09 May 2019: Urban vs Rural BMI, and the health of rivers
Nature Podcast
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🗓️ 8 May 2019
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by on track to your destination, not a care in the world as you simply lean back, and before you know it, you're there. |
| 0:16.7 | Travel by train from London to Liverpool from just 25 pounds. |
| 0:20.8 | Avanti West Coast. |
| 0:22.2 | Feel good travel. |
| 0:23.8 | Exclusions and limitations apply. |
| 0:25.6 | Full terms and conditions can be found at avantiwestcoast.com. |
| 0:28.0 | com.com. |
| 0:28.3 | uk forward slash plan. |
| 0:36.1 | In an experiment, I don't know yet. |
| 0:38.3 | Why is it like so far? |
| 0:40.3 | Like it sounds so simple. |
| 0:41.3 | They had no idea. |
| 0:43.3 | But now the data's... |
| 0:44.3 | I find this not only refreshing, but at some level astounding. |
| 0:52.3 | Nature. |
| 0:53.3 | Welcome back to the Nature podcast. |
| 0:58.7 | This week we'll be finding out how body mass is changing in urban and rural populations |
| 1:03.5 | and hearing how rivers across the world are becoming less connected. |
| 1:08.4 | I'm Charmoney Bundell and I'm Benjamin Thompson. |
| 1:18.6 | Music becoming less connected. I'm Charmany Bandelle and I'm Benjamin Thompson. Around the world, people's waistbands are getting bigger. Back in 2016, the WHO estimated that |
| 1:25.6 | globally over 1.9 billion adults were overweight and over 650 million of them |
| 1:31.5 | were obese. But what's causing this epidemic? Well, new research suggests that a prevalent |
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