Episode 514
Sugar Tax: Answer to Obesity?
Some say it's fuelling an obesity epidemic, but is sugar really to blame?
The Naked Scientists Podcast · The Naked Scientists
November 24, 201554m 3s
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Show Notes
This week, is sugar the enemy? Difficult as it is to digest, one person in every four in the UK is obese, and treating the condition as well as its knock-on effects, costs the health service 5.1 billion per year. Some say sugar is to blame, but is it the only guilty party? Plus, in the news, pigeons detecting cancer, half of museum specimens might be mislabelled, and how science journals are being hacked... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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