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The key to making you rich from a top financial advisor.
I want to change the way people think about money.
Bust financial stress by building a healthy bank account.
Plus, Dr. Oz shows you how to get expensive food at way cheaper prices.
Budget-boosting tips to stay healthy without breaking the bank.
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Oz. Welcome, everybody.
To Everyone Has.
Is there driver's licenses out?
I've got mine right here.
Because today we're asking you a big question.
What's your age?
Your financial age.
And it may not have anything to do with that number written right there.
Let me see your licenses, right?
Different ages on there.
I'm talking about some different numbers today.
Not your birthday, it's your financial age.
And just like how you make choices about your health and how they can impact your overall well-being and longevity, you can also make decisions about how you make money.
Our next guest says, knowing your financial age can be the key to making you rich.
So please welcome best-selling author and top financial advisor, Rick Edelman.
Rick Edelman Welcome back to the show, Rick.
Thank you very much, Dr. Ellis.
I want to change the way people think about money.
This is a struggle we all have.
But when it comes to savings, people often think it's a race against time.
You say, rethink.
Time and money and how they work together.
Absolutely right.
We find that people's financial situation is largely a result of how they think about money, how they're handling money.
It's not due to the amount of income you have.
It's not due to your debts.
It's really what's up in your head and in your heart.
Let me take a moment here.
The reason I'm so passionate about this topic, this is a health show, right?
Why don't I talk about money?
Most of you...
Are worried about money.
You're stressed out by it.
It's the true silent killer these days.
As a doctor, I see the effect of that stress every single day.
Now, Rick says financial maturity has nothing to do with how many years you have behind you.
It's more about your money habits.
So how can we tell what our financial age is?
Not our chronological age, but our financial age.
It's really with how you're handling your money.
How are you handling your spending?
How are you handling your savings?
That determines what your financial age really is.
And we can show you what we're talking about.
Let's start off.
First of all, we all want to be teenagers.
You want to have the energy of a teenager.
Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
Well, it's not a good thing at all, and anybody who has teenagers knows that.
Teenagers live for the moment.
They have no concept of the implications of their spending.
That's number one.
They tend to be impulsive in their spending without giving any thought to the impact of what that really means.
Second, they owe more on credit cards.
Then they're paying down, and that's a real problem.
Ask yourself, do you have more credit card debt today than you did a year ago?
That's what a teenager does.
And finally, if you were to lose your job, lose your income, you'd be out of money in a month.
You'd be dead broke.
That is acting like a teenager financially.
So again, we're not talking about teenagers because they were born 18 years ago.
We're talking about all of us.
Because there are lots of adults who are living like teenagers when it comes to their money.
Alright, how about the middle-aged version of a financial person?
Well, these are folks who are acting maturely and responsibly.
They get it.
They understand that the decisions they're making, the spending habits they're engaging in, have an impact on themselves and their families in the long term.
That's healthy.
They also are recognizing that credit card debt is bad and they're actually doing something about it and spending, paying down those credit cards.
They're getting rid of those bills.
Their balances today are lower than they were a year ago.
And finally...
They have a rainy day fund.
They have a cash cushion.
Three months' worth of spending is in a bank account.
So if they did lose a job or have a major unexpected medical crisis, financial bill or whatever, they've got money to pay for that without having to build up credit card debt.
So this is a good age to be at.
But it's not the best stage to be at if you're worried about your finances.
You actually want to be retirement ready.
Most of us, again, we fear this normally.
No one wants to retire.
But in this case, think about it differently.
And because, as you noted, Dr. Oz, this is what we all aspire to be.
I aspire to retire.
But it's not going to happen all by itself.
We have to recognize that we are in control of our money.
And people who are retirement ready are.
They are mastering their money.
The money is not mastering them.
Second, they don't have any credit card debt.
Those credit card balances are paid off in full every month, which is what a wonderful relief and eliminator of stress.
And finally, you ready for this number?
It's huge.
They have ten times their annual income in savings and investments and retirement accounts.
Ten times.
When you hit that number, you're ready to retire.
So a lot of you are thinking, this is impossible.
I'm not even close to getting there.
So let me just ask a more broad question.
How many of you in the audience at home think about this?
Think that you're a step behind where you should be.
You should be middle-aged, but you're back at the teenager level.
Or you should be retirement-ready, really, but you're not even close to it.
Let me see your show of hands.
Again, two-thirds of the audience.
The same 70% of people who are worried about money day in and day out, and it's affecting your health.
We're going to change this.
Rick has a way of opening everyone's eyes on this.
I want you to walk through different ways we can get from one level to the next.
I'm going to start with Catherine, who's joining us.
How are you, Catherine?
Good. Welcome to the show.
