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The Healthland Podcast: Pepper Spray, Sleep Apnea, and How Long to Wait Between Pregnancies

Welcome to our Thanksgiving edition. This week we discuss whether pepper spray is a useful tool or a form of torture. Also, we talk about the dramatic rise in diagnoses of sleep apnea. And we try to puzzle out the optimal period for a mother to space out her offspring. Listen immediately by clicking the play button below, or listen on iTunes, where you can subscribe to the podcast for free with a single click.

Spicy research: peppers may help burn calories

Peppers are having a big week. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles’ Center for Human Nutrition say that preliminary findings from a small study suggest that the chemical that gives spicy peppers their kick, capsaicin, may not only make you sweat when digging in to a hot dish, but may actually prompt your [...]