With Halloween behind us and more overeating and sugar intake ahead of us for the holidays we chatted with Nancy Kaley, Program Director and Facilitator of the COR Retreat which helps those who struggle with eating issues they face and helps lead them to a healthier path! She discusses her own experience in the fight against sugar addiction and also we take some of your questions as well pertaining to what you put into your system, consuming sugar from fruit, portion sizes and other tips to avoiding massive sugar intake and fighting through the addiction to sugar and food in general.

Today we chatted with Wendy Lane of Lifespark about providing care for those in need who may need to be able to venture out and get the care they need. She discusses disillusionment with the health care system and how to find the right advice and the right help, how to respond with falls and severe illness in the home as well as a variety of other topics related to home health care!

On today’s Health Show we talked to Kaytlin Hanson, MS, CCC-SLP of Hennepin Healthcare about gun violence prevention and trauma prevention in the aftermath of the incident this week with a 3 year old child being killed from an accidental self inflicted gunshot wound - we discussed ways in which people can properly store their guns and ways in which people can take action when faced with a traumatic situation such as this.

This morning we talked family and group health visits with Dr. Rachel Silva of Hennepin Healthcare and other topics involving keeping your health goals in check and how group medical visits work.

This morning we talked all about sleep - why can't we sleep? How can we get better sleep? How to have good sleep hygiene? All things sleep covered with Dr. Andrew Stiehm MD, board certified for pulmonary and sleep medicine at Allina Health!

With the Twin Cities Marathon taking place this weekend in Minneapolis - we figured it would be a perfect time to chat about health and fitness with Certified Personal Trainer at Lifetime Fitness, Keri Anderson! She talked to us about muscle health, overall body conditioning and much more! We also take your questions on anything health and fitness related that you may have for Keri!

Jennifer Hendrickson of the Alzheimer's Association and Vijay K Ramanan, M.D., Ph.D. who is a Consultant and Assistant Professor Department of Neurology at Mayo Clinic join WCCO's Susie Jones. They discuss Alzheimer's and dementia care and research plus talk about an upcoming "Walk To End Alzheimer's".

It is not often measles is in the news but we talked about the latest with that also discussed many other topics this morning from heart health, how to fight through a compromised immune system, defining RSV and how to know which vaccines you can receive at a later stage in life - so many rapid fire topics tackled with our good friend Dr. David Hilden, board-certified in Internal Medicine for Hennepin Healthcare!