Prescriptions For Health: Recent Episodes

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Dr. Len and Nurse Vicki discuss various natural and holistic health topics while taking your calls.

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· How do you know if the prescription your doctor recommends is really good for you?

· What everyone taking antidepressants needs to know.

· What is the best way to rid your body of toxins?

· What cooking oil can help reduce your blood pressure?

· What healthy food can cause autoimmunity?

Vicki’s 20-20 tips are:

· Facts to remember as we grow older

· Why eat root vegetables.

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  • Who benefits from the measles vaccine?
  • The shocking cost of health insurance paperwork.
  • How journaling can improve your health.
  • Why people with the same level of hypertension need different treatment?

Vicki’s 20-20 tips are:

  • Putting the fear of communicable diseases in perspective.
  • What does depression have to do with inflammation?

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· Why has the Sierra Leone government rejected a miraculous Ebola cure that is cheap and safe?

· What common foods are linked to getting lower grades?

· Why doctors over-diagnose and over-treat high blood pressure.

· What can predict our mortality 10-15 years early?

· Does how old you feel affect how long you’ll live?

Vicki’s 20-20 tips are:

· Think before you drink a latte.

· Why you should keep apple cider vinegar in your pantry.

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· Why has the Sierra Leone government rejected a miraculous Ebola cure that is cheap and safe?

· What common foods are linked to getting lower grades?

· Why doctors over-diagnose and over-treat high blood pressure.

· What can predict our mortality 10-15 years early?

· Does how old you feel affect how long you’ll live?

Vicki’s 20-20 tips are:

· Think before you drink a latte.

· Why you should keep apple cider vinegar in your pantry.

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  • Why is mainstream medicine claiming to include CAM when it doesn’t respect it?
  • Why is it important to spice up your meals?
  • Why is ADHD becoming a pandemic?
  • How can the holidays increase your risk for a heart attack?
  • What common medication does a pregnant mother take that can cause her baby to be fat at age 7?

Vicki’s 20-20 tips are:

  • The amazing benefits of bananas.
  • A healthy addition to your smoothie that will surprise you.

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· Why should we drug test doctors and nurses in training?

· Can smoking cause weight gain?

· How weight loss pills make you gain weight!

· Just because a company does public service does it mean they are producing healthy products?

· Why US healthcare continues to be ranked last among industrialized countries.

Vicki’s 20-20 tips are:

· Why include curcumin in your diet.

· A reminder about the health benefits of avocado seeds.

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  • What is the real meaning of physical symptoms
  • How do oncologists let their patients down?
  • Why you and your family are probably malnourished.
  • How artificial sweeteners cause type 2 diabetes and obesity
  • How electronic medical records are backfiring and affecting your doctor visits.

Vicki’s 20-20 tips are:

  • Special foods that must be organic!
  • The dangers of Splenda.

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  • Cutting through the confusion about Ebola.
  • Spirituality can be misdiagnosed as mental illness!
  • Chances are you’re having more colonoscopies than are recommended!
  • Common painkillers combined with other common medications can cause GI bleeding.
  • What is the major cause of fatal allergic reactions?

Vicki’s 20-20 tips are:

  • Ways to naturally boost your mood.
  • The link between allergies and farm antibiotics

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  • Is there a supplement in your medicine cabinet that treats Ebola?
  • A secret ancient natural remedy that prevents and treats gum disease.
  • If you have cancer, what can you do to help shrink your tumor?
  • The danger of gaining just five pounds.
  • Can cleaning your hands lead to a dreaded disease?

Vicki’s 20-20 tips are:

  • Do you need motivation to help you exercise?
  • Don’t take anything for granted!

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  • What does it really mean to stand up to cancer?
  • Can the US economy survive preventive health care?
  • When is it okay to take an antidepressant?
  • Is prayer the answer for anxiety?
  • Keeping up with Ebola.

Vicki’s 20-20 tips are:

  • Why you should put coconut oil on your shopping list
  • Big reasons to eat your leafy greens!

