Speaker 1: Well, a good Sunday evening to everybody. Doctor Joe Galotti,
Speaker 1: you're tuned into your Health First every Sunday between seven
Speaker 1: and eight pm. We're here with a single minded mission
Speaker 1: of raising your Health IQ and creating greater awareness for
Speaker 1: all of you to understand the ins and the outs
Speaker 1: of health care and how to stay healthy. Every Sunday.
Speaker 1: Don't forget at seven o'clock. Now, we've been on the
Speaker 1: road out of town for the past few weeks. I
Speaker 1: was in a I was on a safari, a photographic
Speaker 1: safari in Tanzania, so you had to listen to some
Speaker 1: of the past episodes of your Health First the past
Speaker 1: few Sundays. But we're here back in person on American
Speaker 1: soil this Sunday, and again this is the Memorial Day weekend,
Speaker 1: and I do think that we all need to take
Speaker 1: a pause, be thankful for the country we live in,
Speaker 1: be thankful for the freedoms, be thankful for our way
Speaker 1: of life, and realize that this was something that we
Speaker 1: had to defend and fight for and people lost their lives,
Speaker 1: and this is the weekend that we remember those even
Speaker 1: though we should remember them every single day of the week.
Speaker 1: We have to remember those men and women over the
Speaker 1: years that have protected all of us through various conflicts,
Speaker 1: and the conflicts are real. We are, you know, every
Speaker 1: single day, exposed to threats to our freedom and our
Speaker 1: way of life. And many parts of the world may
Speaker 1: not necessarily like the way we are free here, but
Speaker 1: keep in mind that we cannot take this freedom for granted.
Speaker 1: And people lost their lives. And it's a day to
Speaker 1: fly the flag or a weekend to fly the flag
Speaker 1: and be mindful of everybody that fought to save our country.
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Speaker 1: this is one of those weeks where it's a little
Speaker 1: laid back, just getting back into the groove with regular
Speaker 1: programming for the rest of the summer. But I do
Speaker 1: want to tell you, as many of you know, photography
Speaker 1: has been a passion of mine and interest of mine
Speaker 1: since I was a young child, and I tell people
Speaker 1: that it was second grade. I was in second grade
Speaker 1: and I actually won a camera, and that really got
Speaker 1: me started in being interested in photography. And it helped
Speaker 1: an awful lot that my uncle, one of my uncles,
Speaker 1: Uncle Larry, was a professional photographer in New York City,
Speaker 1: and so I was always around photographic equipment, flash bulbs,
Speaker 1: all of the batteries and the chords and all of
Speaker 1: the gadgets, as we say. And when when I was
Speaker 1: a kid growing up, if we had a birthday party,
Speaker 1: it was fourth of July, it was a Memorial Day weekend,
Speaker 1: Uncle Larry would be over the house with one of
Speaker 1: his cameras. Maybe it was a rolla flex, maybe it
Speaker 1: was a the Press, one of his press cameras, those
Speaker 1: big things that you'd see in the old movies, and
Speaker 1: he would be taking pictures. Right, everybody takes pictures at
Speaker 1: a barbecue, birthday party, whatever it may be. But the
Speaker 1: difference was the next day or two days later, we'd
Speaker 1: have twenty five eight by ten black and white glossies
Speaker 1: on our kitchen table of your birthday party, or of
Speaker 1: fourth of July, or of Labor Day, whatever it was.
Speaker 1: And so at an early age, I was really fascinated
Speaker 1: more I would say enthralled by these beautiful black and
Speaker 1: white eight by ten glosses that were on our kitchen
Speaker 1: table and looking at the detail, the expressions, and so
Speaker 1: I just became really hooked on photography. But anyway, the
Speaker 1: opportunity to go on a safari, now, I would not
Speaker 1: say I have done a lot of photography work in
Speaker 1: the wildlife space. I've done a lot of landscape and
Speaker 1: travel photography in portrait work, but wildlife is a whole
Speaker 1: different can of can of worms. And so in Tanzania,
Speaker 1: we were being guided by a professional, very well known
Speaker 1: wildlife photographer's name was Greg Dutoit, and it was a
Speaker 1: real honor to be with him, for him to really
Speaker 1: show how to move around these animals, to get the
Speaker 1: right light, right time of the day, the right setting
Speaker 1: on the camera was really marvelous. So in the weeks
Speaker 1: to come, I will be sharing with you some of
Speaker 1: the wildlife photography. But really traveling to Tanzania, it was
Speaker 1: the first time I was really on the African continent.
