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GOOD HEALTH--It’s Your Choice and YOUR FUTURE

STORY: For 30 years, Marcus and his wife had saved their money carefully for their dream vacation. They were planning to take an amazing trip around the world to see the Great Wall of China, the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel tower and many others. They were looking forward to it with great anticipation. But, suddenly their dreams broke into pieces. Just a few weeks before his retirement, Marcus woke up with a sudden pain in his chest. An ambulance rushed him to the hospital. There he had to have triple bypass surgery. The surgery saved his life, but it wiped out all their families savings and he had to return to work with no hope of ever going on their dream vacation. What a tragedy! If only he had stopped smoking or exercises more or something. Now he sincerely wished that he had paid attention to the health principles that he had known.

Health. It’s something that we so often take for granted. We don’t realize how important it is until it’s gone. But, to understand a little of it’s importance talk to people who are close to dying. Queen Elizabeth said for example, “All my possessions for one moment of time”. Ask a person who is dying of cancer. Ask the parents of a child dying of leukemia. They you will begin to understand the importance of health. But, it is so much more than just living a long life. Health drastically affects life in many areas. In Marcus’ case, his bad health ruined his careful financial planning of 30 years (CNN reported in 2006 that bad health costs the average person $2,200 per year). Here are some of the other benefits that follow good health habits:

BENEFITS OF GOOD HEALTH HABITS:

1. Adds many years to your life.

2. Helps you look more beautiful/handsome and younger.

3. Reduces aggression, crime and anger

4. Greatly reduces pollution/helps the environment

5. Helps solve the hunger problems in the world.

6. Helps you save money

7. Prevents many dangerous diseases.

8. Greatly reduces sicknesses (headaches, earaches, flu, stomachache, etc.),

9. Improves sexual enjoyment

10. Aids spiritual insight

11. It’s not cruel to animals.

12. Improves your attitude and helps avoid depression.

13. Helps reduce accidents.

14. Improves relationships.

15. Helps you lose weight easily.

16. Reduces pimples/acne.

17. Gives you higher energy.

18. Gives you better sleep.

19. Increases intelligence and grades by improving memory, etc.

20. Helps you think more clearly and make better decisions.

21. Give good health, mind and appearance to our babies/children.

22. Helps avoid mental diseases in children especially.

Health has an incredible range of effects on us. The above health benefits all come from these 7 ways to stay healthy: 1) Don’t smoke 2) Drink little or no alcohol and milk 3) Exercise & stay at a good weight 4) Eat breakfast 5) Be vegetarian or vegan 6) Get enough sleep & 7) Have faith in God. It’s not just for our own health. It’s good for the planet too! For example, just one health habit, being vegetarian, can stop hunger, save the environment, add ~10 years to your life and stop cruelty to animals! Paul McCartney explains, "If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you could do. It's staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty."

LIFE SPAN: How old are you? 25, 50, 60? That’s your real age. But, you also have a health age. Your health age is the age of your body. You may be 25 years old, but your body is similar to a 35 year old person. Or you can be 70 and your body can be similar to a 50 year old. 50 would be your health age. Obviously, lower health ages are much better! Dr. Breslow, a professor from UCLA, did a study on 7,000 people for 9 years. He found out that if people followed 6-7 of these health habits, they would live 11.5 years longer on average (To find your health age, find your age and circle how many habits you follow. Then add (+) or subtract (-) the listed number from your real age. This is the age of your body.) What are the questions? Here they are:

|1. Air |□ I do not smoke |WEIGHT TABLE |

|2. Liquid |□ I seldom or never have more than four alcoholic drinks per sitting. |Height |Overweight Limit |

| | |(Inches) |(Pounds) |

|3. Nutrition |□ I eat a substantial breakfast every day. | |Men |Women |

|4. Exercise |□ I take long walks or engage in sports, swimming, gardening or other physical activity at least three |60 | |130 |

