Dr. Howard Smith Reports

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/nt8vigRP6cA Women in the USA thinking about starting a family choose the summer as the ideal time for conceiving that baby.   A study just published in the Journal of Applied Econometrics gathered data from American birth certificates, census information, and survey responses. Women choose summer for conception and spring for birth since the early pregnancy and the new...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/ENyVyLkYnHY Heavy and obese 4 year olds more than double their chances of developing dangerously high blood pressures by age 6.   Spanish cardiologists followed a group of nearly 1800 4 year olds over a two year period and published their findings in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology . Those kids with new or persisting excess weight had a 2.5 higher risk of...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/9hHUCD2zq4k Don’t crowd a pregnant woman woman during her third trimester.   A psychological study, recently published in the journal Scientific Reports, demonstrates that a woman’s personal space expands the closer she comes to giving birth. The study quantitated the radius of the personal space, normally about an arm’s length from our bodies, in groups of women during...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/9QyMVsuc9Ig Exercising in the morning tones your muscles while exercising in the evening turbocharges your entire metabolism.   These observations come from studies by the University of Copenhagen and UC-Irvine in a mouse model. They found that the body’s circadian rhythm permits sunrise exercise to trigger a change in the muscle cell gene programming.   As a result, th...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/JtHpXj4VhGw Increasing your consumption of red meat by 3.5 servings a week will bump up your risk of   death by some 10%.   On the other hand, trading one serving of red meat for a serving of fish reduced your risk of death by 17% These findings come from a study of nearly 82,000 healthcare professionals recently published in the British Medical Journal .   The subjects...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/rsZcuBuW9-o Those whose blood pressures jump up when they see their doctors should be treated for hypertension or face twice the risk of dying from a heart attack or stroke.   They also have a 33% higher incidence of death from all causes. These conclusions come from a meta-analysis of nearly 26,000 subjects and 38,000 controls in 27 nationwide studies and just publishe...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/p0RaIAnS2mY Spending 2 or more hours a week outdoors in nature is associated with better health.   This conclusion stems from a study at Britain’s University of Exeter. The investigators studied close to 20,000 men and women, and they surveyed them for time spent in natural environments and their self-reported health status.   The odds of a person reporting excellent, v...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/xQ7aKxrVGVg A new meta-analysis just published by the Oregon Health and Science University identifies nearly 400 important changes in medical and surgical therapy guidelines as a result of over 3000 randomized, controlled studies.   This type of official policy shift by medical authorities is officially called a “medical reversal.”   I want you to know about the most im...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/IcqzirlDbU8 Health News You Should Use, the latest medical discoveries and commonsense advice that you can use in a practical way to keep yourself and your family healthy.   Here are this weeks stories : Chocolate Packaging Influences Its Flavor Teen Boys Have Different Eating Disorders Than Girls Constipation Frequently Unrecognized Food Tastes Better Sitting Down Air Is...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/cgwFQCj6DU4 A new mega-study by workplace psychologists at the University of Toronto shows that extroverts   have definite advantages at work.   These pluses appear applicable to any type of work and to all work settings. Extroverts’ advantages fall into 4 general categories: exceptional motivation, positive emotions, excellent interpersonal skills, and overall job perf...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/wM-_Cv1ZBLY Kids’ apparel all too often bears food graphics and two-thirds of those images depict unhealthy foods.   These are just some of the worrisome conclusions from a University of Michigan study now published in the journal Eating Behaviors . Developmental pediatricians there investigating the reasons for childhood obesity reviewed nearly 3900 clothing items in t...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/nnW6s-HjVxM A study from Switzerland’s University of Geneva pinpoints time of entry into high school as the watershed when teens increasing shun healthy physical activity in favor of increasingly sedentary pursuits.   This trend is likely responsible for our current child obesity epidemic as well as the recently reported statistic that kids’ cardio-respiratory capacitie...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/ClsxEzOQKCI Hey I get no respect!   Foods containing GMOs which stands for genetically modified organisms have become the Rodney Dangerfields of nutrition.   