river city make sure you tune in Monday for that right here on River city
live. Mark.
I’d like to welcome doctor
Cullen Jones from the Mayo
Clinic to River city live and
today we’re talk about how to
be safe over the summer and
we’re talking about medical.
>> Headline so welcome to the
show. Thank you and the first
headline we’re talking about
really has to do with food
and lets. You know talk about
the fact that everybody is out
having barbecues and stuff like
that and it has to do with
chicken so they’re saying
chicken is as bad for you as
red meat in
obviously to doing things your
cholesterol levels so is this
true. Well first of all Mark
thanks for having me on the
show has or so yes,
there is a new study that came
out this month that
tried to look at different
sources of protein and whether
chicken was just as bad as
red meat.
>> Or if plant based protein
was just as good so what it
looked at was
if we do a month of chicken or
a month of red meat which one
is worse for your cholesterol.
And so it did show that those 2
are very similar in the
immediate effect it had for
your cholesterol. The main take
away that I want your viewers
to have for this study
was that plant based proteins
actually exponentially better
and any type of meat base
protein OK. So whenever we’re
going out we’re starting to
barbecue are starting to grill,
I want to make sure that we’re
adding some of our plant based
proteins on to the group
like asparagus like spinach
like chickpeas things like
that. But to answer
your question. Chicken is not
nearly as bad as red meat for
still OK with you have been
checking on the grill we would
rather have that than the red
meat currently cases that’s
good to know because I
definitely eat a lot of chicken
but I like what you’re saying
add the veggies that’s really
important to us. Now another
trend that happens over the
summer is obviously
we eat a little differently
because of cookouts but also we
tend to drink a little more
especially when it comes to
alcohol and beverages.
>> And there was a study that
came out that kidney stones are
more prevalent over the summer
time is this true.
So they are more prevalent and
mainly especially here in
Florida because we are out and
were active in we are
unfortunately getting
dehydrated so the number one
thing that I see with my
patients in the clinic,
whenever they developed
kidney stones.
>> Is they’re not getting
enough hydration so the proper
hydration is the first key
that should be about 8 to 10 8
ounce glasses a day which turns
into about 2 leaders to 2 and a
half leaders of water
a day. Things like alcohol
things like iced tea things
like coffee indefinitely lead
to you being more dehydrated
unfortunately and then the
other side of that too is what
else can help decrease your
couldn’t stone production so
making sure that you have
enough calcium in your diet for
men that’s typically about a
1000 milligrams of calcium a
day. So that’s
another big he to decreasing
the kidney stone production and
then what exactly is a kidney
stone we all know someone who’s
had or maybe we had in our
South. We know they’re painful
and something is forming in
your body that shouldn’t be
there so what exactly is that
so a kidney stone itself.
In and of itself is not
dangerous and a painful the
part that is painful is when
that kidney stone starts
actually pass through and it
comes from the kidneys out of
our urinary tract so it can be
stone itself is a hard
mineral deposit typically made
of calcium oxalate things like
that.
It can be the most painful
experience that somebody is
going to have this hearing
unfortunately, especially for
the viewers, I want them to
know it is comment about
200,000 Americans a year
getting a lot of stones
so there’s a lot of high high
prevalence of kidney stones
unfortunate, so in this
obviously stay hydrated and
stay hydrated, speaking of
liquids, it brings us to our
last medical study that made a
lot of headlines.
>> And that is drinking 25 cups
of coffee
per day is OK is there any
truth to that I’m hoping it is
that a lot of it
its overall the coffee lovers
out there this study you can
take it in one of 2 ways it did
not show any worse effect
on cardiac.
>> Outcomes for somebody who
drink up to 25 cups
of coffee. But what I would
warn all of the Coffee has more
side effects than just on
the heart. It can raise blood
pressure can increase rates of
anxiety it can also increase
rates of trip tremors. Well
so I want our viewers to know
that just because the study
showed that it didn’t have any
detriment in this one aspect it
can have other side effects
unfortunately, so as with
everything moderation is key
2 to 4 cups of coffee is
perfectly OK. All doctor Jones
thank you for all your time and
information lot of really good
tips there. So we appreciate it