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International Threats to Supplement Freedom
KPFA broadcast date January 26, 2010
Robert Verkerk, PhD of the Alliance for Natural Health, discusses international regulations that could restrict access to nutritional supplements and other natural health products. Resources: Alliance for Natural Health www.anhcampaign.org; Resources on nutrition, resources on orthomolecular medicine, resources on health politics, and resources on alternative healing.Food Safety
KPFA broadcast date November 24, 2009
James Turner, consumer protection attorney and chairman of the board Citizen's For Health, discusses the hidden dangers in pending food safety legislation that would impose fees and regulations on organic farmers and possibly restrict access to supplements and herbs. Resources: Citizens for Health www.citizens.org; resources on food, diet, and nutrition, on nutrients for prevention and treatment, and on health politics, advocacy, prevention, and social healthHealth Care Elsewhere
KPFA broadcast date November 10, 2009
Journalist TR Reid, author of The Healing of America, discusses his experience with health care systems outside the US and what this tells us about reform of America’s health care system. Resources: The Healing of America by TR Reid; Resources on health politics, advocacy, prevention, and social healthThe Vegetarian Myth
KPFA broadcast date September 29, 2009
Environmental activist Lierre Keith, 20-year vegan and author of The Vegetarian Myth discusses the many ways in which people have been led astray by ideas about vegetarianism as Lierre discovered through her own experience and research. Resources: The Vegetarian Myth by Lierre Keith; Resources on food, nutrition, and diet, resources on environmental health and resources on politicsThe 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 topicWhat the World Eats
KPFA broadcast date July 21, 2009
Photographer Peter Menzel and journalist Faith D’Aluisio discuss their book Hungry Planet ...“a photographic study of families from around the world, revealing what people eat during the course of one week.” Resources: Hungry Planet by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio; Resources on food, nutrition, and diet and resources on politicsAlternatives to Wireless Broadband
KPFA broadcast date June 9, 2009
Activists Doug Loranger and Sally Hampton discuss the substantial problems with wireless broadband and explain safer, more effective options. They also discuss the worldwide citizen activism against the proliferation of wireless technologies. Resources: CLOUT (Coalition for Local Oversight of Utility Technologies) cloutnow.org; TeleTruth (Alliance for Customers’ Telecommunications & Broadband Rights) teletruth.org; Resources on wireless technology and resources on health politicsRegulating Wireless Radiation
KPFA broadcast date March 17, 2009
Environmental consultant Cindy Sage of Sage EMF Design, lead author with David Carpenter of the Bioinitiative Report, discusses how Europe is responding to the current science about the dangers associated with microwave, wireless, and cellphone radiation. Resources: Bioinitiative Report www.bioinitiative.org; Collaborative on Health and the Environment EMF Working Group www.healthandenvironment.org/working_groups/emf; Resources on radiation and resources on health politicsFoul Fragrance
KPFA broadcast date March 3, 2009
Researcher Anne C. Steinemann, PhD, from the University of Washington, discusses the stew of hazardous materials in products scented by artificial fragrance. Resources: Anne C. Steinemann, PhD faculty page containing articles on fragance; California Environmental Health Network fragrance information; resources on environmental health and on detoxificationHealth Care Change
KPFA broadcast date January 20, 2009
James Turner, Chair of the Board of Director of Citizen's For Health, what really needs to change in health care. Resources: Citizens for Health www.citizens.org; resources on health politics, advocacy, prevention, and social health, resources on alternative healing, resources on homeopathy, and resources on nutrients for prevention and treatmentMedical Decision Making
KPFA broadcast date January 13, 2009
Oleg Reznik, MD, author of The Secrets of Medical Decision Making discusses how to avoid becoming a victim of the health care machine. Resources: Oleg Reznik, MD website www.olegreznikmd.com; The Secrets of Medical Decision Making: How to Avoid Becoming a Victim of the Health Care Machine by Oleg Reznik; Resources on alternative healing, resources on health politics, resources on aging, resources on cancer, resources on children’s health, resources on heart health, resources on chronic illness, and resources on hormonesReal Prevention
KPFA broadcast date October 21, 2008
Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD, discuss the false political promise of health care reform based on preventive medicine in contrast to real prevention and health promotion based on informed individual and collective action. Resources: Resources on health politics, advocacy, prevention, and social health, resources on alternative healing, and any of the other resources from our show.Safe Cell Tower Siting
KPFA broadcast date August 26, 2008
Journalist and environmental analyst B. Blake Levitt, author of Electromagnetic Fields and contributing editor of Cell Towers, discusses the wide range of risks associated with siting cell phone towers and strategies for siting them safely Resources: B. Blake Levitt’s website www.blakelevitt.com, Cell Towers and Electromagnetic Fields by B. Blake Levitt; resources on radiationWomen’s Rights and a Healthy Planet
