Participants: Curtis Eakins, Paula Eakins
Series Code: AL
Program Code: AL00142A
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00:01 High cholesterol levels is a risk factor for heart
00:03 disease and stroke. This nation's number 00:06 one and number three killers. 00:08 So, do you have a high cholesterol lifestyle, 00:11 our program is entitled "Controlling 00:13 Cholesterol" part 1 so stay by. 00:41 Hi, welcome to Abundant Living, 00:42 I'm Curtis Eakins, and this is my beautiful 00:44 bride, Paula Eakins. Alright, how are 00:47 you doing today honey? I'm doing wonderful today. 00:49 And you are looking mighty good too. 00:51 Thank you very much. You usually looks good 00:52 anyway so I praise the Lord for that. 00:54 Praise Him, yes indeed He. Yes. 00:56 Okay today, today we are gonna be talking 00:58 about cholesterol. We are gonna be talking 01:00 about cholesterol. Now we are gonna 01:01 have this in two parts, this is part one and then 01:04 next time we meet we will go with part two as well. 01:06 Cholesterol is a topic that, just like I said 01:09 before is contributing factor to this nation's 01:11 number one and number three killers heart 01:13 disease and stroke so. We are gonna look at 01:15 some numbers HDL, LDL, VLDL, 01:20 cholesterol ratio and all these kind of good things. 01:23 And despite the information out on the 01:26 cholesterol, people still have 01:28 high cholesterol levels. Yep, and I think 01:31 cholesterol has gotten a bad rap, you know 01:34 it's just like fat you know we do need fat 01:38 certain types of fat. We do need cholesterol, 01:40 certain types of cholesterol. 01:42 So, we are gonna look into this 01:43 topic quite thoroughly. Well I guess the first 01:46 question, that the always might have is 01:49 what exactly is cholesterol? 01:51 And what is the purpose in the body? 01:53 Okay, cholesterol is a fat, waxy, yellow 01:59 substance that's found in the bloodstream and 02:02 also in all body cells. And as main purpose of 02:05 cholesterol was to simply take the fat from 02:08 the liver and transport throughout the body 02:11 and then also go back to the liver and then take 02:13 some more fat to distribute throughout 02:14 the body and cholesterol itself. 02:16 So, is a transport system and it uses the blood 02:20 vessels as it's highway to do that. 02:23 So, again we do need cholesterol now again 02:26 some of the purposes for cholesterol number 02:29 one's for cell membrane manufacture of sex 02:32 hormone, steroids, brain cell, central nervous 02:36 system, organ protection, reproduction, body energy. 02:42 So, you see we do need cholesterol contrary to 02:46 I don't know maybe not popular belief but some 02:48 people think they oh I don't want cholesterol, 02:51 you know that, that causes heart disease. 02:52 Well folks we do need cholesterol but again in 02:56 certain amounts it's really advantageous for 02:59 our body system on a daily basis. 03:01 Now I guess the thing that I'm thinking about 03:02 when you say we do need cholesterol and 03:04 you gave very good definition about what 03:06 it's used for inside the body? 03:08 First thing I'm thinking about and I'm wondering 03:10 if you're thinking the same thing, is that mean 03:11 I eat a lot of cholesterol foods and 03:13 what we able to do that. Okay, okay see I can 03:16 see the emails right now, oh yes. 03:17 Well Curtis saying and Paula saying we need 03:19 cholesterol so we can go through these fast 03:21 food restaurants and eat these big burgers, 03:24 and double cheese and double quarter pounder 03:28 and you know fryers, oh that's cholesterol 03:31 and we need cholesterol folks and I can see that 03:34 email coming yeah. And I guess that our 03:36 next question is gonna be then where exactly 03:39 does this cholesterol which you are taking 03:41 about come from? Okay. Well first of all 03:44 let me say this I just thought about this, 03:46 cholesterol comes from God. 03:51 Why because God created our bodies, 03:55 so when God formed man from the dust of 03:59 the ground. He fashioned his body, 04:02 He also formed the internal organs of the 04:05 body too to function properly. 