Category: Podcasts
-
Air Pollution, Greenspace and Your Health
We’re learning more and more about the health impacts of air pollution and the benefits of greenspace. From smog that we can see to micro-particles that we can’t, continued exposure to air pollution can increase your risk for heart and lung diseases among others. We might think of air pollution as something beyond our control […]
-
Turn Your Exercise Program into a Lifelong Habit with Fitness Coach Karina Inkster
Regular exercise can reduce your chances of getting disease and also make you feel better. Yet nearly three-quarters of us are not active enough. For most of us, it’s not the starting of the exercise program that’s the problem, it’s keeping it going for the weeks, months and years, and building it into a lifelong […]
-
Unravelling the limits and benefits of exercise with sports cardiologist Dr. Saul Isserow
We’ve known for a long time that exercise is good for us. It prevents heart disease, cancer and early death. But what if you have heart disease already? Is exercise safe? And what about those stories we hear of athletes who after a life of intense training develop disease? Are they doing more harm than […]
-
Understanding Epigenetics and Nutrition: An Interview with Dr. Angela Devlin
All of us have DNA. In fact every cell in our body, whether it is in our skin cells or our blood cells has the exact same genes. Our genetic codes makes up who we are. Or does it? Just because we have a certain gene, it doesn’t mean it will be active. The field […]