Healthy Bytes

This week, on the Healthy Bytes Podcast, we welcome to the microphone the College and Career Advisor at the Mexico High School, Rebecca Moppin, as she talks about an apprenticeship program she is launching to try and cover the gap years of age 17 to 21 for those students who want to explore a possible field to work in once they are out of high school and enter the workforce. The program is in its...

This week on the Healthy Bytes podcast, we welcome to the microphone Mexico Animal Hospital Dr. Treena DeVault, DVM, to discuss the recent outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1, or Bird Flu, The flu was found to have transferred to dairy cattle in 36 dairy cattle herds in nine US states. Dr. DeVault discusses what H5N1 is and how it affects those animals that become infected. A...

The Mid-Missouri area is looking at a possible multi-day severe weather threat across the entire area. On this special edition of the Healthy Bytes podcast, we managed to sit down with University of Missouri Atmospheric Sciences Professor and Meteorologist Eric Aldrich to discuss the threats on the table this weekend.

In this episode, it's a rollercoaster ride, in a good way, with Dr. Carl Abbott back to the microphone for another turn trying to explain all things eye-catching to our host Chris Newbrough.  This time, we talk about what is known as POTS and issues surrounding that. Dr. Abbott also brings to the microphone a new (at least to us) maladay that may take some more explaining to understand but, i...

This week, we welcome back to the microphone Missouri Department of Conservation Audrain County Agent Norman Steelman. This episode, with the weather warming, we are talking about boating safety, shoreline safety and even hunter safety! Please join us by downloading a copy of our podcast and enjoy! 

This week, the Healthy Bytes podcast welcomes back to the microphone District 43 Missouri State Representative Kent Haden to talk what's been happening in the state legislature concerning healthcare. Haden was on Spring Break from the Missouri House when he stopped by over a week ago when this episode was recorded and we talked about doulas, the possible expansion of state-paid residencies an...

This week on the Healthy Bytes Podcast, we welcome to the microphone Jake Kettle. He is the director of the Ellis Fischel Cancer Center Service Line and we are exploring the new partnership between ACHD and Ellis Fischel to offer a cancer screening clinic once a month on the first Friday of each month at the ACHD. 

March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month in the United States. This week on the program, we asked Mexico General Surgeon Dr. Joe Corrado to come in and visit the show and educate us on colon cancer and why it's so important to get screened! We hope the information presented in this podcast will provoke a few to remember to get screened! 

Welcome to a special podcast talking with University of Missouri Atmospheric Sciences Professor Eric Aldrich about possible severe weather in mid-Missouri this afternoon. Join him and Healthy Bytes host Chris Newbrough as they detail what can be expected as this weather system moves through the area. 

This week is Severe Weather Awareness Week for Missouri and, today, on the Healthy Bytes podcast, we welcome back our old friend Eric Aldrich to the microphone to discuss all things Severe Weather! Chris and Eric take an expanded look at each threat severe weather can bring to mid-Missouri and what you can do to help keep yourself and your loved ones safe! 

This week, we welcome back to the Healthy Bytes Podcast an old friend of the show, Mexico Parks and Recreation Director Chad Shoemaker. Chad comes in with news about what's new at the pool this year and a couple of projects the department will be working on over the summer. He also chats about his recent announcement that at the end of March he will be retiring from the City of Mexico. Thanks...

This week, we welcome back to the microphone Dr. Chris Kollath, DDS of Brick City Dental. On this episode, Dr. K talks about tooth varnishing, new equipment his office recently acquired and recent training he went to furthering his education on implants. 

This episode, we're happy to welcome back Dr. Carl Abbott to the microphone. This week, we once again dive into eyecare and different forms of surgeries there have been that have been developed over the years. Join us for a fun and informative chat about eyecare!

This week on the Healthy Bytes Podcast, we welcome Audrain County Prosecutor Jacob Shellabarger to the Healthy Bytes studio. During the podcast, we are talking about his and his office's involvement in the Audrain County Coalition On Reducing Drugs, or ACCORD, movement to address a burgeoning problem of opioid overdose and addiction in Audrain County. Please join us to hear what Shellabarger&...

