Health - Health Facts

January 24, 2012

Interview with Dr. David Agus, author of the book The End of Illness

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Mike Carruthers:
Millions of people take vitamins every day to protect their health – but maybe they shouldn’t.

Dr. David Agus:
If you look at the studies of vitamins they cause problems. If a man takes a vitamin E a day for 3 years his rate of prostate cancer is 17% elevated and it lasts for years after stopping the vitamin E.
 

January 23, 2012

Interview with Dr. David Agus, author of the book The End of Illness

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Mike Carruthers:
We can all do a lot to prevent of postpone serious illness.

Dr. David Agus:
My hope is, and what I really believe can happen is, we can delay illness to the 9th or 10th decade. You know the 1950tys were the last years in the United States you can die of old age on a death certificate – I want to bring that back.
 

January 19, 2012

Interview with Robert Davis, author of the bookCoffee is Good for You: From Vitamin C and Organic Foods to Low-Carb and Detox Diets, the Truth about Diet and Nutrition Claims

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Mike Carruthers:
For years we’ve heard that eating eggs isn’t good for you because they contain cholesterol, but the research says otherwise.

Robert Davis:
The evidence shows that is you eat up to six eggs a week it’s not harmful it’s good news because eggs are a good source of protein and certainly it’s a more healthy breakfast than eating a big muffin that’s full of sugar and calories.
 

January 18, 2012

Interview with Robert Davis, author of the bookCoffee is Good for You: From Vitamin C and Organic Foods to Low-Carb and Detox Diets, the Truth about Diet and Nutrition Claims

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Mike Carruthers:
Keeping up with all the nutrition claims and what’s good and bad for you can be a challenge. For instance is coffee good for you?

Robert Davis:
There is good evidence that coffee may in fact have some benefits. Coffee drinking is linked to a lower risk of heart disease, certain cancers, stroke, diabetes.
 

January 6, 2012

Interview with Professor Barry Popkin, author of The World is Fat: The Fads, Trends, Policies, and Products That Are Fattening the Human Race

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Mike Carruthers:
New Years is when people start thinking about losing weight and more and more people are thinking about it all over the world.

Professor Barry Popkin:
You have six countries where two thirds of the adults are overweight; Mexico, Egypt and South Africa are in there. Half of the countries with half of the adults that are overweight are low and middle-income countries.
 

January 4, 2012

Interview with Margaret Moore, author of the book Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life: Train Your Brain to Get More Done in Less Time

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Mike Carruthers:
All of the digital and other distractions we have in life keep us on alert all the time which is not the way we’re meant to function.

Margaret Moore:
The human body was designed to be stressed and to recover, to be stressed and recover. The heart rate/beat works that way, up is stress, down is recover. And we’ve lost the recovery time.

January 2, 2012

Interview with John La Puma, author of ChefMD's Big Book of Culinary Medicine: A Food Lover's Road Map to: Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, Getting Really Healthy

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Mike Carruthers:
Some scientific research has been done on the food we eat and how we cook it and how that impacts our health - the results are really interesting.

John La Puma:
If you marinate meats or chicken or fish and then grill it (at high temperature) you actually reduce the cancer-causing chemicals by 77% just with that marinade.
 

December 29, 2011

Interview with Joe Graedon, author of the book Best Choices from the People's Pharmacy

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Mike Carruthers:
Some old home remedies have been tested and really seem to work. For example; for dandruff…

Joe Graedon:
It's a fungal infection and we now know that we can control fungal infections a couple of different ways - one just by changing the pH of your scalp.
 

December 20, 2011

Interview with Vincent D’Amore, author of the book Common Sense Care: A Parent's Guide to a Harmless ER Visit

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Mike Carruthers:
Did you know that most emergency room visits are unnecessary?

Vincent D’Amore:
A good fact is that 95% of children who go to an ER go home. So that tells us for children - 95% of them aren’t critically ill.
 

December 19, 2011

Interview with Alex Doman, author of the book Healing at the Speed of Sound: How What We Hear Transforms Our Brains and Our Lives

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Mike Carruthers:
Your sense of hearing is quite amazing.

Alex Doman:
It is the first sense to develop in the brain, it develops in utero around the 2nd trimester – so the brain is wired for sound.