Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD discuss six medical myths. Visit Your Own Health And Fitness
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A critical, independent voice on the politics and practice of health with Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD.
Layna Berman discusses the failure of food gurus to take into account the unique needs of each person. Visit Your Own Health And Fitness
Children, GM Food, and Chronic Illness
Pediatrician Michelle Perro, MD, author with Vincanne Adams, PhD of What’s Making Our Children Sick? about the epidemic of chronic illness in children, its origins in industrial agriculture, and the rise of food-focused medicine. Visit Your Own Health And Fitness
Deanna Meyer, Executive Director of Prairie Protection Colorado, discusses prairie dogs as a keystone species, the assault on them by settler colonialism, and the land justice movement. Visit Your Own Health And Fitness
Louis Slesin, longtime publisher of Microwave News: A Report on Non-ionizing Radiation, discusses why the National Toxicology Program changed its mind about the risk of cancer from cellphones. Visit Your Own Health And Fitness
Greg Glaser, JD, General Counsel for Physicians for Informed Consent, discusses the barriers that prevent patients from making informed decisions about vaccines and how physicians are organizing to overcome those barriers. Visit Your Own Health And Fitness
Land Justice
Justine Williams, PhD discusses the essays she collected as a Food First project and published as Land Justice: Re-imagining Land, Food, and the Commons in the United States. Visit Your Own Health And Fitness
Ignorance and Intuition
Jeffry Fawcett, PhD discusses how and why ignorance and intuition serve us well in an age drowning in information and the culture of expertise. Visit Your Own Health And Fitness
Health educators Layna Berman and Jeffry Fawcett, PhD discuss the biology behind the culture of fear in which we’re steeped and how to protect yourself. Visit Your Own Health And Fitness
Jeanne Lenzer, medical investigative journalist and author of The Danger Within Us, discusses the failure to ensure the safety of medical devices that change the way the body works. Visit Your Own Health And Fitness