AMEN 2013: Following the Leader

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Adventist Medical Evangelism Network (AMEN)

AMEN 2013: Breakout Sessions A

Winston Craig

Disease Prevention and Management Through Balanced Nutrition

Linda Carney

Women’s Health via Lifestyle Medicine for Whole Foods Markets

Errol Bryce

Partnering the Practice and Church for Explosive Church Growth

Rick Beckermeyer

Utilizing Digital Data for Education in Your Dental Office & Mission

I like to do a little short devotional before we begin the thing.

And I just wanted to mention what was discussed last night in Mark 7 when the deaf man was brought to Jesus to lay hands on him.

And you remember Jesus put his hands in his ears and put spit on his tongue and then prayed be opened and the man was healed.

And a similar situation with a few verses later in Mark chapter 8 with a blind man, people brought him and asked Jesus to lay hands on him.

You know, it's interesting that in those days, spit or spittle was believed to have therapeutic property.

And Jesus always went with the belief system.

So we would probably talk about this today as the placebo effect that the people, man, the 2 men that we mentioned were believed that the spit was going to have an effect.

And of course, when you believe something, then there's more likelihood that it will happen.

The 2 things which I thought were interesting is that Jesus took the person away from the crowd and he dealt with them in private.

Jesus treated these people not as a clinical case, but as an individual, as a human being with need.

And I think the greatest thing that we can do, all of us as healthcare professionals, is to remember that in dealing with people that come to us, we are dealing with, we should be dealing with them as individuals, as human beings, as people who have need, not just as another clinical case.

And I say this to myself as a teacher, because every student in the classroom has to be treated as an individual and not just as an ID number in front of me.

Somehow we've forgotten the power and the beauty of touch.

I believe that massage and hydrotherapy owe some of their effectiveness to the fact that there's an intimacy, there's a touching of people.

And in great medical centers across the country, cancer centers are now realizing the value in massage, in helping people sleep better and reduce pain and anxiety.

It's not just medication, it's actually the touch, the massage that is being given.

So these things are good for us to remember during this special weekend to refocus, rethink about the people that come through.

We've been reminded that the theme of this weekend is how would Jesus run the office?

Well, 1 of the ways he would run the office is that he would treat everybody as individuals, not as clinical cases.

And he would not be afraid to touch, in the inappropriate way of course.

There's nothing more impersonal but going to an office and the doctor's eyes don't even cross yours and he's busy on a computer writing something and you leave, you know.

That friendship that has developed is something that's very important.

So as we begin, let's have a word of prayer.

Father in heaven, we thank you for this beautiful day.

We thank you for this conference where we can come and refocus.

And we thank you for the example of Jesus in the way he treated everybody as individuals with need and not just as another clinical case.

This afternoon we pray in Jesus' name, amen.

So I wanna talk to you this afternoon about a subject that's very exciting to me.

It's very heavy in chemistry, but we're not going to dig deep into all the biochemistry.

We're gonna try to show you the big picture and some of its review and some of its new material.

The first thing we want to mention is that there's over 25, 000 phytochemicals and to get them all you're going to have to have a varied diet.

You're going to need to eat fruits and vegetables, whole grains, herbs, nuts, seeds.

And We know a number of the phytochemicals.

Some of the more research ones are listed here.

And we will talk about some of these along the way.

If you read magazines, you'll be familiar with some of these names like crotinoids and indoles and isoflavones.

But what I want to focus on is the examples of where the richest concentrations of these things are found.

And if you look over here, you'll notice that there are spices, There are herbs, there are seeds, nuts, fruits, vegetables, beans, there's a whole variety of things.

And so 1 needs, if you, and these function in the body in different ways.

They exert themselves on different metabolic pathways in many different fashions.

We know of at least 15 or 20 pathways where a phytochemical could help protect against cancer.

And so some of them are utilised in some pathways, others are utilised in other pathways, so clearly variety is very important.

Unfortunately, in the Western typical American diet, we don't get too much phytochemicals because fruit and vegetable consumption is limited.

Junk food high in sugar is partaken and people are eating far too much animal protein rather than beans and tofu.

