Participants: Shelley Quinn (Host), James Marcum
Series Code: WM
Program Code: WM000362
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00:01 The following program presents principles
00:03 designed to promote good health 00:04 and is not intended to take the place of 00:05 personalized professional care. 00:07 The opinions and ideas expressed are 00:10 those of the speaker. Viewers are encouraged 00:12 to draw their own conclusions 00:14 about the information presented. 00:34 Hello, I'm Shelley Quinn and welcome to 00:36 Wonderfully Made. The Bible says we are 00:39 fearfully and wonderfully made. 00:41 We start off that way but what do we do 00:44 that can change that? You know behavior 00:47 develops patterns and patterns develop habits. 00:50 Are we programming our children with bad habits 00:54 that are leading to cardiovascular disease? 00:57 That's the question we're going to be 00:59 answering today. And I'm so pleased to 01:01 welcome Dr. Jim Marcum. 01:03 Hello. Jim, thank you for being here 01:05 with us today. Now you're with the 01:07 Chattanooga Heart Institute and you also 01:10 have a ministry called Heartwise. 01:13 Tell us as a cardiologist, 01:15 what you do and tell us a little 01:17 about your ministry? Well a cardiologist 01:19 is a physician, that's trained in 01:21 internal medicine and also cardiology 01:23 that deals with diseases and more importantly 01:27 prevention of diseases. Amen. 01:29 And I specifically deal with the heart 01:30 and the blood vessels. You know 01:32 Heartwise Ministries is a ministry that mainly 01:35 serves to answer questions about health, 01:38 to promote health but more importantly 01:40 to focus people on gaining better health 01:43 so that they can serve God better 01:44 and to have better relationships 01:47 with Christ. Amen. And it's so important 01:49 that our bodies, we treat our bodies 01:51 as a temple of God, because I can tell you 01:54 from personal experience when your health is 01:56 lost it is hard to maintain good 01:59 spiritual activity as well. 02:01 Now it's very interesting where we are 02:03 gonna with this topic today, because I think 02:07 you're gonna be talking about something 02:08 that most people don't consider. Yeah. 02:10 This is gonna be a hard topic for most people 02:13 to understand and think about because 02:16 it gets what, what it does is that it gets 02:18 at the core of all behavior and all disease. 02:22 And cardiovascular disease it's the number 02:25 one disease that we're seeing in America 02:27 world wide the rates of cardiovascular disease 02:29 is growing dramatically. We talk about 02:32 90 percent of this disease is preventable. 02:34 Well how do we really prevent this disease? 02:37 How do we keep it from happening? 02:39 How do we protect our kids in the future 02:41 generations from having cardiovascular disease? 02:43 People from all over the world have sent me 02:47 questions through the Heartwise Ministries. 02:49 And I'm gonna incorporate those 02:51 questions today with hopefully the answers 02:53 to give people a place to go as far as 02:58 preventing this disease. Amen. 03:00 Because this is such a wonderful topic 03:03 and still something new, why don't we open 03:06 the program with prayer, would you 03:08 like to prayer? Sure. Father in heaven, 03:10 as we talk about this new concept of changing 03:14 the way of we are at the core and teaching 03:15 our children to live better, we pray 03:18 for the Holy Spirit to speak through me Father 03:22 that I might touch our viewing audience 03:24 that they might understand how they 03:25 might have better health and serve you better, 03:28 is our humble prayer, amen. Amen. Okay. 03:32 Well as Jim has said we got questions from 03:36 around the world and we're gonna start with 03:38 one from Fay in Atlanta. And Fay wrote in to say, 03:41 my son had a congenital heart abnormality, 03:45 this was successfully repaired. 03:48 My friend's 7 year old died suddenly from 03:51 heart abnormality. What are the 03:54 cardiovascular causes of death to young children? 03:57 Fay, the cardiovascular causes of death 04:01 in young children, these in contrary 04:04 to the adults, the ones in young children 04:07 are usually genetically acquired. Okay. 04:11 The way our genes are, the way 04:13 they're formed in Utero. Where as the adults 04:16 most of that disease is ones we get from 04:18 our lifestyle habits. Let me throw up 04:21 the first graphic and we'll look down 04:22 some of the causes of abnormalities in kids. 04:27 First of all Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, 04:30 we'll talk more about that in detail. 