Physician Produces Fitness Podcast to Confront the Growing Burden of Chronic Disease
The Fitness Rocks Podcast has added three new health and fitness authorities to its panel of experts. Fitness Rocks provides a weekly podcast by a physician on topics of healthy weight loss, eating habits, and exercise. The podcast is a weekly conversation on how to be healthy.
Cape Cod, MA (PRWEB) October 21, 2006
The Fitness Rocks Podcast (www. fitnessrocks. org), created and produced by Monte Ladner, M. D. (Dr. Monte), has added three new fitness professionals to its panel of experts. Paul Sorace, M. S. holds a Masters degree in Exercise Physiology and is a member of the Cardiac Rehabilitation staff at Hackensack Medical Center in New Jersey. Susan Kraus, M. S. R. D holds a Masters degree in Nutrition. Mary Guarino, Ph. D. holds a doctorate in Applied Developmental Psychology and is the owner of Stellar Self (www. stellarself. com), a Life and Wellness coaching practice in Washington, DC. All three have published several articles on topics related to Health and Fitness. Dr. Guarino is the author of It’s Your Time Now: What Will You Do With It? Each of the three will be appearing in guest interviews on a monthly basis on the podcast.
Monte Ladner, M. D. began producing Fitness Rocks in June of 2006. He has produced sixteen weekly shows, and the podcast has had over 11,000 unique downloads primarily from Apple iTunes. The Podcast is free.
The motivation behind Fitness Rocks was Dr. Ladner’s clinical observations of the poor general health of most of his patients, and what he perceived as their lack of basic knowledge about how to live a healthy lifestyle. Dr. Ladner notes that chronic diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity, and others account for hundreds of billions of dollars in health care spending every year in the USA. Chronic diseases are largely preventable by following the basic tenets of healthy living – regular exercise, a healthy diet, not smoking, avoiding excessive alcohol, and maintaining a healthy weight. Sadly, according to an article in the Archives of Internal Medicine, only about three percent of Americans follow these healthy habits.
The Fitness Rocks Podcast is Dr. Ladner’s attempt to “teach people how to be healthy.” Dr. Ladner is also interested in debunking what he calls the “fitness mythology” that permeates popular culture. The Fitness Rocks Podcast steers people away from unnecessary dietary supplements and fad diets and points them in the direction of sensible lifestyle habits backed by the weight of sound research provided in the current mainstream, peer-reviewed medical literature.
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