Healthy Options 3/1/17

Host: Rhonda Feiman
Co-producer: Petra Hall
Engineer: John Greenman

Program Topic: Searching for helpful and accurate medical & health care information on the internet.

Key Discussion Points:
a) How can the internet be helpful- or detrimental- in seeking out medical & health information?
b) How can you determine if you are at a legitimate website?
c) What guidelines should you be aware of, in evaluating websites?
d) How can you tell who created the website, where the website originated from, and whether it is a neutral source of information- or it exists to sell products?
f) What are the names of some reliable medical information websites?
g) How can medical libraries & librarians be helpful, in finding health & medical information?

Guests:
Christine Fleuriel, Medical Librarian
Chris Fleuriel and her colleague, Susan Bloomfield, contributed to the Healthy Maine supplement of the Portland Press Herald in June 2016, with an article entitled “Look up medical info on line- but carefully.”
www.pressherald.com/2016/06/12/look-up-medical-info-online-but-carefully/

Websites of interest:
The Medical Library Association publishes a list of Top Health Websites and it can be found at www.mlanet.org/p/cm/ld/fid=397.
MedlinePlus, medlineplus.gov, a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, is an outstanding, comprehensive source of reliable health information.
Another source of excellent, vetted health care information may be found at
libraries.maine.edu/mainedatabases/topic.asp?topic=Health This is MARVEL! Maine’s Virtual Library. One of the many useful databases included is “Health Source: Consumer Edition.” MARVEL can be accessed at any library or at home.
PubMed: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
Senior Health: nihseniorhealth.gov
Veterans’ Resources: www.myhealth.va.gov and www.veteranshealthlibrary.org

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Healthy Options 2/1/17

Host: Andree Bella
Engineer: John Greenman

Issue: Integrative Health

Program Topic: Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster, Peggy Huddleston

Key Discussion Points:
a) Mind-body techniques to prepare for surgery
b) Mind-body techniques to deal with anxiety, chronic pain and insomnia
c) Research which documents the benefits of mind-body techniques

Guest: Peggy Huddleston, author of Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster HealFaster.com

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Healthy Options 12/7/16

Host and Producer: Rhonda Feiman
Co-Producer: Petra Hall

Program Topic: Healthy Nutrition
Key Discussion Points:
a) What nutrients are essential for health?
b) How does stress affect our nutritional needs?
c) Does stress change our metabolism?
d) Why do we crave foods that harm us?
e) How do we work with changing our eating habits?
f) How does exposure to toxins in food, water and the environment affect our bodies?
g) What are antioxidants, and why are they important?

Guest: holistic nutritionist Dr. Judith Valentine.
Dr. Valentine holds a doctorate in nutrition science, and is certified as a Clinical Nutritional Analyst and is a Certified Nutritional Consultant. She also has received training as a specialist in Metabolic Typing.
Books: Co-authored by Dr. Judith Valentine and Dr. Janet Cunningham
Weight Solutions: The New Body-Mind-Spirit Approach
Dr. Judi Valentine is based in Camden, Maine.
For more info: www.judithvalentine.com

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Special Edition of Healthy Options 10/6/16

Host and Producer: Rhonda Feiman
Co-Producer: Petra Hall
Engineer: Amy Browne

Program Topic: Healthy Aging as the Silver Tsunami Approaches

Key Discussion Points:
a) What is the “Silver Tsunami”, and what does this mean for baby boomers, seniors, & our healthcare system?
b) How do our health care needs change as we age?
c) What lifestyle habits should we cultivate in order to stay well?
d) What do baby boomers and seniors and their families need to know when interacting with the medical system?
e) What is a geriatrician? Why do we need one as we age? Why are there so few of them, in sharp contrast to the increasing population of seniors who need them?
f) What can we do as patients and as family to be sure that the treatable ailments of seniors are not dismissed as “just old age” or misdiagnosed?

Guest: Marcy Cottrell Houle, MS., coauthor of The Gift of Caring: Saving Our Parents from the Perils of Modern Healthcare
www.thegiftofcaring.net

Related websites of interest:
myelderadvocate.com/blog/

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