Take One Step for a Healthy Heart - companion podcast | PBS

Take One Step for a Healthy Heart - companion podcast | PBS

11 episodes

This eleven-part podcast series, a companion to PBS' Valentine's Day television special, The Hidden Epidemic: Heart Disease In America, features best-selling author, Dr. Michael F. Roizen, M.D. and Larry King of CNN's Larry King Live and the Larry King Cardiac Foundation, along with Julie Bain, Health Director at Reader's Digest magazine. In conversation with Julie Bain, Dr. Roizen explains ten different, easy steps you can take to a healthier heart. In the eleventh podcast, Larry King tells Dr. Roizen about his own narrow escape from a lethal heart attack and how that experience changed his life. This podcast series is part of Take One Step: a PBS Health Campaign, which launches with a ninety-minute television documentary accompanied by half-hour town hall meeting, hosted by Larry King and featuring some of the country's top medical and lifestyle experts, plus a website with online and downloadable resources. This Valentine's Day do your heart and loved ones a favor by tuning in to The Hidden Epidemic: Heart Disease in America, Wednesday, February 14, 2007 at 9 PM (check local listings). "The Hidden Epidemic: Heart Disease in America" is produced by WGBH Boston for PBS. Funding is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and public television viewers. If you enjoy this podcast, please consider becoming a member of your local public television station.

Podcasts

Dr. Michael F. Roizen interviews Larry King

Published: Feb. 14, 2007, 5 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 27 seconds

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Step 10: Eat nine servings of colorful fruits and vegetables a day

Published: Feb. 12, 2007, 5 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 15 seconds

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Step 9: Have a glass or wine or beer today

Published: Feb. 7, 2007, 5 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 41 seconds

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Step 8: Read labels and throw out all food that has sugar in the first five ingredients

Published: Feb. 5, 2007, 5 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 14 seconds

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Step 7: Eat no more than 20 gm of saturated fat a day and as little trans fat as possible

Published: Jan. 31, 2007, 5 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 13 seconds

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Step 6: Floss your teeth regularly

Published: Jan. 29, 2007, 5 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 53 seconds

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Step 4: Learn your HDL number and do what you can to raise it to 50

Published: Jan. 26, 2007, 5 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 28 seconds

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Step 5: Eat 10 tablespoons of tomato sauce a week

Published: Jan. 26, 2007, 5 p.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 59 seconds

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Step 1: Walk 30 minutes a day

Published: Jan. 12, 2007, 5 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 27 seconds

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Step 2: Know your blood pressure

Published: Jan. 12, 2007, 5 p.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 52 seconds

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Step 3: Eat an ounce of nuts a day

Published: Jan. 12, 2007, 5 p.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 4 seconds

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