And all of the things that I've just mentioned that they should be eating, have the phytochemicals and the way that they're eating, typical sort of McDonald's fries, burger, Coke meal has very, very little in the way of phytochemicals.

The Italian researchers showed that green vegetables reduce your risk of cancer.

And so as you go from a low intake to a medium intake to a high intake, you can get a greater reduction or a greater protection of many different, I've just listed some of them here and we don't wanna focus too much on the numbers, but it's clear that the numbers increase from left to right which means the more you eat, the better the protection.

Okay, there's obviously self-limiting in terms of how far more can go, but certainly more than what the typical American is eating.

The other thing about phytochemicals is that they do experience synergy and so you want to eat not your lutein from a bottle but rather from peas or spinach or whatever.

You don't want to eat your lycopene from a bottle, from a pill, but rather from watermelon, from tomatoes, etc.

Because the research literature shows us, at least in the case I'm presenting here, the phytochemicals, the indoles and thiosinates in the broccoli and the lycopene in the tomato, they're synergistic in their effect.

So the idea is we should be eating foods as near as possible in their natural state.

In other words, whole foods are very desirable.

These are just a couple of examples you may have seen.

When you blanch walnuts and get rid of the thin brown skin, you lose about 96% of the elagic acid in the walnuts.

Fluoridzin, which is a flavonoid in apples, you'll see it's much higher in the peel.

So if you're peeling any of the fruits, except of course pineapple and banana and those things which you don't want to necessarily be eating the skin, you're going to be losing a lot of the protection.

Again the olive oil, some people like to buy pure olive oil, it's anything but pure, It's been highly refined.

Extra virgin contains many phytochemicals.

Some of the ones that are known that are listed here, tyrosol, hydroxy tyrosol, oleuropein and so on.

These are all known to have strong biological activity that protect against cardiovascular disease or cancer and there's many many papers that illustrate this.

People often ask well do these things get destroyed by usual cooking?

In general stir-frying, microwaving doesn't have too much an effect.

Mostly they're fat soluble, but boiling in lots of water and chopping them in small pieces, often there is significant loss.

Now You've heard about the value of walnuts and almonds and broccoli and cabbage and tomatoes and soy beans and olive oil and garlic.

So I'm not gonna go over all that because that's old stuff.

And you didn't come here today to learn old stuff, although it doesn't hurt to be refreshed and to be consolidated in the way that you're eating.

But I just wanna share with you some other things to add to these.

The phytochemistry of all of these is partly known.

The variety of compounds, and they certainly promote our health.

So when you eat fruits and vegetables and grains and beans for your vitamins and minerals, Just remember there are thousands of other chemicals that are there, which we may not even know the names of, but which are providing health-promoting properties.

So the first 1 I want to mention is whole grains.

Research has been coming out over the last few years, but this is 1 of the earliest studies from Boston, from Harvard, where 40, 000 nurses are being followed.

And the data that they publish is that heart disease is reduced significantly, stroke and type 2 diabetes.

Now, who would ever have thought that diabetes could be, the risk of it could be reduced by making sure that your bread roll was whole wheat.

And whole grains have a fairly unique polyphenolic called ferulic acid, it's very high in the whole grains.

But recently they've shown in an article in Cereal Foods that many of the phytochemicals that are in fruits and vegetables are also found in whole grains.

So all that data bank that you have stored back here about all the value of fruits and vegetables just add to that whole grains also contain many of those phytochemicals.

Ferulic acid, the value, parts per million in whole wheat and here is in white flour.

You can see it's pretty well depleted, not entirely, but significant loss.

Recently, rice bran was also shown to contain quite a significant level of ferulic acid, which induces regression of colon cancer cells and also stimulates apoptosis, which you know is the programmed death of cancer cells.

So the bran tends to be where most of these polyphenolics are found.

So in any way of removing the bran is going to cause the loss.

Also Harvard published this study, which showed in the Physicians Health Study with 20 years of follow-up, 2 to 6 servings per day of whole grains was associated with 21% reduction in heart failure compared to those who didn't eat whole grains at all.

We need to stress and emphasize to our clients and patients that we need to try to encourage a greater use.

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AMEN 2013: Breakout Sessions A

Disease Prevention and Management Through Balanced Nutrition

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