Kat Napolitano, of KatNap Fitness, joins Mark Alyn on Late Night Health Radio to talk about role models in fitness. Think these things don’t make a difference? Think again!

Role models still affect us all at any age and this is particularly true in the fitness world where we are still only seeing skinny, chiseled and muscled trainers to inspire us to workout. But statistics show that this isn’t working. 60% of American adults still don't get the recommended amount of physical activity, and over 25% of adults are not active at all.

There is a sea change in many industries of more realistic role models for body image starting to appear. Oprah is probably the most well-known headliner to bring a new image to health and weight loss as the new face of Weight Watchers and it is making a major impact. For the FIRST TIME EVER, Sports Illustrated put a curvy model on one of the covers (you go Ashley Graham!) Barbie just launched a new line of dolls to reflect the changes in what we see as beauty.

In the fitness industry, apparel brands are adding plus size lines at a rapid pace. Considering the average clothing size for the American woman is a 14, brands must meet the consumer’s needs. LIVI Active, C9 Champion, Zella, The Warm Up by Jessica Simpson, NOLA, Torrid Active – the list grows daily. So why haven’t the role models caught up with the fashion? If you have plus size athletic wear, shouldn’t you have a plus size fitness person guiding people in their fitness? There is a disconnect and Kat hopes to help connect the two, which is why Kat launched KatNap Fitness last November. By just changing who you follow in a workout can mean the difference between success and failure and the reality is, these millions of people who are not a size 2, like some Late Night Health Radio listeners, want someone else to inspire and motivate them. Quite simply, many people are disconnected to the fitness person they are supposed to workout with.

Only when we have people that we can relate to and identify with, can we have motivation and inspiration, which leads to success. And the reality is that the skinny, super fit trainer is not always the best person for the job.

Kat Napolitano, of KatNap Fitness, joins Mark Alyn on Late Night Health Radio to talk about role models in fitness. Think these things don’t make a difference? Think again!

Role models still affect us all at any age and this is particularly true in the fitness world where we are still only seeing skinny, chiseled and muscled trainers to inspire us to workout. But statistics show that this isn’t working. 60% of American adults still don't get the recommended amount of physical activity, and over 25% of adults are not active at all.

There is a sea change in many industries of more realistic role models for body image starting to appear. Oprah is probably the most well-known headliner to bring a new image to health and weight loss as the new face of Weight Watchers and it is making a major impact. For the FIRST TIME EVER, Sports Illustrated put a curvy model on one of the covers (you go Ashley Graham!) Barbie just launched a new line of dolls to reflect the changes in what we see as beauty.

In the fitness industry, apparel brands are adding plus size lines at a rapid pace. Considering the average clothing size for the American woman is a 14, brands must meet the consumer’s needs. LIVI Active, C9 Champion, Zella, The Warm Up by Jessica Simpson, NOLA, Torrid Active – the list grows daily. So why haven’t the role models caught up with the fashion? If you have plus size athletic wear, shouldn’t you have a plus size fitness person guiding people in their fitness? There is a disconnect and Kat hopes to help connect the two, which is why Kat launched KatNap Fitness last November. By just changing who you follow in a workout can mean the difference between success and failure and the reality is, these millions of people who are not a size 2, like some Late Night Health Radio listeners, want someone else to inspire and motivate them. Quite simply, many people are disconnected to the fitness person they are supposed to workout with.

Only when we have people that we can relate to and identify with, can we have motivation and inspiration, which leads to success. And the reality is that the skinny, super fit trainer is not always the best person for the job.

Saul J. Weiner, M.D., and Alan Schwartz, PH.D., join Mark Alyn to talk about their new book, Listening for What Matters: Avoiding Contextual Errors in Health Care. The book is based on 10 years of groundbreaking research conducted by the authors and explains how and why doctors commonly fail when diagnosing and treating patients. With federal grants, Weiner and Schwartz conducted studies, which first sent actors, called Unannounced Standardized Patients (“USPs”) and then real patients, to hundreds of doctor's visits with hidden audio-recording devices so that the research team could listen and analyze the results of the visits. This is their story.

The focus behind the experiments was to find out how often doctors picked up on “contextual red flags” alluded to by the patients. These are clues that something is going on in a patient’s life that needs to be addressed for a care plan to be effective. So, if a patient drops clues that he is unable to afford an expensive brand name medication after losing health insurance coverage, then Weiner and Schwartz would observe whether the doctor picks up on the clues and prescribes a lower-cost generic medicine. The studies document that physicians are frequently overlooking crucial clues about patients’ individual life circumstances and making medical errors as a result. These mistakes by doctors are costly and pervasive and can be prevented. Weiner and Schwartz explain how doctors and other health-care professionals can learn to listen better, ask the right questions, and get better results.

In their interview with Mark, Saul and Alan will discuss:

- Some of the most surprising things they learned while conducting these experiments—stories from the trenches revealed by the actors and patients that went into the doctors’ offices undercover.

