Health for a Lifetime

Studies In Child Iq, Stroke, Heat Exhaustion, Etc.

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Participants: Don Mackintosh (Host), Dr. Neil Nedley

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Program Code: HFAL00236B


00:01 Welcome back.
00:03 We're talking with Dr. Neil Nedley.
00:04 We're talking about really a whole bunch of things,
00:06 but the last thing you mentioned
00:07 was fascinating to me and that is that
00:10 food needs to taste good.
00:11 It's kind of a misnomer when someone says.
00:15 In another words it's not right when they say.
00:17 Well, the reason I overweight is because
00:20 I just really enjoy my food really,
00:22 if your study is correct it maybe
00:23 that they are not enjoying their foods,
00:25 that's why they are overweight.
00:26 They are not enjoying it as much,
00:28 and they need more flavor in the food.
00:30 In fact that the study what I didn't point out
00:33 in that study is it showed when the flavor
00:35 was increased people actually lost weight.
00:39 They lost 35 pounds in a year
00:41 by improving the flavor of the food.
00:44 So some of these places you go where it's just
00:46 fast food and it's and it's what not the,
00:50 it's a blend thing and they just eat
00:52 bunch of it full of void, but it's not something
00:54 they jus savoring every bite, the better the food,
00:58 the more they slowdown and enjoy it.
01:01 That's part of it as well.
01:03 You know, it's also misnomer to think
01:04 that thin people don't enjoy food.
01:06 If you watch thin people eat,
01:09 they often be thoroughly enjoying their food.
01:12 And if you watch obese people eat,
01:14 sometimes you look at them and you realize
01:17 where is the enjoyment here, you know, what's you know,
01:20 why are they continuing to do this,
01:22 but they continue to actually eat more than
01:25 they should often due to the fact that the food
01:28 that they are eating is really not
01:31 is flavorful as it should be.
01:33 And so you know, unfortunately McDonalds
01:35 scores lows is not just on health
01:37 but on flavor as well.
01:40 Interesting. Well, let's go on,
01:42 there is another interesting story,
01:43 this time with heat exhaustion.
01:46 Is it, is it problem in America,
01:47 is something that, how can we know
01:49 when we're experiencing that.
01:51 What can we do to avoid it?
01:52 What are the ramification,
01:54 what are the potential problems?
01:56 Every year in the spring, summer, rainfall
01:58 they are significant problems that occur
02:01 with certain Americans as the result
02:03 of heat exhaustion and also it going to heat stroke.
02:08 Heat exhaustion Don is the most common
02:10 type of heat related ailment and tends to occur
02:13 in those that exercise.
02:16 And it occurs when a person looses too much fluid
02:19 or too much sodium in the heat.
02:23 Symptoms of heat exhaustion include dizziness,
02:26 loss of coordination, pale skin, profuse sweating,
02:30 nausea, vomiting, stomach aches,
02:33 and intestinal cramps, diarrhea
02:36 and muscle cramps that just don't go away.
02:39 So we're supposed to take it slow
02:41 when we're exercising.
02:43 Well, that's what the study has showed,
02:44 it's not we don't exercise.
02:47 In fact if you used exercising everyday
02:49 when the heat come, you still need exercise,
02:52 but just don't exercises much as you were doing
02:55 take it little slower and then
02:57 as the summer goes on, you will be able to exercise
02:59 basically as much as you did when it wasn't summer,
03:02 but your body has to acclimate to it.
03:05 And so most people that have heat exhaustion problems,
03:08 they are not acclimating overtime,
03:10 they are overdoing on a hot day
03:13 and they haven't gradually got into the summer
03:17 by increasing the amount
03:19 of exercise that they are doing.
03:20 And they are also not staying well hydrated.
03:23 And that's an important element
03:25 is staying well hydrated.
03:27 So, your sodium goes down, all this other different
03:29 things that really just wears you out.
03:32 Now can you recover from that I mean
03:35 true or false you have heat stroke
03:37 or heat exhaustions sort to speak.
03:39 You never quite the same again,
03:41 you don't have the same stamina,
03:42 is that true, is that is false?
03:43 Yeah, will let's take a look
03:44 at different the heat exhaustion
03:46 and that can of course lead to heat stroke,
03:48 those are two different term.
03:50 Heat stoke is actually fatal or can be fatal.
03:54 Symptoms of heat exhaustion, you know,
03:58 are the symptoms I mentioned earlier
03:59 and if you are feeling those symptoms,
04:01 the key is to get to shady cool spot,
04:04 drink fluids get out of heat and really hydrate
04:08 to prevent the more fatal heat stroke
04:11 and if you do have heat stoke you may not
04:14 completely recover from that even if you do survive it.
