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Nature Podcast

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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Summary

This week, body mass increases around the world, and river connections in decline.

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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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