Podcast: Health for the unhealthy
Can you eat a bag of chips a day without getting fat? Is it better to be active and overweight than to sit still and be thin? Should I smoke e-cigarettes or snuff? Should I give up meat and sugar or neither? Experts meet and answer questions they don't usually get asked. And politicians try to figure out what they really want to achieve and how.
Health for the Unhealthy is led by physician Vincent Amble-Naess and EPHI Communications Officer Nicolina Söderqvist.
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110. Is 20 the new 70?
Professor Ingmar Skoog notes that people over 70 today are healthier and less depressed than 50-year-olds in previous generations. Skoog also says that today's 70-year-olds exercise, have sex and party more than previous generations, while today's...
109 Population crisis or not?
Author and podcaster Anna Björklund is the guest in this week's episode to discuss the declining birth rate in Sweden. How does it affect public health, and why are fewer people choosing to have children?
108. Kerstin Hesselgren - Prussian or liberal pioneer?
Journalist and writer Anders Johnson is a guest on the podcast and talks about his book Kerstin Hesselgren - health care apostle and parliamentary pioneer. Kerstin Hesselgren was a prominent social liberal politician in the early 1900s and the first woman in the Riksdag...
107. Is obesity a disease?
Doctor Vincent Flinck Amble-Naess is a guest on the podcast and notes that effective medical treatment for weight loss is now available. The only question is who is entitled to the medicine and who should pay for it? Instead of making it easy to get hold of a medicine...
106. What can you say about food and health?
What role do authorities play in what we eat and drink? What claims are food producers allowed to make on their products and what can you say about health on social media? Marie Söderqvist and Fredrik Torehammar discuss these issues together with Jimmy Sandell,...
105. What is a modern bourgeois drug policy?
Christian Karlsson, chair of the Social Affairs Committee, joins the podcast to explain his views on Swedish drug policy. Why do we have such harsh penalties for cannabis use when other countries decriminalize? Are politicians proud of the snus that has turned Swedes into...
104. Swedish exports are good for the climate
How do Swedish exports affect the climate? Should we perhaps trade less with other countries for the sake of the climate? Astrid Kander is a professor at Lund University and researches how climate-impacting emissions can be measured more accurately. An important, and perhaps surprising,...
103. summer, sun and internal storms
In this episode, psychiatric patient Roger Lundgren and psychiatrist David Eberhard meet to discuss mental illness and the role of psychiatry in our modern secular society. Has psychiatry taken over the role of the church in supporting people's existential...
102. Train for the adventure
To roller ski from Smygehuk to Barcelona or cycle across the American continent, you need a good physique. This week, the podcast is hosted by Fredrik Erixon who runs an adventure school. He talks about what it takes to succeed with both extreme physical...
101. training for the nation
Biff up the body instead of stockpiling canned food, wrote officer L-O Nilsson on DN debate on July 2, 2023. L-O, who is responsible for training in physical combat value in the Armed Forces, believes that our physical decay is a danger to the nation in the event of war. I...