Participants: Curtis Eakins, Paula Eakins
Series Code: AL
Program Code: AL00143A
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00:01 Are you sick and tired of taking medication
00:03 for your cholesterol? And what is the best 00:05 cholesterol lowering diet? Well, those questions 00:08 will be answered in our program today entitled 00:10 Controlling Cholesterol part 2, so stay by. 00:39 Hi, welcome to Abundant Living. 00:41 I'm Curtis Eakins and my beautiful bride of 00:43 over 10 years at least at the taping of this 00:47 program is Paula Eakins. 00:49 How you doing today, honey? 00:50 Wonderful. Also better known as the 00:52 Tofu Lady that's what people 00:54 tell me, is that true? Yeah. Do you work a 00:56 lot with tofu? Absolutely, okay 00:58 other things too but tofu is one of those 00:59 main things that you work with, yes. 01:01 Okay, someone called me that the other day, 01:03 I was going somewhere when 01:04 someone said hey, Tofu Lady. 01:06 And you turned around, didn't you? 01:07 Yes, I did, yes you did, all right. 01:10 We've been talking about cholesterol. 01:12 Well, yes we have. And those who 01:13 missed the first program; this is part two, so of 01:16 course we're gonna just give you just a 01:18 tad bit, just a tad of the information that 01:21 we had on program one and you have to 01:23 call in and get the tape, okay. 01:25 Well, let's start with you now, you talk 01:26 about LDL, VLDL, HDL, and again, 01:30 briefly, what are those terms and maybe 01:33 some numbers attached to each one of 01:34 those three items. Well, I think in a 01:37 summary, I meet a lot of people who talk 01:39 about they have high cholesterol and they 01:42 went to a health fair or whatever and had 01:44 their, had them prick their finger and go 01:46 away and came back but really we 01:48 recommend that you have a full blood 01:50 panel done by your doctor, to go in and 01:53 let them take the full blood panel which 01:55 means they have been spinning around, 01:57 they get more than just an over all 01:58 cholesterol score okay, they will go and get 02:00 the LDL which is Low Density Lipoprotein, 02:03 the VLDL, Very Low Density Lipoprotein 02:05 the HDL which is the good guys High 02:09 density Lipoprotein and also the 02:11 triglyceride levels. Now the ones which 02:13 you do not want high is your LDL, 02:17 your VLDL and your triglyceride levels 02:20 okay, we've talked about all those being 02:21 low below 100 and we want to get that 02:23 cholesterol to HDL level, up above 60 02:26 okay, all right? And so it's very, very 02:28 important that you know what your 02:30 cholesterol levels are and that you have 02:31 yourself checked constantly to 02:33 see how things are going. And again, we've 02:35 mentioned about the higher the cholesterol 02:36 the overall cholesterol, the higher the risk of 02:39 cardio-vascular disease, absolutely so if the 02:41 cholesterol goes up high and of course our 02:43 risk of death from heart disease also 02:45 goes up as well. We had mentioned 02:47 about the cholesterol ratio, we found how 02:50 we can determine our cholesterol ratio, 02:52 now sometimes on your lab report, 02:54 it would give you your cholesterol ratio 02:56 in the lab report, some reports do not, 02:58 just depends on the lab, just doing the 02:59 cholesterol ratio, but cholesterol ratio if 03:03 you get your overall cholesterol and 03:04 divided by your HDL, that gives you your ratio. 03:07 Your ratio wanted be below 3.5, so again 03:11 I think we did last week as I can 03:13 remember if one's cholesterol is 190 03:18 and then HDL is 38 then the ratio is 5.0 03:22 which is very high, but as we mentioned 03:25 before if one's cholesterol is 220 03:28 but their HDL is 73, then their ratio is 3.0 03:35 which is below 3.5 so that person is in a 03:37 better shape although their overall 03:39 cholesterol is higher but the ratio is lower 03:43 because of the high HDL, and that thing needs 03:45 to be really zero in on and brought home 03:48 because people need to understand that 03:49 ratio which is more the determining factor 03:51 than the overall cholesterol. 