Cholesterol Lowering Products

Sliced Bread

BBC

Health & Fitness

4.6 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Can fortified drinks and spreads really reduce cholesterol?

Almost half of UK adults have raised cholesterol, according to the charity Heart UK - and Sliced Bread listener Cathy is one of them. She found out after taking a test at her GP and wants to do something about it. Her first plan of action is to make changes to her lifestyle, such as diet and exercise. As part of that, Cathy wants to know if the spreads and drinks that claim to lower cholesterol really do work.

Greg Foot is joined by Cathy and a panel of experts at our studios in Salford to investigate. What are the ingredients that are proven to lower cholesterol? How effective are they compared to widely-prescribed statins - and are the supermarket own brand versions of these drinks and spreads just as good as branded ones?

All of the ideas for our investigations come from you, our listeners, and we're always on the lookout for more. If you have seen a wonder product that claims to make you happier, healthier or greener and want to know if it is SB or BS then please do send it over on email to [email protected] or drop us a message or voicenote on Whatsapp to 07543 306807

PRESENTER: Greg Foot PRODUCER: Simon Hoban

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Before this BBC podcast kicks off, I'd like to tell you about some others you might enjoy.
0:05.1	My name's Will Wilkin and I Commission Music Podcast for the BBC.
0:08.7	It's a really cool job, but every day we get to tell the incredible stories behind songs,
0:13.5	moments and movements, stories of struggle and success, rises and falls, the funny, the ridiculous.
0:19.1	And the BBC's position, at the heart of British music
0:21.7	means we can tell those stories like no one else.
0:24.5	We were, are and always will be right there at the centre of the narrative.
0:28.6	So whether you want an insightful take on music right now
0:31.3	or a nostalgic deep dive into some of the most famous and infamous moments in music,
0:36.1	check out the music podcasts on BBC Sounds.
0:40.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.
0:45.9	Hello, I'm Greg Foote and welcome to the show that investigates the wonder products
0:50.1	promising to make you happier, healthier or greener. Each episode, I run one of your suggested wonder products through the evidence mill
0:57.3	to find out if it is indeed the best thing since sliced bread or marketing BS.
1:02.4	And this week, I'm joined by Kathy Kennedy from Northamptonshire.
1:07.3	Welcome, Kathy.
1:08.4	Thank you very much, Greg.
1:09.4	Tell us the wonder product that you'd like us to investigate today then and why you'd like to know if it is SB or BS. Well, I've recently been diagnosed with slightly higher cholesterol than my GP would like and I've chosen to go down the lifestyle route rather than going straight onto a pharmacutical option, I'm doing a little bit more exercise,
1:28.6	I'm trying to cut down on the usual things that come to mind when it's cholesterol-based.
1:33.6	But also in the supermarkets, there are the little bottles of stuff that say,
1:38.3	you drink this, it will lower your cholesterol.
1:41.2	There are very expensive ones, there are much cheaper ones,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.