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In today’s feature report, EcoReport’s Michael Simmons speaks with Dr. Drew Ramsey, an I-U medical school graduate, and an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University. Dr. Ramsey co-authored a book with Tyler Graham called "The Happiness Diet" where he discusses properly eating to feed our brains as well as our bodies. He dismisses such myths as cholesterol and fatty foods, including meats, as being bad for nutrition. He also talks about issues with processed foods and chemicals such as atrazine used in farming as they are related to mental health in today's exclusive feature.
EcoReport is a weekly program providing independent media coverage of environmental and ecological issues with a focus on local, state and regional people, issues, and events in order to foster open discussion of human relationships with nature and the Earth and to encourage you to take personal responsibility for the world in which we live. Each program features timely eco-related headline news, a feature interview or event recording, and a calendar of events of interest to the environmentally conscious.
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In today’s feature report, EcoReport’s Michael Simmons speaks with Dr. Drew Ramsey, an I-U medical school graduate, and an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University. Dr. Ramsey co-authored a book with Tyler Graham called "The Happiness Diet" where he discusses properly eating to feed our brains as well as our bodies. He dismisses such myths as cholesterol and fatty foods, including meats, as being bad for nutrition. He also talks about issues with processed foods and chemicals such as atrazine used in farming as they are related to mental health in today's exclusive feature.
EcoReport is a weekly program providing independent media coverage of environmental and ecological issues with a focus on local, state and regional people, issues, and events in order to foster open discussion of human relationships with nature and the Earth and to encourage you to take personal responsibility for the world in which we live. Each program features timely eco-related headline news, a feature interview or event recording, and a calendar of events of interest to the environmentally conscious.
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This week’s news stories were written by Lucille Bertuccio, Linda Greene, and Dan Young
Laura Nading compiled our weekly calendar
Our broadcast engineer is Joe Crawford
Jim Lang produced today’s feature
Producers for EcoReport are Lucille Bertuccio and Kelly Miller
Executive Producer is Alycin Bektesh
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