04:32 A long QT syndrome and Congenital Abnormalities, 04:36 the way things are hooked up differently 04:37 in the heart and trauma. We also have Metabolic 04:42 Abnormalities. The way we process 04:44 our fats different. Infections can cause 04:47 cardiovascular disease and as a rare cause 04:49 in children is Acquired Disease. 04:51 Now why I say rare is you can start acquiring 04:57 your cholesterol in Acquired Disease 04:59 at a very young age, in fact as young as 05:02 two they starting to see plaques being 05:05 put down in coronary arteries as young as 05:07 two years of age. But some of these 05:10 genetic causes for instance 05:11 Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, 05:14 audience might know what that is but people 05:16 are born with the wrong genetics 05:18 and the heart is abnormally thick. 05:20 Now that no one did anything to cause that. 05:23 That you, you were born in that way 05:25 and there are treatments identified 05:27 that we can do that in fact that is a 05:29 most common cause of sudden death 05:31 in young people. Some of these athletes 05:34 that you hear fall over dead suddenly. 05:36 They really have Hypertrophic 05:38 Cardiomyopathy, they have a dangerous rhythm 05:40 from that and fall over dead. 05:42 So there's nothing a person can do about that, 05:44 they're born with that. The other one a long 05:46 QT syndrome. That's another cause of 05:48 electrical disturbance in the heart 05:50 that makes the heart go haywire. 05:52 When the heart rhythm is not good you cannot 05:55 generate blood pressure to your head 05:56 and your vital organs. And that's another thing 05:59 that you're born with. There's nothing 06:00 you can do about that and we have to treat 06:02 that acutely. The Congenital 06:04 Abnormalities where things are hooked up on, 06:06 you might have one ventricle or you might 06:08 have this thing hooked up wrong. 06:11 Well those are thing that are again 06:13 you're born with. And so there is nothing 06:15 that we can do. No not about those things. 06:17 And the same with the enzymes. 06:19 You're missing enzymes that breakdown 06:21 certain cholesterol in your body, 06:22 that makes it build up. We cannot do 06:24 anything to change those. And those are some of 06:27 the more common cardiovascular causes 06:29 of death to young children. 06:30 But most of them you're born with. 06:32 Yes. Fay, we're sorry about your friend's child 06:36 but we are so thankful that your son 06:40 had a successful repair to his heart. 06:42 One more thing on that. Congenital Abnormalities, 06:44 it's very important that you know a child 06:47 sees a pediatrician, gets our heart listen to, 06:49 get an EKG. Just those two simple things 06:52 can limp, you know can tell a mother, 06:55 a family whether they might have 06:57 one of the these on Congenital Abnormalities. 06:59 That's good. Okay. Now this question comes from 07:02 Elizabeth in England. And Elizabeth writes 07:05 I try to get my children to exercise 07:08 with not much luck. What are other ways 07:12 to help my children lower the chance to 07:15 developing cardiovascular disease? 07:17 Okay. Elizabeth, that is a great question 07:20 and that's some of the mean of this talk today, 07:23 these are the things we wanna do, 07:25 how do we lower this risk? Well once we 07:27 assume that your children do not have a 07:28 genetic cause of cardiovascular 07:30 disease then, we're 90 percent you know 07:33 in good shape. Now the next graphic is gonna 07:37 show us a few of these suggestions. 07:39 One is make sure your children have 07:42 their low levels of Cholesterol in their diet 07:45 and make sure they avoid diabetes, 07:48 make sure hypertension is detected in early age. 07:52 Think about cigarettes and keeping them away 07:54 from not only direct cigarettes that they 07:57 might smoke but secondhand smoke 07:59 and today we're seeing very much 08:00 of a sedentary lifestyle. 08:03 This sedentary lifestyle is becoming 08:05 more and more problem with children all over. 08:07 Well, and you know you think about the various 08:11 video games that they have, the televisions 08:13 you know, it's become so popular now for children 08:16 to have a television in their own bedroom. 