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There are many things I do not like about the middle eastern way of doing things, but I can not deny that the middle eastern and meditteranean diet is one of the best in the world! Research after research after research shows us that the meditterranean diet is the best for heart ... Show More

Many parents do not know their children is overweight. Once parents are told their child is overweight they tend to often times make several mistakes with the child which makes the process much longer and often ineffective. In this episode, I discuss how to handle this delicate s ... Show More

Did your mom express love through food? Does 95% of your fun family times revolve around foods? Did you all sit around and watch TV and snack? Can those things affect your child’s relationship with food? These seemingly harmless behaviors can affect your child’s emotional eating, ... Show More

Eight months into the pandemic, the coronavirus is on a rampage around the world. In Europe, a surge in cases has led to a new wave of lockdowns. The U.S. is entering its most dangerous period for the virus yet, and more than 10 million people have been infected. With Michelle Fa ... Show More

It's been about a year since the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic. The world has learned a lot in that time — about how the virus spreads, who is at heightened risk and how the disease progresses. Today, Maddie walks us through some of these big lesso ... Show More

In the last 17 years, there have been three new deadly coronavirus epidemics, but where do emerging diseases emerge from? This episode features audio from Where Do Deadly Coronaviruses Like MERS-CoV Come From? and The SARS Coronavirus and Wet Markets. Visit the video pages for al ... Show More

We’re kicking off our sixth season in the same way we ended our fifth: with another headline-making respiratory virus. But as our listeners know, not all respiratory viruses are the same, and it’s often those differences among them that play the biggest role in their spread or th ... Show More

As soon as the Coronavirus became a pandemic, people began making parallels to the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918, and reaching even further back to the black death of the middle ages. It makes sense--past pandemics may be our only reference point for whole populations being strick ... Show More

A little over two years into a pandemic, the last thing you probably want to see is headlines announcing yet another disease spreading across the globe. And yet, here we are. Beginning in May 2022, an increasing number of cases of monkeypox have been reported in many countries ar ... Show More

In early February and late March of this year, separate outbreaks of Marburg virus were declared in Equatorial Guinea and in the United Republic of Tanzania. For several months, news of these outbreaks and other sporadic cases made headlines globally, as public health officials w ... Show More

A year ago today, the World Health Organisation officially declared the coronavirus outbreak a "pandemic". In reality, it'd been clear for some time that the SARS-CoV-2 virus wasn't going to go away anytime soon. Cases outside China had been growing fast and Italy was going into ... Show More