You're Rick?
So, Catherine's issue is the following.
She is living at the teen level, but I gather that's not your chronological age.
Well, my driver's license says 32. 32?
Yes. So what gives?
What's the decision process that leads you to behave like a teen towards your money?
I guess I love dining.
I love shopping.
I love to live in the moment.
And I want to save for vacations.
And I want to save for a pair of shoes versus something when I'm 72. It's so far away from now.
It's hard to grasp.
Let me ask you a broader question.
What is it that overwhelms you about money?
What holds you back from taking control of it?
There are so many avenues in which to save and so many places to put your money.
So, for example, when you have credit card debt, like, do you pay off that debt or do you put it into a Roth or do you put it into the stock market?
There's so many places to put it, so it's really overwhelming.
So, Rick, if you don't mind, because you're so good at this, address the fear part of this first, then give us a concrete tip to move from a teen to a middle-aged spender.
And we've really...
I've described it so eloquently.
And the number one thing we find motivates people about money is that notion, Dr. Oz, which is fear.
The, I don't know what to do.
I don't know what to do first.
I don't know how to do it.
I don't know who to trust.
I don't know where to go.
Oh, the heck with it.
I'm just going to go shopping.
Because it's a short-term, immediate rush, and we get a high from that.
We feel good when we're buying.
And it's not that we like to buy.
We like to spend.
We like to own.
We like to have these things.
It makes us feel good, and it gets us through the day.
We have to recognize that we are starting at an emotional level.
Money is simply a symptom of how we feel about our lives and ourselves and our families.
And people use money as extensions of power.
They use it to get them through the day.
The body doesn't let you get away with it, as you've noted.
It translates the financial issues into physical issues, and that's why so many people have so many health issues associated with their financial circumstances.
So for you, I would simply say you asked two really important questions.
What do you do first, was the first question.
And the second was, how do I get from here to there?
What you do first is pay off the credit card debts.
You shouldn't be worrying about having three months' worth of money in the bank.
You should instead be emphasizing the elimination of your credit card debts.
That comes first.
And we'll talk a little bit more why.
Actually, this is there right now.
What he wants you to do, very fundamentally, is empty out your bank account.
Right. Sounds crazy, doesn't it?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Please explain why that's such an important premise of this whole conversation.
And it really, really does matter a whole lot.
Let's take a look at the money you have in savings right now.
We have a remarkable situation in America right now where there are so many people just like you have money in the bank, they've got savings, and they also have credit card balances.
And I see this all the time.
They've got five grand in credit card balances and five grand in the bank.
What we need to do is recognize something real simple.
The interest you're earning in the bank is pennies.
It's absolutely nothing, right?
We know that.
Interest rates are so horrifically low, we're not earning anything there.
But that credit card debt at 18%, 25% interest is massive.
We are losing huge amounts of money on an annual basis because of the high interest rates.
So what I want to suggest is something real simple.
take the money you have in bank accounts and use it to get rid of the credit card debt.
If you eliminate the two of them, you'll say, well, gosh, I don't have any money.
Guess what?
That's right.
I'm reassuring.
But you're kind of using it now to pay off.
You have an emergency.
That's right.
This is the emergency.
Absolutely right.
So this will make you suddenly feel empowered.
Instead of saying, gosh, I don't have money in the bank, you'll also say, wow, look at my credit card balances.
They're gone.
And the emotional relief of that is the first step, because what I want you to understand.
Hold my hands here.
What I want you to understand more than anything else is that the debt you have is crushing you.
We have to recognize it's about how we're feeling, and how we're feeling is a result of how we're spending.
If we alter the spending habit, we're going to make ourselves feel better, and that's going to make all the difference.
Okay. So when you look at this comparison, the pennies and savings versus what you're going to pay if you take your current strategy, is it a difficult decision for you?
Being, you know, the way you said it, it completely makes sense because those, you know, those rates are really high when you have, you know, with your credit cards.
And like you said, you're not getting any money from your savings account.
It's like.001%.
Exactly. Your best comment, though, it is an emergency.
It is an emergency.
Your emergency fund should be used for an emergency and you're living through one.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Julie's next up.
How are you, Julie?
She says...
She's at the middle age level, which again, most people don't want to talk about being at the middle age, but this case is actually a better thing than being a teenager.
But it's obviously not the best place for you.
So what's limiting you right now from moving to the retirement rate?
I would say I've been really good at saving for my retirement, but I don't feel like I have enough that I'm going to get over that hump and feel really comfortable.
And I have my rainy day money, and I have no bills, and I make sure that I have my health insurance and all of that.
But there's that...
Comfort level, that emotional piece that I don't feel like I have.
So, Julie, I think if I can say my words, you feel like you're running out of time.