KPFA broadcast date July 1, 2008
Robert Engelman, author of More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want, discusses how support for women’s reproductive rights is the best strategy for achieving a sustainable population. Resources: More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want by Robert Engelman and the book’s website morethebook.org; World Watch Institute www.worldwatch.org; Health and the Rise of Civilization by Mark Nathan Cohen; resources on women’s health and resources on health politicsWhy the US is Importing Toxic Products
KPFA broadcast date June 17, 2008
Mark Schapiro, author of Exposed, discusses how new laws protecting Europeans and no protections for Americans is causing toxic products to be dumped on the U.S. market. Resources: Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power by Mark Schapiro; Center for Investigative Reporting centerforinvestigativereporting.org/; resources on environmental health and on health politicsShopping Our Way to Safety
KPFA broadcast date May 13, 2008
Sociologist Andrew Szasz, PhD, author of Shopping our Way to Safety discusses the accelerating trend toward reducing risk individually by purchasing products and why such solutions are ultimately not effective. Resources: Shopping Our Way to Safety by Andrew Szasz; resources on health politics, advocacy, prevention, and social health, the documentary Unnatural Causes www.unnaturalcauses.orgFrom Radio Frequency to Bug Spray
KPFA broadcast date May 6, 2008
Protecting citizen health from corporate power. An interview with film makers Mary Beth Branagan and James Heddle from EON Ecological Options Network. Resources: Ecological Options Networ www.eon3.net; resources on environmental health, resources on radiation, and resources on health politics and advocacyLongevity and Socio-Economic Stress
KPFA broadcast date April 15, 2008
Tony Iton, MD, MPH, Alameda County Public Health Department Director and Health Officer discusses the lessons of the California Newsreel documentary and PBS series Unnatural Causes. Resources: Unnatural Causes www.unnaturalcauses.org; Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative www.barhii.org; resources on health politics, advocacy, prevention, and social health and resources on stressSustainable Health
KPFA broadcast date January 29, 2008
Jeffry Fawcett, PhD, founder and president of the Sustainable Health Institute, discusses sustainable health practices that enable people and their communities to thrive through the art of self care. Resources: Sustainable Health Institute www.sustainablehealthinstitute.orgSupplement Access: An Update on Proposed Regulation
KPFA broadcast date January 22, 2008
Attorney James Turner of Swankin and Turner and Citizen's For Health discusses our access to and freedom of choice in healthcare products, foods, and supplements. Resources: Citizens for Health www.citizens.org; resources on nutrition and on nutrients for prevention and treatmentResistance to Citywide WiFi
KPFA broadcast date July 24, 2007
Doug Loranger, from San Francisco Neighborhood Antenna Free Union, discusses how citizens are mobilizing against exposure to citywide wireless Internet access. Resources: San Francisco Neighborhood Antenna Free Union www.antennafreeunion.org; Resources on radiationOverdiagnosis 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; Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment Part 1
KPFA broadcast date May 22, 2007
Health integrationist Layna Berman and health educator Jeffry Fawcett, PhD discuss how to avoid common diagnoses and the medical interventions that are typically prescribed Resources: Should I Be Tested For Cancer? by H. Gilbert Welch; Resources on cancer; Resources on mind, mood, and stress; Resources on diabetes, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, and obesityGirls at Risk
KPFA broadcast date March 13, 2007
Leslie Acoca, MA, MFT, director of In Our Daughters’ Hands, discusses the health of incarcerated girls. Resources: In Our Daughters’ Hands: (415) 888-2211 and blckswans@aol.comProtect 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;
Single Payer Health Insurance
KPFA broadcast date September 5, 2006
Bree Johnston, MD physician-spokesperson from the group Physicians for a National Health Program will discuss the new California single payer health insurance system, new statistics on the uninsured released by the US Census Bureau, the ongoing health care crisis in the US, specific effects on local areas, and options for health care reform. Resources: Physicians for a National Health Policy www.pnhp.org ; Health Care for All www.healthcareforall.org ; OneCareNow www.onecarenow.orgTurning Healthy People Into Patients
KPFA broadcast date August 8, 2006
Medical writer Roy Moynihan discusses how medical institutions have invented diseases under the guise of prevention. Resources: Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients by Ray Moynihan and Alan CasselsBig Pharma Deception
KPFA broadcast date October 11, 2005
Physician John Abramson, MD discusses how Big Pharma has degraded health and medicine. This is a pledge drive show. Resources: Overdosed America by John Abramson, MDProtecting Yourself from the Health Care System
KPFA broadcast date April 5, 2005