04:08 Therefore having said that let me say this. 04:10 There is one organ in particular when God 04:14 made mankind that is responsible for the 04:18 manufacturing of cholesterol 04:21 in the beginning. So this is God's plan 04:24 and we are again we say this text quite often but 04:27 again we are fearfully and wonderfully made. 04:33 Now let's go to our first graphic let's see what 04:34 we talking about here. There's a little man 04:37 there and he has cholesterol, 04:38 now going there are two sources of cholesterol 04:41 that goes into the body. Let's look at the top 04:44 source first of all, the source that goes right 04:47 inside of our mouth, honey. 04:48 Now of course we have the eggs there, 04:50 we have the bacon and we have what's that 04:53 hamburger and French fries and ice cream and 04:57 cake and burger. So, all of those foods 05:00 contain cholesterol, again anything that 05:04 comes from the animal kingdom that has a 05:07 mother or a face contains cholesterol. 05:09 So, these foods animal products 05:12 contain cholesterol. So, when we eat that 05:14 then of course our body has a high 05:16 incident of cholesterol. And that can be 05:19 anywhere from 100 to 500 mg per day based 05:24 on one's diet. Now some people eat 05:26 than that, but again 1 to 500 maybe more. 05:29 But, now look at the bottom there the liver, 05:31 as I said before the liver is designed by God to 05:36 manufacture all the cholesterol 05:38 that the body needs. The liver manufactures 05:41 up to 1000 mg of cholesterol 05:45 per day the liver. So, if we do not eat any 05:48 other food that contains cholesterol the liver will 05:52 do its job effectively without any cholesterol 05:56 coming to our body thought our mouths. 05:58 So, liver does its job, yeah. 06:00 We tilt the scales against us when we 06:03 take in food that contains cholesterol. 06:06 Now we have a surplus of cholesterol. 06:08 So, what you are saying then is that we don't 06:10 really need to have cholesterol in our foods, 06:13 because, right, by do anything. 06:14 Because God created our bodies to 06:17 manufacture that cholesterol. 06:19 So, again everything points back 06:21 to God the creator. That's why sometimes 06:24 we talked about the curbing the carbs a few 06:28 weeks ago and again some people who 06:31 advocate evaluation. The big bang theory or 06:35 amoeba that was in the water and it grew on 06:39 dry land and then it climbed up the trees 06:41 and snapped his tail and became my great, great, 06:43 great, great grandfather, you know. 06:45 Well folks you know God is not honored by 06:49 that theory, so we need to look at the word of 06:52 God, see how we are created and if we look at 06:56 anatomy and physiology. Just basic anatomy and 06:58 physiology the more we read, the more we study 07:02 the more it points back to God our creator that 07:05 He has placed this liver in our system to 07:08 manufacture the cholesterol. 07:10 And other things in the body that it needs too, 07:12 so everything points back to God. 07:14 Well I think the thing that's so amazing is 07:16 talking about the cholesterol issue but all 07:18 the information that comes from 3ABN. 07:20 That we're constantly trying to uplift God and 07:25 keeping them in the position where he needs 07:26 to be as the creator of everything all things okay. 07:29 So everything points back to God, 07:31 everything, another thing that also increases 07:33 our cholesterol is emotional stress. 07:37 See we can not eat any cholesterol type foods 07:40 into our mouth be a vegetarian or be a 07:42 vegan vegetarian or plant based diet. 07:45 But, yet have not the where with all to manage 07:48 emotional stress, that in itself 07:51 will raise our cholesterol. 07:53 Also not getting enough sunlight, 07:57 now we did a program several years ago 07:58 entitled there's something new on the sun. 08:02 And of course we don't have time to go through 08:03 that but just to purpose that, to see what are not 08:07 sun at well low your cholesterol it does 08:10 lower your cholesterol by the way go outside 08:12 in the sun preferably maybe mid morning or 08:16 late afternoon with most of your skin exposed. 08:19 Now of course folks you want still be you 08:21 know decent you know maybe doing in the 08:23 backyard with lot of bushes around, still decent. 