Yes. Because I feel that.
I think a lot of people feel that who are watching right now.
What should she do?
What Julie has to understand, you're doing so many things right.
Good for you.
That what we need to do is do one more thing right, and that is to recognize that a fundamental element of personal finance and money management.
As much as it takes a lot of hard work and a lot of dedication to save money and...
Keep those credit card bills low.
That's not enough.
For one simple reason.
We are all incapable of saving enough money to achieve our goals.
It's just a truth of life.
We don't earn enough of an income.
Well, most of us, Dr. Oz, anyway.
No, it's true.
We don't.
Honest to goodness, the number of people who do earn enough is probably less than 1% of the population.
And we hear about that.
It's the 99% of America that is struggling with this.
And so here's the solution for it.
It's not that you need to earn more money.
You need to get your money.
To earn more money.
In other words, it's compound growth.
We need to take a penny and turn it into two pennies, which becomes four and then eight and then sixteen.
By compounding on a regular basis, our money will work as hard as we are.
Look at that snowball building up.
You see it back there?
Yes. Think about making a snowball as a kid.
That's the metaphor.
Exactly correct.
Most of us...
Allow our money to be extraordinarily lazy.
We leave it in bank accounts.
We put it in savings and checking, money markets, where it is not earning any interest itself, and that's the core of the problem.
We have to be willing to invest our money where we can earn competitive returns.
That's how we're going to achieve our goals.
So how do you do that and feel emotionally comfortable?
We have to recognize how the world of investments works.
That means we need to give ourselves a little more education, and we need to align ourselves with a financial advisor who can lead us Who has the experience and expertise that we personally lack.
So let me go to the audience now.
I want to talk to someone who's retirement ready.
At least they think they are.
Retirement ready people.
How are you?
How are you?
What's your first name?
Janine. Janine.
So describe to me why you think you're retirement ready.
We just sort of explained what we think that means and how'd you get there?
Well, I got the best advice on my girlfriend here, Annie.
And you have to know when you...
You have to decide, can I retire six months from now, a year from now?
You have to have a plan.
Write down your finances, your money going in and your money coming out.
Because you might say, I'm ready to retire in six months.
And you realize, oh, I can't retire.
And those ladies there, I was in their shoes ten years ago.
I was scared.
Didn't know what to do.
But now, with her advice, I write everything down.
And I'm going to retire this year.
I'm going to do it.
I'm ready.
And it's going to happen.
Good for you.
Good for you.
I'm so proud, and I love the fact, just to tie it all together, that you were a teenager a few years ago.
Yes, I was.
Not a long time ago.
You're a middle-aged person, maybe last year or 10 years ago, whatever it was.
55 now.
55. That's your chronological age.
Yes. But your financial age is retirement-ready, no matter what chronological age you are.
Right. All right, look, last word to you.
If there's one thing you want everyone watching to do right now to get on this spiral in the right direction, what should they do?
The simplest, easiest is to start saving for retirement, either in a retirement plan where you work or in an IRA entirely on your own.
Anyone can do it.
It doesn't take a lot of money.
It's automated, and it's the number one thing that matters for your financial future.
Wonderful advice.
Thank you.
You can make sure to check out Rick Edelman's book, The Truth About Retirement Plans and IRAs.
It's fantastic to be done.
We'll be right back.
Coming up next, celebrity chef to the stars Daniel Saunders is showing our junior chef some tricks of the trade.
Budget-boosting tips to stay healthy without breaking the bank.
The biggest bargains for the most expensive food.
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How he has defied the odds and how you can too.
I'm working on it every day.
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Thank you.
All month long, I am giving you budget-boosting tips to stay healthy without breaking the bank.
Today, I've got the biggest bargain for the most expensive foods.
Danielle Saunders is joining us.
She's a celebrity chef.
She's cooked for Oprah.
Loves her stuff.
Tom Hanks.
Mary J. Blige.
She's also a past all-star champion of the Food Network hit show, Chopped.
Danielle, welcome to the show.
Thank you for having me, Dr. Oz.
Pleasure to be here.
So we want to make sure folks make the right food so we don't bust our budget.
So what's the big myth?
You say we shouldn't get caught up in the costs.
Absolutely. Well, as a chef, we all know that when you have a taste for something, there are always cheaper ways and cheaper alternatives of getting those same ingredients in.
So I feel that with a little bit of creativity and a lot of love, you'll be sure to be able to make the dishes that you'll be satisfied with.
Can I get an outfit like this if we do this right?
I like that.
You have to get it from me because I designed it.
But yes, you can have one.
You designed it.
Absolutely, and I can get you one.
All right.
Let's put this theory to the test of whether you can actually control your costs.
