Fork U(niversity) Not everything you put in your mouth is good for you. There’s a lot of medical information thrown around out there. How are you to know what information you can trust, and what’s just plain old quackery? You can’t rely on your own “google fu”. You can’t count on quality medical advice from Facebook. You need a doctor in your corner. On each episode of Your Doctor’s Orders, Dr. Terry Simpson will cut through the clutter and noise that always seems to follow the latest medical news. He has the unique perspective of a surgeon who has spent years doing molecular virology research and as a skeptic with academic credentials. He’ll help you develop the critical thinking skills so you can recognize evidence-based medicine, busting myths along the way. The most common medical myths are often disguised as seemingly harmless “food as medicine”. By offering their own brand of medicine via foods, These hucksters are trying to practice medicine without a license. And though they’ll claim “nutrition is not taught in medical schools”, it turns out that’s a myth too. In fact, there’s an entire medical subspecialty called Culinary Medicine, and Dr...
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 18 hours 59 minutes
episode 5: Microplastics in Fish, in Fruit, in Water
The term "microplastics" was originally described in 2004 for plastic particles that are less than 5 millimeters in diameter, originally being seen on beaches. But everywhere scientists have looked on planet earth, they have been found. From fruit, vegetables, nuts, beer, baby bottles, in the air, in our water.
Some have estimated that we ingest 100,000 microplastic particles per day or the equivalent of a credit card of microplastic in a year...
episode 6: Food Fables: Veganism
Eating all vegetables won’t cure your cancer, heart disease, or even make you live longer.
episode 6: Wine: Terroir Tales and Fables, You Can't Taste the Soil
In Vino, Veritas – or In Wine, Truth – by Pliny the Elder
When the Holy Roman Empire was forming Charlemagne gave lands to the monks in order for them to plant vineyards to make wine for the Eucharist. Those first vineyards, planted by Benedictine monks, make some of the classic wines of all time. Wine was in France centuries prior to Charlemagne, but it was those monks that we have a provenance of today’s wine...
episode 7: The Beer and Sausage Diet: The Secrets To Losing Weight and Keeping It Off
While the beer and sausage diet sounds silly, it was really an experiment that made some great observations about weight loss and weight maintenance. And we had fun.