Show notes
Dr Chris Smith and the Naked Scientist team present the latest science news, analysis and breakthroughs. Including a chat with Dr Chris Van Tulleken about why he's tackling obesity in his Christmas lectures this year, and what are the dark comets that space scientists are now documenting? Plus, an in-depth look at why some people have obsessive-compulsive disorder, and how we can help them.
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in 1990, 5% of children in the UK at the age of 10 were living with obesity, which is an unacceptably high number. I mean, having an integer percentage of children living with diet-related disease is not tolerable. We've let that grow and expand so that a quarter of children now leave primary school living with obesity
“problems like obesity have at their heart commercial incentives. They are caused by commercial interests in the same way that the pandemic of lung disease was caused by commercial interests.”
“we've gone from the food system being a miracle that feeds people better than at any other time in the Earth's history to simultaneously being the leading cause of early death for humans and animals.”
“instead of needing sunlight to generate the electricity from the panel, we're actually using radiation. And what we're actually doing is we're embedding inside the voltaic, the radioactive material, such that the energy is produced and converted inside a single device.”
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