we find that He also had a design
10:03 to how to clean the land.
10:05 We're talking about the swine or the pork, pigs.
10:08 They were the land animals.
10:10 They were part of those two by two
10:13 that were taken onto the Ark.
10:14 And their job was to clean up all the mess, wasn't it.
10:17 Yes, it was.
10:18 Let's see if--
10:19 And yes, it is.
10:20 And yes, it is. Still currently, right.
10:22 Yes.
10:23 So let's see, let's take a look at this news clip
10:25 and maybe we can get some further insights;
10:27 was God right?
10:28 Let's see. Sure.
10:31 A big consumer report study found
10:33 a high rate of contamination in pork chops
10:36 and ground pork from a kind of bacteria
10:39 that continued to the emergency room.
10:41 ABC's Dr. Richard Besser brings us the whole picture.
10:45 You don't know its name, but you may be
10:47 one of the hundred thousand Americans,
10:49 who get sick each year from a bacteria called Yersinia.
10:53 And today's study explains why.
10:55 Consumer reports tested pork
10:57 the types you buy in the supermarket
10:59 including pork chops and ground pork.
11:02 They found that nearly 70 percent of the samples
11:04 they tested had the dangerous bacteria Yersinia on them.
11:07 Ground pork turned out to be
11:09 even more risky than pork chops.
11:11 This should be a wake up call to the American public.
11:13 What are we doing in terms of monitoring
11:15 the safety of pork and what can we do in future?
11:19 Wow, you know, there's something
11:21 that stood out to me about that clip doctor
11:23 is that you heard the response from the woman.
11:26 She said, we have to do something to monitor
11:29 the safety of, you know,
11:31 what can we do to make it more safe,
11:32 basically is what she was saying.
11:34 But when you're saying numbers like 68 percent of,
11:37 like, some of the pork chop,
11:39 the chops inand 74 percent of the ground pork
11:44 having this bacteria Yersinia,
11:47 and it's causing all these health issues.
11:49 I mean, it's a waste of time, isn't it.
11:51 Because God insists, you can't eat it.
11:53 Let's talk about the pig.
11:55 He said, "Don't touch it."
11:56 And it's amazing to me that the response
12:02 of the sort of health department is,
12:08 well, this stuff is loaded with dangerous bacteria.
12:12 So let's try and monitor the food to--
12:19 try and catch it before it kills.
12:21 I mean, that's crazy.
12:23 We shouldn't be eating it in the first place.
12:27 This stuff is riven with these
12:29 very dangerous types of bacteria.
12:33 Furthermore, the-- it's a kind of worm
12:36 that everybody knows about is still present in pork,
12:40 which is why it is always recommended
12:43 that you cook pork to very high temperatures
12:46 in order to kill it.
12:48 Now in this country we don't see a lot of the problem
12:52 that comes from eating undercooked pork,
12:54 which is a brain infection called cysticercosis,
13:00 which is where people get these cysts in their brains,
13:04 which can cause seizures
13:05 and in certain cases even death.
13:07 But we do see it from-- in people coming
13:11 from other countries like Mexico
13:13 and certain Latin-American countries--
13:15 And I just jump in for a second.
13:16 I was with one of my doctor friends this past weekend
13:19 and we were talking about the trichina worm,
13:21 the trichinosis that finds it way into people's bodies
13:25 and even lodges in their brains.
13:26 And we actually show a clip ordinarily
13:29 but we're not going to show that one
13:31 it would be too much for you to handle
13:32 but we have an operation of someone actually having--
13:36 They thought the women had a brain tumor only to go in
13:39 and they found the worm.
13:41 It had grown to a couple of inches in size.
13:44 And they had to remove it and it was still alive.
13:47 This is the thing.
13:48 But the cysticercosis you're talking about,
13:51 this doctor shared with us this past weekend
13:53 that there's almost 90 percent of his surgeries,
13:58 they're seeing it in his patients.
14:00 Right.
14:01 So it's happening. This is becoming pervasive.
14:03 Right, this is still very prevalent.
