29. Health myths and inventions

David Eberhard talks to public educator and researcher Emma Frans, PhD in medical epidemiology, and Åsa Wikforss, professor of theoretical philosophy and newly elected to the Swedish Academy. They sort out what are the biggest and worst myths about health and what you can ...

28. Most beautiful belly squares wins?

TV presenter and fitness enthusiast Rickard Olsson doesn't hide the fact that he's been starving and building muscle for 16 weeks. He wants to look good with a perfect beach body. Psychologist Kristin Öster is also training for Beach 2020. She holds the course - get in psychological...

Section 27: Alcohol, drugs, doping and tobacco

What's happening with the Alcohol, Drugs, Drugs and Tobacco (ADT) strategy? Is it being rewritten in secret? Will gambling addiction also be part of it? Or will it be scrapped altogether? On stage at the Hotel At Six, John Weinerhall (M),...

26. The pleasure of submission

Do the church father Augustine and the philosophers René Descartes and Michel Foucault best explain Swedish public health policy? David Eberhard meets Alexander Bard and ethics professor Susanne Wigorts Yngvesson, who discuss how morality, the state, or simply...

Episode 25: Alcohol and tobacco

Now that the US has approved snus as a less harmful product than cigarettes, the question is whether Swedish politicians will do the same. Swedish Match's Head of Communications Patrik Hildingsson explains what the FDA (Food & Drug Administration) actually said about the Swedish...