The chips are down: will diet drugs devour junk food?
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The Economist
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🗓️ 26 August 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Snack-food companies have long shown their adaptability to changing diets. How could the rise of appetite-suppressing drugs and fears about ultra-processed foods change the food we consume? How hearing aids and other lifestyle choices can reduce your risk of dementia (11:00). And why it’s time to revive the siesta (17:11).
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like designing two hydrogen plants, |
| 0:06.2 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:13.0 | While today we're mostly in oil and gas we increased the proportion of our |
| 0:16.8 | global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other |
| 0:19.8 | transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023. |
| 0:26.4 | BP.com slash and not all. The Economist. Hello and welcome to Rosie Blore. |
| 0:45.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the event shaping your world. |
| 0:49.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the event shaping your world. |
| 0:54.0 | Much that people can do to reduce their risk of developing dementia is just general good health advice, diet and exercise and so on, but fresh research |
| 1:06.0 | points at intriguing new risk factors to tackle, like getting your hearing and your vision sorted out. and taking a siesta sounds to me like the best idea in the world, but even in the |
| 1:18.6 | Mediterranean fewer people now do so. Since researchers reckon that we all have a post-lunch slum, is it time for the afternoon nap |
| 1:26.3 | to make a comeback? But first. Chocolate, crisps, jelly sweets, I love them all. I'm far from alone in that, even though |
| 1:50.0 | we've all known for decades that sugar, fat and salt are bad for us. |
| 1:53.7 | Sometimes we try and make ourselves feel better. |
| 1:56.1 | And to help us along our way, food companies have come up with a succession of |
| 2:00.3 | low-cal, non-fat, low-sodium alternatives. |
| 2:03.3 | Diet Coke Break. |
| 2:05.3 | Diet Coke Break. I don't want you real fruit. |
| 2:08.0 | Continental non-fat yogurt tastes great and it's mmm good for you. |
| 2:12.8 | Goya low sodium chickpeas, the perfect wholesome ingredient for real life chefs. |
| 2:17.5 | If it's Goya, it has to be good. |
| 2:20.0 | But despite all these apparently healthier products, |
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