14:06 So it's the trichina worm, it's the Yersinia and then,
14:11 you know, there's this campaign in the pork industry to try
14:15 and pass pork off as white meat.
14:17 They say pork, the other white meat.
14:20 That is-- That's marketing, isn't it?
14:21 Yeah, that is marketing because it's an absolute lie.
14:25 The leanest cuts of pork you can buy
14:27 are still over 50 percent fat by calories.
14:32 So pork is extremely high in fat
14:35 and that is very unhealthy.
14:37 It will raise your risk for heart disease,
14:40 number of cancers and other health problems,
14:43 as well as, dealing with all of these infections
14:46 that we're talking about.
14:47 So again God said don't touch it.
14:50 He knew what He was talking about
14:51 because this is very unhealthy food.
14:55 Okay, let's make this very practical
14:57 because in lot of communities, certainly in our community,
15:02 I mean we come from and I mean,
15:03 you're working in the same place where I grew up.
15:06 So we have a large African-American community,
15:09 we have a large Hispanic community in our cities.
15:12 And some of the foods that we just love,
15:15 absolutely tied to tradition is soul food.
15:20 And in soul food we are talking about fried foods.
15:23 Fry this, fry that.
15:24 But let's break it down, let's be very practical
15:27 because people are hearing this and there're saying,
15:29 oh, they're talking about my food.
15:32 Well, we are talking about, we talked about shrimp,
15:34 we talked about crab lovers, very toxic,
15:37 we are talking about lobsters, we won't find that as much
15:40 but still we have our version the shrimp version,
15:43 the tiny version of the lobster.
15:44 But we're talking about pork in all of its form.
15:47 Bacon, ham, talking about, what else, ham,--
15:55 Chitterlings, meatballs, oxtails.
15:58 I don't want to go there
15:59 but we just went there, chitterlings,
16:00 but it's something, it's real.
16:02 And this we're talking about the intestines,
16:04 the pig intestines.
16:05 And this is something that coming up,
16:08 you know, in months to come,
16:10 we're gonna see lots of it for new years
16:13 and all these different holidays.
16:14 People bring out their chitterlings
16:16 and we're talking about something
16:17 that is so dangerous for us to eat.
16:20 Absolutely, first of all it's notsoul food,
16:22 its plantation food
16:24 because West Africans don't eat this way.
16:28 Traditional West Africans did not include
16:31 these kinds of foods in their diet.
16:33 And the reason why you're saying West Africans
16:35 is because most African-American
16:36 who have come here came from the western part--
16:39 West Africa, that's where, the slaves were obtained--
16:42 But that's not their diet.
16:43 That's not their traditional diet.
16:45 What happened was when these West Africans
16:48 were brought to the American plantations
16:50 they were literally forced to eat
16:53 the garbage of the plantation.
16:55 So that's why they were forced to eat the entrails of the pig,
16:59 the pig's feet, its ears, its tails,
17:01 the ox, the cow's neck bones, the cow's tail.
17:07 All of these things were the things
17:10 that they would ordinarily throw away
17:11 but instead of throwing them away
17:13 they fed them to the slaves.
17:15 Unfortunately, when the slaves are freed,
17:17 they turned around and owned
17:19 what is essentially a dietary wastage of slavery.
17:23 And we know that these foods are higher in cholesterol,
17:26 higher in fat, cause excess rates of disease
17:30 and are very unhealthy.
17:31 And we need to reject these foods and get back
17:35 to what is our true dietary heritage and that is a low fat,
17:40 plant based diet that does not include
17:43 these very unhealthy dietary echoes of slavery past.
17:49 Now, you know, some would say,
17:50 well, it tastes so good.
17:52 First of all, it taste,
17:53 we've been eating it for years and, you know,--
17:57 Let me just play the advocate here.
17:58 Sure.
17:59 They'll say, well, you know,
18:00 we've been eating this way for years.
18:01 Right.
18:02 Grandma ate this way. Right.
18:04 And she lived to be 85 years old.
18:07 And--
18:09 But what was wrong with grandma up to 85.
