Peter Burwash Health and Fitness for Tennis Professionals

Peter Burwash, Canadian Davis Cup tennis pro, now runs the world's largest network of tennis professionals, staffing more than 100 international resorts. Logging more than 2 million air miles annually, Peter's reputation for his energy and vitality has made him a major speaker at health conferences around the world. say we want to talk tonight about this area for the men a man has absolutely no excuse whatsoever for having any fat on their stomach even a quarter of an inch men and women put on weight differently it's why a lot of times you'll talk to a husband and wife couple and the woman will say my husband has perfect thighs but he's got a huge stomach well men will only basically put weight on in their stomach area a man occasionally will put weight on when they get the second or triple chin but that's a rarity what men have to realize is that this is a depository area what's the first exercise a man does when he gets some extra fat on his stomach sit-ups and he starts cranking out sit-ups up there every morning gets very conscientious gets a hundred hundred and fifty two hundred and he gets this incredibly cast-iron stomach but the lump of marshmallow is still on the outside you will never Lou you could do 10,000 sit-ups a day and you will never lose your stomach women on the other hand put weight on in five places we'll review them some of you have already been through it but we'll just double check it first of all it goes on the backs of the thighs secondly it goes on the sides of the thighs third on the hip area fourth on the stomach area and fifth on the arms so when you see a woman who's driving along and her arm is out the window and you see a fat arm you don't have to look at the rest of her she's got to stage five all right now what women don't realize is by the time she's got to stage five she's really concerned with fat on her thighs so she wants to get it off her thighs but it's got to come off in reverse order so when a woman starts losing weight it comes off in her arms first then her hip area then her stomach area then her thighs now women unfortunately have been duped into a lot of fake reducing machines what's the famous one all over the world is the butt rubber and they get this machine and that the instructors are very clever because what they do is they'll come out and they'll say oh mrs smith look at this you now have 41 inches and Mrs.

Smith will get on this machine and the machine will rub away like crazy and the instructor comes out and measures it and it's 40 and a half inches and Mrs. Smith thinks he just lost a half inch. The problem is with these machines is what they really do is they force the water to the center of the body. But when the tide comes back out, Mrs.

