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Something You Should Know about Staying Healthy

Kids' Doctor Visits

January 14, 2009
Interview with Bruce Taubman, M.D., author of Your Child's Symptoms: A Parent's Guide to Understanding Pediatric Medicine

 

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Mike Carruthers:
When a child gets sick, parents are often torn between treating the child at home themselves or going to the doctor.

 

Bruce Taubman, M.D.:
It's important for parents to realize that a visit in which they're worried their child is sick and they come to the office and they're told there's nothing serious, is not a wasted visit. One of the major roles of a Pediatrician is to reassure the parents that their children are healthy.

  

 

Interesting Health Facts

April 20, 2009
Interview with Joe Graedon, author of The People's Pharmacy Guide to Home and Herbal Remedies 

 

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Mike Carruthers:
So, here's the dilemma - we're told to stay out of the sun because of the risk of skin cancer, but the sun is where we get a lot of vitamin D.

 

Joe Graedon:
Vitamin D can reduce the risk of many cancers - it may be valuable in reducing the risk of osteoarthritis. There are many other conditions where vitamin D is absolutely crucial.
Joe Graedon

 

Important Research On Diet & Weight Loss Part 2

June 2, 2009
Interview with Nancy Snyderman, M.D. author of Diet Myths That Keep Us Fat

 

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Mike Carruthers:
People who eat fast tend to be overweight, why? Well when you eat slower your taste buds get bored.

 

Nancy Snyderman, M.D.:
The new sense of a food, the texture and the taste of it after about the third bite or after about twenty minutes your taste buds go, "Oh yeah, been there, done that." And then the food doesn't taste so good anymore.

 
  
Nancy Snyderman, M.D.

Important Research On Diet & Weight Loss

June 1, 2009
Interview with Nancy Snyderman, M.D. author of Diet Myths That Keep Us Fat

 

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Mike Carruthers:
You've heard a million times that Americans are fatter than ever but why? Is it just a matter of willpower?


Nancy Snyderman, M.D.:
There's a sabotage that's just a part of the bigger picture. We have created lovely suburbs with no sidewalks; we've taken gym out of school; we do not know how much fat is in the average meal when we go out to eat.
Nancy Snyderman, M.D.

 

Help For Allergy Sufferers

April 24, 2009
Interview with Allergist Dr. Cliff Bassett, M.D. www.bassett.yourmd.com

 

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Mike Carruthers:
If you suffer from allergies, you know the spring of 2009 has been no picnic.

 

Dr. Cliff Bassett, M.D.:
We're seeing lots and lots of suffering because there's so much pollen out there and we're seeing individuals coming in, clutching their chest, having trouble breathing - and this particular year allergies are actually provoking an epidemic of new asthma cases as well.
Cliff Bassett

 

How Happiness Impacts Health

September 16, 2009

Interview with Rick Foster author of Happiness & Health: 9 Choices That Unlock the Powerful Connection Between the TwoThings We Want Most

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Science has now proven that there is a definite link between happiness and health.

 

Rick Foster:
So the things that make us happiest, give us a very positive biochemical rush. And those biochemical rushes are very much associated with good health.


   Greg Hicks & Rick Foster

 

Green Cleaning Tips

January 2, 2009
Interview with Linda C. Cobb author of Talking Dirty With the Queen of Clean: Second Edition

 

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Mike Carruthers:
You can save money and be good to the environment by using some alternative cleaning products around the house. For example...

 

Linda C. Cobb:
Use Tang breakfast drink to clean your toilet. It's much safer for a home that has children and pets.

Linda Cobb

 

New Facts About Obesity

 January 27, 2009

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:
I'm sure you already know we have an obesity problem in this country but now it's spreading.


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.

 
Barry Popkin

 

Making Food Healthier - Part 2

February 10, 2009

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

 

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Mike Carruthers:
You can make some of the foods you eat healthier just by changing the way you cook them.

 

John La Puma:
If you bake a pizza at 550 (degrees) instead of 400 or for 14 minutes instead of 7 minutes,  you more than double the bio-availability of the anti-oxidants in the whole-wheat crust. You do need a whole-wheat crust because that's where the anti-oxidants are - in the germ and the bran not the starch.


John LaPuma, M.D.

 

Germs And Your Health

January 30, 2009
Interview with Allison Janse, author of The Germ Freak's Guide to Outwitting Colds and Flu

 

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Mike Carruthers:
You don't want to get sick this winter, so you need to know where the germs are lurking. And public restrooms are a good place to start.

 

Allison Janse:
Most people have a fear of the dreaded toilet seat. 50% of American women won't even sit on one, they squat or hover or make their own paper guard.
 


Allison Janse

 

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