Participants: Rico Hill (Host), Milton Mills
Series Code: FSH
Program Code: FSH000011
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00:01 Leviticus 11 is a powerful chapter in the Bible.
00:04 In verse 2 it reads, "Speak unto the children of Israel, 00:08 saying, these are the beasts which ye shall eat 00:12 among all the beasts that are on the earth." 00:15 It goes on to mention the camel 00:17 the coney which is a rabbit, the hare, 00:20 the swine and it says, "They are unclean to you." 00:25 Leviticus 11 is a powerful chapter. 00:28 Hello, I'm Rico Hill, the host of "From Sickness to Health" 00:31 and this is-- 00:34 you all right? 00:35 Yeah, I'm just feeling little sick. 00:37 Well, okay a-- wait a minute, 00:40 you go by the name sickness and you're feeling sick. 00:43 Yes, so? 00:44 I'm just saying the irony, all right. 00:46 Something I ate went down the wrong way. 00:47 Okay, stay there, I'll get you some water, 00:49 some water all right. 00:50 No, no, no I've already tried that. 00:51 All right, all right, let's try this, try this. 00:53 Here you go.Here you go. Here you go. 00:54 Ready? 00:56 One, two, three. 01:01 Oh, man, what is that? 01:04 That was dinner. 01:05 That shrimp? That's unclean food. 01:08 Man, you're eating unclean food. 01:10 Oh, that is not unclean. I washed him thoroughly. 01:13 Oh, man, you need to read to read Leviticus 11. 01:16 No, I don't want to hear it. 01:18 I love shrimp, lobster crab, anything creepy crawling. 01:21 All right, fine. 01:22 If you haven't guessed already, 01:24 today's topic is clean and unclean food. 01:27 Roll it. 01:28 Hey, which way did it go? 01:30 It ran off over there somewhere. 01:32 Ran off? 01:34 Roll it. 02:09 Hello, and thank you for joining us 02:10 here in the studio of "From Sickness to Health." 02:14 You know me I'm Rico Hill, but today I've someone 02:17 you may not have met but you are going to be happy 02:19 that you met him because he's gonna share 02:21 some wonderful information with us. 02:23 It is our good friend, Dr. Milton Mills, 02:26 who is a physician 02:29 and he is a part of the critical care 02:31 unit of the United Medical Center in Washington, DC, 02:35 that's my own town. 02:37 He is the associate director of preventative medicine 02:40 and that is for the Physicians Committee 02:42 for Responsible Medicine. 02:43 That means that he's going around lecturing, 02:46 not only is he caring for patients, 02:48 but he is also educating them, 02:50 and that's a big part of what we do here on, 02:52 "From Sickness to Health," 02:53 because we want to see you go from sickness to health. 02:56 Welcome to the program, Dr. Mills. 02:59 I'm happy to be here, Rico. 03:00 You know, we're talking about something today 03:03 that a lot of people, they read their Bibles, 03:06 they have studied things but they miss this point. 03:08 And we're talking about clean and unclean foods 03:11 or clean and unclean meats to be more specific. 03:15 And today we're gonna break this whole thing down. 03:18 We're gonna get ridof the myths and the misconceptions, 03:20 that we're gonna get to what, 03:21 not only as science says what a good responsible 03:24 preventative positions would say 03:26 but we're gonna look at what God says as well, 03:29 as we always do. 03:30 So hang around we're gonna take a look at, 03:32 what our friend sickness has to say about it 03:34 because we want to be balanced, don't we. 03:35 So, let's see what's sickness has to say about this subject. 03:42 Thank you, Rico. 03:43 I'm preparing an exquisite dinner tonight, 03:46 for some of my frenemies, a group of health nuts. 03:50 They only eat clean and local organic non-- 03:54 I don't even know. 03:55 It's kind of annoying to be honest. 03:56 Vegans, vegetarians, they annoy me a lot. 04:00 So anyway, I'm trying to be creative, 04:02 it's much harder to be sick when you're vegetarian. 04:05 So I've got to do some things that I would not otherwise do. 04:09 I'm gonna make some greens which is good for you. 04:12 But I'm gonna add in a little bit 04:15 of pig feed for flavor, which is nice. 04:18 And also, oh, I'm going to add some shrimp and some lobster. 04:22 That's gonna be great. 04:23 And then last but not least, 04:25 I'm making some vegetarian rice patties 04:28 but I'm using crab sauce for flavor. 