sclerosis and even arthritis, potential health risks all from a salty diet you might not have known about. dr. david somati a member of the medical a-team. chief of robotics at mount sinai medical center. if you never pick up the salt shaker, do you still have to worry. a good question because 77% of the satellite is hidden in our food and doesn t come straight from the salt shaker, but this is a study coming out of nature this week and it s very important because now all of a sudden salt is going to cause what we call auto immune disease, diabetes type 1, multiple sclerosis and psoriasis and others and we never knew about this. everyone knows about salt and high blood pressure and heart disease and stroke, that s a given, but not causing auto immune disease and this is a serious problem. what it does and what autoimmune disease is taking
medical a-team that could really change your life as much as this one. this is a brand new eye opening study about quitting smoking, it could extend your life for at least ten years. dr. david somati is here with us from the mount sinai medical center chief of robotics and doc, this is something. first of all, it says if you do it before you re 40 years old, quit smoking, but if you even think you want to reach the age of 80 you can double your chances if you quit. yeah, the statistics are unbelievable. a simple way to think about this. you start smoking, and you re going to lose about a decade of your life, that s it the way it goes. it s a serious problem looking at about 45 million americans still smoking in this country. big, big numbers. and smoking not only causes lung cancer, but it really causes about 440,000 preventible deaths in this country. it affects your heart, it affects stroke. the biggest thing that smoking
demolish. it will take all the time this time. and at least we don t anticipate finishing early. kelly: take a look. here are live pictures right now. drivers have been warned for weeks now to avoid the construction zone this weekend. what an important topic this is. it s good news this year, because the vaccine guards against two new strains of influenza circling the globe. dr. somati, chief of robotics at mount sinai, in new york city. he has to get the flu shot and the hospital personnel does. and i said i m going to do it this year. it s a good idea. this year we re much, much more prepared than a year ago. about 135 million vaccine coming in, so, it s great. and also, what s important for people to know is it that if you got the shot last year, it didn t mean that you re going to be protected this year.
eric: time for sunday house call, dr. david samadi, chief of robotics at the mt. sinai center in new york. eric: and dr. marc siegel of langone medical center and author of the anyoinner pulse unlocking the secrets of sickness and health. good to see both of you. jamie: we ll unlock the secret, i m excited about this one, of sugar, because a lot of us like sugar but it could make you sick and makes you fat and according to a recent study, it could make you, it says dumb, but not as smart as you might be. the big question is can a lot of sugar also cause diabetes or is that genetic? dr. samadi, make sure we get to the dumb one. the big question over here is if you are taking too much sugar, can you get diabetes and the answer is, absolutely not. when you take sugar your
can be not only toxic but can also be as addictive as cocaine! dr. david sumadi, chief of robotics at mount sinai school of medicine and part of our medical a team will tackle this topic today. good morning. do you agree with the comparison between cocaine addiction and sugar addiction? gretchen, for years, we knew that sugar was a problem. and, of course, now by giving it i m putting them in the same class as cocaine or smoking or alcohol, it will get the kind of media attention that it deserves and now we re talking about it so it is working. the truth is that, you know, we ve been talking about all these diseases as a fragment, we talked about diabetes, talk about heart disease, talk about stroke but really, they re all part of the same thing including cancer and they should think of them all as one big family. why? when you take a lot of sugar, your liver starts to consume some of them but it can t catch up with all the sodas and processed foods and bread and all these ot