Zealots have waged disinformation campaigns falsely claiming that GMO food is dangerous despite support for it from the National Academy of Science and the World Health Organization.   Conclusive scientific studies...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/cJUGt190R_I The next time you comb the restaurant menu for a healthy choice, consider new data that shows consuming white meat OR red meat will result in higher blood cholesterol levels compared with downing an equal amount of plant protein.   The study comes from the University of California-San Francisco. The study also showed that both white and red meat increase cir...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/U3NkNIovZkc Despite the almost superhuman feats of athletic prowess displayed in marathons, Iron person contests, and the Tour De France, a new study from Duke University just published in the journal Scientific Advances suggests that that the human body has physical limits defined by our digestive system’s abilities to absorb calories.   A collaborative group from the...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/9W6waH_s72k Even a one hour variation in your day to day sleep pattern can wreak havoc on your body’s metabolism putting your health and life at risk. This conclusion stems from comprehensive study by sleep scientists at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in collaboration with those at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Previous studies have shown that i...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/jWWe90490ss When children and teens use food supplements for weight loss, muscle building, and energy stimulation, 40% of the adverse events that occur are associated with severe disability and death.   This sobering statistic comes from studies at the Harvard School of Public Health that reviewed the details of nearly a thousand adverse event reports that were compiled...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/9VpiXVEBhHA Using the internet can produce temporary but also permanent negative changes in your brain’s abilities to focus attention, create and sustain memories, and promote social bonding.   An international collaborative team from Australia’s Western Sydney University, Britain’s Universities of Oxford and Manchester, and Boston’s Harvard Medical School just released...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/Umk5s22qXZw The pronouns you use on a first date recounting stories of your past love lives exposes your emotional attachment style for all to see.   Psychologists at the University of California-Riverside have decoded the formula after aggregating 1400 observations derived from seven studies. The repeated use of the “I’ or “me” words reveals an anxiously avoidant perso...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/nGnwNFZs32g The all too common sight of smog reminds us that outdoor air is often hazardous.   A just published study from Washington State University’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering now alerts us to indoor air pollution dangers. As our homes become increasing air-tight with more chemical-laden dry wall and insulation, the air we breathe indoors beco...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/yjztmrDgqnc If you love to eat and you want to enjoy the most flavorful food, take a seat!   If you must consume foul tasting medicine or somewhat bitter vegetables, you’d better stand.   A new study from the University of South Florida’s marketing department studied the ways in which our balance system and our posture during eating affects our perception of food taste....

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/D9VspX8CT00 Nearly 30% of people have constipation and don’t even know it.   This is the conclusion of a study from King’s College-London just published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology. It seems like a simple issue, but public health authorities can’t even agree on how many of us do suffer from constipation.   Estimates range from 3% to more than 10 times th...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/xAilVbLJ0fg A teen boy’s obsession with body building and strengthening can be every bit as dangerous to his health as a teen girl’s obsession with her weight and shape.   This warning comes from the Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at the University of California-San Francisco. In contrast to girls’ dangerous practices of gorging and purging, boys tend to over...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/JPD_AErq2wQ When you chomp down on a chocolate bar or daintily take a bite of that truffle, the package that tasty tidbit came in has much to do with its perceived flavor.   Aussies at the University of Melbourne’s School of Agriculture and Food presented 75 study subjects with the same piece of chocolate wrapped in 6 different packages that cried out a variety of messa...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/_JJ0_t-I2wk Health News You Should Use, the latest medical discoveries and commonsense advice that you can use in a practical way to keep yourself and your family healthy.   Here are this weeks stories : Laundry detergent Pods Continue To Poison Children Video Game Weapons Make Kids Handle Real Ones Large City Air Pollution Clogs Your Arteries Arthritis Supplement Helps Y...