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The cure for what ails you may just be inside you.
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File wellness_for_life/wl332.mp3
- Featured Speaker Robin Smith, MD & Max Gomez, PhD
- Book Title Cells Are the New Cure
- Guest Website Cells Are the New Cure
- Guest Facebook Account www.facebook.com/DrMaxTV www.facebook.com/stemforlife
- Guest Twitter Account @drmaxgomez @RobinSmithMD
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Guest Bio
Dr. Max Gomez has produced award-winning health and science segments for network stations in New York and Philadelphia. He has reported for Dateline, Today Show and 48 Hours. Over more than three decades, he’s earned nine Emmy Awards, three NY State Broadcaster’s Association awards and UPI’s “Best Documentary” award.
In addition to NYC’s "Excellence in Time of Crisis" for his September 11 coverage, Dr. Gomez has been singled out nationally for special award recognition by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and The National Marfan Foundation. He was also named the American Health Foundation’s “Man of the Year.” Dr. Gomez has helped organize and moderate three international scientific symposia on stem cells and cellular therapies, hosted by and held at the Vatican.
Max also trains physicians nationally in public speaking and presentation, speaking to groups as diverse as the National Cancer Institute and the College of American Pathologists. He is the co-author of Our Stem Cells – The Mysteries of Life and Secrets of Healing, a layman’s guide to the medicine of the future, showcasing a wide array of emerging adult stem cell breakthroughs.
Dr. Gomez also mentors undergraduate journalism students, as well as medical students and physicians who are interested in medical journalism.
Dr. Robin L. Smith is a global thought leader in the regenerative medicine industry, one of the fastest growing segments of modern-day medicine. She received her M.D. from Yale University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business. During her tenure as CEO of the NeoStem family of companies (NASDAQ: NBS), which she led from 2006 to 2015, she pioneered the company’s innovative business model, combining proprietary cell therapy development with a successful contract development and manufacturing organization.
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As a business leader, entrepreneur, doctor and philanthropist, Dr. Smith is uniquely positioned to lead the global healthcare industry into the cellular future, where the cells of our bodies will stand as the foundation for a wide array of cures. - Length (mins) 26:29
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Dr. Susanne Bennett
Chef Luca Paris joins Dr. Mike to discuss his latest savory recipe.
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- Segment Number 3
- Audio File code_delicious/1643cd3c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Luca Paris, Chef
- Organization Luca's Cafe
- Guest Website Luca Paris
- Guest Facebook Account www.facebook.com/luca.paris
- Guest Twitter Account @chefluca
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Guest Bio
Gianluca Paris is the Executive Chef and owner of Luca’s Mediterranean Café, a fine dining restaurant, The Market at Luca’s, offering light bistro style fare and gourmet take out and Luca's Culinary Journey Catering in Keene, New Hampshire, where he lives with his wife Lindy and his two children. He is the recipient of many accolades, including “Excellence in Dining” and “Best Service/Wait staff” every year since 2002 from Market Surveys of America, along with “Best Mediterranean Restaurant,” “Best Fine Dining Restaurant,” “Best Caterer in New Hampshire,” and, for four years, “Best Restaurant in the Monadnock Region” from New Hampshire Magazine.
Luca, as he is known to everyone, had a dream of opening his own restaurant since starting as a busboy at a family style Irish pub in New York at the age of 14. Having been born in Italy, it would have to be a Mediterranean style restaurant and he never lost sight of his dream. He graduated from Johnson & Wales University 1989, where he met his wife of 22 years.
He began his professional career at Doral Arrowwood, a hotel and conference center in Westchester County, New York, but his first experience with his own culinary business began at the age of 22 opening a gourmet store in New York City called Gianluca’s Salumeria. This business flourished and spun off a very successful catering business. While owning his own businesses, he honed his restaurant skills as the Manager of a fine dining Italian restaurant in Westchester County, New York before moving to Keene, New Hampshire, in the heart of New England where his wife Lindy grew up, to pursue his dream of a Mediterranean style restaurant.
Luca has always had a love for entertaining through his food so Luca has his own weekly talk radio show, What’s Cooking with Luca Paris, and has had such notable guests as Mary Ann Esposito, host of Ciao Italia and will be a featured chef on an upcoming episode of Ciao Italia. Luca has been a featured chef in the national culinary magazine Culinary Trends. He is a monthly guest on “Cook’s Corner” segment on ABC's WMUR Channel 9 in New England. Luca is also the host of his own cooking show, also titled A Culinary Journey with Luca Paris, locally produced for Cheshire TV, the local cable access station for Keene and surrounding towns and can be seen in the Manchester, New Hampshire area and around the country on cable access stations. His show is one of the most downloaded shows by cable access stations around the nation. Luca has created his own Culinary Journey You Tube Channel, where all the episodes from his TV show can be seen. Luca was also a featured chef on the Resort Network in 2008 and 2009 and is a Chef Ambassador and spokesman for Roland Foods, doing live cooking demonstrations and cooking features on the Roland Foods You Tube channel. Most recently, Chef Luca was selected to compete on the new Food Network show, Guy's Grocery Games, which aired in December 2013 and he won! In 2011 Luca was selected as a New Hampshire Celebrity Chef and nominated for Restaurateur of the year. Luca loves to entertain while teaching about culinary arts. His philosophy is that food should be fun and entertaining and some of the best dishes come from the mistakes! He begins filming his new show, Kids in the Kitchen with Luca Paris, in January 2014.
