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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...

24. Anti-inflammatory foods - do they exist?

Last year, Maria Borelius wrote the book The Health Revolution - the path to an anti-inflammatory lifestyle. It has sold over 100,000 copies and been translated into a dozen languages. The sequel, Bliss, was recently released. David Eberhard meets Maria and gets a detailed...

23. Exercise and screen time with Anders Hansen

How beneficial is exercise? What happens in the brain when we run or spend five hours a day looking at a mobile phone? Host David Eberhard meets psychiatrist and author Anders Hansen to clarify the concepts.

22. Live podcast from the 2019 Health Week

Professor and physician Fredrik Nyström arrived at the Health Day loaded to the teeth for a debate on exercise with Anders Hansen, who will be guesting on Health for the Unhealthy in a few weeks. In today's episode, we meet Fredrik and Stefan Jutterdal, chairman of the...

21. Why do we feel so bad?

Why are so many people on sick leave for mental illness, while Sweden is one of the happiest countries in the world? Should we in Sweden, like Norway, have philosophers who talk to unhappy people about the meaning of life, or should we just stop feeling so much?

20. New technologies will revolutionize public health

Anders Ekholm is a senior advisor at the Institute for Futures Studies and believes that today's public health policy is completely outdated. The health measures of the future are completely individualized. David Ziemsky is the founder and CEO of BellPal, a company whose alarm clocks help elderly...

19. Pubs are the solution for public health

Paolo Roberto, host, restaurateur, food enthusiast and former professional boxer, talks food and restaurant life with star chef Sebastian Schauermann, who started his own fast food chain Taku-Taku, which only serves vegan food. They agree that more restaurants could cure...

18. Are there less dangerous ways of using tobacco?

New technologies have created new ways of 'smoking'. Heating tobacco without lighting it on fire makes it less harmful. But how should politicians view this? Rasmus Ling from the Green Party, Tobias Nässén from the Moderate Party in Stockholm and Christine Lorne...

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EPHI was initially founded by former EU parliamentarian Christofer Fjellner (M) with the aim of working on sustainability and public health issues at the EU level.

We do this at EPHI, both from Stockholm and from our office in Brussels, where we have our representative, Adam Schlüssler.

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A market economy and individual freedom are needed to overcome threats to our environment and health.

Humanity faces both serious and urgent environmental and health problems. We have neither the time nor the money to prioritize anything but the most effective actions. Today, however, environmental and health issues are too often characterized by symbolic politics and wishful thinking.

Ephi presents facts and analysis to contribute to an environmental and health debate based on reality - not on opinions and emotions.

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