Ultimate Prescription

Greens

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Participants: Nick Evenson (Host), Dr. James Marcum

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00:01 Welcome back to the Ultimate Prescription.
00:02 And on today's program we're talking about food
00:04 as medicine and specifically, we're talking about greens.
00:08 And I'm Nick Evenson, your host here,
00:10 and we're talking with Dr. James Marcum.
00:11 And, Dr. Marcum, what are some of the really practical ways
00:14 we can apply this in our lives?
00:15 Well, you know, we want to eat
00:17 at least two servings of green a day.
00:20 Well, you can eat that raw or added to a salad
00:23 which is what most people do.
00:25 And remember, it doesn't have to be,
00:27 you know, this is arugula which is very good in nitrates
00:30 which is what I recommend to my heart patients.
00:33 But it can be anything that's green, you know,
00:35 anything that green,
00:37 some broccoli has some advantages,
00:38 cilantro, different green things
00:41 have some of the same benefits,
00:42 they all have some of the good stuff
00:44 that we talked about, the chlorophyll,
00:45 the fiber, the nitrates, the antioxidants in them,
00:48 it helps the bowels get going,
00:50 give us a lot of fiber with roughage,
00:53 it's all good for us.
00:54 But you know, practical ways are very important.
00:56 Lot of people don't know how to prepare greens.
00:58 That's right.
00:59 And because of this,
01:01 I'm not very good in the kitchen.
01:02 Are you, Dr. Marcum? Nope.
01:03 All right. That's why I eat raw.
01:05 We've asked for some help with this next part.
01:06 We wanted to show some simple preparations
01:09 for some of the different foods that we're talking about.
01:10 And so our friend Kristina McFeeters,
01:12 she runs Kristina's kitchen,
01:13 has done a cooking demo about greens.
01:15 And, Dr. Marcum, tell us just briefly who is Kristina?
01:17 How did you meet her?
01:18 Yeah, Kristina lives in one of the poorest counties
01:20 in rural Kentucky, McCreary County.
01:23 And she has a mission there
01:25 of helping people improve their health,
01:29 introduce them into biblical prescriptions,
01:31 and once they get interested in
01:33 how God wants our bodies to feel better,
01:35 their minds feel better, their worship feel better,
01:37 so she has a restaurant
01:39 that serves whole food plant-based food,
01:43 and she has agreed to help us to show our viewers
01:46 one way that they might want to
01:48 incorporate greens into their lives.
01:50 All right.
01:51 Well, we're very appreciative of Kristina sharing with us.
01:53 And let's take a look at that clip now.
01:56 Welcome to Kristina's Kitchen.
01:58 I'm Kristina McFeeters.
02:00 Today we're gonna explore one of my favorite ways
02:02 to incorporate kale into my diet.
02:04 Two of my favorite types of kale, you can see here.
02:09 We have the little baby kale
02:12 and then we also have the large kale.
02:15 Both of these you can find in most grocery stores
02:18 in your produce section.
02:20 The baby kale, if you want to eat kale raw,
02:23 this is your best to use.
02:25 Because it's tender, it's very mild in flavor,
02:28 it chops up really nicely in salads.
02:31 And that's one of my favorite ways
02:33 to use the baby kale.
02:35 I want to show you
02:36 one of my favorite ways to steam kale,
02:39 and so I'm gonna show you on the big kale.
02:41 The first thing that I'm gonna do is
02:44 I'm going to cut this spine off,
02:47 so I have just the kale itself.
02:53 You know, as I said,
02:54 my favorite thing to do is to steam it.
02:57 A lot of people like to boil it,
02:59 or sauté it, or roast it,
03:01 and all of those are okay,
03:03 but if you want the maximum amount of nutrition,
03:06 you want to steam your kale.
03:09 And the reason is
03:10 because steam never gets above 212 degrees.
03:13 And so you get the maximum nutritional benefit from it
03:17 because it's not killing all the vitamins
03:18 and minerals out of it.
03:20 We're just gonna chop this into some pieces here.
03:26 So we're gonna put this chopped kale
03:29 into our steam pot here.
03:33 And you can see it's nice and steamy,
03:36 and water is boiling underneath it.
03:38 And we're gonna put this kale in,
03:40 and this may look like a lot of kale,
03:42 but it's really not.
03:44 It's going to shrink a lot once it gets cooking.
03:50 So we're just gonna put that in.
03:53 And this type of kale because it's more tough,
03:58 takes longer to cook.
04:00 So if you were to steam something like this,
04:03 it would steam in a very short amount of time
04:05 anywhere from 5 to 12 minutes.
04:08 But if you're steaming something more tough
04:11 and mature leaves,
04:13 it can take anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes.
04:17 We're going to add a couple more things to this for flavor.
04:20 Well, those are steaming.
04:23 One of my favorite things to put in is some onions,
04:26 because if you're steaming the onion in with it
04:29 with those greens,
04:31 it's gonna cook that onion flavor into them,
04:34 just make them absolutely wonderful.
