if you look up dual disorder, for example, in medical term-you'll see hypertension and diabetes. people have multiple conditions, and it does make things more difficult, but not impossible. we have very good treatments. we have good ways of arresting symptoms. but, as alexandre said, recovery is much more than simply not using drugs. and i-i really want to emphasize for people who might be watching this and saying "oh, i don't know, i can't imagine giving up my drugs." you know, i think james is probably the expert at this table, but the untold secret is that recovery is a very attractive, happy way of life. that's what sustains it. it's that quality of life. abstinence is a cardinal feature. but abstinence by itself is not going to do it. and like you said- james, go ahead. if i may add to that, that abstinence alone, you're correct, does not do it-that just like the attraction to using drugs was being around people who used drugs. that was part of it right there. and so once we choose to come out of the box and say "i don't want to use it anymore, but what do i do?" it's being

. >> a lot of times, people might not have recognized hypertension disease. >> a panel of experts will weigh the drug's risks and benefits. on thursday, an experimental drug will be considered for placement on the market. researchers say it had few side effects, where patients lost an average of 17 pounds over a year. it improved health in other ways. >> things like blood pressure, blood sugar, inflammation, all of these markers improved. >> if approved, it would be the new weight-loss drug approved in a decade. >> despite the increase in net use by teenagers, cough medicine will continue to be sold over- the-counter. they voted against a proposal that would have required a doctor's note. the proposal was introduced as robotripping, the process of drinking a bottle for a high. up next, your maryland lottery numbers, and after losing to the toronto blue jays all season, could the baltimore orioles make it two in a row? it two in a row? why is roman meal bread nutritious? two slices provide at least sixteen grams of whole grains and an excellent source of calcium. roman meal bread: great

. >> reporter: the die teary approach is to stop hypertension propping, also known as the dash programis a diet high in fruits, vegetables, nuts and dairy products, but low in red meat and sugary drinks. they showed the -- diet helped to lower blood pressure and now they found the combination of foods may also help reduce the risk of kidney stones. the kidney stone is a solid mass made up of tiny crystals and while they are relatively common they are also usually very painful. more than 3400 people with and without a history of kidney stones were involved in the study. and researchers analyse urine samples of the study's participants. despite drinking similar amounts of liquid people who followed a ---style diet why you are nateed more than those who did not follow the diet. they seemed also to have higher concentrations of sit trait, an important salt that prevents calcium stones, they say the lower rate of kidney stones could be due to the higher water content in ---type foods, with this medical minute i'm dr. timothy johnson. >> listen up ladies, when eye comes to improving the ladi

that is much much more complicated than hypertension or diabetes. these are probably the most complicated illness in all of medicine. >> charlie: because? >> because it involves the brain and not just the brain the way it is involved in parkinsons or alateral sclerosis. of the highest most complex function of the brain. >> charlie: what is the question you most want the answer to. >> personally i want the answer to how it is that depression mediated in the brain, what really is the source of the abnormality. we know that gene environment, chemistry, circuits. we're not really getting at the fundamental source of what make negative mood progress into a state of absolute suffering where you can't hold on to anyone else to pump othe pull yf the pit. that's the driving force for me. >> charlie: you've heard me ask this before. >> to go from a gene to behavior and understand all the steps in between is just, would be fantastic. particularly something as complex as a psychiatric disease. >> charlie: how far away are we from that? >> a long way to get ther

trying to eliminate obesity, high pressure, hypertension and everything.starts with having the right mind-set, working out, eating right and getting the kids outside. paul, alexander, olson and macintosh joined in on the record-breaking fun. good for tm. it looks like donovan has moves. >> getting kids outside and getting them moving is the big key. >> there you go. >> if we could solve that problem, we would be a long way from solving that obesity problem. >> there is value in recess. >> jake's favorite subject. >> a bit of a recess from fall as we all have warmer temperatures moving in. it will feel a lot like summer later today. there's the washington monument under a mostly clear sky. getting low at 69 sat national airport. much warmer than the last several mornings. it's little more humid but not really typical summertime humidity. rightow in the suburbs, most locations in the 60s mid-60s in prince george's, montgomery counties. southern maryland near the way. weather watchers reporting near 70. farther to our west, weather watchers, upper 50s, near 6

