Debating healthy obesity, delaying type 1 diabetes, and visiting bone rooms

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🗓️ 29 July 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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First this week, Staff Writer Jennifer Couzin-Frankel joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the paradox of metabolically healthy obesity. They chat about the latest research into the relationships between markers of metabolic health—such as glucose or cholesterol levels in the blood—and obesity. They aren’t as tied as you might think. Next, Colin Dayan, professor of clinical diabetes and metabolism at Cardiff University and senior clinical researcher at the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics at the University of Oxford, joins Sarah to discuss his contribution to a special issue on type 1 diabetes. In his review, Colin and colleagues lay out research into how type 1 diabetes can be detected early, delayed, and maybe even one day prevented. Finally, in the first of a six-part series of book interviews on race and science, guest host Angela Saini talks with author and professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Samuel Redman, about his book Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums. The two discuss the legacy of human bone collecting and racism in museums today. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast Download a transcript (PDF). [Image: Jason Solo/Jacky Winter Group; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Authors: Sarah Crespi; Jennifer Couzin-Frankel; Angela Saini Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.5	This podcast is supported by the Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, one of America's leading research medical schools.
0:48.1	Icon Mount Sinai is the academic arm of the eight hospital Mount Sinai health system in New York City.
0:55.7	It's consistently among the top recipients of NIH funding. Researchers at ICONMount Sinai have made breakthrough discoveries in
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1:12.6	The Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, we find a way.
1:22.3	Welcome to the science podcast for July 30th, 2021. I'm Sarah Crespi. Each week we feature the most interesting news and research published in science and the sister journals.
1:32.3	First up this week, staff writer Jennifer Cousin-Frankle discusses ongoing research into the paradox of so-called healthy obesity.
1:40.3	Next, researcher Colin Diane talks about approaches to slowing and maybe one day preventing
1:45.8	type 1 diabetes and children.
1:48.5	Finally, in the first installment of our series of monthly book segments on science and race,
1:54.1	author Samuel Redman discusses his book, Bone Rooms, from scientific racism to human
1:59.4	prehistory with guest host Angela Saney.
2:06.0	Now we have staff writer Jennifer Cousin-Frankle. She wrote a feature story this week on the
2:11.2	complex relationship between obesity and health. Hi, Jennifer. Hi, thanks for having me. I'm happy to have you, and I'm going to try to be
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