Junk Food for Thought
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Dr Xand van Tulleken and Dr Dolly van Tulleken join Adam to chat about confusing portion sizes, ultra-processed foods and how the government could act to improve Britain’s diet.
And BBC international editor Jeremy Bowen unpicks events in Israel after a tumultuous week which saw mass protests after a vote passed limiting the power of the country’s Supreme Court.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, turns out lots of governments, organisations, institutions and people, instead of emailing |
| 0:10.2 | the US military using the .mil domain name on the internet, they emailed Mali, the country |
| 0:18.0 | instead, because they're domain and in .mil, although the British government has said that |
| 0:23.8 | no top secret, particularly sensitive data was sent to Mali instead of the military in |
| 0:29.2 | America by accident. You can contribute to the conversation on the newscast discord |
| 0:34.5 | about any of your email snaffos to use another American military phrase. I just remember |
| 0:41.4 | once when I was a student having to email a director of a well known film and I emailed |
| 0:48.1 | their agent to check something and their agent replied to me by accident saying, you |
| 0:54.6 | wouldn't want anything to do with this to worry, I'll get rid of him. Didn't stop me |
| 0:58.8 | watching the sequels. Anyway, let's have a sequel to the last episode of newscast, which |
| 1:02.6 | is this episode of newscast. Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. |
| 1:06.9 | He got trounced by the former Prime Minister who herself got beaten by a letter. At least |
| 1:11.6 | I didn't slap anybody, which is good. Rean economy. Lab, lab, lab. It's the Guardian |
| 1:16.4 | reading. Tofu eating. Woe karate. I'm actually very right-wing. You do come up with the |
| 1:21.8 | most remarkable twaddle. Today I feel gay. The Prime Minister is not under a desk. I'm |
| 1:27.4 | here because I like carrying megan and I don't care what anybody says about me. Hello, it's |
| 1:32.5 | Adam in the studio and we're going to start off today's episode by talking about food |
| 1:37.0 | because there is a smorgasbord of food stories from quite a few different sources, which |
| 1:43.6 | the consumer organisation has done a big survey which reveals that people are quite confused |
| 1:48.0 | about what portion sizes actually are. You know when on the packet it says portion is |
| 1:53.4 | this much of this product and the other story is from the environment and food and rural |
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