This week, with the start of Fall on Sunday, we thought it would be time to bring back an old friend to the program. We invited Audrain County Missouri Conservation Agent Norman Steelman into the studio to talk all things hunter safety. Hunting season is getting set to ramp up in a large way in mid-Missouri and we thought it prudent to talk any saf…

Our look at issues for Farm Safety and Health Week continues today with a talk with Sarah Palmer, the Audrain County Health Department's environmental health specialist. In this episode, we talk about how lagoons have to be safe in order for a farm to run efficiently and clean and, we also talk about how the EPHS department at the ACHD is responsib…

Today, the second day of National Farm Safety Week, we welcome to the microphone of the Healthy Bytes podcast University of Missouri Department of OtoLaryngology Audiology Manager Morgan Hahn. She joins our host, Chris Newbrough, to discuss how the hearing of farmers can be affected by machinery and, yes, even animals, on a farm and how they can go…

To kick off our focus on National Farm Safety Week this week, we start off with a discussion concerning drivers sharing the road with farm implements and machinery and farmers sharing the road with regular passenger vehicles. To help us understand how to do this more safe, we brought to the microphone Missouri HIghway Patrol Region F PIO Sgt. Kyle …

This week, we bring to the microphone a new voice to the community of Mexico in the form of the new president and CEO of the Arthur Center, Brock Lough. He was hired in July as the former president and CEO Terry Mackey retired. Lough talks all things Arthur Center and gives us an introduction to himself and how he got into the behavioral health fie…

This week on the Healthy Bytes Podcast, with area Audrain County schools returning to the classroom today, we thought it'd be a great idea to sit down with a couple of ladies that could address what parents and students could do to help keep sickness from affecting their school year this year. Also, they offer great tips on how to deal with mental …

This week on the Healthy Bytes Podcast, we welcome back an old friend to the show to chat weather and what we can expect coming up in the next month or so. Early Fall or no?? Hmmm ... you'll have to listen to find out what University of Missouri Atmospheric Science Professor and former KOMU Chief Meteorologist Eric Aldrich thinks. Also, we include …

This week, we welcome back Dr. Carl Abbott to the microphone to discuss more issues concerning eyes and vision. This time around, we discuss various infections that could impair or harm your vision. It's an interesting look, pun intended, into the world of eye medicine and problems faced by doctors in this realm. Oh, by the way, we wouldn't recomme…

This week, we welcome back to the microphone Dr. Carl Abbott as we talk all things eyecare. This episode, we take a look at nearsightedness ... the causes, the fixes and what to look for in children.By Audrain County Health Department

This week on the Healthy Bytes podcast, we welcome back to the microphone Missouri District 43 State Representative Kent Haden. Rep. Haden updates us on things the Missouri legislature was able to accomplish this past legislative session, which just wrapped up in Jefferson City last month, and on things that didn't quite make it across the finish l…

This week on the Healthy Bytes Podcast, we welcome Mexico Area Family YMCA and Vandalia Eastern Missouri Family YMCA Executive Director Brooke Oliver to the program to talk about an exciting new grant opportunity the YMCA is implementing now. It's called the National Community Inclusion Project (NiCIP) and is funded through the National Center on H…

This week, on the Healthy Bytes Podcast, we welcome to the microphone the College and Career Advisor at the Mexico High School, Rebecca Moppin, as she talks about an apprenticeship program she is launching to try and cover the gap years of age 17 to 21 for those students who want to explore a possible field to work in once they are out of high scho…

This week on the Healthy Bytes podcast, we welcome to the microphone Mexico Animal Hospital Dr. Treena DeVault, DVM, to discuss the recent outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1, or Bird Flu, The flu was found to have transferred to dairy cattle in 36 dairy cattle herds in nine US states. Dr. DeVault discusses what H5N1 is and ho…

The Mid-Missouri area is looking at a possible multi-day severe weather threat across the entire area. On this special edition of the Healthy Bytes podcast, we managed to sit down with University of Missouri Atmospheric Sciences Professor and Meteorologist Eric Aldrich to discuss the threats on the table this weekend.…

In this episode, it's a rollercoaster ride, in a good way, with Dr. Carl Abbott back to the microphone for another turn trying to explain all things eye-catching to our host Chris Newbrough. This time, we talk about what is known as POTS and issues surrounding that. Dr. Abbott also brings to the microphone a new (at least to us) maladay that may ta…

This week, we welcome back to the microphone Missouri Department of Conservation Audrain County Agent Norman Steelman. This episode, with the weather warming, we are talking about boating safety, shoreline safety and even hunter safety! Please join us by downloading a copy of our podcast and enjoy!By Audrain County Health Department

This week, the Healthy Bytes podcast welcomes back to the microphone District 43 Missouri State Representative Kent Haden to talk what's been happening in the state legislature concerning healthcare. Haden was on Spring Break from the Missouri House when he stopped by over a week ago when this episode was recorded and we talked about doulas, the po…