Smith's back to 41 inches. so there is no simple machine that will help you lose weight they have these machines advertised on television where you can sit and watch TV and it'll lift your arm it doesn't work that way it's not going to come off the only way you lose weight effectively is through an aerobic type activity now unfortunately the word aerobics was associated with dance classes so all the guys said that's for my wife or for my girlfriend aerobics means with oxygen so any activity where you have to take in oxygen over a continuous period of time is defined as an aerobic activity running walking bicycling swimming cross-country skiing and aerobic dance class they are all aerobic activities we want to talk about the difference between an aerobic activity and an anaerobic which means without oxygen a hundred yard dash is an anaerobic activity when you sprint 100 yards you probably don't take any oxygen if you do it maybe one breath on the other hand a lot of people and particularly men tend to overwork particularly in the age category of say 40 to 60 because they grew up with the theory no pain no gain that doesn't count anymore because it's now been proven that if you get it your heart rate up too high then it becomes the law of diminishing return whereby it's not as effective and you start feeling dizzy because you're using up blood sugar instead of muscle sugar but let's talk now about an aerobic activity what is a good aerobic activity if you do it how long the intensity first of all how long nobody knows what is the most beneficial for you they're coming up they thought make minimum 12 minutes then they went to minimum 15 some say 20 some say as high as 28 or 30 what they do know now is that about the ninth minute your body switches over to burning up fat so the majority of activities an aerobic activity if you can get in the range of a 15 to 20 minute aerobic activity every day and for a lot of us in the business world that is an attainable time frame men and women put on weight differently women put weight on on the outside almost immediately a lot of times you hear women say geez I just ate that chocolate cake and I feel like it's pasted to my thighs that's a fact I mean they will put weight on instantly because women have 13% of central body fat they start off with that men only start off with 3% so the way men put on weight is they fill up inside so what a man does before any fat appears on the outside they fill up all of their muscles and arteries with fat that's why when a quarter of an inch appears on your stomach you are now defined as a cardiac time bomb now last year probably in 85 we lost 80,000 men between the ages of 30 and 35 from a heart attack 80,000 men between the age of 30 and 35 that it dropped after that by the way when you got into the 35 or 40 because they started to get a little bit more serious about it but the important thing to keep in mind is that if you have fat on your stomach you are clogged up inside not so for women necessarily but for a guy yes so how do we get it off we work through this aerobic activity with our heart rate at a certain zone so let's say we're working at 80% that gives us about a hundred and fifty two now what's that number that means our heart rate if we're going to exercise in the target zone see that nice black strip there well you want to work in the range for your age about a hundred and fifty beats a minute we'll round it off now what do we want to do here we don't want to take our pulse for a full minute this is a mistake that people make or even for 30 seconds because the way your heart goes is at the end of exercise it stays up for a few seconds starts dropping almost immediately levels off comes back down and then goes back to normal by the time 30 seconds is up you've probably had your heart rate drop anywhere from 10 to 30 beats so the important thing here is that you take it shortly after exercise the magic number is for six seconds why is six seconds very nice because if you take it for six seconds then you're only going to have to figure 15 beats in six seconds or 150 beats in 60 seconds so most of you looking at your age and looking at your condition today would probably be working anywhere from 13 to 15 beats in a six second time frame so right after your activity you take your pulse and remember you don't take your pulse with your thumb because there's an extra beat in most people's thumbs you take it put it on your carotid artery or you can check around your wrist one of the best ways is to wrap it around under and it should it'll be up there if you're moving you right now it may be tough to find particularly if you've got a little extra fat in there on your wrist but most people can find it at the end of the exercise it'll be go boom boom boom boom boom boom like that and that's the activity that aerobic activity you want to work in that range for approximately 15 16 17 18 minutes how intense the best criteria is you should be able to carry out a normal conversation with someone next to you if you're running with anyone or doing it you should not be struggling like this that means it's probably anaerobic you're above the aerobic activity carry on a normal conversation you should not feel lightheaded it shouldn't hurt if it hurts your body's telling you something that old theory of go till it hurts and then go some more is no longer part of the theory of proper conditioning how often should you exercise well if you like the condition you're in today if you're totally satisfied you exercise three times a week if you don't do X three times a week if you go once twice or zero you're going to get worse if you want to improve the condition it has to be four or five or six take a day off four or five for business executives is fine you got to make that commitment you made a commitment to eat for the rest of your life right so just make a commitment to exercise what people have to realize is that this body is built to exercise when they build an airplane it's not built to sit on the ground it's built to fly this body is built to move the heart is 100% muscle and those of you who broke a leg or arm when you were younger or older or whatever you know that what happens to that muscle when it doesn't get exercised it atrophies so you want to make sure that you understand the principle of exercise the body is built to exercise it needs it it feels good when you exercise what happens why do we feel good at the end of exercising because we got a little hormone called norepinephrine it's called the happy hormone it's released into our body we have that euphoric feeling it is an integral part of our everyday activity now we've become a very lazy society you ever watch people when they're driving their car in a shopping center they'll drive round and round around trying to get that spot that's two or three slots away from the door park way down the road walk if you're going to dinner don't use the valet parking park further away so you you will at least walk at the end of eating it's critical that you get up and do some sort of movement 80% of heart attacks occur within the first hour after eating interestingly enough another statistic 80% not correlated of the heart attacks occur at home usually what do we do at home what do we see home as a place to rest it's very important that right after eating that's why people there was an interesting statistic done at the at Stanford medical school and they found that those people who owned dogs were in much better shape than those who didn't because the dog usually needs a walk so those who go out and walk their dog planet right after dinner your dog's got a great heart it's meant to have you need to make sure that you get out and continue to exercise don't sit down one of the most dangerous things you can do is eat and go to the lazy chair plan your activities very very important incorporate into your daily activities some form of exercise whether it's just walking walking is a wonderful form of exercise if you're going to do it as an aerobic activity you want to walk at 120 steps a minute that's a good clip 120 steps a minute some people don't like running a lot of people don't like running actually some do but find the activity that's good for you swimming is not a bad activity the one problem with swimming is that if you do it a lot it tends to have what's called the mammalian effect they did a good study on Olympic swimmers and Olympic high jumpers and Olympic hurdlers and the whole string and the fattest were the swimmers swimmers tend to lay down a little bit more fat than their counterpart however if you're not doing it all the time it is a wonderful activity it's a great activity particularly if you have lower extremity problems bad knees bad hips bad ankles because of the buoyancy factor so then you can go ahead and use it as a good aerobic activity bicycling is a fantastic exercise probably one of the best you can have the difficulty that we have today is that you can't go bicycling everywhere they're through cars hit you they push you off the road so we don't have that opportunity that's why stationary bicycles have become fantastic to exercise one of the things now I think we're going to see more and more of our bicycles in hotels we're going to see them more as part of the everyday activity if I if I had a corporation where there was enough room and one of the things we're considering doing I would make sure and if you had any access to shower facilities get it in your office because 20 minutes half-hour bicycling is going to increase that's been a proven statistic if you can just get the physical activity at lunchtime or something your productivity will go way up it is worth every bit of the investment you may want to make a note here there is a new bicycle out on the market called the PTS turbo 1000 it's a bicycle you may have seen the ads where you can actually sit back one of the problems is if you sit up on a bicycle you get tired you're leaning forward all the time if you've got a bad back it's very uncomfortable this you sit back in a very comfortable chair it's contoured for the shape of your back you can turn on your television and watch it and let me tell you something I got on that thing and my heart rate went from 60 to 120 in 30 seconds no bicycle can do that all right let's talk now a little bit about the concept of health as it applies to the other aspect namely proper food intake exercise is no mystery it's not something that you have to get a lot of complicated or you don't have to have a lot of knowledge just do it try to get out but understand your best activity is aerobics now we look at health and as I mentioned at the beginning it breaks down into two we've got the exercise factor which many people are familiar with now we've got the nutrition side of it this is an area that is really very fascinating because suddenly we're starting to realize that what goes into our body has the greatest single influence of anything on our overall health for some reason people have become very conditioned to a certain lifestyle of eating and anything that goes against that lifestyle tends to be labeled radical we're going to talk tonight about how nutrition really and truly affects you let's take a look at our blood vessel if only we could cut ourselves open and not have a scar so ourselves back up and take a look at what we look like inside this would be an incredible motivator our vessels should be three things they should be flexible elastic and clean FEC flexible elastic and clean if you took a look at the average 35 year old in America today both men and women they have inflexible arteries they have lost a lot of their elasticity and they certainly aren't clean blood is the river of life many of you may have heard of that phrase before and the health of your body is directly related to how clean this artery is or your blood your vascular system now a lot of you have heard cholesterol and so people are frightened of this word cholesterol you shouldn't be frightened of the word cholesterol because without it you'd have some big problems your brain wouldn't function that well if you didn't have cholesterol it's a vital part of your sexual organs it is very important that people understand there are certain things here that all of a sudden is that I don't eat anything with cholesterol in it well what you want to understand is that too much cholesterol causes some problems cholesterol basically comes from animal products meat fish poultry eggs dairy products that's where cholesterol comes from cholesterol does not exist in your fruits grains and vegetables so when you put animal products in your system cholesterol comes down it has a tendency to hook on to the inner lining of the artery or the veins what happens is now we get what is called atherosclerotic buildup and i'll show you that a little bit better on the screen but the atherosclerotic buildup occurs what's in our blood that's pretty darn important oxygen it's important for an athlete or it's important for all of you if you aren't getting if this area is smaller and you're not getting enough oxygen to your system things shut down your body shuts down physically mentally emotionally and one of the things here that when people don't haven't yet come to appreciate how valuable just having your arteries clean what it does for you mentally to be able to have that constant flow of action most people today in america by three o'clock their biggest movement is this they spend most of their time waiting to get off work because they're worn out they've had it and that's simply because they are not getting they're tired you see people nodding off all the time it's because they're not getting enough oxygen that's why people when you need you need to get stimulated you stand up even just the simplest of stretch we're very much a flex society even at your desk if you can just get up and stretch it's so valuable get the oxygen going so keep in mind that the food going in has a big impact on your body now what food should we really eat what i would like you to do everybody here tonight is have amnesia for the next 25 30 minutes some of you have had that in the past consciously or subconsciously so just forget everything now forget who you are where you came from and we're going to do a little history class here and you're going to try to find out where you fit in all of a sudden you've arrived in this planet where do you fit in well what we want to understand is that there are 8 million 400 000 species on this planet and you can say well i don't know about that but that's a statistical fact something that we don't have to research right now someone's already done it for us eight million four hundred thousand the interesting thing is that we are all divided up into four basic groups and you're going to try to find out tonight where you fit in and the four basic groups number one we have the carnivore now they happen to have an intestinal system three to four times the length of their body we're basing it from hip to shoulder three to four times the length of the body now have you ever watched your dog eat or a dog eat how's the dog eat hopes it's food very very quickly it doesn't say this is real good you know and munch it around it just takes it in and it's got a little short intestinal system and it's in and out very quickly carnivore omnivore omni meaning everything they have an intestinal system seven to eight times the length of the body the third category we have the herbivore plant eaters they have an intestinal system 10 to 12 times the length of the body getting longer and longer and final category is the frugivore fruit eating they have an intestinal system 12 to 14 times the length of the body now if we could all cut ourselves open tonight cut up take a tape measure out we would all find that magically everyone in this room has an an intestinal system 12 times the length of the body. We had an incredible creator.

He didn't mess up on anybody. We all have an intestinal system 12 times the length of the body. That means that we are halfway in between a herbivore, plant eating, and fruit eating entity. If we violate that, we have some problems that occur.

For example, well, let me go back before I give you the example. There are a couple of other things that you might want to do on the checklist to see kind of where you fit in the carnivore and the omnivore they sweat through their tongue and the herbivore and frugivore they sweat through their skin so do we have anyone here sweating through their tongue tonight I hope not I hope not we got all right now if we also went in there's something called hydrochloric acid which is very important for our for digestion of food they have 20 times as much as we do down here so one part to 20 so that's why a dog can eat this tough fibrous tissue take it in and the hydro hydrochloric acid will break it down also the other final category of on your checklist is these people here can only go up and down with their two structure these people can go sideways and up and down grinding and up and down so those are your four basic criteria and you kind of figure out where you fit in now let's say you are in this category which everything points towards it you're in the herbivore frugivore category what happens if you eat a piece of meat all right let's go through what really takes place in these bodies and remember now you're still in amnesia you have no attachment to any types of food you're just trying to figure out what would be best for you to eat well what we've got to look at is if we take in a piece of meat it's going to take as meat fish eggs poultry any of those things it's going to take approximately five days to get through our system on the average now a lot of people today say I don't eat red meat anymore you know we got a lot that everywhere I go I here talk to people who say I've given up ready but I eat chicken and fish we become very much a chicken society fish society what I'd like to talk about just right now something like fish which we all can relate to what happens if we leave fish out in the sunshine if we put it out today was temperature 85 something like that today if we put the fish out there in the 85 degree temperature at 10 o'clock in the morning and we went to pick it up at 4 o'clock what's going to happen to that at an 85 degree temperature some of you starting to get the picture here now what's the body temperature 98.6 something in your system like fish for five days at ninety eight point six you got a problem it's going to definitely deteriorate rapidly that's fish which if you don't eat it right away you got a big problem on your hands anyway I mean fish was the number one food killer in the country last year twelve hundred people died but it doesn't mean anything compared to car accidents and cancer and heart disease but still twelve hundred people died all within four hours very fast so one of the things we have to realize is that the fish it has no label on it none of the foods have any label the chocolate bar has a thousand little labels on it has all these chemicals in it but the fish doesn't have anything and part of the problem is here you don't know whether or not it's poisonous it isn't labeled that way doesn't tell you for example down in st.