Health educator Layna Berman and health strategies advisor Jeffry Fawcett, PhD discuss protecting yourself and your wishes in a health care environment. Resources: Resources on politics, advocacy, prevention, and social healthCommunity Health Strategies
KPFA broadcast date March 29, 2005
Leslie Mikkelsen, MPH, Managing Director of The Prevention Institute, founded to address complex health and social issues, one person at a time, creating comprehensive strategies that change the conditions that impact community health, including violence prevention, traffic safety, health disparities, nutrition and physical activity, and youth development. Resources: The Prevention Institute www.preventioninstitute.orgCritical Condition
KPFA broadcast date December 7, 2004
Investigative journalists James Steele and Donald Barlett discuss their new book about how the big bussiness of health care in America has degraded the practice of medicine. Resources: Critical Condition by James Steele and Donald BarlettThe Truth About the Drug Companies
KPFA broadcast date November 30, 2004
Dr. Marcia Angell, physician and former editor-in-chief of the "New England Journal of Medicine", discusses her book about how pharmaceutical companies deceive consumers. Resources: The Truth About the Drug Companies by Marcia AngellHealth and Economic Status
KPFA broadcast date March 16, 2004
Bruce McEwen PhD from Rockefeller University and Nancy E. Adler PhD from the MacArthur Network for Socioeconomic Health and the Department of Psychiatry at UCSF, discuss the effect of socioeconomic status on health. Resources: Socioeconomic Status and Health in Industrial Nations: Social, Psychological, and Biological Pathways edited by Bruce McEwen and Nancy Adler www.macses.ucsf.edu and The End of Stress as We Know It by Bruce McEwenThe Cost Of Pharmaceuticals
KPFA broadcast date October 14, 2003
Journalist Katherine Greider exposes the price manipulations of the pharmaceutical industry. This is a pledge drive show. Resources: The Big Fix by Katherine GreiderMaking Health Decisions
KPFA broadcast date August 19, 2003
Health decision consultant Dr. Jeffry Fawcett, PhD discusses how to make health and medical decisionsSocial Perspectives in Epidemiology
KPFA broadcast date August 27, 2002
Epidemiologist Steve Wing, PhD and professor of epidemiology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill discusses the impact of socioeconomic status on disease developmentAdvocating for Yourself in a Health Care Environment
KPFA broadcast date March 12, 2002
Health educator Layna Berman discusses strategies for advocating for your wishes and protecting yourself and loved ones in a medical setting with Elizabeth Sawyer, 32-year Zen Buddhist practitioner, parent of Wolf-Hirschorn Syndrome childTrust Us, We're Experts
KPFA broadcast date May 15, 2001
Journalist John Stauber exposes the spin doctors of industrialized science in his book Resources: Trust Us, We're Experts by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber Health Insurance Update
KPFA broadcast date June 15, 1999
Gregory MacDonald, Private Insurance BrokerHealth Insurance How-To
KPFA broadcast date August 25, 1998
Gregory Macdonald, Insurance Investigator/BrokerInnocent Casualties of the FDA
KPFA broadcast date August 12, 1997
Elaine Feuer discusses her book Resources: Innocent Casualties: The FDA's War Against Humanity by Elaine FeuerWorst Pills, Questionable Doctors
KPFA broadcast date March 17, 1997
Dr. Sidney Wolfe, MD, Resources: Worst Pills, Best Pills and Questionable Doctors Discipline by the State and Federal Governments by Sidney WolfeArticles
Sick Buildings
PHO #14
While scientists search for diagnostic criteria, increasing numbers of people suffer from sick building syndrome.Obesity, a Social Disease
PHO #14
If you can gain weight because of whom you know, can social networks affect other health issues?Overworked, Sick, and Injured
PHO #14
When and how much you work increases your risk of ill health, injury, and decreases your capacity to recover.Health as a Commodity
PHO #14
We’ve been conditioned to think that health comes from the individual consumption choices we make. But it also comes from what we do together.Health as a Commodity
PHO #14
We’ve been conditioned to think that health comes from the individual consumption choices we make. But it also comes from what we do together.Genetic Magic
PHO #13
Despite advances in our understanding of how genes actually work, many still cling to the misbegotten idea that genes cause disease.Social Medicine, Social Health
PHO #12
Social Medicine, Social Health: Health isn’t the absence of disease. But what is it and how do we get it?An Unhealthy Future
PHO #12
An Unhealthy Future: The biology of stress tells us why abandoning the social safety net will deliver a huge medical bill in the future.Medical Directives
PHO #6
Fit to Print? A review of resources for medical directives from Nolo Press.Health Care Bankruptcy
PHO #4
Health Care Bankruptcy: Most of the costliest health conditions are preventable with diet and exerciseThe Truth About the Drug Companies and Critical Condition
PHO #4
Fit To Print? A review of The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to do About It by Marcia Angell and Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business and Bad Medicine by Donald Barlett and James SteeleHealth Integration
New Book
The new book by Jeffry Fawcett, PhD and Layna Berman brings together over 60 essays on the politics and practice of health based on their health integration consulting practice and their work producing the Your Own Health And Fitness radio show.