Let Me Help You Get Your Diet in Order

Hey friends, it's a brand new year.

How about a brand new you? I'm here to help you take control of your diet. It's time for The Line of Fire with your host, biblical scholar and cultural commentator, Dr. Michael Brown. Your voice for moral sanity and spiritual clarity.

Call 866-34-TRUTH to get on The Line of Fire. And now, here's your host, Dr. Michael Brown. Yes, it's the time of year, new year, new resolutions. We're going to change, going to get my diet in order, going to get healthier. Well, I want to start the new year and do my best to help you, to come alongside of you. No condemnation, no finger pointing, to come alongside of you and do my best to help you because really these are life and death matters.

Michael Brown, welcome, welcome to the broadcast. I will be taking your calls. You could call and ask me. I can't answer like detailed nutritional questions and things like that. That's for my wife Nancy to answer or we could send you to Dr. Joel Fuhrman's website for things like that and his books and videos. But I can tell you about lifestyle changes. I can tell you about things where God has helped me.

I can give you biblical principles and if you're struggling, you got questions, by all means give us a call 866-34-TRUTH, 866-34-87884. Okay, a couple of quick announcements first. If you missed yesterday's show, we told you why we're saying goodbye to ask Dr. Brown. You say, what? You're going off the air?

No, no, no. We're not going off the air. But my main calling is not to serve as a Bible answer man as some have been called to do. We're always giving you information. We're always taking calls. We're always interacting. We will always, by God's grace, supply you with thousands of free resources and then many other resources that can be purchased to help equip, strengthen you, of course.

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Those listening that are hearing this outside of those stations, you'll continue to hear this live broadcast, but we'll be telling you where you'll also be able to listen to the 30-minute equipping broadcast. One last thing. The last half of the show yesterday, I gave some updates regarding IHOPKC and my personal reflections regarding it. Our team saw, and some of these things came to my attention, videos, Dr. Brandinger to respond to this, calling me to repent for this or that or these posts attacking me. Number one, like any public figure or ministry leader, we get attacked all the time, so it just comes with the turf. I'm not Martin Luther King, but Martin Luther King said decades ago that if we replied to the critics, that's all he would do. Obviously, there are endless websites, videos, articles, different things, posts attacking me, but again, that's common for those that are in public ministry or leadership, especially if you deal with controversy. So, we don't respond to every attack criticism.

That's number one. Number two, I did actually take time and start to watch one video in particular, calling me to repent, and within the first three minutes, everything that was said, maybe first two minutes about me, was completely false. About me or about the situation, completely false. So, when all the truth comes out, you'll understand why we've stood where we've stood, but just so you are fully aware, from day one, I have said it's essential that there is an external, respected third party coming in to investigate all charges for the sake of the victims, for the sake of the accused, for the sake of ministry, restoration, righteous discipline, all of that, had to be, had to be.

Along the way, different firms were brought forth by HopKC. When the advocacy group was not happy with those, I had been working steadily, as of right through today, steadily to do my best to help both sides come together and agree on a third party. So, that remains the same, and at no point have been told by anyone on either side that that's not going to happen or they don't want it to happen. I believe folks want the truth to come to light on all sides, and that's where I stand, and the truth will come to light.

All of it, all of it, and as ugly as the consequences may be, so be it, let the truth come to light. Okay, that's that, that's that. Now, for the subject at hand, healthy living. Those who don't know my story, in 2014, I realized I had to make a change. I was 59 years old, I was starting to get worn out and tired in my schedule, and I'm used to going for it and running my race hard. You know, for example, this Sunday, speaking out of all those, our friends in the Valley Stream, Long Island area, so anywhere in New York City, Jersey area, Southern New Jersey, or Northern New, well, whatever, New Jersey that's closest there to New York, all of Long Island if you're free on Sunday morning, Sunday night, Monday night I'll be at the Valley Stream Assembly with God, but you know, speaking three times Sunday morning and Sunday night as well, I mean, that's where I lived for years.

Travel around the world, get off the plane after 40 hours of travel, literally, and go straight and minister. I was getting weary, 275 pounds, had high blood pressure, the highest we ever checked it at home was 149 over 103, and constant lower back pain, and what other issues? Headaches, probably about three headaches every week I would get, sleep apnea, which was severe at that point, and what we didn't know was real hardening of the arteries with one particular artery. We didn't know that then, but this was just the result of unhealthy living my entire life, unhealthy eating. I was not a glutton. In other words, I would be disciplined in my unhealthy eating.

