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HEALTHY LIVING
Wise Eating with Dr. Steve Blake - P1/2
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Seventy-million Americans
have inflammatory
joint pain, and I think
it’s largely dietary-related.
I noticed that when
people have arthritis,
and they change their
diet from a standard
American diet to
a plant-based vegan diet,
the arthritis
tends to go away.
Greetings, vibrant viewers,
to another episode of
Healthy Living.
Today we present Part 1
of a two-part interview
with vegan naturopath,
herbalist, neuromuscular
therapist, Doctor of
Holistic Health and author
from the United States,
Dr. Steve Blake, who
will provide expert advice
on nutritionally sound
eating and discuss the
benefits of a whole foods,
plant-based diet.
Dr. Blake devotes his life
to teaching others about
achieving optimal health
through natural medicine
and proper diet.
For seven years he served
as director of the Maui
Holistic Health Center,
and recently
he and his wife
Reverend Catherine Blake,
who has
an extensive background
in herbal medicine,
established the College
of World Health
in Hawaii, USA.
The institution’s goals
are to inform others
about the most
effective approaches
to natural nutrition,
healing and health from
around the world,
and to become
“the first place to look
for understandable,
accurate information
about natural health.”
Dr. Blake has written
a number of
outstanding health books
including “Vitamins and
Minerals Demystified,”
“Understanding
Dietary Fats and Oils”
and “Healing Medicine.”
He has also produced
a comprehensive nutrition
software program
called the “Diet Doctor,”
which enables users
to analyze their daily
nutritional intake,
and gives suggestions
on improving their diets
based on input
about their meals.
Another of Dr. Blake’s
remarkable programs
is “GlobalHerb 2009,”
an extensive database
that suggests
natural remedies for
many health conditions.
Dr. Blake says it is one
of the largest databases
of its kind, and features
over 128,000 book
and journal references
from around the world.
We begin our discussion
with Dr. Blake on
the subject of bone health.
Osteoporosis, an illness
in which the bones
become porous and weak,
affects an estimated
200-million people
worldwide.
Respected
US nutritional biochemist
Dr. T. Colin Campbell
has found that
the condition is associated
with the intake of
meat and dairy products.
There is no doubt
that dairy products have
a lot of calcium in them;
they’re very calcium rich.
However, it’s interesting
that countries with
the highest consumption
of dairy products also
have the highest incidence
of osteoporosis.
Too much protein and
too much salt increase
your needs for calcium
or deplete your bones if
you’re not getting enough.
Most Americans
on an American diet
will eat a hundred grams
too much protein
each day and
this is almost inevitable;
if you eat a diet
with animal products
you’re going to be getting
too much protein.
Perhaps two- or three-
hundred milligrams
(of calcium) are depleted
by that hundred grams
of extra protein that
Americans are eating.
Excess sodium also
very much depletes
calcium in the bones.
Salt, excess sodium
comes usually
from processed foods,
packaged foods
that have sodium added
in one form or another,
and these packaged foods
account for about
80 percent of the sodium
that the Americans eat.
So if you don’t eat
the packaged foods
you probably won’t be
getting excesses of sodium.
So these are two factors
that are also important
besides
your intake of calcium.
You have to look at
what’s depleting
the calcium in your body,
and depletion is
much more important
because it takes no time
at all to take calcium
out of bones.
It happens instantly.
Our bloodstream
must always be the same
in calcium so that
we have proper nerve and
muscle action, however
to rebuild the bones
takes a lot of time.
So, for instance,
if a person were to eat
a lot of bacon they can
deplete their bones
and then it could
take months for them
to resupply their bones
with the calcium.
And I think that
the depletion over time is
a much more important
part of osteoporosis
than just
keeping the calcium up.
And calcium
doesn’t work alone;
magnesium is
also important; keeping
a high vegetable and
fruit content in the diet
increases potassium
and lowers
your loss of calcium
through excess protein.
Also vitamin K
is very important.
It’s important if you’re
vegan to eat plenty of
green, leafy vegetables;
beans are
a wonderful source of
minerals and nutrients;
they have wonderful fats,
wonderful protein and
wonderful carbohydrates,
and lots of calcium.
Especially, for instance,
tofu is set with calcium
and is a very rich source
of calcium, and
nuts and seeds provide
a lot of calcium too.
In addition to calcium,
several other nutrients
are required to
maintain healthy bones,
particularly vitamin D.
Approximately 90%
of the body’s supply of
vitamin D comes from
exposure to sunlight.
Phosphorous and calcium
are both needed
to make bones, and
vitamin D, for instance,
triggers the phosphorous
and the calcium to be
deposited into the bones.
You have to get vitamin D.
However, the body stores
vitamin D for years,
so you don’t necessarily
have to get vitamin D
every day.
If you’re getting some
on your face and hands
for 15 minutes,
two or three times a week
even in this latitude
of 38 degrees,
just through the spring,
summer and fall,
you should have enough
calcium to make it
through the whole year.
