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Hometown Health

Hometown Health

By: WDBJ7
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 Hometown Health is a series of podcasts devoted to helping people stay healthy. WDBJ7 Anchor Jean Jadhon will delve into issues ranging from weight loss and fitness to cardiovascular health and how to find help for mental health problems including addiction.2022 Hygiene & Healthy Living Politics & Government
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  • 6. Hometown Health: Can vegetables help protect your brain?

    6. Hometown Health: Can vegetables help protect your brain?
    Sep 14 2023

    New research co-authored by a Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine professor looked at the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease and compared them with healthy brains. The findings may help unlock keys to preventing Alzheimer’s disease; that prevention may start in the grocery store produce aisle.
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    9 mins
  • 5. Hometown Health: Gluten intolerance and celiac disease. What’s the difference and what you need to know.

    5. Hometown Health: Gluten intolerance and celiac disease. What’s the difference and what you need to know.
    Aug 11 2023

    WDBJ7 anchor Jean Jadhon talks with a clinical physician assistant who specializes in digestive health.  We’ll also hear form a patient with celiac disease about her struggle to get a diagnosis and how she lives with the disease.  What everyone should know about gluten intolerance and celiac disease in this Hometown Health podcast.
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    18 mins
  • 4. Hometown Health: Can diet soda and fake sugar contribute to weight gain?

    4. Hometown Health: Can diet soda and fake sugar contribute to weight gain?
    Jun 28 2023

    Can fake sugar make you gain weight?
    A New World Health Organization report shows artificial sweeteners may not help you lose weight and may in fact do the opposite.

    So what should you eat to help you shed pounds?  

    In this episode of the Hometown Health podcast, Jean Jadhon brings us her conversation with a nutritionist to help make sense of it all. 

     
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    8 mins
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