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  • • Foreplay can begin with taking out the garbage!
  • Should cancer screening be limited in the elderly?
  • Why you need to have a wellness coach.
  • Is prayer the answer for anxiety?
  • A simple, fun, and healthy solution to improve your children’s grades.

Vicki’s 20-20 tips are:

  • Recipe for natural mosquito repellent
  • A common kitchen herb that can enhance your memory and more.

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  • Is Ebola a scam?
  • When do the side effects of statins outweigh their benefits?
  • What exercise can be done for just 5 minutes a day that will extend life and prevent heart attacks and strokes?
  • You have cancer, now what?

Vicki’s 20-20 tips are:

  • Why it is important to check food labels
  • Smelling farts may be good for your health!

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  • Are statins castrating men?
  • Why HMO medicine has no future.
  • How nurturing feeds a baby’s brain
  • Good new for Alzheimer’s disease: as common nutritional supplement that improves memory.
  • More exciting benefits from taking probiotics.

Vicki’s 20-20 tips are:

  • Surprising facts about your brain.
  • Tips to keep your brain healthy.

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  • Lower blood pressure readings may not be better in treating high blood pressure and may be dangerous!
  • What is more important in a blood pressure reading, the top or bottom number and what are the dangers of each?
  • Why the most common blood pressure medication doctors prescribe can be shockingly dangerous to your health?
  • How our GI tract can protect against getting diabetes and obesity.
  • How can watching TV kill you?

Vicki’s 20-20 tips are:

  • Yogurts that are worse for your health than doughnuts!
  • Some of the amazing health benefits of pumpkin seeds.

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  • What you must know before starting cancer treatment: selling dishonesty?
  • Does chemotherapy cause brain damage?
  • Another good reason to drink red wine.
  • If your sleep rhythm is disturbed your health may be in danger if you eat certain foods.
  • What blood pressure medications can make you blind?

Vicki’s 20-20 tips:

  • Insects and weeds be gone!
  • Lessons life taught a 90 year old!

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  • Can Telemedicine give you the health care you want?
  • When can a high protein diet kill you?
  • When can sunlight help you lose weight?
  • How does chocolate save your life?
  • Shocking risks of taking an occasional sleeping pill.

Vicki’s 20-20 tips:

  • Some of the worst foods you can put in your body.
  • How can eating a salad make you tired?

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  • First impressions that can be harmful to your health!
  • What vitamin increases survival in Cancer?
  • Why is your ability to get in and out of a chair an important to your health?
  • What can we learn from analyzing earwax?
  • What is more important than blood sugar in predicting complications of type 2 diabetes

Vicki’s 20-20 tips are:

  • Beware of commercial sunscreens
  • Things to stop doing to yourself

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Here is the outline for the PRN.FM Prescriptions for Health Radio Show for Monday May 5, 2014:

  • What lifestyle strategies treat depression as well as drugs or psychotherapy?
  • What nutritional supplement can prevent colon cancer?
  • Can being slim be harmful to your health?
  • What is the key to prevent and treat all chronic diseases?
  • What delicious fruit can slow down cancer?

Vicki’s 20-20 tips are:

  • Homemade mosquito, ant, and flea repellant
  • Recipes for natural bathroom cleaners and air fresheners

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  • Regrets for the dying that are lessons for the living
  • What to do and say to a friend who is seriously ill
  • Is the Gulf War Syndrome a real disease or is it just in veterans’ heads?
  • Can erectile dysfunction be treated without medication?
  • What is the relationship between vitamin levels and heart disease?

Vicki’s 20-20 tips are:

  • Things to stop doing to yourself
  • Love-making tips for seniors

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  • Propaganda about saturated fat causing heart disease is shown to be untrue!
  • Is there more harm than good from mammograms in women over the age of 70?
  • Can fever-reducing medications such as aspirin, NSAIDs, and Tylenol increase mortality fro the flu?
  • What is the role of exercise if you have cancer?
  • Do you need a brain scan or MRI if you have recurring severe headaches?

Vicki’s 20-20 tips:

  • How can beer reduce your risk of getting cancer?
  • Top foods and herbs for healing cancer