In addition to his culinary accomplishments, Luca is a serious community supporter and an advocate for charitable organizations. He was on the board of directors of the Keene Chamber of Commerce, and was instrumental in promoting several local restaurants in a special week-long television segments on the local ABC affiliate. He was a founder of the “Keene Snow and Ice Festival” and the reinvented “Taste of Keene” event which supported Meals on Wheels for the elderly. In 2011 and 2012, Luca organized Keene Restaurant week, bringing local restaurants together. Luca has also taught adult culinary courses and has been a guest lecturer at Keene State College. He supports a culinary scholarship that he created, “The Culinary Journey Scholarship Fund,” to help a local high school student going to hospitality or culinary school. He will be teaching classes at the famed Stonewall Kitchen in Maine in the summer of 2014.
Luca was awarded the top honor of New Hampshire Chef of the Year from the New Hampshire Lodging & Restaurant Association for 2013.
Luca feels he has just begun his culinary journey and enjoys sharing it with guests and audiences everywhere and is looking forward to his next adventure. - Length (mins) 26:30
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Dr. Mike Fenster
Chef Luca Paris joins Dr. Mike to discuss his latest savory recipe.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 3
- Audio File code_delicious/1650cd3c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Luca Paris, Chef
- Organization Luca's Cafe
- Guest Website Luca Paris
- Guest Facebook Account www.facebook.com/luca.paris
- Guest Twitter Account @chefluca
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Guest Bio
Gianluca Paris is the Executive Chef and owner of Luca’s Mediterranean Café, a fine dining restaurant, The Market at Luca’s, offering light bistro style fare and gourmet take out and Luca's Culinary Journey Catering in Keene, New Hampshire, where he lives with his wife Lindy and his two children. He is the recipient of many accolades, including “Excellence in Dining” and “Best Service/Wait staff” every year since 2002 from Market Surveys of America, along with “Best Mediterranean Restaurant,” “Best Fine Dining Restaurant,” “Best Caterer in New Hampshire,” and, for four years, “Best Restaurant in the Monadnock Region” from New Hampshire Magazine.
Luca, as he is known to everyone, had a dream of opening his own restaurant since starting as a busboy at a family style Irish pub in New York at the age of 14. Having been born in Italy, it would have to be a Mediterranean style restaurant and he never lost sight of his dream. He graduated from Johnson & Wales University 1989, where he met his wife of 22 years.
He began his professional career at Doral Arrowwood, a hotel and conference center in Westchester County, New York, but his first experience with his own culinary business began at the age of 22 opening a gourmet store in New York City called Gianluca’s Salumeria. This business flourished and spun off a very successful catering business. While owning his own businesses, he honed his restaurant skills as the Manager of a fine dining Italian restaurant in Westchester County, New York before moving to Keene, New Hampshire, in the heart of New England where his wife Lindy grew up, to pursue his dream of a Mediterranean style restaurant.
Luca has always had a love for entertaining through his food so Luca has his own weekly talk radio show, What’s Cooking with Luca Paris, and has had such notable guests as Mary Ann Esposito, host of Ciao Italia and will be a featured chef on an upcoming episode of Ciao Italia. Luca has been a featured chef in the national culinary magazine Culinary Trends. He is a monthly guest on “Cook’s Corner” segment on ABC's WMUR Channel 9 in New England. Luca is also the host of his own cooking show, also titled A Culinary Journey with Luca Paris, locally produced for Cheshire TV, the local cable access station for Keene and surrounding towns and can be seen in the Manchester, New Hampshire area and around the country on cable access stations. His show is one of the most downloaded shows by cable access stations around the nation. Luca has created his own Culinary Journey You Tube Channel, where all the episodes from his TV show can be seen. Luca was also a featured chef on the Resort Network in 2008 and 2009 and is a Chef Ambassador and spokesman for Roland Foods, doing live cooking demonstrations and cooking features on the Roland Foods You Tube channel. Most recently, Chef Luca was selected to compete on the new Food Network show, Guy's Grocery Games, which aired in December 2013 and he won! In 2011 Luca was selected as a New Hampshire Celebrity Chef and nominated for Restaurateur of the year. Luca loves to entertain while teaching about culinary arts. His philosophy is that food should be fun and entertaining and some of the best dishes come from the mistakes! He begins filming his new show, Kids in the Kitchen with Luca Paris, in January 2014.