08:25 Yeah but still decent, skin exposed to the 08:28 sunlight, for at least maybe 30 minutes or an 08:30 hour, go back inside and check your cholesterol, 08:33 your cholesterol would drop and so very 08:36 amazing for us, sunlight will lower your 08:37 cholesterol, emotional stress 08:39 how to handle that. Anti-stress measures 08:42 will lower one's cholesterol. 08:44 So, it's not just a food issue and there's also 08:46 genetic disposition as well, but again we don't 08:49 really promote that as much because I think a 08:51 lot of times that has been given so much 08:55 credibility of genetic disposition where 08:57 I think a lot of times it's really lifestyle overall. 09:01 Yeah I'm kind of thinking and also in 09:03 the same line which you are saying about being 09:05 under stress, right. And then actually going 09:07 out and taking a walk in nature, yes. 09:09 Taking a walk when the sun is out, we always 09:12 say once again that you wanna go out before 09:14 10'O clock before sun gets very hot and then 09:16 you don't want to do again later on the afternoon. 09:19 But, just going out being a nature, right, 09:21 take a walk with the sun on 09:23 you and the Son of God in you. 09:25 Okay watch it now, okay, okay you start 09:27 preaching now baby, now that will take the 09:29 stress down, okay and it will also 09:32 lower the cholesterol. Alright talk 50 girl 09:35 alright you got to go on now. 09:37 Don't get you started; okay, okay now. 09:39 Okay, another thing is that make sure that we 09:42 do this sunlight treatment that we 09:44 wanna make sure that the skin is dry and clean. 09:46 That way it will not cause any burning 09:49 sensation, to those who usually get skin cancer 09:53 or those individuals who have a high fat diet 09:57 in their meal planning. So, again when the 10:01 sunlight strikes the skin because of the high fat 10:03 diet it will turn that skin to cancer so again those 10:07 who have a plant based diet and there's been 10:08 studies done in Houston, Texas about... 10:12 with different two groups of rats and in 10:14 fair one group of rats a plant based diet, 10:17 another group of rats a high fat diet. 10:19 And then they exposed both groups of rats to 10:22 the sunlight, the ultraviolet rays of the sun. 10:24 And those are rats had a plant based diet did not 10:27 have any skin cancers. Those rats have had a 10:29 fat based diet had a lot of skin cancers. 10:32 So, again it's not just the sunlight that causes 10:35 skin cancer but the foods that we eat, a high 10:38 fat diet that when sunlight does strike to 10:41 skin it turns to cancer. So, the sun is 10:43 not the blame, aright. Well, and of course 10:46 they want more information on that, 10:47 when they have to call back 3ABN 10:49 and get the tape or something. 10:50 Oh they email us yeah we give some more 10:52 information. Now let's look at some 10:54 letters here, we hear the LDL, VLDL, HDL. 10:59 Let's talk about that and what did they mean as 11:01 far as overall cholesterol is concerned. 11:02 Well first of all a lot of time, people are trying 11:04 to find out what their cholesterol levels are? 11:06 What they would do is go and you might be at 11:08 a health fair somewhere and you have them pick 11:10 your finger and you go off and you come back 11:12 to get that number to find out what your 11:14 cholesterol score is, okay. Basically when 11:16 you have your cholesterol done you 11:18 need to have we call a full blood panel. 11:21 Which means that they don't just pick the finger 11:23 and then just give you the overall score, 11:25 which can be very high. But you want them to 11:27 go inside and find out what those scores are? 11:30 Okay. You wanna find out what is your LDL, 11:32 like you said your HDL, your VLDL, okay. 11:35 LDL standing for Low Density Lipoprotein. 11:37 Okay. HDL, High- Density Lipoprotein. 11:40 And VLDL Very Low Density Lipoprotein. 11:44 And then also in that whole configuration is 11:46 also your triglyceride levels. 