03:53 We also made a comment about the 03:54 fact that you know that a lot of stress in 03:57 your life can also raise your cholesterol. 03:59 So, we've talked about going out in 04:01 nature, taking a nature walk you know, 04:03 lessening the stress in your life, of course 04:05 the sun, being out there, walking out in 04:07 the sun, we've talked about remember now, 04:09 you want to walk before 10 and then 04:10 you wanna walk after, a little on in the 04:12 afternoon when the sun is not so hot and 04:14 just by walking out in nature, letting God 04:16 show you flowers and butterflies and trees 04:18 and seeing how awesome He is as a 04:20 God, it helps to temper you down, 04:23 that's right so that you will feel better when 04:24 you get back, we say the Sun on 04:27 you and the Son of God in you. 04:28 Oh! I see girl, alright now, Sun on you and 04:30 the Son of God inside of you okay, absolutely. 04:32 Alright sounds good, so that's 04:34 a brief summary there. We've got quite a bit 04:37 to cover today in the program also. 04:39 Yes we do, but we need to get those 04:40 cholesterol numbers down. Yeah, we got to get 04:42 them down and one of the things I want to 04:43 ask you about Curtis and that is a lot of 04:45 people who have high cholesterol also get on 04:48 drug medication, so let's talk a little bit 04:50 about the drug medications out there 04:52 for lowering cholesterol. Okay, there are a lot 04:55 of course drug medications out there 04:56 to lower your cholesterol, one in particular is 04:58 of course your statin drugs and that's a 05:00 whole group of the drugs in that category 05:02 of Zocor, Lipitor, etcetera. 05:06 About 13 million people are taking 05:08 statin drugs, wow 13 millions and the 05:11 numbers are still counting. 05:13 If you're over 55, 20% of those individuals 05:17 are taking statin drugs, 20% of those 05:20 who are over 55 years of age so it reeks 05:24 habit because all medication is going to 05:26 affect the body in some way or another 05:28 in a negative way so you are gonna always 05:30 have side effects with that. 05:32 Now, with statin drugs of course this 05:33 can be a whole program with statin 05:35 drugs but we are just gonna mention maybe 05:37 two in particular. Number one statin 05:39 drugs will deplete coenzyme Q10 05:43 of your body, now this is not good, 05:46 this is not good this you know coenzyme 05:49 Q10 is responsible for pumping action and 05:51 the energy for the heart muscle itself, 05:53 that's right, and so when we take the 05:55 statin drugs this mineral is simply 05:57 depleted, there by you know there is a catch 05:59 22, you want to try to increase your cardio 06:02 vascular risk, to have it at a low eb, 06:06 but yet still the depletion of coenzyme Q10 06:10 goes down so another thing that is also 06:14 damaging as far as statin drugs is 06:15 concerned, it also affects your liver, 06:18 it inflames the liver so you have liver disease, 06:20 and those who do take statin drugs have to 06:22 check their liver enzymes on a consistent basis, 06:25 to see where they stand as far as statin 06:28 drugs is concerned, so the liver is 06:30 compromised and also coenzyme Q10 is 06:34 compromised as well, just by 06:35 taking the statin drugs. 06:37 Okay, that's not good, the liver for sure. 06:40 Yeah see everything, everything goes 06:42 through the liver, that's why the liver is 06:45 the main organ that suffers and there's a 06:46 lot of law suits over statin drugs and 06:49 relationships to these, the medication for 06:54 lowering cholesterol levels. 06:56 Now believe it or not, there have been 06:57 people who have been talked to me about 06:59 having high cholesterol, and one of the things 07:00 I've recommended was the thing about 07:02 walking, being out in nature, cutting back 07:04 on a lot of the things we have talked about 07:06 right now, and that is what foods 07:09 raise the cholesterol. Oh! My goodness, 07:11 okay now we mentioned this last time we met 07:14 about some of the foods that 07:15 will raise cholesterol. Number one to be 07:20 very simplistic, foods that contain 07:23 cholesterol will raise your cholesterol. 