Mutant Flu, Weight-Loss Surgery, Young Men and Body Image, CVID, Dental Check-ups, Doctors' Example, Dry January Findings
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Mark investigates reports that the UK faces an epidemic of "mutant flu".
Just a month after NICE calls for more weight loss operations to be done, there are proposals to slash the amount hospitals are paid to do the procedures - a move that could see many hospitals stop offering the operation.
Six packs and big guns - there is growing concern about steroid abuse by young men on a quest for the perfect body.
And Dry January - Mark looks at the science behind going on the wagon for a month.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I am Ed Gamble, host of another BBC |
| 0:04.6 | podcast, The Traitors Uncloaked. But my show is available only on BBC Sounds, just like |
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| 0:15.0 | and comedy specials from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffel and Romesh Ranganathan. |
| 0:19.9 | However, and maybe I'm biased, it's really all about the traitors uncoaked. |
| 0:24.3 | So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts, listen only on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:29.5 | Hello, thank you for listening to this edition of Inside Health. |
| 0:32.1 | I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:33.4 | Coming up in Inside Health today, six packs and big guns as young men come under pressure to look buff, |
| 0:39.2 | an increasing number of them are turning to steroid abuse to help them achieve their goal. |
| 0:44.3 | Is there a shadow over the future of weight loss surgery? Inside Health has learnt that |
| 0:48.4 | proposed cuts to the amount hospitals are paid to do the operations could see many stop offering |
| 0:53.6 | weight loss surgery altogether. |
| 0:55.9 | Dry January, just what are the benefits of giving up alcohol and spending a month on the wagon? |
| 1:01.2 | I meet a team of researchers trying to find out, and the scale of their early findings might surprise you. |
| 1:07.0 | Results were very striking. In fact, if you had a drug that did all this, it would be a multi-billion pound market. |
| 1:13.1 | More from Professor Kevin Moore later, but first another seasonal topic, influenza. The last two flu seasons have been mild, but there are signs that this year is going to be different and reports in some headlines that we face an outbreak of a mutant strain. |
| 1:26.4 | And the last thing, an already beleaguered NHS needs, is a flu epidemic. |
| 1:30.2 | Dr Margaret McCartney's in our Glasgow studio. |
| 1:32.6 | Margaret, is that what we're facing? |
| 1:34.2 | I don't know. |
| 1:35.1 | What we are facing just now is higher levels of flu compared with this time last year. |
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