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The Food Programme

The Food and Medicine Debate

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4943 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Food as part of a prescription for health and wellbeing. What has gone wrong with our diets in the UK and how are doctors and experts trying to redress the balance to get us well again. Sheila Dillon and a group of food, diet and medical experts continue the discussion with contributions from Dr Rangan Chatterjee, BBC's Doctor In The House, Professor Tim Spector author of the Diet Myth, Henry Dimbleby who drew up the School Food Plan and Dr Rupy Aujla, founder of the Dr's Kitchen.

Producer: Maggie Ayre

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and I'd like to tell you a bit about the

0:03.8

podcast I work on. I'm Dan Clark and I commissioned factual podcasts at the BBC.

0:08.6

It's a massive area but I'd sum it up as stories to help us make sense of the forces shaping the world.

0:15.3

What podcasting does is give us the space and the time to take brilliant BBC journalism

0:19.8

and tell amazing compelling stories that really get behind the headlines.

0:23.7

And what I get really excited about is when we find a way of drawing you into a subject

0:28.4

you might not even have thought you were interested in.

0:30.2

Whether it's investigations, science, tech, politics, culture, true crime, the environment,

0:36.1

you can always discover more with a podcast on BBC Sounds.

0:39.7

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. In last week's food program we talked about the anger and division that's

0:56.7

raging in the UK about what we eat, what we don't and what we should. We did it

1:02.2

with the help of a panel for experts who are with us again today.

1:07.0

Theona Godley, editor-in-chief of the BMJ's collection of medical journals.

1:11.0

She trained as a doctor and is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.

1:16.0

Dr. Dwayne Mellor, Dietitian and Senior Lecturer in Human Nutrition at the University of Coventry and a member of the BDA, the Association of British Dietitions.

1:26.5

Anthony Warner, also known as the angry chef, who was, until recently,

1:31.2

head development chef at Premier Foods. His 2017 book The

1:35.8

Angry Chef set out to expose bad science and the truth about healthy eating and

1:41.1

sold a lot of copies.

1:43.6

Dr Trudy Deakin is a dietician with a PhD

1:46.6

from the University of Leeds.

1:48.3

She's a trustee of the Public Health Collaboration

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