Statins, Cholesterol-lowering spreads, Olive oil, Diet and inflammatory bowel disease, Singers' nodules
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2014
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Some media coverage has suggested that there is a link between eating junk food and the rise of conditions like Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis which involve inflammation of the digestive system. Mark Porter questions the evidence. As school's out for summer Mark finds out why teachers' voices need a rest. He also examines whether cholesterol lowering spreads and drinks do what they suggest. Also in the programme: is frying with olive oil harmful or the healthy choice?
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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 | Ellis and John's Saturday bonus episodes, the Pop Top Ten podcast with Scott Mills and Rylen, |
| 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 uncloked. |
| 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. |
| 0:34.1 | I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:34.9 | Coming up in today's program, diet and inflammatory bowel disease. |
| 0:39.1 | We counter recent reports in the media, suggesting that a fondness for junk food is behind |
| 0:43.9 | a rise in the number of people with Crohn's disease and ulstiv colitis. |
| 0:48.3 | It's that time again. |
| 1:00.9 | Pupils will be looking forward to it, but I'll be finding out why teachers' voices often need the well-earned rest too. |
| 1:05.4 | And do you cook with olive oil? If so, and many of us do, then keep listening. |
| 1:07.6 | We've a couple of useful tips coming up. |
| 1:11.5 | Talking of fats, we'll also be answering a listener's question about cholesterol lowering drinks, yogurts and spreads, that the health benefits really live up to the hype. |
| 1:17.6 | But first, a more established way to lower cholesterol, statins. The National Institute of Health |
| 1:22.9 | and Care Excellence has finalised changes to its guidance on who should be offered the drugs, |
| 1:27.9 | a move that will mean that most of us over 50 now qualify. |
| 1:31.6 | And millions more people could end up being prescribed statins in the near future. |
| 1:36.0 | It's been a controversial decision widely debated in the media, not least on this programme, |
| 1:41.5 | amid concerns from some doctors that Nice has overestimated the benefits of statins |
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