18:11 That's, that's exactly right. Grandma couldn't walk.
18:13 She, you know, had diabetes, she had heart disease,
18:18 she probably had cataracts.
18:19 And my point is, if she lived to be 85,
18:22 abusing herself, she probably would have lived to be 105,
18:26 if she had taken care of herself.
18:28 The other point is this, nobody ask for fried chicken,
18:32 a pork chop or chitterlings in the delivery room.
18:36 Everything we think we like we had to learn to like.
18:40 Babies are born without preferences.
18:43 They have to be taught to like these unhealthy foods.
18:46 And just like we learned to like unhealthy things,
18:50 we can unlearn those bad habits
18:52 and learn to like things that are good for us
18:55 and that actually promote
18:56 and preserve our health as oppose to destroying it.
19:00 Perfect, perfect.
19:01 You know what, as always we wanted not only hear
19:04 what you have to say,
19:06 we've heard the side of sickness
19:07 where he gives his point of view, you know,
19:09 in a sort of provocative way to stimulate the conversation.
19:13 We've looked at the news clip and we've seen,
19:15 you know, that in the news clip it's clear.
19:19 God said don't touch it and we're seeing that
19:22 it has dangerous bacteria.
19:23 So let's take a look
19:25 at what people are saying on the streets.
19:27 Because that's going to be important for our conversation
19:29 and I think our audience needs to hear it.
19:30 Absolutely.
19:31 What they think because other people
19:32 on the street are saying the same things.
19:33 So let's take a look.
19:36 All right, I'm here with my man Mark.
19:39 Mark, what do you think about, you ever heard
19:40 that discussion on clean and unclean food?
19:43 Oh, yeah.
19:44 Oh, yeah, he knows what he's talking about.
19:45 All right, so let's talk about lobster.
19:46 You've ever heard of lobster? Oh, yeah.
19:48 You like lobster. Yeah.
19:49 What do you like about it?
19:50 Oh, the look of it, the taste,
19:54 did you see a lobster tail with some butter?
19:57 Oh, man, man, you're making me
19:58 what to eat some lobsters right now.
20:00 All right, what about shrimps, the jumbo shrimp,
20:02 pickle shrimp,
20:04 cocktail shrimp?
20:05 Coconut shrimp.
20:06 I don't like shrimp, I like shrimp.
20:07 There we go.
20:08 I can do a grill, I can do a saute.
20:11 And so a whole lot of different shrimps.
20:12 Crab right here. Good stuff.
20:15 So here's the argument.
20:17 Some people say that lobsters are unclean.
20:21 What would you say to that person?
20:23 Lobster is delicious.
20:25 Lobster is delicious. I love this lady.
20:30 I don't know.
20:31 He doesn't know that's okay. Lobster.
20:33 What do you think of lobster?
20:34 Awesome, tasty.
20:36 Awesome, tasty.
20:37 What do you think about
20:38 this whole debate with religious people
20:39 and a lot of groups in the world,
20:41 clean and unclean foods?
20:42 You ever heard that argument?
20:45 Heard clean and unclean foods
20:46 but not associated with religious group, I mean.
20:49 Well, all right, when you say clean foods and unclean.
20:52 Give me an example of what people call unclean food.
20:55 Oh, anything that's taken out of its ripped processed foods.
21:00 Yeah, exactly.
21:01 So if I take a lobster and I wash it,
21:03 its clean, right.
21:04 Yeah.
21:05 Yeah, it's clean. That's exactly right.
21:07 Rico, the unclean meat eaters have spoken.
21:11 Back to you.
21:15 There you have it. They don't know.
21:17 No.
21:18 They don't know they are, you know,
21:20 they're walking blindly in a world
21:22 where God is trying to keep us on a narrow path of health
21:26 but anything and everything is out there for consumption
21:30 and yet it's making us sick, isn't it doctor.
21:33 Yes, it is.
21:34 You know, when my patients tell me,
21:35 oh, I love shrimp, I've to explain them.
21:37 I say, "You know, a shrimp is just
21:39 a big ocean growing cockroach."
