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We spend more money on health care than any other country in the world.

Is our high-tech, high-cost medicine making us healthier? This is the People's Pharmacy

with Terry and Joe Graydon.

American physicians have been taught that more tests and more aggressive treatment equal quality care.

But some of the assumptions we all share about modern medicine are driving costs up without offering tangible benefits to patients.

Have we forgotten the pillars of good health that grandmothers around the world have known and practiced for centuries?

Does their advice trump our ideas

that sooner is better? And there's a pill for every ill? Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, Dr. Gil

Welsh will tell us why less medicine may mean more health. First, this news.

In the people's pharmacy health headlines,

Peanuts have a place in a heart-healthy diet.

For years, Americans were told to avoid nuts because they're high in fat,

which was assumed to be bad for the cardiovascular system.

Then researchers found that people who ate more nuts, including walnuts, pistachios, and almonds, were less likely to develop heart disease, high blood

pressure, or diabetes. The more nuts they consumed, the lower their chances of premature death.

Peanuts have not received the respect that tree nuts get. That's partly because they're

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