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I'm John Carter. 00:39 Welcome today to the New Health Revolution. 00:43 The Bible teaches very plainly that we are not saved 00:47 by what we eat or what we drink. 00:50 We are saved by the grace of God. 00:54 But God wants us to be happy and healthy. 00:58 The Bible teaches it. 00:59 God is a God of grace and mercy 01:02 and He wants us to be healthy and strong. 01:06 Today, we have a very special guest, 01:10 Dr. John Westerdahl is a health scientist. 01:15 He's a graduate of Loma Linda University. 01:19 And we have tremendous material to share with you today. 01:24 Welcome today to The Carter Report. 01:29 Greater Manila is more than 20 million souls. 01:32 Almost all these beautiful people are ignorant 01:35 of the true Gospel of Christ. 01:37 Manila needs Jesus. 01:39 Thirty five years ago, John Carter came to Manila. 01:43 Pastor Carter is returning to Manila 01:45 with an urgent assignment, 01:47 preach the Gospel of Christ 01:48 and the great truths of the Bible. 01:51 Don't water down the message. 01:53 Make it plain, make it clear, make it Christ centered. 01:57 The Carter Report needs your help now 02:00 to light a fire in the Philippines. 02:02 Your gift will help open the doors of bondage, 02:05 smash the chains of sin, 02:07 and open the gates of paradise to thousands of lost souls. 02:11 The churches have sent out an urgent plea 02:13 for The Carter Report to return. 02:15 Help us proclaim the true Gospel of Christ 02:18 to the beautiful Filipino people. 02:20 Please send your support to the address on the screen. 02:23 Visit our website or call The Carter Report. 02:30 Welcome to the New Health Revolution. 02:33 I'm John Carter. 02:35 I wanna read you a text out of the Bible. 02:38 1 Corinthians 6:19, 02:43 Paul says, 02:45 "Do you not know that your body 02:48 is the temple of the Holy Spirit 02:51 who is in you, 02:53 whom you have from God, and you are not your own?" 02:57 You belong to God. 03:00 We believe that God has given us 03:02 some marvelous truths in His Word, 03:06 because He loves us and He wants us to be healthy, 03:10 happy and successful. 03:13 We are delighted today to have with us 03:16 a famous health scientist Dr. John Westerdahl, 03:21 graduate of Loma Linda University, 03:24 School of Public Health. 03:26 Dr. John, welcome today to The Carter Report. 03:29 Great to be with you today, Pastor Carter. 03:31 We're delighted to have you with us 03:34 because we're going to have a great time together. 03:37 It appears that the health crisis in America 03:41 was made worse some think by a recent report 03:45 that says eating red meats 03:48 and processed meats is actually good for you. 03:52 Right, right. That caused a lot of issues. 03:55 It was on Fox News Yes, been on all over the media. 03:58 And a commentator in Fox News said, 04:00 "Eat up now, eat up the red meat 04:02 because you're going to live longer 04:04 and you're going to look better and all the rest of it." 04:06 Now tell us 04:08 what scientific evidence exists to show 04:12 that eating red meats and processed meats 04:16 is actually bad for the system. 04:18 Oh, there's been years, decades 04:21 of research in the scientific studies 04:23 in epidemiologic studies 04:25 and clinical trials and so forth, 04:27 showing that consuming more red meat 04:30 and particularly the processed meats 04:33 with all of these chemicals added to it, 04:35 they put everything in processed meats. 04:37 Everything in...? 04:39 Every part of the animal, you know, 04:40 you don't even wanna know. 04:42 And the scrapings off the floor? 04:43 That's true. 04:44 They hide all the waste products, 04:46 they're ground up and they're put together 04:47 and they put into these processed meats. 04:50 And so this has caused a great concern 04:52 in the public health community 04:55 because it's like, you know, 04:58 people like to hear good news about bad habits. 