This week's podcast features an unlikely partnership - Texas A&M's College of Architecture and School of Public Health are combining with the Department of Health and Kinesiology to produce cutting-edge research on physical activity in communities!  Drs. Chanam Lee and Marcia Ory join us for an interesting discussion on health, location, and the environment as they discuss the NIH supported "Active Living Austin" project.

For more information about this week’s Human Performance Minute, check out the links listed below. Be sure to check out future weekly Huffines Institute Human Performance Minute broadcasts at TexAgs SportsRadio (The Zone 1150 AM) every Wednesday morning at 10:45am. If you missed it you can listen to it here!

Joining us this week is Dr. David Thompson, a Professor in the Dept. of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Dr. Thompson talks about his experiences over his career, and the often challenging circumstances that arise throughout our public education system. A really interesting talk!

Today is the seventh video and audio-only rebroadcast from the 2015 Huffines Discussion.   Up today in our series is Dr. Mindy Millard-Stafford, from the Georgia Institute of Technology.  Dr. Millard-Stafford's talk is called "(When) Will Women Outperform Men In Sport: Socio-biological Perspectives" and discusses the debate on whether or not women will overcome physiological barriers to performance

Today is the sixth video and audio-only rebroadcast from the 2015 Huffines Discussion.   Up today in our series is Mr. Kevin Spencer, Internationally acclaimed Illusionist and Researcher.  Mr. Spencer's talk is called "Powerful Medicine: Simply Magic!" and is a great talk about new approaches to physical rehabilitation using simple tools that seem to be magic

Today is the third video and audio-only rebroadcast from the 2015 Huffines Discussion.   Up today in our series is Dr. Janice Thompson, Professor and Director of Research and Deputy Head of School in Sport and Exercise Sciences at the University of Birmingham, UK.  Dr. Thompson's talk is called "Obesity Wars: Exercise vs. Diet" and covers the current controversies and understandings in the war on obesity.

This week's "Best Of..." podcast is from your requests:  Dr. Molly Bray from Univ. Texas.  Dr. Bray is a great nutrition and exercise researcher and this is a fun conversation about her work and some of her findings (YES! Bring on the bacon at breakfast!)

In a special joint podcast with Texas A&M's Center for Translational Environmental Health Research (CTEHR.org), we are excited to present Dr. Steve Kleeberger, one of the countries preeminent scientists.  You may think - "wait, this is supposed to be about human performance" - but hang on; we think you'll find what Dr. Kleeberger says to be very applicable to sports medicine (just think about the smog and the Beijing Olympics).

Today in the podcast we've got a great conversation with Dr. Wendy Demark-Wahnefried from the University of Alabama-Birmingham.  Dr. Demark-Wahnefried has been one of the leaders in working to understand the relationship between nutrition and cancer - as well as the use of community gardens as a rehabilitative and preventative tool.  This is a great conversation!

It is well accepted that childhood obesity is a major issue facing our society.  This increase in fatness has been accompanied (some would say 'caused by') a significant limiting of the daily activity of children.  Thus, we are pleased to have Dr. David Dzewaltowski from Kansas State University in the podcast today to talk about ways to help kids be more active - both in school and out of school.