Listen, this is a wake-up call because so many of us we can sit on our butts, we fat we start having high blood sugar our blood pressure

starts to spike and we're like no big deal man I can keep putting this off I got to go to work I

don't want to deal with this I want to put it off

now you're getting slapped in the face with some reality here if you're overweight

high blood pressure high blood sugar borderline diabetes or full-blown diabetes or you know this is a slap in the face

hopefully it wakes you up. Time to start taking care of yourself.

What's up my friend? I'm health expert Ted Rice and today I'm coming to you from Medagine Columbia. I was in Santa Marta for the past week which is on the northern coast of Colombia just

enjoying some scuba diving enjoying some hiking in Minka and in Parque Terona, so Toronto Park, where the indigenous Terona Indians have a reservation there.

So just had a great week, but I'll tell you I'm coming back and whoa,

let me ask you a question.

Do you feel like the things that you were concerned about two weeks ago have kind of shifted?

I'll tell you what, the coronavirus thing, man, it's just going crazy.

And for today, we're gonna dive into the coronavirus. Now I want to be real

clear here. I'm not an epidemiologist or a pathologist or a virologist. I don't

have my PhD in anything related or have a PhD at all or an

MD but I tell you this I've been really upset at the news coverage in the United States and other English-speaking

countries and how they've shared information and how they've used it as an opportunity to keep people glued to the TV screen and in fear and in part causing this panic.

So what I'm going to do here is I'm going to act as a science

journalist and help you get clear on what is important here and I'm actually

going to have a coronavirus series I guess.

I mean, you know, I don't know what else to do here except take the opportunity to step up and do something helpful for people.

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