In addition to his culinary accomplishments, Luca is a serious community supporter and an advocate for charitable organizations. He was on the board of directors of the Keene Chamber of Commerce, and was instrumental in promoting several local restaurants in a special week-long television segments on the local ABC affiliate. He was a founder of the “Keene Snow and Ice Festival” and the reinvented “Taste of Keene” event which supported Meals on Wheels for the elderly. In 2011 and 2012, Luca organized Keene Restaurant week, bringing local restaurants together. Luca has also taught adult culinary courses and has been a guest lecturer at Keene State College. He supports a culinary scholarship that he created, “The Culinary Journey Scholarship Fund,” to help a local high school student going to hospitality or culinary school. He will be teaching classes at the famed Stonewall Kitchen in Maine in the summer of 2014.
Luca was awarded the top honor of New Hampshire Chef of the Year from the New Hampshire Lodging & Restaurant Association for 2013.
Luca feels he has just begun his culinary journey and enjoys sharing it with guests and audiences everywhere and is looking forward to his next adventure. - Length (mins) 26:29
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Dr. Mike Fenster
Cholesterol isn't bad for your heart, contrary to what you may have heard.
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- Segment Number 2
- Audio File code_delicious/1702cd3b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Jonny Bowden, PhD, CNS
- Book Title Smart Fat: Eat More Fat. Lose More Weight. Get Healthy Now
- Guest Website Jonny Bowden
- Guest Facebook Account www.facebook.com/Dr.JonnyBowdenPhDCNS
- Guest Twitter Account @jonnybowden
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Guest Bio
Jonny Bowden, PhD, CNS, a.k.a. “The Nutrition Myth Buster” ™ is a nationally known board-certified nutritionist and expert on diet and weight loss. He has appeared on the Dr. Oz Show, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC, and CBS as an expert on nutrition has contributed to articles in the New York Times, Forbes, Daily Beast, Huffington Post, Vanity Fair, Men’s Heath, Prevention, and dozens of other print and online publications.
A popular and dynamic speaker, Dr. Jonny is the author of 14 books including The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth, Living Low Carb (now in its fourth edition), and is the co-author, with cardiologist Stephen Sinatra, of the controversial bestseller, The Great Cholesterol Myth: Why Lowering Your Cholesterol Won’t Prevent Heart Disease and the Statin-Free Plan that Will.His latest book, written with PBS star Steven Masley, MD, is Smart Fat: Eat More Fat. Lose More Weight. Get Healthy Now (paperback Jan 3, 2017 HarperOne). - Length (mins) 27:34
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Dr. Mike Fenster
Kiki Athanassoulias discusses what it means to eat holistically, from a physical, emotional and even spiritual perspective.
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File talk_healthy/tt159.mp3
- Featured Speaker Kiki Athanassoulias
- Organization Mindfully Edible
- Guest Website Meal Garden
- Guest Facebook Account https://www.facebook.com/MealGarden/
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Guest Bio
Kiki Athanassoulias is a holistic health advocate with a passion for superfood for super-benefits so that you can feel super-charged -- always!
She is the Director of Community and Success at Meal Garden, a health-focused meal planning app for easy recipe and grocery management.
Kiki is also the founder of Mindfully Edible, a resource for your journey exploring the wellness world - including articles, videos, and in-person workshops and retreats. - Length (mins) 22:20
- Waiver Received No
- Host Lisa Davis, MPH
You may know Drew Manning from his Fit2Fat2Fit podcast and television show, but you may not know about his previous struggles with porn and sex addiction.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 1
- Audio File talk_healthy/tt158.mp3
- Featured Speaker Drew Manning
- Organization A&E Fit to Fat to Fit
- Book Title Fit2Fat2Fit: The Unexpected Lessons from Gaining and Losing 75 lbs on Purpose
- Guest Website Fit2Fat2Fit
- Guest Facebook Account https://www.facebook.com/fit2fat2fit/
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Guest Bio
Drew Manning is the NY Times Best Selling Author of the book, Fit2Fat2Fit and is best known for his Fit2Fat2Fit.com experiment that went viral online.
He's been featured on shows like Dr. Oz, Good Morning America, The View and many more.
His experiment has become a hit TV show, called Fit to Fat to Fit, airing on A&E. - Length (mins) 19:39
- Waiver Received No
- Host Lisa Davis, MPH
Could you benefit from an exercise prescription?
Additional Info
- Segment Number 1
- Audio File talk_fitness/tft008.mp3
- Featured Speaker Beth Frates, MD
- Book Title Life After Stroke: The Guide to Recovering Your Health and Preventing Another Stroke
- Guest Website Wellness Synergy
- Guest Twitter Account @BethFratesMD
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Guest Bio
Beth Frates, MD, is trained as a physiatrist and a health and wellness coach. Her expertise is in lifestyle medicine, and she works to empower patients to reach their optimal level of wellness by adopting healthy habits. Elected to the Board of Directors of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, Dr. Frates is helping to shape the scope of this new specialty. She is an award-winning teacher at Harvard Medical School and developed and taught a college lifestyle medicine curriculum at the Harvard Extension School, which is one of the most popular courses offered at the school. As the Director of Wellness Programming at the Stroke Institute for Research and Recovery at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Dr. Frates has created and implemented a twelve-month wellness program for stroke survivors and their caregivers. This program is being replicated at Stanford and other academic teaching hospitals.
