Being interviewed by a dozen radio hosts at stations around the nation revealed questions and concerns on the minds of many Americans.
Did a radio tour of the U.S. today from inside my office and got to sample how a dozen radio hosts -- from Miami to Chicago to San Francisco -- were reacting to information and ideas contained in The Hundred Year Lie.
Here's how the tour worked. A producer with the Premiere Radio Network in New York City phoned me in northern California and then patched me into the live shows one after another, each segment lasting about 10 minutes of air time.
First up was Miami and station WFTL, whose two hosts were most concerned with my take on effective detox strategies for leaching synthetic chemicals out of our bodies. Hosts at several other stations voiced similar preoccupations.
One of the radio hosts in San Francisco was former Mayor of that city, Willie Brown, who questioned me about studies in the book showing a link between synthetic chemicals in diet and the incidence of violence in prisons and behavioral problems and learning difficulties within public school children. He expressed a desire to see these studies duplicated in the state of Calfornia's penal and educational systems.
The two hosts in Norfolk, VIrginia asked me to comment on a news story getting wide coverage in their state about a teenager with cancer who wants to try alternative medicine approaches to treatment, but a state judge has ordered him to continue chemotherapy. When the 16-year-old boy tried to treat his Hodgkin's disease with an organic raw foods diet, the judge took custody of him away from his parents and handed him over to a county social services agency. Needless to say, I came down on the side of a patient's right to choose their own form of medical treatment.
A Buffalo, New York radio host proved the most skeptical questioner of the day by challenging me to explain why people are living longer and why he, a 42-year-old healthy male, has shown no symptoms of chemical poisoning if indeed we are surrounded by such chemicals, as I contend in the book. Once I answered his questions he confessed, as the show ended, that "you have convinced me to read your book."