04:31 It's going to be great. 04:32 You know, vegetarian they think they're pretty smart, 04:34 but not all of them read the labels. 04:38 That's how I get them. Lard, oh, that's a great one. 04:41 You know, lard is pork-fat, not a lot of people know that. 04:44 Sneaky, I know. So anyway, that's what I do. 04:47 I've sent out invitations to all my health nut friends. 04:50 They're coming expecting this great meal 04:52 and I'm gonna make sure it's amazing. 04:55 You know, one last ingredient, 04:56 I had to consider is, you got to make sure, 05:00 some of these guys are technically not unclean. 05:03 So I'm gonna scrub them down real nice. 05:06 Back to you, Rico. 05:09 So shrimp, lobster, lard. 05:14 So let's start out by what's the Book of Leviticus tells us 05:20 that there're some issues. 05:21 God says there's an issue with eating certain foods. 05:25 He deems them unclean to us, 05:28 as we saw in the opening of the program. 05:31 But let's hear from you. 05:32 What's wrong with lobster? 05:34 What's wrong with shrimp? What's wrong with pork? 05:39 Okay. 05:40 Well, first of all as a physician 05:43 I just have to point out that 05:47 that chapter in Leviticus makes it clear 05:50 that God actually wanted 05:53 the Israelites to be plant eaters, 05:56 but they demanded meat. 05:58 And that upset Him because that wasn't His original plan. 06:02 Genesis makes it clear 06:04 that He designed us to be pure plant eaters. 06:09 When He brought them out of Egypt 06:11 he fed them only with manna, 06:13 which Psalms 78 describes being as being the corn of heaven-- 06:18 Angels' food. 06:19 Angels' food, absolutely. 06:20 But the Israelites demanded flesh 06:23 because they were so addicted to eating animal flesh 06:27 from their the time that they spent in Egypt 06:29 and we can do-- You can, maybe, at some point 06:33 do another program on why animal-- 06:35 eating animal flesh is so addictive. 06:38 But that's for another time. 06:40 But they were addicted to it. So God said, "Okay, fine. 06:43 If you're going to eat it, there are certain types 06:47 that you can eat but other types you can never touch." 06:51 Under no circumstances. 06:53 Under no circumstances. 06:54 And so He gave them a list of the clean and the unclean. 06:58 But wait a minute now. 06:59 That's the Law of Moses that's found in, 07:02 you know, the Old Testament. 07:03 And that's what people would say. 07:04 No, that's not true. 07:06 The concept of clean versus unclean 07:09 existed from the very beginning 07:11 because Noah took the clean animals into the Ark by sevens 07:15 and the unclean, he only took in by twos. 07:19 And that was because one, 07:21 the clean animals were to be used both, 07:24 for sacrifice and temporarily for food 07:27 because all of the vegetation was going to be destroyed 07:30 post flood and it need time to regenerate. 07:33 But the unclean were never to be eaten. 07:37 Oh, wait, wait, wait so there was a specific purpose 07:43 for the unclean one so there's must have been" 07:45 because God said, "Take them onto the boat." 07:47 Right. 07:48 So there's must have been-- So what is the purpose, 07:50 if we are not supposed to eat them, 07:51 what are we supposed to do with the shrimp 07:53 and the lobster and the crab. 07:55 People love their crab. You're from the Maryland area. 07:58 They say, you know, crab lovers is Maryland, right. 08:02 Right. 08:03 They are designed to clean up the environment. 08:07 Any dead thing that floats to the bottom of the ocean 08:12 crabs will immediate-- crabs, 08:14 lobsters will immediately gravitate towards that dead 08:20 whatever it is and begin to eat it. 08:23 And they essentially clean it up by ingesting it. 08:28 That's there job. 08:29 Mussels and clams will actually filter 08:34 waste material out of the water. 08:37 You can actually take raw sewage 08:40 and pass it over a bed of oyster and mussels 08:44 and it will come out crystal clear at the other end. 08:48 Why? 08:50 Because they actually filter all of that organic material 08:54 out of the water and they consume it. 08:57 That's their job. 08:58 That's what they are designed to do. 09:00 They do it very well but if you then turn around 09:03 and ingest their tissues you are in essence eating 09:07 fickle material, which is disgusting. 