Dr. Howard Smith Reports

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/vr8B0vBAEoI Nearly one- quarter to one-third of women surveyed in two recent psychological studies admitted that they only set up a date to get a free meal.   This so-called “foodie call” phenomenon was analyzed by teams at Azusa Pacific University and UC-Merced. The researchers surveyed a total of nearly 1200 women # The two-thirds to three-quarters of women who had no...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/wyBHE3qHJ2o If you’re suffering stomach and esophageal ache from enjoying Buffalo wings or accidentally swallowing that red pepper hidden in your Szechuan chicken , the food scientists at Penn State have some first aid for you.   It turns out that the best liquid for neutralizing pepper burn is good old milk. The study looked at 72 subjects each using 7 different liquid...

Vidcast: https://youtu.be/Yi3WTYMJtcw This is 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 : Medical Reversals Make Some Therapy Obsolete Visiting Mother Nature Is Healthy White Coat Hypertension Is Dangerous Eat Lots Of Red Meat And Die Earlier Exercise...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/Dw1wOG3lpec Eating yogurt twice a week lowers a man’s risk of developing adenomatous, cancer-producing polyps by 26%.   Researchers studied colonoscopy data from over 88,000 participants in the continuing Health Professionals and Nurses Health Studies.   Sadly, the data did not show any beneficial association between yogurt consumption and polyps in women. The investiga...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/k8fA_BxQ9d4 If you avoid trying new foods, so called food neophobia, you might just be starving your body of proper nutrients leading to obesity and declining health.   Population data on some 4000 subjects was tabulated by two Finnish universities and just published in The American Journal Of Clinical Nutrition . Food fear was associated with a reduced dietary quality...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/TzbK0xNiGhM The pattern of the words you use on social media generally and on Facebook specifically can help your doctors and you identify your unique set of medical problems including diabetes and a bevy of psychological issues including anxiety, depression, and frank psychosis.   Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania processed the language in nearly 1 million...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/G6aozfdBiuk Big business is pushing yet another unhealthy, addictive habit on our teens and young adults.   We can now add tanning’s carcinogenic UV radiation to tobacco’s cancer-triggering smoke, vaping’s addicting nicotine, and alcohol’s liver damaging metabolites. Community medicine and public health investigators at the University of Colorado reviewed the advertisin...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/aD8qLWYK4Ms   The stereotype is a very chubby teen wolfing down chips and popcorn while endlessly perfecting Minecraft and Grand Theft Auto skills.   The latest meta-analysis of some 20 studies reviewing data from 38,000 gamers show that there is no correlation between child and teen video game use and obesity.   Wait!   There IS a link between gaming and excessive weig...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/2mYjnj9F5Tk As our planet overheats but you still should be exercising, a cooling vest may become more important than those high tech Nike shoes.   A study from the Hiroshima University just published in Frontiers in Physiology. Researchers there developed and tested an ice pack-laden vest.   They provided it to 8 professional soccer players whom they challenged   with...

Vidcast:   https://youtu.be/nWqioZcv0VA Is your Fitbit or your Facebook page better at predicting your state of health?   Computer scientists at the University of Notre Dame now say that the strength of your social network is better than fitness wearables at predicting just how health you are.   The investigators collected social info, Fitbit data, and a general health history from nearly 700 Notr...

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...