After these brief messages,
we’ll return
with more from our
informative interview with
Dr. Steve Blake of the
College of World Health.
Please stay tuned
to Supreme Master
Television.
Welcome back
to Healthy Living
on Supreme Master
Television.
Our program today
features an interview
with Dr. Steve Blake,
a naturopath and doctor
of holistic health
from the United States.
Fatty acids are necessary
for maintaining
excellent health.
Omega-3 long chain
fatty acids with
docosahexaenoic acid
or “DHA” and
eicosapentaenoic acid
or “EPA” are especially
beneficial to adults
in maintaining
a healthy heart and to
fetuses and young children
in facilitating
brain development.
The essential fatty acids
are the linoleic acid and
alpha-linolenic acids;
these are found in plants.
Fish oils don’t contain
any essential fatty acids.
They are not essential
for human health.
You’re going to need
enough ALA in your diet.
That’s the alpha
linolenic acid, which
is an omega-3 fatty acid.
It’s the root
of the family and
it’s the only essential one
in the omega-3 family.
Two to four grams a day
would be a good amount
of alpha linolenic acid.
Research shows
that omega-3 fatty acids
are highly effective in
controlling inflammation,
which can cause
arthritis, osteoarthritis,
rheumatoid arthritis and
other autoimmune diseases.
Dr. Blake says
it’s necessary
to have a balance
of omega-3 and omega-6,
such as linoleic acid
in our systems because
while omega-3 can help
prevent inflammation,
omega-6 fatty acids
aggravate inflammation.
Inflammation
can be relieved
by lowering the amount,
and it’s not only
linoleic acid excesses
that increase inflammation,
but also arachidonic acids.
Arachidonic acid
is a direct precursor
to eicosanoids,
the inflammatory ones.
It’s found only in
meat and dairy products.
So limiting
your arachidonic acid
and increasing your ALA
(alpha-linolenic acid)
is a good way to reduce
inflammation in the body,
and it works quickly and
effectively without drugs.
The other important thing
is to keep the amount
of linoleic acid down.
Most Americans eat
10 to 15 even 20 times
as much of this essential
fatty acid as the ALA.
This overpowers it
and makes it difficult
for the ALA to
get converted into EPA,
which is quite easy if
the balance is about right.
The proper balance
would be something like
three to one; three times
as much linoleic acid
as alpha-linolenic acid.
The myth persists that
fish and fish oil are good
for heart health.
However, in the famous
DART-2 (Diet and
Reinfarction Trial) study,
heart patients
with chest pains
who consumed fish
saw no reduction
in mortality and those who
took fish oil capsules
were found
to have an increased risk
of cardiac arrest
and sudden death.
People with diabetes
have trouble
making their own EPA
and they may need
to supplement with EPA
directly and DHA as well.
People who are smokers,
they have trouble making
their own EPA and DHA
and they may need
to supplement
with EPA and DHA.
For the rest of us
it’s much healthier
to make our own
alpha-linolenic acid
into EPA in our bodies.
Taking EPA externally,
whether it’s in the form
of fish or as fish oils,
there are problems.
One of the problems
is excess bleeding.
If you get too much EPA
in the form of fish oils,
your tendency to bleed
increases.
The other problem
that’s very important
is that it lowers
your immune response
when you take EPA.
If you’re eating
fish or fish oils,
the chance of there
being contamination
with DBT or PCBs,
polychlorinated biphenyls,
mercury and other
environmental contaminants
is quite great.
It is also possible
to get these made
from algae because,
after all, only algae
makes EPA and DHA;
fish don’t make it.
They just eat it
and concentrate it
in their bodies, so
you can get supplements
made from algae that
contain EPA and DHA
in the same amounts
that you might need.
Finally,
Dr. Blake has some tips
on obtaining essential
omega-3 fatty acids
from plant-based sources.
If you take whole flax seeds
and you grind them up,
for instance, in a coffee
grinder or a blender,
you can then
add a tablespoon of that
to a meal
after it’s been cooked.
This will be a wonderful
supplement of ALA
that will greatly
enhance your ability to
make EPA in your body
and DHA also.
Walnuts are one of
the very few nuts or seeds
that have a large amount
of alpha-linolenic acid.
Also, chia seeds
and perilla seeds
are good sources.
There’s a new oil out
called echium oil
that has stearidonic acid
and stearidonic acid
has the ability to be
converted into EPA easier
than alpha linolenic acid.
We sincerely thank
Dr. Steve Blake for
his insightful comments
on how to stay healthy
through intelligent eating,
and applaud him
for spreading
the uplifting message
about the invigorating,
plant-based diet
through the College
of World Health
and his other work.
Books and other media
by Dr. Steve Blake
are available at
www.NaturalHealthWizards.com
Treasured viewers, please
join us next Monday
on Healthy Living
for Part 2 of our program
featuring Dr. Steve Blake’s
sound advice on
the role of oils and fats
in our diet.
Up next is
Science and Spirituality
after Noteworthy News.
May we all enjoy
the best of health
and the highest of spirits.
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