We're into the second month of 2012 and many people are rethinking their New Year's resolution to lose weight.  Our podcast is a delightfully frank conversation with Ms. Faith A. Lightfoot, President of Lighten The Load and an expert on weight loss and healthy living in women and children.  This is a hard-hitting conversation that highlights the difficulties of maintaining healthy weight in our modern society. 

Join us today for a historic podcast with Mr. Jim Whitehead, Executive Vice President and CEO of the American College Sports Medicine, the world's largest professional organization devoted to Exercise and Sports Medicine.  Jim chats with us about the recent historic United Nations Health Summitt (only the second health summitt ever held at the U.N.) that focused on diseases caused by lifestyle issues.

If you knew exactly what sport you were best suited for, would you be interested.  Several companies claim that they can tell you what sport you would be best at.  Join us today as we talk to Dr. Steve Roth from the University of Maryland who is an expert on using genetics to select for sport.   We have a great conversation that is extremely relevant to sports science and if you are a parent with a child interested in sport, you'll want to hear this podcast.

It's summer!  Time to go swimming!  Today, we talk to Mr. Roy Fielding who has been named as one of the 25 most influential Aquatics professionals in the world.  Roy has a long history as a swimming coach, aquatic director, SCUBA instructor, pool-software developer, pool-operator instructor, and national guideline writer.  If it has to do with water, swimming, lifeguarding, or pool maintenance, you can bet that Roy is or has been involved with it. It's a great conversation in many ways.....

 Join us for one of the most high energy senior athletes we've ever met.  Doug Tremaine is in the studio - world-ranked triathlete and Director of the Brazos Valley Senior Games.  It's fun!

It's almost summer!  Let's get ready!  From the Gatorade Sport Science Institute, Research Director Dr. Jeff Zachwieja joins us to talk about hydration and exercise in the heat.  Certainly a timely topic for us all!

Join us as we talk with acclaimed author Dr. Danny Ballard about the role of health in life - especially how health can augment learning and increases well-being.  Plus, we work some sport in there as well!

The world of the team physician is a life of many hours and advanced skills. Join us as we talk to one of the leading sports orthopedic surgeons in Texas - Dr. JP Bramhall - about sports medicine from the perspective of an orthopedic surgeon. We talk about pitch counts, shoulder injuries in offensive linemen, and why “weekend warriors” are great.  

Join us today as Dr. Carl Gabbard tells us why handwriting is a sign of less than optimal health and suggests ways to start to address the childhood obesity problem.