CBS SUNDAY MORNING IS A GREAT SHOW

One of my favorite shows is CBS Sunday Morning. It airs on Sunday mornings 6-7:30 am on....CBS! No, I definitely don't get up that early, I am a night owl. I have one of those fabulous inventions known as a DVR. And I get to FF through the dumb commercials.  That's nothing new, most people own or rent a DVR. The show is intelligent, sexy, fun, entertaining, informative, and did I mention intelligent? My friend told me about it last year and I look forward to it every week.

This past Sunday they focused the entire show on everything related to Valentine's Day. What I found the most interesting was the segment 'broken heart syndrome', the death of a loved one. It is  a medical fact that people can die of a broken heart. Ten thousand Americans may experience it each year. Those are astonishing numbers! I had heard about dying of a broken heart, and believed it was true. But to hear the medical facts and see the ultra sound, it was absolutely amazing.

How they get diagnosed is when people come into the hospital with a sudden onset of heart muscle weakness, after being subjected to some kind of emotional trauma. Usually the death of a loved one.
The body produces large amounts of stress hormones, like adrenaline, and when produced in large amounts, it can be very toxic. Blood pressure can get very low, congestive heart failure is a possibility, and fluid in the lungs.  It is treatable but not always.

Not everyone is interested in this type of show. But it makes for an interesting conversation at the next party you might go to. By the way, I did not remember all these facts. That's the beauty of a DVR - pause, write, RR, write, play, pause, play, write, pause....and so on.

They had many different segments, but what caught my eye was the story about the Duchess of Windsor, Wallace Simpson, and King Edward V11(England). In 1936 he scandalized the world by abdicating the throne to marry Wallace Simpson. He loved her and could not live his life without her by his side.

I don't remember this from high school, and don't know anything about either of them. But I appreciate shows like this. And I certainly watch my share of junk, for shear entertainment. CBS Sunday Morning is well worth the time.

I am signing off and hope I haven't bored you to tears. A swordfish is waiting for me - sautéed in olive oil with lemon pepper (with meyer lemon wedge) on a mound of basmati rice, and a salad of organic mixed greens.