Zorba Paster On Your Health

KSFC 91.9, Sunday, 12noon-1pm
Repeats KPBX 91.1, Wednesday, 12noon-1pm

Zorba Paster On Your Health is a mix of medical advice and healthy living tips. Each Wednesday, Zorba and co-host
Tom Clark offer a heart-healthy recipe, that is also available on the web. Tom and Zorba visited Spokane in 2000.

This Week's Program:
After one, make an appointment with Zorba Paster On Your Health. The guys discover that alcohol and tobacco might be more dangerous than illegal drugs, and that angioplasties might not be needed as much. All that, plus a special guest recipe for Honey Carrot Snacking Cake.

Dr. Paster is a good source of information on alternative and complementary treatment. He spent a year traveling around the Orient, Southeast Asia, and India. While volunteering medical services to Tibetan refugees in Northern India, he worked closely with Tibetan physicians. “There are different ways of looking at the world other than Western medicine,” he says. “It’s important to recognize that other systems also have a lot of wisdom to offer.”

These days, he mentors medical students as an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In addition, Dr. Paster maintains a busy clinical practice. One of his four children is a sophomore in pre-med in Seattle. Zorba says it gives him another good reason to visit Washington State every year. He also has friends in central Idaho, and enjoys heading there to ski each winter.

The healthy lifestyle goes hand-in-hand with his love of healthy cooking. “I’ve always loved to eat,” says Dr. Paster, “so I cooked for my roommates when I was in college, and I guess I never stopped.” On Your Health features a heart-healthy recipe each week.

Listeners know Dr. Paster also often finds a culinary challenge in co-host Tom Clark.
Both halves of the radio talk show duo have very different opinions on what constitutes a “good meal” – “A cheeseburger, fries, and a large Coke,” Clark quips. (He admits that his cholesterol level actually doesn’t allow the indulgence.) The two banter about everything, from nutrition to advice to Zorba’s tendency to take both sides in a dispute between callers. Clark is just as comfortable bantering with policy-makers and politicians. He hosts a three-hour, issue-oriented talk show on Wisconsin Public radio. “It may be an odd combination, but I love having the diversity, the range,” Clark says. As program director, Clark introduced and developed both issues and advice call-ins on Wisconsin Public Radio in the early 1980’s. He received awards for his public interest forums and election specials. He actually does like to stay active by taking long bicycle trips. “While he’s hardly a triathlete, Tom isn’t always as much of a couch potato as he professes to be!” Petkus says.