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John Bradshaw - Better Health On A Budget

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>>john bradshaw: it's no secret that people living
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In the western world are suffering
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From serious health challenges.
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Obesity rates are through the roof.
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Diabetes and prediabetes are out of control, it seems.
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And everything from dementia to autism is running amok.
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Here's what you need to know.
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You don't have to suffer from illnesses and disorders.
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In the vast majority of cases,
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You can experience better health.
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Thanks for joining me on "it is written."
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Good health is a good idea, but for some people
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Good health seems to be out of reach
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Because good health costs real money, or at least it seems to.
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Health insurance can be horrendously expensive.
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Visit a health food store and you'll understand
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Why many people simply shop where they can afford
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To buy food to put on the table,
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Even though it might not be the best quality.
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But having better health does not have to break the bank.
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We're going to discuss better health on a budget.
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I'm going to share ideas and principles with you
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That pretty much anyone can follow and implement.
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But first, why talk about this at all?
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Primarily, better health is god's idea,
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And your physical health is connected
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To your spiritual health.
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God's wish is that you "prosper in all things and be in health,"
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According to 3 john, verse 2.
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You want to thrive spiritually.
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You want to thrive physically, as far as you're able.
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In the bible, "daniel purposed in his heart
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"that he would not defile himself
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"with the portion of the king's delicacies,
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Nor with the wine which he drank."
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When the king's unclean and unhealthy food
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And his fermented wine were served, daniel refused them.
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And after 10 days of honoring god in his diet,
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Daniel and his friends were visibly healthier
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Than the rest of the young men.
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As a result, daniel was blessed with spiritual wisdom
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And insight, and he wrote one of the most consequential books
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In the entire bible.
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Paul wrote that "your body is the temple
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"of the holy spirit..., and [that] you are not your own?
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"for you were bought at a price;
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"therefore glorify god in your body and in your spirit,
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Which are god's."
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So, this matters.
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Now, consider that global health statistics
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Make for scary reading and this becomes important for survival.
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This is dr. james elsey, professor of surgery
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At the medical university of south carolina in charleston,
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Writing for the american college of surgeons:
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"currently the us, compared to similar western countries,
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"has the lowest life expectancy at birth,
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"highest reported maternal and infant mortality,
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"highest hospitalization rate from preventable causes,
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"highest death rate for avoidable
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"and treatable conditions, highest suicide rate,
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And highest chronic disease burden rate in the world."
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He also says health care in the u.s. "has evolved
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"into a highly corporatized system controlled
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"by a decreasing number
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"of increasingly powerful conglomerates
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"where profit is often the main metric
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Of performance and success."
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And that isn't going to change.
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Health care in the u.s. is a for-profit industry,
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Which is good in some ways, not so good in others.
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The primary responsibility of a for-profit enterprise
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Is...profitability.
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If you need surgery or if you've been in an accident
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And you need someone to put you back together,
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You can't beat the u.s. health care system.
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But if you actually want to get well and stay well,
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You really have to take matters into your own hands
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And start making decisions that will benefit you.
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Now, when you start to talk about better health
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On a budget, there are a couple of places
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Your mind might predictably go.
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If you want to pay less for food,
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You might want to buy in bulk.
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But for many people, buying in bulk
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Simply isn't really an option.
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Not everyone has enough money to buy 48 of everything.
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And not everyone has the space to store 48 cans of beans
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Or 25 pounds of rice.
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Buying in bulk is a good idea, but it isn't practical for all.
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But we'll put that on our list with an asterisk.
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You could buy generic.
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Store brands can be cheaper, and the quality is the same.
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Supermarket x doesn't have its own factory making pasta sauce.
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It's made by one of the big manufacturers and relabeled.
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So you're getting regular quality,
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And it isn't costing you so much. so that's good.
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We'll put that on our list without an asterisk.
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But at the end of the day
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You've saved $14 on your grocery bill.
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And while that's something,
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It isn't changing a whole lot about your situation.
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You could shop around for health insurance.
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But it's all expensive.
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So it's a bit like saving $10 on a designer handbag,
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Still costing you a ton.
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Medication is expensive.
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Trips to the doctor can be expensive.