05:00 Yes, of course, they do. 05:02 And what's happening is the meat industry 05:05 and the scientists that are affiliated with it, 05:09 they're running scared right now 05:11 because more and more research is showing 05:13 that this red meat consumption, 05:15 particularly high consumptions of that 05:16 and also the processed meats 05:19 increases your risk of heart disease, 05:21 increases your risk of different types of cancer, 05:24 even the United Nations has come out strong on this 05:27 and this is a problem, 05:28 but what's happening right now 05:30 is we're coming up to the new dietary guidelines 05:33 for Americans, 05:35 and this same thing happened years ago, 05:37 they come out, 05:39 "Saturated fats aren't that bad!" 05:40 Yeah. 05:42 You know, when the government's 05:43 about to make some new dietary guidelines for Americans. 05:45 Is it true? 05:47 Is there a parallel between the meat industry today 05:52 and the tobacco industry of say in 1950 and 1960? 05:56 Well, you know, this is very interesting 05:57 because they have scientists on the tobacco industry side. 06:02 They were saying... On the payroll. 06:04 On the payroll and, you know, 06:07 the sergeant general of that time, 06:09 who is really great. 06:10 He was very strong against smoking and so forth, 06:13 but they would swear in testimony and comments 06:16 that there's no evidence to show. 06:18 Raise the hand and swear. They raise. 06:19 Yeah, what I'm telling you is God's truth. 06:21 Yeah. 06:22 And they were being paid by the tobacco companies. 06:24 Well, the sergeant general even made a joke about it. 06:26 They're raising their hand one side 06:28 and they're crossing their fingers behind them. 06:29 So... 06:31 It's a scoundrels, won't they? It was and... 06:33 I know, you know, this is outrageous, 06:36 millions of people dying. 06:38 And as a scientist, there are... 06:39 I know for a fact, there are other scientists 06:42 that do represent food industry. 06:44 Some of them are very good scientists. 06:46 However, there's a bias there. 06:48 And now they're seeing all these, 06:50 even these hamburger places 06:52 are having plant based burgers and... 06:54 See you got McDonald's. Yeah. 06:56 They're all say that, "That's losing sales!" 06:59 So there is a concern so what they said 07:01 in this report which is ridiculous, 07:03 I mean every, if Harvard University, 07:05 Columbia University, 07:07 all the top scientists in the country. 07:08 And I'm a member of the True Health Initiative, 07:11 which is a group of 500 scientists. 07:13 I'm on their council, 07:14 along with others scientists from Harvard and others, 07:16 who said this report is gonna cause a lot of confusion, 07:20 it's wrong and they've re seen the data. 07:22 Cause a lot of cancer. That's right. 07:24 Lot of heart disease. It will. 07:26 A lot of funerals. Right. 07:29 Now, let me ask you this. 07:31 Here we've got Fox 07:33 and most of us on occasions look at Fox. 07:36 And they are trumpeting this report. 07:39 One of their prominent speakers, commentators 07:44 is saying, "I can hardly wait, 07:46 you know, eat out folks, this is, 07:48 you know, we've got license now." 07:51 It's like that movie, "License to Kill". 07:54 Right, right, right. 07:56 Well, you know, in this report though, 07:58 one of the scientists that is behind 08:00 in putting this study out. 08:01 Years ago, he also, 08:03 I was working with the sugar industry 08:06 saying that, you know, sugar's not all that bad. 08:08 Now sugar's good for you? 08:10 Yeah, they say, you know, 08:12 it's not that bad as people are saying so... 08:14 Do you think this report 08:16 that was trumpeted around the world 08:19 led by Fox? 08:22 Do you think some of these people 08:23 were unduly influenced by the meat industry? 08:28 There's no question. 08:30 Are you sure? 08:31 I'm sure because they've had a history 08:34 in the past of working. 08:35 And they've been a part of an organization 08:38 that actually is a group of scientists 08:40 in this organization 08:41 that represent the food product industry. 