John the US Virgin Islands I go down to Keneal each year and there is a one side of the island that's the fish is very poisonous and the other side it's perfectly okay and if you eat this fish you're going to have severe food poisoning very quickly now when that fish comes to your plate doesn't say hi i'm from the west side you know and a lot of times the fish gets caught over we're now messing up our ecology badly enough that what is happening is and and the waters are becoming we have to go further and further out to fish that there is an overflow getting on a certain side of the island and you know what they do in the islands you know how they test to see whether or fish is poisonous they lay the fish out this is done in many countries around the world they'll put fish out side by side and the ones that the flies don't go on that's the poisonous even the flies won't touch it so but we don't know that when it comes to our plate and we do have a lot of problems every single city every day has some form of fish poisoning let's go back however to the meat aspect of it because I think this is something that a lot of you have started to understand not only does it take a long time for us to get it in but we've got to look at how do we get the piece of meat to our plate so we can eat it well in when an animal dies rigor mortis sets in the animal becomes very stiff if you ever seen an animal on the side of the road that's been hit by a car and has died that animal is stiff quickly now have you ever given any thought how that stiff animal gets to your plate in such a wonderful tender form now oh we got a quite an array of people in the travel business here today and we're all talking about marketing and we all want ideas on how to market if you really want to do something I go out and hire the guy if he's still alive who worked for the meat industry and got us to really believe that that's what we should eat because this is the most incredible marketing job done in the history of mankind because that animal they call it they give incredible terms they call it hanging we hang the animal we cure it we age it we process it they give you all kinds of terms and the public buys it what really happens it rots that's the way you get the food into your system once a rigor mortis sets in the animal now must rot and as it rots some things occur it discolors do you really believe that's red beef when you go walk along the counter that's chemical dye number 13 we just don't we would we love the color red so we're very attracted to it but that animal rots it discolors it smells and in go more and more chemicals and our our governmental system has become so liberal that in an average piece of meat here you are they allow 2 000 chemicals that will go into piece of meat 38 of which are highly poisonous and if you don't think they're highly poisoned if you read in chicago a couple of years ago where they had a little overdose of sodium nitrate which had no label on it by the way that there was even sodium nitrate in it eight people died very quickly from from food poisoning so we've got to take a look at all these chemicals that are going in what's also inherent in meat and sometimes people don't want to hear this but we're dealing because you don't know anything about you got amnesia still what is in a piece of meat every piece of flesh that exists anywhere you have maggots and worms now sure you can cook them out there's no question you can cook them out but we'll talk about that we show you the slides there's a problem and most important of all we have adrenaline now this is a highly toxic substance that's why people actually die from they can poison themselves to death and I always remember I living I moved into a condo in Honolulu and there was someone trying to get in my door and they had knocked down the first chain that opened the door knocked down the first chain and I walked out and I panicked seeing this guy chopping down the chain he got one more chain to go great safe Americas over there we've dead bolted ourselves in but he's knocking down I think the last chain is gonna go so I split into the bedroom and I pick up the chest of drawers and I put it in front of the door a little while later the police finally came I called my neighbors next door and I couldn't move to move the chest of drawers and I'm sure all of you have appreciated that what we can really do with adrenaline well adrenaline is a highly highly toxic substance which we have nothing in our body to break it down and one of the things when I talk about stress if you you know when I went to the first symposium with a group of doctors who convinced me to change and alter my diet and whatever they said if you're not putting this stuff in your system you can't believe the tranquility that takes place the internal harmony because you're not fighting constantly to get all this stuff out people wonder why they're tired they're tired because they're putting in loads of foreign chemicals they got all these things in here which if you don't if you don't kill these guys you got a problem and I was a while ago out in Kailua there's a fellow who does a colonic treatment where they there's I think many of you have probably starting to get familiar with us where they can actually reshape your colon we'll show you what a colon shouldn't look like it should look like on the slides but there's a theory out in medicine now that the health of your body is the health of your colon now one of the problems here is there was a lady who was in before having a chronic treatment and she had a very severe back problem and they had a diagnosed as arthritis bad hip bad bad construction from God they had a theory that she was just gotten old i mean she was only 45 but they said she that's part of aging but they give her all kinds of theories and she really couldn't walk very well she went and she had a colonic treatment they took a three foot worm out of her which had wound around the spinal cord now these guys they got everybody starts out small got paid we got our baby pictures and they all grow up and these guys if you don't kill them early you got a problem how do you kill them early you cook them problem is When you cook something, charcoal-boiled steak, that's equivalent to smoking 3,000 cigarettes in the production of benzopyrene and methylcholine. People say, I don't smoke, but they take in equivalent, what, 30, how many packs a day is that?

Packs, 20 in a pack, that's 150 packs you take in in one charcoal-boiled steak. That's a lot of cigarettes in the production of benzopyrene and methylcholine, which are your top two cancer-stimulating agents. So now all this stuff goes in your system. What do we do?

How do we get it out? our body gets worn down bit by bit by having to take it out so it's just not the food you eat in terms of nutritional or non nutritional value it's the stuff you put in it and then we got all these preservatives what a preservatives for anyway they preserve stuff a long time you preserve that stuff in your system anything left in your body I don't care if you leave cabbage in your body for five days it's gonna stink in there you got a problem the idea when you eat our bodies were constructed we eat the right foods that go in we get the maximum nutritional benefit from it and we get them out of there very quickly if we don't we're going to have disease most of those guys that were on the slide they had a slit in their stomach right down here from getting cut open and it all starts in the colonic area so what we want to do now is kind of take a little trip through the various slides that we have to give you an idea of kind of the different perspective of exercise nutrition see the importance of it this is the article that came out in March of 84 that truly changed the understanding of nutrition cholesterol and now the bad news before this article came out there was an interesting study that was done and they asked the American layperson and they said do you believe that cholesterol will have an effect on heart disease or heart attacks 69% of the population said yes 31% of the doctors said yes the doctors are really afraid to come out and speak with the malpractice suits now they're really afraid to say something but most important of all only 17 of our 121 medical schools in America have a course in nutrition one course so if we want to know about nutrition we can't really count on most doctors I really think our society should be just like the Chinese society the doctors are paid at the end of the month if you stayed healthy wouldn't that be nice what happens today you're sick in bed you call up the nurse and what's the nurse say come on down to the office can't move not only have we lost the service industry today but doctors have lost the essence of what they're really supposed to be doing they should be educating us what have dentists done they have concentrated on a preventive medicine doctors are going to have to change whether they like it or not to the concept of preventive medicine what we're really talking about here tonight we're not talking cure I don't have any magical cure doctors don't have any magical cure a lot of doctors will even admit that it's luck I remember my father a little while ago was going in for an operation and he did they didn't know what was wrong with them and I'm sitting in the hospital and I'm trying get some stuff out of this doctor. And I say, well, you mean you have no idea?