| |times a week. |61 | |133 |

| | |62 | |136 |

|5. Rest |□ I regularly have seven or eight hours of sleep. |63 | |139 |

|6. Temperance |□ I seldom or never eat between meals. |64 |156 |144 |

|7. Moderation |□ I weigh less than 20% above my desired weight. (See weight table.) |65 |160 |149 |

|Total Number of Health Habits I Practice ____ (Number of true statements) |66 |164 |155 |

| |67 |169 |160 |

# OF HABITS FOLLOWED |0-2 habits |3 habits |4 habits |5 habits |6 habits |7 habits | |68

69 |174

180 |165

169 | |20-24 |+14.3 |+7.4 |+0.5 |-1.1 |-4.2 |9.4 | |70 |185 |174 | |25-29 |+15.6 |+8.3 |1.8 |-0.9 |-4.5 |-10.2 | |71 |190 | | |30-34 |+16.9 |+9.1 |+3.0 |-0.6 |-4.7 |-11.1 | |72 |195 | | |35-39 |+18.2 |+9.9 |+4.2 |-0.4 |-5.0 |-12.0 | |73 |200 | | |40-44 |+19.4 |+10.7 |+5.4 |-0.1 |-5.2 |-12.9 | |74 |205 | | |45-49 |+20.7 |+11.6 |+6.7 |+0.1 |-5.5 |-13.8 | |75 |212 | | |50-54 |+22.0 |+12.4 |+7.9 |+0.3 |-5.7 |-14.7 | | | | | |55-59 |+23.3 |+13.2 |+9.1 |+0.6 |-6.0 |-15.5 | | | | | |60-64 |+24.5 |+14.0 |+10.4 |+0.8 |-6.2 |-16.4 | | | | | |65-69 |+25.8 |+14.8 |+11.6 |+1.1 |-6.5 |-17.3 | | | | | |70-74 |+27.1 |+15.7 |+12.8 |+1.3 |-6.8 |-18.2 | | | | | |DISEASE/SICKNESS/PROBLEMS: Here are the best ways to avoid getting tragic diseases and to live a full and energetic life. These ideas can help you live 10-15 years longer and have 50-90% less disease in almost all areas (which will save you a LOT of money. CNN says good health will save you ~$2,200 per year on average):

1. DON’T SMOKE—it’s slow suicide: 5 million die every year from smoking. Smoking has more than 50 ways of making life a misery through illness and more than 20 ways to kill you. These include cancer, heart disease, pneumonia, sexual problems, etc. (.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact02.html). Watch this video about cowboys who died young because of smoking (, search for “Death in the West”).

2. DRINK LITTLE OR NO ALCOHOL: Alcohol kills more people than war every year. It is involved in 66% of All Fatal Accidents, 44.6% of All Traffic Fatalities, 65% of All Arrests, 70% of All Murders, 37% of All Suicides, 80% to 90% of campus violence is linked to alcohol abuse, 50% of All Rapes, 60% of All Sex Crimes Against Children, and 60% of All Child Abuse Cases. It also makes you fat, destroys the anti-cancer benefits of fruits and vegetables and reduces sexual ability and causes other problems. (From U.S. Department of Health & Human Services; The Illinois; Department of Alcoholism & Substance Abuse, Reader’s Digest and Rebecca Heglin, “21,000 Victims of Campus Crime,” (USA Today, March 14, 1991)

3. EXERCISE/STAY THIN

According to the CDC, ~112,000 people die each year of diseases caused by obesity. This shows us that it is important to stay at a good weight. Doctors have made a Body Mass Index (BMI) to help people know if they are at the correct weight. Check it out at: (they have a great menu planner as well). Eating raw food or being vegetarian is a great way to do that since your body has a natural stopping point when you eat natural foods. Eating oatmeal cereals is a very helpful way to do this since oatmeal reduces your hunger. But also, it’s very important is to exercise. Experts say that we need to exercise about 30 minutes a day at least 3-4 days a week to keep our heart in good health. Exercise also improves your energy level, ability to fight diseases, memory and many other things. So, get out there and play!