We've got a professional chef in Danielle.
I'd ask a few up-and-coming chefs from the Young Chefs Academy to ask Danielle how to get the biggest bargain for the most expensive foods.
Our first junior chef has a question about fresh berries.
Hi, my name is Maura, and I'm 12 years old.
I love to make desserts with fresh berries, but they cost too much for my allowance.
What can I do?
What can Maura do?
She's right, fresh berries are expensive.
What do you do, especially when they're out of season?
Well, Dr. Oz, when they're in season, I would say purchase them in bulk, and you can freeze them.
But if you don't jump on the sale, you can always use frozen berries.
And you can stock up and keep them in your freezer and use them as you need.
They don't go bad.
And they don't go bad.
Our next junior chef has an observation about fresh salmon.
Take a look.
Hi, my name is Lucas, and I'm 12 years old.
My family loves salmon, and I love to grow it for them.
But my mom doesn't buy it all because she says it's too expensive.
Help! So, Danielle's right, and salmon is so darn good for you, I don't want to give it up.
So, what do you do if you can't afford to buy fresh salmon?
Well, Dr. Oz, salmon is full of those omega-3s that I know you want us all to have a lot more of in our diet.
So, the way that you can readily get those in your diet is to use canned salmon, believe it or not.
It's packed with the same omega-3s that you want us to have.
Fresh salmon contains.
And it costs way less.
It's quite versatile.
I want Lucas to kind of take a break from grilling for his family because I know he said that they like that.
But try a salmon salad or even a salmon burger.
I'm sure his family will love it.
I actually adore the taste of this.
So do I. Okay, let's get back to the junior chefs.
We have a gentleman, Josh Reisner is his name.
Josh, come join us.
He's the former Top Ten finalist on MasterChef Junior.
How are you?
I'm good, yes.
I'm very good at Josh.
Do you like this white jacket more or that sort of orange-y colored one?
Oh, that's really cool.
That's cooler, isn't it?
This is my favorite coat.
This is my favorite coat.
Did you design this yourself, too?
Oh, no.
I had it personally designed from Young Trips Academy.
Oh, well, very good for you.
All right, what's your question?
How old are you, by the way?
I'm 11 and a half years old.
You noticed a half?
Yeah. How many of you say I'm 49 and a half years old?
Never. You stopped at around 13. All right, what's your question?
Well, I'm...
I'm hosting a dinner party pretty soon.
And I was thinking of making...
I was thinking of serving a pate.
Okay. But it's out of my budget.
I'm sure.
Any suggestions?
A pate?
Come back over here.
Absolutely. A pate?
What kind of dinner do you have?
Yeah, what kind of...
Who's coming to your dinner?
Can we come?
Well, I usually host these dinner parties every month.
Wow. And I invite my family.
My friends and stuff.
That's awesome.
It's nice of you to invite the family.
That's good of you.
All right.
Well, pate is usually made of duck liver, which gives it its expensive price tag.
So with that, liverwurst is a great substitute for that.
Liverwurst? Liverwurst.
Have you had liverwurst?
I've had it.
I've had it once.
If you have to think about it, you haven't had it.
You have to taste it.
We're going to make you taste it.
Taste it.
I'm going to taste this, too.
I'll go in as well.
You gotta talk.
No, I can't taste?
Let me know how it is.
First you talk, then you eat.
That's a good trade-off.
What's good about this?
Liverwurst is a good trade-off because it contains the same nutritional value.
It's full of protein, B12, lots of iron, but the cost is different.
The cost is by half for the same amount.
What do you think?
It tastes great.
It tastes awesome, right?
It's a little creamier.
It's texture-wise, but yeah, it's a good trade-off.
I made this for you.
May I taste it?
Thank you so much, Dr. Hunt.
All right, Josh, thank you very much.
Stay here, Josh.
The next young chef loves the next snack as much as I do.
Take a look.
Awesome. Hi, my name is Victoria, and I'm 14 years old.
I love kale chips, but instead of buying the expensive little bags, there has to be a cheaper way.
What can I do?
So, I get it.
Kale chips do taste great, but they're a little expensive sometimes.
They are.
They are, Dr. Oz.
The cheapest way to get kale chips is to stop being lazy and make them yourself.
It's something that we can bring the kids in the kitchen.
We would have cleaned and dried off the kale thoroughly.
And I'd like for you to help me, Josh.
So, what we would do is, after the kale is cleaned, we'd start to rip them in pieces.
So, this is an activity that we can actually bring the kids in the kitchen for.
Low impact.
I'm sure moms will love that.
And you rip them in large pieces.
Before you put the oil down?
Before you put the oil down, yes.
Because we're going to put oil on both sides of the kale.
We don't want to season the dish.