09:10 When you said raw sewage, 09:12 that's what you were talking about. 09:13 That's exactly what I'm talking about. 09:14 So we find now that a lot of the sewage 09:17 for whatever reason is finding its way into our waterways. 09:21 Is that correct? 09:23 And that's so-- that's exactly 09:26 what our sewage treatment plants do. 09:28 They take the raw sewage, we flush down our toilets, 09:32 emulsify it and it goes out into the waterways, 09:35 the shellfish actually take that stuff, they consume it, 09:40 clear the water and they actually incorporate 09:44 the sewage into their tissues. 09:48 That's what they're designed to do. 09:50 That is the way God designed them to clean the environment. 09:54 So God had a design to actually clean our waterways, 09:59 so that they would be safe? 10:00 Absolutely. 10:01 But we find that He also had a design 10:03 to how to clean the land. 10:05 We're talking about the swine or the pork, pigs. 10:08 They were the land animals. 10:10 They were part of those two by two 10:13 that were taken onto the Ark. 10:14 And their job was to clean up all the mess, wasn't it. 10:17 Yes, it was. 10:18 Let's see if-- 10:19 And yes, it is. 10:20 And yes, it is. Still currently, right. 10:22 Yes. 10:23 So let's see, let's take a look at this news clip 10:25 and maybe we can get some further insights; 10:27 was God right? 10:28 Let's see. Sure. 10:31 A big consumer report study found 10:33 a high rate of contamination in pork chops 10:36 and ground pork from a kind of bacteria 10:39 that continued to the emergency room. 10:41 ABC's Dr. Richard Besser brings us the whole picture. 10:45 You don't know its name, but you may be 10:47 one of the hundred thousand Americans, 10:49 who get sick each year from a bacteria called Yersinia. 10:53 And today's study explains why. 10:55 Consumer reports tested pork 10:57 the types you buy in the supermarket 10:59 including pork chops and ground pork. 11:02 They found that nearly 70 percent of the samples 11:04 they tested had the dangerous bacteria Yersinia on them. 11:07 Ground pork turned out to be 11:09 even more risky than pork chops. 11:11 This should be a wake up call to the American public. 11:13 What are we doing in terms of monitoring 11:15 the safety of pork and what can we do in future? 11:19 Wow, you know, there's something 11:21 that stood out to me about that clip doctor 11:23 is that you heard the response from the woman. 11:26 She said, we have to do something to monitor 11:29 the safety of, you know, 11:31 what can we do to make it more safe, 11:32 basically is what she was saying. 11:34 But when you're saying numbers like 68 percent of, 11:37 like, some of the pork chop, 11:39 the chops inand 74 percent of the ground pork 11:44 having this bacteria Yersinia, 11:47 and it's causing all these health issues. 11:49 I mean, it's a waste of time, isn't it. 11:51 Because God insists, you can't eat it. 11:53 Let's talk about the pig. 11:55 He said, "Don't touch it." 11:56 And it's amazing to me that the response 12:02 of the sort of health department is, 12:08 well, this stuff is loaded with dangerous bacteria. 12:12 So let's try and monitor the food to-- 12:19 try and catch it before it kills. 12:21 I mean, that's crazy. 12:23 We shouldn't be eating it in the first place. 12:27 This stuff is riven with these 12:29 very dangerous types of bacteria. 12:33 Furthermore, the-- it's a kind of worm 12:36 that everybody knows about is still present in pork, 12:40 which is why it is always recommended 12:43 that you cook pork to very high temperatures 12:46 in order to kill it. 12:48 Now in this country we don't see a lot of the problem 12:52 that comes from eating undercooked pork, 12:54 which is a brain infection called cysticercosis, 13:00 which is where people get these cysts in their brains, 13:04 which can cause seizures 13:05 and in certain cases even death. 13:07 But we do see it from-- in people coming 13:11 from other countries like Mexico 13:13 and certain Latin-American countries-- 13:15 And I just jump in for a second. 13:16 I was with one of my doctor friends this past weekend 13:19 and we were talking about the trichina worm, 13:21 the trichinosis that finds it way into people's bodies 13:25 and even lodges in their brains. 