This week on the Healthy Bytes Podcast, we welcome to the microphone Jake Kettle. He is the director of the Ellis Fischel Cancer Center Service Line and we are exploring the new partnership between ACHD and Ellis Fischel to offer a cancer screening clinic once a month on the first Friday of each month at the ACHD.…

March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month in the United States. This week on the program, we asked Mexico General Surgeon Dr. Joe Corrado to come in and visit the show and educate us on colon cancer and why it's so important to get screened! We hope the information presented in this podcast will provoke a few to remember to get screened!…

Welcome to a special podcast talking with University of Missouri Atmospheric Sciences Professor Eric Aldrich about possible severe weather in mid-Missouri this afternoon. Join him and Healthy Bytes host Chris Newbrough as they detail what can be expected as this weather system moves through the area.…

This week is Severe Weather Awareness Week for Missouri and, today, on the Healthy Bytes podcast, we welcome back our old friend Eric Aldrich to the microphone to discuss all things Severe Weather! Chris and Eric take an expanded look at each threat severe weather can bring to mid-Missouri and what you can do to help keep yourself and your loved on…

This week, we welcome back to the Healthy Bytes Podcast an old friend of the show, Mexico Parks and Recreation Director Chad Shoemaker. Chad comes in with news about what's new at the pool this year and a couple of projects the department will be working on over the summer. He also chats about his recent announcement that at the end of March he wil…

This week, we welcome back to the microphone Dr. Chris Kollath, DDS of Brick City Dental. On this episode, Dr. K talks about tooth varnishing, new equipment his office recently acquired and recent training he went to furthering his education on implants.By Audrain County Health Department

This episode, we're happy to welcome back Dr. Carl Abbott to the microphone. This week, we once again dive into eyecare and different forms of surgeries there have been that have been developed over the years. Join us for a fun and informative chat about eyecare!By Audrain County Health Department

This week on the Healthy Bytes Podcast, we welcome Audrain County Prosecutor Jacob Shellabarger to the Healthy Bytes studio. During the podcast, we are talking about his and his office's involvement in the Audrain County Coalition On Reducing Drugs, or ACCORD, movement to address a burgeoning problem of opioid overdose and addiction in Audrain Coun…

This week, we bring in the Audrain County Health Department Administrator and CEO Craig Brace to the microphone to discuss new happenings at the ACHD in the new year! Join host Chris Newbrough and Brace as they discuss new programs and expansion of other programs at the health department, all with the resident's health in mind! And, don't let Craig…

In this episode of Healthy Bytes, we welcome Eastern District Associate Commissioner Leslie Meyer back to the microphone to discuss a very important appointment she received as a member of the Missouri Association of Counties governing board. Meyer will sit on the Legislative Committee. We also talk about things going on in the county such as her w…

This edition of the Healthy Bytes podcast is a special one as we are going to focus solely on the upcoming winter storm forecast to hit the mid-Missouri area for Friday, January 12, 2024. To help us understand what may happen, we've asked a special friend of the show to help us out, University of Missouri Atmospheric Sciences Professor Eric Aldrich…

This week, the Healthy Bytes Podcast welcomes C2C Executive Director Kerri Ferrari to the microphone to talk about a new initiative between Mexico native and Los Angeles Clippers NBA Head Coach Tyronn Lue and Partners for Rural Impact to help make sure Mexico youth are equitably getting a fair shot in life. Ferrari brings years of educational and j…

This week, on the Healthy Bytes podcast, we welcome Mexico Area Family YMCA Sports Director Seth Cook to the microphone. In this episode, we talk all about the programs the Mexico YMCA will be offering in 2024 and how you can participate as well! Whether its basketball, soccer or a game our host, Chris Newbrough, has never heard of called Futsal (k…

This week, we welcome Representative Kent Haden from the 43rd District of the Missouri House of Representatives to the Healthy Bytes podcast. In this episode, we talk with Representative Haden about the upcoming 2024 Missouri House legislative session that gets underway the first week of January and what issues the legislators will be wrangling wit…

This week on the Healthy Bytes Podcast, we welcome back Dr. Carl Abbott from Precision Eyecare in Mexico to the microphones as we kick off the podcast in a new recording location that we hope improves the sound of the show. In this episode, Dr. Abbott and host Chris Newbrough talk eye trauma, what you can do to minimize it, what to do when it happe…

Joining us this week on the Healthy Bytes podcast, we welcome Vice President/Community Outreach Officer and Director of Prosper U Sarah Moreau to the microphone to talk about your financial health, especially during the upcoming holidays. Sarah is a certified credit counselor and leads the bank's Prosper U, teaching customers, and potential custome…

