Patt Morrison for Friday, June 4, 2010

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Friday, June 4, 2010

1-3 p.m.

 

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1:08:30 – 1:19:30

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1:30 - 1:52

The Hundred Year Diet: America’s Voracious Appetite for Losing Weight

It seems that hundreds of new diets are introduced into the market every year but how many of those actually hold (or help you lose) water (weight)? In the evolution of our nation’s nutritional landscape from the discovery of the calorie of the quest to count them how has our view of food and nutrition changed and why?  Susan Yager joins Patt to discuss the cultural history of food in America.

 

Guests:

Susan Yager, author of “The Hundred Year Diet: America’s Voracious Appetite for Losing Weight”

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2:08:30 – 2:19:30

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2:26 – 2:37

Breast cancer vaccine … a breakthrough or a false hope?

"We believe that this vaccine will someday be used to prevent breast cancer in adult women in the same way that vaccines have prevented many childhood diseases. If it works in humans the way it works in mice, this will be monumental. We could eliminate breast cancer."  So says Vincent Tuohy, the immunologist who led research resulting in a vaccine that has prevented breast cancer from developing in mice. It will be many years down the road and many research dollars will have to be spent before we know if the vaccine will live up to the initial expectations. We talk with Dr. Tuohy about his findings. 

 

Guest:

Vincent Tuohy (TOO-ee), the study’s principal investigator and an immunologist in Cleveland Clinic’s Lerner Research Institute Department of Immunology

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2:42 – 2:52:30

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