Food and Exercise: A Puzzle
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Want to lose weight? How much can you achieve through exercise? Dan Saladino investigates with the help of Mike Keen, a chef and Arctic explorer.
Mike has had numerous adventures in Greenland, including kayaking thousands of miles, and sometimes doing nothing at all. What happened to his weight on this trips has left him puzzled.
They enlist the help three experts, Chris Van Tulleken, author of Ultra Processed People; Nigel Smith of the UK Sports Institute and Andrew Jenkinson, surgeon and author of Why We Eat too Much and How to Eat.
Produced and presented by Dan Saladino.
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| 0:37.3 | The origins of this program lie in the Arctic. |
| 0:41.3 | In the extremes of the Greenlandic environment with its landscapes and seascapes of ice and snow |
| 0:49.3 | will be attempting to solve a puzzle. The answers to which are important to all of us. |
| 0:56.4 | That's because this puzzle raises big questions about the influence of our food environment, |
| 1:02.6 | the impact of exercise on our weight, and mind-blowing insights into our evolutionary biology. But why the Arctic and Greenland? Well, do you remember |
| 1:15.6 | a chef, an explorer named Mike Keeney? Chuck you a little of rain and ice and snow and the weather |
| 1:22.5 | hasn't got there there at all. Not quite sure what to do it. |
| 1:29.5 | Back in 2023, we followed Mike as he kayaked all the way up the west coast of Greenland, |
| 1:35.9 | spending around 10 hours a day pushing his way through the icy North Atlantic waters |
| 1:41.8 | and pitching tents in hazardous storms. |
| 1:45.7 | You're a message a couple of people and see if I can get a boat somewhere. |
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