Show 1018: How to Have Healthier Habits in the New Year (Archive)
The People's Pharmacy
Joe and Terry Graedon
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2016
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Habits-things you do on a regular basis without even thinking about them-can have a huge impact on our health. But it isn’t easy to drop old habits that aren’t serving us well, like eating a pint of ice cream every night. Nor is it always easy to adopt healthier habits that could be more helpful, like taking a brisk 30 minute walk every day after lunch. How can we change our everyday lives so that we don’t have to waste willpower making good health choices, but instead do them almost automatically?
Advice on Developing Healthier Habits:
Now as we face our New Year’s resolutions and are focused on our health goals for 2017, author Gretchen Rubin has great advice for us on how to get rid of the habits that hamper us and embrace healthier habits that could help make our lives better than before. Why not make listening to The People’s Pharmacy one of your great health habits for 2017?
How Habits Can Help You Be Happier:
This question and answer didn’t fit in the show, but we think you’ll find it interesting. Gretchen Rubin talks about the connection between habits and happiness:
This Week’s Guest:
Gretchen Rubin is one of the most influential and thought-provoking writers on happiness. Her best-selling earlier book was The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun. She followed that with Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life. In this interview we are discussing her latest book, Better Than Before: What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits-to Sleep More, Quit Sugar, Procrastinate Less, and Generally Build a Happier Life.
Gretchen Rubin writes a daily blog, gretchenrubin.com, and hosts a popular weekly podcast, Happier with Gretchen Rubin
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Joe Graydon. |
| 0:02.5 | I'm Terry Graydon. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy, where we bring you the stories behind the health headlines. |
| 0:10.3 | This podcast is brought to you by Redux Industries, makers of utterly smooth body cream. |
| 0:16.1 | 800-345-7339 on the web at utter cream.com. |
| 0:31.2 | Have you ever made a New Year's resolution only to have it fade by February? |
| 0:36.8 | Today we'll find out how to change our habits. |
| 0:40.3 | This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon. |
| 0:48.3 | Getting rid of old habits that interfere with our health and happiness can be tough. |
| 0:55.0 | Just ask anyone who's ever tried to quit smoking. |
| 0:58.1 | Adopting new habits like walking every day can also be challenging. |
| 1:02.1 | But there are practical ways to help us change our habits for the better. |
| 1:05.8 | Today we talk with author Gretchen Rubin. |
| 1:08.2 | Her book is Better Than Before, What I Learned About Making and Breaking |
| 1:12.3 | Habits, To Sleep More, Quit Sugar, Procrastinate Less, and Generally Build a Happier Life. |
| 1:18.3 | Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, Gretchen Rubin shares her secrets on how you can become better than before. |
| 1:25.2 | First, the News. |
| 1:30.0 | In the People's pharmacy health headlines, pancreatic cancer is rare, but it's a killer. |
| 1:36.3 | Only about 8% of those diagnosed with this disease are still alive after five years. |
| 1:41.6 | So news that people who took aspirin reduced their chance of developing |
| 1:46.4 | pancreatic cancer is encouraging. The research was conducted in Shanghai, China, and compared |
| 1:52.2 | 761 newly diagnosed pancreatic cancer patients to 794 cancer-free control subjects. They were interviewed about their health and habits, including smoking and aspirin use. |
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