04:36 So we're gonna peel this onion, and then we're gonna chop it,
04:40 and then we will also
04:42 mince some garlic cloves with it as well.
04:47 So the onion doesn't have to be chopped in small pieces,
04:51 you can chop them fairly large if you like.
05:05 All right, so we have our onion now.
05:07 We're gonna put that in with the steaming kale.
05:11 And while you got it here,
05:13 we're gonna just mince some garlic directly into it.
05:16 I've got two cloves of garlic here.
05:19 So there's one and there's two,
05:24 and we're just gonna mince that right in.
05:27 Put that on top and cover the lid back on
05:31 and let that steam, until it's ready.
05:34 See how fun and simple this is.
05:37 It's full of nutrition, delicious,
05:40 great source of fiber, and it's so easy.
05:44 Be sure and try this at home.
05:47 Now, Dr. Marcum, I'm not very good in the kitchen
05:50 but that did look pretty simple.
05:51 I think I could do it.
05:52 Well, you know, Nick, she said the word fun.
05:56 I would have a hard time saying that that would be fun,
05:59 but I like things that are easy,
06:01 you know, if that's easy for people
06:03 to incorporate greens into their lives,
06:05 I think that's a great thing to do.
06:07 That's right.
06:08 And we'd really like to thank Kristina
06:10 for sharing her talents with us.
06:11 You know, not everybody can prepare food easily
06:13 and then communicate well on others on how to do it.
06:16 So we really appreciate that.
06:17 You can visit Kristina's website
06:18 at Kristinaskitchen.org.
06:21 Now, Dr. Marcum,
06:22 we know there's lots of different kinds of greens,
06:25 there is bok choy, arugula, all different kinds.
06:29 And they're all delicious and have different flavors.
06:31 But is there any cautions,
06:33 is there any particular groups of people
06:36 that need to be concerned
06:37 about eating too much greens of certain kinds.
06:39 That's a good question because the people
06:41 that are on blood thinners,
06:42 specifically the blood thinner called coumadin,
06:45 warfarin, jantoven are other names of it.
06:48 This can interact with that medication.
06:50 Okay.
06:52 So greens actually, if they're on these medicines
06:54 makes the blood thicker, okay.
06:56 So for instance, if you're on blood thinners,
06:58 because of a heart valve and you're taking coumadin,
07:01 right, to make the blood thin
07:03 because you don't want to have a stroke from that valve.
07:05 If you take greens that might make the blood thicker,
07:08 increasing your risk of having a stroke.
07:11 Now there are some newer blood thinners
07:12 that we use for other things like atrial fibrillation
07:15 that doesn't have a green interaction.
07:17 So whenever you start eating greens
07:19 and you let your doctor know.
07:21 Now and my patients they say, "I want to eat greens,
07:23 I want to eat greens, Dr. Marcum."
07:25 I say, well, if you eat the same amount everyday
07:27 and we check your blood thinner,
07:29 then we can sort of monitor the dose of the blood thinner
07:32 based on the amount of greens.
07:34 So that's one group that has to be very careful
07:37 with how much greens they eat, and let your doctor know,
07:40 you know, what you're eating every day.
07:41 But greens is very beneficial and the studies have all shown,
07:46 how many great things it does for a body.
07:48 So I'm gonna make that commercial someday
07:50 about how greens they do our body good.
07:52 That's right.
07:54 And you know, greens are great,
07:55 you just give us a little bit of a disclaimer
07:56 that there may be some interactions.
07:58 But as all advice you may hear from Dr. Marcum
08:00 here on this program, always work with your physician
08:02 and ask them if this is something that will help you.
08:05 Right. That's a good point. Yeah.
08:07 You know, one interesting fact
08:08 that I looked up about greens is that,
08:11 you know, we talked about Hippocrates previously.
08:14 Back 400 years before Christ,
08:16 Hippocrates is rumored
08:17 to have started his first hospital next to a stream
08:20 so that he can grow watercress.
08:22 Yup. Is that for his patients?
08:23 That's interesting that way back then,
08:25 you know, God recommended these,
08:27 you know, fruits, vegetables, nuts, and grains
08:30 to treat different diseases,
08:32 these are indeed biblical prescriptions
08:34 that we can use to change the cells in our body.
08:36 That's right.
08:38 And on that note we have a short message from Dr. Marcum
08:40 and it's called our Biblical Prescription for Life.
08:43 And Dr. Marcum gives you just a snippet,
08:45 a 60 second clip that you can use
08:47 to share with your friends, family, church,
08:50 and help point people back towards the Bible.
08:52 Let's take a look at a clip right now.
08:54 I'm Dr. James Marcum with your Biblical Prescription for Life.
08:58 One of my patients
09:00 came in the other day having more angina,
09:01 that's pain when you walk and do things.
09:04 He was already on medications and it had some procedures.
09:07 I suggested a Biblical Prescription for Life,
09:10 Genesis 1:29.
