Participants: Curtis & Paula Eakins
Series Code: AL
Program Code: AL000201A
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00:01 The U.S. News and World Report
00:02 with the help of some health experts 00:04 revealed the best diets overall out of list of 25. 00:09 However, they neglected to include two experts, 00:13 and people who follow these two expert's advice 00:15 are the healthiest, longest living people on planet earth. 00:19 And they advocate only three diets. 00:21 So our program is entitled "The Three Diets." 00:24 We will be right back. 00:51 Hi, welcome to "Abundant Living", 00:53 I am Curtis Eakins and want to introduce my wife, 00:56 beautiful bride of over 18 years, Paula Eakins. 01:01 Hi. You are doing pretty good today? 01:03 I am doing wonderful. 01:04 You're looking mighty good too. Thank you. 01:06 And I was just thinking about, you said 25 diets. 01:10 Twenty five diets overall. 01:11 And only three approved of, really approved of. 01:16 Well, they rated all 25 diets list up 01:19 several parameters as far as nutrition. Okay. 01:23 Safety, price, their impact on diabetes, 01:28 their impact on cardiovascular disease 01:30 and also impact on weight loss, short term and long term. 01:34 And they grouped all 25 diets based on those parameters. 01:37 And so--but again, you know you have all kinds of diets 01:40 on the list, of course. 01:42 The Atkins diet, the raw food diet, 01:45 the Mediterranean diet, the Slim-Fast, 01:47 the Weight Watchers, the DASH, 01:49 the TLC, therapeutic lifestyle changes, Slim-Fast. 01:54 So many diets out there and-- but these are experts. 01:59 But they left out two experts that were not even included 02:02 in determining the best diets. 02:05 So that's amazing to me and we're going to be talking 02:06 about those two experts as well. 02:08 But before we do that we're going to-- 02:11 this is going to be a series folks, 02:13 a series of the eight natural remedies. 02:18 Now we as Seventh-day Adventist Christians, 02:20 most Christians know of that the seven-- 02:24 I mean, the eight natural remedies 02:26 and these are lifestyle principals. 02:28 And some people-- this may be new to some. 02:31 And so to remember those eight natural remedies-- 02:35 this going to be a series for the next several weeks. 02:37 Honey, let's talk about those eight natural remedies 02:39 and I think there's an acronym to help us 02:42 to remember those eight natural remedies. 02:43 Let's talk about that. 02:45 Well, you know, it's been said a quite a bit 02:47 about these eight natural laws. 02:48 And we call them laws or eight natural principles 02:51 or eight natural doctors, 02:52 but the whole theory is a term called 'New Start.' Okay. 02:56 Now that's a easy way to remember it. 02:58 Of course, my understanding is there was a gentleman 03:00 who was having a hard time trying to remember them, 03:02 come from the book of Ministry of Healing. 03:04 And he had a hard time trying to remember the concept 03:06 and so that New Start was coined by him. Okay. 03:09 The 'N' stands for nutrition 03:11 and the 'E' stands for exercise. 03:14 The 'W' stands for water. 03:16 The 'S' stands for sunshine. 03:19 The 'T' stands for temperance. 03:21 The 'A' stands for air. 03:23 The 'R' stands for rest 03:25 and the 'T' stands for trust in divine guidance. 03:30 Now, Curtis, are you saying we're going to be going 03:32 through this whole eight natural principles. That's right. 03:35 And laws and doctors and all that? 03:37 So you know as we stay tuning and watching and listening, 03:40 then you know we're going to hit each one of those. 03:42 And you have got to stay by, 03:44 so you can see what's going to be the next one. 03:46 That's the way you did that you went through the New Start, 03:48 I mean just you hit all eight. 03:49 I mean, that's remarkable. 03:51 Can you do it again-- but do it backwards? 03:53 No, we're not going to go backwards with that but I will-- 03:55 now that's not a bad thing now 03:56 because then backwards would mean 03:57 honest and truly the last one, 03:59 trust in divine God should really be the first one. 04:03 But then it wouldn't spell New Start. That's right. 