Patt Morrison for Thursday, February 17, 2011

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Thursday, February 17, 2011

1-3 p.m.

 

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1:06 – 1:19

OPEN

 

 

1:21 – 1:39

Mayors extol the virtues of community redevelopment agencies with a wink & a nod toward Sacramento

 

Guests:

Antonio Villaraigosa, Mayor of Los Angeles

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Assemblyman Chris Norby, R-72^nd District; former Supervisor on the Orange County Board of Supervisors

 

 

 

1:41 – 1:58:30

Teddy the wonder beagle brings home a big prize

A 13-inch canine cutie from the San Fernando Valley was named Best of Variety this week at the prestigious Westminster Dog Show in New York. Teddy, officially known as Grand Champion Del Rey Roosevelt’s Rough Rider, charmed the judges and was a favorite of the tough-to-convince audience. He turns four years old this month and his owner, Diana Lipari, says even though the dog loves competing, he’s “done everything we’ve asked him to do” and is ready to retire from competition. Teddy and Diana join Patt with a behind the scenes look at Westminster and what it’s like in that rarified doggy spotlight.

 

Guests:

Teddy, officially known as Grand Champion Del Rey Roosevelt’s Rough Rider, winner of Best of Variety at the Westminster Dog Show 2011

IN STUDIO

 

Diana Lipari, Teddy’s owner

IN STUDIO

 

 

 

2:06 – 2:30

Study finds self-control, the mechanism that ruins all of our impulsive fun, could be the key to success

Should I scarf that donut?  Should I sniff that white powder?  Should I splurge on that Camaro I can’t afford?  Why is it that some of us can’t seem to say no and others of us are just better at exercising self-control?  To find out why, a team of researchers followed 1037 individuals born in 1972 and 1973, representing the full range of socioeconomic status and health in the general population, and conducted follow-ups at ages 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 18, 21, 26, and, most recently, at age 32.  What they have found is that children as young as three who scored lower on measures of self-control were more likely than higher-scoring children to grow up to have health problems, substance abuse, unsound finances, run-ins with the law, and to be a single parent.  Is self-control like language—the younger you are, the easier it is to learn?  If so, how can we equip our preschoolers with the self-control skills they need to end up society’s model of health, wealth, and civil obedience?

 

Guests:

Linda Owen, Director of the Clara Barton Center for Children

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Terrie Moffitt, professor of psychology at Duke University and King’s College London; lead author of the study A gradient of childhood self-control predicts health, wealth, and public safety – or another one of the authors

Alex Piquero, Gordon P. Waldo Professor of Criminology at Florida State University

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James Heckman, Nobel Laureate, Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago

 

 

 

2:30 – 2:39

OPEN

 

 

2:41 – 2:58:30

So a guy walks into a bar…will a caloric-labeled menu alter what he eats?

When the health bill was signed into law almost a year ago, health experts hailed the new requirement that chain restaurants post calorie information on their menus as perhaps the greatest thing to happen in the nutrition world since sliced (whole grain, low sodium, sprouted) bread. “If only people KNEW how bad for them that double cheeseburger and fries were, surely they would make smarter choices!”—so went the logic of many a nutritionist. But the jury still seems to be out on how effective that information is in altering people’s food choices. So just before the government releases federal rules for restaurant menu labeling next month, do posted calories on menus make a difference? Do they give you pause before you order? Do they make you order something else? Or do you know what you’re getting yourself when you walk into that fast food chain; do you resent them? Are they more effective for the old than the young? Patt surveys the crowd and gets an expert’s take.

 

Guests:

NOT CONFIRMED:

Brian Elbel, assistant professor of medical and health policy at New York University where he studies consumer decision making as it relates to health and healthcare. His is also the lead researcher of a recent study, which found that posting calories on menus has little effect on the food choices customers make

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Jonathan Serviss
Senior Producer, Patt Morrison
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