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Something You Should Know about Staying Healthy


What's In Your Personal Care Products?

August 3, 2010

 

Interview with Alexandra Spunt, author of the book No More Dirty Looks: The Truth about Your Beauty Products--and the Ultimate Guide to Safe and Clean Cosmetics

 

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Mike Carruthers:
When it comes to cosmetics and the personal care products you buy, you assume the ingredients are safe and they may be, but…

 

Alexandra Spunt:
Essentially the cosmetics industry is what you call self regulated. So no one’s really checking up on these things.
 


Alexandra Spunt

Connection Between Obesity & Brain Function

 

July 12, 2010

 

Interview with Larry McCleary, M.D., author of the book Feed Your Brain Lose Your Belly

 

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Mike Carruthers:
We all know there’s an obesity epidemic but something else is going on as well.

 

Dr. Larry McCleary:
We are seeing twin epidemics today and one is obesity and going hand-in-hand with that is lose of brain function and I think you see it from senior moments in adults to difficulty concentrating in kids.
  


Dr. Larry McCleary

Summer Snacks

July 6, 2010

 

Interview with Dr. Susan Mitchell – Health Expert for Target Stores

 

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Mike Carruthers:
When it comes to kids and snacking the theory goes that whatever is in the house is what they’ll eat. So…

 

Dr. Susan Mitchell:
Next time you shop prepare ahead. Grab things for the pantry that are easy like; peanut butter, almond butter, whole wheat mini bagels, pop top cans of tuna, dried fruit like cherries and blueberries.

 


Dr. Susan Mitchell

If You Have To Go To The Hospital

May 7, 2010

 

Interview with Dr. Laura Nathanson, author of the book What You Don't Know Can Kill You: A Physician's Radical Guide to Conquering the Obstacles to Excellent Medical Care

 

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Mike Carruthers:
We have great medical care in this country but still things can and do go wrong in the hospital. So here's some advice…

 

Dr. Laura Nathanson:
Every patient who is in the hospital overnight for anything but the most basic and simple problem needs to have somebody with them twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
 


Dr. Laura Nathanson

How Getting Sick Can Be Good For You

April 30, 2010

 

Interview with Marlene Zuk, author of the book Riddled with Life: Friendly Worms, Ladybug Sex, and the Parasites That Make Us Who We Are

 

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Mike Carruthers:
No one wants to get sick. However, in one respect illness can be a good thing.

 

Marlene Zuk:
I'm not arguing that disease is good for you or that people should be happy to get sick.


Marlene Zuk

Biologist Marlene Zuk, author of the book, Riddled with Life...

 

What You Do Can Help Or Hurt Your Brain Part 2

April 28, 2010

 

Interview with Mark Fenske, author of the book The Winner's Brain: 8 Strategies Great Minds Use to Achieve Success

 

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Mike Carruthers:
All the exciting new research on the human brain keeps showing that we have a lot of power over how well our brain performs.

 

Mark Fenske:
We’re finding that one of the easiest things that you can do to improve brain function overall is get regular exercise. 
 

 


Mark Fenske

Mark Fenske, author of the book The Winner's Brain, says we now know….

What You Do Can Help Or Hurt Your Brain

April 27, 2010

 

Interview with Mark Fenske, author of the book The Winner's Brain: 8 Strategies Great Minds Use to Achieve Success

 

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Mike Carruthers:
How science looks at the brain has changed a lot in the past few years. It used to be thought that…

 

Mark Fenske:
Past adolescence that the brain was relatively hard-wired – that you had to deal with what you were dealt with.
 

 


Mark Fenske

Mark Fenske, author of the book The Winner's Brain, says we now know….

 

Food Labels & Your Health

April 20, 2010

 

Interview with Susan Burke March, author of the book Making Weight Control Second Nature: Living Thin Naturally

 

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Mike Carruthers:
When you go grocery shopping you’ll notice that food packages have a lot of pretty pictures and fancy words to lure you in.

 

Susan Burke March:
The point is that you have to read the package ingredient label before you read the front. I’m always saying, “Read the package from back to front”.

 


Susan Burke March

Why You Eat When You're Not Hungry

March 8, 2010

 

Interview with Michelle May, M.D., author of the book Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat: How to Break Your Eat-Repent-Repeat Cycle

 

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Mike Carruthers:
So many people struggle with food and being overweight but it probably wasn’t always that way.

 

Michelle May, M.D.:
You need to only look at most children and see that from the moment they’re born, they know when they’re hungry, they know when they’re full, they eat what they love, and they don’t obsess about food in between.

 

How Safe Is Your Tap Water?

March 3, 2010

 

Interview with Dr. James Symons, author of the book Plain Talk about Drinking Water

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Nothing is more important to your survival than the water you drink which is one reason why so many people buy bottled water.

 

Dr. James Symons:
To take water on a hike or something in a bottle so you can hydrate yourself is fine but to buy bottled water because you’re afraid of what comes out of the tap is just wrong.
 


Dr. James Symons

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