04:04 So we got to make sure that we keep that one there, 04:07 where it is--although it is through God in Himself 04:10 that could actually help us get through. 04:11 Talking about those diets-- Yeah. 04:13 You said, there were two experts that was left out of the 25. 04:18 They were simply ignored, the two experts. 04:21 And so one of the experts that was not consulted 04:24 in determining these diets overall is God's word. Oh. 04:30 God Himself. I mean, He was not even included. Okay. 04:34 And it seem to reason that God should have been included 04:36 in consulting the Word of God 04:38 as far as the best diet for mankind, 04:41 because God created our bodies. 04:44 So it seems to reason that He would know 04:46 what's best food for our bodies, but He wasn't even consulted, 04:50 wasn't even looked at as far as God's word is concern. 04:53 Well, I think that that's kind of important point right there, 04:56 because when you think about God being a creative God 04:59 actually in the first book of the Bible. That's right. 05:02 In the Book of Genesis, Genesis 1:29, 05:05 I mean, He didn't even go that far down. 05:07 He started right in 29, He gets the whole world together, 05:09 the sun, the moon, the stars and the ocean, 05:11 everything is set in place. 05:13 All the stuff that we needed, then He puts us here. 05:16 And then that diet is sitting right there in Genesis 1:29. 05:19 Okay. And God speaks about that diet. 05:22 When it wasn't that really a big deal, 05:24 He could have put it in Psalms or Revelation, 05:26 but He puts it in the very first book of the Bible. That's right. 05:29 I think we should go and read that. 05:31 Oh, right now. 05:32 Oh, I think it's a good idea. Let's go and see this verse. 05:34 Okay. Well, let's go and do it right now 05:35 because-- yes Genesis 1:29. 05:38 Again like my wife said. 05:39 And again as we go through this series, folks 05:41 we're going to be walking through God's word. 05:44 So we encourage you to have your Bibles ready 05:46 or at least have a pen and a paper 05:49 to jot some of these texts down. 05:50 We're going to use God's word as our standard of truth 05:54 and healthful living is without exception. 05:57 So God's word is very efficacious for that. 06:00 The Bible says in Genesis 1:29, 06:04 "And God said, Behold, I have given you 06:07 every herb bearing seed, 06:10 which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree, 06:14 in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed 06:20 and to you it shall be for meat." All right. 06:25 Now the word meat here in the Hebrew mean food, 06:28 because in this text there's no meat mentioned. Yes. 06:32 So when we see the word meat, 06:33 it's talking about food or what we should eat. 06:36 So therefore the herb bearing seed and the fruit of the trees. 06:39 So we've a saying that goes something like this, 06:41 "I am going to enjoy the fruit of my labor." 06:46 It doesn't mean that I am going to enjoy apples and oranges. 06:48 I am going to enjoy the product of my labor. 06:51 So a tree produces more than just fruit, 06:54 what a tree produces more than just fruit also nuts as well, 06:59 so again, nuts and fruits etcetera. 07:01 And so now that's before sinned. 07:04 Now honey, when sin entered into to the world. 07:07 God added something to that diet and this is Genesis 3:18. 07:12 The Bible says, "And thou shall eat 07:14 the herb of the field." 07:18 Now we're talking about the plant kingdom, the legumes, 07:21 the whole grains and the vegetable kingdom. 07:24 So with these two again, this is actually man's best diet. 07:32 Found in Genesis, the first book of the Bible, 07:35 the first chapter of the Bible and then after sin of course, 07:37 Chapter 3 in verse 18. 07:40 People who espouse on this diet 07:43 are the healthiest and longest living people on planet earth. 07:49 God's original diet, diet number one. 07:51 So we've got God's original diet, number one. 07:53 But you said, there was two experts. 07:56 So therefore there's another expert. 07:58 There's another expert. Yes. 07:59 Okay, and this expert was not even consulted as well. Okay. 08:03 Just left this expert out as well. 08:05 This expert, lot of you may not have heard of this author. 08:10 She is a prolific author, wrote many volumes 08:13 on health and healthful living. 