July 30, 2009 
Does the food industry condition us to respond to certain cues in order to get us to eat? Former FDA chief Dr. David Kessler joins Lionel to talk about this and his new book “The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite.”
July 29, 2009 
Osteoporosis: A debilitating disease that can be prevented and treated.
The National Osteoporosis Foundation offers this list of risk factors for osteoporosis:
Being older or female. While women are four times more likely than men to develop the disease, men also suffer from osteoporosis.
Having osteoporosis in the family.
Having a small stature or thin frame.
Being white, Asian or Hispanic.
Having a prior bone fracture.
Having low sex hormones.
Getting insufficient exercise.
Getting insufficient dietary Calcium and Vitamin D. 
Eating a diet that’s high in caffeine, sodium and protein.
Using alcohol or tobacco.
Having eating disorders or rheumatoid arthritis.
Using certain drugs, such as steroids.
July 23, 2009 (HealthDay News) — People who are overweight and obese are usually given higher-than-normal doses of radiation in order to obtain usable X-ray images, even though the long-term effects are unknown, new research contends.
“You need to get a certain amount of X-rays to go through the body in order to get an informative image, and excess weight impedes that,” explained the study’s lead author, Jacquelyn C. Yanch, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. “And there are very few ways around that problem, other than increasing an overweight patient’s exposure to radiation to improve the image quality.”
“Americans have gotten larger on average over the last half-century, and so as a result, our radiation dosages have gone up,” she added. “Exposure can be sometimes 20, 30, even 40 times as much for an overweight patient as for a lean person. And in general, we’re also getting more exams and more intensive exams.”
“But even so, we don’t actually know the impact of such high doses over time, or whether they’re dangerous, because we simply haven’t tracked the effect,” Yanch said. “So, it’s very important for us to start monitoring this exposure for each individual patient so we can get a handle on it.” X-rays account for the lion’s share of people’s exposure to radiation, the researchers note. 
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