21:41 What?
21:42 Yes, that's exactly what it is.
21:44 It does in the ocean what cockroaches do on land.
21:48 It runs around eating all the garbage.
21:50 Scavengers.
21:51 That's exactly right. So--
21:53 And that's what is designed to do and it does it very well.
21:56 But if you want-- you wouldn't dare
21:59 touch a cockroach on land,
22:00 why you want to eat one from the ocean.
22:02 I don't even want to think about it.
22:03 Exactly.
22:04 Now, you know, what comes to my mind
22:06 to bring it back to God
22:08 and His designed and His purpose.
22:10 What was God's purpose?
22:11 I think that's where we need to start to go
22:13 because when I consider that God had a purpose
22:16 for these animals, for these creatures.
22:19 He has a purpose for our bodies.
22:21 In fact, I'm reminded of Psalm 100:3, it says,
22:26 "Know ye not that the Lord he is God,
22:30 it is he that have made us, and not we ourselves,
22:35 we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture."
22:38 Amen.
22:39 Psalm 100:3. So God wants us to know that He made us.
22:44 And He goes even further and says,
22:46 "You didn't make yourself."
22:48 So if God knows us and He made us,
22:52 He should know what will happen
22:54 when we put things into our body, not unlike the shrimp,
22:58 the crab, the clams, the oysters.
23:02 When we put them into our body,
23:03 they're toxic and He knew it, didn't He?
23:05 Yes, He did.
23:06 And also, I read earlier that-- oh,
23:09 we talked about earlier the--
23:11 how God designed this body for plant based diet
23:14 and then there was emergency diet that God brought in.
23:17 And that was-- it was flesh foods,
23:20 but He says the blood, I'm going to--
23:22 It's going to require your lives.
23:24 Now, you know, what I've heard, doctor?
23:26 When sharing that information,
23:27 you know, what people say?
23:28 Well, I am a New Testament Christian.
23:33 All those things don't matter to me
23:35 because you brought those from the Old Testament.
23:39 Now what's wrong with blood
23:41 and then I like to take a look at scripture.
23:43 What's the problem with the blood of animals?
23:46 Well, first of all, it's full of iron and again--
23:49 That's not a bad thing, we need iron.
23:50 Yes, no, not a lot of it
23:52 because science is now telling us
23:54 that excess iron promotes disease.
23:57 It promotes cancer, it promotes infection,
24:01 it promotes auto immune disease.
24:04 When you get too much iron it causes disease
24:08 because iron is like a match.
24:11 It's a catalyst, it--
24:14 its like-- it would be like having boxes
24:17 and boxes of matches stored in your living room.
24:20 You wouldn't dare do that.
24:21 Yeah, you want to have maybe a box of matches
24:24 to light your fireplace,
24:25 but you wouldn't want matches stacked up to the rafters
24:28 because it will start a fire eventually.
24:31 And that same thing happens in your body
24:34 when you have too much iron.
24:37 It causes runaway inflammatory disease.
24:41 Inflammation. Yes.
24:42 Which is a precursor to scar tissuing.
24:45 Well, and to all sorts of conditions.
24:47 Heart disease, cancer, infection,
24:50 auto immune problems.
24:51 So all these things are gonna
24:52 lead to dangerous lifestyle diseases that--
24:55 And premature death.
24:56 And premature death.
24:59 Now I want to just-- I want to read something
25:01 from the Book of Acts 15:20, for those who would say
25:05 wait, wait, wait, wait that's Old Testament,
25:08 I'll allow you to comment.
25:10 It says here in Acts 15:20, it says,
25:13 "But that we write unto them,
25:15 that they abstain from pollutions of idols,
25:19 and from fornication,
25:21 and from things strangled, and from blood."
25:26 So that excessive iron that you are talking about,
25:29 God knew it, He said, it's too much.
25:31 Absolutely.
25:32 And it'll lead to dangerous ifestyle diseases.
25:35 But also protein, protein that is found in the meats
25:39 and in the tissue and talk about that a little bit
25:41 before we run out of time.
