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By Rick Lange, MD, and Elizabeth Tracey, Johns Hopkins Medicine

PodMed is a weekly podcast from Johns Hopkins Medicine. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Rick Lange, MD, professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins and vice chairman of medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, look at the top medical stories of the week.

This week's topics include vegan diets and mortality, metabolic surgery for diabetes, sunscreen and aging, and the health effects of fructose.

Program notes:

0:31 Sunscreen and photoaging of skin

1:33 Four groups and looked at microtopography

2:31 SPF and UVA and UVB labeling

3:05 Benefits of vegetarian diets

4:05 Followed over 6 years for 12% reduction in mortality

5:05 Metabolic surgery for diabetes

6:05 Half had surgery and about half of them met guidelines

7:05 One year data only but long term many failures

7:50 Fructose health effects

8:50 Disadvantages of glucose and fructose

9:50 Very refined foods rather than sugars

10:47 End

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