13:26 And we actually show a clip ordinarily 13:29 but we're not going to show that one 13:31 it would be too much for you to handle 13:32 but we have an operation of someone actually having-- 13:36 They thought the women had a brain tumor only to go in 13:39 and they found the worm. 13:41 It had grown to a couple of inches in size. 13:44 And they had to remove it and it was still alive. 13:47 This is the thing. 13:48 But the cysticercosis you're talking about, 13:51 this doctor shared with us this past weekend 13:53 that there's almost 90 percent of his surgeries, 13:58 they're seeing it in his patients. 14:00 Right. 14:01 So it's happening. This is becoming pervasive. 14:03 Right, this is still very prevalent. 14:06 So it's the trichina worm, it's the Yersinia and then, 14:11 you know, there's this campaign in the pork industry to try 14:15 and pass pork off as white meat. 14:17 They say pork, the other white meat. 14:20 That is-- That's marketing, isn't it? 14:21 Yeah, that is marketing because it's an absolute lie. 14:25 The leanest cuts of pork you can buy 14:27 are still over 50 percent fat by calories. 14:32 So pork is extremely high in fat 14:35 and that is very unhealthy. 14:37 It will raise your risk for heart disease, 14:40 number of cancers and other health problems, 14:43 as well as, dealing with all of these infections 14:46 that we're talking about. 14:47 So again God said don't touch it. 14:50 He knew what He was talking about 14:51 because this is very unhealthy food. 14:55 Okay, let's make this very practical 14:57 because in lot of communities, certainly in our community, 15:02 I mean we come from and I mean, 15:03 you're working in the same place where I grew up. 15:06 So we have a large African-American community, 15:09 we have a large Hispanic community in our cities. 15:12 And some of the foods that we just love, 15:15 absolutely tied to tradition is soul food. 15:20 And in soul food we are talking about fried foods. 15:23 Fry this, fry that. 15:24 But let's break it down, let's be very practical 15:27 because people are hearing this and there're saying, 15:29 oh, they're talking about my food. 15:32 Well, we are talking about, we talked about shrimp, 15:34 we talked about crab lovers, very toxic, 15:37 we are talking about lobsters, we won't find that as much 15:40 but still we have our version the shrimp version, 15:43 the tiny version of the lobster. 15:44 But we're talking about pork in all of its form. 15:47 Bacon, ham, talking about, what else, ham,-- 15:55 Chitterlings, meatballs, oxtails. 15:58 I don't want to go there 15:59 but we just went there, chitterlings, 16:00 but it's something, it's real. 16:02 And this we're talking about the intestines, 16:04 the pig intestines. 16:05 And this is something that coming up, 16:08 you know, in months to come, 16:10 we're gonna see lots of it for new years 16:13 and all these different holidays. 16:14 People bring out their chitterlings 16:16 and we're talking about something 16:17 that is so dangerous for us to eat. 16:20 Absolutely, first of all it's notsoul food, 16:22 its plantation food 16:24 because West Africans don't eat this way. 16:28 Traditional West Africans did not include 16:31 these kinds of foods in their diet. 16:33 And the reason why you're saying West Africans 16:35 is because most African-American 16:36 who have come here came from the western part-- 16:39 West Africa, that's where, the slaves were obtained-- 16:42 But that's not their diet. 16:43 That's not their traditional diet. 16:45 What happened was when these West Africans 16:48 were brought to the American plantations 16:50 they were literally forced to eat 16:53 the garbage of the plantation. 16:55 So that's why they were forced to eat the entrails of the pig, 16:59 the pig's feet, its ears, its tails, 17:01 the ox, the cow's neck bones, the cow's tail. 17:07 All of these things were the things 17:10 that they would ordinarily throw away 17:11 but instead of throwing them away 17:13 they fed them to the slaves. 17:15 Unfortunately, when the slaves are freed, 17:17 they turned around and owned 17:19 what is essentially a dietary wastage of slavery. 