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Dr Giles Yeo Chews the Fat

By: Orion Publishing Ltd.
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  • We tend to reduce food and health to bitesize nuggets of information, like calories or BMI. It’s understandable; numbers are easily digestible when we’re looking for answers or a quick fix. But the thing is, there’s a lot more to health – hey, there’s a lot more to life! – than the numbers you see on the back of a crisp packet or on the scales. Geneticist Dr Giles Yeo feels we need a bit more space to think about the relationship food has with our body, our mind, and even our soul!


    Join Giles as he chews the fat with fellow foodies, scientists, and doctors. Across this series, he’ll be asking how our genes play a role in weight loss and gain, how our stomachs chat to our brains, and whether going on a run really means we can gorge on doughnuts when we get home...


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Episodes
  • The soul, with Tim Anderson

    The soul, with Tim Anderson
    Aug 10 2021

    Why is it important that we feed our souls? And how do we square what we know about eating ‘healthily’ with our desire for food? Different foods will trigger the reward and pleasure centres of our brain to differing degrees; alongside chef Tim Anderson, Dr Giles Yeo explores what it is about certain foods that makes them so comforting.


    Why Calories Don’t Count: http://hyperurl.co/CaloriesDontCount


    Dr Giles Yeo Chews The Fat is produced by Anouszka Tate for Orion Publishing Ltd.


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    28 mins
  • Food poverty, with Spike Mendelsohn

    Food poverty, with Spike Mendelsohn
    Aug 3 2021

    How does malnutrition – through over or under-eating – affect people's bodies, minds, and lives? Why should nations care about the nutrition their citizens are getting? Dr Giles Yeo is joined by restauranteur and food policy advocate Spike Mendelsohn to discuss why eating less healthy food is often not a choice individuals can make for themselves.


    Why Calories Don’t Count: http://hyperurl.co/CaloriesDontCount


    Dr Giles Yeo Chews The Fat is produced by Anouszka Tate for Orion Publishing Ltd.


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    33 mins
  • Ultra-processed food, with Drs Chris and Xand Van Tulleken

    Ultra-processed food, with Drs Chris and Xand Van Tulleken
    Jul 27 2021

    What is it about ultra-processed foods that makes us both crave them and struggle to stop eating them once we’ve started? And how might our genes affect our desire for them? Presenters, doctors, and identical twins Chris and Xand Van Tulleken join Dr Giles Yeo to explain what they’ve learnt about the effect UPFs can have on the body through their own personal experiments.

    Why Calories Don’t Count: http://hyperurl.co/CaloriesDontCount

    Dr Giles Yeo Chews The Fat is produced by Anouszka Tate for Orion Publishing Ltd.


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    37 mins
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