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I'm Terry Graydon.

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Do you buy low-fat yogurt milk and shun saturated fat?

These are supposed to be healthy choices, but what if they're not?

This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.

For decades, Americans have been told that cholesterol and saturated fat caused heart disease, low-fat foods proliferated.

Breakfast became cold cereal with skim milk instead of bacon and eggs.

Lunch called for salad with low-fat dressing.

But we Americans are fatter than ever.

Are we doing something wrong?

Dr. Mark Hyman says that the type of fat we eat is critical to our health and our ability

to get our weight under control.

Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, find out how to eat fat and get thin.

First, this news.

In the People's pharmacy health headlines, an old anesthetic medication is getting new attention as a fast-acting way to reverse suicidal thoughts.

Ketamine was first approved as an injectable general anesthetic in 1970.

It's especially helpful for severe pain due to burns or emergency surgery.

For the last several years, psychiatrists have been intrigued with ketamine's rapid-onset

antidepressant activity.

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