- Why doctors so frequently miss patient clues that they are struggling – termed “contextual red flags” - even when these red flags seem obvious to the reader.

- What our medical schools can do to better train health care professionals to listen and engage with patients on an individual level so that patients’ health care outcomes are better.

- Why contextualized care is more cost effective and why it doesn't have to take any more time out of a busy doctor's day than the current way care is delivered.

- What patients can do to better their, or a loved one's, care if they don't feel their health-care professionals are listening to them.

The book is available from Oxford University Press and can be bought online via Amazon, Oxford, or another retailer.

Saul J. Weiner, M.D., and Alan Schwartz, PH.D., join Mark Alyn to talk about their new book, Listening for What Matters: Avoiding Contextual Errors in Health Care. The book is based on 10 years of groundbreaking research conducted by the authors and explains how and why doctors commonly fail when diagnosing and treating patients. With federal grants, Weiner and Schwartz conducted studies, which first sent actors, called Unannounced Standardized Patients (“USPs”) and then real patients, to hundreds of doctor's visits with hidden audio-recording devices so that the research team could listen and analyze the results of the visits. This is their story.

The focus behind the experiments was to find out how often doctors picked up on “contextual red flags” alluded to by the patients. These are clues that something is going on in a patient’s life that needs to be addressed for a care plan to be effective. So, if a patient drops clues that he is unable to afford an expensive brand name medication after losing health insurance coverage, then Weiner and Schwartz would observe whether the doctor picks up on the clues and prescribes a lower-cost generic medicine. The studies document that physicians are frequently overlooking crucial clues about patients’ individual life circumstances and making medical errors as a result. These mistakes by doctors are costly and pervasive and can be prevented. Weiner and Schwartz explain how doctors and other health-care professionals can learn to listen better, ask the right questions, and get better results.

In their interview with Mark, Saul and Alan will discuss:

- Some of the most surprising things they learned while conducting these experiments—stories from the trenches revealed by the actors and patients that went into the doctors’ offices undercover.

- Why doctors so frequently miss patient clues that they are struggling – termed “contextual red flags” - even when these red flags seem obvious to the reader.

- What our medical schools can do to better train health care professionals to listen and engage with patients on an individual level so that patients’ health care outcomes are better.

- Why contextualized care is more cost effective and why it doesn't have to take any more time out of a busy doctor's day than the current way care is delivered.

- What patients can do to better their, or a loved one's, care if they don't feel their health-care professionals are listening to them.

The book is available from Oxford University Press and can be bought online via Amazon, Oxford, or another retailer.

The Launch of NORD Founder, Abbey Meyers' memoir "Orphan Drugs: A Global Crusade"

Mark speaks with Abbey Meyers, founder and past President of the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), about the launch of her new book Orphan Drugs: A Global Crusade.

Ms. Meyers opens up about the struggles she had in getting a proper diagnosis for her son, who was eventually diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome, followed by additional struggles to get treatment option that was safe and effective. The talks about her unwavering efforts that ultimately supported the enactment of the groundbreaking “Orphan Drug Act of 1983”

Among her many accomplishments, Ms. Meyers served as the consumer representative on the National Commission on Orphan Diseases (1986-89), the NIH Human Gene Therapy Subcommittee, the NIH Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC), the FDA Biological Response Modifiers Committee, and the HHS National Human Research Protections Advisory Committee. She was also an Honorary President of the European Organization for Rare Disorders (EURORDIS) and currently hold the honorary title of President Emeritus of NORD.

Ms. Meyers asserts to Mark, "One day, I wish everyone dealing with the pain and misery of the 7,000 rare disorders will have access to a treatment that will alleviate their symptoms.”

The Launch of NORD Founder, Abbey Meyers' memoir "Orphan Drugs: A Global Crusade"

Mark speaks with Abbey Meyers, founder and past President of the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), about the launch of her new book Orphan Drugs: A Global Crusade.

Ms. Meyers opens up about the struggles she had in getting a proper diagnosis for her son, who was eventually diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome, followed by additional struggles to get treatment option that was safe and effective. The talks about her unwavering efforts that ultimately supported the enactment of the groundbreaking “Orphan Drug Act of 1983”

Among her many accomplishments, Ms. Meyers served as the consumer representative on the National Commission on Orphan Diseases (1986-89), the NIH Human Gene Therapy Subcommittee, the NIH Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC), the FDA Biological Response Modifiers Committee, and the HHS National Human Research Protections Advisory Committee. She was also an Honorary President of the European Organization for Rare Disorders (EURORDIS) and currently hold the honorary title of President Emeritus of NORD.

Ms. Meyers asserts to Mark, "One day, I wish everyone dealing with the pain and misery of the 7,000 rare disorders will have access to a treatment that will alleviate their symptoms.”

Margaret Overton, MD joins the Late Night Health Show to talk about Greed in the Hospice Industry and how services have changed in the last 10 years!

While tending to patients as well as her aging parents as both a doctor and a daughter, Margaret Overton realized something about end of life care: dying well requires more than just good medical care.

