Prescriptions For Health - 2/27/12

Prescriptions for Health, 2/27/12.

• BPA or Bisphenol A found to increase the risk of heart disease plus other harms.
• Stainless steel and copper for killing germs. SS and glass as alternatives to plastic.
• Why is Vitamin D in the news again?
• Working out for depression and burnout....even on the job.
• In the absence of symptoms, carotid ultrasounds are of no benefit.
• Testing for osteoporosis and EKG's, etc. over done (Churches need to research).
• Virtual Colonoscopy offers little benefit.
• What are the best probiotics that will survive the digestive tract?
• Medical Ethics

Vicki's 20:20 Health Tips:

1. Trust your husband? LOL for laughter is the best medicine
2. Oldie's at lunch....another LOL, "         "   "     "        "

Caller: Stuart from L.A., CA - BPA concern and bladder stone.

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Prescriptions For Health - 2/20/12

Here is a summary of today's Prescriptions for Health show, 2/20/12:

• Who are most satisfied with their health care? Answer will surprise you!
• When is medical practice more harmful than helpful?
• Are pediatrician's really firing patients that don't get immunizations?!
• Do we really have a drug shortage crisis or is it a marketing ploy?
• Heart failure is linked to thinner bones and fractures.

Tips:

#1: Dangerously high levels of arsenic found in organic baby formulas and energy bars containing brown rice syrup because rice takes up arsenic from the soil.

#2: The Perfect Diet? LOL because laughter is the best medicine :)

Callers: 

JC from NYC: considerations for a pinched nerve in her neck

Harvey from San Francisco: Considerations for corns on feet. Discussion of the  www.CaliforniaNuclearIntiative.com with CA. power plants on fault lines and brittle pipes just waiting to explode from "The Big One" along with no nuclear waste storage.

Jackie from SF, CA: Discussion about cacao beans and black raspberries and health benefits.

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Prescriptions For Health - 2/13/12

• Whitney Houston's death and antidepressants
• It may be best not to do heart screening tests, unless there are symptoms.
• Is defensive medicine worth it, or is it just driving up health care costs?
• The most powerful anti-aging medicine is not a drug. What is it?
• The most powerful non-meat sources of iron that are key to it's absorption.
• Personal medical debt is on the rise.

Tips:  #1 Raw foods may be mislabeled....Mislabeling in general. 

         #2 Genetically engineered foods are in our blood. Are we a massive experiment?

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Prescriptions For Health - 2/6/12

• Can your diet soda really cause a heart attack or a stroke?
• Will our health insurance companies be forced to cover massages with the latest exciting new research findings?
• Another risk for ADHD?
• H. Pylori has risks and benefits. What's the latest this week?
• Drugs to prevent a stroke can be life threatening, especially in combination. Are their safer alternatives?
• What is free that can reduce the risk of allergies and eczema in children?

Vicki's 20:20 Health Tips:

• Why are avocados so healthy?
• Think Before You Pink......pinkwashing re. the marketing of pink ribbon products that contribute to the risk of breast cancer

Callers: Stella from MI: Allergies (hay fever) 

             Lily from SF, CA: Triclosan (antibacterial) dangers (found in her Microban electric toothbrush)

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Prescriptions For Health - 01/30/12

• Is having a dog better than an antidepressant?
• Omega 3's, like fish oil, can prevent and protect against nerve damage and have many other benefits.
• US epidemic of mental illness.
• Can the contrast medium used in cardiac catheterizations and CT scans be harmful to our health?
• Exciting news about stem cells helping heart attack victims.