I would have this much and stop here. If I was going to have a chocolate extreme blizzard, large of course, 1,500 calories, then I would skip a meal because of that. I was a disciplined, unhealthy eater, and addicted to unhealthy foods, addicted to unhealthy foods. All right, so the same Lord who set me free instantly from drugs, from putting the knee on my arm, December 17th of 71, is my witness that it was much harder for me to get free from chocolate and other sweets and unhealthy foods that I ate, but that was my pattern my whole life. As a boy, I used to have Oreos for breakfast, okay? So I grew up with unhealthy eating patterns.

That was my pattern for life, and many times I'd try to cut back, get off sweets, or cut back on this and that, or no fried food, no this or that, but ultimately I was gaining more weight than I was losing, and my overall lifestyle was unhealthy. I had been praying for God to help me, but Nancy had really prayed. Nancy really went to the Lord. Nancy was really burdened. She knew something was not right and that I was endangering my life, that this was a life and death issue.

She really cried out to God on my behalf, and I sat down with her in August of 2014. And I said to her, my plan is not working. Whatever I'm doing is not working. And it's only getting worse, and I have to change.

But here's my problem. I was not just addicted to the bad foods. I was a food wimp, a food wimp. I was terrified of trying new foods, literally. No, no, I don't eat that.

I never tried it. No, I don't eat that. That's the way I lived, and super picky in that regard. I could have pizza at the same pizzeria every single day for years. And peanut M&M's, if I had that every day for years, I would have been happy. Literally, lived like that. Almost no fruit ever, minimal vegetables. And so I lived, and she said, all right, I'm taking control of your diet.

No food passes through your lips without my approval. It was August 23rd of 2014, August 24th, it began. So within eight months, my weight went from 275 pounds to 180 pounds. Within eight months. Today, it's somewhere in the high 170's. So right about the same as it was then after that radical weight loss. It's now over nine and a half years. How about nine and a half years without a headache?

How's that? How about average blood pressure of maybe 105 over 70? How about zero lower back pain? How about no more breathing machine and sleep apnea? Not only that, but as we found out about hardening of arteries and an aneurysm in another artery, I am 99% sure that I would have been dead years ago if I continued to eat the way I would have died of a heart attack. Something else would have happened.

99% sure. As one doctor with tremendous insight into these things said to Nancy, your husband was a walking time bomb. So God graciously intervened. It's not I went on a diet, I changed my lifestyle with Nancy's help and with God's overwhelming grace. I changed my lifestyle.

No dairy, no flour, no sugar, almost no meat, no oil. Radical lifestyle changes. And I'll be 69, God willing, in March. And I work out with guys in their 20s and 30s and I can push them. Last workout I did seriously with some guys really in shape in their 20s and 30s. I beat them.

Yeah, so it's absolutely amazing. And here's the deal. If God could help me, a food wimp, a chocoholic, an addict for decades, food addict, if he could help me, he can help you.

Yes, he can. I'm going to talk to you honestly, candidly and take your calls as well. 866-348-7884. Nancy and I wrote a book that will help you breaking the stronghold of food, how we overcame food addictions and discovered a new way of living.

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Thanks, friends, for joining us. If I can help you with a food-related, diet-related, lifestyle-discipline-related question, 866-34-TRUTH, you can give me a call. So, yeah, there is no substitute for healthy eating. I tried everything.

It's in the book, Breaking the Stronghold of Food. I tell the stories of some of the things I tried to lose weight or get the fat off. It's kind of embarrassing, but I tried them. Look, if you take a pill, if you can eat however you want to eat and take a pill, right? Or sleep it off somehow. When you sleep, you take this pill, and it'll help you lose weight, you know?

I'm talking about some over-the-counter thing, right? Okay, it's in writing. I'll tell you, it's the most embarrassing, I think, of all. I was flying one time and flipping through some online, you know, the in-flight magazine, and there was this... It's embarrassing. It's embarrassing, but it's part of my story.

It was this fat-reducing cream that you put on fat parts of your body that would reduce the fat. I actually bought it. I didn't tell Nancy about it. I was too embarrassed to tell Nancy about it.

She would have thought, what are you doing? Just change your lifestyle. Pull this stuff out, change your lifestyle.

But anyway, not only was it a complete mess. It's like, when do you put it on? It's greasy. You sleep at night. You put pajamas over it. Otherwise, the sheets get all oily and messy.

The pajamas, it's like, oh, gosh. Anything other than change the way you're eating, change the way you're living. So there's no substitute for healthy eating. Now, there are great supplements.

There are great... So the big transformation is lifestyle diet, right? Then I use these supplements, these great Triveda supplements.

I really encourage you to check them out. I think your life will be enhanced as you do. So that's 800-771-5584. And Colin, yeah, I'm dealing with this. I'm struggling with this. I want more energy here. And they'll answer your questions as best as they can. Not as medical doctors, but as...