08:18 There are some things that as parents 08:21 that I think if we're going to try to 08:24 encourage our children to exercise, 08:27 we've got to make exercise fun. 08:29 What would you recommend, what do you 08:31 with your little ones? Well a couple things 08:33 is they have to see mom and dad following 08:36 these same habits. You know if they see 08:37 mom and dad not doing this, why should 08:40 they do it? They're leading role models, 08:42 the ones that they look up to the most, 08:44 don't do it, so why should I do it? 08:46 It's not a priority to them, 08:47 it's not a priority to me. So the first thing 08:48 is make it a part of the family. 08:50 You know, go and do things out there, 08:53 go to the park, do things that are fun, 08:55 ride bikes. Biking is lot of fun. 08:57 Go to the pool, go swimming, 08:59 and go camping, take them on hikes, 09:01 get them out of the house. 09:03 Get them out doing things. 09:04 Say when they come home in the afternoon 09:06 they wanna sit down and watch TV, say no, 09:08 we are a TV free family, we're gonna go 09:10 out and play, we're gonna go have fun, 09:12 we're gonna do this but it sets the leadership 09:14 that the family says up to the top 09:15 I think it's very important in getting 09:17 kids moving. Amen. Now what are some 09:20 other ways to lower their chances, 09:22 how about if Elizabeth is wondering 09:25 how she can prevent child or her children 09:28 from getting cardiovascular 09:29 or heart problems? What about diet? Yeah. 09:32 Well you've already taught Elizabeth 09:33 about diet, diet is very important 09:36 and we're gonna talk about this a little 09:38 as we go but the food you eat are programmed 09:42 into the likes and dislikes. 09:44 'Cause I can remember eating foods 09:45 that weren't good for me as young, 09:47 and I still have those likes even to this day. 09:51 My children for instance have never tasted 09:53 certain types of foods. So I offer, 09:55 if I offer them this, they won't even like 09:57 to taste it. So you're eating is 09:59 very much a learned behavior. 10:01 And if you can teach them quality nutrition 10:04 Elizabeth, then they're gonna follow these 10:06 habits for the rest of life and what a 10:08 great gift you can give your children. 10:10 Right. Conversely if you teach them to like, 10:13 you know a bad diet and I hate to say this 10:16 but the majority of food that comes fast-food, 10:19 quick-food, processed food. 10:20 Remember when people actually used to sit down 10:22 and have a meal together. Yes. 10:24 But do you know something I also 10:26 remember my mother used to serve us a 10:29 healthy portion and she would; 10:31 we had to eat every thing that was on our plate, 10:33 or we can not leave the table. 10:35 Now don't parents have a responsibility 10:39 to control the portions because 10:41 there are a lot of children are becoming 10:44 overweight probably because they're eating 10:45 a lot of fast-foods but also they're eating 10:48 too much. Oh yeah. So that's another way 10:51 Elizabeth that you could help your children 10:53 avoid cardiovascular diseases. Well how about 10:55 this? I mean if you do your home work Johnny 10:57 I'll give you Ice cream, or have a fruit bar. 11:01 You know it's never, you know if you 11:03 go that or you can ride around the block 11:05 a few more times. So we have to think about 11:07 these things but we also have to think 11:09 you know our habits now are setting up a 11:11 lifetime of either good health or bad health. 11:14 And as parents we're literally programming 11:17 our children at a young age to either 11:20 get cardiovascular disease or not. Amen. 11:22 And it's something we have to 11:23 think about. Amen. Okay. Robin from Kansas 11:27 writes in and says, the bet I have with 11:30 my neighbor is this, the neighbor says 11:34 heart disease can start when one 11:37 is in their 20s. I say no one knows 11:41 when this disease starts? Who's right? Okay. 11:45 Well the exact time of disease I don't think 11:49 anyone can knows but we do know that the 11:51 acquired disease, the cholesterol plaques 11:53 start as young as two. We also see from 11:57 autopsies studies done at the Korean war of all 12:00 those young soldiers, a lot of them had 12:02 80 or 90 percent blockages in 12:04 20 or 30 years olds. They did not get 12:07 that way overnight. As a practicing 12:09 cardiologist I look around, people around me 12:12 and I assume everyone has cardiovascular disease. 12:16 Whose disease is active and whose disease 12:19 is inactive? That's my biggest determination 12:22 during the day. So who's right? 