Caller: John (Eugene, OR): intraocular pressure and glaucoma drugs vs alternatives (alternatives after station break) 

Vicki's 20:20 Health Tips (entertainment :) 

1. How is Norma?
2. 4 Rules of Life

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Prescriptions For Health - 01/23/12

• Should participation in vaccine trials be mandated?
• Mainstream and complementary/alternative medicine points of view
• Can your shower curtain make you fat?
• Practical advice for avoiding environmental toxins
• MD's fail to order preventive health screening
• Meprobamate AKA Miltown or Equanil is recalled in Europe after 50 years

Vicki's 20:20 Tips:

• Contaminated commercial baby wipes also contain toxins, including phthalates
• The Value of Time 

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Prescriptions For Health - 01/16/12

• Can chlorophyll prevent cancer?
• Can probiotics prevent a heart attack?
• If sweets increase inflammation, what prevents inflammation?
• Sugary sodas increase fat in surprising places.
• Can you die of a broken heart?
• The medical use of insects

Callers: Bobby (NJ): H. pylori...normal to have it. Can be healthy to protect against inflammation in gut. Problem if an ulcer, but other things to try before resorting to antibiotics. The hormone, Leptin, is important for appetite regulation and low leptin levels are related to lower incidence of heart attacks. James (CA): PLAC test for LP-PIAZ blood test results may indicate risk for stroke. Discussed live blood cell analysis and vascular stiffness test and heart rate variability test. 

Vicki's 20:20 Health Tips:

• Growing older :)
• Observations on growing older ..... LOL

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Prescriptions For Health - 01/09/12

• Osteoporosis News: Calcium deficiency may not be the cause
• A possible cancer breakthrough with a liver nutrient
• Another cancer breakthrough for acute myelogenous leukemia with fish oil!
• Dieting and eating disorders
• What ingredient in some candies can prevent cavities and gum disease?
• The ethics of over treatment in the Intensive Care Unit

Callers: Marie from Staten Island re. H.Pylori, Eric from New Jersey with more on H. Pylori 

Vicki's Health Tips:

• The Month after Christmas (LOL) 
• Great Truths to make us laugh at ourselves.

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Prescriptions For Health - 01/02/12

REPEAT PROGRAM: 12/19/11

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Prescriptions For Health - 12/26/11

REPEAT PROGRAM: 12/12/11

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Prescriptions For Health - 12/19/11

• UK study shows mammograms cold be dong more harm than good!
• PSA tests for prostate cancer vs. 3D/4D echo sonograms and MRI with spectroscopy
• Breath tests for detecting lung cancer as with sniffer dogs is 80-90% accurate
• The American Cancer Society is backing down on some cancer screening tests
• Drug treatments for Alzheimers disease are lacking. Is there effective treatment for it?

Callers: 

• John (Oregon) Wife's breast cancer returned and metastasized after 11 years. Discussed zometa and alternatives.
• Mary (Atlanta, GA) - Uterine cancer one year ago and now cancer free. Vegetarian, and other healthy life style measures to prevent recurance, etc. 

Vicki's Tips:

• Words of Wisdom
• Infant Discovered in Barn.

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Prescriptions For Health - 12/12/11

• What's more important, fitness or body weight?
• Should medical wrongdoing be a criminal act?
• Main stream medicine is finally looking to alternatives for peripheral neuropathy!
• Photon stimulator explanation and it's benefits
• Omega 3 Fish reduces heart attacks and strokes in young women.
• How long does a C. Difficile acquired hospital infection, lengthen your hospital stay?

Callers:

• George (Long Island) re. his peripheral neuropathy
• Mike (Michigan) re. the effects of smart meters (can post on meter that you don't want it)

Tips:

• Hypnotist at local senior center (LOL)
• Donald Trump on "Dumbo" Health Care

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Prescriptions For Health - 12/05/11

• Low HDL cholesterol does not cause heart attacks
• It is unusual for doctors and nurses to wash their hands in patient's rooms!
• Canadians recommend fewer mammograms, no self breast exams, and no clinical breast exams
• Food in childrens' hospitals is unhealthy
• Adverse drug reactions in seniors leads to 100,000 emergency room visits per year
• One in ten stent patients is readmitted within 10 days with serious outcomes
• Is your hip implant poisoning you?
• Replacement for low vitamin D prevents heart attacks

Vicki's Health Tips: 

• Does every body need milk?
• LOL: High tech in a sauna :)

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Prescriptions For Health - 11/28/11