He says, no, when we doctors don't know something, we go in, cut them up, go in and take a look and see what the problem is. That's a bad way for us to be thinking. We got to start thinking a little bit more about how can we deal preventively. And if we take a look at these two substance, you now know what this is.

You now can really look at a piece of bacon for the rest of your life and know how it got there why it looks the color it is and what the real smell of it is it's just been covered up you know that what about these guys everybody says eggs well there are two people who should give up eggs immediately women and athletes so if we have a female athlete in here you got double reason to give it up eggs are an unbelievable glue if you ever watch take a look at the paint that's on the front of an aircraft a good portion of that paint is made from eggs it's a fantastic adhesive when you go to cook you put all the flour on top of the uh the counter and a magically thrown egg in it sticks all together it also sticks to your arterial wall and one of the reasons women should be very careful about not eating eggs is women they have very fine skin tissue in around the eyes and so women will tend to wrinkle here sooner so what actually happens is you have your main arterial wall and then you have a lot of little capillaries leading off it and the main arterial wall as it becomes clogged from the atherosclerotic buildup it closes off the little capillaries which ultimately shuts down the nutrient flow to the skin area that's why it's very I'm fascinated when I speak at the World Vegetarian Congresses and I'll see women 55 60 years of age you've been lifetime vegetarians and they don't have any wrinkles on their face well one of the things here that this is a great way not only to wrinkle up your body it actually dries it up because it's such a wonderful adhesive but women have a a problem with varicose veins where do women put weight on first right in the central area women have lower center of gravity and when they have a child they've got an even greater weight weight to Center in here which causes them to force the pressure up in their valve system in their legs just like the hose you squeeze a hose what happens pressure builds up same thing so eggs they also constipate your blood vessels they really cause a lot of problem They're not a healthy food to eat, contrary to what the statistics are out there. There was a big article in the papers recently that eggs don't raise your cholesterol count.

Let me tell you who did the study. First of all, it was funded fully by the egg industry. Secondly, you know what they did? They took 12 guys who had a cholesterol count of 310.

Now, that's really high. It's hard to get up above that. and they fed them 10 eggs a day for two weeks. So they said the cholesterol count didn't go up. It's all to do with the population study.

If they took someone that had a cholesterol count of, say, 160, their cholesterol count at the end of that period would probably go all the way up to 240 or 250, maybe even higher. So you've got to, when you read a study in a newspaper, find out who did it first. That's never in the release. One of the things you really want to try to do as you're going through the evening, You want to kind of look and see from a common sense point of view.

As I said earlier, I'm not telling you to eat this food or not to eat. But next time you take a look at an egg, there is some nutritional value. But compared to all of the other factors, it's not such a good food to put in. Particularly as we look more now at the cholesterol aspect.

This is what your vessel should look like. You should have a clean flow through. This should be our target. This is what most people's look like.

Your blood is always clotting. It's always coagulating. if it didn't coagulate we'd have a big problem when we cut ourselves we bleed to death and there are some people who don't have that capability so every time they cut themselves they've got a very severe problem on their hands this is how heart attacks occur right in here let's take a look now at we'll get get to the heart attack shortly but I want to show you what the inner lining of your vessel should look like if you're eating well there's a little bit of cholesterol atherosclerotic buildup in here you can just see it minimally and then a little larger here pretty much the same and this is what most people by the time they get to be age 26 in America today this is an average vessel and this is someone who didn't make it this is taken from someone who had such a severe atherosclerotic buildup and if you can go back to the first slide if you took it and closed it over they would have very little area and let's take a look now at the what cholesterol looks like coming down anytime you eat foods with cholesterol it's coming down and it's looking for places to hook on to now the body has an ability to get rid of a hundred milligrams a day I don't want to get into milligrams and all that stuff too much but you should remember this statistic the body can get rid of a hundred milligrams per day the average American diet takes in 500 milligrams so we're banking 400 milligrams every single day heart attack here it is this is an enlarged cross-section of a heart attack this is the blood it clotted and it can't get through the smallest hole that's called the end of your life as soon as the largest clot equals the smallest hole it's all over and it can you know people say oh he looked so healthy they didn't look inside that's very important on the outside we can fool a lot of people our triple cheeseburger this triple cheeseburger has 12 tablespoons of fat in it it's a pretty good amount that kind of that's a quote from the American Science Digest that just came out about three months ago but I always look at this you know and I think you know how our consciousness changes we see things differently as we get older sometimes for the worse sometimes for the better hopefully for the better but you know I've been in a car driving along someplace and there'll be a car accident and there will be someone lying on the road cut and everybody in the car oh and they cover their eyes they don't look they you know mothers turn their children away don't look and they're horrified by that sight yet they will take a ground-up animal put it in between two buns and their mouth waters you know it's amazing how our consciousness has changed to that point and let me tell you for those of you who've ever been to a slaughterhouse if you want to see where this comes from I it's tough to get into a slaughterhouse now because they're getting such bad publicity but if you can ever get in there find out how that comes about and I doubt that you'll eat another hot dog or hamburger again or sausage I'll have to read this I want to get this blown up there's such a good cartoon it says stay away from them these are lions and the men walking through the jungle stay away from them they're very dangerous loaded with cholesterol if the if the animal world could talk we really aren't such juicy morsels as we used to be all right this is what we talked a little earlier about the colon let's do a little quick physiological review food goes in your mouth goes down the esophagus goes into your stomach goes into the small intestine where the nutrients are taken out and then the waste products the stuff that you couldn't use goes in here now many people have stuff that's in here for up to 15 years because they don't have an efficient flow and let me show you what most people's colons look like and I'm not suggesting that you go out and get another x-ray but if you're really find that you've got a lot of stomach problems whether you've got a lot of gas or you feel certain pains down in this area maybe you want to take a look at this get you an x-ray a a lot we had a tennis professional in our company who his uh this is what we matched it up to be looked very much like this he also had very severe back problems so what happens here is look at these small areas that you can see no wonder food has problems going through them now it is possible let's go back again to reverse this this is your ascending colon transverse descending and then the food leaves your body it is possible to reshape your colon and most people really and truly are very similar to this they'll have some sort of deformed culinary and and that really is something that we want to take a look at there's some wonderful theories and I'm saying theories now wonderful theories about the health of your body is related to the health of your colon and you may want to have a colonic treatment i think we're going to see the end of this era the rich foods but i'd like to just share something with you look at this gentleman's eyes you tell the health of your body according to what your eyes look like what's amazing today is you know parents i'll talk to them say ah gee my kids on drugs i had no idea they're on drugs i don't know what you're looking at but all you have to do is look at a person's eyes if they drink if they smoke if if they do drugs, if they eat the wrong foods, all toxins end up in here.

Most of you know that most of the nerves end in your eyes. Remember the phrase, the eyes are the mirror of your soul. Look at this gentleman. Do you have to look?

Look up here. Do you have to look at the rest of him? No, you don't. He's got his tongue out.

He's looking at all these greasy foods. We tend to live our life based on three inches. That's about the length of most people's lives. The tip of the tongue is the last taste bud.

