Hello, welcome to this first episode in the New Year of the Naked Scientists,

live at the Cambridge Science Center.

My name is Chris Smith and what we're going to hope to help

you to achieve this evening is to shed some of those excess pounds and live a little bit longer as one person said to me gosh you know if you eat a healthy diet

then you could end up adding minutes to your life every day and the other person then who I was with said yeah

and that means I get to spend another seven months at the age of 89 living in that nursing home

for 7,000 pounds a year there we go do you know I had a friend actually who had this dog

He said I've called my dog five miles and I said why have you called the dog five miles. I said, why have you called the dog five miles?

He said, because then I can tell if I want five miles a day.

But there is some reason to think this might be good for you,

because we know that exercise, fine living,

and good food, probably in combination combination and not too many bad things will make

you live a bit longer and hopefully we'll find out why in this month's event.

Let's meet the panel because they're here to answer your questions. First of all, please introduce

yourself and tell us who you are and what you do. Good evening. I'm Dr. Dan Gordon from

Anglia Ruskin University and I'm an exercise physiologist. And what is one of those when it's at home?

It's somebody who pretends to be a scientist.

No, we as physiologists work with the human and I get to work with

primarily athletes and I get to work with primarily athletes and I assess their physical capabilities.

I know I get to play with really cool toys and I get to push people to exhaustion and

really create a bit of pain actually which is really cool.

Sounds like our office.

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