Participants: Curtis & Paula Eakins
Series Code: AL
Program Code: AL00180A
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00:01 If I told you there is a group of people
00:03 on Planet Earth a body believers 00:05 that has a significantly lower rate 00:08 of coronary artery disease, diabetes, cancer, 00:13 renal failure, heart disease 00:16 and also obesity would you be interested in knowing 00:19 these group of people and more importantly 00:22 what steps do they take to achieve 00:24 this health of status. 00:25 Well if you are interested in knowing about that 00:27 today's program is just for you entitled 00:30 the Adventist Advantage stay with us. 01:02 Hi, welcome to Abundant Living I'm the host 01:05 or co-host Curtis Eakins and glad 01:07 you in our living room once more. 01:08 Glad to introduce my wife Paul Eakins 01:12 now okay honey this is kind of tacky you are reading 01:14 magazine I was introducing you as my lovely bride of 01:19 15 glorious wonderful years. 01:21 Hello, hello okay you want to say anything 01:23 back based on that 15 glorious 01:26 wonderful years okay yeah well the 15 glorious 01:27 years absolutely fantastic and I'm excited 01:31 because of the 15 years of married 01:33 years the 15 years and also this article 01:36 oh okay you have an article this article 01:38 in the magazine was Natural Geographic aha it's 01:39 there National Geographic yeah it's says regular 01:41 church goers appear to live as much as 01:44 two years longer than non-church goers yes 01:47 attending church they get extra two years plus 01:49 and then it said by this gentleman by name of 01:52 Scott Smith okay he says that spiritual 01:55 and physical health go hand in hand 01:57 oh they closely connected and to accept Christ 02:00 is to be free which lowers your stress. 02:04 Oh now we need that okay, accept Christ, alright. 02:07 Now we're going to come back on that article 02:10 and that magazine little bit later in the program, 02:13 but again, again when we open up the program 02:15 it be good not to be reading anything 02:18 that way you know it's kind of tacky so. 02:21 Okay, you can probably do it next time... 02:23 What I would do is as I'm asking question of you 02:25 this kind of still glance at the article is that okay. 02:28 okay you can do that that's not a problem okay 02:30 that' now you said a group of believers 02:32 so a group of believers how about briefly 02:33 talking to us then about this group of believers. 02:35 Okay, now these group of believers now 02:36 of course a clue is given in our tease 02:40 Adventist advantage 02:43 and so we're talking about 02:45 of course the Seventh Day Adventist Church. 02:48 Now I have to say this folks to start off 02:51 with as we were coming up here my wife 02:52 and I driving up to do a series of TV programs 02:55 today that we've been host of Abundant Living 02:59 for 12 years now and we've tape 03:03 probably around the 180 03:05 Abundant Living TV programs. 03:07 I have to say this folk's that this program 03:11 is pulled and probably played more often 03:13 that any other program, 03:16 because when it comes to different topics there are 03:19 sometimes a lot of controversy 03:21 be at politics or religion of different churches 03:24 so we want to come across in a good way 03:28 and I think the Bible says too much is given 03:30 much is require right, right and so we feel 03:33 God has given a lot of to 03:35 Seventh Day Adventist Church in the area of health, 03:37 but to give a little background 03:39 we need to go back to the 1800's 03:41 and what was the health status in the 1800's. 03:44 I'm gonna to give you a few examples 03:45 and you understand what I'm talking about 03:47 number One let me start with our first president 03:50 of United States George Washington. 03:54 In early 1800s he was taken ill, 03:56 he was a very sick and in a health practice during 04:00 that time he call for not the physicians 04:03 but what they call then it's called the Bleeders 04:07 where the physician he came by and they drew 04:10 about 8 ounces of blood from George Washington, 04:15 thinking that blood is to cause of disease 04:17 so they drew blood away from him. Right. 04:19 The next physician the next day they called three 04:22 this the second physician 04:24 for the next day they came and drew some more blood 04:26 another 6 ounces of blood and the third one came 04:29 and do some more blood 32 ounces in all 04:32 and then also they gave him several the drugs 04:35 doing that time okay one was Opium 04:38 which is one ingredients those come 04:40 to street drugs Oxycontin 04:42 and Heroin and other is drug is called Calomel 04:45 there is also deals with poisoning 04:48 and it was very damaging 04:50 and very detrimental to the system 04:53 can cause paralysis in all kinds of problems 04:56 and after awhile George Washington says 04:57 it's matter of record he says enough 05:00 is enough leave me alone 05:03 and later on he past. Well, they felt so proud that 05:07 they advertise those physicians 05:09 what they did to George Washington 05:12 as far as the treatment is concerned 05:13 to let the world know that he had the best of care. 05:17 In other words, they thought they 05:18 were doing him a world of good, right, right, 05:20 but were ignorant during that time, okay. 05:21 Another incident, if you had a child let's 05:24 say 2 or 3- years-old and that child had 05:27 a bad cough we call that croup, a bad 05:28 cough like a seal coughing or barking 05:32 and chest congestion and 05:34 mucous and that kind of thing. 