07:26 And that would be, that would be 07:29 anything that comes from animal or 07:31 anything that comes from something that 07:33 has a face or a mother, therefore that includes 07:38 everything that moves without the aid of 07:41 wind, so that's number 1. So, we need to eliminate 07:46 or really curtail those foods in particular, 07:48 now another thing that would raise our 07:51 cholesterol is foods that contain what we 07:53 call saturated fat. That will be converted 07:58 into cholesterol once it is digested, 08:02 now there are three foods, head and shoulders, 08:05 pound for pound, ounce for ounce that 08:08 has the most artery clogging, 08:11 saturated fat. Food number 3 is 08:16 whole milk, now that's going down 08:18 about 210% since 1970 and the people 08:21 now got the word out about whole milk and 08:23 people buying 1%, 2%, skimmed milk 08:26 and soy milk and so the word is going out 08:28 about that and people buying less whole milk, 08:30 but that's food number 3, that's artery 08:32 clogging saturated fat. Food number 2 08:36 has the most artery clogging saturated fat 08:38 other than one other food is ground beef, 08:42 now ground beef has gone down, 08:45 well ground beef goes up and down basically 08:48 has gone down about 30% since 1970, 08:51 you know the hoof mouth, E coli and 08:55 Mad Cow, it goes down and then of 08:57 course low carb diet, high protein diet it 09:00 goes back up again, so it goes up and 09:02 down, up and down anyway, that's food 09:04 number 2. And now food number 1, 09:08 ounce for ounce, pound for pound, 09:11 that has the most artery clogging 09:12 saturated fat, and again once we eat 09:15 saturated fat it converts into 09:17 cholesterol is cheese. Okay, you just hurt 09:21 somebody's feelings. I sure did and cheese is 09:25 going in an opposite direction, 09:27 145% increase since 1970, now folks, 09:35 that's the power of cheese and to boot, 09:38 cheese also has a high amount of sodium, 09:41 2 to 300 mg per ounce and sodium also 09:46 stresses out the kidneys, since kidneys regulate 09:48 sodium potassium and the blood pressure 09:49 goes up, so it really affects the whole 09:51 cardiovascular system. And so cheese, 09:55 ground beef and whole milk are the 09:57 three top artery clogging saturated fat. 10:01 Now, in addition to that there are other 10:03 foods we call trans fats, and you find 10:06 those foods in your baked goods, 10:07 the cookies and potato chips and maybe fried 10:10 foods, these are trans fats. 10:12 When trans fats are eaten and digested, 10:15 those foods also turn into cholesterol as well. 10:19 So we have the saturated fat, 10:21 then we have the trans fats, 10:22 so those foods are the major foods that will 10:25 raise cholesterol levels. So, we need to have 10:27 some foods that will replace those foods 10:30 and we've done programs without 10:33 cheeses, and ground beef and also your 10:36 milk that we replaced those three items right 10:39 there so we can still have the same type of 10:41 recipes but we are just exchanging 10:43 now some of the ingredients. 10:45 Well, you know when it comes to food is all 10:46 about how things look and their texture and 10:49 their taste, they feel in the mouth, 10:51 and so indeed, to be able to, there is so 10:54 much stuff going on right now as far as 10:56 foods that look like a mimic, like you got 10:58 finish the ground beef, they can mock 11:00 chicken and all kind of spreads matter of 11:03 fact a lot of new spreads on the market 11:05 right now that is a lot of options available to 11:08 us now, that's true, more than ever before. 11:10 I guess the next question is gonna be 11:11 what foods that would actually 11:13 lower the cholesterol? Okay, the foods that 11:15 would lower your cholesterol now, 11:17 I can summarize this into basically 3 11:20 groups, there are basically 3 groups of 11:23 foods that would simply drop your cholesterol. 