Dr. Frates is the co-author of the book, Life After Stroke: The Guide to Recovering Your Health and Preventing Another Stroke and co-author of three chapters on behavior change in different medical textbooks, as well as multiple journal articles on lifestyle medicine topics including exercise prescription, connection prescription, lifestyle medicine case series, and walking meeting for sustained weight loss. Her next book titled, Handbook of Lifestyle Medicine is due out in October 2017.
Dr. Frates is passionate about developing programs focused on lifestyle medicine and wellness. -
Transcription
Fitness Rx: The Exercise Prescription with Dr. Beth Frates
This episode of Talk Fitness is in partnership with The Vitamin Shoppe where knowledgeable health enthusiasts are standing by to help you thrive every day.
Lisa Davis (Host): So glad you are listening to Talk Fitness Today. You know, I really think that exercise should be prescribed, right, you go to your doctor, they tell you, you have all these things wrong and then they give you some medication and then you leave. No, I want them to sit and chat with you. I know I live in this like dream world, but what about if doctors could prescribe exercise? Well here we have a fantastic MD who I am a huge fan of. Her name is Beth Frates, MD. She is trained as a – how do you say that?
Beth Frates, MD (Guest): Yeah, it is not a common term, Lisa, so you are not alone. It is physiatry and most people do confuse it with psychiatry.
Lisa: I thought there was like a spelling error. Okay I mean people are used to me mispronouncing things but okay so physiatrist and a health and wellness coach. Okay, Dr. Frates, welcome to the show and now you have to tell us what is a physiatrist?
Dr. Frates: Yes, yes, what is a physiatrist? Exactly. And I love this specialty because it is a relatively new one. It really came into existence after the world wars because our soldiers were coming home with amputations, spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries and there was no one available to take care of them in the long term. It is really how our specialty started. So, physiatry also known as physical medicine and rehabilitation is the area of medicine that specializes in trauma to the central nervous system or musculoskeletal system. So, what does that mean? Trauma to the central nervous system, to the brain, so a traumatic brain injury, a stroke, or to the spinal cord, spinal cord injury and then when we get into musculoskeletal, that would involve amputations and it could also involve knee pain, head pain, back pain, elbow pain and the specialty really breaks down into two areas. Those that are involved with say nonsurgical orthopedic type injury and those that are involved with the central nervous system processes such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury. And my area of you may know this Lisa, initial interest was stroke.
Lisa: Yes, and you know I want to mention that you are also a health and wellness coach and you work in something called Lifestyle Medicine, which I’m a huge fan of. Tell us a little bit about lifestyle medicine and then let’s jump into this whole idea of physicians writing exercise prescriptions and then I want to get into the nitty gritty of how much we should be exercising, and you know a lot of the shows here on Talk Fitness Today are really about like people who already work out and how to build more muscle mass and should you be doing body weight exercises versus weight training versus this. But I want to get just like to the basics for like the everyday person too.
Dr. Frates: Okay, terrific. And this is all connected. So fortunately, we started with physiatry, physical medicine and rehab and in that specialty, we actually write physical therapy prescriptions which is another way of writing an exercise prescription, but it is specific for a stroke survivor or a traumatic injury survivor. Out of this area, came lifestyle medicine or really my interest in lifestyle medicine to help people prevent stroke. So, lifestyle medicine is even newer than physiatry in fact, really it got on the map in I would say 2006 when our national college American College of Lifestyle Medicine started. And lifestyle medicine is the area of medicine that works with our lifestyles meaning our feet, fingers and forks, meaning how we move with our feet, what we do with our fingers and that is hopefully not put cigarettes in them, prevent putting any kind of cigarettes in our fingers and puffing and then our forks what we eat. It stretches beyond those three Fs feet, fingers and forks and goes into stress resiliency, sleep and social connection so those are our six pillars, but specifically exercise, and the exercise prescription and physical activity as a vital sign.
It has gotten a lot of attention in our field of lifestyle medicine. Because there is so much data to support the fact that exercise is as good as say ten or more medications. You probably know this, Lisa and probably a lot of your listeners know this, but exercise can help with cholesterol, it can help with blood pressure, it can help with glucose monitoring, if you have diabetes, it can lower your glucose levels and increase your insulin sensitivity. It can help with depression. It can decrease depressive symptoms and in fact, increase serotonin which is what a lot of antidepressant medicines do. It can lower anxiety levels and it can lower stress. It can also help us with our body composition. And it can help us in terms of our interest in sex and it opens up blood vessels which is helpful for all of our organs and it – if you think about that, already we have gotten probably ten medications there but if you are interested in stroke, it helps prevent strokes by increasing something called fibrinolysis. That’s the ability of the body, the blood to break up any clots. It can also increase our metabolism. It increases the number of mitochondria in your cells which means you will have more energy because mitochondria are the powerhouses, they are the workhorses, that’s how we get energy is through our mitochondria and when we get involved with exercise and routine exercise we can increase the number of mitochondria.
So, exercise is hopefully gonna be prescribed like you said, when you go to your doctor’s for an annual visit. You will leave with an actual prescription because it is that powerful and that’s what we promote in lifestyle medicine.
