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Prash's Murder Map: True Crime Podcast33 | The Gunn Hill MurdersIn the Peak District in 1977, the ‘Year of the Knife’ continued with a robbery that shocked a quiet village, culminating in the murder of a bank clerk and the kidnap of his colleague. Could the police find her in time before the cold night drew in across the freezing Gunn Hill moorland?Thanks for listening! Here’s how you can get in touch with comments and suggestions:My WebsiteTwitter/XFacebook PodcastFacebook Author PageInstagramPatreonEmail: prashsmurdermap@gmail.com 2023-08-3023 min
UndisciplinaryGood Take/Bad Take: Is cake at work like passive smoking?Send us a textIn this new segment - Bad Public Health Takes - Jane and Chris dissect Prof Susan Jebb's suggestion that bringing cake to work is like passive smoking, and whether taking weight-loss drugs is cheating. Intro music "Ticklish" by Quincas Moreira MusicSound Effect from PixabayUndisciplinary - a podcast that talks across the boundaries of history, ethics, and the politics of health. Follow us on Twitter @undisciplinary_ or email questions for "mailbag episodes" undisciplinarypod@gmail.com 2023-02-1330 min
Footprint 40Susan JebbOne of the UK’s leading scientists, Professor Jebb is is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. Her recent research has focused on the treatment of obesity and interventions to encourage healthy and sustainable diets, highly appropriate when for the first time in over a decade health and sustainability are back on the FSA agenda.2022-04-2646 min
Career Brand StoryWhy Employer Brand Matters with Susan LaMotte - Episode 030Do you know about Employer Brand or EVP? This episode with Susan LaMotte (founder, CEO, and Principal Strategist at Exaqueo) will bring you up to speed about it and tell you why it matters. She also brings some great tips to the table for job seekers facing interviews.
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Better Off Dead#7 The ‘C’ Word There are many firsts in Betty King’s life. First female prosecutor for the state of Victoria. First female prosecutor for the Commonwealth of Australia. First female silk in Victoria. Now another – first Chair of Victoria’s Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board. Reporting to parliament, the Board oversees the processes of the law with its 68 safeguards, ensuring that doctors adhere to the rules, and that the people seeking assistance to die are competent and not being coerced. Of all the doubts raised by MPs in the parliamentary debate about assisted dying, none was more frequent than t...2021-05-0453 min
Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and SeminarsRethinking diet, weight and health policy in and after the COVID-19 pandemicProf Susan Jebb and Sir Charles Godfray discuss the possible implications of the pandemic on health policy and tackling obesity. The current covid-19 pandemic has focussed attention on the variability in personal risk of serious illness. After age and ethnicity, one of the most important factors associated with developing serious covid complications, requiring admission to hospital or ICU, is being overweight.
Excess weight has long been known to be a risk factor for ill-health, though governments have rarely encouraged weight loss, and have even been cautious about interventions which may help to prevent obesity developing, for fear of accusations of ‘na...2021-02-0959 minOxford Martin School: Public Lectures and SeminarsRethinking diet, weight and health policy in and after the COVID-19 pandemicProf Susan Jebb and Sir Charles Godfray discuss the possible implications of the pandemic on health policy and tackling obesity. The current covid-19 pandemic has focussed attention on the variability in personal risk of serious illness. After age and ethnicity, one of the most important factors associated with developing serious covid complications, requiring admission to hospital or ICU, is being overweight.
Excess weight has long been known to be a risk factor for ill-health, though governments have rarely encouraged weight loss, and have even been cautious about interventions which may help to prevent obesity developing, for fear of accusations of ‘na...2021-02-0959 min
The Briefing RoomHow to beat obesityThe government says “tackling obesity is one of the greatest long-term health challenges this country faces” and has published a plan to help people in England lose weight. What’s in it, what’s not, and what more could be done?David Aaronovitch asks the experts:David Buck is a senior fellow at the health think tank The Kings Fund and used to work for The Department of Health
Smitha Mundas is a doctor turned journalist and a health reporter for the BBC
Susan Jebb is Professor of Diet and Population Health at the University of Oxfor...2020-07-3028 min
FuturemakersClimate change: do individual actions matter?Is there still potential for actions on an individual level to shape the future of the planet? With a lot of Government work relying on geo-political understanding between nation states and large multinational corporations, is there still potential for actions on an individual level to shape the future of the planet? Do actions such as changing our diets, varying how we commute or even joining in with mass demonstrations, have the possibility of being anywhere near as effective as changes that can be made on an international level? Can one person save the planet? Join our host, philosopher Peter Millican...2019-10-2855 min
FuturemakersClimate change: do individual actions matter?With a lot of Government work relying on geo-political understanding between nation states and large multinational corporations, is there still potential for actions on an individual level to shape the future of the planet? Do actions such as changing our diets, varying how we commute or even joining in with mass demonstrations, have the possibility of being anywhere near as effective as changes that can be made on an international level? Can one person save the planet?
