• What is l-carnitine and why is it important in heart disease?
• What kinds of stresses increase the risk for a heart attack?
• Why reducing complications may costs hospitals money
• Why don’t doctors care much about medical costs?
• How do doctors learn about new drugs?

Vicki’s 20-20 tips include:

• The key to preventing moldy berries
• Psychiatrists vs bartenders

• What are the dangers of surgical menopause?
• What causes the pain of a metal on metal hip replacement?
• Salt: Friend or Foe?
• Could the microbes that live in your gut be making you fat?
• Who’s responsibility is it to protect seniors from risky drugs?
• Vicki’s 20-20 tips:
  • Some facts about life
  • An idea, a question, and forgiveness

• Why the truth about GMO foods is more frightening than you ever imagined!
• Should mammograms be used to screen for breast cancer for anyone?
• Should cognitive enhancing drugs be given to our kids to help them get better grades?
• What is the best way to manage cartilage tears?
• What is the optimal pre-surgical diet?

Vicki’s 20-20 Tips:

• Adult truths
• Murphy’s other laws

originally aired 02/18/13

• Do vegetarians really have a lower risk of heart disease?
• Does vitamin C cause or prevent kidney stones?
• Does everybody need a calcium supplement?
• What is the difference between systolic and diastolic hypertension/
• Is melatonin effective as a cancer treatment?

Vicki’s 20-20 tips include:

• The truth about organic food
• A diet for stress

• What is statin myalgia and what can we do to prevent and treat it?
• Why is US healthcare outrageously expensive?
• Can synthetic “Poop” cure C. diff infections?
• Does job burnout predispose to heart attacks?
• Does what we smell regulate our appetite?

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• How to deal with spousal abuse
• Should we allow celebrity endorsement for food and drugs?
• Do school-based gardens work?
• Does exercise improve sleep?
• Do conflict of interest policies in doctor training work to reduce brand name drug prescriptions in clinical practice?

originally aired 04/02/12

Prescriptions for Health:

• Most cancer is preventable now.
• Fast food causes depression.
• Steroids cause osteoporosis in only 3 months
• A dysfunctional side of medicine….

Caller: Allen (Boston) – Why does frozen organic food have so much salt?

Vicki’s 20:20 Tips - #1 Laughter is the Best Medicine, #2 – Gems and Truths for Mental Health and More :)  LOL

originally aired 01/21/13

• The CDC is at it again: it says the 2013 flu outbreak is now an epidemic!
• Is Coca-Cola another Phillip Morris?
• Is the truth about medication errors withheld from patients?
• How to prevent amputations in diabetics
• How do trees and human health go together?

Vicki’s 20-20 tips:

• Motivation to help you lose weight
• Idiot sightings

• Does your baby need baby wash?
• Does diet soda increase the risk for type 2 diabetes?
• Can omega 3 fatty acids protect against breast cancer?
• Do epidural steroid injections make you worse in the long run?
• How can we improve nutrition in school lunches without overspending?

Vicki’s 20-20 tips:

• Why you should avoid low fat cheese and milk
• Deaths from medication overdoses are on the rise

The show is uploaded to Dropbox. Here is the outline for the Prescriptions for Health Show for tomorrow am:

• Do vegetarians really have a lower risk of heart disease?
• Does vitamin C cause or prevent kidney stones?
• Does everybody need a calcium supplement?
• What is the difference between systolic and diastolic hypertension/
• Is melatonin effective as a cancer treatment?

Vicki’s 20-20 tips include:

• The truth about organic food
• A diet for stress