Asthma, Sunbeds, BMI, Dry mouth
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2013
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
New research suggesting that the ban on smoking in public places has led to a sharp fall in the number of children admitted to hospital with asthma.
Sunbeds and cancer Dr Mark Porter examines claims by some tanning salons that their machines do not increase the risk of developing skin cancer despite UV tanning devices being classified as carcinogenic to humans.
Plus we visit a leading expert to answer a listener's query about why she is waking up with a very dry mouth.
And why your body mass index may not be the best way to work out if you are overweight.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I am Ed Gamble, host of another BBC |
| 0:04.6 | podcast, The Traitors Uncloaked. But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like |
| 0:09.9 | Ellis and John's Saturday bonus episodes, the Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Rylen, |
| 0:15.0 | and comedy specials from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffel and Romesh Ranganathan. |
| 0:19.9 | However, and maybe I'm biased, |
| 0:21.9 | it's really all about the traitors uncoaked. |
| 0:24.3 | So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts, |
| 0:27.4 | listen only on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:29.5 | Hello, I'm Dr Mark Porter, |
| 0:31.1 | and thank you for downloading this edition of Inside Health. |
| 0:34.0 | I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:35.8 | Hello, coming up today, |
| 0:37.4 | sunbeds and cancer. We examine claims by |
| 0:40.3 | some tanning salons that their machines do not increase the risk of developing skin cancer. Dry mouth. |
| 0:47.3 | We visit a leading expert to answer a listener's query about why she's waking up with her tongue |
| 0:52.6 | stuck to the roof of her mouth, |
| 0:54.5 | and why your body mass index or BMI may not be a reliable way of assessing whether you're |
| 0:59.9 | overweight, particularly if you're tall or short. And do we understand it anyway? |
| 1:04.9 | If I said to you BMI, do you know what it stands for? |
| 1:09.2 | Airline. |
| 1:10.1 | Airline. Airline. |
| 1:11.1 | Right. |
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