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An unexpected visit to the emergency room
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Or an urgent care clinic can break the bank,
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Especially given that one in four americans
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Have less than $1,000 in savings.
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What's better is to not need the medication
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Or the visit to the doctor.
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Of course, that's not always possible
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For a variety of reasons.
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Sometimes things just happen.
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But what if you could keep them from happening?
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The good news is, in many instances, you can.
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I'm going to come at this
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From a couple of different directions.
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If we're looking at better health on a budget,
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Then we want to know,
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A, how to experience better health,
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And, b, how to positively impact our budget,
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Free up resources that we can invest in our health.
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Right now in california, venture capitalist bryan johnson
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Is trying to live forever.
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He's following a regimen that can only be described
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As remarkable or extreme.
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Mr. johnson is taking dozens of supplement pills a day.
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One report said 54; some reports say 100.
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He eats a very carefully curated diet
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And is being assisted by a team of 30 doctors
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And regenerative experts.
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It's all costing him two million dollars a year.
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The results he's achieving are mind boggling, really.
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According to doctors, mr. johnson,
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While in his late 40s, "has the heart of a 37-year-old,
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"the skin of a 28-year-old and the lung capacity
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And fitness of an 18-year-old."
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Whereas normal aging is measured at 1.0,
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Mr. johnson is aging at .64,
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Meaning that every year he ages only seven and a half months.
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But improving your health doesn't have to be
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That complex or expensive.
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You and me? we're never going to be able to do
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All that bryan johnson is doing.
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And, of course, he's not going to live forever.
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But he is proving something very important.
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If you do certain things, and if you don't do certain things,
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You do better.
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You can radically impact your health.
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So, what can you do that won't break the bank and that
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Will almost certainly improve your health significantly?
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Now, to be clear, i'm not making promises.
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I hope you'll do your own research and speak
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With your doctor, but here's what we know.
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The system, as it currently is, has failed us.
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The foods we eat in the u.s.
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Are filled with preservatives, dyes, and chemicals
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Which many other countries have banned.
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There was a controversy for years
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About a food coloring known as red #3.
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In 1990--in 1990!--it was banned
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For use in the united states
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In topical drugs and cosmetics after the fda determined
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The dye caused cancer when eaten by animals.
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But for more than 30 years after that, it was allowed
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In foods, supplements, and oral drugs.
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And even the ban on red 3 allowed manufacturers to use it
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For two more years.
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Bottom line, it was known for years that red 3 is harmful,
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But nothing was done to take it out of the food supply.
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Another one:
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There's a huge debate about glyphosate in food,
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With people claiming it's linked to cancer
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And other disastrous outcomes.
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A chemical, glyphosate is the active ingredient
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In the world's most widely used weed killer.
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While it can no longer be used by home gardeners,
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Largely due to a massive amount of lawsuits,
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Farmers can still use it.
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In other words, glyphosate still gets sprayed on plants,
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Which become the food you eat.
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The challenge is, of course, proving glyphosate is harmful.
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You just can't do tests in which you expose people
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To a potential carcinogen.
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One big challenge with all of this
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Is that "much of the epidemiological data we do have
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"comes directly from scientists employed
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By the companies producing herbicides."
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How do you spell "conflict of interest"?
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Pesticides are sprayed about with enthusiasm,
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And the potential for that to negatively impact humans
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Is obviously huge. it's hard to imagine that it doesn't.
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It reminds me of what happened with cigarettes.
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Years ago doctors would recommend them.
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Then we learned they were killing us, and yet
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Big tobacco maintained cigarettes were not harmful.
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So if tobacco companies maintained that
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Their harmful product wasn't harmful,
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You think the same could be happening today
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With other products?
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Add to that, drug companies often run their own tests
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To determine whether or not their drugs are safe.
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So what can you expect the results of those tests to be?
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And today, we eat food that's so highly processed
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It barely even resembles food.
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The system is failing us.
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When i was growing up, autism was unheard of.
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In the year 2000, one in 150 u.s. kids had autism.
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Today, it's one in 31.
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In california, it's close to one in 20.
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That's catastrophic!
