BMC Medicine

So everything needs to be addressed.

So when you go and see a natural healthcare practitioner, they look at your diet because they think this is going to be your long-term medicine.

So they get you on the right sort of diet, which in this case is definitely Mediterranean but we can talk about that more later on if you like the specific diet of or the specific version of the Mediterranean

we've spoken so much about the Mediterranean diet on this podcast and from everything that I've heard from Lee it is the most anti-inflammatory thing that we can eat and Do you agree, Leigh? Yeah.

Yeah, definitely.

Isn't that what you said?

Yes.

I'm a huge, huge proponent of the Mediterranean style diet.

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exactly if you need an incentive to eat more veggies today there you go okay our second headline comes from the times cutting exercise drives up likelihood of cancer study warns people urge to keep working out throughout their lives after research showed even losing two to three minutes of vigorous activity a day raises risks that obviously sounds absolutely terrifying it really does let's break it down But this was, yeah, it does, isn't it? There was new research published in BMC Medicine, and it looked at the way that we divide our day between sleeping, sitting, standing, and then different intensities of movement and how that could be associated with cancer risk.

And in this study, we had just shy of 60,000 people from the UK Biobank.

Obviously, the Biobank comes up time and time again.

This is the hardest part.

And to understand why we relapse, we looked at a randomized control trial published recently in BMC Med involving healthy college students.

This study was wild.

The researchers instructed these students to drastically reduce their smartphone screen time to under two hours a day for a period of three weeks.