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HEALTHY LIVING
Humans are Herbivores: Dr. William Clifford Roberts, P2/2
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Hallo energetic viewers,
to today’s edition
of Healthy Living
featuring Part 2
of a two part series
on the esteemed
cardiologist from
the United States,
Dr. William Clifford Roberts.
For more than 30 years
Dr. Roberts headed
the pathology section
of the National Heart,
Lung,
and Blood Institute,
a division of the prestigious
National Institutes
of Health, the official
medical research agency
for the United States.
As a prolific author,
he has published
over 1,400 articles
and authored or edited
24 books to date.
He has served as
the editor-in-chief of the
highly regarded publication
the “American Journal of
Cardiology” since 1982
and is executive director
of the Baylor
Cardiovascular Institute
in Texas, USA.
Dr. Roberts says
that a diet
free of animal products
leads to a healthy life
and freedom from
the devastating, chronic,
so-called “lifestyle”
diseases now prevalent
around the world.
Cholesterol comes
exclusively from animals
and their products.
In the USA, the majority
of the cholesterol we take in
comes from cows
and their flesh, which
we call beef to be nice,
but it’s actually
bovine muscle.
It’s muscle we’re eating.
Or milk, butter,
or cheese, and then eggs.
Cholesterol is a soft,
waxy substance found
in the blood and cells.
Our bodies naturally
produce all the cholesterol
we need for daily living,
with the liver generating
about 1,000 milligrams
a day.
Fruits, nuts, grains, seeds
and vegetables
contain no cholesterol.
Excessive intake
of cholesterol leads to
hardening of the arteries
or atherosclerosis.
Cholesterol is
a major risk factor for
cardiovascular disease in
both adults and children.
In the United States,
an estimated
80-million adults
have one or more forms
of cardiovascular disease,
and one in five teens
has unhealthy
cholesterol levels.
So if we don’t eat animals
and their products
we don’t take in
any of cholesterol.
Actually most Americans
now, at least those
living in the USA,
we average about
300 or 400 milligrams
of cholesterol every day.
It does
an awful lot of damage.
Controlling
one’s cholesterol level
and blood pressure
are vital to maintaining
excellent heart health
and achieving longevity.
Not eating flesh keeps
cholesterol levels down.
Now the biggest
determinant of how long
we’re going to live,
in my view, is our
cholesterol level and
our blood pressure level.
It’s very important
for each of us
to know those levels
and keep them down.
In the US, it’s been said
for a long time that
a normal total cholesterol
is less than 200.
The average total
cholesterol in adults
in the USA now
is down to 196 and yet
45% of the population
is dying from
cardiovascular disease.
We need to get
our cholesterol levels
to total less than 150
and our bad cholesterol,
the LDL (Low Density
Lipoprotein) cholesterol
less than about
70 at least, or 60.
When we’re born
our LDL cholesterol
is 40, that’s maybe
where we should go.
The second thing is to keep
our blood pressure down.
Now in societies
that eat no salt, at least
no measurable salt,
blood pressure is generally
about 90 over 60
their entire life.
But in the US
we eat about 10 grams
of salt a day.
If we don’t eat salt
our blood pressure
stays down.
Our canned foods
are loaded with salt.
Everybody in the USA
eats too much salt.
I never add salt
at the table.
But that’s only about
15% of the salt we take in.
Most of it’s already
put in the foods.
As a general rule,
the lower one’s fat intake,
the lower one’s
blood cholesterol level,
and the higher
one’s fat intake,
the higher
are one’s chances
for obesity, cancer
and heart disease.
In particular,
consuming saturated fats,
found mainly
in animal products, raise
the risk of many diseases.
Fat is awful for us,
because so much of that fat
is saturated fat.
There are
three types of fats.
They’re really called
“fatty acids.”
They’re the saturated
fatty acids,
the monounsaturated,
and the polyunsaturated.
All these fatty acids are
carbon chains
with hydrogen atoms
attached to them.
These chains may be
13 carbon atoms long,
27, 33 or whatever.
It turns out that
the saturated ones are
the ones that are bad for us.
They’re the ones
where every carbon atom
has a hydrogen atom
attached to it.
There are no double bonds.
If there is one double bond,
that means one carbon
has no hydrogen atom,
that’s monounsaturated.
If it’s more than one,
it’s polyunsaturated.
It turns out that
the monounsaturated
fatty acids and
the polyunsaturated
fatty acids
are not bad for us;
indeed they are good for us.
Whereas if every
carbon atom is covered
by a hydrogen atom
(it) means it’s saturated.
That’s very bad for us.
In actuality,
I worry more about
the saturated fatty acids
than I do cholesterol.
Diabetes mellitus,
a chronic condition
characterized by
dangerous fluctuations
in blood glucose levels,
results from
the body’s inability
to produce or recognize
the presence of the
important hormone insulin.
