Global Medicine Review is a talk show program hosted by Dr. Kamau Kokayi and Faybiene Miranda dedicated to exploring topics of interest in medicine, health, culture and healing. The show airs on WBAI every Wednesday from noon - 1PM. You can download individual shows below or from iTunes. You can also subscribe to our iTunes feed and get the show automatically downloaded to iTunes or to your mp3 player.

Archive for April 29th, 2009

Good Calories Bad Calories

Posted in Diabetes Mellitus, Food and Nutrition, Health, Nutritional Therapies, Podcast on 04/29/2009 04:09 pm by admin

Dr Kokayi has an opportunity to interview the award winning science writer Gary Taubes. This is a truly compelling interview highlighting Mr Taubes’ very well referenced Good Calories Bad Calories. Mr Taubes has provided excellent documentation for the way that obesity has been dealt with throughout the last one hundred years in the Western world, starting with the emphasis on CHO to the latest craze around low fat diets. The myths and lack of real scientific documentation around the low fat approach to weight loss is highlighted and Mr Taubes shows the link between sugar, obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer.

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