Speaker 1: And first of all, it's beautiful. That part of the
Speaker 1: world is just amazing. The wildlife we spent probably more
Speaker 1: time in the Serengetti, which is just open grasslands and
Speaker 1: plains and just marvelous. And the amount of animals, millions
Speaker 1: of wilderbeast on the famous migration that takes place this
Speaker 1: time of the year. To witness that is absolutely unbelievable,
Speaker 1: very humbling to look back and say, where do I
Speaker 1: fit in in the grand scheme of the world of humanity? Uh,
Speaker 1: and you realize that we are all quite small in
Speaker 1: that regard. But it was absolutely beautiful. The people in
Speaker 1: Tanzania were absolutely marvelous. They are kind, very much service
Speaker 1: oriented to want to in those that were serving food
Speaker 1: or helping us out. They wanted to go above and beyond.
Speaker 1: If you wanted more food, they would get it for you.
Speaker 1: They wanted to please you, and so it made for
Speaker 1: an absolutely marvelous experience. The natural wonders absolutely mind blowing,
Speaker 1: the people terrific. The camaraderie working with everybody was just
Speaker 1: really fantastic. And so I wrote this in the newsletter
Speaker 1: that came out yesterday on Saturday, that getting away off
Speaker 1: the grid. And I'll tell you I was off the grid.
Speaker 1: I was five hours from nowhere, in the middle of
Speaker 1: the Serengeti. But you have to get away. So for
Speaker 1: all of you tonight, you may be planning summer vacations,
Speaker 1: make sure in your time away, whether you're going down
Speaker 1: the road, you're staying at home in your backyard with
Speaker 1: your pool and your kids, you're going to grandma's house,
Speaker 1: or you're taking a trip somewhere interstate or out of
Speaker 1: the country, make sure you find a little bit of
Speaker 1: time carved out to relax and recharge the batteries. You
Speaker 1: have to. We are bombarded by social media, phones, ringing, beeping, buzzing,
Speaker 1: which will eventually drive us crazy, and we just need
Speaker 1: to get in your own head and relax. The health
Speaker 1: implication is something that you cannot dispute. There has been
Speaker 1: research over the past fifty years about the mind body
Speaker 1: connection and the negative impact of stress, and so do
Speaker 1: take that time, even if it's just one week or
Speaker 1: a few days off, depending on your schedule and lifestyle
Speaker 1: and your cans and cannots, make sure you try really
Speaker 1: to get away and relax. All right, We're going to
Speaker 1: take a quick break. Doctor Joeglotti dot com is our website.
Speaker 1: I am doctor Joe Golotti. Every Sunday between seven and APM.
Speaker 1: This is your health first. Stay tuned. We're actually what
Speaker 1: I have on tap here. We're going to be talking
Speaker 1: about colon cancer, some new testing for colon cancer. It
Speaker 1: might be good, it might be bad. Stay tuned, but
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Speaker 1: want you to put your health first so many times,
Speaker 1: and I say this, and I would believe if you
Speaker 1: walk away with anything anything from this program, whether you're
Speaker 1: listening for two minutes or ten years. By the way,
Speaker 1: we've been on the air for twenty one years, it
Speaker 1: is that the majority we're talking better than eighty percent,
Speaker 1: eighty five percent of all the chronic disease. And so
Speaker 1: look around at yourself, look around at your friends, your family,
Speaker 1: your parents, coworkers, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, cirrhosis, kidney disease, depression, arthritis,
Speaker 1: mental health. These are all chronic diseases that we have
Speaker 1: control over and can be prevented with a lifestyle midification.