04:18 There can be some permanent damage that can occur
04:21 to the brain as the result of heat stroke.
04:24 And we got the source for that,
04:26 where is that from?
04:27 Well, this is from
04:28 the National Athletic Trainers' Association.
04:31 There was a meeting there Dr. Brendon McDermott,
04:35 athletic trainer at the University of Connecticut,
04:38 is the one who did the study and the analysis.
04:41 And I should mention on heat stroke
04:42 the definition of that is when your
04:43 temperature goes up to over 104 degrees and then you end
04:48 with confusion mental instability,
04:51 you can have an irrational behavior
04:53 and even combativeness during the heat stroke,
04:56 when you get to that type of irrational behavior
04:59 over 104 degrees that's really
05:01 the definition of a heat stroke.
05:06 Okay, anything else on heat stroke
05:08 before we go to another fascinating study.
05:11 Oh, I think that's the main point
05:12 that he was emphasizing is get acclimated
05:15 and gradually increase your exercise
05:18 and stay well hydrated.
05:19 Here is another one, you know, from time to time
05:22 the economy goes up, the economy goes down.
05:24 In this particular study look that
05:25 when the economy goes down and when it goes down
05:29 the study said there was
05:30 an increase in cosmetic surgery.
05:32 Yes, amazingly enough you know we've had downturn
05:35 economically in this country the last couple of years.
05:38 There is no doubt that it has occurred
05:42 every economist across the nation is talking
05:44 about the economic downturn that we have experienced.
05:48 And the interesting thing as you would think
05:51 the cosmetic surgery would go down during
05:53 this time because people are under the crunch,
05:55 you now, they are having less money to deal with.
05:59 But actually the study show that cosmetic surgery
06:02 actually booms at least in Great Britain during
06:06 the economic downturn, and there is also evidence
06:09 of the same thing is true in the United States.
06:13 In fact Britain's largest cosmetic surgery provider
06:16 with the Harley Medical Group,
06:18 said the demand for procedures had grown
06:20 by 35 percent over the last 10 months,
06:23 when the economic downturn has been the steadiest.
06:27 And the tummy tuck operations cost
06:30 over 5000 pounds in the U.S that's over...
06:33 Over 10,000. That's $10,000.
06:35 Breast augmentation surgery swelled 40 percent,
06:39 the tummy tuck surgery grew
06:41 by 59 percent during the economic downturn.
06:45 And they actually did almost twice
06:48 as many surgeries in some cosmetic areas
06:51 than they had done the previous 10 months
06:54 when the economic downturn wasn't as much.
06:57 But I think the most important aspect
06:59 of this study that we can learn
07:00 from human nature is this.
07:03 And this is a study I mean I quote
07:05 from the studies author "Research among
07:07 our patients has shown that despite cutting back
07:09 across all other areas, people aren't cutting back
07:13 on money, they spend on themselves.
07:17 And so still the selfish interest
07:20 is there and what limited money they have,
07:22 they spend it on themselves and they think
07:24 this cosmetic surgery of course is going to help
07:26 them that's part of this great miss.
07:28 Help them get a job, help them do better
07:30 this economic downturn, they will go and then person
07:34 interviewing them cannot avoid hiring them
07:36 because their tummy looks better.
07:39 Well, and you know what they also think
07:40 is it's going to help themselves out emotionally.
07:43 I see. And that has been disproven by the way,
07:45 that's one of the myths of medicine that often
07:47 are repeated by plastic surgeons.
07:49 Our plastic surgeons will often say,
07:51 well you need to do this for yourself?
07:53 You feel better. You need to do
07:54 this because you feel better,
07:55 are you having some problems with depression,
07:57 some emotional problems, hey this is gonna
07:59 be the answer to it.
08:00 And you know what the study show,
08:02 not only is it not the answer,
08:04 but it actually a year or two later
08:08 their mental health is worse
08:09 than when they had the cosmetic surgery.
08:11 What do you think that it is because they,
08:13 they...you know, they think that,
08:15 that they are beauties on the outward
08:18 but not in the inward is...
08:20 Well, I think it's because they haven't dealt
08:22 with the underlying cause, their emotional problems.
08:24 They thought this might be a cause,
08:26 and so they dealt with something
08:27 that isn't a cause and whenever you are dealing
08:30 with something that isn't a cause
08:31 and you think it's the t cause,
08:32 you are setting yourself up for failure because
08:35 you know, first there is the emotional bump
08:37 that occurs after this surgeries.