11:28 Three in particular, now one, you 11:30 probably may not have heard of it as 11:32 much as the other two so I mention this one first. 11:35 The first food what we call plant sterols, 11:40 now plant sterols, plants in themselves 11:43 do not contain cholesterol, right. 11:45 However they do contain a large waxy 11:49 substance that chemically is related to cholesterol 11:55 but it does not contain cholesterol, 11:57 and what happens is that these foods that 11:59 contain plant sterols simply once ingested 12:04 they will inhibit the absorption of 12:07 cholesterol in the intestines, 12:10 thereby cholesterol is dropped because of 12:14 these foods that contain plant sterols, 12:17 you probably heard this and this has been 12:19 researched for over the last 40 years 12:23 in Peer-Reviewed Medical Journals 12:25 around the world, so foods that contain 12:28 plant sterols will drop the cholesterol in ones 12:32 body, it will drop or inhibit the absorption 12:35 of cholesterol in the intestines. 12:36 Now, what are those foods that contain 12:39 plant sterols? Let's go to our first 12:42 graphic and let's see what those foods are. 12:44 Here they are folks, plant sterols by mg 12:46 amount, the orange and that's the navel 12:49 orange and they has 20 mg of plant sterols, 12:53 the next we have the almonds, 12:54 and these are dried almonds, 12:56 31 mg of plant sterols and these are serving 12:59 size of course. The avocado, the avocado 13:02 has the highest amount of plant 13:04 sterols in all other food kingdom, a 76, 13:09 it's so high that the Food and Drug 13:11 Administration call avocados a functional food. 13:14 And then we have the seed group category, 13:17 the sunflower seeds have a whopping 150 13:21 mg of plant sterols, this is a serving size again. 13:25 And then the last we have the sesame seeds 13:29 at a whopping 199 mg of plant sterols, 13:34 in the sesame seeds, again these are 13:36 serving size. So, that is a array of 13:39 the most prolific foods that have the 13:41 most plant sterols in them, 13:43 I just selected some of those, there other 13:45 foods too that I can mention, but those are 13:47 one of the main foods that have the plant 13:49 sterols in them and when they go into our 13:51 system they simply block the absorption 13:54 of cholesterol in our intestines. 13:58 Now that's food group number one. 14:00 Now food group number two we have 14:03 soluble fiber. Now, soluble fiber which 14:08 are your oats, your corn, your legumes 14:14 which are beans and peas, citrus fruits and apples. 14:20 Those are some of the most powerful foods 14:22 that have the most soluble fibers in them. 14:25 Now they work differently in lowering cholesterol, 14:29 soluble fiber would simply bind bowl 14:32 acids which would normally turn into 14:34 cholesterol, thereby cholesterol is dropped. 14:37 So, they work differently than the plant sterols, 14:40 so that's the different mechanism. 14:42 So, soluble fibers again, your oats, your corn, 14:46 legumes, peas and beans and your citrus 14:49 fruit and apples. They would bind the bowel 14:52 source and thereby cholesterol 14:54 is dropped as well. The third group of 14:57 foods that will lower your cholesterol in a 15:00 different way than other two are soy 15:04 proteins or soy foods. Now soy foods, they 15:07 will lower your cholesterol by decreasing the 15:10 production that the liver produce as far as 15:14 cholesterol is concerned and also they will 15:17 increased the rate of the LDL cholesterol 15:20 from the liver, those are the bad guys. 15:22 So they work differently than the 15:24 other two. So therefore you have 15:25 the three foods here of food groups, 15:28 your plant sterols okay, your soluble 15:31 fibers and also your soy protein. 15:35 Now, The University of Toronto did a 15:39 clinical study and they looked at people 15:42 who have high cholesterol levels they 15:44 put them on a low fat low cholesterol diet 15:47 and their cholesterol dropped, but now they 15:50 added to that diet these three food groups. 