How does diet impact our health?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the documentary film Forks Over Knives. Two out of every three of Americans are overweight. Cases of diabetes are exploding, especially among the younger population, and about half of us are taking at least one prescription drug. So what can be done to reverse these alarming statistics? Join us live at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. How has your diet affected your health?

Guests:

Matthew Lederman, physician and co-founder of Exsalus Health and Wellness Center, Los Angeles, California

Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, director of cardiovascular disease reversal and prevention at the Cleveland Clinic

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How is access to healthcare changing?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the future of health care and how the passage of the healthcare bill will affect access. The annual conference of America's Health Insurance Plans is in San Francisco this week discussing how the bill is affecting the insurance industry. But how is it affecting doctors and patients? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. How is the bill affecting you and what changes would you like to see in the future? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Patrick Johnston, CEO of California Association of Health Plans
Deborah Burger, president of the California Nurses Association
Julie Appleby, reporter with Kaiser Health News

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What are the biggest environmental threats to children?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Sandra Steingraber, author of Raising Elijah: Protecting Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis. She says "our children face an environment more threatening to their health than any generation in history." She focuses on everyday hazards in our lives and explores the connections between parenting and policy-making. How do we relate environmental crisis to family life? And what are some solutions? Join us at 10 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Sandra Steingraber, author of Raising Elijah: Protecting Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis

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What do we need to know about cell phone radiation?

What do we need to know about cell phones and the affect they are having on us? On the next Your Call, we welcome back epidemiologist Devra Davis, author of Disconnect: The Truth About Cell Phone Radiation, What the Industry Has Done to Hide It, and How to Protect Your Family. Devra Davis argues that suppressed research proves that cell phones are not safe. So what precautions should we take? What do you want to know about cell phones and radiation? It's Your Call, with me, Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Devra Davis, author of Disconnect: The Truth About Cell Phone Radiation, What the Industry Has Done to Hide It, and How to Protect Your Family.

Debbie Raphael, toxics reduction program manager for the San Francisco Department of the Environment

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What are the environmental links to cancer and reproductive health?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk to Dr. Sandra Steingraber, a cancer survivor and author of Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment, which is now adapted into a feature-length documentary film. The President's Cancer Panel published their report about environmental cancer this year. How have chemicals from industry and agriculture affected public health? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How can we protect ourselves from environmental carcinogens? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Sandra Steingraber, author of Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment

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Must the state provide in-home care for the elderly and disabled?

What's the state's responsibility to care for the elderly and disabled in their homes? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the potential impact of Gov. Schwarzenegger's proposal to cut state spending on In-Home Supportive Services by 40%. Who will be affected? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How will their lives change? Who is advocating on their behalf? And what does our commitment or lack thereof to in-home services say about our society's values? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Donna Calame, executive director of San Francisco's In-Home Supportive Services Public Authority

Jovan Agee, the political and legislative director for the United Domestic Workers of America in Sacramento

Kenzi Robi, an IHSS recipient

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How has the birth control pill changed women's lives?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Elaine Tyler May, professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota and author of America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation. Around 100 million women world-wide including 12 million women in the United States take a form of regular oral contraceptive. What should we be celebrating as the pill turns 50 this year? What are the Pill's downsides?

Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What effect has the pill had on your life? Do you think it has been good for society as a whole? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Elaine Tyler May, professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota and author of America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril and Liberation

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Does noise pollution get under your skin?

Does noise pollution get under your skin? On the next Your Call we'll talk about our increasingly loud world with Garret Keizer, author of The Unwanted Sounds of Everything We Want: A Book About Noise. Noise, defined as unwanted sound, can cause stress, disease, and violence. So what does it say about our society that we keep producing more and more things that keep our ears buzzing?

Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What rights do we have to make noise? And what rights do we have to the absence of noise? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Garret Keizer, author of The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book About Noise.

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Your Call 081209 Would you vote for the Health Care Reform Bill?

Would you vote for the House's Health Care Reform Bill? On the next Your Call we'll discuss the plan that the House will vote on when they get back from the August recess. What's in it? What's left out? Do you think it goes far enough? If not, could you support it as a step in the right direction? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. How are you willing to compromise on health care reform? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Stan Brock in Los Angeles
Founder of Remote Access Medical, a traveling medical camp that offers healthcare to anyone who can't afford it. RAM is offering services in Los Angeles starting today through next Tuesday.

Manoj Jain in Memphis
An infectious disease physician, writer, and national leader in healthcare quality improvement.

Ken Jacobs in Berkeley
Chair of the UC Berkeley Labor Center. He provided consultation to the City and County of San Francisco on the development of the San Francisco Health Care Security Ordinance and was a member of the Mayor's Universal Health Care Council.

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Your Call 080709 Friday Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call it's our Friday media roundtable where we bring in reporters from the mainstream, alternative and international press to discuss the week in American media. This week we'll be joined by Sarah Varney from KQED's Health Dialogues, Michael Massing from the New York Review of Books, and Michelle Fitzhugh-Craig, news editor for the Public Press. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Where did you see the best reporting this week and where did it fall short? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Sarah Varney in San Francisco
Health reporter for KQED Radio News and Health Dialogues, a monthly radio program produced by KQED and aired across California. Health Dialogues and Sarah's reporting about the Canadian health care system were recently given high marks by the Columbia Journalism Review.

Michael Massing in NYC
Contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. He is author of several books, most recently Now They Tell Us: The American Press and Iraq which he co-authored with Orville Schell.

Michelle Fitzhugh-Craig in Tampa
News editor for the Public Press, non-commercial collaborative news service in San Francisco. Fitzhugh-Craig is the former city editor for the Oakland Tribune and won accolades for her investigative reporting for the Chauncey Bailey Project; she also won an Associated Press Managing Editors Award for column writing.

