Shock of Gray & Culinary Medicine

[HTML1] In today’s first two segments, Life, Love and Health: Special Edition executive producer Christopher Springmann considers the aging of earth’s population. By the year 2030, a generation away, one billion people on the planet will be over the age of 65, plus for the first time in history the number of those who are older than 50 will be greater than those under 17. Here to discuss this topic are Ted Fishman and David Baxter. Mr. Fishman has traveled around the world to find out what effects this aging trend will have on families, communities, nations and economies. He’s the author of Shock of Gray, subtitled The Aging of the World’s Population and How it Pits Young Against Old, Child Against Parent, Worker Against Boss, Company Against Rival and Nation Against Nation. David Baxter is Senior Vice President of Agewave, the nation’s leading research and consulting company focused on population aging and its profound business, social, financial workforce and cultural implications.

In our third segment, Christopher catches up with Dr. John LaPuma, also known as Chef MD. Dr. LaPuma began to develop his unique perspective of food as medicine when he took a sabbatical from a high-stress medical career and went to cooking school. He’s here to share some of the reader response to his best-selling book ChefMD’s Big Book of Culinary Medicine: A Food Lover’s Road Map to Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, and Getting Really, Really, Really, Really Healthy.

Segment A (0:00 – 11:00)
Life Love & Health: Special Edition executive producer Christopher Springmann discusses the aging of earth’s population with author Ted Fishman and David Baxter of Agewave.

Segment B (11:01 – 22:00)
More with Ted Fishman and David Baxter.

Segment C (22:01 – 33:00)
Christopher Springmann discusses food as medicine with Dr. John LaPuma, also known as ChefMD.

More about Ted Fishman
Ted C. Fishman is a veteran journalist, essayist and former member and trader of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. His latest book, Shock of Gray: The Aging of the World’s Population and How it Pits Young Against Old, Child Against Parent, Worker Against Boss, Company Against Rival, and Nation Against Nation (Scribner Books, October 2010) looks at how the aging of the world is propelling globalization, redefining nearly every important relationship we have and changing life for everyone young and old. Shock of Gray is rich in stories, drawn from North America, Europe and East and Southeast Asia. It also offers a clear-eyed view and analysis on where the older world is heading and what it means for all of us. In Mr. Fishman’s previous book, the international bestseller, China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World, he describes the effects of China’s recent emergence as a world power on the lives and businesses of people across the globe. His writing has appeared in many of the world’s most prominent journals, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, National Geographic, Money and Harper’s Magazine. He also appears frequently as a commentator on national and international news and public affairs programs. As a speaker, Mr. Fishman addresses audiences around the world. A graduate of Princeton, he lives in Chicago.

Note: Photo of Ted Fishman by Alan Thomas

More about David Baxter
David Baxter has worked with Ken Dychtwald for more than ten years spearheading cutting-edge, landmark consumer, market, and industry research and analysis. Mr. Baxter oversees powerful newsmaker studies that enable clients to enhance and differentiate their brand in the national or global media, establish themselves as thought-leaders, refine their understanding of their unique consumer needs and desires, and utilize landmark research insights to identify new strategies, markets, and product opportunities. Mr. Baxter has developed and managed numerous highly acclaimed national and global surveys, uncovering unique market opportunities created by the growth of the over-50 population. Collectively, these surveys have spanned over 50,000 respondents on such topics as types of retirement experience, baby boomers’ emerging vision of retirement, the new role of the financial advisor, needs and priorities in legacy and inheritance, attitudes toward aging and retirement around the world, and the impact of changing demographics on the workforce. Findings from these landmark studies have been widely featured in leading media such as 60 Minutes, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Business Week, and U.S. News and World Report. Mr. Baxter is coauthor of the Handbook of the New American Workforce, contributing author to Longevity Rules, a public speaker on cutting-edge research findings, and is frequently interviewed by the media for his knowledge and opinions on population aging and its implications. Prior to joining Age Wave, Mr. Baxter was an intelligence officer at the Central Intelligence Agency, where he orchestrated intelligence collection efforts and briefed key decision makers in the Commerce, Treasury, and State Departments on strategic developments in overseas markets and industries. Mr. Baxter received his MBA at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and his BA from Williams College.

More about John LaPuma
John LaPuma, MD, FACP is a nutritionist and practicing physician. As America’s leading physician voice for healthy eating as part of health care, and for food as medicine, his mission is teaching people to transform their lives with what they eat. He helps people lose weight and keep it off, helping them look and feel better. His approach to culinary medicine includes delicious eating plans for weight loss, cholesterol-lowering, anti-aging, and childhood obesity. He is founder of Chef Clinic, and is passionate about the therapeutic potential of what you eat. A board-certified specialist in internal medicine and a professionally trained chef, Dr. LaPuma taught the first Nutrition and Cooking Course for Medical Students in the U.S., at SUNY with Dr. Michael Roizen of the Cleveland Clinic. He has co-hosted over 100 episodes of Lifetime TV’s Health Corner (most recently with Joan Lunden), starred in the weekly ChefMD TV segment on Lifetime TV for nearly 5 years, and has written two New York Times best-sellers, including ChefMD’s Big Book of Culinary Medicine. Dr. La Puma is viewed by at least 250,000 viewers, 25-54, each week.

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About Christopher Springmann

Christopher Springmann is Executive Producer and Senior Correspondent of Life, Love and Health, the award-winning health and wellness program that reaches millions daily on multiple news, talk and sports channels including Sirius XM, CNN, FOX, NPR affiliates, American Forces Network, and HealthRadio.net.

Life, Love and Health is also Mr. Springmann’s latest endeavor in a journey of “creative convergence” that started as a photographer for Time, Fortune, National Geographic and Smithsonian magazines. He moved into writing leadership profiles for Chief Executive and California CEO magazines, which in turn provided the inspiration for creating Life, Love and Health: to fulfill the unmet need of telling America’s health story. Mr. Springmann meets this need in entertaining and emotionally engaging ways, with the authentic voices of real people, including a diverse group of doctors and nurses, patients and their families, plus researchers and innovators in the health-and-wellness field. He relies on the credibility and persuasiveness of people’s passionate storytelling to get the point across. People identify with the experiences of others and are encouraged to take positive, attainable actions to improve their personal and family health.

Christopher is also the Host of Life, Love and Health on WomensRadio. Life, Love and Health seeks to ultimately make a difference in people’s lives by encouraging individuals to take positive, attainable actions to improve their personal and family health.