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Sliced Bread

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Sliced Bread

BBC

Health & Fitness

4.6695 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Greg Foot is back to investigate more ad-hyped products and trending fads promising to make us healthier, happier and greener.

From personalised vitamin plans to NFTs, mindfulness apps to ‘sustainable’ jeans, Greg will find out if the latest wonder-products really are 'the best thing since sliced bread’.

And he wants YOUR suggestions for what to investigate! Is there something you keep seeing on TV or hearing about on a podcast? Have you spotted something trending on Instagram or TikTok and want to know if it delivers? Send us your suggestions to sliced.bread@bbc.co.uk or send them to Greg direct on Twitter or Instagram where he’s @gregfoot.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, podcast fan.

0:03.0

Consider this your invite to the UK's biggest podcasting party.

0:06.7

We're heading to Sheffield from the 4th to the 6th of July

0:09.0

for the BBC Sounds Fringe at the Crossed Wires Festival.

0:12.8

We'll be joined by some of the biggest names in podcasting,

0:15.3

including Sarah Cox, Charlie Hedges, Russell Kane,

0:18.4

and some bloke called Greg James doing his radio four show called Rewinder.

0:23.2

You can watch live shows of your favourite podcasts,

0:25.3

and the best part is free.

0:28.0

To book your free tickets,

0:29.3

go to crossedwires.orgive, forward slash fringe.

0:34.1

BBC Sounds, music, Radio, podcasts.

0:43.4

Hello, it's Greg here from Sliced Bread.

0:46.3

Hope you're well, and I hope you've been enjoying the episodes of toast that have been keeping the sliced bread feed warm while the team and I have been away.

0:50.3

I'm just popping up in your podcast feed to let you know that a brand new batch of sliced bread is on its way.

0:56.4

In fact, the first episode of what will be series 7 comes out of the oven this week.

1:01.8

My partner and I are debating whether the more money you spend on face creams, the better they are for your skin.

1:06.4

Yes, the first wonder product I'm running through the evidence mill is face creams for listeners Fiona

1:11.4

and Aristide.

1:12.4

There are so many face creams promising so much, especially ones containing retinal.

1:17.3

We've started work on the next few investigations too.

1:20.4

I'll be finding out if doggy dental chews really do work for Heidi, listener Sarah's miniature

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