That's all it is. That's the only reason people do most things. because at the end of three inches it's over you have no more gratification it's finished so if people can learn to control those three inches they can really do a lot with their life melt 20 pounds off your tummy hips and thighs melt fat fat boils at 360 degrees I mean it's unbelievable that we get away with this stuff you should never diet ever there never has been never will be a diet that works let's talk about diet for a sec what happens when you diet let's say you lose 20 pounds on a diet that'll be 10 pounds muscle pardon me 10 pounds fat 5 pounds muscle and 5 pounds water that's basically what the 20 pounds is what do most people do when they diet they get it off and then they go right back to eating you should never attempt to do it that way because you lose muscle and you start taking on a frumpier look I had a fellow in Chicago last year who came up and he lost 2,000 pounds over the last five years he up and down and up and down the way you lose weight is through exercise not through dieting yes lower your caloric intake understand foods you like milkshakes most people like milkshakes they're 500 calories it's a lot of calories so if you're gonna have a milkshake one day figure out what you can't have the next day if you're trying to if you have a weight problem and women haven't have a problem women have to eat 25% less than their male counterpart to stay even it's not fair but that's the way it is so the whole point here is do not be hooked into this stuff it does not work when you're when you diet your body says uh-oh emergency and it starts laying down more fat so when you diet you actually get fatter can't change a bad habit by just just scratching the surface they've got this thing liposuction now where they go in they cut open a section of your stomach and they suck out the fat very popular the doctors are advertising it like crazy but let me tell you something they don't just suck fat out they also are taking nerves out people are finding now severe back problems severe gastrointestinal problems because of this it's not pretty it'll will never be perfected do not get hooked into this stuff plus a lot of done leaves such a good scar you know I think we should do I really believe that we should be given at our peak shape a skirt size a pant size a shirt size that we have to stick with for the rest of our life can you imagine what a great motivator that would be that if you had a shirt like this that was your size when you were young and all of a sudden this started people come up hey what's this you know they start poking in there that would be just such a motivator to get it off but what do we do look at the stores the stores you go down they just give the particularly here in Hawaii Hawaii we have the MooMoos where the people just straight from over them and they look the same you can't tell if the person weighs 150 or 300 pounds so we really you know set your target when I was got overweight I set my target I'm going back to 32 inches that's what I was when I was younger and I met that in five and a half weeks I lost 25 pounds in five and a half weeks doing an aerobic activity and it wasn't fat I was just got some extra stuff on my stomach there and fortunately had enough people who went around and grabbed it and that's what we need we shouldn't be tolerant of that bicycling talked about the stationary bicycle excellent exercise wonderful provided what you work with your heart rate at a certain level for a certain period of time not anaerobically being able to carry on a normal conversation you still should be able to yell at the kids from the bicycle all of these are or can be might not be able to see this this is the running using the heavy hands stationary bicycle up here if you do exercises on the Nautilus equipment it can be an aerobic activity provided you go from exercise to exercise and you keep your heart rate up when I did the I wrote a book called aerobic workout book for men and I did it more people women said why did you just do it for the men I said well you ever taken a look at the out-of-shape male population many women have been very conscientious about getting themselves in shape but I went to a lot of women's programs and the women they'd work real hard and then for six or seven minutes then they'd stop and they do a little jog and a little stretch and then they'd work hard again they might as well stayed in bed they wondered why they weren't getting the maximum benefit aerobic activity the key to it is is it must be continuous so as long as you can keep it a continuous you'll be okay this activity does not mean that you're going to get in shape this is good it's good for muscle tone it's good for certain isolated exercises but I can't tell you how many people think they're getting in shape because they do this the two biggest offenders of not getting in shape are weightlifters and golfers guy says oh I golfed on Saturday and Sunday this week and he thought he had exercise we took a swing get sit in his car drive a little move along then he gets out he moves again I mean it there's no actually even when you used to have pre pre cart days still wasn't much of an activity why because your heart rate wasn't up there I'm not suggesting that next time you go on an airplane you get suited up and jog up and down the aisles but you got to exercise while you're traveling get up move you should not sit for more than a couple of hours at a time maximum do your exercise go to the back stretch there's all kinds of good stretching activities that you can do get the blood flowing blood will tend to pool particularly in the lower part of your body as you found on a long flight trying to put your shoes on not that easy sometimes here it is photos wherever you go you have these options all the time I'm amazed even you know a lot of these buildings I know they have fire escape problems and there you can't get up and down the stairs but people there they get on at the lobby and they get off at the second floor it's amazing we have all these opportunities during the course of our day to physically exercise interesting enough in Japan now look what we're seeing here same thing meetings are now incorporating this you should try to those of you that are in charge of meeting planning programs and whatever this is essential there's absolutely no question that the meeting will be that much more productive we take a look this was shot over in Taiwan recently this is what meat should look like this is the reality of it it's brown often gray people who work in restaurants know that but this is what we make it look red have you ever had a nosebleed you seen the blood it dries up it becomes different color very shortly thereafter it is not you are not drinking the blood of the animal when you have that do not be fooled into it here's a good statement a defense against cancer can be cooked up in your kitchen one of the things I found as I travel to the different societies around the world those that had more of a vegetarian based diet who ate fruits grains and vegetables cancer leukemia atherosclerotic bill up it just didn't exist they were non-existent disease osteoporosis is non-existent in vegetarian communities around the world vegetarian societies there it is this is your 3,000 cigarettes that we talked about cancer epidemic and fish how are we getting cancer and fish this is a Newsweek article that appeared recently how can that possibly happen you know what we're doing trying to make money and trying to save what we're doing is when they have a cow that comes to the slaughterhouse never was a good artist so here's your they got the cow coming to the slaughterhouse if the cows got cancer at the hind end they will cut it out and guess where they're sending it to the fish hatcheries and suddenly now we've got a cancer epidemic and fish how even this is ridiculous when you cut it out when you cut it out the rear end where's where's cancer it's in the bloodstream it's throughout those of you saw anyone see 60 minutes that on the chickens I I mean that's it if you didn't see it find someone who taped it fabulous show there is no chicken today I mean they said something like 98% or whatever but all chicken has leucosis in it which is chicken cancer the great that what they didn't say about chicken and talk enough about was the growth hormones if you saw the Time magazine article on growth hormones with them in Puerto Rico they took 2,200 kids that they finished up with the at the end of the study and they found that those kids that had been raised predominantly on a chicken diet that the kids the young girls were starting their menstrual cycle at age 5 and the boys had their hair was starting to fall out at age 11 and 12 what do you do now you take a chicken that is produced used to be produced in two years they produce it in five weeks how do they do that magic growth hormones and I've never found a guy who's excited when his hair starts falling out and if you want to get older sooner you eat these foods that have a tremendous number of growth hormones if that's your goal and you're excited about it then you do it yeah I saw this in Taiwan this is not so clear but this is the chicken they were here and next thing just shortly thereafter they were on top and I had no idea I just thought well for what and I used to eat chicken lots of times but I just say it had a very profound effect on me when I saw it here's our buddy Frank Perdue he's a friend of mine he tells me now he this used to take six weeks he now is magically producing it in five weeks you talk about stress you know you think you got stress look with these chickens and chicken little chickies and look what they go through this is five weeks later magic formulas they're all all of them deep eat that these guys they live their life in an area the size of a typing paper and we take on a very very stressed entity when we put them into our system rabbis at kosher poultry farm put emphasis on nice killing you know where's our society going whoever defined nice killing you know it just amazes me when I see the advertising that's being done out there to try to get us to think another way the slaughterhouses I remember I still I I mean I grew up as a hockey player I got drafted by st.

