Healthcare Triage
Aspartame and Autism?
What's the deal with Aspartame and Autism? Whenever you see a study claiming that a single ingredient has a specific link to a specific health outcome, you should immediately feel wary. That’s because it is nearly impossible to conduct a...
Healthcare Triage
Zoloft, Mounjaro, and Social Stigma
Drugs that do a pretty good job of easing symptoms of depression and drugs that really help people struggling with obesity have a couple things in common. The first is that we have almost no idea how they work, and the second is that...
Curated Video
Why Diets Fail
Keto? Intermittent Fasting? And what about plant-based diets? Alok and Sheena explain the science behind the most popular diets, explain what they have in common and explain why for most people - they don't really work. Happily, health...
Curated Video
Advancements in Medical Technology: From Imaging to Artificial Organs
This video discusses the significant advancements in medical technology that have revolutionized healthcare, leading to longer and healthier lives. It highlights innovations such as digital imaging techniques, artificial organs, and...
Curated Video
Scientists Discover Promising Hormone for Weight Loss: A Potential Breakthrough in Fighting Obesity
British scientists have discovered a naturally formed hormone, PYY 336, that may help overweight individuals lose weight by suppressing appetite. This hormone is lower in obese individuals, indicating its importance in signaling the...
Curated Video
Wellbeing A-Z -Kids obesity
Experts say the best way to prevent Kid obesity is to encourage healthy eating habits during early childhood.
Financial Times
Is ultra-processed food really that bad?
FT Food Revolution - Ultra-processed foods are cheap and convenient. But many health experts say they are simply bad for us, and, as the FTs Madeleine Speed reports, health warnings about UPFs could have unintended consequences....
Curated Video
GCSE Biology - What is Cancer? 'Benign' and 'Malignant' Tumours Explained #43
Benign and malignant tumours are very different problems. In fact only malignant ones are considered tumours. Find out why, and explore the risk factors for cancer.
Curated Video
GCSE Biology - Is Your Lifestyle Really a Personal Choice? - Lifestyle & Risk Factors #42
Risk factors are things that increase the chance that a person will develop a certain disease. Lots of these are lifestyle choices that we make everyday. Learn the links you need to know, and how disease can affect society at large.
Curated Video
Is Your Antidepressant Not Working? This B-Vitamin Might Be the Missing Key!
Struggling with treatment-resistant depression? Dr. Tracey Marks delves into the transformative role of the B-vitamin, L-methylfolate, in enhancing the efficacy of antidepressants. Discover the intriguing connection between body weight,...
Curated Video
Losing Weight On Medications Just Got Easier – Should You Take A Pill for Weight Loss?
There's been a lot of hype about weight loss medications lately. Are they for you? Psychiatric medications are guilty of causing enough weight gain to push someone into the category of obese. Today there are several different types of...
Curated Video
The Unusual Presidency of William Taft
One-term Presidents are often overlooked – but what makes William Taft’s time in office memorable is the fact that it was defined by a series of unusual firsts.
TLDR News
How Can the Government Address Obesity?
While obesity is becoming more and more of a problem in many countries around the world, it's particularly acute in the UK. So just how bad is the situation and what's caused it? And what, if anything, can the government do to address...
Curated Video
Understanding the Correlation between Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes
This video provides an explanation of type 2 diabetes and its correlation with obesity. It discusses the rise in type 2 diabetes diagnoses and obesity rates in many countries, and highlights excess body fat as the strongest risk factor...
Institute of Human Anatomy
The Science of Fat: Understanding the Different Types and Purposes
This video discusses the different types of fat in the human body, where they are located, and their purposes. The teacher explains the evolutionary factors that led to humans being able to store excess calories as fat, and the hormonal...
Healthcare Triage
Money Can't Buy You Weight Loss AND Vaccine Investment Strategy
Aaron's been traveling, so this will be more of a quick hits episode. This is Healthcare Triage News...and we're talking about whether workplace premium incentives lead to employee weight loss, whether behavioral interventions improve...
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Reductionism
This film shows the importance and limitations of reductionism in the nature of psychological explanation. using the example of research into obesity. It cautions students against simply using reductionism as a critique to be compared...
Healthcare Triage
Does Wegovy Help You Lose Weight?
Today we're talking about Wegovy, which is a new prescription drug approved to treat obesity. It's also called semaglutide, and it was initially approved to treat diabetes, but studies have indicated it is effective for weight loss....
Debunked
Does Sugar Affect Your Behavior?
Parents have been telling us for years, that if you give a child candy and cola it will hype them up and make them go nuts! But, how much truth is there to the 'sugar rush', and how much of it is just in the parents perception?
Healthcare Triage
Can We Do Anything About Childhood Obesity?
Between 2017 and 2018, obesity affected about 14.4 million children and adolescents in the United States. In order to create treatments, interventions, and health policies to adequately address this issue, we need solid data from...
Curated Video
Reductionism
Based around the example of obesity, this film outlines the key ideas underpinning reductionist and holistic approaches in the social sciences.
TLDR News
Universal Credit and Alleged Bullying - This Week in Parliament
This Week in Parliament is a series we are currently trialling where we keep you up to date with the latest news from the UK's Parliament. This week we discuss issues including the issue of bullying in Parliament and the allegations...