Healthy Bytes

Dr. Carl Abbott with Precision Eyecare in Mexico, and Vandalia, joins us this week on the Healthy Bytes Podcast. This time, we are discussing Low Vision. What exactly is Low Vision? How does it affect a person's vision overall and what are the things to look for to identify Low Vision? These questions and more are answered in this episode!

On this episode, Audrain County Missouri Conservation Agent Norman Steelman joins us for an always fun talk about all things conservation in Audrain County. This time around, Steelman updates us on what he knows about the scheduled draining of Lakeview Lake coming up later this summer so a culvert can be repaired safely. He will describe how the draining will be accomplished, how the fish will be...

This week on the Healthy Bytes Podcast, we welcome back to the microphone Missouri House District 43 State Representative Kent Haden. On this episode, Haden and host Chris Newbrough discuss the end of the Missouri legislative session and, also, how President Trump's Big Beautiful Bill may be a slight headache for the State of Missouri and its budget. 

This week, we welcome back to the microphone Missouri District 43 State Representative Kent Haden. He discusses three issues the Missouri legislature is currently wrangling with at the state level dealing with prior authorization, pharmacy management businesses and Avian Influenza. 

In this special edition of the Healthy Bytes podcast, we welcome back in University of Missouri Atmospheric Sciences Professor and Meteorologist Eric Aldrich to discuss the Friday, March 14 forecasted severe weather event for Audrain County and mid-Missouri. Aldrich and host Chris Newbrough take a look at the hazards the area could see and talk about what those threats could pose to residents of t...

This week on the Healthy Bytes Podcast, it's a subject we try to do each and every time the seasons change in Missouri and, that's talking about upcoming possible changes in the weather in Missouri. Again, we are joined this week by one of our favorite meteorologists around, Eric Aldrich! Eric took time out of his busy, busy schedule to sit down with us to discuss the upcoming severe wea...

In this initial podcast to kick off Season 4 of the Healthy Bytes Podcast, we welcome back to the microphone Dr. Carl Abbott from Precision Eyecare in Mexico and Vandalia. During this episode, Abbott and host Chris Newbrough explore a multitude of statements about the human eyeball and get to the bottom of most of them as to whether they're truth or myth!  

To wrap up 2024, and look ahead to 2025, we thought we'd start out with a look ahead at what's expected in the 2025 Missouri State Legislature session that is fast approaching. So, this week, we welcome 43rd District State Representative Kent Haden to the microphone to address what he sees as issues dealing with health his chamber, and state government as a whole, may have to face in the...

While there is no threat to the public, we are posting a special edition of the Healthy Bytes podcast today to alert the public of a confirmed case of Chronic Wasting Disease in a deer harvested in the first week of deer season in southern Audrain County in November. Audrain County Conservation Agent Norman Steelman joins us to discuss the disease, where it was found and what the Conservation Depa...

In this episode of the Healthy Bytes Podcast, we welcome ACHD Outreach Nurse Jennie Beamer, RN, to the program. Beamer talks about the Health Risk Appraisal and the InBody programs the ACHD offers to the general public. Beamer explains what each program is and what the benefits are for our residents to participate in each for their own health and well-being.

In this week's episode, we welcome Mexico Public Safety Department Chief Brice Mesko to the podcast. In this episode, we talk all things winter and holiday safety. Everything from watching how you deep fry a turkey to why you shouldn't go out on the ice on a lake or pond and, everything in between. We'll tell you about how to make sure your holiday decorations bring you cheer instea...

This week on the Healthy Bytes podcast, we welcome back a fan and host favorite, Dr. Carl Abbott from Precision Eyecare in Mexico. This episode, we talk about something known as GA, or Geographic Atrophy, in relation to the eye. It's an intriguing conversation. We also kick off the podcast with a discussion about what parents, and adults, need to look out for in relation to vision and masks a...