Louis Blues in National Hockey League and those of you that are familiar with the hockey world is a very violent world when I was a young child I was trained that when I got into a fight that if I didn't knock the guy's teeth out or break his nose I had a lousy fight that's what I was trained on and so I grew up in a fairly hardened environment but let me tell you something when I walked into a slaughterhouse and I saw a baby lamb five feet away from me a living creature and have a spike put through its head and took its life I I walked out and I said I'll starve to death before I'll support that again and it would had a very very sound effect on me we tend not to sort of take a look back and see exactly what we're doing we talk about stress ladies there's no difference our work people are running around and with all this frenetic energy and they don't take time to really think a lot we have grown up very stressed out I used to love this you know I saw a guy a while ago I was up in Canada he was practicing his fishing pole in the in the hardware store and I had immediate flashback to fishing days but how do you catch fish you cheat them thin filament net lure worm on the end of a hook and for what and we hold up we say look what I did I cheated this fish aren't I good all the people that want to have their picture taken thinking they've accomplished something when did we really for and for once again for what benefit sport I just I really have a hard time with that I just to me taking going out and and gunning some innocent creature down and saying hey this is a wonderful sport out this is on the front of a sporting magazine and here's another sport it's called Harlem it's the same thing got two guys taking care of another individual all all violent we never stopped some time to think about it if you think you're carnivore you should be able to do this tonight if I brought a cow in here and said welcome folks for a dinner tonight we're gonna have a cow and you're all allowed to take a hunk out of it none of you could take a hunk out these teeth are not meant for ripping and tearing flesh we don't have that capability these guys do there's that's carnivores teeth now these pictures here you know a good study was done recently for people who are emotionally disturbed or young children and young children were asked a very important question they they had a series of questions they were to answer but it said what world are you closest to and it came down between the adult world and the animal world and almost every kid said I'm closest to the animal world it's very interesting and so these little series of photos here you know and and as I travel around the world and some of the countries I go to they eat dogs and people are shocked at it and that's why it's also very interesting when people come over here from India for the first time who've come out of say the villages or some of the smaller towns and even prior to the in English rule over there they were shocked when we ate cows it's all depend on society it's like in China you know they have on some of the menus there those have you seen fried cockroaches I mean we're shocked by that but they see it as a delicacy you know these kinds of photos of living creatures you know there's a moral side to eating too there's a physiological side which we've talked about it'll make you healthier but all living entities you know there's a wonderful world out there that sometimes we don't look at you know all living entities have their their young ones and the baby seals I'm sure a lot of you have spoken out or maybe support Greenpeace or some of the causes against the slaughter of the baby seals and here's my favorite photo you know I and next time you think about your rabbit stew maybe you can relate to the photo I'm not suggesting you go out and you pick up your friendly orangutan and become buddies with them but you know there is there is something to be said a little bit above and beyond sometimes you know people said a little bit of meat doesn't hurt us and that's a fact a little bit piece of meat I'm gonna hurt you but it's a very selfish approach we take a look at you know a little piece of meat doesn't come from a live a still live animal we don't just take a hunk out of the animal and still let it go so there are there's a different perspective people switch their eating habits physiologically morally or ecologically the world food hunger if this room were a piece of land we could produce 22 times as much food in here if we grew it for fruits grains and vegetables as if we grew it for the production of animal slaughter smokers or people who live in LA or Orange County now this is a one of someone who lives in Los Angeles not bad but quite different from Wisconsin and areas where the air is not so polluted I'm not suggesting you have the mass exodus out of here very quickly because you'll still live pretty well if you eat well and are not around smokers a person who lives with the smoker I'm in the process of getting this lung a person who has who lives with a smoker or works with the smoker will be about it'll turn gray it'll be completely covered over I just had a chance to see the slide that they got and it's in the process of being made so don't let anyone fool you and those of you who are really anxious to see they're so close now I just talked to some people in Washington we're so close to having no smoking on aircraft if you just keep writing there are about 5,000 letters short from what I understand and we got so if you each of you know one friend who doesn't like smoking here so maybe you can double that up and keep keep it going this is a one pack a day smoker here's a two pack a day and here's someone who had emphysema and never did make it emphysema is irreversible once you get it you cannot get cannot go back it's one of those few diseases that you can't you can reverse cancer you can reverse bad hearts those of you who saw nathan pritikin's uh report his vessels were uh whistle clean he had completely reversed any atherosclerotic buildup and now as far as cancer is concerned uh dr agatha thrash out of Seattle, Alabama has only lost one patient in 15 years. She only takes patients in their last 30 days.