08:43 But the media is absolutely honest, 08:46 we all know this. 08:47 Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. 08:50 No, these make headlines and unfortunately... 08:54 It makes headlines and it makes money! 08:57 It makes money for them 08:58 and it gets the people confused. 09:01 All scientists don't agree while we can eat 09:03 whatever we want to. 09:05 But the overwhelming evidence is showing 09:08 that we have to not... 09:10 They're saying keep the meat at the same level. 09:12 Don't try to cut down. 09:14 That makes no sense 09:15 'cause most people are eating too much. 09:16 Yeah, yeah. 09:18 So that's what's going on. 09:19 Now, to go slightly different direction, 09:23 I understand that there are people 09:25 in Sardinia, Italy. 09:28 And they're some of the healthiest people 09:31 on the planet I think. 09:33 Are they in the Blue Zone? 09:34 Yes, they're one of the Blue Zones. 09:36 So we got people in Sardinia, they're in the Blue Zone, 09:40 they live longer than most of the rest of us, 09:43 and they eat meat. 09:45 Yes, they eat some meat but generally, 09:48 according to the scientists 09:50 at National Geography that study, 09:51 it's about once a week they have some meat. 09:53 Once a week? 09:54 About once a week on the average 09:56 they have some meat. 09:57 And they have some, also some cheese from animals 10:01 that eat a lot of these Omega 3 fatty acids, 10:04 they may be higher. 10:06 The other thing about the Sardinia... 10:07 And not full of hormones. 10:08 And not threw out hormones also... 10:10 Yeah, the growth hormones. Yes. 10:12 And the drugs that are pumped into the animals. 10:15 And the scientists believe there's a... 10:17 In the case of Sardinia's people 10:20 where there may be a real strong genetic factor 10:23 because they have a fair amount of centenarians in Sardinia. 10:26 How do you get this genetic factor? 10:28 Is it too late for me? 10:31 Well... 10:33 Look, let's pardon my being a little jovial 10:37 but at this stage in my life, 10:39 I'm looking for everything to help me. 10:41 The Sardinians eat a better meat 10:43 once a week, they eat cheese, okay. 10:47 What else do they eat? 10:48 Well, the thing is, most of what they... 10:51 Large quantity of what they eat is 10:53 coming from their vegetable garden. 10:55 So they have vegetable gardens? So they have vegetable gardens. 10:58 Some of the foods that they're eating, 10:59 they have a high protein, 11:00 a flat bread that they make from wheat. 11:02 Oh, it sounds good. 11:03 Tomatoes, almonds, barley, fava beans, chick peas, 11:07 these make up a bulk of their diet. 11:10 And what about leafy greens? 11:11 And a lot of leafy greens also. 11:13 Is this the Mediterranean diet? 11:15 Right because they're in Italy, 11:17 so they're eating more 11:18 of the Mediterranean style diet. 11:20 And if they're using any oils, 11:21 it's that organic extra virgin olive oil. 11:24 And are they couch potatoes? No. 11:26 Do they sit in front of the television set like 11:29 most of us in the western world, 11:31 with their eyes glued to the television set, 11:35 stuffing ourselves with the junk food? 11:39 No they don't. 11:41 Most of the men there are actually shepherds. 11:43 And they're out with the sheep all day long. 11:45 They're doing some physical work 11:47 and you know what? 11:48 There's another factor in there 11:50 that they feel that that type of lifestyle, 11:51 thank you if you're a shepherd out with the sheep. 11:54 You're spending your day, walking around, 11:56 working the sheep. 11:57 That's very low stress type of job. 11:59 And they think that low stress lifestyle... 12:02 It's too late for me isn't it 12:04 to become a shepherd in Sardinia? 12:06 Well' we're shepherds, you're a minister, right? 12:08 That's a shepherd. 12:10 And that's not a stress free job, I can tell you. 12:14 But that type of lifestyle 12:16 also when you have a low stress lifestyle 12:19 like they're doing, 12:20 that reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease. 12:22 But also exercise. 