#363: Public Health Policy vs. Personal Responsibility: Evidence vs. Ideology
Sigma Nutrition Radio
Danny Lennon
4.8 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2020
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Danny and Alan discuss the evidence for public health nutrition interventions, how health inequalities are driven by socioeconomic factors, and how ideology and simplistic rhetoric about "personal responsibility" can get in the way.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome. You're listening to Sigma Nutrition Radio. This is episode 363 of the podcast. My name is Danny Lennon. I'm here with |
| 0:24.1 | Alan Flanagan. Alan, how are you today, sir? I'm good. Yeah, I'm looking forward to the end |
| 0:32.0 | of lockdown version two, which for being promised is the second of December. Yeah, I think you're |
| 0:36.9 | at the same day, are you? |
| 0:38.2 | Give or take? |
| 0:38.8 | Yeah, it seems like nearly all of Europe is like coming out in the same day. |
| 0:42.7 | That's going to be interesting. |
| 0:44.5 | And let's let the chaos ensue for a month and then see what happens. |
| 0:47.3 | Right. |
| 0:47.5 | Although I saw some footage of, was it Camden Street from the weekend? |
| 0:51.9 | I think the chaos seems to be preceding the end of the lockdown. |
| 0:57.8 | South Williams Street where, yeah, there's viral videos that people weren't too happy about. |
| 1:03.5 | Basically, people, well, we'll get a takeaway from pubs that can serve takeaways, but then we'll |
| 1:07.8 | just drink on the street. So, yeah, there's scenes like that. |
| 1:10.9 | In good news, though, the vaccine news coming out has been not just obviously very welcome |
| 1:19.0 | the success rate and it seems the safety profile. But I was doing some reading the bio Enrad, |
| 1:26.7 | the German company, the two German scientists, |
| 1:30.3 | both German Turks, who have been working on MRNA vaccine potential for other conditions. |
| 1:38.3 | And they've had the breakthrough with COVID vaccine as well. |
| 1:42.3 | And that was particularly interesting because from my understanding, the implications of this |
| 1:49.8 | technology are really far reaching way beyond COVID. |
| 1:54.0 | Most vaccines work by giving you this kind of inactive dose of whatever the virus is, for |
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