Tegan Taylor

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2,688 appearances 36 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2018 last heard 31 Jul

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Health Report · Thumb-base osteoarthritis; blood biomarkers and Alzheimer's diagnostics; Aged Care Commission expectations; better childbirth experiences for Indigenous women ; Q&A · 12 Apr 2021 podcast

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Health Report · Less sugar in soft drinks; prescribing sociality; cervical cancer screening and Indigenous women; pandemic pregnancy · 22 Mar 2021 podcast

Hello and welcome to the Health Report podcast with me, Tegan Taylor, as Norman Swan takes a break this week. voice-verified

Coming up on the show, what effect did Melbourne's tough lockdown have on babies? voice-verified

Australia's on track to eliminate cervical cancer, except in this one critical group. voice-verified

How much healthier would we all be if doctors could prescribe social connection? voice-verified

And health reporter Lauren Roberts joins me to answer your questions in our mailbag section at the end of the show. voice-verified

Remember, you can email your questions and comments voice-verified

But first, what if you could reduce the amount of sugar in Australian diets at no cost to industry and generate revenue that could be spent on improving people's health? voice-verified

Sounds too good to be true, doesn't it? voice-verified

Well, taxing sugary soft drinks is regularly suggested as a way to improve diets, but it's a tough sell politically because drink manufacturers argue it will hurt business. voice-verified

Well, a new initiative in the UK has used a tiered taxing system to encourage manufacturers to reduce the amount of sugar in drinks. voice-verified

And it looks like while people are buying less sugary drinks, somehow the drinks industry hasn't taken a financial hit. voice-verified

The results were recently published in the BMJ and Alexandra Jones from the George Institute for Global Health reviewed the paper and wrote an accompanying editorial. voice-verified

And I spoke to her earlier. voice-verified

Why do you think it's inevitable? voice-verified

If they're not harming industry profits, like what are people buying instead? voice-verified

Are they healthy if people are buying, say, diet soft drinks instead? voice-verified

Right, so it becomes an incentive for companies to reformulate their products. voice-verified

are people just going to switch to artificially flavoured or artificially sweetened drinks? voice-verified

But we don't have really clear evidence that they're harmful. voice-verified

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