Another good idea is to eat a little less than you feel like. Research on animals show that a 30% reduction in calories often increases life by 30% or more (and there are benefits no matter when you start). So, since fat causes lots of bad things in the body, try to stop eating before you are full (chewing food 30 times also helps with this).

4. EATING BREAKFAST: Eating a healthy breakfast is very important since it gives you energy for your whole day and helps you get enough vitamins and minerals. Ironically, people who skip breakfast actually gain weight.

5. BEING VEGETARIAN/AVOIDING SEAFOOD: Eating meat and seafood, especially unclean meat, is one of the more dangerous things you can do on this planet. Watch the “Supersize Me” video to see many shocking facts about the dangers of meat. Being vegetarian greatly reduces pollution, prevents famines AND is not cruel to animals. It also adds about 5-10 years to your life, gives you energy, reduces weight, improves your intelligence, improves sexual enjoyment, reduces diseases and sicknesses and improves your attitude.

Raw vegetables and fruit are especially excellent because they heal and restore your body and give you much more energy. A diet of over 65% raw food will give you incredible energy. They also help you with clear thinking and fighting disease. Amazingly, everything we now know from science about health was given by God as people’s first diet:

1) THE IDEAL DIET: At creation, God said, “Look! I have given you the seed-bearing plants throughout the earth and all the fruit trees for your food.” (Genesis 1:29) This is a vegetarian and largely raw food diet.

2) ALLOWED DIET: At Noah’s time (Genesis 6) and at Israel’s time, he gave people permission to eat clean meat (Leviticus 11), but this is not best and people soon began dying younger. But, if you really want to, these are the clean animals that you can eat. Clean animals have 1) divided hooves AND 2) They chew the cud. Pigs have divided hoofs, but they don’t chew the cud. Clean sea animals have 1) fins AND 2) scales. God also said that chickens and certain other birds and creatures were clean. Basically God said, if you have to eat meat, eat animals that are vegetarian. From science, we now know that these animals are far less dangerous to our health.

3) BANNED DIET: God specifically banned eating unclean animals such as pork. Why? Reader’s Digest reported that over 40 diseases come from eating pork…ranging from aches and pains to potentially deadly diseases like trichinosis. God said in Leviticus 3:17, “You must never eat any fat or blood. This is a permanent law for you.” Scientists now say that animal fat is the #1cause of heart attacks and strokes. They also say that people often get diseases and sometimes die from eating blood and bacteria from diseased animals. Eating unclean animals, especially meat eating animals, is the cause of many diseases in human beings. God’s ideal diet protects us from these problems.

In one study in California, scientists studied over 100,000 people for 30 years. SDA vegetarians (who also are non-drinkers and non-smokers) were compared with normal Californians. The SDAs had an average life span of about 10 years longer AND they had 50-90% less disease in almost EVERY area.

People didn’t know the scientific reasons for avoiding fat and blood (or meat) a long time ago. But, those who followed God’s principles did not get all these diseases! God said, "If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God and do what is right in his sight, obeying his commands and laws, then I will not make you suffer the diseases I sent on the Egyptians; for I am the LORD who heals you." Whether you are a believer or not, God’s health principles can benefit your life.

Many actors, models and singers are now becoming vegetarians . They have become vegetarian because of health and because it solves these problems:

1) HUNGER: Vegfam says a 10-acre farm can support 60 people growing soybeans, 24 people growing wheat, 10 people growing corn and only two producing cattle. You need 10-17 kilograms of vegetables and plants to produce 1 kg of meat. Harvard nutritionist Jean Mayer estimates that reducing meat production by just 10 percent in the U.S. would free enough grain to feed 60 million people.

2) POLLUTION: 1 single hamburger equals 20 miles of fuel. “Because of deforestation to create grazing land, each vegetarian saves an acre of trees per year.” John Robbins, “The Food Revolution” “U.S. factory farms produced 1.4 billion tons of animal waste in 1996. This pollutes American water more than all other industrial sources combined”. Meat production destroys billions of acres of farmland and forests.