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While no one will tell you the cause,
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It's impossible to imagine that the soup of chemicals and dyes,
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And highly processed items that are barely food,
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And drugs and medications and all of that
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Can't have anything to do with it.
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Add to that, we are more sedentary than ever before.
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People are glued to their devices.
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Fewer kids are raised where they have room to run and play.
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We're caught in a trap of our own making,
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And if you live like everyone else lives,
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You're going to die like everyone else dies.
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But ya don't have to.
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Now, a couple of things--
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One, yes, some people find it hard to make changes.
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Yes, that's true.
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But not making changes is not really an option.
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And i'm not against people enjoying junk food
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Or snack food. no one wants to see
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French fries disappear entirely.
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We're not going to ban cheesecake or m&ms.
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But it would be good to see foods like this
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Produced without potentially harmful dyes
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And other harmful ingredients.
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But whatever happens or doesn't happen,
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There is a way you can coexist with these things
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So that you don't have to become another statistic.
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Everyone in your family has diabetes or heart issues?
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Doesn't mean you have to.
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One more thing:
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There are more than 8 billion people in the world.
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There will be exceptions to every rule,
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Even to what i'm about to tell you.
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So, first, healthy, and then, budget.
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Let's make this easy.
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Ninety-nine percent or more of all people can do this.
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The journal of the american medical association reported
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That people who walk 7,000 steps per day--that's a minimum--
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Experience--get this-- 70 percent lower mortality
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From all causes compared with those
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Who don't walk 7,000 steps a day.
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Thousands of people were tracked for a decade,
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And that's what was found.
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You want to be healthier? move. walk.
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If you can't, you can't. i understand.
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But most of us can, and yet most who can do not.
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A doctor friend of mine advises his patients to add
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A 45-minute brisk walk to their daily schedule.
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If you need to take breaks at first, do that.
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If you need to go slow, do that.
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But he says, "aim to get to 45 minutes
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Of continual walking a day."
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Again, this might not be easy for everyone.
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But if you can do it, do it.
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And i'm telling you, get exercising
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And it's hard to quit. you'll end up loving it.
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Walking is free, and it's one of the best things
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You can do for your health.
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Or run or bike or whatever it is that you like to do.
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What did we learn earlier about the body?
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The bible says it is "the temple of the holy spirit."
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There's another thing that doesn't have to cost you money,
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And that is...lose weight.
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Unless you're in a tiny minority, you can.
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Move more, eat less, and eat less junk.
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It might not be that simple for everyone,
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But it is for almost everyone.
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And if you don't eat after 6:00 p.m.,
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You'll make it even easier on yourself.
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Eating late causes extra calories to be stored as fat
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While you sleep instead of being burned throughout the day.
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Making that change might take some getting used to,
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But at the very least,
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Try to eat less at night and don't eat late.
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It's just hard on your body.
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Here's something most people don't want to hear.
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Better health on a budget? are you ready?
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Don't eat between meals. just don't. you don't need to.
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Eat a real breakfast and don't eat again until lunch.
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No candy bars, no bags of chips.
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Just cutting out that midmorning sugary snack
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Will do wonders for you.
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If you ate breakfast at 7:00,
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You're not hungry at 9:00 or even 10:00.
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What you think is hunger is just the digestion process
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Doing its thing.
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Drink some water, and you'll be fine.
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Eat real food at lunch, and you won't need to eat
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Until you get home. and trust me,
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It might take some getting used to, but you'll get used to this.
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And think of the money you'll save and, therefore, have
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To invest in your health.
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Cut out soda--entirely.
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That will cost you nothing, cutting it out.
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Drink water. drink all the water you want.
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And there's no point drinking expensive water. it's all h20.
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Drink it out of your tap if it tastes okay.
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Filter it if you want to.
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Soda is liquid sugar.
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It's catastrophically bad for you.
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You can drink in just one can of soda
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Close to 10 teaspoons of sugar.
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And some people will drink two, three, four cans of soda a day--
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Or more. that might be 40 teaspoons or more of sugar
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In one day, just from soda.
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And if you're drinking bigger sodas,
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You're getting even more sugar.
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Then there's the sugar you get from food.
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It seems it's in everything.
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Sugar is in applesauce.
