#447 – Cancer & Obesity with Cancer Research UK

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Ben Coomber

Science, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 1 August 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Cancer Research UK’s latest Obesity campaign has certainly got people talking, and there are some violent responses online about the direct nature of the campaign. I am in support of what CRUK are doing, but I wanted to clear a few things up so invited CRUK to come on to the show and expand on the campaigns key talking points. Karis Betts joins me to discuss the key focus points of the campaign, the research it’s based on, how we classify metabolically healthy obesity, where CRUK stand on the healthy at any size movement, their response to the campaign being classed as fat shaming, their future plans off the back of the campaign, what they hope for the future, and more. A fascinating show that clears up the confusion.

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0:00.0	Everyone, Benkerman Radio, how and earth are you doing? Well, today, let's talk about something
0:06.2	that is sweeping through the media and generating an awful lot of conversation, both positive and both negative as does anything that kind of hits a bit of a
0:16.8	sore point when it comes to the health and fitness realm and that is obesity. Obesity is an extremely concept topic.
0:25.0	It's not a case of, well it is in theory just a case of people eating too much.
0:30.0	But the things that contribute towards that are many and we're going to talk about that today
0:35.9	and we're going to be able to talk about that today with Cancer Research UK.
0:40.5	Now this has been the focal point of their new campaign how cancer is related to obesity and as with
0:49.6	Cancer Research UK's last campaign we were able to speak to someone, Emma, and talk about that
0:56.2	last campaign, add width to the conversation, delve into it a little bit more, and that is exactly
1:01.9	what we're going to do today. So let's introduce
1:04.3	my guest. So my guest today is speaking on behalf of Cancer Research UK and
1:12.2	the Obesity campaign has been involved in its sort of
1:16.2	inception and getting the message out there and constructing it and talking
1:20.0	about it and that's absolutely fantastic and it's awesome that she's on the show
1:24.1	Karis Betts welcome to the show.
1:27.8	Hi then thanks for having me. Well thanks for coming on. For everyone listening what is your role in cancer research UK what do you do?
1:38.3	I work in the health information team so we are in charge of looking after all the evidence so when science comes in and
1:46.3	new research is done we evaluate that see what the messages are and then make sure that
1:51.6	they're put out in a way that the public can read.
1:54.4	So whether it's super prevention or diagnosis, we take the signs and we decide if it's
2:00.9	good signs and then tell them about it.
2:03.0	Nice. So this campaign has obviously generated an awful lot of talk.
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