Fitness Rocks

DASH Diet and the Risk of Heart Disease and Stroke

This week on Fitness Rocks I have a conversation with Dr. Teresa Fung of Simmons University in Boston, Massachusetts.  Dr. Fung and her colleagues recently published a paper in the Archives of Internal Medicine on how the DASH diet affects the risk of heart disease and stroke.  DASH stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension.  The DASH diet emphasizes increased consumption of fruits and vegetables, lower consumption of red meat and processed meat, lower consumption of sodium, and moderate consumption of low-fat dairy products.

Spark: An Interview with John Ratey, M.D.

This week on Fitness Rocks we have an interview with Dr. John Ratey, author of the best-selling book Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain.

Brain Rules

This week on Fitness Rocks I interview Dr. John Medina, author of the excellent new book Brain Rules.  Dr. Medina shares his insights into how we can achieve optimal brain health and function.

Anxiety and Heart Disease

This week on Fitness Rocks we continue on the theme of Fitness and the Brain in an interview with medical researcher Dr. Yinong Young-Xu.  Dr. Young-Xu recently presented a paper at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology on his research into the relationship between anxiety and the progression of Coronary Heart Disease.

Abdominal Obesity and the Risk of Dementia

Can that weight around your middle increase your risk of dementia as you get older?  Find out by listening to Fitness Rocks Podcast 092.


Music:

Charlie Crowe - Crowe Jam

Jon Schmidt - All of Me

Combating Childhood Obesity - an Interview with Dr. Steven Kelder

This week on Fitness Rocks I talk to Dr. Steven Kelder, a medical researcher at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston's School of Public Health.  He has worked extensively with a program called CATCH - Coordinated Approach to Child Health.  Dr. Kelder talks about the issues and problems of childhood obesity and the different ways researchers are trying to employ to reverse the trend toward higher rates of childhood obesity.  We also discuss some of the obstacles to success in reversing this very serious and expensive public health dilemma.

Moderate Alcohol Consumption and Your Health

This week on Fitness Rocks we have an interview with Dr. Dana King who has published his research on the health effects of adopting moderate wine drinking in middle age.  The study was published in the March 2008 issue of the American Journal of Medicine.

Trends In Coronary Heart Disease

Coronary Heart Disease has been the number one killer of Americans for decades.  There has been a trend toward lower death rates from coronary heart disease for the past few decades.  There has also been a trend toward higher rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes.  Will the trend toward lower rates of coronary heart disease continue - or not?

Secrets of an Exceptionally Long Life

This week on Fitness Rocks I review an article from the Archives of Internal Medicine that looked at the modifiable factors involved with living a long and robust life.  I think you will find the study very interesting and encouraging.

Skinny Songs - an Interview with Heidi Roizen

This week I have an interview with technology entrepreneur and songwriter Heidi Roizen about her new CD called Skinny Songs.  Heidi has a great story of turning her life around as she approached age 50 and recognized that she needed to lose a lot of weight. 

She'd used music throughout her life to motivate herself for business meetings and public speaking so it was natural that when she decided to get serious about a fitness program she wanted music that would help her stay with the program.  She quickly discovered there wasn't any music that spoke directly about the struggles she knew she would face in trying to change her lifestyle - so, being the good entrepreneur, she wrote her own songs and had professional musicians and music producers turn them into a fantastic CD.

Check out Fitness Rocks Podcast 087 to hear how Heidi used her skills as an successful business woman to adopt a healthy lifestyle, lose a  lot of weight, and create a fabulous CD.