Lisa: Do you think that will ever happen actually? Do you think that the paradigm will shift enough that they actually will do that? Or do you think it is just I mean the healthcare system, there is so much chaos right now and it seems like I joked about in the beginning, it seems like a dream. But as long as people like you who are MDs who are in lifestyle medicine, there’s hope, right?
Dr. Frates: Yes. There really is hope. Now one thing that has changed and hopefully you have noticed this, and your listeners have noticed this. Physical activity is supposed to be a vital sign. So not only do you check your weight, your height, your blood pressure, your heart rate, these are vital signs, but we also ask patients how often are you exercising. What are you doing? What intensity is it and you ask about exercise. So that’s supposed to be a vital sign. May I ask you Lisa, if your doctor has ever asked you about exercise.
Lisa: I think so. It has been a while. But I think he has. Yeah. I think he just assumes I have because I’m in the health field and I am in pretty good shape. Yeah, I think he has asked.
Dr. Frates: And that is good. The thing about assuming though, is this is probably good for your listeners too in that I know they are probably very athletic as you said you are thinking about which type of exercise is best for you. But what we will all admit to and I love exercise, have always quite frankly, it is my own stress reliever that I can use, and I used through medical school at Stanford I would run every single day and it got me through. It is also great for cognition, focus, creativity. So, there are so many reasons why I personally use it as my own kind of self-medication and also why I promote it so much. But for people who love it like you, like me and many of your listeners; we also have sometimes in our lives where there are stumbling blocks, where there’s obstacles. For me it happened when I had my two boys and I was writing a book. My Life After Stroke book. I really was feeling overwhelmed and I wasn’t able to get out and do my jogs and it definitely affected me physically, emotionally, everything and I think when I went to see my physician that year I was hoping to brainstorm with her about what I could do but instead, she assumed like I guess your physician is doing that I was exercising because I had for so many years. But you really can’t make that assumption because things change in people’s lives and we have to be open to that. So, I would say hopefully next time you see your physician you will have a good conversation about your own exercise routine and I would invite listeners to bring it up with their physicians and say well you know I want to start exercising or I want to start high intensity interval training, do you have some ideas. Can we talk about it? And see how that goes. Because if the physician cannot talk about it, then perhaps they need to come to one of our continuing medical education courses and learn a little bit more about it. But by the patients bringing it up they can help push the system forward. Supply and demand, right.
Lisa: Oh, that makes sense. Yes. Oh, go ahead.
Dr. Frates: Oh, well the truth is, if there isn’t a box to check for insurance to cover, so for example, I think we should have PADD as a diagnosis. What’s that? Physical activity deficit disorder. So, once we give it a disorder, or a title, then we can check it off on a box for insurance to cover it and we can counsel on it and get reimbursed. Why do I mention that? Because physicians are overworked, overstressed and under reimbursed right now, so sometimes physicians avoid these conversations because they think it will take extra time and they won’t get reimbursed. So, if we can make it something that gets reimbursed, you know there is something called sedentary behavior. Have you heard of that term, Lisa and do you know what defines an individual that is sedentary? Have you heard of that one?
Lisa: I have heard the term, but I don’t know what exactly defines it. So, tell us.
Dr. Frates: Right, so we could use that, which means someone falls into sedentary category if they are not actively routinely exercising 30 minutes three days a week for three months straight. So, some listeners may fall into that category and that means you have a risk factor for heart disease. That’s clearly understood by American Medical Association, cardiologists, we know sedentary behavior is a risk factor. So, hopefully, it will get to the importance level where we are able to again, get reimbursed. Because I think that will influence how the physician practices. Personally, as a health and wellness coach, as you mentioned, I talk about exercise all the time. In fact, I walk with my patients when we have visits together. Right now, it makes me wonder if I am huffing and puffing what’s going on with me, but I am on my exercise workstation and what I have is a stationary bicycle and it has attached to it a laptop space and my laptop is right in front of me and I am actually bicycling while we talk. Because today is a tough day in terms of work for me to actually be able to get outside and get some activity.
Lisa: Oh, that’s so funny because I have a treadmill desk, but something is not working on it right now or I usually am walking. But really slowly, otherwise it makes too much noise. But that’s awesome, I wouldn’t even know if you didn’t tell me.
Dr. Frates: I was going to say; can you hear mine or did you notice my breathing?
Lisa: I was – you know you were speaking at a - now that you mention it because we have spoken before your cadence is a little and I was like hmm. I thought you were just being a little extra slow. Well not slow, you know what I mean.
Dr. Frates: Right, right. Yeah completely. So, I needed to explain that to you. But hopefully that answers some of the questions but what else can we dive into?
Lisa: Well, I would like to know more just like a basic exercise plan for people who are starting and how much is enough and yeah.
Dr. Frates: Good, okay. So, what we recommend for physicians to do when they are writing an exercise prescription is to write fitt prescription. What does that mean? F-I-T-T. So you would help the patient determine the frequency at which they would exercise, how many days a week, the intensity will that be low intensity, moderate intensity, high intensity then the amount of time that they will exercise each session and then the last T is type. What’s the type of exercise? And one might argue that’s the most important part of the prescription is what is the type because you have got to do something that is fun, that’s fun for you so that you feel motivated to go out and do it. That’s the key.
