Something You Should Know about Diet and Healthy Eating


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

How You Control Your Health

February 16, 2010

 

Interview with William Sears, M.D., author of the book Prime-Time Health: A Scientifically Proven Plan for Feeling Young and Living Longer

 

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Mike Carruthers:
How healthy you are and how healthy you stay is in large part up to you.

 

William Sears, M.D.:
I think that many people don’t realize for example, that their bodies make their own internal medicine – that if you do certain things, your body is a walking pharmacy.

 
 


Dr. William Sears

Dr. William Sears, author of the book Prime-Time Health

 

Stress & Your Heart Part 2

February 11, 2010

 

Interview with Dr. John M. Kennedy, author of the book The 15 Minute Heart Cure: The Natural Way to Release Stress and Heal Your Heart in Just Minutes a Day

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Mike Carruthers:
When you get stressed what does that feel like?

 

Dr. John M. Kennedy:
You might feel a knot in your stomach, I might feel sweaty palms or someone else might feel a racing heart beat. But that’s a cue or invitation to you to stop stress in its tracks.

 

How You Control Your Health - Part 2

February 17, 2010

 

Interview with William Sears, M.D., author of the book Prime-Time Health: A Scientifically Proven Plan for Feeling Young and Living Longer

 

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Mike Carruthers:
To be healthy you can’t go wrong following mom’s advice.

 

William Sears, M.D.:
You know (your) mother summed this up years ago when she said, “Eat your fruits and veggies and go outside and play” – that was the key to health at all ages.

 


Dr. William Sears

Why Every Calorie Counts

February 4, 2010

 

Interview with Ken Sasse, M.D., author of the book Life-Changing Weight Loss: Feel More Energetic and Live a More Active Life with a Proven, Medically Based Weight Loss Program (Sasse Guide)

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Of course you know that losing weight isn’t easy, but…

 

Kent Sasse M.D.:
Just remember that every calorie you burn does count so it doesn’t need to be one hour solid of sweating at the gym on a fancy machine.
 


Dr. Kent Sasse

Dr. Kent Sasse, author of the book Life-Changing Weight Loss

 

The Fight Against Cancer

January 27, 2010

 

Interview with Dr. David Servan-Schreiber, author of the book Anticancer: A New Way of Life

 

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Mike Carruthers:
What if you could prevent cancer? There are no guarantees, of course, but we are discovering more and more about what helps.

 

Dr. David Servan-Schreiber:
The world health organization has shown that you would reduce the world cancer burden by 40% with only a better diet and a bit more physical activity – just that.

 


Dr. David Servan-Schreiber

How Your Brain Can Sabotage You

January 25, 2010

 

Interview with Kelly Traver M.D., author of the book The Program: The Brain-Smart Approach to the Healthiest You: The Life-Changing 12-Week Method

 

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Mike Carruthers:
If you made a New Year’s resolution a few weeks back you may be finding it difficult to stick with.

 

Kelly Traver M.D.:
And the reason for that is that your whole body and brain is really based on this homeostasis principle - which is to keep everything the same.
 


Dr. Kelly Traver

Dr. Kelly Traver, author of the book The Program... 

 

Food As Medicine

December 16, 2009

 

Interview with Joel Fuhrman, M.D. author of the book Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss

 

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Mike Carruthers:
You should eat healthy; you’ve heard that advice a million times.

 

Joel Fuhrman M.D.:
Because everybody’s saying eat more fruits and vegetables, everybody’s saying berries prevent dementia, mushrooms prevent breast cancer. Everybody’s reporting the science that food is our most powerful medicine.
 

Joel Fuhrman M.D.

Food As Medicine - Part 2

December 17, 2009

 

Interview with Joel Fuhrman, M.D. author of the book Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss

 

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Mike Carruthers:
According to life expectancy statistics, we’re living longer than ever before so, you might assume we’re doing something right, but look a little closer.

 

Joel Fuhrman M.D.:
We’re not living longer than ever before. Cancer rates have climbed. From 1935 to 2005 cancer rates climbed every single year for 70 years straight. 2% of the population had heart attacks a hundred years ago and today it’s 40%.
 

 

Joel Fuhrman M.D.

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