care and an organization who cares as well, hoping to eliminate obesity, high blood pressure, hypertensionnd everything. it obviously starts with having the right mindset, working out, eating right and getting these kids outside. >> donovan mcknabb turning in the chunky soup for some exercise. he hates that commercial, by the way. he said he doesn't wa people to remember him for that, so now he's working on fitness. >>> after dropping six games at nuss mark, the nationals pummelled the astros 8-4. they're tryingo end a four-game losing streak at this point. jason michaels takes john lannon deep down into the seats. lannon gave up four points in the inning. lannon, though, would calm down giving up just two hits to the next nine batters he faced. he goes seven innings, allows three runs. so now we go to the bottom of the eighth inning, hoping for something special. rodriguez would deliver. batolino, career home run for the score. it's now tied 3-3 and the nationals keep the rally going. a couple batters later. justin maxwell comes home from third. look at this, he's so excited, he slips and

heart failure, hypertension, diabetes, cancer, stroke, those kinds of chronic illnesses. when you get them in your 30's and 40's and you have them into your aging process, you are not going to have a comfortable old age. you are also seeing in terms of epidemics, an increase in alzheimer's and it is going to increase as the population increases. there are quite a few seniors who have mental health problems but they are also, the majority of seniors, who are hard-working, who had minimum wage jobs their whole lives, who paid social security. think about living on $889 a month in the city of san francisco needing to buy medication, one meal a day, hopefully, and health care. if we could provide health care early on we might prevent (inaudible) and people would be less likely to end up in the emergency room with a drastic outcome. we could actually provide prevention and health care to people who had no other way of getting health care, those without insurance, it might be more cost effectiti and >> good morning, everyone. in the director of the transbay joint powers authori

it is diabetes, hypertension, and blood pressure. we need to make sure we have adequate mobile outreach programs. asthma is also correlated with being poor. when you know that, you know that these people need our reach, especially in the bayview hunters point and the portola housing projects, as well as tackling the environment issues. it is no wonder that we have a disproportionate rate of asthma. we need to tackle the environment issues, but we also need to have more of the on the ground community outreach to deal with it. >> thank you. >> mr. moss. >> i started san francisco community power in 2001. i was placed on the tax forsk fe in 2002. i will help close a plant this year. i'm on the task force that has a book that air toxins in district 10. if you look at the map of for the pollution is, it is in district 10. it comes from the freeway. the city of san francisco has adopted an ordinance that all new developments has to be built in a certain way. everyone who lives in the district right now, including my daughter who has respir

. >> in the long run you will pay the costs with diabetes, hypertension, any chronic diseases that come with fast food. >> santa clara county passed a similar law but it only affects the unincorporated areas of the county which includes four businesses. san francisco has dozens of fast food franchises. >>> you have heard of meals on wheels but probably not like this. in a city that turned taco trucks into gourmet eating san francisco is home to another new trend in fine dining. >> you can tour around and stop at different points and have an appetizer in front of the golden gate bridge. >> yeah, i mean the concept of touring through san francisco and eating, i love that idea >>> reporter: he is just one of many san francisco foodies jumping on the bustraunt bandwagon or bus wagon. >> meatball, everything ton. >> reporter: it's fine dining on four wheels but don't call it a roach coach. la truck co-owner blake calls it a broach coach. >> we are trying to create a new paradigm, broach coach, more luxury experience, indoor seating and interaction with the chef. >> reporter: it's not just th

so hypertension, diabetes, if you're injection drug user, you may have abscesses that need to be treated. you mention hiv. we want to make sure that a person who is hiv-positive is hooked up with ryan white, they can get on medication. the sooner you're on medication, the better off you are. but that does mean that, indeed, those services are available and that the caseworker or case manager is able to recognize that. so it's physical health, it's mental health, and it's substance use disorder, full spectrum. when we come back, we're going to continue to talk about, now, the treatment of homeless individuals with co-occurring conditions and with addiction problems. we'll be right back. it's important to be familiar with the proper terminology surrounding addiction and recovery. one of the terms you want to be familiar with is, co-occurring disorder. co-occurring disorders are when an individual suffers from both a substance use and mental health disorder. such as an anxiety, depression, or other mood disorders. for more information on this and other recovery jargon, visit the recovery mo