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Your Call 062309 Who is Running the Health Care Reform Debate?

Who are the major players in the health care debate? On the next Your Call we start the first of a series of programs on health care reform. News coverage about the legislative process covers the ins and outs of the national debate with nearly microscopic detail, but often missing is a sense of how the process works, who the major players are and where the real work is getting done. We'll speak with Mary Agnes Carey, senior correspondent with Kaiser Health News, and take your questions. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. Who has the biggest megaphone in the health care reform debate and whose voice needs to be heard? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Mary Agnes Carey in Washington DC
Senior correspondent with Kaiser Health News (no relation to Kaiser Permanente). Ms. Carey has covered health policy for more than decade. Before joining Kaiser Health News, she reported for Congressional Quarterly and Dow Jones Newswires.

Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access

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Your Call 051409 What do you need for your best birth?

On the next Your Call we talk about giving birth -- at home, in a hospital, wherever works best for you -- and the systems in place to help your family plan the birth you want, where you want. What social supports do women and their partners need to make informed decisions about how to bring their babies into the world? How can doctors and midwives come together to transform the way of American birth? We'll be joined by Abby Apstein, co-author of Your Best Birth, and local mid-wife Maria Lorillo. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or call 866-798-TALK, that's 866-798-8255, and join us live at 11 am. What do you need for your best birth? It's Your Call with Ben Temchine and you.

Guests:
Abby Epstein, director of the film The Business of Being Born and co-author of Your Best Birth

Maria Lorillo, licensed midwife and founder of Wise Woman Childbirth Traditions

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Your Call 050509 How do we connect with the mentally ill?

How do we connect with the humanity of the mentally ill? On the next Your Call we'll talk about how movies like The Soloist and the ballot proposition that could divert funds away from residential care impact our understanding and connection to the mentally ill. How far have we come in relating to and understanding the them? What kind of services are needed for them to tell their own stories? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. What have you learned from your own experience of mental illness or of friends or family members who are mentally ill? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Dr. Karin Tamerius in San Francisco
Karin was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1994 while a graduate student in political science at the University of Michigan. As a result of this experience, Dr. Tamerius entered medical school and is now a Psychiatry intern at UCSF.

Thomas Jefferson in San Francisco
Diagnosed with schizophrenia since the age of 16, he's been in and out of jail as a result of his illness. He was facing a sentence of 25 years to life under California's "Three Strike" law when he entered San Francisco's Behavioral Health Court.

Kathleen Connolly Lacey in San Francisco
Director of University of California San Francisco's Citywide Case Management Forensic Program which provides community-based treatment to 150 mentally ill offenders. She is also a founding member of San Francisco's Behavioral Health Court

Chance Martin in San Francisco
Community Organizer at Western Regional Advocacy Project. From 1999 2006, Chance was the managing editor for STREET SHEET--the oldest continuously-published street newspaper in the world.

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Your Call 031909 How do drug companies market medication?

How do drug companies market medication? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Melody Petersen, author of Our Daily Meds. Every day drug companies subject us to barrage of advertisements. Nearly 65% of Americans are taking prescription drugs. Why are we prescribed so many pills? Join the conversation by email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How does the FDA regulate drug companies? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guest:
Melody Petersen, author of Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves Into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription

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Your Call 021809 How Should We Share Resources Between the Generations?

Is it time to rethink how we share resources between the generations? On the next Your Call we'll discuss intergenerational justice. When the first boomers entered the work force 45 years ago, the elderly were the poorest demographic in the country; as those first boomers hit retirement age, they are among the richest. Medicare, education, environmental policies and social security are all under pressure from the current downturn. What should be weighed in making changes to wealth distribution? How should boomers prepare their businesses and institutions for the next generation? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Steve Pascal-Joiner in Minnesota
Director of the Career Transitions Program at Idealist.org

Nader Shabahangi in San Francisco
CEO of Agesong, which runs assisted living facilities in San Francisco and Oakland. They are sponsoring The International Film Festival on Aging, the first event of its kind to be held in California. It features 24 films that celebrate the unique joys and challenges of aging and address archaic preconceptions about growing older.

David Bank in San Francisco
Vice President of Civic Ventures and editor of their blog encore.org about aging and boomers.

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Your Call 050508 Healthy San Francisco

What is the status of Healthy California? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about a new plan to provide health care to 82,000 uninsured city residents. So far 700 business representing almost 13,000 employees have signed up. But the Golden Gate Restaurant Association opposes the program, so how does the plan work? Who is paying for it? And is it the best way to provide the uninsured with health care? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Dr. Mitchell Katz, director of San Francisco Department of Public Health

Kevin Westlye, executive director of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association

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Your Call 043008 The Vitamin Quandary

Are the vitamins you’re taking helping or hurting? On the next Your Call we’ll talk about recent nutritional research that has shown limited benefits to taking dietary supplements and vitamins. With the FDA not testing the health claims of the manufacturers and peer reviewed studies casting doubt on their efficacy, what do we know about vitamin and mineral supplements? What can they do? Are they ever necessary for people who eat a relatively healthy diet? It’s Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Dr. Stephen Barrett in Chapel Hill
Retired psychiatrist and co-author and editor of 50 books including the textbook Consumer Health: A Guide to Intelligent Choices. He is the founder and editor of quackwatch.org.
 
Dr. Lisa Bero in San Francisco
Professor of Clinical Pharmacy at UCSF and Co-Director of the United States San Francisco Cochrane Center. Dr. Bero is a pharmacologist with primary interests in how clinical and basic sciences are translated into clinical practice and health policy.

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