09:13 This text talks about
09:15 how we get back to God's plan of eating,
09:17 eating more fruits, and grains,
09:19 and seeds that our body does better.
09:22 Numerous studies have shown that when we eat this way,
09:24 our body makes substances that make our arteries bigger.
09:27 When he started to eat this way,
09:30 his arteries got bigger,
09:31 he had less chest pain, and he had less symptoms.
09:34 So he did this almost everyday he ate his greens.
09:38 Think about it.
09:39 A Biblical Prescription for Life is eating the plants
09:42 where God put everywhere throughout the world.
09:44 I'm Dr. James Marcum
09:47 and this your Biblical Prescription for Life.
09:52 That's a great message, Dr. Marcum,
09:54 thank you for that, and...
09:55 It is sort of like a commercial.
09:56 That's right. Little bit, a little bit.
09:58 And that's part of a larger program
09:59 that we may call Biblical Prescriptions for Life.
10:02 It's a video and a study guide,
10:04 and it's made to be use of smaller group.
10:06 And if you'd like to share these resources,
10:09 these are to be used not just for you and your family,
10:11 but also as an evangelist tool.
10:13 And we would like you to visit our website
10:14 at biblicalprescriptions.com /3abn
10:17 and you can learn more there,
10:19 you can download these videos to share with other people
10:20 and introduce them to the idea
10:22 of following God's design for our life.
10:24 Yeah, and it's a great way of introducing people
10:27 to things that God's given us
10:28 and also eventually ends up in talking to them about worship,
10:32 and how God, when the body's better,
10:34 the worship is better,
10:35 when the worship's better the body is better,
10:38 it all works together.
10:39 Very, very neat.
10:40 So there was a commercial about greens that we made it.
10:42 A little bit. That's right. I like that, I like that.
10:44 That's right.
10:45 You know, Dr. Marcum, there's a lot of great information
10:47 but there's a lot more out there for people to learn,
10:49 and one of the ways that we provide for people
10:52 to get more health education on food, on medicine,
10:55 on lifestyle, here is our website
10:57 at www.heartwiseministries.org.
11:01 You can list a prayer requests on a prayer form
11:05 and that's one of the
11:07 really important parts of our ministry,
11:09 where we try and reach out people,
11:10 let them share with us what's going on in their lives,
11:12 and then we pray for them and let them know that we care
11:14 and that we're asking God to provide healing.
11:17 And there's also a radio broadcast they can listen to,
11:20 there is blog articles by Dr. Marcum,
11:22 and there's a lot of different health benefits you can get
11:25 from visiting the website and reading the content there.
11:28 So thank you so much, Dr. Marcum,
11:29 and thank you viewers at home for joining us today.
11:31 We're gonna be back in just a moment
11:33 as Dr Marcum shares a few closing thoughts with us.
11:40 Today we've been talking about
11:43 how greens can improve your body.
11:45 Greens can not only treat disease,
11:48 but it can also be used to prevent disease.
11:51 We've learned how greens have nitrates in them
11:54 and when you eat them, it makes nitric oxide,
11:57 which makes our arteries bigger.
12:00 When our arteries are bigger, it lowers blood pressure,
12:03 it improves oxygenation to every cell in the body,
12:06 it helps our body save nutrients.
12:08 So greens are a biblical treatment for life.
12:11 Not only do greens help make our arteries bigger
12:14 but it has other substances
12:15 that improve our body like antioxidants, and fiber,
12:19 many good things from green, even the chlorophyll
12:22 has some beneficial effects.
12:24 I'm just glad that we have a God
12:26 that's given us things
12:27 that we can use to improve our bodies,
12:29 so we can worship Him better.
12:31 Speaking of worship, let's take some time
12:34 and just thank God for giving us greens.
12:37 Father in heaven, we just want to thank You
12:39 for giving us so many good things to improve our bodies,
12:42 and thank You for the greens You gave us
12:44 so that we can think better, and feel better,
12:46 and worship You better.
12:48 Many of us need healing, Father,
12:50 and we just pray that You heal in our lives
12:53 in a very special way today.
12:55 Thank You for being with us is our prayer.
12:57 Amen.
12:59 So I want everyone to go out there
13:01 and try to at least eat something green today.
13:05 It could be something fresh, it can be something frozen,
13:07 but try to eat something green in your life.
13:10 If you might have questions or concerns
13:12 or even want to be on our prayer list,
13:14 I want to encourage you to go to our prayer site,
13:17 that's heartwiseministries.org.
13:19 You're gonna see a lot of prayers,
13:21 and I want you to encourage you to pray for each other
13:24 and write out your prayers, and we'll be praying for you.
13:27 And I want everyone to understand
13:29 how important to us green is,
13:31 so next time you hear a commercial
13:32 about a pharmaceutical,
13:34 think about a commercial about a green
13:36 and eat some greens in your life.
13:38 I'm Dr. James Marcum wishing you the best of health.


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