if it was diabetes or hypertension, they wouldn't be ashamed. and we have to make it such that we can get to that level, which will take some time, i think. and, indeed, thank you for mentioning recovery month once again, because recovery month is celebrated every september, and we hope that all of our audience really gets engaged and really gets involved. it is a very worthwhile endeavor, and we want you to be part of it. thank you for being with us. great program. for a copy of this program or other programs in the road to recovery series, call samhsa at 1-800-662-help or order online at recoverymonth.gov and click multimedia. every september, national alcohol and drug addiction recovery month provides an opportunity for communities like yours to raise awareness of alcohol and drug use disorders and highlight the effectiveness of treatment. in order to help you plan events and activities in commemoration of this year's recovery month observance, the free recovery month kit offers ideas, materials, and tools for planning, organizing, and realiz

trying to eliminate obesity, high bloos pressure, hypertension and everything.l starts with having the right mind-set, working out, eating right and getting the kids outside. >> teammates hall, alexander, olson and macintosh joined in on the record-breaking fun. looks like they had a good time. >> i want to know what a virtual exercis lesson is. what is virtual about it? >> today will be hot to be over there exercising. it's going to feel like summertime. autumn equinox arrives at 11:09. we have the full moon, pink moon in the western sky getting low. it will be setting in a few minutes. right now at that national airport, 68 degrees with a dewpoint is up a bit. it's a milder morning. elsewhere, in the sxz throughout most of the reon from the shenandoah valley. mostly clear sky. right now montgomery, arlington, fairfax, prince george's in the mid-60s. western maryland, west virginia. tidewater, the pay, eastn shore, 60s as well. view from space showing a clear sky here. a little disturbance in eastern kentucky. showers may come in later this afternoon and give u

she has had to deal hypertension and high cholesterol. the compulsion to eat goes beyond food.husband kenny lock cabinets, because a sleep eater's diet can become surprisingly diverse. my nephews found me eating an sos pad. scouring pad that has a detergent in it. >> reporter: and you didn't wake up when you were eating? >> no i never wake up when i'm eating. it doesn't matter what you're eating. >> we had patients consume egg shells and coca-cola in a blender and consume it. they eat elmer's glue. they're walking around headless. >> reporter: many people hearing your story, might be tempted to think that it's just a case of hunger that you're hungry and that's why you're eating at night? >> no, that's not the case. >> it's compulsion to eat but not a hunger-driven behavior. it's not a psychological problem. it's a force coming from within your brain and body to eat at night. >> reporter: this overwhelming physiolo physiological force, known as parasomniac, it can cause someone to engage in activities ranging from sleep walking, to sleep sex, all while asleep. >> all bets are o

hypertension, high cholesterol, high blood pressure and so oftentimes the drug companies say, hey, itht not be the diet drug that's causing their problems but they have a lot of health issues. it's a big problem. >>> i see you are taking your health beat in a different direction with answering readers question. >> health care is so complicated and only get into so much when i write for the paper and do these things for you guys so people can now e- mail me and we can answer their questions in a new feature we are tarting that runs every thursday. >>> looking forward to it. >> thank you. read more of bruce's health columns in the "chicago tribune" or online at chicagotribune.com. >>> a veterans health center could come to joliet. >>> plus it's almost time to get flu shots. why you may want to consider getting your pet protected as well. >>> he has been playing guitar since the age of 12 and had his music recorded by blake shelton and tim mcgraw. country music singer troy olsen is with us today. (announcer) living with ulcerative colitis? i'm going six times a day. i had three flares la

. >> in the long run you are going to have to pay the cost, with diabetes, hypertension, chronic diseasesme along with fast food. >> santa clara county passed a similar law but it only affects the unincorporated areas of the county which includes four businesses. san francisco has dozens of fast food franchises. >>> members of a community garden in palo alto pay hundreds of dollars for space to grow their own food but now some neighbors are helping themselves to the fruits of their labors. jennifer mistrot on how gardeners and police are handling the problem >>> reporter: rita's garden plot is a labor of love. >> corn is the water guzzler. it is not the best. >> reporter: it's also a big temptation for grownups looking for a free bite. >> it's really sad because they send their kids in thinking that their kids won't get arrested for stealing food. so they will send their kids in with big black garbage bags and tell them to pick. >> reporter: there are signs all over the place at palo alto's community garden telling people not to pick. but lately, picking here has become a dirty little sec

