Neuroendocrinologist Giles Yeo on Covid-19 and Obesity

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Around the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday Life

Dr. Tess Bird and Prof. Stanley Ulijaszek

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Around the Table is a podcast from Stanley Ulijaszek, Professor of Human Ecology at the University of Oxford and Director of UBVO, and Dr. Tess Bird, an anthropologist of household uncertainty and wellbeing. We interview nutrition, food, and health experts as well as everyday households from around the world, filling in some of the gaps between scientific knowledge and everyday practice.

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Neuroendocrinologist Giles Yeo on Covid-19 and Obesity

Around the Table: Food Stories from Science to Everyday Life

13 minutes 52 seconds

5 years ago

Neuroendocrinologist Giles Yeo on Covid-19 and Obesity

Giles Yeo is a neuroendocrinologist at the University of Cambridge with over 20 years experience researching brain control and body-weight (learn more). He speaks in this episode about the relationship between Covid-19 and obesity. As this research is unfolding, Yeo gives us some potential hypotheses and explains what data is still needed. He also points to the socioeconomic inequalities evident in the pandemic. [Note that this episode was recorded on May 29, 2020]