This Week on Sound Medicine...Dec 17

Tune in at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 17, 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 Barb Lewis. Co-hosts of this week’s program are Ora Pescovitz, MD, David Crabb, MD, and Stephen Bogdewic, PhD.

Guests will include William Kronenberger, PhD, associate professor of psychology in the IU Department of Psychiatry, who will discuss a study recently released at the Radiological Society of North America’s annual meeting on the impact of violent video games on adolescents.

Bariatric surgery is a major gastrointestinal operation sealing most of the stomach to reduce the amount of food intake and rearranging the small intestine to limit the number of calories the body can absorb. In recent years, the procedure has become more popular among obese individuals. Stephen Clark, MD, bariatric surgeon at St. Francis Medical and Surgical Weight Loss Center in Indianapolis, explains the medical challenges these patients face during the holiday season.

Brian Wansink, PhD, the John S. Dyson Professor of Marketing and Nutritional Science at Cornell University and director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab, is the author of Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think, a book explaining the psychological reasons behind eating habits. Dr. Wansink talks about a few simple steps to avoid gaining extra holiday pounds.

Nearly 25 million Americans suffer from some form of heart disease which often is attributed to fatty foods clogging the arteries. Janet P. Wallace, PhD, professor kinesiology at IU-Bloomington, will discuss her recent study findings that exercise following a meal will help improve the function of the arteries and reverses the arterial dysfunction caused by foods high in fat.

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

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