Let's start with this idea that our forks and our furniture are killing us, and
many of you on this channel already know that. But we're hoping that you're
inviting some of your friends, loved ones, co-workers to this channel, and perhaps
this might be a segment that you guide them to start their journey into
knowing more. But what the average patient and truly what the average
physician doesn't know is what are the leading causes of death in America. And
this is not what diseases are killing us but what actually is causing those
diseases, what's the root cause. And we know that things like our diet are
important. Well, it turns out that our nutrition, our nutritional choices, are
the number one contributor and cause of death as that may surprise you. You may
think... well. smoking has got to be way worse, and I thought the same thing. But
only 20% of us smoke but 100% of us eat. And so the exposure...
the risk of exposing everybody to the hazards of what's on the end of their
fork makes it the leading cause of death. Our body weight - the body mass index - is
actually the number 4 leading cause of death. And our furniture, our sedentary
lifestyle, is actually number 5 out of the top 10 causes of death. So what's on
your fork? I want you to think about the last few meals that you've had. We
tend to eat the same 8 to 10 meals every week, but we recycle through the
same foods. So think about the last few meals what was on your fork. You have the
power to choose what's on your fork. But how do you know what to choose? And
so, is it the left fork which is fun processed foods here -
french fries and pizza and hamburgers? Or is it food that came the way that it was
made in the first place what we call whole foods? So are you eating your
greens and the rainbow, that fruits and vegetables? So first of all, just do a
self-assessment on what am I putting on my fork each day. We know that a
plant-based diet is probably the single most important foundation for eating.
And it's hard to be a vegetarian and get all of your nutrients to get all of your
protein and to just comply with that in America. And so a Mediterranean diet that
focuses on the rainbow of fruits and vegetables and whole grains but also
includes some animal products is a good starting point. It may not be ideal
for each person, but it is certainly a good starting point. So whole foods, the
rainbow of colors, seeds and nuts, the deep-sea fishes, legumes, olive oil, the
healthy fats as opposed to the unhealthy fats, freshwater fish. And please don't
find these things not only is the fried food change it but the flour that's that
you dip things in has the starch that we want to stay away from. A lot of people
think that eating healthy can be boring and just not have the variety of flavors
that they want. But I would challenge you to look at this picture that has a
pretty typical spread of some of the more common foods that are going to
promote a healthy heart and a healthy lifestyle. And I would challenge you to
say that that's not going to make flavorful. A food with lots of variety in
textures and chewing satisfaction as the flavor. So eating healthy does not
have to be boring. The kebabs that are in this picture have
everything that would be healthy, and certainly the crutch that can happen
from doing a baked sort of kebab is awesome. And here's a seafood dish that's
got the legumes and some greens and reds and yellows in there.
So there are lots of flavorful foods that are going to be healthy. There's
nothing like a community we saw that in the Louisville event. People got together
and started talking about how they've had challenges and successes in
preventing their own heart attack, stroke, or chronic disease. It became very clear
that you don't have to be a doc with a full-time, 30-year career in preventive
medicine to understand this and successfully prevent heart attack, stroke -
the number one killer and disablers of people. You don't have to be a physician
to prevent eye disease, kidney disease. All you have to do is think, listen, and
become part of the community. Now, how do you do that? Go to the membership, login
on our web page. And as you can see, you can get right in. You have to
sign up if you haven't signed up already. And I've already signed up, I've already
gone in. It's very simple, very easy to understand. In order to help encourage
this after the success and the positive emotion... the positive impact that we're
seeing with these events, we're saying, look, we need to offer more of these
services for free in order to help grow this community. So you'll see us starting
to do draws for the webinar event, the courses. We've got a book coming out in
about a month. We'll be offering that even full-blown evaluations providing
those for free for folks that again help us grow the community. So if you'd like
to find out what the most recent rules are,
the most recent draw, just come to the membership page. Thank you for your
interest.