She puts them on a raw fruits and vegetables diet. Her theory is that the body needs protein and we all know that. We don't have to have protein per se, but the body ultimately needs protein and what happens is that it will suck up the protein from the cancer cells, dry it up and she's been able to cure it. Called a quack theory, but she's got thousands and thousands of people who are alive today from having had cancer. smokers they never tell you that you're going to wrinkle up your face this fellow by the way had cancer he went on a vegetarian diet I just read an article on him recently quit smoking no longer does the Marlboro ads and has cured himself but once again smokers faces there it is all dried up all pucked and it does a lot of damage in addition just to blackening your lungs our kids we now have found that nine out of ten kids in america can't do one pull-up isn't that unbelievable they can't get themselves up one time george allen said that uh we now have ninety percent of our kids can't pass a basic physical fitness fitness test not just one pull-up george allen being head of the president's council on physical fitness america's nutrition revolution it's underway it should have been underway a long time ago but at least it started food intake everybody talks about protein and i know some of you if you were thinking of questions to ask you were going to say what about protein well let me just that's a complete myth your body doesn't need protein per se what it needs are amino acids so let's take an amino acid like lysine l-y-s-i-n-e lysine is in chicken and it's in broccoli if you take lysine in and either of those the body doesn't know any different so take it in broccoli rather than take it in chicken which is going to have all of the negative uh problems that will occur but most important of all let's talk now about protein those of you who are working on your marketing programs for your agencies and travel programs well once again the meat industry and the dairy industry and egg industry did a tremendous job and getting us to think about protein we've become obsessed with protein in 1965 the charts said 50% of our diet should be protein the revised charts in 1975 30% in 1985 the recommended was 10% and you know what the World Health Organization says 5% of our food intake should be protein to live a healthy life so things are changing we don't want protein when you take in protein excess protein in our body those people who drink goats milk and rice that's sufficient protein they're the strongest people per body weight you don't need a lot when you take in extra protein your body can't get rid of it very easily and what it usually does is what it can't get rid of it stores as fat so that's why people eat a lot of protein they get fatter pasta this is the food that you should be bait carbohydrates or what you should be basing your food intake on most charts now are recommending 75 to 80 percent of your food intake should be pasta what was once known as the poor man's food the potatoes rice grains is now becoming known as the rich person's food rich in terms of intelligence they now know that this is the best food you can eat this is not fattening the potato is not fattening what you put on it is fattening this potato which is about a three and a half ounce potato it only has 93 calories as is turn it into french fries becomes 273 calories turn it into potato chips and it becomes 602 calories so if you have some stock and frito-lay I apologize but and if you happen to like potato chips be aware of that know that when you have a bag of potato chips that's a lot of calories so something has to go during that day I'm not saying take away all of these nice foods that you enjoy milkshakes and whatever just be a little bit more careful stir-fried vegetables fortunately now most of our society today is aware that this is where we want to go we want to have a lot of stir-fried vegetables as opposed to the boiled vegetables where we used to pour down all the nutrients in the drain all vegetarian all soy products I know some of you looked at that and salivary glands started going well many foods out today and some of you've had soy food some are good sarna aren't so good but the important thing is that if you cook it right you can make most foods taste like it you could take a fruit like breadfruit and make it taste just like Kentucky Fried Chicken can't tell any difference you can now take there are many restaurants around I got a great article done in business traveler the Asian publication and it listed all the best vegetarian restaurants in Asia absolutely superb you can go and you can have any food which is mock fish mock beef mock turkey whatever you want so if you're attached to the taste there's still a way of satisfying your taste but eating the right kind of foods that aren't going to harm you the meat industry here this is an ad with James Garner the meat industry is petrified the interesting thing now that occurred in Orlando last year the American Meat Board met for their convention and the head of the American meat board get up and said folks please don't be surprised if by the year 2000 we're not in business so what are they gonna do they got James Gardner and Sybil Shepherd who doesn't eat meat but she's out there plugging away on it and they got all Peggy Fleming Peggy's paddling pork now yeah I mean now what a share you know I look at this and I say you know as athletes you know I see these athletes who they're getting into drug problems and everything and having grown up in the athletic world I thought geez you know so many people look to us as leaders and to think that you know here's a very great athlete out peddling something that as apps can do absolutely no good for your system I mean there there is nothing in there that will enter into the plus column compared to the negative column that will be of any benefit to you all here's the big fish oils max EPE they're all capitalizing please don't get fooled into this what happens here is that when you take these fish oils they will prevent some clotting that's true it's also why one of the big killers of Eskimos they you know what they die from is they die from nosebleeds because they eat so darn much fish that their blood is so thin that it doesn't have the ability to clot and they just bleed themselves to death well if you have a lot this is an irrelevant question here we what people are doing it's like in your kitchen sink let's say you got a lot of bacon fat and you pour the bacon fat down the sink what do you got to do next you got to get under the sink or go to the store and buy some Drano well instead of wasting all the money on the Drano don't put the bacon fat down in the first place put it where it goes should belong in the garbage can same thing here don't put the bacon fat down your bloodstream so that you have to take this in order to balance it out but there's a price to be paid those people who are taking these automatically will increase their chances for obesity greasy skin osteoporosis osteoporotic buildup why do we have osteoporosis in our societies well because when you eat too much protein how do you get protein out of your body comfortably you got to take calcium calcium is the tracer it's got to take the protein out so out goes the calcium out of your bones and we have lots more osteoporosis Bob Barker the Miss Universe or Miss America pageant or whatever it was he would not go on until all furs were imitation one of the things here is that if you've been to any of these farms and seen the the suffering that these creatures go through and for what you know to look more beautiful the way you look more beautiful is to eat properly not just get yourself all piled up so people are moving more to imitation furs they did a study recently in Spain they found that 60% of the Spaniards wanted to control elimination of the bull fights and I don't know if any of you have ever visited when I went I cheered like crazy for the bull I was so excited when the bull was putting them up I mean and I did and I wasn't you know into any good food or any moral thing or anything I just found myself cheering for the bull and I thought gee that's unbelievable you know now I look back on it what are we for what we call that a sport people want to know about vitamins I took this because those of you read fit for life there's some fabulous one of the best books ever written there's some things in there that are not so accurate but basically the book is a good sound book it took a lot of static from the doctors because don't understand that stuff so they have to speak out against it it doesn't fit in with their lifestyle they're they're trained for cure so fit for life talked about the vitamins you needed and I thought they said a great quote in there the amount of vitamins you need fit into a thimble during the course of a year unless for females who have a low iron deficiency or other people who may have a chemical imbalance or something or vitamin deficiency get a blood chemistry test you should know certain things you know your cholesterol count just like you know your age your social security number your phone number you should know your cholesterol if you don't know your cholesterol count you're doing yourself a great disservice there's a magic number 150 there is no recorded heart attack in the history of the world so far that if you had 150 or lower it's just never occurred and that comes from that's William Castelli who's done that study since 1937 and they have done something like 347 thousand people so try to get your cholesterol count down you get it down by proper diet you don't lower your cholesterol count through exercise by the way that's a myth you lower your cholesterol count through X through proper diet Nathan Pritikin son who happens to be a vegetarian found that on a vegetarian diet you can lower your cholesterol count 25% in three and a half weeks take a look at this for a second what this could really mean statistically most people in the room today probably have a cholesterol count particularly the guys around 240 lower that one quarter that goes down 60 that would take you into a range of 180 hardly anyone dies at 180 150 to 180 is pretty darn safe 150 is super safe my cholesterol count now is 135 I'm not gonna die of a heart attack my plane may go down I may die in a car crash where I'm not gonna die of a heart attack and you want to know something for the for the women out there be very careful that you work hard and get your husband to get this down here's a good statistic 98% of the men who had a heart attack last year and lived knew it was coming long before they had the pains they felt the left arm they felt it in there but they're too macho to tell anybody and that's unfortunate a million people died last year from heart attacks that's too high much too high no one should die of a heart attack so check your cholesterol count it's the barometer of your lifespan you don't need to go a lot of people spend money going to soothsayers fortune tellers and whatever that's your that's your true indicator now there is another thing I don't want to get into it too too much tonight if you have some questions you should know what your high density lipoprotein low density Lee I think you know many of you have read that just remember what you want high density lipoprotein HDL call it high highly desirable HDL is your highly desirable it's the one you want the higher you can get that up and the lower you get your total cholesterol count down the safer you're gonna be you don't want LDL cholesterol fighter trend they're capitalizing on it we need cholesterol why do you want Quaker Oats there's two very good pluses first of all it's good fiber we need those of you who don't know about the fire the purpose of fiber well it should it moves food through your system remember I showed you the colon well anything that's stuck in there the more fiber you can have the sooner it will get it through your system also and I'm always a little reluctant to talk about this because people think oh you shouldn't say those things I've had sometimes I've got I want to do the evaluation in the seminar and I apologize for what I'm gonna say but it's very important because there's been a book written on it and some of you may have read it but you measure also the health of your body by your bowel