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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 isn't shy about why 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 shape,...
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...
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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.
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A market economy and individual freedom are needed to overcome threats to our environment and health.
Ephi presents facts and analysis to contribute to an environmental and health debate based on reality - not on opinions and emotions.