Speaker 1: You're drinking too much alcohol, you're eating too much drive through,
Speaker 1: You're not getting enough sleep, you're not exercising, you're eating
Speaker 1: processed foods, you're eating too many carbs, you're not eating
Speaker 1: fruits and vegetables. Okay, so these are the things that
Speaker 1: you have to take personal inventory on, and really, at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, it is personal responsibility. This
Speaker 1: is nobody is going to jump through the radio or
Speaker 1: the TV and tell you how to do it, or
Speaker 1: or make you prisoner. You have to do it yourself.
Speaker 1: And really the alternative is you have to look at
Speaker 1: this and say, misery is optional. Do I want to
Speaker 1: be on a fistful of medications? Do I want to
Speaker 1: spend the majority of my time on the phone with doctors,
Speaker 1: going to doctor's office visits, going for lab work, going
Speaker 1: for scans. The answer is no, you don't want to
Speaker 1: do this, But unfortunately we fall victim to all this.
Speaker 1: All right, So in that regard, what I want to
Speaker 1: do in the last few minutes here before we take
Speaker 1: a break from the news, traffic, and weather, is colon cancer. Now,
Speaker 1: colon cancer is one of the leading cancers. It is
Speaker 1: the leading cause of cancer. A lot of people don't
Speaker 1: realize it. And so with that in fact, keep in
Speaker 1: mind that colon cancer is one of the true preventable cancers,
Speaker 1: preventable cancers that we all face. The average risk person
Speaker 1: should start getting screened for colon cancer at age forty
Speaker 1: five years old. Even if you feel well, you have
Speaker 1: normal bowel movements, you don't have any pain, you don't
Speaker 1: see blood in your stool, you need to get screened
Speaker 1: at age forty five, typically with a colonoscopy. Now, there
Speaker 1: is a new blood test that has hit the news.
Speaker 1: It's made by Guardan Health and it is a blood test.
Speaker 1: Now for them those of you that don't want to
Speaker 1: deal with a colonoscopy, taking the ballot prep and all
Speaker 1: that other stuff, this may be an option for you
Speaker 1: because a third of American adults are not getting screened
Speaker 1: in any which way. So we somehow have to address this.
Speaker 1: The Guardant blood test can screen for colon cancer. Now
Speaker 1: you may say, well, that's a good thing. Well, it
Speaker 1: is good, and some of the people that were on
Speaker 1: the FDA board said it's better than nothing, and I
Speaker 1: would agree with it. But it is not going to
Speaker 1: identify polyps. Polyps are non cancerous, but they have the
Speaker 1: potential to turn to cancer. This blood test is geared
Speaker 1: to identify somebody that has early stage cancer. So you're
Speaker 1: getting screening is to prevent a disease. Here we're using
Speaker 1: the term screening to identify the early stages of cancer. Again,
Speaker 1: not doing anything. This is better than nothing, but keep
Speaker 1: in mind that this blood test is going to identify
Speaker 1: those that have early stage cancer already. Well, that doesn't
Speaker 1: sound too too darn good, so it is something. I
Speaker 1: want you to be aware that this is not a
Speaker 1: replacement for colonoscopy. This is not a replacement for taking
Speaker 1: care of yourself, but it will pick up early stage
Speaker 1: colon cancer and people that already have it. So again,
Speaker 1: I'll post information on this on our Facebook page, but
Speaker 1: you have to go to doctor Joegalotti dot com to
Speaker 1: get it. And so that's it. Forty five years old,
Speaker 1: you need to talk to your doctor about getting screened
Speaker 1: for colon cancer with a colonoscopy. All right, We're going
Speaker 1: to take a quick break, doctor Joe Galotti. Don't forget
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Speaker 1: back in a minute. Welcome back, everybody. Final segment for
Speaker 1: this Memorial Day weekend edition of Your Health. First, I'm
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Speaker 1: there's a link for Texasliver dot com. So we've been