05:36 What they would do with that child 05:37 in that mid 1800s they would give 05:40 that child about a teaspoon of 05:43 Sherry Wine, really, and see how the child 05:45 is gonna to work with the Sherry Wine. 05:47 If the cough didn't go away they would 05:49 double the dose and draw some blood away 05:52 from that child as well. 05:54 if you had a lung problem 05:57 lung disease coughing whatever okay 05:59 and I'm not making this up 06:01 they will insist that if you are not a smoker, 06:05 start smoking, and when you smoke 06:07 you inhale enough for the smoke in 06:09 a vapors to cure your lungs problems 06:13 so this is the type of medical fault during 06:16 this time and diet as far as diet was concerned.. 06:19 You know there is a diet for lifestyle and diet, 06:23 and there is a diet for sickness 06:25 and disease and they did not connect the dots. 06:30 And also doing that time the importance of fruits, 06:34 vegetables, whole grains was simply ignored 06:38 life expectancy was around 50 years of age 06:42 and smoking tobacco use was literally 06:44 all over the place even with pastors. 06:47 So with that in mind they were a group of 06:49 believers from different churches 06:52 whose started to come together 06:53 to begin to study God's words 06:56 and found that things that they studied in God's 06:58 word was not preached about in those 07:00 different churches. Okay! One of the things that 07:03 they discovered was the area of health 07:05 and health reform so the church was established 07:08 officially in 1863 in this area 07:11 darkness as far as health is concern 07:13 and begin to also promote and study about how God 07:16 want to treat our bodies at the temple 07:19 of the Living Ghost so with that in mind 07:22 they were instructed form the word of God 07:24 about Healthful Living and Diet in Lifestyle. 07:27 Now with that in mind honey I know 07:29 you have several texts that are in the Bible 07:31 that is always there, yes yes yes, and 07:33 it has been in the Bible all along, but again God 07:36 just made it aware to this group of believers 07:39 as they begin to study God's word and God gave 07:41 them this information in the unique way. 07:44 So let's talk about the text that you have. 07:46 You know I love the fact you know the Lord God 07:48 know exactly what he was doing as far 07:50 directing us and this ones is coming out 07:52 from Third John, okay, Third John chapter 1 verse 2 07:56 and John is speaking and talking about what God 07:59 has to say about our health, 08:00 okay, and it says, Beloved. 08:04 I wish above all things 08:06 that thou mayest prosper and be in health, okay, 08:10 even as thy soul is prospereth. 08:12 You know, I think about the scripture. 08:14 I think about the fact that 08:15 that it is a balance there. 08:18 You know, God is saying to us that 08:20 I wish above all things that you would prosper 08:22 and be in good health as your soul is prospering 08:26 you know toward the Lord the spiritual 08:29 God is saying I'm interest in your health too okay. 08:32 So these two things go together, the physical 08:35 and spiritual and there is... there 08:37 and they begin to see that from scripture 08:39 as well going that time yeah there is another 08:41 text I like to quote also it is First Corinthians 10 08:44 and verse 31 the bible says 08:46 whether therefore you eat or drink 08:51 or whatever you do, that takes care 08:53 of everything else do all to the glory of God 08:57 and when they begin to read the scripture 09:00 somewhat God wanted to them to do as far 09:02 as treating the Body Temple 09:04 God took them back to the first book of the Bible 09:07 Genesis where God gave mankind his first diet. 09:12 Genesis 1:29 yes and Genesis 3:18 09:17 and in that was also a plant based diet as well. 09:20 So it is very good that God instructed 09:24 this body believers from different churches 09:25 to come together and talk about how God 09:28 want to help them to treat their bodies. 09:30 I think we have a graphic there as well and let's talk about 09:32 this graphic because now the medical profession 09:35 and medical Journalist and now advocating 09:38 a plant base diet based on Genesis 1:29 09:41 and also Genesis 3:18. So let's go to our graphic 09:43 at this time, 09:45 here it is the American Journal 09:46 of Clinical Nutrition is says here this is the 09:48 Optimum diet " there is convincing 09:53 evidence that vegetarians 09:55 have lower rates of coronary heart disease, 10:00 hypertension, diabetes, obesity and cancer. 10:06 " Now that is very profound and again 10:10 if you look at God's original diet Genesis 1:29 10:14 and Genesis 3:18 is also a diet void of animal flesh. 10:20 Therefore with that in mind because when we are taking 10:22 animal flesh folks, animal flesh has 10:25 no potassium and a high sodium 10:28 content okay that will raise up one's blood 10:30 pressure right, right. 