Join our host, philosopher Peter Millican, as he explores this topic with Professor Susan Jebb, a nutrition scientist who is co-director...2019-10-2755 min
Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminarsUK Food Network Responsibility Deal - UBVO Instrument and Institutions InterviewsSusan Jebb, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the UBVO Instrument and Institutions Interviews series.2016-06-1416 min
Oxford SciBarOxford SciBar Podcast March 2016: Prof Susan Jebb - Nutrition: Fact or FictionA poor diet is the leading cause of ill-health in the UK yet it is also one of the most contested areas of science. Is eating less saturated fat or sugar the most important factor or would the problems be solved if we ate more fruit and vegetables?.
Join us to hear Prof Susan Jebb, Professor of Diet and Population Health at the University of Oxford discuss what we know about nutrition and ask the question: once we know the theory of a healthy diet, how can we help more people to achieve the practice - education or taxation?. - Se...2016-03-201h 20
Inside HealthGestational diabetes, Low-carb diets, Needle painDiabetes in pregnancy, gestational diabetes, is on the increase, and the risks to mother and baby if this condition is untreated, are very serious. Around one in fourteen pregnant women will develop GD, but the risk is much greater according to age and weight of the mother, whether there's a history of diabetes in the family and in certain ethnic groups.
Dr Mark Porter visits The Rosie Maternity Hospital in Cambridge, where Dr Helen Murphy introduces him to the specialist teams that enable 70% of the women diagnosed there to manage their diabetes through diet and exercise, rather than medication.
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The Life ScientificSusan Jebb on nutritionFat, sugar, salt - we all know we should eat less of them, and take more exercise, but as a nation with an ever expanding waistline we are becoming increasingly overweight.Jim al-Khalili talks to Professor Susan Jebb, the UK's authority on obesity, who has spent much of her career trying to help us put those good intentions into practice.Her challenge is not for the faint hearted. When she first got interested in obesity, as a research scientist, rates were already on the rise. Yet no one took the problem seriously. Today, with over...2015-04-2128 minOxford Martin School: Public Lectures and SeminarsWell fed? The health and environmental implications of our food choicesMike Rayner, Susan Jebb and Tara Garnett give a talk about food and feeding the population. Non-fat, low-fat, saturated fat, trans fats, healthy fats - in an era where we seem to be constantly bombarded with often conflicting messages about our diets, is all this information actually making us any healthier? How can we cut through media hysteria and make wise choices about the food we eat, and what impact do our consumption habits have, not just on our own health but that of the planet?2015-02-171h 26Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and SeminarsWell fed? The health and environmental implications of our food choicesMike Rayner, Susan Jebb and Tara Garnett give a talk about food and feeding the population. Non-fat, low-fat, saturated fat, trans fats, healthy fats - in an era where we seem to be constantly bombarded with often conflicting messages about our diets, is all this information actually making us any healthier? How can we cut through media hysteria and make wise choices about the food we eat, and what impact do our consumption habits have, not just on our own health but that of the planet?2015-02-171h 26Inside HealthCancer of the cervix & HPV; Oral cancer & HPV; Eating late; Feedback on Sugar, Thrush, Cataracts; Scarfree operationsA committee advising the Food and Drug Administration in the US has voted to change the way it tests women for cervical cancer by solely using a test that detects Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) rather than also using a standard smear test which looks for abnormal cell changes. The test is likely to become more widely used in the NHS than it is now. What advantages does it offer over smear tests and what difference will it make for women? Dr Mark Porter talks to Jack Cuzick, director of the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine and GP Dr Margaret...2014-03-1827 min