Breaking Bad Habits to Improve Health

    Join Terry Gross of NPR"s Fresh Air, as she interviews Charles Duhigg, Health Journalist and author of The Power of Habit, about his investigations into breaking bad habits. Much of the early discussion will help you with your health habit change project. Be sure to write down tips to apply to your own project. The latter part of the interview is about the policies of corporations, using Apple as an example, to show how contingencies/incentives may lead to poor working conditions - that part is optional. Listen if you are interested, and if not, feel free to sign off early. 48 min Discussion Questions: Comment on what you thought of health journalist, Charles Duhigg's approach and whether this might work for you with any habit change you need to do, or in terms of prevention or management of diseases. We often need to help patients change their lifestyle habits or learn new ones, like taking medication or doing a medical regimen. Does this give you any ideas for how to change your bad health habits? What tips did you learn about breaking bad habits? Do you think those would work for you if you wanted to break some of your own bad habits - we all have them? Was there anything that surprised you or intrigued you?