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Wellness Wednesday: Obesity and Cancer, Placebos, Hospital Food

11 am

Hospital food. For years it meant mystery meat and green Jell-O. Not exactly healthy fare to heal your body. But a growing number of hospitals are improving the chow, and this hour we'll lean how some are filling trays with vegetables from our own backyard. We'll also get the latest in the links between obesity and cancer, and new research on the placebo effect.

Guests

  • Dr. Clifford Hudis, chief of the breast cancer medicine service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  • Dr. Rita Redberg, editor of JAMA Internal Medicine, and director of Women's Cardiovascular Services at UC San Francisco
  • Kristin Kirkpatrick, manager of Wellness Nutrition Services for the Center for Lifestyle Medicine at Cleveland Clinic
  • Brian Merritt, director of food service at Licking Memorial Health Systems