Sugar, Prescription charges, Thrush, Iron and strokes
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2014
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Is sugar really addictive? As the Chief Medical Officer for England suggests that it is and a 'sugar tax' may have to be introduced, leading experts debate whether the white stuff on our table is really habit forming.
How 40 year old research hidden away in a book has thrown new light on a link between iron deficiency and stroke.
And why the clue to solving recurrent thrush maybe getting the diagnosis right in the first place.
Plus concern about the increase in prescription charges just announced by the government.
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| 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. |
| 0:35.2 | Coming up in today's programme, prescription charges. |
| 0:38.2 | It's just been announced that they're to rise again in England to more than £8 an item |
| 0:42.3 | from the beginning of next month. |
| 0:44.0 | More revenue for the cash-strapped NHS, but at what cost? |
| 0:48.2 | Recurrent thrush. |
| 0:49.3 | An expert thinks women are suffering unnecessarily because they're being misdiagnosed, |
| 0:55.8 | an iron and strokes. |
| 1:02.9 | I meet the woman behind new research linking iron deficiency to sticky blood, doubling the risk of clots in the brain. |
| 1:09.3 | But first, sugar, which is back in the headlines after the World Health Organization advised we should half our intake. |
| 1:11.7 | The chief medical officer for England suggested that it's addictive and that a sugar tax may have to be introduced to curb consumption. Proposals |
| 1:17.5 | welcome by Professor Robert Lustig, an eminent anti-sugar campaigner who's already convinced |
| 1:23.2 | that millions of us are addicted to the stuff. Sugar has toxic effects, unrelated to its calories, |
| 1:30.7 | and sugar has addictive effects as well. |
| 1:33.9 | And about 20% of the US population, |
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