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Inside Health

Teenage depression, Choir, Heart failure, Protein shakes

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4575 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2012

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In Inside Health, Mark Porter clarifies recent headlines claiming that researchers have found a "Blood test that identifies depression". It certainly isn't that simple.

GP Margaret McCartney reports from Paisley Abbey in Glasgow on the health benefits of joining a choir.

And do special muscle building drinks live up to the marketing hype? Max Pemberton looks at the science behind the recent explosion in sales of high protein sports drinks.

Plus a new treatment for helping people with fluid retention due to heart failure, that can transform a puffy face to a chiselled jaw bone overnight.

Producer: Erika Wright.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:23.1

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0:27.0

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0:27.6

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0:31.0

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0:33.1

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0:35.2

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0:40.8

Hello and welcome to Inside Health in today's program. Blood test identifies depression, said the release from the press association, and several papers ran with the story. But is it really as simple as that? We delve behind the headlines. Do special muscle

0:56.0

building drinks live up to the marketing hype? Max Pemberton looks at the science behind the recent

1:01.1

explosion in sales of high-protein sports drinks and gets put through his paces in the process.

1:07.5

Get those little skinny legs going. come on. Come on, Max.

1:11.4

Do people fall off the back of this?

1:13.1

Probably today they will, I'm hoping.

1:15.2

I've got some crash mats behind anyway.

1:17.9

Well, let's hope he doesn't.

1:19.3

I visit the Heart Hospital in London to see how a new treatment for helping people with heart failure can transform them overnight.

1:25.8

And GP Margaret McCartney reports on an unusual approach to improving your health and sense

1:31.0

of well-being, joining a choir.

1:42.3

But first, you may have seen reports that American researchers have come up with a blood test that can identify depression.

1:48.5

The story made the headlines in a number of papers.

1:51.2

The Daily Mail reported, scientists have devised the first blood test capable of diagnosing major depression in teenagers.

1:58.0

Well, have they?

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