Speaker 1: talking about bagels, and actually during the break, I received
Speaker 1: a text message from somebody saying, do you think you're
Speaker 1: being a little rude talking about New Yorkers versus the
Speaker 1: rest of the world. Well, first of all, I am
Speaker 1: a native New Yorker. At number two, it is all
Speaker 1: done in tongue and cheek. Please please understand that that
Speaker 1: I'm not disrespectful to anybody, but just a bit of
Speaker 1: good old fashioned tongue in cheek conversation here regarding the
Speaker 1: almighty bagel. All right, so what we started off with
Speaker 1: was the better bagel. It's a frozen bagel, I would say,
Speaker 1: a manufactured frozen bagel that you could get in the
Speaker 1: frozen section of your local grocery store. I happen to
Speaker 1: get mine at Whole Food. And what they're saying is
Speaker 1: that this is a better bagel, this is a better
Speaker 1: food to eat. Now, the small print is it still
Speaker 1: has forty grams of carbohydrate. But the way that they
Speaker 1: make it look better is by adding fiber. And when
Speaker 1: you calculate the net carbohydrate, it is the total carbs
Speaker 1: minus fiber. And that's what they do here, So they
Speaker 1: add in a lot of fiber to the product. Now
Speaker 1: I have in front of me the nutritional assessment of
Speaker 1: the Manhattan Bagel Company in New York City. And just
Speaker 1: to compare a few things here, Number one, our better bagel,
Speaker 1: the frozen bagel is one hundred and sixty calories per bagel.
Speaker 1: The Manhattan bagel is three hundred calories. Now what I
Speaker 1: would say, I researched this out. Most typical plane New
Speaker 1: York City bagels are anywhere between three hundred to three
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty calories, So right off the bat, you're
Speaker 1: getting less calories, all right, So maybe this is a
Speaker 1: better bagel if you're just looking at calories. Now, as
Speaker 1: far as sodium goes, I'm going to jump around sodium.
Speaker 1: This better bagel. The frozen bagel is six hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty milligrams of sodium. The classic New York Manhattan bagel
Speaker 1: has six hundred and ten, so it is in the
Speaker 1: same ballpark. And I would say most bagels are going
Speaker 1: to be on the higher side. A lot of bread
Speaker 1: products to get you any sort of taste, because you
Speaker 1: figure plain white flowers pretty tasteless. The only way it's
Speaker 1: going to taste good is by adding salt. Okay, So
Speaker 1: keep in mind that you're the bagel in general is
Speaker 1: going to be on the higher side of sodium. So
Speaker 1: six point fifty in the frozen bagel versus about six
Speaker 1: ten on the plain real New York bagel is pretty close.
Speaker 1: Now on the carbohydrates, okay, because that's that's one of
Speaker 1: the selling points here. The frozen bagel has forty grams
Speaker 1: of total carbohydrate. The New York bagel has sixty, So
Speaker 1: it's it's starting off with more carbohydrates, and the different
Speaker 1: varieties of New York Manhattan bagels range in carbohydrates from
Speaker 1: a low of forty and in this particular diagram, it
Speaker 1: is the thin bagel, so it's probably just a smaller
Speaker 1: bagel has about forty grams of carbs, but your typical
Speaker 1: New York bagel has anywhere from sixty five to sixty
Speaker 1: grams of carbs, so it is the New York bagel
Speaker 1: is a little bit higher in carbohydrates. The fiber there
Speaker 1: is essentially no fiber in a bagel, two grams of fiber,
Speaker 1: where the better bagel is giving you thirty five grams
Speaker 1: of fiber, but it is being added in by adding
Speaker 1: a gave fiber, which is probably giving you a little
Speaker 1: bit of taste as well. So all in all, just
Speaker 1: on the surface, this is a better bagel. Does it
Speaker 1: taste better than a New York bagel? Probably not. I
Speaker 1: could tell you it doesn't. I mean, I've eaten. My
Speaker 1: wife thought it was pretty bland and tasteless. But you know,
Speaker 1: you have an oral craving to eat something and toast
Speaker 1: it now, and you know it's funny. I remember, as