12:23 Exercises in combination with a low stress, right? 12:26 Have you heard of James Herriot? 12:28 No, I haven't. 12:29 James Herriot wrote the book, I'm trying to think of it, 12:32 "All things bright and beautiful." 12:35 Okay. He is a vet. 12:36 He was a vet 12:38 up in the northern parts of England. 12:41 And I read the story, 12:42 "All things bright and beautiful", 12:44 how he'd be called out at 2 in the mornings, 12:47 3 o'clock in the morning to deliver a cow 12:51 or something, you know, 12:52 but these folks ate a lot of unhealthy food, 12:57 but they walked 20 miles a day. 12:59 Exercise is a big factor in our health, right? 13:01 Up and down 20 and they didn't walk it, 13:04 they chased their animals. 13:06 Right. Twenty miles a day. 13:09 But we today have a very different lifestyle, don't we? 13:12 We're very sedentary. 13:13 We don't get enough exercise, that's why it's a good idea, 13:16 even if you're in sedentary job. 13:18 Every hour, get up and walk around a little bit, 13:20 then sit down again. 13:21 And say that again. I want my staff to hear this. 13:23 Every hour to get up and because studies show you... 13:27 Let's say someone does a lot of exercise 13:29 in the morning at the gym and the rest of the day, 13:31 they're sitting around. 13:32 Well, they got some benefits then 13:34 but they're losing the benefits 13:36 if they're sitting in sedentary lifestyle 13:38 and job. 13:39 You need to get up every hour 13:41 and just take a little walk around the office 13:43 to get up because if you're sitting solid, 13:46 that's increasing your risk of heart disease. 13:48 When we finish this interview, you and I are going to get up. 13:50 Now, we've referred, 13:53 when we're talking about the people in Sardinia, 13:57 where was it? 13:58 Sardinia? Yeah, yeah. 14:00 When we're talking about those folks 14:01 there having the Mediterranean diet. 14:03 They belong to a so called Blue Zone. 14:07 Right. 14:08 Tell me about these Blue Zones? 14:10 Well, the scientists and explorers 14:12 in National Geographic, particularly Dan Buettner 14:14 who is, what they call the explorer of longevity. 14:18 They have this world map on the... 14:21 Posted up and what they did is 14:24 they were trying to identify these cultures of longevity 14:26 where people in the world live 14:28 exceptionally healthy and longer life. 14:30 What they did there this blue marking pen 14:32 and circled this one, and they circled this one. 14:35 They had three identified ones. 14:37 And, at that time, 14:39 if you're National Geographic, 14:40 and there's blue markings that says, 14:42 "Oh let's call these Blue Zones." 14:43 That's how it came about. Yes. 14:44 But these are cultures of the world 14:46 where they live longer and healthier lives. 14:49 Are there some identifying factors 14:52 that make these places very special? 14:55 Yes, there's a number of factors that 14:57 and here's some of the Blue Zones 14:58 they've identified. 15:00 Sardinia there. Yes. 15:01 And they've identified five altogether. 15:04 Ikaria, Greece, in Okinawa and also Nicoya, 15:09 Costa Rica and Loma Linda, California. 15:11 Which is not far from here. Right. 15:14 And it's a smoggy place. 15:15 It's a smoggy place which shows 15:17 that you can still live in an urban area, 15:20 live a long, healthy life. 15:21 But these are the identifying factors. 15:24 It's quite amazing, you know that. 15:26 No smoking, they had an importance of family, 15:28 they got regular exercise, social engagement. 15:31 Spirituality religion played an important role they believe. 15:35 That gives you peace. 15:36 And that helps give you peace and control over your stress. 15:39 Moderate caloric intake 15:40 and eat more of a plant-based type of diet. 15:43 Not all of them were vegetarians 15:44 like the Sardinians, but they were semi plant-based, 15:47 you know, they eat meat just a... 15:49 Maybe once a week as when they have their meat 15:52 and is vegetarian. 