But looking at the prescription what we are striving for, what research has shown us, researchers, physicians, different exercise physiologists reviewed about 8000 studies, probably eight years ago now. And they came up with guidelines. So, for your health, we are striving to achieve 150 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity in one week. Moderate intensity means you can talk but you can’t sing. I’m probably at moderate right now where I am easily talking to you, but I probably can’t sing. If I could sing, I would be at low. If I couldn’t talk at all, I would be at vigorous. And for those listeners that enjoy vigorous physical activity and exercise, to get maximum health benefits; you can do 150 minutes of vigorous intensity exercise in the week. If you are going for regular to try to get health benefits, not as much as you can. To get as much as you can is 150 minutes of vigorous but you could do 75 minutes of vigorous and be getting your health benefits. Notice that’s half of what I said for moderate intensity I said you need to accumulate 150 of moderate intensity. Now to get maximum benefits, the research shows 300 minutes of moderate intensity exercise in the week will give you maximum benefits. Now can you go beyond that? And aren’t there really healthy athletic people especially professional athletes that go way beyond these guidelines? Yes, yes that is true. Is there too much exercise? Yes, research has shown that multiple marathons in one year can take a toll on the heart. So, on the heart muscle as well as on the arteries. So, it is something to be careful about.
But the dose if we are talking about a prescription, the dose that we are really looking for, for health is 150 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity in a week or 75 minutes of vigorous intensity in the week and then if you can go more and you want maximum benefits, you will double that, so you will do 300 minutes of moderate or 150 of vigorous in the week. Does that help?
Lisa: Yes. Now that is mix of cardio and some sort of weight training whether it be body weight exercises, lifting weights, using bands, using – okay.
Dr. Frates: Yeah. Great question Lisa. So that is for cardio. On top of that recommendation, we would like people to do two days of strength training. Now that could be with weights in the weight room. It could be your own body weight. It could be the bands, kettle bells, whatever you would like but two days a week and on nonconsecutive days. Now of course you can do them on consecutive days if you are working your upper body one-day, lower body the next day, etc. But not the same muscle two days in a row because you want to wait and let that muscle recover. So, it is actually the strength training is in addition to the 150 minutes of moderate or 75 of vigorous. And then, if we are really trying to be balanced, we are going to do flexibility exercises. Now you can do stretching after a workout and work on the flexibility that way and if you do something like yoga, you know you could get cardio, body weight strength training, flexibility and even balance all in one activity. Because a lot of the time, people hear oh, I have to do cardio, I have to do the strength training and now they are asking me to do flexibility and balance it is so much. But you can pick an activity where you get all those different types of exercises wrapped up in one.
Lisa: Yeah, I just started doing yoga after not doing it for a long time and it kicked my butt and it was all of those. It is everything.
Dr. Frates: It’s crazy, isn’t it?
Lisa: It is. It is. It’s hard but it’s great. It is really great. I have been doing Pilates for years which, I’m in an intermediate and I’m telling you, that’s pretty hard. It is not hard it’s intermediate.
Dr. Frates: And I think it’s important to hear that you were doing it then you stopped then you got back to it, but you were doing Pilates. I mean we change. Quite frankly, when I was in college and I was in medical school, I really thought yoga – who does yoga? Who has time to go to a studio for an hour and a half and do this, this is not for me and it wasn’t until after kids and really looking for stress reduction that I started it and I fell in love with it. So, I did not do yoga really until I would say 35. I had never done any yoga. So, we change. We evolve and so do our preferences for exercise.
Lisa: Yeah, I also started swimming and that’s great too. Got my heart rate up, feel like I was using all my muscles. It was fantastic. Except for the chlorine.
Dr. Frates: I find it completely exhausting because I don’t have the right form. So, for me to go from one side of the pool to the other side of the pool, it is exhausting. I don’t have good form, so I get out of breath and it is something that I would love to take up actually this year. But I could run for an hour and be perfectly happy, but the one lap will do me in.
Lisa: Well, I can help you. I have great form. I really do. And I just want to say, this has been so much fun Dr. Frates the time goes by way too quickly. Tell us all the ways we can learn more about you and all the great work you are doing.
Dr. Frates: Oh, you are so kind, Lisa, thank you so much for having me on your show. I am on Twitter at Beth Frates MD. I’m on LinkedIn as well, Beth Frates MD and I have a website wellness-synergy S-Y-N-G-E-R-Y, wellness-synergy.com.
Lisa: Fantastic. I want to thank everyone for listening to Talk Fitness Today. You can follow us on Twitter and Snap Chat at talk fitness 2 day. You can find us on Facebook as well Talk Fitness Today podcast. You can listen on iTunes, iHeart, Stitcher, Tune In, Radio MD and you can follow me on Twitter at healthmediagal1. Thanks for listening everyone and stay well.
