Patt Morrison for Monday, December 27, 2010

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Monday, December 27, 2010

1-3 p.m.

 

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1:06 – 1:30

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1:30 - 1:58:30

The new chic: civil unions? The French outgrow marriage

Ah Paris.  It's one of the most romantic cities in the world and also one of the most trend setting. So if the French are disillusioned with the concept of "happily ever after" and are giving up on the institution of marriage, will the world soon follow?  Only 250,000 couples tied the knot in France in 2009, compared with 400,000 in 1970.  The French in increasing numbers prefer to form civil unions rather than walk down the isle.  There are now two civil unions, or pacte civil de solidarite, for every three marriages in France. Experts say the reasons for the cultural shift are varied: they offer many of the same benefits and if you change your mind, you can dissolve it with a just a registered letter, some say, "the notion of eternal marriage has grown obsolete", and others want to avoid the religious connotations.  Whatever the reason, it is clear marriage is on the decline.  Does Tiffany's have a registry for a civil union?

 

Guests:

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Elinor A.Accampo, modern Europeanist specializing in French social and cultural history and a Professor of History and Gender Studies at USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences

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Gene Burns, host of the talk show “The Gene Burns Program” on KGO in San Francisco

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2:06 – 2:30

Just in time for holiday eating binges, the new low-fat is low-carb

What's worse--waffles or bacon; pasta or cheese; white rice or peanut butter?  Is it possible that we've been mistaken about nutrition ever since the food industry started slapping "low-fat" labels on everything?  Should they have been focusing on "low-carb" instead?  Nutritionists are now saying that carbohydrates, not fats, are the enemy.  For thirty years, there has been a government mandate to cut fat.  And the result has been that with consumers reducing their consumption of fat, they have increased their consumption of carbohydrates.  At the same time, doctors have seen an increase in obesity and Type 2 diabetes, which occurs when the body can't produce enough insulin to manage glucose levels.  After so many years of reducing fat, will we now be told and possibly see a government mandate, to shrink the base of our age-old food pyramid--our beloved carbs--by as much as 50%?

 

Guests:

SEES CARBS AS BIG PROBLEM IN OBESITY

Dr. Stephen D. Phinney, Professor of Medicine Emeritus at UC, Davis and is co-author of The New Atkins for a New You. He is on the editorial board of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

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• He has twenty-five years of clinical experience as a director of multi-disciplinary weight management programs and has contributed to books and peer reviewed articles and is an expert in low carb nutrition and metabolism, fatty acids, inflammation, and the metabolic syndrome.

 

SEES NO RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CARB INTAKE AND INCREASED DISEASE RISK

Joanne Slavin, Professor of Nutrition at the University of Minnesota and a member of the advisory committee for the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

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2:30 – 2:39

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2:41 – 2:58:30

Doctors with borders: how can pediatricians be attracted to work in vulnerable areas?

Almost 1 million children in the United States live in communities without access to doctors.  It's not due to a shortage of doctors, it's because medical professionals are choosing to practice in more affluent neighborhoods, leaving poorer communities without much needed medical services.  The National Health Services Corps has been offering loan forgiveness to doctors who practice in underserved areas, but Dr. Scott Shipman of Dartmouth's Institute for Health Policy, says those efforts may not go far enough.  His study on the topic shows that in nearly every state in the country a disparity exists in terms of the distribution of doctors.  What can be done to bring more doctors to the underserved and what is the situation like here in Los Angeles?

 

Guests:

Scott Shipman, assistant professor of Pediatrics and Health Policy, Dartmouth Medical School

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• This study shows:
• in two specialties (pediatrics and family medicine) where the workforce has already grown significantly in the past decade (pediatrics by 50%, family medicine by 35%), millions of kids still live in local areas with an insufficient supply
• 1 million children live in areas with NO primary care doctor, millions more in areas where there is less than 1 doctor per 3000 children in the local population, 
• At the same time, many areas of the U.S. have an abundance of primary care doctors for kids (fewer than 1000 children per doctor)

 

• -He believes too little attention has been paid to the problem of physician maldistribution, and to efforts to overcome it.

 

Rishi Manchanda MD MPH, Director of Social Medicine and Health Equity, St.John's Well Child and Family Centers

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Jonathan Serviss

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