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Sugar is in peanut butter often.
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Why? there's no need for that.
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It's in ketchup.
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It's in breakfast cereal like you wouldn't believe.
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Some breakfast cereals should be called candy,
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Containing almost six teaspoons of sugar per serving,
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And a serving size is small.
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What if your child eats two servings?
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And you wonder why your kid isn't healthy.
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Even cereals marketed as healthy
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Can contain a pile of sugar.
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And all of that sugar adds up to...not good.
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Better health on a budget--
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Avoid alcohol--completely.
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Among other things, alcohol is cancer causing.
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It's an utter curse.
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The problem is alcohol has become part of the culture.
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So, be countercultural.
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I just saved you a pile of money right there.
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And, and don't smoke. but you knew that already.
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Okay, so you don't like water, you don't want to quit alcohol,
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You don't want to adjust your eating schedule,
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You love m&ms too much to even cut back,
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And you don't want to exercise.
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Well, it sounds like what you do want is to take
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Blood pressure medication and diabetes medication
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And heart meds and go to your own funeral at 66 instead of 86.
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I've been told, "but i don't want to live forever."
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Oh, yes, you do.
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You most certainly don't want to die early. it isn't fun.
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You're robbing god, you're robbing yourself,
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And you're robbing those that love you.
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Now, here's another one: sleep.
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Getting enough sleep is vital to good health.
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And it doesn't cost you a cent.
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You'll have more energy. you'll be happier.
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You'll fight depression.
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And it even makes it easier to keep weight off.
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The science is indisputable.
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Get good sleep and you'll thrive.
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Now, i know that in a country that has a love affair
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With caffeine, this might not be easy to hear.
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But what people won't tell you
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Is that caffeine causes cerebral vasoconstriction--
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That is, the veins in your brain narrow.
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You don't want that.
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Chronic coffee drinking increases the risk
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Of cardiac arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death.
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Caffeine isn't good for you.
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And don't give me, "i'd die without my coffee."
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You really won't.
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And you can do this because god is able.
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Philippians 4:13,
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"i can do all things through christ who strengthens me."
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All things.
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Philippians 1, verse 6:
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"he who has begun a good work in you
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Will complete it until the day of jesus christ."
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God will do in you the things that need to get done.
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So there's the better health:
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Cut out caffeine, get exercise, get sleep, get exercise,
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Cut down on sugar, get exercise,
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Cut out alcohol--none of this costs you anything--
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Quit drinking soda or sugary beverages,
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Don't eat between meals, don't eat late,
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Drink water-- did i mention get exercise?--
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And there's more that i could have said.
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Eat more whole foods.
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Eat more grains, more vegetables.
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Many people just don't eat vegetables.
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And if you eat too much fried food, cut back.
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You might find out that you can cut it out altogether.
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So, better health.
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But what about better health on a budget?
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Okay. first, it's important to look at your overall budget.
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Sometimes you need to invest in your health,
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And you can't do that if you don't have the money.
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For example, you commit to sleeping more
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To bless your health, but you have a lousy bed.
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You want to be able to afford a new bed.
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But maybe the resources aren't there.
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Let's think that through.
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Financial expert dave ramsey had a caller on his radio show
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Who shocked even mr. ramsey.
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Even though the man was unemployed,
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He bought a $64,000 car
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And was making payments of $1,200 a month.
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And he's $94,000 in debt.
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No. no. you just don't do that.
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Buy a bicycle. walk. buy a $3,000 vehicle.
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Unemployed and spending $64,000 on a car?
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What that means is if you want to buy vitamins,
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Or you need to pay for a visit to the doctor,
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Or you want to eat better quality food,
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Which may cost you a little more,
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You can't afford to.
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You can buy a whole lot of healthy food for $64,000.
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The idea is cut unnecessary spending.
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Stay out of financial trouble and free up more money
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That you can invest in your health.
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Don't make unnecessary car payments
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And you can afford that bed,
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And you'll sleep better, and your health will improve.
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Now, this is practical.
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If you're concerned about your budget, eat out less.
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You go to your local chinese place or whatever
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And you're getting general tso something-or-other
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Or, or sweet-and-sour this or that, and what's it costing you?