15:53 I know this is science, isn't it? 15:54 This is all based on science and research. 15:56 This is not religious fanaticism. 15:59 No. 16:00 Now, I want to say it to the camera, 16:02 I wanna say to my friends who're watching, 16:04 we're not saved by what we eat 16:06 or what we drink or what we don't eat 16:08 or what we don't drink. 16:10 We are saved by the grace of God. 16:13 We're saved by the blood of Jesus. 16:15 In this ministry, 16:17 we believe in the Gospel of Christ. 16:20 And so we're not saved by being vegetarians 16:23 but listen, Dr. Jesus said in John Chapter 10, 16:28 I believe, "I've come that they may have life 16:33 and have it more abundantly." 16:34 Right. 16:36 Comment on it please? Well, that's true. 16:37 And Lord wants us to be healthy. 16:39 As Christians, we should be the healthiest of everyone 16:42 because we need to get out and spread that gospel 16:44 that Jesus has called us to do. 16:46 So it's not really good news 16:48 if you're having a diet 16:50 that's going to give you cancer or heart disease? 16:52 No. And you know what? 16:54 That affects your spirituality. 16:57 If you're sick, it's hard to praise the Lord, 17:00 it's hard to concentrate on the scriptures. 17:04 But when you're healthy and vibrant, 17:06 you can live life as Jesus says more abundantly. 17:08 Now, I got to make this statement. 17:10 Okay. 17:12 Jesus, our Lord, our Savior, 17:16 through whose grace we are saved... 17:18 Right. 17:20 Ate fish. Yeah. 17:21 He ate, you know, Jesus ate the Mediterranean diet. 17:25 Now I'm talking about not today's Mediterranean diet, 17:27 I'm talking about the ancient Mediterranean diet 17:29 during the Bible times. 17:31 And that was predominantly a plant-based diet, 17:34 lots of fruits and vegetables are plant foods 17:36 and they had some fish as well too. 17:38 Now, are there not benefits 17:40 in eating wild Alaskan Salmon? 17:44 Well, the wild Alaskan Salmon, every time a wild, 17:47 not farmed there is problems. 17:50 Yeah. 17:51 You know, it is a source of what we call 17:53 Omega 3 fatty acids. 17:55 These are essential fats 17:57 that we don't get enough of it in our diet. 17:59 Now, of course, the salmon are getting it from algae, 18:01 they're actually getting from plant sources 18:03 and it's concentrated in their flesh. 18:06 And also if someone doesn't eat fish, 18:07 they can get it from flax seeds, 18:09 from chia seeds, from walnuts. 18:11 Those are also good plant sources of Omega 3 fatty acids. 18:14 But the farmed raised fish. 18:18 It's bad stuff, isn't it? 18:20 Well, here we go again. Yeah. 18:21 This is a big agriculture business, right? 18:22 Yes, it is. Money. 18:24 And on land, they do farming of the cows and so forth 18:28 and they feed them improperly 18:29 and they're not healthy and the same things going on, 18:33 so they're maximizing the production 18:35 to make more of these salmons. 18:37 They say you can hardly walk between the fish. 18:39 I mean you just walk on their backs. 18:41 Though they're all cramped together 18:42 and they use chemicals in those waters 18:45 to make sure that they don't get diseases. 18:47 And often they feed them awful, every day I mean. 18:51 Right. It's not a health... Let's put it this way. 18:53 If they're out wild, 18:55 eating the way they're supposed to eat, 18:57 they will be much healthier, 18:58 but they're sickly that some of this fish are sickly 19:02 and they crammed in an environment. 19:04 But from a business standpoint it's maximizing production. 19:07 I'm not absolutely certain where I read this, 19:10 it could have been Newsweek or Time magazine. 19:12 But it said, "If a woman is pregnant, 19:14 she shouldn't have more than 19:16 four ounces of farm 19:20 raised fish a month." 19:23 Because it's so bad for the baby. 19:26 Yeah. 19:27 Poisonous stuff. 19:29 The way it is, we're concerned about, 19:31 you know, the ocean is one big soup 19:33 and there's pollutants going in. 19:34 And Jack Kustow, 19:35 I'm a good friend of his son John Michel Kustow... 