Dr. Xand van Tulleken
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1,476 appearances
9 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 22 Sep
Dr. Xand van Tulleken’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Devi, it's wonderful to have you here.
Hello.
Hi.
Your work in public health has reached a huge number of people, but you have a personal connection to public health as well, don't you?
Zahnd and I were just talking about this headline from The Guardian, it was reported in other papers too, that at least 80% of responsibility for ill health in old age is down to the individual.
How do you negotiate this balance between the responsibility we have for our health and blaming people for their health?
So we want to drill into a few of these things in more detail.
Can you start by just giving a sense of the big things that affect our health?
Clearly, some of those things are outside of our control.
The air you breathe, don't breathe the air if you live in New Delhi.
It's quite a tough bit of advice.
But that headline had this idea that 80% of the health outcomes we can do something about.
So can we start with a couple in detail?
If we start with exercise, exercise is free and it's easy to do.
You can go to a park, go for a walk.
If you don't walk, you can...
Curl some tins of beans.
I mean, there are endless things that you can do that are free, accessible.
Why is exercise not a pure matter of personal responsibility?
it's not merely that governments make people exercise, they create joyful spaces that people want to physically commute through to work, don't they?
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