Angela Saini
speaker
229 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2012
last heard Jul 2012
Angela Saini’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Goodbye.
That was More or Less, first broadcast on the BBC World Service, with me, Angela Saini.
The producer was Richard Knight and the editor, Richard Varden.
You've downloaded More or Less, an oasis of common sense in the desert of innumeracy.
In this week's episode, we're taking on the weight of the world and judging a welterweight boxing match.
Hello, welcome to More or Less on the BBC World Service.
For the next ten minutes, we'll be picking apart the numbers in the news.
I'm Angela Saini, standing in for regular presenter Tim Harford.
This week we enter the ring for a statistical boxing match.
But first, and this is a delicate question, would the entire human population mind just coming over here for a moment?
OK, we're just going to measure your weight.
Could you get onto these scales for me?
Yeah, just there.
Oh, looks like we're heavier than ever.
According to a study published this week in the journal Biomed Central Public Health, it's not only because there are more of us.
Global adult human biomass, our combined weight, now stands at around 287 million metric tonnes.
And 15 million tonnes of that...
is excess being carried by the overweight.
The problem for all of us is that, like every creature in the animal kingdom, the heavier we are, the more energy we need.
Leading the league table of heaviest nations is the US.
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