15:55 They fed them plant sterols, lots of soluble 16:00 fiber type foods and also soy protein and 16:05 let's talk about the soy protein and how can 16:07 we get soy protein into the diet before 16:09 we go to our last graphic. Soy beans themselves, 16:12 okay soy beans, soy nuts, soy nuts, 16:15 soy flowers, soy flowers, soy grits, 16:17 soy grits, that's right okay that maybe a 16:19 new one to, no you've had it you've had it. 16:20 Yep, well I mean I was just talking for 16:22 the audience, okay soy grits all this is are 16:24 in the market right now and so there is 16:25 lot of products, what about Tofu is in tofu 16:27 will be in that category? I don't know, I thought 16:29 to leave the tofu into the end, 16:31 oh okay you just checking it okay, 16:32 oh yeah, so tofu can be included, absolutely. 16:35 Okay, TVP and what's then of course 16:37 yeah, yeah all the new frozen fruits on the 16:39 market right now there are substitutes 16:41 for the meat analogues they all 16:43 have the soy based soy protein as the 16:45 number one then and I think TVP, 16:49 its TVP texture in vegetable protein and 16:51 then also it is soy proteins so there is all 16:54 different kind names but difference between 16:55 the two is once brown, okay, 16:57 to represent ground beef the other one is a 16:59 beige color to represent chicken or 17:01 turkey, okay, okay, okay so there is many 17:03 ways to get in that soy protein in, many ways 17:05 many ways, okay. So now they did a 17:08 clinical study in the University of Toronto 17:11 there a few years ago and they looked at 17:13 these three food groups. Now these individuals 17:16 are always on low cholesterol, 17:19 low fat diet and the cholesterol went down. 17:21 However, they added to that foods that 17:24 contain soluble fiber that's one food group 17:28 we talked about that also plant sterols and 17:33 soy protein to their diet and they called 17:37 this diet the Portfolio Diet. 17:41 Let's go to our last graphic and this is 17:42 simply astounding, they called this the 17:45 Portfolio Diet: The results? 17:47 Total cholesterol dropped an additional 17:50 22 percent and LDL, those are the bad guys 17:55 dropped another 29 percent. 17:59 This is simply astounding; of course this is from 18:02 the medical journal called in Environmental 18:03 Nutrition 2003. The researcher Saul 18:07 Kendal, there in Toronto said that 18:10 those type of figures, those type of 18:12 percentage one can expect by taking 18:15 statin drugs. So this is really astounding 18:18 we called that the Portfolio Diet and 18:20 I have a new name for that I called that the 18:21 three amigos, soluble fiber, soy protein and 18:28 plant sterols, the three amigos. 18:32 Are you out one missed amigo what 18:33 does that right there you have, okay, yeah 18:35 I'm gonna show you just in next few 18:38 seconds, what is the size of ones artery 18:43 because it's very astounding because it 18:45 doesn't take much to clog up our 18:47 coronary arteries or our blood vessels, 18:49 so folks right here you're looking at the 18:52 size of ones artery here and again that's 18:55 why sometimes maybe a hamburger, 18:58 a order of fries or cheeseburger, 18:59 whatever, it can clog up the arteries and it 19:02 doesn't take much because they're so 19:04 small that's why a heart attack is 19:06 eminent and a heart attack occurs every 32 seconds. 19:12 A stroke about every 58 seconds give or take. 19:16 So that's why it's very important to really 19:19 consume a plant based diet the way God 19:22 design in the first place, that is 19:24 absolutely amazing, yes it is, absolutely. 19:26 Well, I guess after that one you're wondering, 19:28 are we going into the kitchen and the 19:29 answer is yes, okay. And we are going to 19:31 be fixing an Eggplant Stir-Fry, get you 19:34 paper and your pencil and meet us in the kitchen. |
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