3) SAVES WATER: A kilogram of wheat uses about 60 pounds of water. It takes 3-6000 pounds of water to make a kilogram of meat. Many people think there may be a war in the future over water

4) SAVES MONEY: Eating vegetarian is often much cheaper. It saves us from all the above problems and it also saves us a lot of money nationally and individually (think of less diseases, less resources needed to raise cattle, chicken, less farmland ruined, less transport costs, cheaper costs at the supermarket, etc.)

← "Since I've gone vegetarian, my body has never felt better and my taste buds have been opened up to a whole new world. It's one of the most rewarding choices I've ever made and I invite you to join me in living a healthy, cruelty-free lifestyle." Alicia Silverstone

← "It must be vegetarian. I don't want any meat put in front of me."(Brad Pitt in Celebrity Living Weekly

← "Nothing will benefit human health or increase the chances for survival of life on earth as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." - Albert Einstein

OTHER FAMOUS VEGETARIANS (more at: ), Olympian Carl Lewis on being vegan at:

6. SLEEP: Sleep is far more important than people realize. It affects at least these areas:

1. CREATIVITY/MEMORY/DECISIONS: Scientists at a university in Germany found that people with 8 hours of sleep were 3 times more likely than sleep-deprived participants to figure out a hidden rule for converting the numbers into the right answers (Nature, January 2004).

2. WEIGHT: Researchers from Universite’ Laval’s Faculty of Medicine in Quebec City, Canada, studied the habits of 422 grade-school students. They found that the risk of becoming overweight is 3.5 times higher for children who get less than 10 hours of sleep nightly than for those who get 12 or more hours.

3. SAFETY & PERFORMANCE: Sleep expert, Colonel Gregory Belenky, has done research showing that sleep affects safety and performance. His research shows that lack of sleep decreases the entire brain's ability to function — most significantly impairing the areas of the brain responsible for attention, complex planning, complex mental operations, and judgement.

4. HEALTH: If we don’t sleep enough, our body can’ t fight sicknesses and diseases so well (especially if we eat sugary foods too)

7. RELIGION/PURPOSEFUL LIFE: Prayer and faith in God are also very helpful in improving a person’s health. People with faith in God live ~5 years longer, have less stress, have lower rates of heart attacks, lower blood pressure, go to hospitals less, recover from surgery faster and save more money, etc. Here are some statistics and charts:

NEWSTART (simplified from: & )

NEWSTART principles have saved the lives of 1000s of people and given the freedom of health to millions. Here is a brief summary:

N: Nutrition: Eating healthy foods can bring great improvements to life and health.

E: Exercising or physical activity for 20-60 minutes a day reduces many health risks, reduces your stress and depressoin, helps you sleep, makes you look better, healthier and more!

W: Water: 6-8 glasses a day is healthy. If your urine is clear (not yellow), then you are drinking enough).

S: Sunshine: Get enough sun. This is good for your skin. But, avoid sunburns.

T: Temperance: Be balanced and use wisdom in all things.

A: Air: Get fresh air often. Open your windows when sleeping and in the classroom.

R: Rest: 6-8 hours of sleep is important for good health. The hours before midnight are double the value of the hours after midnight according to scientists and Ellen White and help improve your attitude and energy.

T: Trust in God. The famous psychiatrist, Dr William Sadler, wrote, “Prayer is a powerful and effectual worry remover. Men and women who have learned to pray with childlike sincerity, literally talking to and communing with the Heavenly Father, are in possession of a great secret whereby they can cast their care upon God, knowing that He cares for us. A clear conscience is a great step towards barricading the mind against neuroticism.”

