What’s Available

A variety of resources are available.
 
Articles and Issues from the Progressive Health Observer in print or download a PDF.
 
Shows through Radio on Demand (listen online or download an MP3 file), Shows on CD (mailed to you), or Transcripts (download or in print).

How to Order Online

It's easiest, quickest, and cheapest to order online. Click here for prices. For details about a show, just click a button.

How to Order by Mail

You can also order by mail. Click here for details.

Shows

The Body as an Ecology
KPFA broadcast date September 1, 2009
Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD, authors of Too Much Medicine, Not Enough Health, discuss a core principle in their practice: the body works as an integrated whole. Selected health issues are used as examples including practical application of the principle to support and restore health. Resources: Too Much Medicine, Not Enough Health by Jeffry Fawcett and Layna Berman; Resources from Your Own Health And Fitness listed by topic
Shows on CDRadio on Demand Order by Mail
Blood Sugar
KPFA broadcast date April 28, 2009
Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD uncover the actual causes for metabolic disruptions that result in a diagnosis of diabetes and offer suggests for rebalance beyond drugs. Resources: Resources on diabetes; Essays by Malcolm Kendrick, MD A Sugary Tale and Berardinelli-Seip - Explain That and Type II Diabetes isn’t a Disease.
Shows on CDRadio on Demand Order by Mail
Exercise and Disease Prevention
KPFA broadcast date January 6, 2009
Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett PhD discuss the role of exercise in preventing disease including specific recommendations on forms of exercise and training regimes. Resources: Resources on exercise and musculoskeletal health; also resources on aging, cancer, heart health, insulin resistance, hormones, and stress
Shows on CDRadio on Demand Order by Mail
Weight
KPFA broadcast date June 24, 2008
Health educator Layna Berman examines weight loss including when it's healthy and when it's not, food addiction, allergies, carbohydrate sensitivity, hormones, and exercise. Resources: Resources on food and diet, hormones, exercise, and diabetes, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and obesity.
Shows on CDRadio on Demand Order by Mail
Doing the Simplest Things First
KPFA broadcast date June 3, 2008
Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, Phd discuss simple self care techniques for identifying and caring for developing illness. Resources: Resources on food, nutrition, and diet, resources on hormones, women’s health, and men’s health, resources on environmental health, resources on exercise and resources on mind, mood, and stress
Shows on CDRadio on Demand Order by Mail
Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment Part 2
KPFA broadcast date June 5, 2007
Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD discuss how to avoid common diagnoses and the medical interventions that are typically prescribed Resources: Resources on diabetes, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and obesity; Resources on cardiovascular and heart health; Resources on digestion and gut health; Resources on exercise and musculoskeletal health; Resources on aging;
Shows on CDRadio on Demand Order by Mail
Public Health and Toxic Waste
KPFA broadcast date March 27, 2007
David O. Carpenter MD, director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University of Albany, where he is also professor of environmental health and toxicology and former dean of the School of Public Health, discusses where and how people are exposed to environmental stressors and what role of public health institutions in protecting us. Resources: Institute for Health and the Environment www.albany.edu/ihe/; Resources on environmental health, resources on detoxification, resources on diabetes, resources on heart health, resources on chronic illness, and resources on EMF and radiation
Shows on CDRadio on Demand Order by Mail
Protect Yourself Against Stress-related Illness
An event presented on March 4, 2007
Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD discuss how stress affects health and illness. Topics include
how stress is at the core of common diagnoses such as diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, and autoimmune diseases;
how your body responds to stress and the cascade of metabolic events that lead to illness;
how to protect yourself from sources of stress;
how to increase your body's resilience in responding to stressors.
Resources: Resources on mind, mood, and stress; Resources on diabetes, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and obesity; Resources on cardiovascular and heart health; Resources on immunity;
Shows on CDRadio on Demand Order by Mail
The Obesity Epidemic: Science, Morality, and Ideology
KPFA broadcast date September 27, 2005
Michael Gard, senior lecturer in health studies at Charles Sturt University, Australia critiques the science and social stigma of the alleged obesity epidemic. Resources: The Obesity Epidemic by Michael Gard and Jan Wright
Shows on CDRadio on Demand Order by Mail
Challenging the Convention on Heart Disease and Diabetes
KPFA broadcast date April 26, 2005
An interview with Malcolm Kendrick, MD, who works as a doctor in the north of England and writes extensively on heart disease, obesity, and diabetes, arguing that the anti-fat, pro-carbohydrate conventional wisdom has promoted all three. Resources: Red Flags www.redflagsdaily.com and resources cardiovascular and heart health and resources on diabetes.
Shows on CDRadio on Demand Order by Mail
Feed Your Genes Right
KPFA broadcast date March 15, 2005
Nutrional journalist Jack Challem discusses his new book about a nutritional approach to turning off disease-causing genes Resources: Feed Your Genes Right by Jack Challem
Shows on CDRadio on Demand TranscriptOrder by Mail
Diabetes Prevention and Natural Treatment Update
KPFA broadcast date March 8, 2005
Health educator Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD of the "Progressive Health Observer" go over the latest research on prevention and natural treatment of diabetes. Resources: Resources on diabetes
Shows on CDRadio on Demand Order by Mail
Genetics, Folate, and Disease
KPFA broadcast date January 25, 2005
Orthomolecular physician Dr. Richard Kunin, MD discusses how treating genetically based nutrient deficiencies prevents disease. Resources: Orthomolecular Health Medicine Society www.ohmsociety.com; Orthomolecular Medicine News Service www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns
Shows on CDRadio on Demand Order by Mail
Atkins Diabetes Revolution
KPFA broadcast date October 12, 2004
Jacqueline Eberstein, RN, Director of Nutrition Information at Atkins Health and Medical Information Services discusses how the Atkins nutritional approach works to prevent and treat diabetes based on her 30 years of working with Robert Atkins, MD at his Atkins Nutritional Approach for Complementary Medicine. Resources: Atkins Diabetes Revolution by Robert Atkins, Mary Vernon, and Jacqueline Eberstein and Atkins Nutritional Approach for Complementary Medicine www.atkins.com
Shows on CDRadio on Demand Order by Mail
When Food Is Love
KPFA broadcast date June 15, 2004
Geneen Roth discusses conquering emotional eating. Resources: The Craggy Hole In My Heart And The Cat Who Filled It Geneen Roth www.geneenroth.com
Shows on CDRadio on Demand Order by Mail
Passing For Thin
KPFA broadcast date June 8, 2004
Frances Kuffel, literary agent discusses her book about losing weight, self-image, and overcoming food addictions. Resources: Passing for Thin: Losing Half My Weight and Finding Myself by Frances Kuffel www.franceskuffel.net
Shows on CDRadio on Demand Order by Mail
Inside the Obesity Epidemic
KPFA broadcast date October 28, 2003
Ellen Ruppel Shell, science writer and co-director of the Knight Center for Science in Journalism at Boston University, discusses her book "The Hungry Gene: The Science of Fat and the Future of Thin". Resources: The Hungry Gene: The Science of Fat and the Future of Thin by Ellen Ruppel Shell
Shows on CD Order by Mail
Health Decisions for Diabetes and Other Effects of Metabolic Syndrome
KPFA broadcast date October 7, 2003
Dr. Jeffry Fawcett, PhD, health decision consultant, educates listeners about risks and prevention strategies for diabetes and other critical diagnoses Resources: Resources on diabetes
Shows on CDRadio on Demand Order by Mail
Homeopathic Insulin and Recombinant Human Growth Hormone
KPFA broadcast date January 7, 2003
Dr. Barbara Brewitt, M.Div., PhD, CEO and Chief Scientific Officer of Biomed Comm Inc discusses the therapeutic use of homeopathic insulin and recombinant human growth hormone
Shows on CDRadio on Demand Order by Mail
Diabetes: Non-Pharmaceutical Treatments and Prevention
KPFA broadcast date July 16, 2002
Health Educator Layna Berman discusses preventing and treating type 2 diabetes without pharmaceuticals
Shows on CDRadio on Demand Order by Mail
Orthomolecular Medicine: Diagnosis and Treatment Strategies (two hour special)
KPFA broadcast date December 18, 2001
Orthomolecular Physican Dr. Richard Kunin MD compares conventional medicine to nutrient based medicine. Resources: Orthomolecular Health Medicine Society www.ohmsociety.com ; Orthomolecular Medicne News Service www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns
Shows on CD Order by Mail
Insulin Resistance, Women, and Strength
KPFA broadcast date September 19, 2000
Layna Berman, Health Integrationist reviews practical solutions
Shows on CDRadio on Demand Order by Mail
Obscure Diagnoses - Often missed ailments and their treatments
KPFA broadcast date June 13, 2000
Orthomolecular Physican Dr. Richard Kunin Resources: Orthomolecular Health Medicine Society www.ohmsociety.com ; Orthomolecular Medicne News Service www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns
Shows on CDRadio on Demand Order by Mail
Diabetes Treatment Options
KPFA broadcast date April 18, 2000
Dr. Richard Bernstein MD Resources: Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution by Richard Bernstein
Shows on CDRadio on Demand Order by Mail
Insulin Resistance and Aging
KPFA broadcast date June 29, 1999
Diana Schwarzbein MD Endrocronolgist Resources: The Schwarzbein Principle by Diana Schwarzbein
Shows on CD Order by Mail
Treatment of Accelerated Aging and Diabetes with Protein and Fat
KPFA broadcast date February 2, 1999
Dr. Ron Rosedale, M.D
Shows on CDRadio on Demand Order by Mail

