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The Benefits Of A Positive Attitude

May 20, 2013

 

Interview with Dr. Hilary Tindle, author of the book Up: How Positive Outlook Can Transform Our Health and Aging

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Having a positive and optimistic outlook helps, it helps a lot.

 

Dr. Hilary Tindle:
Optimists have fewer heart attacks, they live longer, they live healthier, they’re better “copers”, they’re less likely to get depression, anxiety, etcetera.
 


Hilary Tindle M.D.

Important Medical Truths - Part 2

April 30, 2013

 

Interview with Dr. Richard Besser, author of the book Tell Me the Truth, Doctor: Easy-to-Understand Answers to Your Most Confusing and Critical Health Questions

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Can the radiation from a cellphone cause brain cancer?

 

Dr. Richard Besser:
The type of radiation emitted from a cellphone is not the type of radiation, ionizing radiation, that damages our cells and causes cancer.
 


Richard Besser, M.D.

Important Medical Truths

April 29, 2013

 

Interview with Dr. Richard Besser, author of the book Tell Me the Truth, Doctor: Easy-to-Understand Answers to Your Most Confusing and Critical Health Questions

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Is it a good idea for people to take a daily aspirin to help prevent heart disease?

 

Dr. Richard Besser:
I read the data and my risk of having a bleeding ulcer from an aspirin is higher than my risk of having a heart attack because I don’t have risk factors – so I don’t think I should take an aspirin.
 


Richard Besser, M.D.

Foods That Protect Your Brain

March 7, 2013

 

Interview with Dr. Neal Barnard, author of the book Power Foods for the Brain: An Effective 3-Step Plan to Protect Your Mind and Strengthen Your Memory

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Almost every family today has or will have to deal with a member who has Alzheimer’s disease or dementia.

 

Dr. Neal Barnard:
And my estimate is that if everyone really put into practice the kinds of steps I’m going to suggest we could prevent 70-80% of Alzheimer’s cases.
 


Dr. Neal Barnard

The Healthiest Foods You Can Eat - Part 2

February 20, 2013

 

Interview with David Grotto R.D., author of the book The Best Things You Can Eat: For Everything from Aches to Zzzz, the Definitive Guide to the Nutrition-Packed Foods that Energize, Heal, and Help You Look Great

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Incorporating certain foods can make your diet much healthier. In particular…

 

David Grotto R.D.:
Anything that ends in “erry” whether that be; blueberry, strawberry, raspberry, cherry, pomegranate “erry” anything that’s kind of blue, purple, red in color.
 


David Grotto R.D.

The Healthiest Foods You Can Eat

February 19, 2013

 

Interview with David Grotto R.D., author of the book The Best Things You Can Eat: For Everything from Aches to Zzzz, the Definitive Guide to the Nutrition-Packed Foods that Energize, Heal, and Help You Look Great

 

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Mike Carruthers:
We now know that certain foods we eat can be extremely beneficial to our health and yet…

 

David Grotto R.D.:
They happen to be the foods that we’re not eating that much. And so I find that there is an inverse relationship that if we ate more of these foods we would probably have less problems with obesity, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and the list goes on.
 


David Grotto R.D.

How Your Emotions Can Affect Your Heart

January 25, 2013

 

Interview with Dr. Mimi Guarneri, author of the book The Heart Speaks: A Cardiologist Reveals the Secret Language of Healing

 

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Mike Carruthers:
The relationship between emotions, stress and heart disease are becoming clearer and clearer.

 

Mimi Guarneri M.D.:
There have been beautiful studies that have shown and looked at people coming to the emergency room for example, just having had a heart attack. There's a much higher incidence of anger within the proceeding twenty-four hours.
 


Dr. Mimi Guarneri

Why We Are Fatter Than Our Ancestors - Part 2

January 16, 2013

 

Interview with Dr. Robert Lustig, author of the book Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Americans are heavier than ever before and you probably believe it’s because we eat too much fat and too many calories in our diet.

 

Dr. Robert Lustig:
Fat is not the issue. We were told that for years but fat is not the issue. 
 


Dr. Robert Lustig

Why We Are Fatter Than Our Ancestors

January 15, 2013

 

Interview with Dr. Robert Lustig, author of the book Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease

 

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Mike Carruthers:
This time of year many people vow to lose weight - but why are we so heavy in the first place?

 

Dr. Robert Lustig:
There are a lot of different reasons why people gain weight but I can pretty much sum it up in one word insulin.
 


Dr. Robert Lustig

Important Health Decisions

September 20, 2012

 

Interview with Dr. Ross Walker, author of the book 5 Stages of Health

 

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Mike Carruthers:
In order to live a healthy lifestyle we often think we have to make this big huge decision to change how we live.

 

Dr. Ross Walker:
What I suggest is that instead of seeing life as making the big decision to be healthy I think we have to make 30ty, 40ty, 50ty small decisions every day.
 


Dr. Ross Walker

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