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alright guys here’s the topic for today

how to actually get your teens to eat

healthy alright let’s talk about that

what you’re dealing with is someone who

has very low awareness on the connection

between what they’re eating and future

consequences being in practice for 29

years working with tens of thousands of

people I always get into their history I

always see them later in the chain of

events where you know over the years

they might have a slight problem and it

gets worse worse worse until finally

they get motivated where they come in

and try to get help I see people over

here you know they have all sorts of

health problems and so when talking and

consulting with them it becomes very

obvious there’s a pattern that starts

here and gets worse gradually to the

point where the person is finally ready

to do something about it what they

really don’t realize at the time is that

a lot of these problems even Alzheimer’s

take years to develop even diabetes

takes years to develop and it starts

with someone’s diet so there’s really

just levels of motivation for people to

take action that you have very high

motivation where the person is literally

dying and they’re they’re willing to do

whatever it takes to change and then you

have people in pain that are very

motivated because there may be in

constant pain or maybe they have a

slight stiffness you they might not be

as motivated or they have no problem or

would they consider no problem let’s say

for example to going to a doctor and

they have a symptom and the doctor gives

them a medication so a lot of people

think wow the problem is being

controlled by medication but they don’t

realize the problem is still there so

you can take 5-hour energy drink and

feel better you can drink coffee and

feel more energetic the fatigue is still

there you’re just stimulating the body

high blood pressure you can control it

with meds pain there’s pills for that

inflammation did you realize that the

top selling drugs on planet Earth have

to do with this one category

inflammation so a lot of people have a

lot of inflammation erectile dysfunction

there’s drugs

help a person with that does that fix it

diabetes you can take a drug to manage

that so the perception and motivation

unfortunately for a lot of people is low

when on medication because it’s being

controlled or managed that’s what I call

it managed care I think a big motivator

for people is when they start getting

fat that’s what really motivates them

because they don’t look good and that

will normally motivate them to change

and in the process they’ll step on

something that hopefully gets them

healthy and eventually also getting rid

of these at the same time so you having

a teenager really would like them to

have that realization a lot sooner than

later so we’re really dealing with a

problem of low awareness on the

connection between food and your health

and really contains don’t even consider

they have a problem at this stage so why

change anything I mean I was in that

boat I basically had this thing in my

mind that I was gonna eat healthy when I

graduated okay it wasn’t bad enough and

it wasn’t killing me I could cope fine I

had my coffee I had my Rolaids for my

heartburn and I was just I was fine so

of course when I graduated I didn’t

change I kept going for years until I

actually hit bottom and be desperate

before I started to reach for some help

alright so this is part of the problem

now let’s talk about what to do about it

so I’m getting a teen to change you have

to increase their awareness on the chain

of events that is most likely going to

happen and the connection between what

they’re putting the mouse is going to

dramatically affect their well-being

down the road it has to make sense to

them it has to be real but a real big

mistake that parents make is they keep

pushing the solution what they should

eat before the awareness that they even

might potentially have a problem so what

I would do with my kids is I would

always sit down with them with a piece

of paper when they’re fully fed and they

don’t have any blood sugar issues and

kind of go through some scenarios that

happen with people so they can start

seeing some of the Cascade effects that

happen with the body so I’ll actually

show that

that for example let’s take belly fat

I’ll explain what belly fat is it’s it’s

basically a situation where your liver

is filled up with fat and it’s spilling

over because it can’t fit any more fat

it’s spilling over around the organs

that’s called visceral fat it’s fat

around the organs and even in inside

other organs and that will start filling

those organs up until eventually the

arteries become clogged okay

so then when the arteries get clogged

that affects the heart but the fatty

liver over time develops inflammation in

cirrhosis that’s scar tissue of your

liver your liver is basically becoming

so damaged that you get high blood

pressure on a permanent basis you can’t

bring it down with medication because

the arteries are so hardened so when you

have liver cirrhosis you have scar

tissue that fills up the liver to the

point where your belly starts filling up

with fluid the medical term for that is

called ascites where your gut as a

fluid-filled sac like a basketball that

is very very unhealthy and you have to

go to the doctor and get it drained out

the problem is every two weeks

it comes back why because the liver is

damaged and there’s a point of no return

where you’re not going to be able to

reverse this right here and with this

comes a lot of other problems high blood

pressure diabetes and by the way did you

realize that 65% of the population in

either diabetic or pre-diabetic that’s

greater than 50% of the population so a

lot of people are getting this and what

they don’t realize is this starts with

the diet eating the wrong types of foods

so then I’ll give them another example

when you’re on the wrong diet it creates

a lot of inflammation in your arteries

so let me show you something so we have

the artery which is like the plumbing

and you have all the blood that’s goes

through it so the the wall of the artery

starts becoming inflamed when you’re on

the wrong eating plan and then when you

have inflammation the body has to heal

it and it heals it with a band-aid so it

starts to develop plaquing okay so it

starts to build up plaque

and more and more and more but what

happens is you don’t really feel

anything right away this happens over

years you don’t even know you have the

problem until eventually you get a heart

attack did you realize the first symptom

of a heart attack over 50% of time is no

symptoms

you just get a heart attack okay or a

stroke now the big problem with the

stroke is that you don’t die half of

your body becomes paralyzed so someone

has to assist you all the time you’re

usually in a wheelchair you can’t move

around and you’re trapped in your body

so this is a situation that could be

totally prevented the way over here

these situations take years to develop

okay then we take another scenario

Alzheimer’s okay so I’ll explain what

that is it’s a advanced brain

degeneration problem where you’re losing

your memory okay you don’t know where

you are you don’t remember names not

good so you don’t just one day end up

with Alzheimer’s it takes 20 to 30 years

to develop and it starts out with brain

fog that’s one of the first symptoms

okay then you get forgetfulness and then

it becomes worse and worse and worse and

over time your brain actually shrinks so

eventually you get diagnosed with

Alzheimer’s okay now the problem with

that is that you’re gonna have to end up

in a nursing home now the good thing

about a nursing home is that you’re

gonna have a wonderful view of the pond

outside you’ll be able to play

shuffleboard you get room and board

three square meals they bring you

cookies people will push you around you

get people that will actually bathe you

and you’ll be able to play bingo every

so often they have sing-alongs

it’s gonna be a wonderful life for you

so all kidding aside this stuff is

actually true this is what’s going to

happen these are the patterns that

happen from start to finish so after I

do some enlightening with my teenager I

want them to originate by themself some

type of reach for help I want them to

say okay dad tell me

what do I need to start eating and

that’s what my kids did they said okay

what diet do I need to be on and at that

point I’ll bring up the solution of you

got it healthy keto in the minute

fasting if you’re new to my channel I

put a link down below you can learn

about that but don’t give them the

solution until you get them to be aware

of the potential problem that is going

to happen if they don’t do something the

whole goal is to get them to change a

lot sooner than later because you want

them to avoid what maybe you went

through my last keto Summit we had 500

people and as I was interviewing people

and talking to people almost every

single person I talked to had to have a

significant health event before they

were motivated to change but wouldn’t be

nice to have the awareness now and

actually make changes and have the

correct solution right instead of trying

to search for it so many people might

have the awareness but they’re doing the

wrong solution for many years they don’t

get better so we really need a

combination of high level of awareness

wanting to get help reaching for help

and the correct solution alright guys

thanks for watching go ahead and try

this out on your kids and make some

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