movements and the doctor who wrote the famous book went to Africa and he was out in the jungle and he found two foot bowel movements and he said why my gosh what are they eating and there is it's been proven now medically that the longer your bowel movement the healthier you are and something like Quaker oats which has a lot of fiber not only will move system through but it's also a binder so that it will suck up any sort of bacteria that's stuck in there and it will carry it along with it you know when I went to the symposium with a the group of doctors in Hawaii and they talked to me about the importance of a vegetarian diet they said that you have an antibody system which is a phenomenal system okay large cross-section of your bloodstream you've got little antibodies that are in there we have such a wonderful antibody system look what we've put in our system already and we're still sitting here tonight so the food goes in it's collected and it's taken away they made a statement as a a vegetarian your chances of getting sick are very minimal and the reason behind it is let's say to some tonight one of you came in here with a very bad cold and all of a sudden you're breathing all breathing out this air and you're putting all these viruses into the system of someone else as a vegetarian who's got a very clean system because you're not putting the chemicals all of the other uh adrenaline flow all those foreign entities into your system the toxins therefore your system will be able to clean that up very quickly and that's one thing i have noticed i i mean being on the air being up in the air traveling 300 days a year for 20 straight years i mean i just get sick so rarely and when i was eating meat i got sick all the time because there's tremendous force i mean the air is polluted up in the air you now in an aircraft then automatically just the weird time schedules that we end up leading when we're in a business on the road being able to keep that system clean is unbelievable and sleeping time i used to sleep 10 hours a day i was able to cut it to four or five hours a day and feel good about getting up 10 hours a day i mean i could barely get up because my body was so worn out it takes 33 of your energy to digest your food as a vegetarian it's about 65 as a meat eater so all of that extra energy is digested you wonder oh boy i feel really sluggish today well the reason you feel sluggish is because you ate the wrong foods you want energy eat carbohydrates pasta meal is a wonderful food so yes we're i mean tonight just here just living in los angeles you breathe all kinds of stuff in there that doesn't belong so the idea is the more polluted a city the tougher your schedule the more conscientious you have to be about taking in food if you really want a simple approach try to have a salad a day or every two days try to have a fruit a day and try to concentrate your base on carbohydrates which is your pastas grains potatoes things like that you will have more than enough nutrients you won't have to worry anymore for example when you eat a cow where did the cow get all its nutrients caught it from the grains when you take a piece of brain let's say this was a piece of grain came out of Kansas this is 15% quality protein you take it and put it in the form of animal comes out as 2% quality protein you lose 750% quality so the whole idea is the same thing with vitamins you know they've got to take they've got to extract a whole lot more vitamins to actually get this concentrated form when really most people have a very new balanced blood stream anyway get your blood count take a look at it make sure have a blood chemistry test done all it is if you have trouble with needles they'll turn the other way stick the needle in get your blood and you'll be fine you've got to have it for men over 35 you've got to have it it's real important women don't have to worry so much about their blood count until after menopause because then and then then it really happens if you watch the the heart attack charts women will go along fairly steadily and then all of a sudden menopause comes and it's just I mean it climbs so steadily whereas men tend to climb fairly regularly with that little dip around 35 they'll come down a little bit at 35 and then they'll go back up there are three types of vegetarians there's a lacto oval l-a-c-t-o oval o-v-o which is dairy products and eggs very few people very few vegetarians eat eggs if they do they're non-fertilized the the majority of vegetarians are lacto vegetarians which are dairy products that's what I I am or a vegan vegan and they do not have any dairy products now all I can say right now is that the studies that are coming out those that are vegans have a rapid loss or depletion of brain cells on the right side of your brain which is your creative side however we don't have enough of a population study to know there are when I did the book vegetarian primer what I tried to do was I tried to research all of the the the reasons for drinking milk and for not drinking milk scripturally is very interesting when I went back and took a look at the the Quran the Bible the Upanishads the rishas the the bhagavad-gita Srimad Bhagavatam whatever they all talked about the importance of food intake for milk to be able to contemplate spiritual ideas so as since we all are spiritual beings therefore I think we're going to see some very interesting studies coming out on whether or not to take in too much milk there is now not we really abort milk I mean the way we do it is unbelievable but if you can get milk in a somewhat unaborted manner if that's possible I I think you know I just I feel that it's the it's the most practical logical diet I mean people love cheese in today's society I mean it'd be very difficult for people to give up cheese if you have a severe problem if you have some cancer or if you have some severe arthritic problems I would recommend get off all dairy products immediately and then maybe go back on a little bit I love ice cream I just stay away from Haagen-Dazs because it's got so many eggs in it I mean just shoot your cholesterol count up but there are a lot of very natural ice creams out there that you can't have that don't have eggs in them but once again that studies that have been done remember people talked about how bad sugar was they never did a darn study on vegetarians they did it all on meat eaters a meat eater who takes in sugar they got a big problem because there's so much sugar in all the foods that a meat eater will eat no question but when they've done studies for what sugar does to your system on vegetarians it has almost a negligible effect sugar is a natural taste we got bittersweet sour and salt those are the four basic tastes when you become a vegetarian one thing by the way is okay who has a sweet tooth in here can I have a show of hands okay if you switch your diet I mean your hands gonna go up I'm really a sweet tooth because you your taste buds purify you ever talk to someone or ever bit you ever when those of you stop smoking you taste your food much better when you stop eating meat you really start tasting your food and so what happens is one of the natural tastes that come out is a sugar taste as far as fat going into your system once again what did we say at the beginning you know like what are the charts talking about now 10% of your food intake should be fat it's just if you take in too much fat you got a problem you ever seen people who don't eat fat I mean they look horrible they look emaciated you know their cheekbones are coming out so you do need fat it's just fat is like your slow burning log in your fire it has now been proven that your body stores up the foods food what it why the meat industry used this it said the meat has eight essential amino acids all right so what Francis more lape said well meat yes they want eight essential amino acids you can get that but what happens now if you don't take it in then you're not going to have a complete food well for a vegetarian they can't get eight essential amino acids in any one food so what they had to do was they said well what we're going to do is we're going to combine beans and rice and beans and rice means you've got all the essential amino acids so you can eat a vegetarian diet still get it your eight essential amino acids they have now proven that this is false yes you can eat your beans and rice and that'll do okay that'll get you your eight amino acids together however your body stores up the acids until it's needed same thing with b12 big concern vegetarians can't get b12 well first of all at any one time in your body you have an eight year supply of b12 so you know it's going to take a long time for you to run out of that stuff plus they have also proven that the b12 is manufactured from the bacteria in your intestines we all know that you know one of the advantages of yogurt is it has acidophilus which is your friendly bacteria well the same thing here we now are able to produce b12 internally and you know something interesting they have never found anyone on a vegetarian diet or vegan diet that had b12 deficiency also those of you that are still or maybe a little worried about protein no one has ever died in the history of the world from protein deficiency never had one they have died from malnutrition but that's different from protein most of us get more than enough adequate protein and I look at it this way when you get off your own platform and say well I like to eat meat because I look at it now as an ability or an opportunity to contribute to the longevity of another living entity someone that can actually get out there or something that can breathing creature that can can live a little bit longer because I didn't guide my life because of my tongue and that's all we really have to think about commitment the best way in terms of nutrition is to think about someone else or something else in other words you're going to be healthier so you're gonna be around longer for your kids for your family for your company if you're a good leader a lot of you head up your own company if you're a good individual try to stick around because there's not many good individuals that are here for a long period of time so we need that we need that little extra motivation and I want to close just on on one little story that occurred in Malaysia because I talked to a group just like this for the Pacific Area Travel Association group and there was a fellow in there who had cancer and he had been diagnosed as probably having about another five or six months to live and he didn't want to tell anyone didn't want to tell his family didn't want to tell his boss because his boss might get rid of him there's always every cancer patient think they're gonna make it even though they might tell you they're not there's still that little flicker of hope and I just saw him a while ago and his cancer is completely cured he came up afterwards I got this phone call I get back to the room at the Pan Pacific Hotel and in Kuala Lumpur and he called me says I got to talk to you right away I've got a very important thing I have to discuss with you so I I went down and met with him in the lobby, and we talked about his problem.

And I said, just go on a rough fruits and vegetables diet. That's all I can suggest from Dr. Agatha Thrash. And it all cured up.

And to be able to do something like that, to be able to make that kind of contribution, is very exciting. And I hope that that's how we'll be able to continue to expand these programs. And that you'll go home and maybe just reassess kind of what you're eating, the direction you're taking. and you know anyone who will take three hours out of their time and come to the Irvine Hilton to do to be part of this program tonight there's got to it says something about you it says something that either you care or you want to do something a little bit better and for that I really appreciate such a great attendance tonight I apologize for it being a little warm and some of you didn't have as comfortable place to sit but hopefully the knowledge will transcend any discomfort that you had and i really wish you luck in your new path and have a very enjoyable breakfast tomorrow morning thank you if you would like to obtain the books by peter burwash write peter burwash international 2203 timberlock place suite 126 the woodlands texas 77380