• Regular use of slightly too much Tylenol (Acetomenophen) can be fatal
• Are we overselling cancer screening?
• Do we need another sleeping pill?
• Dreams heal
• Does exercise help with insomnia?
• Medical errors

Callers:

• Barbara (Nevada): husband is jaundice with anemia and bile duct blockage and history of gastric tumor.
• John (Oregon): 1973 President Nixon said the policy of the government was medicine as a business

Vicki's Health Tips:

• Old age LOL
• Pistachios pummel pretzels as a weight-wise snack also good for the heart

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Prescriptions For Health - 11/21/11

• Garlic oil is protective to the heart and more....
• How too much iron can accelerate the aging process
• Colonoscopy screening is questioned by the National Cancer Institute.
• More news on probiotics. Can they protect us from radiation damage? How do we choose a probiotic?
• Do the majority of Americans want to repeal our Health Care Reform?

Callers: 

• Tom from Illinois on prostate cancer
• Neil from N.C. on Vitamin D3

Nurse Vicki's 20:20 Health Tips:

• Laughter is the best medicine x2.
• How to maintain a healthy level of insanity :)
• The computer industry compared to the car industry :)

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Prescriptions For Health - 11/14/11

• MD's over-prescribe tests if they make a profit from them.
• Could probiotics prevent deaths from swine flu as an alternative to the flu shot?
• Are we getting sick from our disinfected water by-products?
• The U.S. still lags in health quality improvements.
• A government backed expert panel joins in the fight against skin cancer by pushing for a ban on tanning booths.

Callers: 

• Harvey (SF) - The importance of alkalinity in our diet. Caller puts spirulina in his water (no taste).
• Giselle (NY) -  Probiotic in a nasal spray not available yet. Asked for water filter recommendation. 

Health Tips: 

• Law suit for "fruit" snacks without the fruit. Shame shame on General Mills
• Living your life backwards?! 

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Prescriptions For Health - 11/7/11

Prescriptions for Health, 11/7/11:

• Occupy Wall Street needs revolution and evolution.
• Is getting drugs to market faster better or worse?
• Can you acquire a resistant microbe in your hospital room left from a previous patient?
• If you are taking this drug, don't take Aspirin.
• Does person centered care reduce the length of hospitalizations?
• How can we change our genetic predispositon to obesity?
• An ounce of raw nuts can affect our feel good, serotonin levels, in the gut and help with metabolic syndrome.

Vicki's 20:20 Health Tips:

• "Ticked Off" about Social Security and Medicare from Montana.
• Senior citizens and their ailments along with one "blessing"!?

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Prescriptions For Health - 10/31/11

Prescriptions for Health 10/31/11:

• Antidepressants are on the rise in the US.

• Occupy Wall Street

• Steroids and menopause are both tied to vitamin D deficiency

• Elder surgeries that don't improve quality of life.

Callers:

• Jack (Manhattan): sensory neural hearing loss with tinnitus

• Maxine (Marin): Update on Doc's hip surgery. Tx. for Sciatica.

• Stuart (LA): How to manage BPH (benign prostatic hypertrophy)

• Murray (Brooklyn): pneumonia

Tips:

• "Why I call him Honey" and tips on cognitive decline

•  What love means to a 4-8 year old

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Prescriptions For Health - 10/24/11

• A Doctor's experience as a patient including possible complications from hip replacement surgery
• What does "Occupy Wall Street" have to do with Health Care?
• Purple pill medicines for infants who spit up?! Tips for parents.
• Sound healing can affect the rhythm of our heart and much more.
• Raw fruits and vegetables can change the effect of our genes on heart disease.
• Environmental toxins linked to heart attacks and strokes
• Nutritional supplement overloading can have unwanted results, Vit. E - prostate cancer, Vit. A osteoporosis, etc.

Caller: Dave re. detoxification from metals. Film, "Sacred Science" about the sick being treated in Amazon by Shamans.

Tips: #1 Quotes to make us laugh at ourselves (laughter is the best medicine).
         #2 More reasons to laugh at ourselves

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Prescriptions For Health - 10/17/11

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REPEAT PROGRAM: 10/17/11