25:42 We've got just about a minute and half.
25:44 Sure. Animal protein has been shown over and over again
25:48 to raise levels of what would-- hormones
25:51 that are called IGF-1, IGF-2,
25:54 which stands for Insulin- like Growth Factor-1 and 2.
25:57 The higher the levels of these, of IGF-1 and 2 in your body,
26:00 the greater your risk of developing
26:03 various types of cancers.
26:05 Also of developing diabetes
26:08 and a number of other inflammatory conditions
26:10 that again lead to disease.
26:12 So again, animal protein
26:14 is actually toxic to our system,
26:17 whereas plant proteins
26:19 actually are very beneficial to our system.
26:21 Animal proteins tend to promote atherosclerosis,
26:24 plants proteins don't.
26:26 Plant proteins actually benefit our immune system,
26:29 animal proteins tends to down regulate your immune system.
26:33 And that's not a good thing,
26:34 because your immune system is your police force.
26:37 It's what guards your body against infection,
26:40 guards your body against tumor formation.
26:42 You need a healthy, robust immune system.
26:46 I tell, you know, what it just sorts of opens my mind up to.
26:50 You mentioned diabetes,
26:51 we're gonna have to have you back.
26:53 And come back and talk about diabetes in this context.
26:56 This has been a fascinating discussion
26:59 with Dr. Milton Mills
27:01 as we've been talking about clean and unclean meats
27:03 but also the blood that's in meat
27:05 and why we we love it so much.
27:07 Now this has been a greater context for you
27:10 I hope in terms of, seeing the things
27:13 in your own family the cancer, the diabetes.
27:15 But we're gonna come back
27:16 and we're gonna talk about this some more.
27:18 So tune in the next time on "From Sickness to Health."
27:21 Thank you Dr. Milton Mills,
27:23 we appreciate it and we'll see you again.
27:27 I remember when eating clean and unclean foods
27:31 became very, very real to our family.
27:33 We were just eating the things that we loved
27:35 and we won't be thinking about it.
27:36 We didn't care, we didn't know any better,
27:38 we were just enjoying our food.
27:39 It tastes great so what was the problem?
27:42 But there was this time,
27:43 I was about eight-years-old and we had a certain pork item
27:46 and the entire family, all eight of us
27:49 became so incredibly sick.
27:53 I've not had pork since that day.
27:54 Now today we've shared with you
27:57 that which is clean and that which is unclean--
27:59 Hey, yeah, but what about bacon? What about bacon?
28:03 If it comes from a pig it's unclean.
28:05 Yeah, but it tastes so good.
28:06 It is not about taste,
28:08 it's about what the Word of God says.
28:10 See, that's where you go this old Leviticus
28:12 and Old Testament stuff totally wrong.
28:15 When people are offered a BLT can't resist it.
28:18 Jumbo shrimp, lobsters all in one,
28:20 people are gonna eat what there're gonna eat.
28:23 And we're going to keep informing them
28:25 about what is good, what is healthy
28:27 and that which will do you the best.
28:29 What about barbeque snake chops?
28:32 Its-- what? It's out.
28:33 Yeah, you know, you put it on the grill,
28:35 the fire seems to somehow eliminate all--
28:37 It's unclean, it's unclean.
28:38 About tofu and armadillo?
28:40 Armadillo?
28:41 Well, see the tofu balances out the leprosy in the armadillo.
28:44 You know what, now you're just being silly.
28:46 Here's the thing, the laws of health
28:48 are like any other laws.
28:49 If they are broken there're are consequences.
28:51 The Psalm as David says
28:52 "we are fearfully and wonderfully made."
28:55 Look, God did not give us the Book of Leviticus
28:58 for bunch of restrictions and rules.
29:00 He did it because He loves us, and He wants us to be healthy.
29:03 Rules and restrictions.
29:05 Anyway that's our program for today.
29:07 I leave you with this 3 John 2,
29:09 "Beloved, I wish above all things
29:11 that thou mayest prosper and be in health."


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