Best Of: Is Your Addiction to Sugar Killing You?
The Staying Young Show 2.0 - Entertaining | Educational | Health & Wellness
Release Date: 03/04/2018
The Staying Young Show 2.0 - Entertaining | Educational | Health & Wellness
How much “social capital” have you raised? This is Judy Gaman and this is your Stay Young Medical Minute. We all need friends, the call at 3am type of friends that you can trust and count on. Research shows that people who have raised significant social capital will have less disease and live longer. I’m not talking about being friends on social media, but rather real connections where you spend time together laughing, talking, and doing activities. After all, we’re social creatures. If you’re not socializing enough, make strides to change that. More friends does equal a longer life!...
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When’s the best time to eat: before or after a workout? This is Judy Gaman and this is your Stay Young medical minute. New research out of Universities of Bath and Birmingham suggests that eating after a workout may be more beneficial than eating before. The researchers studied three different groups. The first group ate breakfast before exercise, the second ate after exercise, and the third group didn’t make any changes. All three groups were given the same meal. The group that ate after exercise burned up to twice as much fat than the group that ate...
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info_outlineShow Topic: Beating the Sugar Addiction
Co-Hosts: Judy Gaman, Mark Anderson, Walter Gaman
Guest: Dr. Jacob Teitlebaum
Segment 1
Intro – 30 sec.
Today’s show is all about sugar. I know you love all those sugary drinks, boxed cookies etc. BUT they do not love you back. Not only can sugar make you heavy, it can affect your body in so many ways. Later this hour we will have on with us Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum author of the book The Complete Guide to Beating Sugar Addiction.
Discussion 4.5 min.
- (Connect) Our own struggles with sugar through the decades
- How sugar is more prevalent – changing the pallets of the younger generations
- (Inspire) 5 days no sugar for Judy. Docs give encouragement
MUSIC FOR DOC SHOCK (JIM)
Do you have a large social network? Lots of friends? If not, you may need to get some. A new study out of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found a link between having a group of friends and living longer. Do you want to ward off diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and strokes? If so, get more active and start making friends. Remember, to get a friend you have to be a friend.
Call us at 844-well 100
Segment 2
Intro – 10 sec.
About tease – 1 min. – coming up – I know our listeners have had problems with the temptations of sugar, but coming up we have an amazing guest, Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum and he is the author of the Complete Guide to Beating Sugar Addiction. Including sugar fighting recipes that will help you get over the craving.
ANDERSON - Immortal minute – 2 min.
Start with sponsorship statement below!!!!!!!
“This Immortal Minute is brought to you by - Solis mammography – exceptional experience and exceptionally accurate results”
Ok listeners - you told us what you wanted us to talk about – so here it is. Finally, a way for you to beat that addiction with sugar. We have on with us a special guest, Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum author of the Complete Guide to Beating Sugar Addiction. Folks, this is the guy, Dr. Teitelbaum is the senior author of the landmark studies "Effective Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia - a Placebo-controlled Study" and "Effective Treatment of CFS & Fibromyalgia with D-Ribose."
Discuss
- Why is this your passion? Why are you waging war on sugar
- Who do you see the most push back from?
- In your help people determine if they have a problem with sugar. How does that quiz relate to adrenal fatigue and for our listeners explain adrenal fatigue.
- We are big proponents of balancing hormones – not shocking that hormones play a huge role in our ability to resist sweets.
Tease 20 sec. - SHOUT OUT TO MILITARY, Facebook (stay young media group) , download podcasts – follow us on twitter @StayYoungMedia coming up - the 4 types of sugar addiction and an easy recipe that you can use today to help reduce your sugar craving.
Segment 3
Intro – 15 sec.
Judy – Tease the upcoming Dementia Defender 844-WELL100
We are on with Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum author of the Complete Guide to Beating Sugar Addiction. Grab a pen because we are going to share one of the recipes in the book here in a few minutes
Discuss
- Discuss the 4 types of sugar addiction (1) The Energy Loan Shark (2) Feed Me Now or I will Kill You (3) The Happy Ho-Ho Hunter (4) Depressed and Craving Carbs
- Place 1 cup of plain low-fat yogurt in a food processor and add 2 cups of frozen cherries, mix until creamy. Add 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract and add a small bit of freshly grated nutmeg. Continue mixing. If you need a crunch, add 2-3 tablespoons of chopped walnuts.
- What role does exercise play in beating the sugar addiction?
popular smartphone application "Cures A-Z." His website is www.vitality101.com.
Judy tease DD – grab a pen! 844-well100. Podcasts iTunes, stayyoungamerica.com – 45 sec.
Coming up Medical Mania Trivia and then at the end of the show - Dementia Defender Riddle of the day – your chance to win a free copy of the book Age to Perfection. Follow us on Twitter @StayYoungMedia
Exit – 30 sec.
Segment 4 –
Intro – sec 15
Judy Announcement tease DD 844-Well100 – 30 sec.
MEDICAL TRIVIA - Catie Norris (author of The Truth about Calcium)
- Which finger is responsible for 50% of your hand strength? (Pinky)
- How many minutes of oxygen can your lungs hold? 3, 5, or 8 (5)
- True or false. Most human babies are born with blue eyes. (True. The color of your eyes depends on the genes you get from your parents, but at birth most babies appear to have blue eyes. The reason behind this is the pigment melanin. The melanin in a newborn’s eyes often needs time after birth to be fully deposited or to be darkened by exposure to ultraviolet light, later revealing the baby’s true eye color.)
- True or false. Eating a big meal improves your hearing. (False. Eating a large meal temporarily diminishes your ability to hear certain pitches)
- When it comes to the nose, in general, who has wolf senses and can smell better – men or women? (Women and their sense of smell stays with them longer as they age)
Open discussion – what did we learn from today? Also – interesting cases of the week?
DEMENTIA DEFENDER
A professor became tired of his Whiz math student Judy always finishing assignments early
He thought he would put her in her place and yield at her to add up all the numbers from 1 to a hundred when she blurted out the answer ins 10 seconds he was amazed
How did she do it??
End Show
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