12:24 Well as a whole we talked about it 12:27 before 10 percent of this disease is 12:29 probably genetic, you inherit it, 12:31 and then 90 percent is definitely acquired. 12:35 Now if you have 10 percent of genetic like 12:37 you're have a family history at a young age. 12:39 Well you should darn well sure gonna do 12:41 everything possible you can to prevent 12:43 any extra acquired disease from getting on 12:45 that you've acquired. Now with this in mind 12:48 I want to bring up a concept of how we are 12:52 self programmed here and before we do that 12:55 let's look at the next graphic here. 12:57 How does this, how does this disease happen? 13:01 Well, we've developed pathways called 13:04 neuro pathways. They're also these harmful neuro 13:08 pathways and beneficial neuro pathways 13:10 and I want to talk about this Shelley 13:12 by just playing a little game with you here. 13:14 First would you do me a favor? 13:16 Explain neuro pathway? Okay. 13:19 Well a neuro pathway is when you get into 13:22 habit the neurons form pathways 13:25 that go over and over in your mind, 13:27 they're the neurons, they're the brain cells. 13:28 And these pathways are turned on every time 13:31 you do something. For example let me ask you 13:34 if I get up in the middle of the night 13:35 and I can walk to my bathroom and if I need 13:40 to go to the bathroom and I can wash my 13:41 hands and I can comeback without even turning on 13:43 a light, it's because I've done 13:45 this repetitively I know the way 13:47 and there's a neuro pathway 13:49 that's in my mind. And you could almost do 13:51 these when they're developed at such an 13:52 extreme you can almost do these without even, 13:55 without even thinking, they're automatic, right. 13:57 Because we do it over and over, 13:59 these pathways are like roads traveled, 14:01 the more you travel the more extensive 14:03 the pathways. And for instance I can see 14:05 if you had some like, if I say 3AB, C, oh 3ABN, 14:10 3ABC, I thought you were gonna say ABC. Okay, 14:13 no, no 3ABN. And let's do this for the audience 14:16 out there. Go to the last, drop, right. 14:19 These are neuro pathways, have been programmed 14:22 over years and years and years 14:24 and every has these. Society programs 14:27 these pathways, well cardiovascular disease 14:30 is similarly programmed by the habits 14:32 we get into at a young age. 14:34 If you get into habit, a bad habit 14:37 at a young age, for instance not eating well, 14:39 not exercising, these habits the more you do 14:43 them the harder they are to break, 14:45 the more you do it automatically 14:47 it's easy to reach for a doughnut 14:49 instead of an apple. It's easy to reach for 14:51 the TV rather than to go outside 14:53 and ride your bike. But the more you choose 14:55 these bad neuro pathways the more 14:58 they're developed over and over and over. 15:00 Likewise if you can develop these 15:02 good neuro pathways and another way 15:04 I think of neuro pathways as habits. 15:06 Right. Habits, neuro pathways. 15:08 Smoking is one of the most difficult 15:10 neuro pathways to break. It involves tactile 15:13 stimulation, it involves pleasure 15:15 and that pathway is so developed. 15:17 The smokers have a very hard time breaking 15:19 these neuro pathways. But that's what I wanna, 15:22 started thinking about when we start thinking 15:25 about neuro pathways. Now I'm gonna bring up 15:27 a graphic about some interesting things 15:29 about the brain and we talk about these 15:31 neuro pathways. I don't know if people realize 15:34 but there are 28 billion neurons or nerve cells 15:38 in the brain. 100000 miles of nerve pathways 15:41 that these pathways travel on, each neuron 15:44 can handle 1 million bits of information. 15:48 1 neuron, 1 neuron, 1 brain cell can pass 15:51 information to 700000 neurons in less than 15:56 20 milliseconds. Amazing. And your brain handles 15:59 30 billion, not million, 30 billion bits of 16:03 information a second. Isn't that amazing? 16:06 Well why do I make such a point about 16:09 what the brain can do? Okay. 16:11 Why that's such a big deal? 16:12 Well if you can program your brain correctly, 16:15 okay, then you're gonna avoid a lot of disease 16:19 and heartaches in your lifetime. 16:21 For instance the chemicals that regulate 16:23 these pathways can be changed. 