Month: July 2025

RAF414: Davidsonville Historic State Park Arkansas

Here we are at Davidsonville Historic State Park, near Pocahontas, Arkansas. I am here on my “daycation,” which is like a vacation with day trips. And I decided to come all the way out to Davidsonville. It’s a historic town, what used to be a town. It was donated back in 1957 by a man…

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RAF413: GLP-1 Weight Loss Drugs – Wegovy, Ozembic, Zepbound and Others

On June 4, 2021, the FDA approved Wegovy for the treatment of chronic obesity and overweight individuals. Dr. John Sharretts, deputy director of the Division of Diabetes, Lipid Disorders, and Obesity in the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said, “Today’s approval offers adults with obesity or overweight a beneficial new treatment option to…

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RAF412: Plant-Based Diets

Have you heard the hype about plant-based diets? I’m not sure when the word vegetarian went out of style. But now it’s plant-based, so I guess I’d better get used to it. There are a number of reasons people go to a plant-based diet. But I think what’s on all our minds is the health…

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RAF411: AARP – Is It Worth It?

Well, I recently got an email from my employer about a discount membership to AARP, the American Association of Retired Persons. It’s actually just AARP now. About a third of their members are not actually retired. We get employee discounts on a lot of things, and I get these emails on a regular basis. By…

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RAF410: Happy Habits

We have spent hundreds of episodes on exercise, healthy food and dieting, various medical issues, and longevity. These are parts of my goal: long, healthy, happy,and  active. But I’m not sure we’ve ever done an episode about the happy part. If we have, I’m sure I can count them on the fingers of one hand….

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