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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Invigorating the inactive with just one step

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6957 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

If there were a pill you could take to reduce your risk of chronic diseases like heart failure, obesity, diabetes, depression, anxiety and more by 20%, chances are you'd be interested in getting your hands on it. Studies continue to extol the virtues of living an active lifestyle, but a growing number of us consistently fail to meet recommended levels of physical exertion. In this episode, we speak with medical experts on why it is so important, whatever your level of fitness, to feel like you can make a positive change to your life through exercise... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0

Halifax presents, bad move, good move.

0:03.5

Bad move, trusting your other half to put up shelves to hold the China your lovely Nan left you.

0:09.0

Oh yeah, jobs are gooden. Oops.

0:15.0

Good move.

0:17.0

Joining the one in five first-time buyers who choose a Halifax mortgage.

0:20.0

Halifax, the home of first-time buyers.

0:23.0

Halifax first-time buyer mortgage completion volume is a percentage of total market,

0:27.0

December 2022 to November 2023. All engine running, running, actually the genius.

0:38.0

Get this.

0:39.0

Welcome. This is the show where we bring science.

0:41.0

What that essentially means is

0:42.8

discovery is the advances, research, technology, unbelievable.

0:46.9

Without further ado, this is the Naked Scientists.

0:49.7

Hello and welcome to the Naked Scientists, the show where we bring you the latest

0:54.3

breakthroughs in science technology and medicine with me James Titco. This week

0:59.1

we're investigating exercise the wonder treatment which can mitigate a myriad of diseases.

1:05.0

So why aren't we doing enough of it? We'll be finding out how we might invigorate the

1:10.5

inactive population. From Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education,

1:16.0

this is the Naked Scientists. We've spoken many times on this program about the ongoing obesity crisis.

1:34.0

Just this week in fact, the Times reports that the health impacts of obesity and weight gain

1:39.0

are costing the UK 98 billion pounds a year, and it's a similar picture across much of the world.

1:45.5

When we've looked at this topic before we've often centered our discussion on the

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