16:25 The host of things that could be done 16:28 from the mind and you hear the mind 16:29 and the body are together on this. 16:31 So as a man thinketh, so he does. 16:34 We hear these and these are, 16:35 this isn't a new concept, this is a 16:37 Biblical concept. Absolutely. You know, 16:40 now we're gonna talk little bit later about 16:41 how we might be able to change these things 16:44 and but once these habits are developed 16:45 you can not change them on your own. 16:48 They're too highly developed. 16:49 You saw all these pathways. 16:50 Once you travel down these roads 16:52 millions and millions of times you activate 16:54 these billions of patterns of neurons 16:56 you know a trigger and you're down it. 16:59 As Jeremiah wrote, in Jeremiah 13 he said, 17:01 you can't change yourself anymore 17:03 than a leper can change a spot 17:05 or an Ethiopian his skin. Exactly. 17:08 So I'm anxious to get to that part, 17:09 so let's continue on here then Susan from 17:13 Washington has written in and said I hear 17:16 the term cardiovascular disease frequently, 17:19 what does this include? Okay. 17:21 Well that's a good question. 17:22 Lot of people don't understand it, 17:23 they think cardiovascular disease 17:24 might just be heart attacks. 17:26 But there's a lot more to cardiovascular disease 17:28 and Susanne, one of the things it does 17:30 is the rhythms of the heart, 17:32 how the heart beats that's another 17:33 separate part of cardiovascular disease 17:35 the valves, how the valves move you know 17:38 some people might have valve abnormalities 17:40 some people might have leaky valves. 17:42 We can also have high blood pressure, 17:44 we can have aneurysms that's all 17:46 cardiovascular disease, we can have disease 17:49 in the kidneys, the blood vessels there. 17:50 So our kidneys don't work well. 17:52 We can have disease in our vessels 17:54 that go to the neck and head which can cause 17:56 strokes, and aneurysms. And we can also have 17:59 disease in the blood vessels that go through 18:01 the legs which cause pain when we walk 18:03 that's a symptom called claudication. 18:05 So we hear this term frequently 18:08 but encompasses quite a bit. 18:10 And a lot of it, the whole point of what 18:12 we're talking about. A lot of this can be 18:14 prevented. And especially if we jump 18:16 on it at a young age. Well then we're gonna, 18:19 want to talk about some of those. 18:20 So let's get first to this next question Janet 18:24 from Missouri who writes, why is 18:26 cardiovascular disease the number one killer 18:29 in America? Okay. And that's what, 18:31 that's the core of what I wanted to really focus 18:34 on today is that it's the core in America 18:38 because of the way we live, 18:39 the lifestyles we have. We are literally 18:43 killing ourselves by the choices we make. 18:46 We kill ourselves by our food choices 18:48 by our lack of exercise, by our way 18:50 we deal with stress and the list goes 18:52 on and on and on. That's why it's our 18:55 number of killer. For instance in China 18:57 they don't have much cardiovascular disease, 19:00 they're not killing themselves, 19:01 they're not eating themselves to death. 19:03 In Africa, the people in Africa are not dieing 19:07 of cardiovascular disease. 19:09 They die of infections, they die of starvation, 19:11 they don't die of these what we call diseases 19:15 of excess. We're very much in a 19:17 society of excess. And getting back 19:20 to our core problem, well how do 19:23 we prevent this excess. You know. 19:25 Once we recognize that we're developing 19:28 these neuro pathways, once we're promoting 19:30 them in our families how do we change that? 19:32 How do we change that? And I'm proposing 19:36 today that the only way we change 19:37 that is to have a new heart. 19:39 Create in me a new heart, O Lord. 19:42 You know take these away from me, 19:44 give them to someone else, you know. 19:46 You know I do not want these habits 19:48 and that's only way I don't think you can 19:50 just will yourself, once you have been 19:52 programmed. For instance if you had a family 19:54 just programmed you, this is the way 19:56 you're gonna be, this is the things you're gonna 19:58 wanna do and I know that eating is 20:00 very much programmed. Sure. I mean 20:02 you like the food your habit eating 20:03 and there's something you reach in the fridge 20:05 and get and you have to realize it, 20:07 listen I'm programmed this way 20:09 and I need a higher power in order to change. 