Articles

Obesity, a Social Disease
PHO #14
If you can gain weight because of whom you know, can social networks affect other health issues?
Article IssueOrder by Mail
Pollution, Body Fat, and Blood Sugar
PHO #13
The dramatic rise in obesity and diabetes point clearly to environmental causes.
Article IssueOrder by Mail
Starving Children
PHO #13
Food advertising preys on children. It’s well researched and deliberate. And it’s bad for children’s health.
Article IssueOrder by Mail
Blood Sugar Derangement
PHO #11
Blood Sugar Derangement: A diagnosis like diabetes can expose people to dangers from the collection of drugs prescribed
Article IssueOrder by Mail
More Stupid Weight Loss Schemes
PHO #10
More Stupid Weight Loss Schemes: Researchers experiment with hormones to stimulate weight loss. It's just another failure to investigate root causes of metabolic imbalance.
Article IssueOrder by Mail
Double Diabetes
PHO #9
Double Diabetes: Doctors are treating more young people for type 1 and type 2 diabetes at the same time. Yet some obvious questions are not being asked.
Article IssueOrder by Mail
Fat and Death
PHO #7
Fat and Death: Trouble erupts at the CDC over whether too much body fat is a major killer.
Article IssueOrder by Mail
Metabolic Syndrome
PHO #7
Metabolic Syndrome Coming At You: A drumbeat is building for physicians to diligently identify patients with metabolic syndrome. Is this good for your health?
Article IssueOrder by Mail
Atkins Was Right
PHO #7
Atkins Was Right: A recent study shows that Atkins-like hunter-gatherer diets work for the reasons Atkins gave.
Article IssueOrder by Mail
Diabetes and Children
PHO #1
Diabetes is Taking Our Kids: Once a disease of old age, type 2 diabetes is attacking children
Article IssueOrder by Mail