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Microflora; Teens' Food Issues; LA's Best Restaurant
Too fat, too thin and just right. If your New Year's resolution is to lose weight, listen in--you may be overweight because of microflora run amok. Jeffrey Gordon has published studies on how microflora in our guts regulate weight and sometimes go haywire. We hear from a gastric bypass patient who lost a hundred pounds in a matter of months; then a doctor who performs these surgeries tells his reservations. How to feed a teenage boy? With lots of food. Georgia Orcutt tells of her "food blind" teenage sons. Evan talks to Harriet Brown about struggling to refeed her anorexic daughter, and Patric Kuh of Los Angeles magazine gives us the best new restaurant in LA.
By Evan Kleiman • • 1h 0m ListenToo fat, too thin and just right. If your New Year's resolution is to lose weight, listen in--you may be overweight because of microflora run amok. Jeffrey Gordon has published studies on how microflora in our guts regulate weight and sometimes go haywire. We hear from a gastric bypass patient who lost a hundred pounds in a matter of months; then a doctor who performs these surgeries tells his reservations. How to feed a teenage boy? With lots of food. Georgia Orcutt tells of her "food blind" teenage sons. Evan talks to Harriet Brown about struggling to refeed her anorexic daughter, and Patric Kuh of Los Angeles magazine gives us the best new restaurant in LA.
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7 storiesMarket Report - Blood Oranges
Laura Avery talks to the Fruit Detective, David Karp, about blood oranges that are in season now. The red color doesn't effect the flavor of this type of orange but they do have a unique and delicious taste.
Read the story6 minBest New L.A. Restaurants
Los Angeles Magazine’s Patrick Kuh takes us on a gastronomical tour of the city as he gives us the magazine’s top restaurant picks for 2006 featuring La Botte, Republic, Petros and Hatfield’s. Voted Best New Restaurant by Los Angeles Magazine, Hatfield’s is making its mark in the ultra-competitive and fickle world of fine dining in L.A.
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Dr. Edward Livingston completed his medical training at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1985. In 1987 he completed a fellowship at Wadsworth VA Hospital as a CURE Research Fellow.
Read the story7 minBariatric Patient
Three years ago Diana Klein underwent bariatric surgery in order to lose more than one hundred pounds. She tells her story to producer Thea Chaloner.
Read the story8 minOne Part Human - 10 Parts Bacteria
As obesity becomes an American epidemic, it brings a high price tag in the form of escalating death-rates, rising medical costs and an increasingly callous social stigma. Researchers are finding evidence that may shed more light on the complex group of factors that determine weight gain and metabolic rates. Genetic makeup and food intake may…
Read the story7 minRefeeding an Anorexic Daughter
The disease of anorexia is deadly and has far reaching affects on not only the anorexic, but their families, too. Harriet Brown shares her experience with her daughter’s battle with anorexia – how her family incorporated the Maudsley approach to help her daughter recover, one spoonful at a time. Harriet’s heartfelt and profound story is…
Read the story9 minHow to Feed a Teenage Boy
Georgia Orcutt is a food editor and writer – and, as her recent book How To Feed a Teenage Boy indicates, she is the mother of two very hungry teenage boys. She edited The Old Farmers’ Almanac, wrote Cooking USA, and has been food editor of Yankee magazine.
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