Aletta Talks

How free are we actually to make our own choices?

Environment has a massive impact on our believes and behaviours and therefore our health. Values shape our identity but are not always the best for our health. So what could and should be done to give everyone equal opportunities to make their own choices?

References:

Introquote:

How your environment impacts your outcomes in life | Paul Gleeson | TEDxTallaght

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How does marketing influence our life, choices we make and ultimately our health? Can marketing make us do things we don't want? And in what way could marketing actually contribute to our well-being?

Leoni von Ristok talks with Koert van Ittersum, professor of marketing and consumer well-being from the University of Groningen to explore these and more questions.

Quote: There is No Luck. Only Good Marketing. | Franz Schrepf | TEDxAUCollege

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Why do physicians still prescribe mainly drugs, even when treating chronic diseases? How detrimental are the effects of stigma and prejudice and the double burden of malnutrition? And what should health care professionals and the government do to actually support those who need it.

Leoni von Ristok talks with nephrologist Gerjan Navis who treats kidney patients at the University Medical Center Groningen to explore these questions.

Quote: Why is the Science of Nutrition Ignored in Medicine? | T. Colin Campbell | TEDxCornellUniversity

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What does obesity have to do with human rights? Is it sometimes justified to restrict one human right to ensure another? What is the role of the food industry in all of this? Leoni von Ristok talks with prof. Brigit Toebes, health law expert and the new scientific director of the Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health, to explore these questions. 

Quotes:

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) / UN Audiovisual Library of International Law 
• Solutions for the obesity epidemic | Liesbeth van Rossum | TEDxErasmusUniversity 
• TERUGKIJKEN: Hoge Raad houdt vonnis Urgenda in stand: kabinet moet CO2-uitstoot terugdringen / NOS nieuws
• Gro Harlem Brundtland on the Role of WHO: A Leader's Perspective / Harvard School of Public Health 
• First principles of health justice: a human right to be healthy | Sridhar Venkatapuram | TEDxLSHTM 

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• The podcast intro
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• Penguin modern chillout
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