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Twelve dollars, $15, maybe more.
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Do that four times a week and you're spending $60 on lunch;
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That's $3,000 a year.
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Let's add to that the coffee you buy.
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What is that? five dollars a day? let's call it $5 a day,
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$25 a week, $1,250 a year.
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You're looking at between $3,500 and $4,500 a year,
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None of which you need to spend.
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Make your lunch at home and take it to work with you.
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Yes, that's going to cost you something,
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But you're not going to spend
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Anything like what you'd be spending at a restaurant.
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You don't have time to cook rice and beans
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Or make sandwiches or whatever it is?
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Maybe you don't.
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But what you really don't have time for
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Is a week in the hospital and then two or three more weeks
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Recovering from a heart attack.
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If you don't have time to prepare healthy food,
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You definitely don't have time to be ill or die.
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Another thing, make a shopping list. don't impulse buy.
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Go to the supermarket and buy what you need and no more.
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Don't even walk through the junk food aisle.
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Make a list and stick with it.
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Everyone has had those times where you stop at walmart
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For just two things and you end up spending $100 or more.
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We've all been there, i think. that's not good.
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So, make a shopping list and mean it.
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Now, that was easy. so, here's another suggestion.
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Don't buy junk food. just don't.
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"but i want junk food, john."
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No, you don't. what you really want is better health.
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At least cut right back.
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You'll save money that you can invest in your health,
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And you'll be looking after your health while you do it.
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Now, before you think i'm trying to squeeze all the fun
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Out of your life, i promise you i'm not.
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The occasional indulgence is probably not too bad to you.
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So, if you're going to have something occasionally, okay.
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But let's be honest. it ain't easy to stop at just one cookie.
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A couple more, quickly:
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Where you can, grow your own food.
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Even if you grow a little, it's really good for you.
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And it'll save you money.
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Also, don't shop for food when you're hungry.
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We'll be grocery shopping,
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And i'm piling things into the shopping cart.
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My wife will look at me, and she'll say,
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"you're hungry, aren't you?"
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You'll spend more when you're hungry, and you'll find
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You're usually putting into the shopping cart those things
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That are less good for you rather than more good for you.
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Look after your budget and you'll have more money
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To spend on your health.
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You don't want lotions and potions
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With all those chemicals in them, endocrine disrupters?
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The alternatives might cost a little more.
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Eat rice and beans with tomato and avocado
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Instead of going out for lunch.
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Do that twice and you can afford those products
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That are better for your health.
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There's a lot you can do.
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The key is to make a start, even if you start small,
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And do something and grow from there.
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Remember what the bible says, 1 corinthians 10, verse 31:
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"therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do,
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Do all to the glory of god."
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Sometimes, of course, ill health is unavoidable.
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Sometimes it just comes out of nowhere.
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But there's a lot you can do to improve your health,
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To bless your life and honor god.
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God will bless you richly as you put this into practice.
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>>john: let me pray with you now.
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Father in heaven, we come to you in the name of jesus,
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Recognizing that we are not our own,
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That we've been bought with a price.
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And far too many of us are experiencing ill health
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When we don't need to.
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Too many people are dying young who could otherwise die elderly.
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So, i am praying that where we need help with our health,
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You will be there to sustain us and uphold us.
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Give us the grace to step out and attempt to make changes
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In your strength, knowing that what we read before is true:
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"i can do all things through christ who strengthens me."
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So, while you remake us spiritually--and we thank you
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For that through jesus-- we ask that you'll bless us
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Physically, which we believe, in turn,
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Will bless us spiritually.
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And thank you, above all things, for jesus, the bread of life,
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The word made flesh,
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"the lamb slain from the foundation of the world."
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Give us growing faith in him.
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We thank you, and we love you.
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We ask your blessing, in jesus' name, amen.
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Thank you so much for joining me.
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Looking forward to seeing you again next time.
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Until then, remember:
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"it is written, 'man shall not live by bread alone,
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But by every word that proceeds from the mouth of god.'"
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♪[dramatic, triumphant theme music]♪
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♪[music ends]♪♪
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John Bradshaw - Better Health On A Budget

July 20, 2025 | 29:0

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