We want to make sure the kale is seasoned here.
I've been doing this wrong.
Yeah, you've been doing it wrong, Doctor.
Do they burn up?
Do you have little flaky pieces of dust in your oven?
Yes, they're crispy ones.
I keep telling the pan it's how they're supposed to bake.
No, no, no.
Do they believe you?
No. No, I didn't think so.
Okay. Daphne has learned long ago not to trust me.
Right, okay.
All right.
Well, I trust you.
But either way, so what we do here, we rip them in large pieces, make sure that they're thoroughly dried.
We're going to drizzle either coconut oil or olive oil.
We can sprinkle with a little bit of sea salt or Himalayan pink salt.
How much should I put on here?
Sparingly. And then we'll turn them over.
Yeah, you'll mix them over and then...
Get the work in there.
Come on, let's go.
Sprinkle with salt, sparingly.
Make them nice.
So then after we do that, we place this in the oven at maybe 250 degrees and let them cook for 15 or 20 minutes and voila, it's that simple, Dr. Oz.
We have kale chips here.
But the way to maximize...
Maximize that expensive kale dollar is by having a plan before you go in the store.
Have a plan.
You can make fresh salads with this.
You can throw them in soups.
You can saute with garlic for a side for dinner.
You can use the stems for juicing, in addition to making your amazing kale chips.
So this is what gives us that bang for our buck when it comes to expensive ingredients such as kale.
Well stated.
Thank you very much.
Josh, thanks.
Appreciate it.
Thank you.
I want to thank everybody.
We'll be right back.
Coming up next, a new study making headlines.
The most common prescription and over-the-counter medications you take every day could be putting you at risk for dementia.
What everyone needs to know to use them safely.
Coming up next.
Today, breaking health news, a new study is making headlines and it's got a lot of people taking notice.
It says some of the most common prescription and over-the-counter medications, drugs you might be using every day.
A new and revealing study may prove a milestone in the prevention of Alzheimer's and dementia for many years to come.
Scientists track the health of nearly 3,500 men and women while monitoring their use of what are known as anticholinergic drugs.
These include everything from certain allergy meds to sleep aids to antidepressants, as well as drugs for the heart, bladder, and gut.
Researchers found that for patients who took the highest amount of these medications, the risk of dementia was increased by more than 50%.
The risk of Alzheimer's by over 60%.
Today, the number one question you should be asking, are your everyday drugs putting you at risk for dementia?
So these are just some of the examples of the types of drugs that this study is talking about.
The ones you use, Benadryl, Salmonex.
Tavist, Ditrapin, Soma.
There are lots of others.
We're going to put them up on the screen so you can see them.
So audience, how many of you have taken any of these drugs mentioned?
Put your hands up.
When I look out here, it's the vast majority of you.
Let me go up here.
Which ones have you taken?
Soma. It's a muscle relaxer.
And how often do you take it?
Once a day.
Once a day for?
Yeah, I had surgery on my shoulder, so I take it at night to relax because that's when I feel the pain the most.
Okay. And what drugs have you taken?
I've taken Soma also.
Muscle relaxer for low back pain.
You take it commonly?
I take it every day.
I have endometriosis, so...
I'm sorry about that.
Oh, it's okay.
I know it's a painful condition.
Very painful.
So you're chronically on the pill?
Yes. I'd point that out because we're not talking about taking something once in a while.
This study was actually based on people taking it for long periods of time.
And what about you?
What are you taking?
I've taken Salmonax and Tavis.
I've taken Tavis off and on for maybe seven years now for allergies.
And when you hear this study, that maybe these drugs may be causing dementia...
It makes me think twice.
You know, I think I need to find another remedy to battle my allergies.
Because I'm too young to have dementia.
So it's kind of scary.
What do you think about that observation?
That frightens me.
I actually never heard that before.
And it's very, very frightening.
So let me ask neurologist Dr. Gayatri Debbie to come join us.
She's the director of New York Memory Services.
So, based on this study, what are the concerns you have about some of the audience members who have offered up that they feel compelled to take some of these medications long term?
I think there's a real problem with us over-medicating ourselves, with over-the-counter medications, and with these types of drugs, particularly with the study, we now know that there are long-term risks.
What it does is it prevents the brain cells from talking, communicating better with each other, and is associated with dementia and Alzheimer's disease.
The study raised concerns especially about over-the-counter sleep aids.
I know a lot of you take these medications even though we warn you about them.
Things like Benadryl and Tylenol PM.
How many of you use over-the-counter pills to get to sleep at night?
That's a good portion of you.
Hi, what's your first name?
Claudia. You can hold that mic.
Thanks. Which one do you take?
I take Tylenol PM about twice a week.