10:32 Animal flesh also has a lot of fat, cholesterol, 10:36 and saturated fat. It will also increase 10:39 coronary artery disease 10:41 and also obesity which leads to diabetes 10:44 was also has Carcinogens which leads to cancer, 10:47 so you can understand why that statement is profound 10:49 about those who take in a plant based diet 10:52 or vegetarian diet they have a low risk of 10:55 all those diseases across the board. 10:58 Well. I though that was really important 11:00 when you just got finished talking about the fruits 11:01 and the vegetables and whole grains 11:02 and everything because we were coming back 11:04 from a trip and we met some people 11:07 on airplane, and it was around that January time 11:10 frame and they were talking about 11:12 the Daniel Diet oh yes and these were not Adventist 11:16 these were another group of people that's right 11:18 because it's speaking about that and they talked 11:20 about they were on a Daniel Diet 11:22 and now we were asking them 11:24 a lot of questions about that and low and behold 11:25 we go home and we go on the computer 11:27 and sure enough there are congregations out there, 11:30 that is going on the Daniel Diet, fruits, 11:33 vegetables, and whole grains. Yeah, 11:35 and let's talk about that because that Daniel Diet 11:37 is unique and again, so it's not just Seventh-Day 11:40 Adventists it's actually promoted by 11:43 a Baptist Pastor in Georgia, 11:45 Pastor Franklin I believe any way the Daniel Diet 11:48 is based on Daniel chapter 1 11:51 and also Daniel chapter 10. 11:53 You just do a Google search Daniel Diet 11:55 or sometimes is called the Daniel's fast 11:57 and this is Baptist, Methodist, 12:00 Pentecostal a lot of people now sweeping across 12:02 the country of ours 12:04 and incorporated the Daniel Diet 12:05 and this is basely a diet of vegetables. The 12:09 word of God in Daniel chapter 1 uses the 12:12 word Paul's this means vegetables and they 12:15 do it for three weeks Daniel's chapter 10 12:17 verse 2 and 3 it talks about Daniel did it for 12:19 weeks or 21 days is this Daniel Diet or Daniel 12:23 Fast. A lot of churches are starting let's say 12:25 the first year or sometimes they start and 12:28 then end up at Easter, okay, and there is the 12:32 cleansing system and they've gained a lot of 12:37 benefits from the Daniel diet. So again a lot 12:39 of churches now go and seeing a how God's 12:40 word has something us say about healthful 12:41 living as well. Now as the Seventh Adventist 12:44 Church God's original diet in Genesis 1:29 12:49 takes in the Daniel Diet 12:53 plus the fruits and vegetables and whole 12:55 grains as well. And not just for three weeks 12:58 but we emphasize this as a lifestyle and 13:01 because of that there has been great 13:04 improvement as far as the health status and 13:06 longevity as far as God's original plant based 13:10 diet. Now again some people saying oh 13:12 Vegetarian Diet I have to have my meat! You 13:15 know and particularly you know you live in 13:17 the south and you know that's the most challenging 13:20 area when it comes to health and lifestyle. 13:22 So but again when we look God's word God's 13:25 word has something say about healthful living 13:28 and with that in mind those who followed 13:30 God's original diet has a degree of better 13:33 health over all. Well I think that thing it is 13:35 really important was that so many people we 13:37 met actually said that they were gonna to go 13:39 past that time at fasting time and they were 13:41 gonna actually stay on it because they 13:43 actually begin to feel better that's true. Well 13:45 we know that there is a statement it says 13:46 where God directs he also protects. That's 13:49 right absolutely, absolutely but what 13:52 about clinical studies? What does the clinical studies 13:53 have to say about this type of diet as well. 13:56 There has been a lot of clinical studies done on 13:59 Seventh Day Adventist because of the longevity 14:02 and health status that we have one of the things 14:04 that we do would that I do as a research for 14:06 Abundant Living program a lot of researchers do 14:08 this as well. there is a website call Pubmed okay 14:14 Pubmed it stands for Published Medical Journals 14:20 go there click and then you do research on 14:23 whatever topic and this Pubmed would give you a 14:25 whole lot of studies done on many medical 14:28 journals around the world and so you just type in 14:33 Seventh Day Adventist okay it comes over 700 14:38 studies or articles done on this church because of 14:41 our status of healthful living, but the first study that 14:45 was done, major study was done back in 1960 14:48 from 1960 to 1965 it was called Adventist Mortality 14:53 Study okay and it talks about how Adventist live 14:57 longer as far as cancer is concerned and Time 15:00 magazine in 1966 October 28th you can go ahead 15:07 and do an achieve on this and the title of 15:09 that article is also that title of today's program 15:12 entitled Adventist Advantage. So that's how 15:16 we got the title Time magazine