 Dr. Alan Rubin's Healthcast will tell you what you need to know to live a long, quality life. Each program will add days to your life and life to your days. The emphasis will be on diabetes and thyroid disease but everyone can benefit from listening. Dr. Rubin is the author of Diabetes For Dummies, Diabetes Cookbook For Dummies, High Blood Pressure For Dummies, and Thyroid For Dummies.Primary Format :
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Healthcast #46: Smoking: The Saddest Addiction (6 Nov 2006)Healthcast #46 - Length 5 minutes. Young cigarette smokers never think it will happen to them but they are destined to suffer severe disease and early death.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Healthcast #44: Byetta (25 Sep 2006)Healthcast #44 - Length 8 minutes. In this healthcast you will learn: * The uses of a great new drug for type 2 diabetes called Byetta * The kinds of patients who should not use it * The properties of the drug that make it so valuableListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Healthcast #45: Inhaled Insulin (4 Oct 2006)Healthcast #45 - Length 8 minutes. This healthcast will introduce you to a major advance in diabetes care,
inhaled insulin. You will learn: * How to take insulin without shots * Who should and should not use this treatment * The effects and side effects of inhaling insulin.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Healthcast #43: Corn Is Killing Us (19 Jun 2006)Healthcast #42 - Length 6 minutes. This healthcast will tell you: * The probable reason for our current epidemic of obesity and diabetes * How we got into this mess in the first place * What we can do to get ourselves out of the mess Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Healthcast #42: Trans Fats (13 Jun 2006)Healthcast #42 - Length 7 minutesListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Healthcast #41: Fat In Fish (02 Jun 2006)Healthcast #41 - Length 8 minutes.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Healthcast #40: Insomnia (23 May 2006)Healthcast #40 - Length 8 minutes.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Healthcast #1: Aging Well (02 May 2005)Healthcast #1 In his very first podcast, Dr. Rubin discusses what you need to do earlier in life to ensure good health later in life.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Healthcast #2: Exercise Is Essential (09 May 2005)Healthcast #2: Exercise Is Essential In this week's program, Dr. Rubin answers the following questions: 1) What are the benefits of exercise? 2) Should you see a doctor before starting a program of vigorous exercise? 3) How much exercise should you do? 4) Which types of exercise should you do to meet your goals? 5) How vigorous should your exercise be? 6) How many calories will you burn? 7) What strategies can you use to stick to your program? 8) Do you need to stretch before you exercise. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Healthcast #3: Weight Loss and DietHealthcast #3: Weight Loss and Diet This Healthcast will help you to shed those pounds that are raising your blood sugar, your blood pressure and your health care costs. It tells you all you need to know to become a successful loser. Length: 15 minutes Topics discussed: 1)Successful losers- people who have lost weight and kept it off 2) The National Weight Control Registry 3) What is the healthy weight range? 4) Calculating your body mass index 5) Which popular diets have been scientifical ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Healthcast #4: Introduction to Diabetes (23 May 2005)Healthcast #4: Introduction to Diabetes- Length: 15 minutes. How many people have diabetes? What is diabetes? Why is it called diabetes mellitus? What are the complications of diabetes? Can these complications be prevented? What are the the characteristics of type 1 (or juvenile) diabetes? How did the isolation of insulin change the lives of type 1 diabetics? What are the the characteristics of type 2 (or what used to be called "adult onset") diabetes? What do you need to do to avoid the co ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Healthcast #5: Preventing Disease, Injury, and Death (Birth to Age 10) (30 May 2005)Healthcast #5: Preventing Disease, Injury, and Death (Birth to Age 10)- Length: 15 minutes. This and the next three healthcasts are about the things you need to know at every age to prevent accidents, disease and death. If you are a parent of a child from birth to age ten, you will find out in this healthcast: 1) The most common reasons children get sick 2) The kinds of physical examinations that should be done on children 3) The