Diabetes can cause
blindness, nerve damage
and kidney failure and
also fuels atherosclerosis.
Following a plant-based diet
helps prevent the disease,
which afflicts
nearly eight percent
of the US population.
Now diabetes mellitus is
skyrocketing in the USA,
because so many of us
are gaining weight.
There are
two types of diabetes.
One is the genetic form
that you get in
usually under 20 years
or at least under 30,
often in teenage, seven,
eight (years of age).
And then there is
the acquired form
after age 50.
Now the acquired form is
an obesity-related problem.
So if we keep
our weight down,
we don’t develop diabetes
later in life.
Diabetes is
an expensive disease.
The number of diabetics
who go blind,
who need hemodialysis
because their kidneys are
no longer functioning,
who are losing a toe,
and then another toe,
and then the lower leg,
upper leg, amputations.
Half of people
in this country with
chronic kidney disease
have it because of
diabetes mellitus.
Diabetes is preventable
in 90% of us.
We have to
control our weight.
Besides following
a vegan diet, what are
some other effective ways
to maintain
a safe body weight?
I know a lot of people say,
“Well I need to
lose some weight, I got to
do some more exercise.”
You have to remember,
you’ve got to walk 35 miles
to lose one pound
In actuality, you have to
do a lot of exercise
to lose weight.
But exercise has
many wonderful things.
Number one,
those who exercise
go to sleep pretty quickly.
They sleep better.
Their mind is clearer
as a rule.
They don’t
go to the psychiatrist
as much as non-exercisers.
Their body weight
tends to stay down.
Exercise is particularly
good for maintaining
an ideal body weight
once you’ve reached it.
Generally speaking,
the older we get,
the more difficult
it becomes
to change our ways,
so the sooner in life
one starts to consume
only animal-free products,
the better.
When a little child
goes off to school, and
hollers back in the house,
“Mommy, what are having
for dinner tonight?”
Well that means
are we having chicken,
steak, turkey?
If mommy hollers back,
“We’re having okra
tonight,” the little child
may not come home.
We have to
start early in life.
I think the young people
are going to be the ones
to change.
It’s very difficult
to convince a 60 year old
to change
their eating habits.
We kill the cows,
and then they kill us.
That’s how the system
actually works.
More than
a billion people on Earth
suffer from chronic hunger
and malnutrition,
and globally, 90%
of all soybeans grown
go to feed livestock.
If we instead
stopped livestock raising
and used all these crops
to feed humans,
food shortages and the
inhumane, mass slaughter
of animals for meat
would end forever.
When we send grain,
soybean, wheat, to Russia,
for example,
as we’ve done in the past,
when their crops are low,
most of that
is to feed their cattle,
not for human beings.
There is a great abundance
of potential food
on planet Earth to feed the
6.3- or 6.4-billion people
without any problem.
But 80% of the oat crop
in this country and
80% of the wheat crop
approximately
are used for the cattle.
It’s a major problem,
and, what it does is
produce the atmosphere
of killing, killing, killing.
In conclusion,
Dr. Roberts strongly
recommends following
a compassionate,
animal-free diet
to safeguard our health
and save our planet.
So, in my view,
the easiest way
to stay healthy is to be
a vegetarian fruit eater.
It’s the most civilized way
to be healthy,
because we’re treating
our animals decently.
We’re treating
our planet decently.
We’re not
eroding the topsoil
to feed the animals.
So what is good
for human health
is good for non-human
animal health, and it’s
also good for the planet.
I would say
that my philosophy
is similar to yours.
Be Veg,
Go Green,
Save the Planet.
We respectfully thank
Dr. William Roberts
for promoting
humanity’s adoption
of a plant-based diet
and for sharing how
this compassionate way
of eating can prevent
a wide range of serious
health conditions.
For more information
on Dr. Roberts,
please visit
www.Baylor.edu/Biomedical_Studies
Wonderful viewers,
thank you for joining us
today for Healthy Living
on Supreme Master
Television.
Up next is
Enlightening Entertainment
after Noteworthy News.
May we all always enjoy
the best of health
and the highest of spirits.
The Cikananga
Wildlife Rescue Center
in Indonesia looks after
highly endangered
species confiscated
from wildlife traffickers.
For its caring service
to animals,
Supreme Master Ching Hai
has honored the Center
with the Shining World
Compassion Award.
We take good care
of them so that
they can recover.
After that,
we schedule them to
undergo rehabilitation
and at the last stage
they will be set free
into their natural habitat.
We would still like
to see Indonesian wildlife
existing in the future
for our children
and grandchildren.
That is our goal.
Come, share the dream
and spirit of
the Cikananga Wildlife
Rescue Center, this
Thursday, February 18,
on Animal World:
Our Co-Inhabitants.
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