In her new book Hope for a Cool Pillow (Outpost19, March 1, 2016, Paperback Original), Dr. Overton alternates chapters discussing her patients, her experience with her parents and her time at Harvard Business School’s course on healthcare management, which she took after realizing that our plan for dying well in this country is broken. She wanted to do research on how to fix it for her family as well as for her patients.

Checking in with Mark Alyn on Late Night Health, Dr. Overton can talk listeners through advanced directives and DNRs – which can can be a scary and uncomfortable conversation, but it doesn’t have to be. Dr. Overton’s Hope for a Cool Pillow provides both factual and emotional frameworks to broach this subject with your loved ones. She can talk about profit vs. non profit hospice, what the differences are, and what makes the most sense for you and your family. Finding hospice and palliative care is not only a practical decision for a family: it is a sustainability issue for our society as well.

Nuanced and full of compassion, Hope for a Cool Pillow has humor as well as a strong, impassioned argument about how end of life care can be less fraught for people all over the US.

Margaret Overton, MD joins the Late Night Health Show to talk about Greed in the Hospice Industry and how services have changed in the last 10 years!

While tending to patients as well as her aging parents as both a doctor and a daughter, Margaret Overton realized something about end of life care: dying well requires more than just good medical care.

In her new book Hope for a Cool Pillow (Outpost19, March 1, 2016, Paperback Original), Dr. Overton alternates chapters discussing her patients, her experience with her parents and her time at Harvard Business School’s course on healthcare management, which she took after realizing that our plan for dying well in this country is broken. She wanted to do research on how to fix it for her family as well as for her patients.

Checking in with Mark Alyn on Late Night Health, Dr. Overton can talk listeners through advanced directives and DNRs – which can can be a scary and uncomfortable conversation, but it doesn’t have to be. Dr. Overton’s Hope for a Cool Pillow provides both factual and emotional frameworks to broach this subject with your loved ones. She can talk about profit vs. non profit hospice, what the differences are, and what makes the most sense for you and your family. Finding hospice and palliative care is not only a practical decision for a family: it is a sustainability issue for our society as well.

Nuanced and full of compassion, Hope for a Cool Pillow has humor as well as a strong, impassioned argument about how end of life care can be less fraught for people all over the US.

Author of “The Calorie Myth”, Jonathan Bailor, personal trainer and health coach joins Mark Alyn for this eye-opening discussion about calories and losing weight. Obesity being caused by eating too many calories is a myth. In his book Jonathan talks about why we need to focus on everything other than calories when trying to lose weight. Lower calorie foods are modified to lower the calories and the natural food source is altered, is terrible for your body. Jonathan talks about how eating the wrong foods can actually affect your brain and cause food cravings which leads to eating more.

When physicians tell patients to "just eat less calories to lose weight" the patient is set up to fail. When people eat foods naturally found in nature they lose weight. The processed foods and foods specifically processed to be low-calorie keep people over weight and make it extremely difficult to lose weight. Jonathan approaches weight loss and the calorie from an engineering stand point.

The focus on calories has taken our focus away from real food and towards non-foods. 40-60% of the average American calories are coming from non-foods. By eating non-foods we have broken our bodies ability to regulate weight. When we focus on calorie quantities we end up eating the wrong things and we break bodies the natural system to regulate weight.

What if everything you were taught about eating, exercise, weight loss, and health was proven wrong? We talk about beating diabetes and what foods to eat. Jonathan discusses the 4 food groups that people need to eat to be healthy and lose weight. Fat in foods is not bad for you and your body actually needs these fats and you can lose weight eating this way. Protein is also key in that it keeps you full longer.

Author of “The Calorie Myth”, Jonathan Bailor, personal trainer and health coach joins Mark Alyn for this eye-opening discussion about calories and losing weight. Obesity being caused by eating too many calories is a myth. In his book Jonathan talks about why we need to focus on everything other than calories when trying to lose weight. Lower calorie foods are modified to lower the calories and the natural food source is altered, is terrible for your body. Jonathan talks about how eating the wrong foods can actually affect your brain and cause food cravings which leads to eating more.

When physicians tell patients to "just eat less calories to lose weight" the patient is set up to fail. When people eat foods naturally found in nature they lose weight. The processed foods and foods specifically processed to be low-calorie keep people over weight and make it extremely difficult to lose weight. Jonathan approaches weight loss and the calorie from an engineering stand point.

The focus on calories has taken our focus away from real food and towards non-foods. 40-60% of the average American calories are coming from non-foods. By eating non-foods we have broken our bodies ability to regulate weight. When we focus on calorie quantities we end up eating the wrong things and we break bodies the natural system to regulate weight.

What if everything you were taught about eating, exercise, weight loss, and health was proven wrong? We talk about beating diabetes and what foods to eat. Jonathan discusses the 4 food groups that people need to eat to be healthy and lose weight. Fat in foods is not bad for you and your body actually needs these fats and you can lose weight eating this way. Protein is also key in that it keeps you full longer.