This Week on Sound Medicine...Oct 15

Tune in at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 15, to Sound Medicine, the weekly radio program co-produced by IUSM and WFYI Public Radio (90.1 FM) in Indianapolis. The program is hosted by Barbara Lewis. Co-hosts of this week’s program are Steve Bogdewic, PhD and Kathy Miller, MD.

Guests include Lloyd Kolbe, PhD, professor of applied health science at Indiana University, who will discuss the increase in childhood obesity.

Contributor Jeremy Shere infiltrates the dorm-food business to better understand the appetites of students, more specifically the difference between what they want and what they should eat. Daphne Oz, author of Dorm Diets, gives advice about making wise food choices while in college.

Sound Medicine reporter Shia Levitt goes inside the kitchen of Chef Ann Cooper, the “renegade lunch lady” and director of nutrition services for the Berkeley (CA) Unified School District, for an update on her school-lunchroom revolution. According to Cooper, it is possible to provide children with healthy, delicious school lunches without overspending.

Pauline Powers, PhD, a professor of psychiatry at the University of South Florida’s College of Medicine and an expert in the field of eating disorders, will discuss the link between eating disorders and the obesity crisis.

Wesley Burks, MD, chief of the division of pediatric allergy and immunology at Duke University School of Medicine, will talk about peanut allergies. Dr. Burks is a leader in food hypersensitivity research, and he talks extensively about the origin of the peanut allergy and the potential for a vaccine.

Archived editions of Sound Medicine, as well as other helpful health information, can be found at soundmedicine.iu.edu/

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