6 BASIC HEALTH LEVELS

There are ~6 basic health lifestyles that you can follow. It will take time to learn to cook in new ways and we should enjoy the food that we eat, so change as you learn to cook in new ways. But, there are many benefits to improving your health lifestyle and you don’t have to give up eating delicious foods when you change your diet. It may take 3-6 months to get used to the changes, but your body will thank you and after a year or so, you may even feel disgusted by your previous diet. But, here are the levels of healthy living. The lowest are worst. The top 3 levels will add ~10-15 years to your life and greatly reduce your risk for many diseases:

1) RAW DIET: Eat a majority (~65% or more) of your food raw and uncooked. You can soak many things to soften them up. Research is piling up that this is extremely beneficial to our bodies and produces and energy explosion.

2) VEGAN: Vegans are vegetarians, but they eat no meat, no milk, no eggs and no cheese. This is significantly better for your health than just being vegetarian.

3) VEGETARIAN: Vegetarians don’t eat meat or seafood. This helps them avoid many diseases associated with animal fat and blood.

4) NO RED MEAT: In this diet, people don’t eat red meat. They eat more vegetables/fruit, and some seafood and chicken. They avoid the cholesterol and many other problems connected to animal fat.

5) CLEAN MEAT: This is the lowest level accepted in the Bible where people are allowed to eat clean meats (cow, deer, sheep, chicken, fish with fins/scales, etc). It is better than eating anything for sure, but is not at all the best.

6) ANYTHING (the pig diet): This is the diet where you eat anything you want with no restrictions.

CONCLUSION

There is a lot of information above and it will be difficult to remember. To make it easy to remember, use the BEST principle:

1) BE NATURAL: Play sports, get fresh air, water and sunlight everyday, do exercise, rest, etc. in ways that are natural and like country people in nature would do.

2) EAT A RAINBOW OF VEGETARIAN FOOD: Eat mostly or all fruits and vegetables and get a good variety…the 7 colors of the rainbow everyday if possible.

3) SPIRITUALITY AND FRIENDLINESS IS IMPORTANT: Spirituality and a spirit of friendliness and forgiveness significantly improves health.

4) TEMPERANCE IS IMPORTANT: Don’t do too much or too little of anything. Do it in moderation.

The best of health to you! Professor Bissell

LINKS ON HEALTH: (Hallelujah Acres),

(list of many more principles of health from the Bible) resources, then click “health” (Here is a book Bryan Bissell compiled in English and Korean with very easy vegetarian recipes), (several nice vegetarian books in Korean are available here)

KOREAN LINKS: You can order vegetarian food and “veggie meats” from these sites: *** (080-580-3636), , , , vegetus.or.kr, veggie.co.kr, xpert.co.kr/main/html/welcome/veggie.html

LINKS ON HEALTH QUIZZES: , (also , (Life Expectancy Quiz: find other online quizzes by searching for “life expectancy quiz”))

LINKS ON HEALTHY/VEGETARIAN RECIPES: *** (70,000+ free recipes in English)

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SEAFOOD DANGERS-DIET FOR PREGNANT MOTHERS

There are 2 major problems with seafood that you need to understand.

1. Women, when you get pregnant and are raising your children in the future, I especially plead with you to stop eating seafood and meat as well as to stop drinking alcohol and milk. Pregnancy and childhood are very critical times for the health of your child. These days, seafood is very polluted with many dangerous chemicals that can harm your baby’s brain. Eating seafood, meat, alcohol and milk greatly increases the risk of more sicknesses and diseases and even mental disease. Here are the facts:

PREGANCY/CHILDHOOD DANGER:

According to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine by Dr. Joseph and Sandra Jacobsen, 11 year old children with high exposures to PCBs before birth were 3 times more likely to have low IQs and twice as likely to have delayed reading ability. Where do high PCB levels often come from? Dr. Kenneth Rosenman of Michigan State University said, “The major ongoing source of PCB exposure for the general population is the consumption of fish.”

“Mercury, especially high in tuna and swordfish, can cause brain damage, especially in growing children. PCBs, dioxin, and pesticides (such as DDT) have been linked to cancers, nervous system disorders, fetal damage, and many other health problems. Removing fish from your meals eliminates half of all mercury exposure and reduces one’s intake of other toxins.” says Richard Schwartz, Ph.D.