08:15 And according to the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. 08:18 this author is the most translated author 08:21 in United States, second in the world. 08:24 As a matter of fact, this author is so prolific 08:27 that Paul Harvey, the radio icon dedicated an entire hour 08:32 of his programming talking about this author 08:34 and how she wrote many volumes on health and healthful living. 08:38 This author's name is Ellen G. White. 08:41 And so through this series of the eight natural remedies, 08:45 we're going to be using these two references, 08:47 these two experts. 08:49 God's word, number 1 08:51 and then author Ellen G. White, number 2. 08:54 And then we're going to-- appropriate we'll be also using 08:57 some clinical studies as well to go, 08:59 walk you through these eight natural remedies. 09:03 So God's word is sure, because the Bible says, 09:06 "Whether we eat or drink or whatever we do, 09:11 do all to the glory of God." 09:14 Well, you talked about these two experts 09:16 and now there's a question, of course, 09:18 I notice someone got this question, 09:19 so exactly then what are the three diets? 09:22 Okay, so we mentioned one already, 09:25 because we kind of went first one first. 09:27 So the first diet is the best diet. 09:30 All right. All right. 09:31 Genesis 1:29 and Genesis 3:18, that's the best diet. 09:34 That diet has zero cholesterol, zero saturated fat 09:40 and practically zero trans-fatty acids. 09:43 That diet has a lots of fiber, the carbohydrates, 09:48 unrefined the foods and vegetables in that kingdom. 09:51 People who espouse on that particular diet 09:54 are the longest living people on planet earth. 09:57 Now there's two other diets as well. 09:59 Let's go to Leviticus 11 because remember now, 10:05 when God created this world 10:08 and after while He saw that He had created the world, 10:11 because the world was so corrupted and evil. 10:14 So He destroyed the world by a flood 10:16 and he told Noah and his eight people to go into the ark 10:20 to be safe from the waters. 10:23 God know that the waters would destroy all the vegetation, 10:26 so after they got out of ark, 10:28 there would be nothing to eat. Right. 10:30 So God told Noah, taken into the ark 10:33 the clean and the unclean. 10:37 Those are two other diets, clean and unclean. 10:41 These are animals. 10:42 These are animals, right. All right. 10:43 So the clean went into the ark by-- Sevens. 10:47 And the unclean went in ark by-- Twos. 10:51 Therefore it must be that God did not intent for man 10:55 to eat the unclean. 10:58 Otherwise if you ate one of the two, 11:00 then that animal species would be simply wiped out. 11:06 Okay, now, now you got that seven clean and two unclean. 11:09 'Cause most people think, people in the ark-- 11:11 I mean, the animals went to ark by two. 11:13 I know, I know, you always say that. 11:14 You know, they forget about the seven. 11:16 Yeah. You got to read the word. 11:17 Yeah, that's right. 11:19 Okay. Now of the unclean, why the unclean? 11:22 Okay, the unclean, and let's define 11:24 what is unclean and what's clean. 11:25 And the Bible describes what is clean and what is unclean, 11:28 there's a list here. 11:29 And we are going to go now to Leviticus 11 11:33 and we're going to look at verse, let's look at verse 3. 11:37 "Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and cheweth the cud, 11:41 among the beasts, that shall ye eat." 11:44 These are the cleans. 11:46 So they have to have two things, a parteth the hoof, 11:48 a cheweth the cud. 11:50 So it's as a cow, all right? 11:52 You see the cow just chewing. Yes. 11:54 Cow has three stomachs and goes back up 11:56 and the food comes back up and chews again, 11:58 that's chewing the cud. 11:59 All right. That's clean. 12:01 And they have here something that does not cheweth the cud 12:05 or does not parteth the hoof that is unclean. 12:09 And one in particular we're going to zero 12:11 in is the swine, verse 7. 12:14 "And the swine, though he divide the hoof, 12:17 and be cloven footed, yet he cheweth not the cud, 12:21 he is unclean unto you." 12:24 So the swine is singled out as something that's unclean 12:28 and that's one of the many animals, honey, 12:30 that a lot of people take into the system. 