Speaker 1: a young resident in New York City that I met
Speaker 1: a dietitian really really early on in my career, and
Speaker 1: she was talking to the residents about foods for our
Speaker 1: patients and whatnot, and she had said the one food,
Speaker 1: and again this is coming from New York City, one
Speaker 1: food never to eat or the worst food to eat
Speaker 1: is a bagel. You could certainly make an argument about
Speaker 1: that that there are things worse than a bagel to
Speaker 1: have in the morning, but keep in mind that you're
Speaker 1: going to be getting a lot of carbs, a lot
Speaker 1: of sodium. Calorie wise, about three hundred not the worst thing. Now,
Speaker 1: if you decide that you want to add some sour
Speaker 1: cream cheese to this, so Philadelphia cream cheese, which is
Speaker 1: really pretty much the standard cream cheese you're going to
Speaker 1: get in New York one serving. According to Philadelphia cream Cheese,
Speaker 1: one serving is one ounce. I would say that if
Speaker 1: you go anywhere in New York and you get one
Speaker 1: ounce of cream cheese, you're going to send it back
Speaker 1: and say you're skimping on me. So let's just say
Speaker 1: two ounces of cream cheese. Okay, this is full fat,
Speaker 1: full fair cream cheese. With two ounces, you're going to
Speaker 1: get an additional two hundred calories. You're only going to
Speaker 1: get another four grams of protein. You're going to get
Speaker 1: twenty grams of fat and just a miniscule amount of sugar.
Speaker 1: So by adding the cream cheese, you're going to get
Speaker 1: a lot of fat, two hundred more calories. So maybe
Speaker 1: you're already up to If the bagel is three, you're
Speaker 1: looking at at least five to six hundred calories for
Speaker 1: your breakfast. Okay, now let's put this all in perspective.
Speaker 1: I don't think that we should banish the bagel to
Speaker 1: food purgatory food. Hell. I would think, like anything in life,
Speaker 1: it is moderation. If you are having a cream cheese
Speaker 1: bagel every single day, slathered up with cream cheese, butter cheese,
Speaker 1: put two or three eggs on top of it, you're
Speaker 1: looking for trouble unless you're a marathon runner or you
Speaker 1: swim a mile a day. So I think if on
Speaker 1: Sunday morning you want a bagel and indulge in a
Speaker 1: little sour cream cheese, I think it's okay to do
Speaker 1: as long as you are getting enough dietary fiber in
Speaker 1: your diet. You're not eating hamburgers all day long. You
Speaker 1: are not eating two slices of apple pie for dessert
Speaker 1: every evening. You're not eating pop tarts for breakfast. I
Speaker 1: think you're okay. So yes, Indeed, the better bagel, the
Speaker 1: frozen bagel that is claiming a lot of health benefits here,
Speaker 1: I think they're legit. You are getting added protein, but
Speaker 1: getting it through way protein addit is agave fiber. It
Speaker 1: may not be as good as eating an apple, fruit, nuts, beans, etc.
Speaker 1: But if you're trying to be a good player in
Speaker 1: the nutritional game here, it's probably not bad. Again, a
Speaker 1: steady diet of the better bagel, you know, if you
Speaker 1: have one on a Saturday or a Sunday morning and
Speaker 1: you indulge, you're reading the newspaper, you're watching the news
Speaker 1: shows on Sunday, go ahead and do it. But I
Speaker 1: think you have to put this all in perspective that
Speaker 1: you're not going to get healthier, You're not going to
Speaker 1: not have a heart attack, you are not going to
Speaker 1: not develop diabetes because this is the only thing you're doing.
Speaker 1: It has to be part of a more comprehensive health
Speaker 1: and well in the nutrition exercise plan. All right, So
Speaker 1: that is it for this installment of your health First
Speaker 1: I'm doctor Joe Galotti. Always always a pleasure being here
Speaker 1: sharing part of the weekend with you. And don't forget
Speaker 1: doctor Joegalotti dot com is our website, soner for the
Speaker 1: newsletter and all that we have to offer. Be well,
Speaker 1: God bless America and will see you next Sunday evening