This episode of Talk Fitness was produced by The Vitamin Shoppe where trusted health enthusiasts help you thrive every day. Visit one of 800 stores across the country or head to vitaminshoppe.com for all your wellness needs. - Length (mins) 21:58
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Lisa Davis
Chef Luca Paris joins Dr. Mike to discuss his latest savory recipe.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 1
- Audio File code_delicious/cd118.mp3
- Featured Speaker Luca Paris, Chef
- Organization Luca's Cafe
- Guest Website Luca Paris
- Guest Facebook Account www.facebook.com/luca.paris
- Guest Twitter Account @chefluca
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Guest Bio
Gianluca Paris is the Executive Chef and owner of Luca’s Mediterranean Café, a fine dining restaurant, The Market at Luca’s, offering light bistro style fare and gourmet take out and Luca's Culinary Journey Catering in Keene, New Hampshire, where he lives with his wife Lindy and his two children. He is the recipient of many accolades, including “Excellence in Dining” and “Best Service/Wait staff” every year since 2002 from Market Surveys of America, along with “Best Mediterranean Restaurant,” “Best Fine Dining Restaurant,” “Best Caterer in New Hampshire,” and, for four years, “Best Restaurant in the Monadnock Region” from New Hampshire Magazine.
Luca, as he is known to everyone, had a dream of opening his own restaurant since starting as a busboy at a family style Irish pub in New York at the age of 14. Having been born in Italy, it would have to be a Mediterranean style restaurant and he never lost sight of his dream. He graduated from Johnson & Wales University 1989, where he met his wife of 22 years.
He began his professional career at Doral Arrowwood, a hotel and conference center in Westchester County, New York, but his first experience with his own culinary business began at the age of 22 opening a gourmet store in New York City called Gianluca’s Salumeria. This business flourished and spun off a very successful catering business. While owning his own businesses, he honed his restaurant skills as the Manager of a fine dining Italian restaurant in Westchester County, New York before moving to Keene, New Hampshire, in the heart of New England where his wife Lindy grew up, to pursue his dream of a Mediterranean style restaurant.
Luca has always had a love for entertaining through his food so Luca has his own weekly talk radio show, What’s Cooking with Luca Paris, and has had such notable guests as Mary Ann Esposito, host of Ciao Italia and will be a featured chef on an upcoming episode of Ciao Italia. Luca has been a featured chef in the national culinary magazine Culinary Trends. He is a monthly guest on “Cook’s Corner” segment on ABC's WMUR Channel 9 in New England. Luca is also the host of his own cooking show, also titled A Culinary Journey with Luca Paris, locally produced for Cheshire TV, the local cable access station for Keene and surrounding towns and can be seen in the Manchester, New Hampshire area and around the country on cable access stations. His show is one of the most downloaded shows by cable access stations around the nation. Luca has created his own Culinary Journey You Tube Channel, where all the episodes from his TV show can be seen. Luca was also a featured chef on the Resort Network in 2008 and 2009 and is a Chef Ambassador and spokesman for Roland Foods, doing live cooking demonstrations and cooking features on the Roland Foods You Tube channel. Most recently, Chef Luca was selected to compete on the new Food Network show, Guy's Grocery Games, which aired in December 2013 and he won! In 2011 Luca was selected as a New Hampshire Celebrity Chef and nominated for Restaurateur of the year. Luca loves to entertain while teaching about culinary arts. His philosophy is that food should be fun and entertaining and some of the best dishes come from the mistakes! He begins filming his new show, Kids in the Kitchen with Luca Paris, in January 2014.
In addition to his culinary accomplishments, Luca is a serious community supporter and an advocate for charitable organizations. He was on the board of directors of the Keene Chamber of Commerce, and was instrumental in promoting several local restaurants in a special week-long television segments on the local ABC affiliate. He was a founder of the “Keene Snow and Ice Festival” and the reinvented “Taste of Keene” event which supported Meals on Wheels for the elderly. In 2011 and 2012, Luca organized Keene Restaurant week, bringing local restaurants together. Luca has also taught adult culinary courses and has been a guest lecturer at Keene State College. He supports a culinary scholarship that he created, “The Culinary Journey Scholarship Fund,” to help a local high school student going to hospitality or culinary school. He will be teaching classes at the famed Stonewall Kitchen in Maine in the summer of 2014.
Luca was awarded the top honor of New Hampshire Chef of the Year from the New Hampshire Lodging & Restaurant Association for 2013.
Luca feels he has just begun his culinary journey and enjoys sharing it with guests and audiences everywhere and is looking forward to his next adventure. - Length (mins) 29:37
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Dr. Mike Fenster
Make cooking enjoyable.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 1
- Audio File code_delicious/cd116.mp3
- Featured Speaker Christopher Kimball, Author, Educator & Host
- Book Title Milk Street: The New Home Cooking
- Guest Website Christopher Kimball's Milk Street
- Guest Facebook Account www.facebook.com/cpkmilkstreet
- Guest Twitter Account @177MilkStreet @cpkimball
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Guest Bio
Christopher Kimball founded Cook’s Magazine in 1980 and served as publisher and editorial director through 1989. In 1993, Mr. Kimball re-launched Cook’s Magazine as Cook’s Illustrated and went on to found Cook’s Country magazine in 2004. Mr. Kimball is the host and executive producer of the two highest rated cooking shows on public (and cable) television: "America’s Test Kitchen," currently in its 16th season, and "Cook’s Country" which begins its 9th season this September. He remains as host of both shows through 2016. Mr. Kimball is also the host of America's Test Kitchen Radio, a weekly public food radio show (and podcast) broadcast on over 300 stations nationwide. Mr. Kimball is the author of several books including, most recently, Fannie's Last Supper. In 2015, Mr. Kimball left America’s Test Kitchen to found a new company, Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street, devoted to teaching home cooks fresher, better ways to prepare foods at home.