When did you start taking it?
I've taken it for about three years now.
So you just heard us describe a potential side effect from taking this for long periods of time.
That's really scary.
That's not...
My grandma actually had Alzheimer's, so that kind of freaks me out, so...
Freaking you enough to not do it anymore?
Yeah, I'm totally stopping after today.
Okay. All right, thank you for your...
So, Dr. Debbie...
These sleep aids do what you described earlier.
They dull you out a lot.
When people hear this report, which I think will make some waves, what should they do?
What's the most important takeaway?
Well, I think the most important takeaway is that sleep is something we're all born experts in.
Every one of us, we're born being able to sleep very well.
Unfortunately, what we've done is we've tried to schedule sleep, and we want to be able to power ourselves off and power ourselves on.
And we try to do that by taking sleeping pills, including over-the-counter sleeping aids.
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There's no free lunch.
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If you are scared, petrified to lose the salt from your diet because you think you're going to lose all the flavor, I want you to think again.
Today, I've got the top salt secrets for some of the best chefs in the world.
They're going to show you how to flush out the excess salt in three days without sacrificing flavor.
Each day, you're going to flush out salt from one meal and then continue eliminating from there.
To start us off, on day one, Chef Sam Talbot from the Bravo TV show Top Chef.
Welcome, Sam.
Most chefs never dawns on them to follow their salt, but you pay a lot of attention to it.
Why is that?
I do.
You know, as a person living with type 1 diabetes, we are prone to high blood pressure.
So for a guy like me, watching my salt intake, it's really crucial.
You don't want to have diabetes and high blood pressure.
No, you do not want to do that.
It's a one-two punch.
Yeah, exactly.
You don't need the one-two punch.
All right, so I want to invite Maria out here.
I want you to look at all of her breakfasts.
And one of them has a huge amount of salt, more than the others.
It is the biggest sodium bomb.
If you look at it, it is the breakfast sandwich.
So Muridi, why do you love so much about this breakfast sandwich?
Well, they're convenient.
They're just super easy.
I pop them in the microwave in the morning because I'm go, go, go.
And sometimes I put a little hot sauce just to jazz up the eggs a little bit.
They taste so good, don't they?
Oh, they're yummy.
They're so yummy.
Especially the sausage.
And who wants to keep track of salt anyway?
Yes. No, it's not right.
Sam, how do we flush the salt out of breakfast to help the Marias of the world recover?
So, Maria, it's lovely to meet you.
And I have an idea for you, okay, because you said you're on the go.
So maybe you could start the day off, right?
What I like to do is I take a whole avocado.
Right when you cut it in half, there's a natural hole left behind from the seed.
So you scoop out a little bit more, crack an egg into it, put it in the oven.
Right? And then you kind of come back to it, maybe 25 minutes or so.
After you're done getting ready, you put on your makeup and you have everything in check.
And then you come back downstairs and you have this beautiful avocado toad in a hole.
So what we do here is we top it with chimichurri, right?
And chimichurri is this really lovely kind of hot, saucy, herby, lemony, acidic.
A little flavor.
Yeah, and we're going to put it right on top there.
How much do you put on here?
Yeah, a big spoonful.
Ooh. Lovely.
Go ahead.
Hit that one up.
Go ahead and taste this.
Get in there.
I have my own.
Do a little scoop.
I want an honest opinion.
Get some egg in there.
You got to get some egg in there.
You like that sandwich.
You dive into that.
Chefs are bossy.
Chefs are always telling people what to do.
Oh, that's really yummy.
Right? And if you're used to having the sandwich, you can scoop it right under the bread.
Kind of have an open-faced sandwich.
What do you think about that?
I love this.
Good? Stay here and keep eating.
Thanks, Sam.
Thank you.
All right, next is day two.
I want you to flush out the salt for your lunch and your snacks.
Chef Seamus Mullen is here.
You say salt, and the salt shaker in particular used to be your best friend, but you changed.
Why'd you cut back?
Well, about eight years ago, I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, and I hit kind of an all-time low where I realized, you know what, I really have to make some changes in my own health.
And being a chef, it was pretty clear to me that food was really the answer.
So I started with food, and I wanted to clean up everything, and salt was just a part of it.
Show us how you deal with a lunch.
So for a lunch, what I love to do is I'm a big fan of salads, and salt is often hiding in the salad dressing, and that's really one of the easiest places to get too much salt into your diet.
But a great friend to get you out of that predicament is adding a little bit of acid, so using a brightness, using some acidity.
So I've got a vinaigrette that I've started here.
I'm going to have you just go ahead, and you can make it yourself.
Go ahead and add in.
What's in the vinaigrette?
So we have yogurt, we have dill, and I'm adding in olive oil.
