Environmental issues like global warming, air pollution, water pollution, deforestation, and others have direct implications for your health and well-being. Dr. Paul Auerbach of Stanford University Medical School addressed some of these issues in an editorial for the Journal of the American Medical Association. I asked Dr. Auerbach to share some of his thoughts with us in this episode of Fitness Rocks.
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At the end of the podcast I present a wonderful piece of piano music composed and played by listener David Ianni from Luxembourg. The piece is entitled “Morning.”
This podcast is one of a series of interviews I’ve done in the past few weeks about the issue of human evolution and health. We evolved to thrive in a starkly different environment from the one we have created and this has had a measurable effect on our health and our planet.
You may think our biggest problem is the economy, or health care reform, or some other hot political issue, but if we can’t breathe the air or drink the water – what else matters after that?
References:
Physicians and the Environment
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- Mindfulness and Health: an interview with Dr. Ellen Langer
- Poverty and Your Health