This week, we bring in the Audrain County Health Department Administrator and CEO Craig Brace to the microphone to discuss new happenings at the ACHD in the new year! Join host Chris Newbrough and Brace as they discuss new programs and expansion of other programs at the health department, all with the resident's health in mind! And, don't let Craig fool ya when you hear the open. Our hos...

In this episode of Healthy Bytes, we welcome Eastern District Associate Commissioner Leslie Meyer back to the microphone to discuss a very important appointment she received as a member of the Missouri Association of Counties governing board. Meyer will sit on the Legislative Committee. We also talk about things going on in the county such as her work on sewage problems for smaller municipalities...

This edition of the Healthy Bytes podcast is a special one as we are going to focus solely on the upcoming winter storm forecast to hit the mid-Missouri area for Friday, January 12, 2024. To help us understand what may happen, we've asked a special friend of the show to help us out, University of Missouri Atmospheric Sciences Professor Eric Aldrich. On this episode, Chris and Eric discuss the...

This week, the Healthy Bytes Podcast welcomes C2C Executive Director Kerri Ferrari to the microphone to talk about a new initiative between Mexico native and Los Angeles Clippers NBA Head Coach Tyronn Lue and Partners for Rural Impact to help make sure Mexico youth are equitably getting a fair shot in life. Ferrari brings years of educational and judicial experience to the position that will, hope...

This week, on the Healthy Bytes podcast, we welcome Mexico Area Family YMCA Sports Director Seth Cook to the microphone. In this episode, we talk all about the programs the Mexico YMCA will be offering in 2024 and how you can participate as well! Whether its basketball, soccer or a game our host, Chris Newbrough, has never heard of called Futsal (kinda an indoor soccer thing! Who knew???), the Mex...

This week, we welcome Representative Kent Haden from the 43rd District of the Missouri House of Representatives to the Healthy Bytes podcast. In this episode, we talk with Representative Haden about the upcoming 2024 Missouri House legislative session that gets underway the first week of January and what issues the legislators will be wrangling with this upcoming session.  

This week on the Healthy Bytes Podcast, we welcome back Dr. Carl Abbott from Precision Eyecare in Mexico to the microphones as we kick off the podcast in a new recording location that we hope improves the sound of the show. In this episode, Dr. Abbott and host Chris Newbrough talk eye trauma, what you can do to minimize it, what to do when it happens and, what exactly eye trauma is. 

Joining us this week on the Healthy Bytes podcast, we welcome Vice President/Community Outreach Officer and Director of Prosper U Sarah Moreau to the microphone to talk about your financial health, especially during the upcoming holidays. Sarah is a certified credit counselor and leads the bank's Prosper U, teaching customers, and potential customers, about their credit and how it all works....

This week on the Healthy Bytes podcast, we welcome back Eric Aldrich to discuss winter weather and the troubles it can bring to mid-Missouri. Eric is the former chief meteorologist at KOMU 8 in Columbia and is now a professor in the Atmospheric Sciences program at the University of Missouri in Columbia. He brings his natural ability to break down complex discussions into simpler terms so the gener...

On this episode of the Healthy Bytes Podcast, we welcome Central Missouri Community Action (CMCA) Community Organizer Tad Dobyns to the microphone to talk all things LIHEAP, which is the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, that is administered in Audrain County by CMCA. Dobyns also talks about programs offered through the Help Center in Mexico and the Mexico Senior Center, of which Dobyns s...

As many of you may have heard, we lost a dear, dear friend to the show this past Sunday when we learned of the untimely passing of retired Mexico veterinarian, Dr. Don Hudson. We decided here at the Healthy Bytes Podcast to pay tribute to Dr. Hudson, or "Doc" as he liked to be called, by making available one of the funnest podcasts we did with him. In this episode, Doc, and our host Chri...