Maine, Michigan and other states warn pregnant women to avoid fish or to eat a maximum of 6 large fish or 22 small fish per year because 90% of even fresh water fish have unsafe PCB and chemical levels. Large fish are far more dangerous than small fish because they have up to 1,000,000 times more pollution than the water. In 1 site, the lake water had .02 ppm (parts per million) of DDD. The plants/phytoplankton had 5 ppm. The vegetarian fish had 40-300 ppm. The large fish had up to 2,500 ppm.

According to Dr. Steve Patch, co-director of the Environmental Quality Institute, University of North Carolina-Asheville, “We saw a direct relationship between people’s mercury levels and the amount of… fish people consumed”.

2. The media and some scientists often say that it’s important to eat fish because the Omega 3 in fish reduces heart problems and is good for your brain. But, this is not totally accurate. Dr. Richardson, a doctor, heard these reports and so started eating some fish every week. Her cholesterol suddenly went up 50 points. She couldn’t understand it. Finally, she realized that all the news reports were comparing meat eaters to fish eaters. They didn’t even consider vegetarians. For her, the change to eating fish from being a vegetarian was much worse for her health.

Researchers did experiments to see whether giving fish to people would prevent 2nd heart attacks.

STUDY #1: DART Trial—Men who ate 400g of oily fish per week had 30% fewer deaths over 2 years.

STUDY #2: GISSI Trial—People ate 100g of oily fish per DAY and had a 20% reduction in mortality.

STUDY #3: LYON Trial—People ate vegetables and fruit with high omega 3 fatty acids. They had a 70% reduction in deaths. This advantage continued even 4 years later.

So, the truth is that if you are eating meat, changing to fish is healthier. But, if you are a vegetarian, changing to eat fish is more dangerous for your health.

AVOID/REDUCE MILK/SUGAR: There are so many commercials about drinking milk and how it “Does a body good”. Unfortunately, these are propaganda. In the countries where people drink lots of milk, there are very high rates of osteoperosis and many other problems with bones. Milk is a factor in breast cancer, heart disease and other serious diseases. Milk also causes many common sicknesses (colds, earaches, etc.) in children. "Milk allergies and sicknesses are very common in children... They are the leading cause of the chronic ear infections that plague up to 40% of all children under the age of six." Julian Whitaker, M.D., "Health & Healing," October, 1998, Volume 8, No. 10

Sugar is also a major problem. If you eat 6 teaspoons of sugar, your bacteria can only kill 10 bacteria instead of 14. If you eat 12 teaspoons, it reduces to 5 bacteria…and so on. In addition, in tests, students who have a high sugar diet get ~10% lower grades on average than their peers who have a low sugar diet.

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QUOTES ON EATING MEAT

← "Nothing will benefit human health or increase the chances for survival of life on earth as the evolution(change) to a vegetarian diet." - Albert Einstein

← “Nearly 1.4 million Americans are disabled, then killed prematurely each year by heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes and other chronic diseases that have been linked conclusively with consumption of animal products.”U.S. National Center for Health Statistics

← “The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.” Neal Barnard, M.D. President, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

← “A Vegetarian Diet can prevent 90-97% of heart disease.” JAMA, 1961

← “All new infectious diseases of human beings to emerge in the past 20 years have had an animal source.” Lancet, 24 January 2004, 363(9405):257

← “Meat-based illnesses cost the U.S. tens of billions of dollars in additional health care costs, and even more in lost productivity and the depletion of the Earth’s natural capital.”

← “By far the most surprising fact…was that Seventh Day Adventists outlived their fellow Americans by about 10 years. What are they doing? Quite simply, they have a religion that reinforces positive health behaviors.” David McClain (SDAs don’t smoke, drink alcohol, are often vegetarian and worship every Sabbath in church) from video “Quest for Longevity”, National Geographic Magazine,

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