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

The scientific references for everything that I say today will be listed under articles at www.drcarney.com.

If you're interested in the scientific references or the handout for this 1.

I thought we would save some trees and you can print, if you want to print it, if you just want it in digital format, it's right there in drcarney.com.

In Ellen White's book, Confrontation, which has been since renamed Victory Through Christ, Jesus overcame the 3 temptations from Satan in the wilderness, the first 1 being appetite, about which we'll be speaking today.

Mankind first fell into sin on the point of appetite and yet some people say appetite is not a salvational issue.

On page 51 of this book we read, All was lost when Adam yielded to the power of appetite.

The Redeemer, in whom both the human and the divine were united, stood in Adam's place and endured a terrible fast of nearly 6 weeks.

The length of this fast is the strongest evidence of the great sinfulness of debased appetite and the power it has upon the human family." That's from page 51.

And on the next page, Satan approached Christ with temptation upon appetite.

He had overcome Adam upon this point, And Satan had controlled Adam's descendants, and through indulgence of appetite had led them to provoke God by iniquity, until their crimes were so great that the Lord destroyed them from off the face of the earth by the waters of the flood." Because the subject of life without meat, dairy, or oil is so confrontational, I invite you to pray with me that we may be empowered by the Holy Spirit to believe scientific truths such as how oil hijacks our taste buds, so that together we can learn to choose palatability over mere deliciousness.

Heavenly Father, We are gathered here to plead for the outpouring of your Holy Spirit in latter rain power.

We cannot keep your health laws without your power, dear God.

We cannot even believe the scientific truths about high-fat foods hurting our health unless you enlighten our minds with truth and set us free from our addictions.

Please, Lord, hide me behind the cross of your precious son Jesus, in whose name we come to you today.

What do you think is the most destructive addiction facing Americans today?

The largest, most destructive epidemic of addiction in the U.S.

Is not caused by tobacco, drugs, or alcohol, although that is part of the health message.

It is the epidemic of our addiction to high-fat foods, to unhealthy foods.

Animal protein in the diet, high-fat content.

We're going to talk today about the evidence that shows that a diet with 20% or less of calories from fat can be very health protective and health relieving.

And some people with really severe genetic strikes against them, they need to get their fat content down to 10%.

Tell me, when the children of Israel were going 40 years through the wilderness, why would the Lord feed them manna, manna, manna, breakfast, lunch and dinner for 40 years in the wilderness?

He could have given them a seven-course meal for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for the whole 40 years.

They never had to eat the same thing twice.

Why was it manna waffles and manna burgers and manna bagels for 40 years in the wilderness?

Was the Lord trying to teach them something about appetite?

Was the Lord trying to teach them that food is to be life support and He was to be their deliciousness?

Was the Lord trying to teach them that He was to be the desire of their hearts?

Was that what He was trying to tell them with manna, manna, manna?

It makes beans, green squash, and yams sound positively like a feast, doesn't it?

What do you think, tell me, what do you think is the most common cause of disability for young African American males in this country, age 25 to 40, What do you think would be the most common cause of disability in the US?

Could stroke be the most common factor for disability, not death, disability in African American males age 20 to 45?

REGARDS stands for Regional and Geographic, no, Reasons for Geographic and Racial differences in stroke.

The REGARDS study talks about the Southern diet.

The Southern diet is high in fried foods and meats and sugar-sweetened drinks and refined flours.

And it downplays the importance of fruit, salads, vegetables, legumes.

And the REGARDS trial is no slouch of a trial.

I'm sorry, I don't have the exact number memorized, 30, 000 people, black and white Americans, over the age of 45, and it found that the Southern diet increased stroke risk by, what do you think, how much?

In contrast, the low-fat plant-based diet reduced stroke risk by 20%.

But I'm speaking to the people at Amen, and you know that.

We're gathered here because you want to share with your neighbors, with your friends and relatives, your co-workers, or if you're a physician or healthcare provider, your patients, you want to share with them the beautiful truths that we have been given in the health message.

How can we learn these scientific truths in such a way that we can present them in such a way that will draw people to the giver of all good gifts, our Father, so that we can help them to celebrate every pound lost and every addiction overcome as a gift from the Heavenly Father.

You can learn, I wish I had these slides, but you can learn, and if you need some help, you can go to www.drcarney.com and all the books where I learned these things and the lectures, they're there.

It'll take you right through to Amazon.com.

You can teach them to the youth in your church.

You can invite people to Forks Over Knives parties.

That's a secular movie, But it's got a real message.

You can cook a bunch of wonderful plant-based, oil-free food like Forks Over Knives advocates, and you can invite friends and neighbors and start a discussion.

Or not, but I think that there'll be discussion after that movie, and feed them delicious food.

You can teach the youth in your church to do this for their friends.

We can reach others for the Savior with this message.

Is anyone else in the world trying to reach others with a message of health?

Why do they spend thousands of dollars per employee who comes to the Engine 2 Diet Immersion?

Why do they spend thousands of diet dollars to let them spend a week with us learning how to eat a diet without meat, dairy, and oil.

We're not exercising them 8 hours a day like on Biggest Loser.

There's an hour of optional exercise, but it's voluntary.

They're listening to wonderful speakers, the stars of Forks Over Knives.

The CEO of the Engine 2 Diet Immersion is Rip Esselstyn.

I am so fortunate to have been asked to be the medical director for 7 of his first immersions, where twice a year in the spring and fall, we take the sickest employees of Whole Foods, those with the highest cholesterols, the most cancer, the most weight to lose, the highest blood pressures, we take them to a beautiful resort north of Austin, 1 time to Hawaii.

We take them to a setting where we're lecturing to them and feeding them buffet meals, all you can eat, seconds, thirds, there's no food police saying that they can't have all that they want to eat.

And they're eating lots and they're loving the food.

We're doing food demonstrations and showing them how to prepare this food.

And my job, I have an exciting job there.

My job is to take them off their blood pressure medication before their blood pressures fall too low, because that's the power of the plant-based diet, as you well know.

And my job is to cut those insulin doses 20% per day, so that they don't bottom out with their blood sugar levels.

And my staff draws the blood on Monday and Friday.

I'm using a hypothetical week just to give you a picture that we're there about 6 and a half days.

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