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Inside Health

Obesity and Cancer, Fasting Diets and NHS 111

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4575 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2013

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Dr Mark Porter reports on NHS 111 - the new 24 hour urgent care number designed for the public to access urgent medical care. It was meant to go live across the whole of England this week but has been plagued by problems.

And Inside Health's resident sceptic Margaret McCartney turns her beady eye to the latest fashion in the diet industry - fasting and so called 2 day diets. Popular - but what about the evidence?

And obesity and cancer - there's growing understanding that being overweight is an important risk factor for a number of common cancers, but the relationship is never realy explained - Mark Porter turns his attention to one of the factors that might explain the link.

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

0:09.9

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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, I'm Dr Mark Porter and thank you for downloading this edition of Inside Health.

0:34.0

I hope you enjoy it.

0:35.3

Hello, coming up in today's program, obesity and cancer, the heavier you are, the greater the risk. I hope you enjoy it. Hello. Coming up in today's program, obesity and cancer,

0:39.0

the heavier you are, the greater the risk. I'll be learning more about one factor that might

0:43.6

explain the link. People who have IGF levels in their blood at the top end of normal, not abnormally

0:50.6

high, but just at the top end of what's normal, those people are at higher risk

0:54.8

of getting some of the common cancers like breast cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer, adjusting,

1:01.0

of course, for the known risk factors like cigarette smoking. And from weight to the latest

1:05.8

darling of the burgeoning diet industry, so-called two-day diets, The answer to our weight loss prayers or just another passing fad.

1:14.1

We examine the evidence.

1:16.1

But first the return to work after Easter was supposed to herald the launch of the NHS

1:20.5

111 service across England.

1:22.6

It replaces NHS Direct and is designed to help the public access medical help fast when the

1:28.3

problem's urgent but not urgent enough to deal 999. The free 24 hour seven day a week care

1:34.9

service was designed to ensure and I quote that people receive the right care from the right

1:39.8

person in the right place at the right time. But the introduction of 111 has been plagued with

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