And now you're going to just shake that up.
That's it?
Yogurt and olive oil?
There's a little bit of garlic in there, a little bit of lemon juice as well.
So you can shake it all up.
Like a cocktail waitress.
There you go.
Perfect. Beautifully done.
That's enough.
And this is what you get.
That's enough.
Enough. Enough dancing.
And then we'll just add this right on top like that.
You get this bright, vibrant, green, delicious goodness.
Tell me what you think.
Oh, that's a killer.
So you get that pop.
The acidity takes care of the salt issue.
Yeah. So what happens is you get...
You get all those nice bright notes, and you can actually taste more in the food than if this were just doused with a ton of salt.
So it's a great little way to do it.
Another challenge we always have is snacking.
So I've got an audience full of snackers.
We always recruit people to the show who are snackers.
So audience members who get your snacks, let me see what you got.
These are all from home, by the way, notice.
They brought them with them.
It's a lot of snacking.
So how do you ditch those snacks?
So I like to use spices to kind of ante up the flavor and get things really going.
And one of my favorite spices is this guy right here.
This is...
Pimenton, or smoked Spanish paprika.
And we get these beautiful spiced almonds.
You can add it to some popcorn.
Great way to take the place of the salt and give a lot of flavor.
So I'm going to walk us over to the audience, Seamus.
Okay. You guard me if I don't come back.
Come get me.
Let me know what they say.
They will fight over these things.
You'll see it's like sharks.
I'm chumming the waters here.
Please take one of these and quickly taste it if you don't mind.
I want some honest opinions here from our snackers.
Thank you.
And I'm armed with a mic.
You can hold the tray.
Oh, thank you.
What do you think?
Good. Tasty.
I know you guys are saying good because it's me, but would you eat this instead of what you were going to eat?
Absolutely. Yeah, definitely.
This is really good.
I'm very surprised.
I'm shocked.
I'm shocked, yes.
Can I take it home?
Yes, please take it home.
Yeah, it's delicious.
I'll take these back just in case.
Thank you very much.
All right.
Finally, day three comes along, and day three is all about flushing the salt out of dinner.
Chef Candice Kumai is joining us.
You see a big reason.
Welcome to the show.
A big reason is something you call PSF.
Right. You all know what PSF is?
What is PSF?
That's because I woke up one morning and I said, oh my gosh, I have PSF.
It's puffy sodium face.
So when you wake up and your eyes are swelled, your face is swelled, and you don't look as fabulous as you normally would love to.
And that's because you had a little bit too much cheese, maybe too much meat.
Too much salt.
What's the salt cutting strategy?
Alright, so here we're talking about sauces.
Now sauces contain a lot of preservatives, a lot of sugar, a lot of salt.
And people don't realize that you can be, you know, just having a regular pasta dish and you're already overdoing your limits.
So I say cooking is your greatest resource to staying gorgeous and keeping PSF away.
So go ahead and make your own sauce.
We've got, these are tomatoes that are actually from Italy.
So if you're going to make canned marinara sauce, go ahead and go for the Italian.
You're going to get less sodium in Italian tomatoes than you are with conventional brands here in the U.S. And then we're going to add a little bit of olive oil.
Then we have fresh onions, garlic, and then I'm going to add kale because why not add a little more vitamins A, C, and K?
And like Seamus was talking about, acidity is great.
Balsamic vinegar to finish off your sauce is an excellent way to add flavor without any salt.
And then what about the cheeses?
Cheeses. All right.
So we're going to spoon a little bit of the salt here.
Now, no more Parmesan is needed.
Especially if you've got a fun vegan friend, there's a thing called nutritional yeast.
It's been around for a really long time, as you know.
I love it.
You just sprinkle it on like Parmesan cheese.
It tastes like Parmesan cheese, except it has B vitamins, amino acids, and also really is a great way to get protein, too.
I mean, it's just so good.
And I'm serious.
I know, right?
We have real chefs making food.
Totally. Garlic batter, cilantro.
Yes, absolutely.
Basil, put a little bit of that on top, whatever you want.
It can be done.
We just proved it.
Thank you very much to all my chefs.
You are so welcome.
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A visual transformation to inspire not only herself, but for many others as well.
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The woman you're about to meet started a social media movement.
When she began her weight loss journey less than two years ago, she posted selfies for inspiration for her own and for others.
Meet Elle.
Growing up, I was used to being the chubby girl.
I've been overweight my entire life, but I was always confident.
After having my first child, my marriage began to suffer, and I found myself overcome with stress.
I turned to anti-anxiety meds to cope, and my weight ballooned to 300 pounds.
I was in a dark place.
Then one day I heard Dr. Oz say something that really hit home.