19:38 Oh, yes. 19:40 Jack Kustow back in the 70's in his expeditions 19:42 would go up into Arctic regions 19:44 and other place of the world where man has never been. 19:46 They take the fish out, they tested it, 19:49 they found it had significant levels of DDT 19:51 and pesticide residue. 19:53 So that is a concern in the oceans today. 19:56 But the smaller the fish, the less of the chemicals. 20:01 Yeah, because the bigger fish eat the smaller fish 20:03 and it concentrates up through, 20:05 so the bigger fish really are quite toxic in many cases 20:09 because they're concentrated. 20:10 So if you're going to eat fish, 20:12 you better eat what sardines or something like that. 20:15 They'll be less contaminated. 20:18 Less contamination. Okay. 20:19 Now, let me say this to you, Doctor, 20:21 because you're a world authority on this. 20:26 Many people and some of these people 20:28 I know, pride themselves on being vegetarians. 20:33 Right. 20:35 And some of them doubly pride themselves 20:38 on being vegans. 20:40 I'm a vegan myself. 20:41 Well, I'm not telling about you 20:43 but I do know and you know 20:45 some people who are big into being vegetarians, 20:50 and they fill themselves up with sugar. 20:54 Have you ever been to some of their church socials? 20:56 I know. 20:57 I mean it's almost murder. 21:02 I mean the people are stuffing down their throats 21:05 lots of sugar. 21:06 There's healthy vegetarian diets 21:08 and then there's unhealthy vegetarian diets. 21:10 And if you're vegetarian, 21:12 you're eating lots of saturated fat 21:14 and cheese and egg yolks and so forth, you're gonna... 21:18 That's not a healthy thing. 21:19 And all that sugar, refined empty calories. 21:21 How bad is refined sugar? How bad is it? 21:23 It's bad. How bad? 21:25 It's very bad because it's completely concentrated 21:29 what we call it empty calories. 21:30 There's no nutrients in it at all, 21:32 it's very high in sugar. 21:33 This affects your brain, the way you think, 21:36 it increases your blood sugar, it's doing severe damage. 21:40 We eat about... 21:41 The average American eats 120 pounds of sugar a year. 21:45 Hundred and twenty pounds! 21:47 Now, listen to this my friend, 21:48 sorry to be the bearer of such awful news, 21:52 the average American eats how many pounds a year? 21:56 A hundred and twenty pounds a year. 21:57 A hundred and twenty pounds of sugar. 22:00 Does this influence the way we think? 22:02 There's no question 22:04 because what happens is first of all, 22:06 when you eat that much amount of sugar, 22:08 you know, your blood sugar goes real up 22:09 and you get a lot of energy. 22:11 But then it drops, 22:12 and then you feeling like a stupid, you don't feel... 22:15 You don't have the energy. 22:16 And this influences the processes of the mind? 22:20 That's right. 22:22 And so people find it very, very difficult 22:25 to think rationally and clearly. 22:27 Is this true? 22:29 That's true, and it goes the same 22:30 with all that extra fat people are eating too. 22:32 It slows, it inhibits the cerebral circulation, 22:36 blood circulation to your brain. 22:37 So there's a relationship between what we eat 22:40 and how we think? 22:42 There is. 22:43 And so fuzzy thinking may be caused by fuzzy eating. 22:48 That's correct. That's correct. 22:51 America today, we know in America today, 22:54 we have a crisis wherever you look. 22:56 Maybe, one of the reasons we have this crisis 23:00 is because of the junk 23:02 that we are putting into the temple of God. 23:05 You know, most people treat their bodies, 23:08 which is a temple of God 23:09 as a trash can with a hairy lid. 23:12 In other words, they just throw everything in that. 23:14 A trash can with a hairy lid? 23:16 Well, a trash can with a hairy lid. 23:17 Disgusting. 23:19 And if we're living temple, 23:20 we wanna put the best things in it for God. 23:22 What about corn syrup? 