20:12 And we have a name for that higher power. 20:14 That's right. And his name is? The Christ. 20:17 But why don't you think we do this. 20:18 I mean we recognize this as a real problem 20:21 in our lives and I think most people 20:22 intellectually can understand what 20:25 we're doing to our kids and our children. 20:27 But why is it so, so very hard to do 20:31 these changes and I've been struggling 20:32 with that myself and talking with patients 20:35 and families they can say, yeah, we shouldn't 20:37 this but you know what does it look like 20:40 in a family that wants to make this changes 20:42 and I'm not sure right now. 20:44 You know for me to make a change in my life, 20:48 it starts at that point of surrender. 20:50 Of just going before the Lord and say okay 20:52 I recognize I'm totally helpless over this 20:55 that you promised in Second Corinthians 12:9 20:58 you're power would be made perfect 20:59 in my weakness and it's that thing of coming 21:02 to where you were ready to surrender to the Lord 21:05 and ask him to work through you, 21:07 working into willing to act according 21:09 to his good pleasure. And it's not easy 21:12 but you have to you know I love 21:15 where you're going with this program today Jim, 21:17 because for those of us who have developed 21:21 bad habits starting from childhood, 21:23 it is a terrible thing to try to change 21:27 some of those habits and you usually have to, 21:29 you have to replace that negatively behavior 21:31 with positively behavior. Right. 21:33 But for those of you who are rearing children 21:36 or grandchildren right now, 21:38 you can make all the difference in the world 21:41 if you train the child up in the way 21:43 they should go when they're young 21:46 that when they're old they won't 21:47 depart from that. Right. And that's not just 21:50 the spiritual training but it is that 21:52 physical training. Right. And you know 21:54 society is not gonna help you out with this. 21:57 I mean you go to most physicians 22:00 and they're not gonna talk about your habits. 22:02 They're gonna say well here's a medication, 22:04 you know take a medication, 22:06 or you're diabetic, here you need to 22:08 take insulin, or you have high blood pressure 22:10 here's a medication, here you have 22:13 this problem of this problem, 22:14 there's this solution and also in society 22:17 itself I mean look at the habits that 22:19 they're promoting. I was recently in, 22:23 heard about some public schools 22:25 and they're promoting really 22:27 terrible nutrition. Yes. The fast-food industry, 22:30 I mean you know you look on your TV set 22:33 and, and saying oh this is good for you, 22:34 have this have that, we're having a 22:38 supplements now. You can't see, 22:39 you know take this supplement; 22:40 take that supplement, how does a person know 22:43 what to believe anymore. I mean you're just 22:45 bombarded so I think society and they want, 22:48 there's a lot of money to be made in all this 22:50 and I don't think they're gonna help a 22:51 family move towards good health 22:53 and we see the costs of insurance 22:55 going up the society is more in the hospital, 22:58 everybody is getting sicker and sicker 22:59 and sicker and we're not getting at the cause. 23:03 And no one's gonna help you but God 23:05 I mean I think he is, you know hopefully 23:07 this has enlightened some people to just to 23:09 get on their knees and say Lord, 23:11 I wanna have more information, 23:12 I want to know how I can change these habits 23:14 and that's the, what greater gift 23:17 could you give to your family. 23:19 And they say most lot of these habits 23:21 in the first years of your life. 23:22 What greater gift could you give a child 23:25 than to you know, oh I don't like this 23:28 because I've never tasted it. 23:29 Well you know it's so interesting because 23:32 our taste is acquired and I've seen children 23:35 in my own family for example when we were 23:38 growing up, we had dessert maybe 23:41 once a month or at least a sweet dessert 23:44 typically what my mother would do, 23:46 would give us a piece of fruit after dinner. 23:49 So I never really acquired that taste 23:52 for rich desserts and things, 23:54 now until I would later on in life I started 23:57 being around people who did this a lot, 24:00 so for a little while and I had to give it up 24:03 then go back more toward my fruit. 