most critical lab tests 4) The key vaccines and drug treatme ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Healthcast #6: Preventing Disease, Injury, and Death (Age 11-24) (06 June 2005)Healthcast #6: Preventing Disease, Injury, and Death (Age 11-24)- Length: 10 minutes. This is the second of four healthcasts on the prevention of injury, disease and death at various ages. Using information obtained by major studies, the US Preventive Services Task Force has published "The Guide to Clinical Preventive Services". In this healthcast you will discover: *The major causes of injury, disease and death at ages 11-24 *Screening tests that are most effective for these problems *Co ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Healthcast #7: Preventing Disease, Injury, and Death (Age 25-64) (13 June 2005)Healthcast #7: Preventing Disease, Injury, and Death (Age 25-64)- Length: 10 minutes. This is the third healthcast on the topic of prevention of injury, disease and death at all ages. Using information obtained by major studies, the US Preventive Services Task Force has published "The Guide to Clinical Preventive Services". In this healthcast you will discover: 1) The major causes of injury, disease and death at ages 25-64 2) Screening tests that are most effective for these problems 3) C ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Healthcast #8: Preventing Disease, Injury, and Death (Age 65 and on) (20 June 2005)Healthcast #8: Preventing Disease, Injury, and Death (Age 65 and up)- Length: 10 minutes . In this healthcast you will discover: *The major causes of injury, disease and death beyond age 64 *Screening tests that ar e most effective for these problems *Counseling that can be done to avoid these problems *Vaccinations and drugs that prevent them. Music provided by Monica Herzig (acmerecords.com/garageband.com)Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Healthcast #9: Metabolic Syndrome (27 June 2005)Healthcast #9: - Length: 15 minutes. This healthcast is about the most common disease you know nothing about, the metabolic syndrome. Affecting more than 50 million Americans and 1 and 1/4 billion people worldwide, it: *Causes a high incidence of disease and death due to heart attacks and strokes *Is increasing as we get increasingly fat and exercise less and less *Is completely reversible with changes in lifestyle. Music provided by Monica Herzig (acmerecords.com/garageband.com)Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Healthcast #10: Introduction to the Thryoid (04 July 2005)Healthcast #10: - Length: 11 minutes. Introduction to the Thyroid will tell you what you need to know about this important but rarely appreciated gland: *How to locate it, what it looks like and how large it is *How your body controls its function *What it does generally and in every organ of your body. Music provided by Monica Herzig (acmerecords.com/garageband.com)Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Healthcast #11: Introduction to Hypothyroidism (11 July 2005)Healthcast #11: - Length: 16 minutes. Introduction to Hypothyroidism. This Healthcast is about hypothyroidism, the condition of low production of thyroid hormone, a condition that affects more than 20 million Americans and hundreds of millions of others outside the USA. It will tell you: *The signs and symptoms of hypothyroidism *The major causes *The current treatment. Music provided by Monica Herzig (acmerecords.com/garageband.com)Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Healthcast #12: Introduction to Hyperthyroidism (18 July 2005)Healthcast #12: - Length: 21 minutes. Introduction to Hyperthyroidism. This Healthcast will tell you what you need to know to deal with hyperthyroidism, the condition in which the thyroid gland makes too much thyroid hormone. You will learn: *The causes, signs and symptoms of hyperthyroidism and Graves' disease *How you and your doctor diagnoses this illness *The best current way to manage hyperthyroidism. Music provided by Monica Herzig (acmerecords.com/garageband.com)Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Healthcast #13: Large Thyroid Glands (25 July 2005)Healthcast #13 Large Thyroid Glands - Length: 10 minutes. This Healthcast is all about large thyroid glands, whatever the cause. You will discover: *The causes of a large gland or a bump on the thyroid called a nodule *How to tell if your gland is large and whether it should concern you *What you and your doctor should do about it. Music provided by Monica Herzig (acmerecords.com/garageband.com)Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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