This week, we bring back University of Missouri Atmospheric Science Professor Eric Aldrich to the Healthy Bytes Podcast to talk all things Winter weather! (We touch on Fall just to mention our mutual dislike for Pumpkin Spice but we focus on Winter!) What can we expect, what can we not expect and how something in the eastern Pacific ocean can really affect our weather here in good ol' mid-Mis...

In this episode, we welcome the owner of Senior Health Consultants Kristine Smiley and a special guest who will go unidentified. The reason we are not identifying him is because he is just here to tell his story and that's it. It's a story of how easily he was duped by a television commercial offering him add-ons to his Medicare coverage if he signed up with him. When he said no, they si...

This week, with the start of Fall on Sunday, we thought it would be time to bring back an old friend to the program. We invited Audrain County Missouri Conservation Agent Norman Steelman into the studio to talk all things hunter safety. Hunting season is getting set to ramp up in a large way in mid-Missouri and we thought it prudent to talk any safety issues hunters might face while trying to quel...

Our look at issues for Farm Safety and Health Week continues today with a talk with Sarah Palmer, the Audrain County Health Department's environmental health specialist. In this episode, we talk about how lagoons have to be safe in order for a farm to run efficiently and clean and, we also talk about how the EPHS department at the ACHD is responsible for making sure our food in county grocery...

Today, the second day of National Farm Safety Week, we welcome to the microphone of the Healthy Bytes podcast University of Missouri Department of OtoLaryngology Audiology Manager Morgan Hahn. She joins our host, Chris Newbrough, to discuss how the hearing of farmers can be affected by machinery and, yes, even animals, on a farm and how they can go about protecting their hearing from these dangers...

To kick off our focus on National Farm Safety Week this week, we start off with a discussion concerning drivers sharing the road with farm implements and machinery and farmers sharing the road with regular passenger vehicles. To help us understand how to do this more safe, we brought to the microphone Missouri HIghway Patrol Region F PIO Sgt. Kyle Green and Missouri Highway Patrol Region F Commerc...

This week, we bring to the microphone a new voice to the community of Mexico in the form of the new president and CEO of the Arthur Center, Brock Lough. He was hired in July as the former president and CEO Terry Mackey retired. Lough talks all things Arthur Center and gives us an introduction to himself and how he got into the behavioral health field! 

This week on the Healthy Bytes Podcast, with area Audrain County schools returning to the classroom today, we thought it'd be a great idea to sit down with a couple of ladies that could address what parents and students could do to help keep sickness from affecting their school year this year. Also, they offer great tips on how to deal with mental health issues and how to help kids eat right...

This week on the Healthy Bytes Podcast, we welcome back an old friend to the show to chat weather and what we can expect coming up in the next month or so. Early Fall or no?? Hmmm ... you'll have to listen to find out what University of Missouri Atmospheric Science Professor and former KOMU Chief Meteorologist Eric Aldrich thinks. Also, we include tips on how to stay safe when dealing with un...

This week, we welcome back Dr. Carl Abbott to the microphone to discuss more issues concerning eyes and vision. This time around, we discuss various infections that could impair or harm your vision. It's an interesting look, pun intended, into the world of eye medicine and problems faced by doctors in this realm. Oh, by the way, we wouldn't recommend eating during the podcast as some of...

This week, we welcome back to the microphone Dr. Carl Abbott as we talk all things eyecare. This episode, we take a look at nearsightedness ... the causes, the fixes and what to look for in children. 

This week on the Healthy Bytes podcast, we welcome back to the microphone Missouri District 43 State Representative Kent Haden. Rep. Haden updates us on things the Missouri legislature was able to accomplish this past legislative session, which just wrapped up in Jefferson City last month, and on things that didn't quite make it across the finish line like he had hoped. 

This week on the Healthy Bytes Podcast, we welcome Mexico Area Family YMCA and Vandalia Eastern Missouri Family YMCA Executive Director Brooke Oliver to the program to talk about an exciting new grant opportunity the YMCA is implementing now. It's called the National Community Inclusion Project (NiCIP) and is funded through the National Center on Health, Physical Activity and Disability. The...