This week on the Healthy Bytes podcast, we welcome back Eric Aldrich to discuss winter weather and the troubles it can bring to mid-Missouri. Eric is the former chief meteorologist at KOMU 8 in Columbia and is now a professor in the Atmospheric Sciences program at the University of Missouri in Columbia. He brings his natural ability to break down c…

On this episode of the Healthy Bytes Podcast, we welcome Central Missouri Community Action (CMCA) Community Organizer Tad Dobyns to the microphone to talk all things LIHEAP, which is the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, that is administered in Audrain County by CMCA. Dobyns also talks about programs offered through the Help Center in Mexi…

As many of you may have heard, we lost a dear, dear friend to the show this past Sunday when we learned of the untimely passing of retired Mexico veterinarian, Dr. Don Hudson. We decided here at the Healthy Bytes Podcast to pay tribute to Dr. Hudson, or "Doc" as he liked to be called, by making available one of the funnest podcasts we did with him.…

This week on the Healthy Bytes podcast, we welcome Missouri Department of Conservation Agent for Audrain County Norman Steelman back to the microphone! Norman stops by to talk all things deer hunting and how to keep yourself, and others, safe during the hunt! Norman also talks about a special harvest program hunters can participate in called Share …

This week, we welcome back to the microphone Dr. Carl Abbott from Precision Eyecare in Mexico. This time, Dr. Abbott and our host, Chris Newbrough, talk all things Macular Degeneration of the eye. It's an interesting talk about how this disease affects a person's vision throughout their life.By Audrain County Health Department

To wrap up our special week of podcasts during National Farm Safety and Health Week looking at various topics affecting farmers, we are joined at the microphone by Arthur Center CEO Terry Mackey. In this edition, we are discussing farmers and mental health. We discuss signs they themselves can look for and their family members can look for in regar…

In this episode of our special week-long series on farming and agriculture during National Farm Safety and Health Week, we welcome Little Dixie Fire Protection District Station One Captain Josh Biggers to the program to discuss Confined Spaces safety and rescue. In the episode, we get into what makes a grain bin or any confined space dangerous and …

Today, we welcome University of Missouri Atmospheric Science Professor Eric Aldrich back to the podcast to talk about how weather affects crops and, believe it or not, how crops can affect weather (ever hear of Evapotranspiration?? Yeah, us either!)! This podcast is part of our week-long series highlighting different aspects of National Farm Safety…

Today, during our special week of podcasts looking at farmer health and safety during National Farm Safety & Health Week we are concentrating on the overall general health of farmers. We welcome to the microphone Mexico doctor and Audrain County Health Department Medical Director Alex Finck; MD to discuss this important topic. During the discussion…

Welcome to our Healthy Bytes Podcast series highlighting National Farmer Safety and Health Week 2023. During this week, we will feature a podcast per day that focuses on some aspect of farmer health and safety. To kick off this week, we welcome Missouri Highway Patrol Troop F Public Information Officer Kyle Green to the studio. In this episode, we …

This week, we welcome back to the microphone Brick City Dental Owner and Operator Dr. Chris Kollath, DDS. Dr. Kollath and our host sit down to discuss a couple of topics dealing with dental hygiene and those are the importance of dental health in children returning to school and the art of dental implants in today's dentistry world. Join us as both…

This week, we welcome back Dr. Carl Abbott from Precision Eyecare in Mexico. With school startups just around the corner, we thought we'd pull Dr. Abbott into the studio (all we had to say was "Microphone!") to talk about when it's time to and why you should get your child's vision checked at this important time in their lives. Dr. Abbott is full o…

This week, we welcome back to the microphone Mexico Parks and Recreation Director Chad Shoemaker to talk all things Mexico parks! Chad joins us to update us on the goings on in the park system in Mexico and to also talk about why he believes parks are integral to the health of a community besides just being outdoor space that makes a city look pret…

The Audrain County 4H Youth Fair is fast approaching. This year's fair will take place at the 4H Fairgrounds south of Mexico along Route D. This week, we welcome in 4H Board President Matt VanSchyndel to talk all things Fair 2023. For you racing enthusiasts, they've got something special coming to the Fairgrounds this year on Saturday, July 22nd th…

This week, we welcome back Dr. Carl Abbott, an optometrist with Precision Eyecare in Mexico and Vandalia. Dr. Abbott appears this month and discusses Thyroid Eye Disease, or TED, with our host Chris Newbrough. The two also delve into sunglass eye protection during the summer months and fireworks safety and eyes.…

The Healthy Bytes Podcast welcomes back to the microphone an old friend of the show's and our host's, Chris Newbrough. It's retired Mexico veterinarian Don Hudson! "Doc", as he is known throughout Audrain County, is back behind the microphone this week to discuss all things heat in large and small animals. You're going to hear diseases and illnesse…

This week, we welcome State Emergency Management Agency Medical Countermeasures and Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) Program Manager Sebastian Gely to the microphone. Sebastian tells us all about what the SNS program is and how it is designed to respond in times of emergency or disaster in the state.…