Bench Talk | 67,000 Years of Wildfires - Childhood Sugar Intake & Health - Trust in Healthcare | April 21, 2025~0

On our show this week, a story about the ancient relationship between abrupt climate change and forest fires. Then, a story about how sugar intake in the first 1000 days of life (pregnancy and the first two year) can influence that person’s health 65 years later. And we end with a story about how social media might be influencing American’s attitudes about physicians and scientists. Here are links to the research papers featured this week. Wildfires: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08363-3. Sugar consumption: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adn5421. Trust in physicians: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2821693. ‘Bench Talk: The Week in Science’ is a weekly program that airs on WFMP Louisville FORward Radio 106.5 FM (forwardradio.org) every Monday at 7:30 pm, Tuesday at 11:30 am, and Wednesday at 7:30 am. Visit our Facebook page for links to the articles discussed in this episode: https://www.facebook.com/pg/BenchTalkRadio/posts/?ref=page_internal