11:49 And you wanna make sure that you can see 11:50 these levels this for you actually go in and see 11:53 what's going on, okay. In order for fat to go 11:55 into the bloodstream, it has to be broken down 11:57 to his most single unit. And once that really get 12:00 on, we call a lipoprotein, it's called 12:02 lipoprotein it gets on the back of a 12:05 lipoprotein train and that's why it's call lipo 12:09 lipid protein, okay, gets on the train and on that 12:12 train it goes right into the cell to give us the 12:15 energy and the stuff that we need to have. 12:16 Well the HDL the good guys, the good guys, 12:20 going in very easily, the LDL means there's too 12:23 much fat still, VLDL very much fat and these 12:27 have a hard time. So, they remain in the 12:29 bloodstream and by the being of bloodstream 12:31 they calls a problem of building 12:32 up plaque in the system. Okay now look at some 12:35 numbers now the HDL, and LDL what numbers 12:38 that we're looking at that one and some time 12:39 it would be on a full panel blood lipid profile 12:42 but just for, in this program. 12:44 Well there was a time Curtis when I used to 12:45 say that if we could just get those HDL the good 12:47 guys above 35 will be good, yeah. 12:50 That's not been true, what's been going on 12:51 now is more research has come out and 12:53 they're discovering now that our HDL levels 12:55 need to be above 60, right, alright, above 60 12:58 HDL, now what about the LDL? 12:59 Now we do the LDL we're talking about 13:01 below a 100, okay. And the same thing 13:03 with our triglyceride levels. 13:05 You wanna get those numbers low because 13:07 the higher they are, the higher the overall score. 13:09 However I do wanna emphasize once again is 13:11 that you could have a nice high score which 13:13 Curtis is gonna talk about little bit later. 13:15 A high score but you HDL, the good guys are 13:18 ones gonna be high. We always say you 13:20 want high HDLs, Hi I'm so glad if you are here, 13:24 HDL the good guy, yes, yes, okay alright then. 13:27 Well so let's go. I think one of things that we 13:29 wanna talk about here is that the risk factors 13:31 concerning cholesterol, as it 13:33 relates to heart disease. Okay, yeah again high 13:36 cholesterol does have a risk factor for heart 13:39 disease and stroke. That's the number one 13:42 and number three killers in this nation and 13:44 of course when you combined those 13:45 together, you're looking at almost one million 13:48 people per year, wow. Okay cardiovascular 13:51 disease what we call in dying composes, 13:53 heart disease and stroke as well. 13:55 And so as cholesterol numbers go up the risk 13:59 of heart disease also goes up as well, 14:03 there is a direct correlation between the 14:05 two and that's been studied in numerous 14:08 occasions for the last 15, 20 years or so. 14:11 Let's look at our graphic here and let's really, 14:14 this is gonna be an eye opener. 14:16 At the bottom graph here you have the 14:17 cholesterol serum cholesterol number and 14:20 it starts at 140 and goes all the way to 300. 14:24 As you see here that the higher the overall 14:27 cholesterol the greater their heart disease 14:30 deaths from individuals who have heart 14:32 cholesterol numbers. Now at the left corner 14:35 there or left hand side of this graph that 14:38 represents 1000. So, again those individuals 14:42 who have a high cholesterol number, 14:46 then it would be a higher rate of death 14:48 from cardiovascular disease. 14:51 Now information out there in the media 14:54 suggests as of late that one's cholesterol should 14:57 be less than 200. But, again we are saying 15:01 the cholesterol should be less than 180. 15:07 So, when you see that 180 there, the left hand 15:09 side of that, very few people are dying with 15:12 cholesterol or less than 180. 15:14 But, again look at 180 and above. 15:17 There is a great amount of individuals who are 15:19 dying from heart disease and the 15:21 cholesterol is above 180 maybe 180 to 200 that's 15:25 quite a few there. So, again the lower 15:27 the cholesterol overall cholesterol then a less 15:30 rate of going of dying from heart disease. 15:34 So, we should also have our cholesterol below 180. 15:38 Now we even suggest, we even suggest to have 15:41 your overall cholesterol less than 150. 15:45 There is no one on record based on 15:47 Framingham studies there in New England 15:50 of anyone dying of one's cholesterol less 15:54 than 150. Now our cholesterol is in 140s 15:59 so we wanna get that 180 that's the maximum 16:03 but the lower the better, because you see on that 16:05 graph there that even those who have 16:07 cholesterol, let's say 180 to 200 there's still a 16:10 quite amount of death of those individuals 16:13 with that cholesterol number. 