- Length (mins) 30:04
- Waiver Received No
- Host Dr. Mike Fenster
Chef Luca Paris joins Dr. Mike to discuss his latest savory recipe.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 1
- Audio File code_delicious/cd117.mp3
- Featured Speaker Luca Paris, Chef
- Organization Luca's Cafe
- Guest Website Luca Paris
- Guest Facebook Account www.facebook.com/luca.paris
- Guest Twitter Account @chefluca
-
Guest Bio
Gianluca Paris is the Executive Chef and owner of Luca’s Mediterranean Café, a fine dining restaurant, The Market at Luca’s, offering light bistro style fare and gourmet take out and Luca's Culinary Journey Catering in Keene, New Hampshire, where he lives with his wife Lindy and his two children. He is the recipient of many accolades, including “Excellence in Dining” and “Best Service/Wait staff” every year since 2002 from Market Surveys of America, along with “Best Mediterranean Restaurant,” “Best Fine Dining Restaurant,” “Best Caterer in New Hampshire,” and, for four years, “Best Restaurant in the Monadnock Region” from New Hampshire Magazine.
Luca, as he is known to everyone, had a dream of opening his own restaurant since starting as a busboy at a family style Irish pub in New York at the age of 14. Having been born in Italy, it would have to be a Mediterranean style restaurant and he never lost sight of his dream. He graduated from Johnson & Wales University 1989, where he met his wife of 22 years.
He began his professional career at Doral Arrowwood, a hotel and conference center in Westchester County, New York, but his first experience with his own culinary business began at the age of 22 opening a gourmet store in New York City called Gianluca’s Salumeria. This business flourished and spun off a very successful catering business. While owning his own businesses, he honed his restaurant skills as the Manager of a fine dining Italian restaurant in Westchester County, New York before moving to Keene, New Hampshire, in the heart of New England where his wife Lindy grew up, to pursue his dream of a Mediterranean style restaurant.
Luca has always had a love for entertaining through his food so Luca has his own weekly talk radio show, What’s Cooking with Luca Paris, and has had such notable guests as Mary Ann Esposito, host of Ciao Italia and will be a featured chef on an upcoming episode of Ciao Italia. Luca has been a featured chef in the national culinary magazine Culinary Trends. He is a monthly guest on “Cook’s Corner” segment on ABC's WMUR Channel 9 in New England. Luca is also the host of his own cooking show, also titled A Culinary Journey with Luca Paris, locally produced for Cheshire TV, the local cable access station for Keene and surrounding towns and can be seen in the Manchester, New Hampshire area and around the country on cable access stations. His show is one of the most downloaded shows by cable access stations around the nation. Luca has created his own Culinary Journey You Tube Channel, where all the episodes from his TV show can be seen. Luca was also a featured chef on the Resort Network in 2008 and 2009 and is a Chef Ambassador and spokesman for Roland Foods, doing live cooking demonstrations and cooking features on the Roland Foods You Tube channel. Most recently, Chef Luca was selected to compete on the new Food Network show, Guy's Grocery Games, which aired in December 2013 and he won! In 2011 Luca was selected as a New Hampshire Celebrity Chef and nominated for Restaurateur of the year. Luca loves to entertain while teaching about culinary arts. His philosophy is that food should be fun and entertaining and some of the best dishes come from the mistakes! He begins filming his new show, Kids in the Kitchen with Luca Paris, in January 2014.
In addition to his culinary accomplishments, Luca is a serious community supporter and an advocate for charitable organizations. He was on the board of directors of the Keene Chamber of Commerce, and was instrumental in promoting several local restaurants in a special week-long television segments on the local ABC affiliate. He was a founder of the “Keene Snow and Ice Festival” and the reinvented “Taste of Keene” event which supported Meals on Wheels for the elderly. In 2011 and 2012, Luca organized Keene Restaurant week, bringing local restaurants together. Luca has also taught adult culinary courses and has been a guest lecturer at Keene State College. He supports a culinary scholarship that he created, “The Culinary Journey Scholarship Fund,” to help a local high school student going to hospitality or culinary school. He will be teaching classes at the famed Stonewall Kitchen in Maine in the summer of 2014.
Luca was awarded the top honor of New Hampshire Chef of the Year from the New Hampshire Lodging & Restaurant Association for 2013.
Luca feels he has just begun his culinary journey and enjoys sharing it with guests and audiences everywhere and is looking forward to his next adventure. - Length (mins) 32:21
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Dr. Mike Fenster
