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Audio/Podcasts
Young at Heart - Healthy Ageing
Professor Nick Wareham on Naked Scientists (28th September 2008)
In this programme Professor Nick Wareham discusses the results of the EPIC Study which identified four simple things you can do to extend your life.
Preventing Type 2 Diabetes - Lifestyle Versus Drugs: Lifestyle
Professor Nick Wareham at the EASD meeting in Rome, Italy (11th September 2008)
At the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) meeting Professors Nick Wareham and Paul Zimmet
(Monash University) participated in the Michael Berger Evidence-based medicine debate "Preventing type 2 diabetes - Lifestyle versus drugs". Professor Wareham put forward the case for lifestyle changes to prevent type 2 diabetes.
Searching for Genes for Common Obesity - is Genome-wide Association the Solution?
Dr Ruth Loos at the 10th Postgraduate Nutrition Symposium The Genetics of Obesity, Boston, MA, USA (26th June 2008)
At this symposium Ruth Loos from the MRC Epidemiology Unit discusses her work looking for genes that are associated with obesity in the general population.
Healthy living 'can add 14 years'
Professor Nick Wareham on BBC News (January 2008)
This report from BBC News on the results of the EPIC Study includes an interview with Professor Nick Wareham.
Building a Healthier Britain - Diabetes
Professor Nick Wareham and Dr Simon Griffin on Radio 4 (1st November 2005)
Early research in the 1990s suggested that babies born with a lower birth weight were at increased risk of developing diabetes in later life. This work moved on to show that the weight you put on after birth is more crucial.
How effective is physical exercise on the rate of developing diabetes, and just how much exercise do you need to do in order to protect yourself?
This Radio 4 programme followed the population studies that have found the answers to these and other questions about the emergence of this condition.
