Healthy Medicine #143: New Thinking on Weight Control

Dr Zieve talks with author Kristin Wartman about how much obesity could be caused by malnutrition and her article "the Obesity Paradox." Commentator Martha Rosenberg weighs in on drugs with her article "New Weight-Loss Drugs Could Be America's Next health-Care Disaster." Kristin Wartman is a food writer living in Brooklyn, NY, focusing on the intersections of food, health, politics, and culture. Her writing regularly appears in The Huffington Post, Civil Eats, and Grist. Sheís also written for The Atlantic, Tikkun Magazine, Critical Quarterly, and The New Labor Forum. Read more at kristinwartman.com. Martha Rosenberg is a health reporter and commentator whose work has appeared in Consumers Digest, the Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, New Orleans Times-Picayune, Los Angeles Times, Providence Journal and Newsday. She serves as editorial cartoonist at the Evanston Roundtable. Her book Born With A Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks and Hacks Pimp The Public Health was published by Prometheus Books in 2012. Read more at opednews.com/martha.

Healthy Medicine #142: Do You Have a Junk Food Deficiency?

Dr Zieve talks with author and commentator Marta Rosenberg about how advertising is affecting our health choices and her new book, Born With A Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks and Hacks Pimp The Public Health. Martha Rosenberg is a health reporter and commentator whose work has appeared in Consumers Digest, the Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, New Orleans Times-Picayune, Los Angeles Times, Providence Journal and Newsday. She serves as editorial cartoonist at the Evanston Roundtable. Her book Born With A Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks and Hacks Pimp The Public Health was published by Prometheus Books in 2012. Read more at opednews.com/martha.

Healthy Medicine #141: Laughter Yoga

Dr Zieve talks with Jeffrey Briar about the effects of laughter and playfulness on health, and how to make laughter a regular practice. Jeffrey Briar is the director of the Laughter Yoga Institute, based in Laguna Beach, CA, and one of the leading American disciples of Dr. Madan Kataria, the world-renowned exponent of Hasya (Laughter) Yoga. He is also the founder of the first Laughter Club in the world outside India to meet seven days a week. The Laguna Laughter Club has had more than 20,000 participants, and has been featured extensively in both local and international press. Mr. Briar is probably the most experienced Laughter Exercise Leader in the world outside Asia. Read more at lyinstitute.org.

Healthy Medicine #140: Inflammation and Nutrition

Dr Zieve discusses inflammation and the effects of food with Bharat Aggarwal, PhD, author of "Healing Spices." Dr. Bharat B Aggarwal is a Ransom Horne, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Cancer Research, Professor of Cancer Medicine, Professor of Immunology, Professor of Biochemistry and Professor of Experimental Therapeutics, and Chief, Cytokine Research Section, in the Department of Experimental Therapeutics at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. He investigates the role of inflammatory pathways for the prevention and therapy of cancer. His group has identified over 50 compounds from dietary sources and traditional medicine that interrupt these cell-signaling pathways; have been tested in various animal models and some are in clinical trials. Dr. Aggarwal has received numerous awards including World Congress Science Prize from Oxygen Club of California 2010, Excellence in Research Award of McCormick Research Institute from the American Association of Nutrition, 2008, Outstanding Scientist Award from the American Association of Indian Scientists in Cancer Research, 2006, Ranbaxy Award for Outstanding Scientist of the year, 2004. Read more at curcuminresearch.org.

Healthy Medicine #139: The Diet Cure

Dr Zieve talks with researcher, clinician and author Julia Ross about why we stay fat, strategies for weight control and her book, The Diet Cure. Julia Ross MA is a pioneer in the field of nutrition, appetite, and mood, and a specialist in the treatment of eating disorders and addictions. In 1988 she founded The Recovery Systems Clinic in Mill Valley, CA, an outpatient program with a special focus on treating people with carbohydrate addictions, blood sugar problems, and dieting disorders. Ross is a popular and compelling speaker on nutrient therapy and biochemical rebalancing. Her best-selling book The Diet Cure has sold well over 100,000 copies in the U.S, Australia, and Europe. Read more at dietcure.com

Healthy Medicine #138: Male Hormones

Dr Zieve talks with Dr Jason Miller about men's health, hormones and andropause. Jason Miller LAc MAcOM practices acupuncture and oriental medicine at the Jade Mountain Medical Clinic in Ashland, OR, and teaches through practitioner consults, writing, and lectures around the US on botanical medicine, traditional Chinese medicine and chronic disease. Read more at jademountainmedicine.com.

Healthy Medicine #137: Beyond Antibiotics

Dr Zieve talks with Michael Schmidt, PhD, author of Beyond Antibiotics, about the shift from overprescription of antibiotics to a new focus on balancing our internal flora and maintaining good immune function. Michael A. Schmidt, Ph.D. has spent some 20 years in the field of molecular medicine, metabolic modeling, physiologic monitoring, and pattern recognition related to human performance. He is on the faculty of the University of South Florida College Medicine, where he lectures on molecular medicine, neuroplasticity, metabolic networks, systems theory, and clinical chemistry. Dr. Schmidt collaborates in primary research on human pathogens with the Infectious Disease Research Center at Colorado State University. This work is focused on microbial threats, such as MRSA, Dengue Fever, and others. He is also a Principal Investigator on a series of human performance studies at NASA Ames Research Center. In collaboration with scientists from the Southwest Research Institute, he is currently working to develop some of the early human attended biomedical experiments that will be launched by Virgin Galactic and XCOR, as part of the commercial suborbital space program. Dr. Schmidt is the author of a book on human host defenses, entitled Beyond Antibiotics: Strategies for Living in a World of Emerging Infections and Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria. He is a member of the Society for Neuroscience, the Metabolomics Society, and the Epigenetics Society, and the founder of Sovaris Aerospace. Read more at sovarisaerospace.com.