while 80% of people will have risk factors, roughly 1/3 will have hypertension. 50% will have cholesterol over 200. a third will have bad cholesterol beyond what is acceptable. the risk factors are important. they are not able to be parsed out. what is important, and it comes back to comments made by several senators, is treatment of the risk factors is important when it comes to quality care. if they were exposed to agent orane or it was recently, we take the risk for disease very seriously. we have measures that are in place that are at par or better than any of our health-care systems in the country for the treatment of lipid and diabetes. we have a program that is focused at getting the veterans to increase their physical activities. all of these are taking very seriously. can we do better? yes. we re trying to do more. >> thank you. that is helpful. >> thank youvery much. >> thank you very much. in his statement, he made some suggestions to improve the agent orange act of 1991 including new studies in dioxin levels and blood testing to provide an estimate for latency periods for aide

if you have hypertension, that's your issue. but we don't realize that that connects to our health as well. it may not be biologically, but it connects to our health, and we have to get that message across that we have to be concerned about everyone's health, because it in turn will impact our health. >> i'm curious whether you all think it's possible to put an accurate dollar amount on the cost productivity of having people unable to access adequate healthcare. numbers are thrown around. but i wonder what really needs to go into that kind of equation to recognize if people remain outside of access to care, what does that mean to the state of texas and this economy and our ability to work into the future? >> i can't give you a dollar figure. but i will say -- and i've said before -- in an unhealthy region or state is not an economically viable situation. >> and i think that the awareness of that is exploding, especially among employers who are taking corporate responsibility for wellness now because they are realizing that good

we treat it, like so many other chronic diseases,: hypertension, asthma, cancer. and you have to maintain treatment otherwise the patient relapses. so the concept of high relapse rates is part of the concept of the long-lasting changes. brains... drugs affect the brain that's much longer than after yourself taking it. and we have medication for example in the case of heroin. we have methadone. for the case of nicotine we have several alternatives for us. >> what do they do as a category? whether it's nicotine or whether it's methadone? >> for methadone and nicotine replacement you have drugs that are acting in the same molecular targets in the brain as the drugs themselves but they do in the a different way. temporarily a much lower level of stimulation. >> a heroin addict, for example, would spend most of his or her day trying to get heroin and taking it. then the drug wears off and the process starts all over again. methadone binds to the same receptor that is being activated by heroin only it stays on the receptor far very long period of time so a person's life

she was diagnosed with a devastating disease called primary pulmonary hypertension.. many years ago she received a college degree in elementary education but could only pursue her dream of being an educator for about one year. her disease might have kept her from living her dream as a classroom teacher, however, it only enhanced christy to become a life teacher to everyone who knows her. christie pursued another love of hers, and that is one of writing. i'm proud to say she's the published author of two children's books. she helped develop the local elementary school's writing contest several years ago and this contest continues to this day. she travels to the mayo clinic where she gets the best care in the nation. she lives each day with a continuous infusion of medicine. she will eventually be forced to make the decision of having a transplant. you would never know that christie is facing a life-threatening illness because she has a spirit that shines and her shil softens your heart. she's inspiring beyond comprehensible words. i'm honored to call her a friend and

the evidence regarding hypertension was less compelling in my view and still did not meet -- did not establish a positive association. i believe that these decisions in all four cases are consistent with that the law. in conducting my review and making my decision, i was aware of the prevalence of systemic heart disease within the general population and the fact that it is associated with a number of factors other than herbicide exposure. i carefully considered whether these factors could be considered in applying the statutory standard. my determination that there is a positive association between our side exposure estimate are disease was based solely on the evaluation of the scientific and medical evidence according to the statutory standards in the agent orange act. we identified nine studies that were rigorously conducted, some containing reliable measures of exposure that permitted evaluation of relationships that are particularly related to in determining if they situation exists. five of the studies detected a relationship. the studies with the best dose information showed in

. >> the youth in my community are getting diseases like diabetes and hypertension at younger and youngerto fix childhood obesity? karen wells is vice president of nutrition and menu strategy for mcdonald's u.s.a. she attended yesterday's hearing in san francisco. good morning to you, karen. >> good morning. >> i know you have a lot to say about this subject. but number one, most important thing is that you believe that if a city can tell people, mcdonald's that you can't put toys in kids happy meals, what could possibly be next? right? >> you know, we strongly believe that the ordinance in san francisco is well intended. this issue of childhood obesity and children's well being is certainly one here in the united states and at mcdonald's, we remain committed to be part of the solution. however, the legislation in san francisco is misguided in its approach. one, the choice for what children eat is the sole responsibility of parents. i'm a parent of two school aged children and it remains my responsibility to decide what our children will eat and secondly, we are not clear on the foundatio