Tag Archives: Fish Oils

"Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery"

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Cathryn Jakobson Ramin
Crooked Outwitting the Back Pain Industry

This weekend on YOUR HEALTH® Adam and guest co-host Dr. Warren Perry talk with investigative journalist Cathryn Jakobson Ramin about her new book Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery.

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WCHL 97.9 FM

  • Saturday, December 2, at 9 a.m.
  • Sunday, December 3, at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
  • Monday, December 4, at 6 p.m.

KKAG Retro Radio 88.3 FM

  • Sunday, December 3, at 7 a.m.

 
 

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Re-Airing Alzheimer’s & Families with Lisa Gwyther

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Dr. GwytherThis weekend we’re re-airing one of our most popular shows about Alzheimer’s & Families with Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University and Director of the Duke Aging Center Family Support Program, Lisa Gwyther
 
Please tune in! This show will air:
• Saturday, July 7th at 9am
• Sunday, July 8th at 9am and 5pm
• Monday, July 9th at 6pm and 10pm
 
 
 
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Fish Oil and MUSCLES

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The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition published a study that looked at whether fish oil had potential benefits for muscle and exercise.

We know that people who get more Omega 3 fish oils have been found to have a lower risk of heart disease.  This study was done with a group of older women to see if they would be able to boost their muscle strength by adding fish oil supplements to their exercise routine.

The women were assigned to 1 of 3 different exercise groups where they performed strengthening exercises 3 times a week for 3 months.  The other groups had the same sort of exercise regimen but they also took 2 grams of fish oil a day to see if that had different health impacts.

Researchers found that doing the strength training for 3 months plus taking fish oil did help increase muscle strength among patients who did both things.  It is a bit unclear whether or not that translates into overall better health or if being a little stronger makes a difference to decrease accidents such as falls.

Although this was a good study, we would not recommend that you start taking fish oil if you have no other reason to (such as high triglycerides, elevated cardiac risks, etc.).  If you are taking fish oil already and are having no side effects, this may be an extra benefit.

Alzheimer’s and Families with Lisa Gwyther

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Dr. GwytherThis weekend on YOUR HEALTH®, Adam and Cristy will be joined by Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University and Director of the Duke Aging Center Family Support Program, Lisa Gwyther, about Alzheimer’s and Families.
For one-stop Alzheimer’s information, contact Lisa Gwyther at 660-7510 or at the Duke Family Support Program.
Register securely online for the Alzheimer’s Disease Prevention Registry, or call Michelle McCart at 668-1605

Please tune in! This show will air:
• Saturday, February 11th at 9am
• Sunday, February 12th at 9am and 5pm
• Monday, February 13th at 6pm and 10pm

 
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Should Pregnant Women Take Fish Oil?

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All pregnant women want healthy babies, and for many, they take supplements or vitamins that they believe will improve their infant’s ultimate physical or mental health.  For instance, many pregnant women believe that fish oil supplements can improve infant vision.  What we’re really talking about here is DHA, the ingredient found in fish oil, an Omega 3 fatty acid involved in brain and eye development.  As with any medicine (and yes supplements and herbal products are medicines), we need to ask: “Do they work”, “Do side effects exist”, and “Do the costs outweigh any drawbacks”.

In a recent issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Australian researchers looked at vision issues and fish oil through a randomized controlled trial in 200 four-month old babies, whose mothers had either taken fish oil capsules from mid-pregnancy until delivery or taken placebo vegetable oil pills.  According to this recent study, the fish oil had no positive effect on eye health.  This research actually builds upon published studies from last year that found that DHA did not impact a baby’s learning by age two.

Returning to ur previously state questions- should pregnant women be taking fish oil as a supplement?  We personally do not recommend that our pregnant patients take fish oil during pregnancy.  While no strong evidence states that fish oil is harmful in pregnancy, insufficient evidence of benefit exists to recommend it.

Translating Science into Better Human Health with Dr. Marschall Runge

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Marschall RungeDirector of the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute (NC TraCS), Dr. Marschall Runge joins YOUR HEALTH® this weekend to discuss translating science into better human health.

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– Saturday at 9am
– Sunday at 9am & 5pm
– Monday at 6pm & 10pm

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Paul Grundy and the Patient Centered Medical Home

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IBM’s Dr. Paul Grundy joins YOUR HEALTH for an exciting conversation about health care transformation and the patient centered medical home.

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About Dr. Grundy

Dr. Grundy is IBM Corporation’s Global Director of Healthcare Transformation, where he develops and executes strategies that support IBM’s healthcare industry transformation initiatives. Part of his work is directed towards shifting healthcare delivery around the world towards consumer-focused, primary care-based systems through the adoption of new philosophies, primary care pilot programs, new incentives systems, and the information technology required to implement such change.

An active social entrepreneur and speaker on global healthcare transformation, Dr. Grundy is driving comprehensive, linked, and integrated healthcare and the concept of the Patient Centered Medical Home. His work has been reported widely in the New York Times, BusinessWeek, The Economist, New England Journal of Medicine and newspapers, radio and television around the country. Dr. Grundy’s numerous awards including the U.S. Department of State Superior Honor Award.

Dr. Grundy presently serves on The Medical Education Futures Study National Advisory Board and is Chairman of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC), a coalition he lead IBM in creating in early 2006. The PCPCC is dedicated to advancing a new primary care model called the Patient-Centered Medical Home as a means of fundamentally reforming healthcare delivery, which in turn is essential to maintaining US international competitiveness. Today, the PCPCC represents employers of some 50 million people across the United States as well as physician groups representing more than 330,000 medical doctors, leading consumer groups and, most recently, the top seven US health-benefits companies. Dr Grundy is also the Chair of Health Policy of the ERISA Industry Committee.

Dr. Grundy has won numerous awards including Department of State Superior Honor Award for handling the crisis surrounding the two attempted coups in Russia, Department of State Superior Honor Award for work done in opening up all the new embassies after the fall of the Soviet Union, and Department of State Superior Honor Award for work on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa. He also won four Department of State Meritorious Service awards for outstanding performance in the Middle East and Africa. He received the Defense Superior Service award for outstanding service addressing HIV/Aids and The Defense Meritorious Service Medal.

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Vegetarian Diets with Dr. Suzanne Havala Hobbs

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This week Adam and Cristy talk with Dr. Suzanne Havala Hobbs from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management and the Department of Nutrition.

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