08:38 People will actually transiently feel better.
08:42 But then they realize I have got the same
08:44 emotional problems I had before.
08:45 In fact I think they are worse,
08:47 I have done this, what else can I do
08:49 and they start feeling hopeless.
08:51 And for instance women who have undergone breast
08:54 augmentation procedures have over twice
08:56 this suicide risk from a year to 10 years later.
09:01 In some studies three to four fold increase
09:03 risk of suicide as compared to women
09:05 who were considering the surgery
09:06 but didn't have it done.
09:08 And that's again simply due to the myth
09:11 that this was going to help them out
09:12 emotionally when they really should have been dealing
09:15 with the primary problems
09:17 that were causing their emotional problems.
09:19 And cosmetic is not the reason
09:21 for emotional problems.
09:24 Fascinating, diabetes and hearing impairment.
09:28 Yes, for years we have known
09:30 diabetes increases the risk of blindness.
09:33 It actually is the leading cause of blindness,
09:36 or one of the leading cause of blindness
09:37 in the United States what we call
09:39 retinal diseases or retinopathy occurs
09:41 from not having controlled diabetes.
09:44 But now, we now know that hearing problems
09:47 also are very much more common in adult diabetics
09:53 or type two diabetics than in those
09:56 who do not have diabetes.
09:58 And why is that again, is that because
09:59 as the blood flow to the ear how is that works?
10:03 It maybe related to blood flow issuesto the ear,
10:05 we're not sure why at this point,
10:07 you know, with the eye disease
10:08 where you understand it more fully
10:09 it's been more fully explained.
10:11 But with the hearing impairment
10:13 we're not exactly sure,
10:15 but the study is pretty clear.
10:17 This was Dr. Kathleen Bainbridge
10:18 from Social and Scientific Systems
10:20 in Silver Spring, Maryland.
10:22 They evaluated 5000 individuals
10:25 20 to 69 years of age, and they found out
10:29 that the diabetes group had over double the risk
10:32 of hearing impairment even at the young age.
10:35 And so that begs the question well treating
10:38 this diabetes through lifestyle measures
10:40 prevent some of the hearing loss.
10:42 We don't know the answer to that yet,
10:43 but I would assume
10:45 that will be proven affirmative.
10:47 Once you loose hearing can you can get it back.
10:50 Unfortunately no, you know, that's the bad thing,
10:54 it's reversible hearing loss and
10:58 you know, once you get to that stage
11:00 it's not really reversible... Go ahead.
11:03 I was just gonna mention that study was publish
11:05 in the Annals of Internal Medicine,
11:07 July 1, 2008.
11:09 One of the think is kind of related right next
11:11 to the ear I guess diabetics
11:12 also of course have eye problems.
11:15 Diabetics do have eye problems
11:17 and that really cannot be reverse either.
11:19 In fact what they need to do is you got to see
11:22 an ophthalmologist and get laser surgery
11:25 if they have to prevent it from getting worse.
11:28 What happens is the retina sprout blood vessels
11:32 because of the blood vessel disease
11:34 are starting to spread, new blood vessels
11:36 and those new blood vessels can easily bleed,
11:38 if the retinal hemorrhage that causes
11:40 the blindness in a diabetic.
11:42 And we can prevent the retinal hemorrhage
11:44 by controlling the diabetes, by getting
11:47 on proper lifestyle and if you already
11:49 have that retinopathy where the doctor can see
11:51 in the eye getting the appropriate
11:53 ophthalmology treatment will spare you
11:58 from loosing your complete eyesight.
12:01 An ophthalmologist once told me that something
12:03 like 25 or more percent of first time diabetics
12:06 are diagnosed by an eye doctor.
12:09 Yes, because they can see it in the eyes and you know,
12:11 unfortunately that means disease
12:13 has been there for at least 10 years.
12:14 Is that right.
12:15 In fact the average diabetic by the time
12:17 they have been diagnosed, they have actually
12:19 been smoldering having smoldering
12:22 diabetes for 15 years.
12:24 And if they would known earlier
12:26 they could have intervened with diet
12:27 and lifestyle measures earlier.
12:29 But often they go undiagnosed for years.
12:34 Well, thank you so much
12:35 for being with us Dr. Nedley.
12:36 We know you have very busy schedule
12:37 and taking time out of that really means
12:39 a he lot to me and our viewers.
12:41 Well, thank you, it's always good
12:43 to be here with you on Health for Lifetime.
12:46 Thank you for joining us today.
12:48 We know you, have the schedule
12:49 that's busy as well.
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