He said the three most important things you need to get healthy were move more, eat less, and manage stress.
I remembered those words the day I caught myself in the mirror and didn't recognize the woman staring back at me.
At that moment, I knew it was finally time to change.
So I did exactly what Dr. Oz said.
I began to walk just 30 minutes a day.
Those first 30 minutes were the toughest half hour of my life.
But I kept pushing and walking eventually turned to running.
I started eating leans and greens.
And before I knew it, my new healthy lifestyle became my therapy.
The more I exercised and the healthier I ate, the more my stress melted away.
And I didn't need those meds anymore.
Now I'm proud to say I've lost over 100 pounds, proving that anyone can do this.
And it's all thanks to those simple words you said, Dr. Oz.
Move more, eat less, and manage stress.
Elle is here over 100 pounds lighter than the day she first saw the show.
Elle, come on out.
Elle, come on out.
Oh, my goodness.
I've only seen you on Facebook and Instagram.
You look fantastic.
Thank you, Dr. Oz.
Come have a seat.
How has your health changed besides what's going on on the outside?
I'm sure the inside is very different.
Oh, my gracious.
My health has changed, but my life has changed for the better.
I can do more.
I feel better.
I'm stressed with such a large part of my life before, but now I'm a runner, and running is multitasking for me because it's exercise, and it's therapy, and it also helped me get my snap back.
The snap back.
You keep talking about that.
That social media has been a big part of this entire journey for you.
Why is that?
Well, I...
Lifts, I've moved so many times that my community is so large that I want to include all the people who know and love me.
So I started posting these sweat checks online so that I could have people encourage me along the way because I've tried it before and I didn't know if I would be able to do it this time.
But I said, you know, if I put it out there and I was just transparent, the others would see it and they would cheer me along.
So those sweat checks came every day and every day people were like, go Elle, you got this, I got this.
It was my motivation.
Let's go look at some of these sweat checks.
Again, you post them all on social media.
You mentioned you got a lot of friends in your community, but some people don't have a lot.
But when you post it out there, people follow you.
Right. Here you are, 19 months ago, making your way.
Look at the difference here.
16 months ago, 12 months ago, last week, now.
I mean, we're literally seeing the weight come off you through these images.
Right. Oh, my gosh.
Isn't that cool to see that?
It's very amazing to watch.
And, of course, it went viral, right?
It did.
You began to inspire people.
What was that like for you?
Well, it was unexpected, but it was such a blessing because about three or four weeks after I started posting sweat checks, others started posting their sweat checks and they started tagging me on it.
And they're like, we're starting our snapback journey.
So now we have a Facebook page where people post their sweat checks online.
Alright, so there are so many people who adore you that they came out of the woodwork wanting to say thank you for inspiring them to go places they wouldn't have gone without you.
Take a look at this little montage for you.
Hi Elle, it's Tiffany.
You have inspired me to snap back into my fitness and do my daily sweat checks.
I started walking and running more because of you, and I embraced the fact that I don't need a gym to work out.
I can do that at home.
Before I met you in D.C., I never ran, and now I run every day, even here in all this snow.
It's because of you I've been walking one mile a day during lunch, and I've already lost nine pounds.
You inspired me to just get outside and run.
I lost my last 10 pounds because of your motivation, your perseverance, and tenacity.
I've lost over 10 pounds.
My body fat is just shredding off.
And it's all thank you to you.
I've finished four races and I've lost 15 pounds.
So thank you, Elle.
You rock.
You rock.
Wow.
Wow is right.
What do you want to say to them?
They love you.
That caught me so off guard, but that's why I do it.
I lost the weight over a year ago, but I know that so many people were watching me because...
At 300 pounds, I was every woman.
I was still cooking, cleaning, and doing the things that we do as women, but I forgot to take care of me.
So when I said, I got this, and other people were like, you got this, I kept going after I found my rhythm because I wanted to inspire someone to get out there and find a way.
You got the snap.
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You won't believe the incredible way this newly engaged couple, Ashley McIntyre and Danny Robinson, met.
Ashley heard a radio story about Danny, who was on dialysis and in desperate need of a kidney.
And the story touched her heart, so she reached out to him and, if you can believe it, offered this complete stranger, had never met him before, gave her her kidney.
Now, it turns out that not only were they a perfect kidney match, but they were a match themselves.
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First up...
I want you to move more, eat less, and manage stress.
We've heard that.
We've talked about it a lot.
I say it almost every day on the show, and I love it.
Absolutely adore it.
One of these action steps changed people's lives, like Elle, who took this advice to heart and transformed her life all while chronicling her journey on social media, inspiring others to do the exact same.
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She lost over 100 pounds in less than two years.
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Use hashtag OzNation.
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