Healthy Bytes

In this weeks 'cast, we sit down with Audrain County Health Department Nutritionist and Lactation Consultant Greta Hopke. Greta talks to us about the importance of a child's nutrition, especially with a new school year starting up, and also addresses the importance of breastfeeding a child, if at all possible. It's a fun and informative look at a couple of topics that deserve a lot...

Join us this week as City of Mexico Parks and Recreation Director Chad Shoemaker joins us to talk about pool safety, but maybe the kind of pool safety you don't think much about but keeps him up at nights sometimes figuring out a way to keep your kids safe!

This week, we are joined by Audrain County Health Department Registered Nurse and Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program Coordinator Becky Wieberg. We talk all things WIC and some things associated with WIC in other programs we offer here at the health department.

This week, we are joined by Arthur Center Licensed Professional Counselor Patrick Pierson. We discuss substance abuse and addiction and substance abuse and addiction in times of pandemics. 

Join us this week as we welcome Audrain County Presiding Commissioner Steve Hobbs to the podcast to discuss the effects COVID-19 has had on the Audrain County economy and how the county commission and business community responded. 

This week on the show, we are joined by Dr. Kathleen Weaver, a board-certified Orthopaedic Surgeon serving central Missouri since 2001 and, the chair of the Audrain County Board of Health. Dr. Weaver brings her extensive knowledge into our studio this week to discuss Mobility and the Aging. 

This week's guest is the Arthur Center's Chief Executive Officer Terry Mackey to talk mental health and pandemics along with his institute's response to COVID-19 testing and vaccinations.

Dr. Simon McKeown, ACHD Medical Director and doctor at Noble Health Walk-In Clinic, joins the podcast and discusses COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the community.

Audrain County Health Department's Inaugural Podcast "Healthy Bytes"