Will we die before our parents?
More or Less
BBC
4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2014
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Obesity may mean children have a shorter lifespan than their parents, it has been claimed, but is this true? Ruth Alexander looks at the data and explores the 'Obesity Paradox' – the idea that overweight people are less likely to die than those of normal weight. She also questions whether the promise of bonuses in The World Cup has improved performances. This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.
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| 0:00.0 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know. |
| 0:04.7 | My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds. |
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| 0:36.0 | This is the short edition of More or Less, first broadcast on the BBC World Service. |
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| 0:51.0 | slash podcasts. Hello, this is more or less the program about numbers on the BBC World Service. |
| 1:00.3 | I'm Ruth Alexander. |
| 1:01.8 | On this week's program has the promise of a bonus incentivised |
| 1:05.6 | players to do better in the World Cup but first. |
| 1:10.3 | We the adults of the last four generations have blessed our children with the |
| 1:16.2 | destiny of a shorter life span than their own parents because of the landscape of food that we've built around them. |
| 1:24.7 | The young youngest generation is on track for the first time in this nation's history |
| 1:30.4 | of being less healthy, having a shorter lifespan than their parents. |
| 1:34.1 | The claim here is that this generation may die at an earlier age than their |
| 1:39.2 | parents as a consequence of childhood obesity. |
| 1:42.2 | Our reporter Laura Gray's been looking into this. |
| 1:45.2 | Laura, is it really true? |
| 1:47.2 | While it's true that the number of people who are obese and suffering from obesity-related |
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