17:23 And we know that these foods are higher in cholesterol, 17:26 higher in fat, cause excess rates of disease 17:30 and are very unhealthy. 17:31 And we need to reject these foods and get back 17:35 to what is our true dietary heritage and that is a low fat, 17:40 plant based diet that does not include 17:43 these very unhealthy dietary echoes of slavery past. 17:49 Now, you know, some would say, 17:50 well, it tastes so good. 17:52 First of all, it taste, 17:53 we've been eating it for years and, you know,-- 17:57 Let me just play the advocate here. 17:58 Sure. 17:59 They'll say, well, you know, 18:00 we've been eating this way for years. 18:01 Right. 18:02 Grandma ate this way. Right. 18:04 And she lived to be 85 years old. 18:07 And-- 18:09 But what was wrong with grandma up to 85. 18:11 That's, that's exactly right. Grandma couldn't walk. 18:13 She, you know, had diabetes, she had heart disease, 18:18 she probably had cataracts. 18:19 And my point is, if she lived to be 85, 18:22 abusing herself, she probably would have lived to be 105, 18:26 if she had taken care of herself. 18:28 The other point is this, nobody ask for fried chicken, 18:32 a pork chop or chitterlings in the delivery room. 18:36 Everything we think we like we had to learn to like. 18:40 Babies are born without preferences. 18:43 They have to be taught to like these unhealthy foods. 18:46 And just like we learned to like unhealthy things, 18:50 we can unlearn those bad habits 18:52 and learn to like things that are good for us 18:55 and that actually promote 18:56 and preserve our health as oppose to destroying it. 19:00 Perfect, perfect. 19:01 You know what, as always we wanted not only hear 19:04 what you have to say, 19:06 we've heard the side of sickness 19:07 where he gives his point of view, you know, 19:09 in a sort of provocative way to stimulate the conversation. 19:13 We've looked at the news clip and we've seen, 19:15 you know, that in the news clip it's clear. 19:19 God said don't touch it and we're seeing that 19:22 it has dangerous bacteria. 19:23 So let's take a look 19:25 at what people are saying on the streets. 19:27 Because that's going to be important for our conversation 19:29 and I think our audience needs to hear it. 19:30 Absolutely. 19:31 What they think because other people 19:32 on the street are saying the same things. 19:33 So let's take a look. 19:36 All right, I'm here with my man Mark. 19:39 Mark, what do you think about, you ever heard 19:40 that discussion on clean and unclean food? 19:43 Oh, yeah. 19:44 Oh, yeah, he knows what he's talking about. 19:45 All right, so let's talk about lobster. 19:46 You've ever heard of lobster? Oh, yeah. 19:48 You like lobster. Yeah. 19:49 What do you like about it? 19:50 Oh, the look of it, the taste, 19:54 did you see a lobster tail with some butter? 19:57 Oh, man, man, you're making me 19:58 what to eat some lobsters right now. 20:00 All right, what about shrimps, the jumbo shrimp, 20:02 pickle shrimp, 20:04 cocktail shrimp? 20:05 Coconut shrimp. 20:06 I don't like shrimp, I like shrimp. 20:07 There we go. 20:08 I can do a grill, I can do a saute. 20:11 And so a whole lot of different shrimps. 20:12 Crab right here. Good stuff. 20:15 So here's the argument. 20:17 Some people say that lobsters are unclean. 20:21 What would you say to that person? 20:23 Lobster is delicious. 20:25 Lobster is delicious. I love this lady. 20:30 I don't know. 20:31 He doesn't know that's okay. Lobster. 20:33 What do you think of lobster? 20:34 Awesome, tasty. 20:36 Awesome, tasty. 20:37 What do you think about 20:38 this whole debate with religious people 20:39 and a lot of groups in the world, 20:41 clean and unclean foods? 20:42 You ever heard that argument? 20:45 Heard clean and unclean foods 20:46 but not associated with religious group, I mean. 20:49 Well, all right, when you say clean foods and unclean. 20:52 Give me an example of what people call unclean food. 20:55 Oh, anything that's taken out of its ripped processed foods. 21:00 Yeah, exactly. 21:01 So if I take a lobster and I wash it, 21:03 its clean, right. 21:04 Yeah. 21:05 Yeah, it's clean. That's exactly right. 21:07 Rico, the unclean meat eaters have spoken. 