Show 987: Benefits of Coffee, Tea & Chocolate

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2015

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Heated disagreements about whether or not Americans all need to reduce their salt intake have reached the Wall Street Journal. Many public health agencies recommend that we cut back on salt to lower blood pressure and reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes. But how well does that approach work? We talk with contrarian […]

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Joe Graydon.
0:01.9	And I'm Terry Graydon.
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0:17.3	That's S-Q-U-A-T-Y-P-O-T-Y dot com.
0:27.9	Do you start your day with coffee, tea, or cocoa?
0:33.5	Is this a dangerous routine or a great way to improve your health?
0:38.8	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
0:47.3	Do you know if the medicines you take may be interacting with the food on your plate?
0:55.1	Does a brand muffin for breakfast undermine your heart medicine or your antidepressant? The salt wars are heating up.
1:02.3	Is a low sodium diet healthy or harmful? Many people are told they have to take statins for
1:08.2	the rest of their lives. Is it ever okay to stop a statin?
1:12.2	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, the health news that matters to you with your calls and questions.
1:24.0	First, this news.
1:29.0	In the People's Pharmacy Health headlines, the International Agency for Research on Cancer
1:34.9	has stirred up controversy with its evaluation of two pesticides as probable carcinogens.
1:41.0	The compounds are malathione, commonly used in mosquito control, and glyphosate, also known as Roundup.
1:48.0	This herbicide is very widely used in agriculture to control weeds in cultivated fields.
1:53.8	To reach these conclusions, the agency examined data based on cell culture studies showing that the compound can damage DNA. In addition, it
2:03.0	considered animal studies that show unusual tumors and rodents exposed to glyphosate. According to
2:09.2	the scientists who did the assessment, this evidence shows that Roundup could cause cancer in humans
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