okay October 28th 15:19 1966 and then also fast forward to there, there is 15:24 another study done the Adventist study one, 15:27 which is over about 34,000 individuals seventh 15:31 day Adventist and a health study and that it takes as 15:35 far as some specific things that the body believers 15:38 would doing to forth in lifestyle concerned it 15:41 diet and walking exercise and water and that kind 15:43 of thing and then there is another study 15:45 Adventist study number Two which we are a part of and 15:49 at today that's now over a 100,000 people they are 15:53 looking for above 125,000 which is the largest 15:56 study done in United States. Yes, so a lot of studies 15:58 have been done on Seventh Day Adventist's. 16:00 I think what you were reading when we started on this 16:02 tease talks about that because the National 16:05 Geographic and let's hold that book up because in 16:08 the National Geographic went on a search and 16:11 world wide search yes to determine the longest 16:14 living people on Planet Earth and they have 16:18 mentioned three groups of people but one of those 16:19 groups of people were the Seventh Day Adventist 16:21 church and that's what the, the National 16:24 Geographic I think that's the November Issue 16:27 2005 yes and that's what you reading there and it 16:31 talked about the Seventh Day Adventist's along with 16:33 two of the groups of people who live long as 16:35 well. Well it says today most Adventist actually 16:39 following and they are prescribing this type of 16:40 lifestyles. So, that's really good yes I mean 16:43 it's a good article very timely, very timely of 16:46 course you know and what can I say accept we're 16:51 gonna to keep this copy okay. Now honey, and it talks 16:54 about those who are centurions 100 years old or older. 16:57 Now honey, we know a person, personally 17:03 who is 100 or over 100 let's talk about that. 17:08 But don't we have a graphic for this one here 17:10 one and talked about the clinical studies. 17:13 Well let's talk about the clinical studies, 17:14 let's go with that okay I'm glad you told me that. 17:16 The Use, News and World Report, here it is 17:18 living longer. It says this "Seventh-Day Adventists 17:22 have an average life expectancy of 89, about a 17:29 decade longer than the average American." So 17:33 U.S. News & World report and that just came out 17:36 March 2nd 2009... Now, I forgot 17:40 about that study... about that 89 well you 17:41 know the graphic actually puts us in line 17:43 with the individual we're gonna to talk about 17:45 that's right because that's about 10 years more 17:47 than yes, yes, yes where. Now we talked about 17:49 individual that we know. I know a woman she mows her 17:54 grass and she chops her own wood, she drives 17:58 race sports car a red sports car, she does 18:00 exercise in her garage she pumps iron, oh there 18:05 she is, there she is, there she is. That is my 18:07 grandmother our grand mother we call her 18:10 affectionately Mother Dear and at a time of this 18:13 taping she is a 102, 102-years-old. Now when 18:17 she took out picture that was her 100 birthday yes 18:20 alright. Yes, yes, yes and she takes zero 18:23 medication and again she is plant based, she 18:27 follow God's dietary guidelines and I told her 18:31 now years ago I was when I was 49 she was 99 18:36 I said Mother Dear now let's make a deal I said 18:40 I reach 50 you promise me you reach 100 she says 18:44 the bet is on so of course how these 50 first 18:46 I say okay I did my job and three months later 18:48 she reached to 100. So, but she is joy to be 18:51 with and I asked her knowing that I'll be 18:53 talking about her on a program I said Mother Dear 18:55 last week I said what it shows secret of living 18:58 over a 100, she said I really don't have a secret. 19:00 I said what do you attest being this age and being 19:04 in the quality of health that you are. She says 19:07 I keep my head in a book, she studies all the 19:12 time lot more things about that, but yes, yes, yes, 19:14 yes she is enjoyed to be with and my Mother who 19:17 is 78 we play tennis together I mean and we 19:20 played tennis so but again looking at God's 19:24 word the word of God has something to say about 19:27 healthful living and we just so grateful that we 19:29 want to share the information for those who 19:31 are listening today. One of Mother's 19:33 favorite books of course she says is the word of 19:35 God the Bible she reads that continuously and 19:38 she has a wonderful sense of humor always got 19:41 a wonderful attitude going on and all these 19:44 things have a lot to do with the longevity that 19:46 she is living. We all say Mother Dear we want to 19:48 be just like you when we grow up you know that's 19:51 right speaking and growing up I guess you 19:52 say are we going in the kitchen the answer is yes 19:55 we're going in the kitchen. There is got to 19:57 go along with that where we just talked about, 19:59 about longevity and a lifestyle okay. We're 20:02 gonna to be fixing a Creamy Northern Beans 20:07 Soup get your pen and paper and 20:09 meet us in the kitchen. |
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