21:11 Back to you. 21:15 There you have it. They don't know. 21:17 No. 21:18 They don't know they are, you know, 21:20 they're walking blindly in a world 21:22 where God is trying to keep us on a narrow path of health 21:26 but anything and everything is out there for consumption 21:30 and yet it's making us sick, isn't it doctor. 21:33 Yes, it is. 21:34 You know, when my patients tell me, 21:35 oh, I love shrimp, I've to explain them. 21:37 I say, "You know, a shrimp is just 21:39 a big ocean growing cockroach." 21:41 What? 21:42 Yes, that's exactly what it is. 21:44 It does in the ocean what cockroaches do on land. 21:48 It runs around eating all the garbage. 21:50 Scavengers. 21:51 That's exactly right. So-- 21:53 And that's what is designed to do and it does it very well. 21:56 But if you want-- you wouldn't dare 21:59 touch a cockroach on land, 22:00 why you want to eat one from the ocean. 22:02 I don't even want to think about it. 22:03 Exactly. 22:04 Now, you know, what comes to my mind 22:06 to bring it back to God 22:08 and His designed and His purpose. 22:10 What was God's purpose? 22:11 I think that's where we need to start to go 22:13 because when I consider that God had a purpose 22:16 for these animals, for these creatures. 22:19 He has a purpose for our bodies. 22:21 In fact, I'm reminded of Psalm 100:3, it says, 22:26 "Know ye not that the Lord he is God, 22:30 it is he that have made us, and not we ourselves, 22:35 we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture." 22:38 Amen. 22:39 Psalm 100:3. So God wants us to know that He made us. 22:44 And He goes even further and says, 22:46 "You didn't make yourself." 22:48 So if God knows us and He made us, 22:52 He should know what will happen 22:54 when we put things into our body, not unlike the shrimp, 22:58 the crab, the clams, the oysters. 23:02 When we put them into our body, 23:03 they're toxic and He knew it, didn't He? 23:05 Yes, He did. 23:06 And also, I read earlier that-- oh, 23:09 we talked about earlier the-- 23:11 how God designed this body for plant based diet 23:14 and then there was emergency diet that God brought in. 23:17 And that was-- it was flesh foods, 23:20 but He says the blood, I'm going to-- 23:22 It's going to require your lives. 23:24 Now, you know, what I've heard, doctor? 23:26 When sharing that information, 23:27 you know, what people say? 23:28 Well, I am a New Testament Christian. 23:33 All those things don't matter to me 23:35 because you brought those from the Old Testament. 23:39 Now what's wrong with blood 23:41 and then I like to take a look at scripture. 23:43 What's the problem with the blood of animals? 23:46 Well, first of all, it's full of iron and again-- 23:49 That's not a bad thing, we need iron. 23:50 Yes, no, not a lot of it 23:52 because science is now telling us 23:54 that excess iron promotes disease. 23:57 It promotes cancer, it promotes infection, 24:01 it promotes auto immune disease. 24:04 When you get too much iron it causes disease 24:08 because iron is like a match. 24:11 It's a catalyst, it-- 24:14 its like-- it would be like having boxes 24:17 and boxes of matches stored in your living room. 24:20 You wouldn't dare do that. 24:21 Yeah, you want to have maybe a box of matches 24:24 to light your fireplace, 24:25 but you wouldn't want matches stacked up to the rafters 24:28 because it will start a fire eventually. 24:31 And that same thing happens in your body 24:34 when you have too much iron. 24:37 It causes runaway inflammatory disease. 24:41 Inflammation. Yes. 24:42 Which is a precursor to scar tissuing. 24:45 Well, and to all sorts of conditions. 24:47 Heart disease, cancer, infection, 24:50 auto immune problems. 24:51 So all these things are gonna 24:52 lead to dangerous lifestyle diseases that-- 24:55 And premature death. 24:56 And premature death. 24:59 Now I want to just-- I want to read something 25:01 from the Book of Acts 15:20, for those who would say 25:05 wait, wait, wait, wait that's Old Testament, 25:08 I'll allow you to comment. 25:10 It says here in Acts 15:20, it says, 25:13 "But that we write unto them, 25:15 that they abstain from pollutions of idols, 25:19 and from fornication, 25:21 and from things strangled, and from blood." 25:26 So that excessive iron that you are talking about, 25:29 God knew it, He said, it's too much. 25:31 Absolutely. 