24:05 On the other hand I've met people 24:07 who and I got some family member of my own 24:11 whose children eat a lot of sweets, 24:14 a lot of fast-food and she'll say when they go 24:18 to school they of course they're gonna order 24:21 whatever the McDonald's menu has at school 24:23 because they won't eat anything else 24:25 I want my kids to eat. But this is an 24:28 acquired taste, isn't it? Yes. 24:29 And it's that neuro pathway you know 24:32 when you get them when they're young 24:34 they don't have any of that pathway. 24:36 You know I've seen unfortunately 24:39 parents giving young children soda pops 24:41 to drink from a bottle. Yeah. 24:43 You know I've seen that. And I've seen them 24:45 eating donuts and all sorts of things you know 24:48 what's gonna develop and as this child 24:50 gets into adolescence, how are they ever 24:52 going to overcome what's been programmed. 24:55 Now another thing that's sort of, 24:57 been bothering me lately is the smoking issue. 24:59 How does anyone deal with getting away 25:02 you know secondhand smoke and you know 25:05 you get that as a child growing up 25:06 and you know most kids from parents 25:11 that smoke are exposed to so much smoke 25:13 that it's gonna damage their bodies 25:15 in the format of years. Now you shared a 25:18 statistic with us a few programs ago that 25:21 I would like you to repeat 'cause 25:22 it's shocked me. You said that if someone 25:25 is living in a house where they smoke 25:28 two packs a day that if you were the passive 25:32 one the child say in that house 25:34 who's not smoking is getting the damage 25:37 done to their lungs and their heart 25:39 as if they were smoking half that amount 25:42 or pack a day. And that's amazing. 25:43 That's shocking. And here, here the children 25:47 are developing all these pathways 25:49 and in a cigarette there's about 25:51 200 chemicals that they're getting 25:53 that's gonna have to interact with all these 25:54 neurons that are forming. It's just, 25:56 it's just a travesty. And it's almost like, 25:59 could they possibly become nearly nicotine 26:02 addicted, yes, so that they're gonna be 26:04 then repeat that behavior. Yes. 26:06 And that's why we've heard that you know 26:08 as generations before the Bible speaks about 26:11 the sins of the generations, right, 26:12 and how it passes from generation to generation 26:15 you can't get away from it. I want to just throw 26:17 up put up the next graphic at this time. 26:20 These are the points that I want our 26:23 viewing audience to remember no matter what. 26:25 First of all that 90% of your 26:28 cardiovascular disease is acquired. 26:31 You know you give it to yourselves. 26:33 And we have to as society, we have to help 26:37 our youth not only youth but our 26:38 very, very young children developed 26:41 these good neuro pathways. It's critical, 26:44 in preventing cardiovascular disease. 26:45 Now Shelley, I want to tell you that 26:47 a lot of my colleagues don't want 26:49 cardiovascular disease go away. 26:50 They want to keep it coming on. 26:52 Because it's a good moneymaker. Right. 26:54 Fifty, sixty thousand dollars for a bypass. 26:57 $15000 for stent, a $100 a month for 27:01 cholesterol lowering medication. 27:02 Repeated doctor visits, repeated 27:04 hospitalizations. It's big business 27:07 and the people that lobby the government 27:08 it's big business, I mean there is no one 27:11 that's gonna help but you know but God in 27:13 overcoming some of these problems. 27:15 Okay. Let's, let's talk about just in a recap 27:18 for quickly here what we can do to prevent 27:20 cardiovascular disease so that people know 27:23 what to do with their children? 27:24 Exercise is important, number one, 27:27 one of the top ones. Good nutrition, 27:30 is so critical. And the more plant based 27:33 your diet that we stay away from the 27:35 cholesterol and the animal diet than 27:37 the better of you are. Rest, avoiding stress, 27:40 developing a spiritual life, 27:42 all of these things, avoiding smoke, 27:45 caffeine, drugs, alcohol, keep them 27:49 moving, keep them moving, keep them moving. 27:52 Jim, thank you so much you've given 27:54 our audience a whole lot to think about today. 27:56 Thank you. And for those of at home 27:58 I hope that you have enjoyed this program 28:01 and I hope you will if you have someone 28:03 in your family who didn't get to see it, 28:05 tell them about it because this is a 28:07 very important topic. God bless you very much. |
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