12:33 The swine, the pork. 12:35 Or just in case somebody might say, 12:37 "Well, what's the swine?" That swine is the pig. 12:39 Yeah, pig. Just in case. Yeah, it's a pig. 12:42 Just in case. Just in case. 12:43 Now, now, now so he's unclean. 12:46 He's unclean to us because he's a scavenger. 12:49 That's right. Okay. 12:51 So being a scavenger means 12:53 he's actually eating up all the stuff. 12:56 What is it about that pig, that swine that so-- 12:59 Well, okay the thing about that is-- 13:01 and let me turn to one more text here 13:03 because this is really profound as well. Okay. 13:05 I am going to look at Isaiah 66:17. 13:09 This is a profound text, Isaiah 66:17, 13:14 "Eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, 13:18 and the mouse, shall be consumed together, 13:21 saith the Lord." 13:23 God singles out the swine, 13:25 pork as being unclean among other things as well. 13:28 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me understand. 13:29 Let me explain to you why God singles out the swine. 13:32 Number one, like I said before the cow has three stomachs. 13:36 The swine, the pig has one stomach 13:40 and that stomach is poorly constructed, number 1. 13:45 And number 2, the habitant of a swine, 13:48 it has lice and it has different types of worm, 13:52 the kidney worm, the large round worm. 13:57 It has at least 13 parasites. 14:01 And not only that, we need to understand that 14:04 for our bodies to function very well, it needs blood. 14:09 And blood sends the nutrients to different organs 14:11 and glands in the body, 14:12 so that these organs and glands can function properly. 14:16 So what type of blood then does a swine have? 14:19 Well, that's the question, let's go to our first graphic 14:21 and let's see what type of blood does the swine gives us. 14:26 The worst diet, "Swine's flesh above all other flesh meats, 14:31 produces a bad state of blood. 14:35 The tissues swarm with parasites." 14:39 Again coming from this author Ellen White, 14:41 page 392 of Counsels on Diets and Health. 14:43 So again, swine's flesh 14:46 is in the worst diet category, all right. 14:49 And of course the other diet is the clean foods. 14:52 The clean foods are better than the worst diet, 14:55 you know, the swine and other things as well, 14:57 but the clean foods also has cholesterol, beef, chicken, 15:02 you know, etcetera, turkey. 15:04 It also has saturated fat, it also has carcinogens. 15:09 So these diets also, the clean and the unclean 15:14 both are not the best. Okay. 15:16 All right. One's the worst, unclean. Okay. 15:20 Includes the swine. 15:21 The second is the clean, it's better than the worst, 15:24 but it's not as good as the best which is God's original diet. 15:27 And so what are the benefits? 15:29 Well, there's a lot of benefits for those who obsesses 15:31 on man's original diet, that's the best diet. 15:34 There's the study done with Seventh-day Adventist 15:36 who incorporate more of the plant based diet. 15:39 Let's go through the last graphic at this time. 15:41 We call this the Adventist Lifestyle. 15:44 Quote, "Total cholesterol, blood pressure 15:48 and cancer incidence was lower. 15:50 Total mortality was significantly lower, 15:54 especially cardiovascular" 15:56 Dealing with heart attack and strokes." 15:58 So those who subsist on the best diet based on Genesis 1:29, 16:02 Genesis 3:18 has those benefits as well. 16:05 So we want to share that with the rest of the people here 16:08 as far as nutrition, proper diet and also stay up off 16:12 a lot of the major killer diseases at this time. 16:15 Well, this is surely good. 16:17 I mean, the time is moving so fast 16:18 and I know you are saying, 16:20 are they going to be cooking at all today? 16:21 Well, yes, we are going to in our kitchen 16:23 and we are going to cook 16:24 and we've got a couple of more things 16:25 we want to talk about on this subject 16:27 as we're not quite finished with this one yet. 16:28 So what are we fixing? 16:30 We are fixing a spicy black bean and tomato soup 16:34 and we are also fixing a thyme and chili cornbread. 16:39 Get your paper and your pencil and meet us in the kitchen. |
Revised 2014-12-17