Show 1034: How to Stay Healthy with Minimal Medications
The People's Pharmacy
Joe and Terry Graedon
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2016
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Americans take a lot of pills with the goal of staying healthy-pills to lower cholesterol, pills to control blood pressure, even pills to keep bones strong. How can we use fewer pills but still maximize our health?
What Is Exercise Good For?
It shouldn’t be surprising to learn that both diet and exercise are important pieces of the puzzle. But what kind of exercise? What does it really do?
What Should We Be Eating to Stay Healthy?
And what should we be eating to stay healthy? For years, we’ve been told to watch out for butter and cheese, and turn instead to vegetable oils high in polyunsaturated fats.
But was that advice ill-advised? We’ll discuss the recently disclosed results of a study done decades ago that suggest concentrating on vegetable oil, especially corn oil, as the primary source of fat in the diet might not help you stay healthy, despite the conventional wisdom.
Sleeping Pills and Allergy Drugs:
Commonly used prescription and over-the-counter medications can sometimes interfere with memory and cognitive function. A recent study of such anticholinergic drugs suggests that regular use may change the structure and function of the brain in older people. Could that increase the risk for dementia?
Share Your Story:
If you have been able to stay healthy with a non-drug approach, Joe and Terry invite you to share it. Have you had success with a diet to lose weight, control blood sugar or lower blood pressure? Share your story: Call 888-472-3366 between 7 and 8 am EDT on March 19, 2016 or email radio@peoplespharmacy.com
This Week’s Guests:
James Blumenthal, PhD, is J.P. Gibbons Professor of Psychiatry and Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. He is also Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University Medical Center, an Assistant Professor in Medicine and a Senior Fellow in the Center for Study of Aging. His website is http://sites.duke.edu/unwind/
Shannon L. Risacher, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Radiology and Imaging Sciences at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Rosacher specializes in neuroimaging of aging and dementia. Her research was published in JAMA Neurology on April 18, 2016 (online).
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Joe Graydon. |
| 0:02.3 | I'm Terry Graydon. |
| 0:03.8 | Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy, where we bring you the stories behind the health headlines. |
| 0:10.2 | This podcast is brought to you by Redux Industries, makers of utterly smooth body cream. |
| 0:16.0 | 800-345-7339 on the web at utter cream.com. |
| 0:31.2 | Exercise is as powerful as a drug for heart health. |
| 0:35.1 | What else is exercise good for? |
| 0:39.4 | Can moving your body help your brain? |
| 0:43.2 | This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon. |
| 0:57.0 | There's increasing confusion about what we should be eating. Data from a long-lost study has resurfaced, |
| 1:02.5 | and the results throw the standard dietary advice of the last five decades into question. |
| 1:10.2 | What did the scientists uncover? Can common over-the-counter sleeping pills in allergy medicine cause brain shrinkage? |
| 1:12.4 | Do similar drugs increase the risk for dementia? Find out which ones may pose a hazard for the brain. Coming up on the Peebles Pharmacy, |
| 1:19.6 | your calls and questions about the health news that matters to you. First, the News. |
| 1:43.7 | In the people's pharmacy health headlines, an international study shows that people eating more vegetables and fruits, as in a Mediterranean diet pattern, are less likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke. |
| 1:45.9 | The study was designed as a clinical trial of a heart drug in development, and it included 15,482 people who had stable coronary heart |
| 1:53.7 | disease. When they were recruited into the trial, they were asked to fill out a simple questionnaire |
| 1:58.7 | on their eating habits. Their answers allowed the researchers to calculate both a Mediterranean diet score |
| 2:04.9 | based on consumption of vegetables, legumes, fruit, fish, and whole grains, |
| 2:10.5 | as well as a Western diet score measuring consumption of desserts, sweets, refined grains, and deep-fried foods. |
| 2:18.4 | The participants were followed up for almost four years, and what the researchers found |
| 2:23.4 | was a bit surprising. |
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