23:24 Corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup? 23:26 Mm-hmm. 23:27 Well, that's a problem. That's a... 23:28 You know, it's one of the cheapest forms 23:30 of sugar on the diet. 23:31 And so what's happened is the government 23:33 has given these big subsidies to the corn growers 23:36 and they make the corn syrup 23:38 so it's cheaper than caned sugar. 23:40 And they put it in from soft drinks 23:42 to all these jams and jellies, 23:44 to all the things that have sweetness. 23:46 Corn syrup. High fructose corn syrup. 23:47 It's very inexpensive form of sugar that people, 23:50 the manufacturers produce. 23:52 And then we grow this because we have prodigious, 23:55 generous farm subsidies. 23:57 That's right. That's why it's so cheap. 23:59 And because of the subsidies, we're not gonna get into this. 24:03 But there's some parts of the world 24:05 where people are committing suicide 24:08 because they can't compete. 24:10 And we're putting out these corn syrups 24:13 that are poisoning the population, 24:16 so the population cannot think 24:19 reasonably and rationally. 24:21 And it's all political. 24:22 Getting these subsidies to the politics, 24:25 you don't see subsidies in broccoli, do you? 24:28 Cauliflower, 24:30 I mean I don't see any subsidies on that. 24:31 Not since President Bush was the president, 24:33 you know, That's right. 24:35 He didn't like broccoli. Okay. 24:36 Now what does the Bible say of anything 24:39 about eating and drinking? 24:42 What about the original diet? 24:45 You know, we believe we're saved by grace alone, 24:48 through faith alone, 24:49 but we believe that this book tells us 24:51 how to be happy and healthy and prosperous. 24:54 What does it say about the original diet? 24:55 Well, you know, the Garden of Eden 24:57 is where the optimal diet God gave man. 25:02 And that was in Genesis 1:29 25:05 and which is all plant based diet. 25:08 There was no eating of meat and so forth, 25:10 but it was all plant foods 25:12 and that's God intended us to eat that way. 25:14 That was the optimal type of diet. 25:16 So man was given this diet 25:18 to live for eternity basically, wasn't it? 25:19 Exactly. 25:20 Man originally in the Garden of Eden 25:22 was designed to live forever. 25:24 But he was given a choice, 25:25 like we're given choices with our diet lifestyle. 25:27 And so it appears, 25:29 if we can get back to this diet, 25:31 we're going to be healthier, happier, 25:34 more prosperous and we're going to enjoy 25:38 longer lives like the Hunzas and other people. 25:41 That's right. 25:42 And what's interesting to point out, 25:44 the scripture indicates too 25:45 that we're going back to this type of diet 25:48 in God's new kingdom in heaven. 25:50 The gospel, the Bible says in Romans 14:17, 25:55 it's not about eating and drinking 25:57 but it's about joy and peace, 25:59 and happiness and holiness in the Holy Spirit. 26:04 Having said this, 26:05 the body is a temple of God. 26:08 Jesus came that we might have life 26:11 and that we might have it more abundantly. 26:15 As we finish this segment of this program 26:19 on the New Health Revolution, 26:21 what would you say to the audience 26:23 so that they can be happier and healthier and live longer? 26:27 Well, I think, of course, as you point out 26:29 having a relationship with Jesus Christ 26:31 is the key to enjoying really optimal health 26:35 and combine that with a healthier lifestyle, 26:39 you have the best going for you in all the ways. 26:42 Doctor, it's been our privilege 26:45 and we're going to have you back 26:46 in our next segment. 26:48 And we're going to talk about the New Health Revolution. 26:51 We're going to talk about the super, super, super foods. 26:55 Right. 26:57 We're so glad that you joined us today. 26:59 Don't go away because we'll be back soon 27:01 as we talk about the New Health Revolution. 27:07 Stay with us and thank you, Dr. Westerdahl. 27:09 Thank you. |
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