16:14 You know isn't that absolutely amazing 16:16 because I remember a time when they would 16:17 say our overall score was supposing 220, 16:20 yeah, oh 220. And then it went down to 200, 16:24 then it went down to 190, now we're saying 16:27 180 but really the lower the better, 16:29 the lower the better. Yeah, which means that 16:31 you can not have no milk, no eggs, 16:32 no cheese or anything in your diet. 16:33 I mean because actually the more foods you eat 16:35 that have cholesterol in them, then that means 16:37 that the more chance you gonna have with 16:39 the higher score. And the lifestyle and 16:41 into next time we meet, what would bring that 16:44 cholesterol down. There's foods in nature, 16:48 three foods in particular, a food 16:50 groups that would simply drop it down 16:52 just like medication, so that's 16:53 the next time we meet. We'll talk about that 16:55 ratio also about the ratio kind of explain to us 16:58 what does that mean by the ratio when 17:01 you talk about cholesterol? Okay let's go to our last 17:04 graphic and this is very profound as well we 17:06 need to understand the cholesterol ratio, 17:08 let's go to our last graphic. 17:09 Alright let's say that I have my cholesterol 17:12 check, now these are of course our fictitious 17:13 numbers are cholesterol I think last checking 17:15 about 140, but just for sake of graphic here 17:20 let's say my cholesterol is 190 overall cholesterol. 17:23 But, honey yours is 220 not at this point here it 17:27 would appear that I'm in better shape than you 17:30 are honey, could my cholesterol is lower 17:33 than your cholesterol? You must be eating 17:35 little bit more, I don't know cheeseburgers, 17:37 I don't know whatever. Okay now so at this 17:39 point here I'm in better shape, however let's go 17:43 to the next graphic here, let's look at the HDL, 17:48 remember now these are the good guys, 17:51 once HDL should be at least 60 or above. 17:55 Wait a minute now my HDL is only 38, 17:59 that's below the level 60 of course. 18:02 But now your HDL honey is 73, now to get 18:08 the ratio you divide cholesterol by the HDL. 18:12 So, therefore my ratio will be 5.0, 18:18 your ratio is 3.0 one's ratio 18:22 should be less than 3.5. So when you look at the 18:27 ratio the overall ratio the HDL and 18:31 cholesterol you're really in a better shape 18:34 because your HDL is very high there 18:37 by your ratio is less than 3.5. 18:42 Well you know Curtis made that graphic up 18:44 and let me just read on and say it for record. 18:46 I don't eat cheeseburgers hello, okay Mr. Eakins. 18:50 Now okay see that for the sake of illustration. 18:52 Okay for illustration, when I heard the word 18:54 cheeseburgers okay. And so let's just kind of 18:57 like a vegan stand point, galaxy cheese, tofutti 18:59 cheese, yeah let's you know let's talk about, 19:01 I had too much not so something 19:03 you know I'm saying? Yeah, they will say, 19:05 well like I see somebody email me say 19:06 girl you still eat cheeseburger, no way. 19:08 I make sure those for fictitious numbers. 19:11 Some people say when you people health 19:12 educators, your cholesterol is 19:14 220 what's going on here. You know what's when 19:16 I turn TV on, right Charley, did they say 19:19 she eat cheeseburgers. Okay moving along quickly, 19:21 because I know it's time, yeah it's time to 19:23 go into the kitchen; it is definitely time to go 19:24 into kitchen. Next time we meet folks we're 19:26 gonna be talking about those foods that will 19:27 simply drop down cholesterol without the 19:30 medication, so let's go to our recipe. 19:32 Alright, well you know once again I know 19:34 you're probably saying now are we gonna cook 19:35 on show and answer is yes now. 19:37 After talking the first level about cholesterol 19:39 and what's going on you know that we are gonna 19:41 have to fix something I tried to fix a food that 19:43 matches the programs. And this particular 19:46 incident I'm gonna be using chicken. 19:48 I know you say, oh it's a cheeseburger, one 19:50 minute now you are saying chicken. 19:51 Well let me tell you, we are doing a "mock 19:53 chicken salad" get your paper and your pencil 19:56 and meet us in the kitchen. |
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