25:32 And it'll lead to dangerous ifestyle diseases. 25:35 But also protein, protein that is found in the meats 25:39 and in the tissue and talk about that a little bit 25:41 before we run out of time. 25:42 We've got just about a minute and half. 25:44 Sure. Animal protein has been shown over and over again 25:48 to raise levels of what would-- hormones 25:51 that are called IGF-1, IGF-2, 25:54 which stands for Insulin- like Growth Factor-1 and 2. 25:57 The higher the levels of these, of IGF-1 and 2 in your body, 26:00 the greater your risk of developing 26:03 various types of cancers. 26:05 Also of developing diabetes 26:08 and a number of other inflammatory conditions 26:10 that again lead to disease. 26:12 So again, animal protein 26:14 is actually toxic to our system, 26:17 whereas plant proteins 26:19 actually are very beneficial to our system. 26:21 Animal proteins tend to promote atherosclerosis, 26:24 plants proteins don't. 26:26 Plant proteins actually benefit our immune system, 26:29 animal proteins tends to down regulate your immune system. 26:33 And that's not a good thing, 26:34 because your immune system is your police force. 26:37 It's what guards your body against infection, 26:40 guards your body against tumor formation. 26:42 You need a healthy, robust immune system. 26:46 I tell, you know, what it just sorts of opens my mind up to. 26:50 You mentioned diabetes, 26:51 we're gonna have to have you back. 26:53 And come back and talk about diabetes in this context. 26:56 This has been a fascinating discussion 26:59 with Dr. Milton Mills 27:01 as we've been talking about clean and unclean meats 27:03 but also the blood that's in meat 27:05 and why we we love it so much. 27:07 Now this has been a greater context for you 27:10 I hope in terms of, seeing the things 27:13 in your own family the cancer, the diabetes. 27:15 But we're gonna come back 27:16 and we're gonna talk about this some more. 27:18 So tune in the next time on "From Sickness to Health." 27:21 Thank you Dr. Milton Mills, 27:23 we appreciate it and we'll see you again. 27:27 I remember when eating clean and unclean foods 27:31 became very, very real to our family. 27:33 We were just eating the things that we loved 27:35 and we won't be thinking about it. 27:36 We didn't care, we didn't know any better, 27:38 we were just enjoying our food. 27:39 It tastes great so what was the problem? 27:42 But there was this time, 27:43 I was about eight-years-old and we had a certain pork item 27:46 and the entire family, all eight of us 27:49 became so incredibly sick. 27:53 I've not had pork since that day. 27:54 Now today we've shared with you 27:57 that which is clean and that which is unclean-- 27:59 Hey, yeah, but what about bacon? What about bacon? 28:03 If it comes from a pig it's unclean. 28:05 Yeah, but it tastes so good. 28:06 It is not about taste, 28:08 it's about what the Word of God says. 28:10 See, that's where you go this old Leviticus 28:12 and Old Testament stuff totally wrong. 28:15 When people are offered a BLT can't resist it. 28:18 Jumbo shrimp, lobsters all in one, 28:20 people are gonna eat what there're gonna eat. 28:23 And we're going to keep informing them 28:25 about what is good, what is healthy 28:27 and that which will do you the best. 28:29 What about barbeque snake chops? 28:32 Its-- what? It's out. 28:33 Yeah, you know, you put it on the grill, 28:35 the fire seems to somehow eliminate all-- 28:37 It's unclean, it's unclean. 28:38 About tofu and armadillo? 28:40 Armadillo? 28:41 Well, see the tofu balances out the leprosy in the armadillo. 28:44 You know what, now you're just being silly. 28:46 Here's the thing, the laws of health 28:48 are like any other laws. 28:49 If they are broken there're are consequences. 28:51 The Psalm as David says 28:52 "we are fearfully and wonderfully made." 28:55 Look, God did not give us the Book of Leviticus 28:58 for bunch of restrictions and rules. 29:00 He did it because He loves us, and He wants us to be healthy. 29:03 Rules and restrictions. 29:05 Anyway that's our program for today. 29:07 I leave you with this 3 John 2, 29:09 "Beloved, I wish above all things 29:11 that thou mayest prosper and be in health." |
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