Mixed Messages and Healthy Choices
Can we help ourselves to avoid diseases associated with old age? Confused by the mixed messages out there from the media? Our Mixed Messages and Healthy Choices series offered audiences the chance to chat to plain speaking experts to help them make better choices for healthy living.
These events are supported by the Medical Research Council.
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Watch the videos to get a flavour of what we talked about at the events. Share your own thoughts on the comments board on each event page.
Babies' Best Start
Cancer: In the genes?
Keeping Your Marbles
events
Babies’ Best Start
5 March 2008, 19:00 - 20:30
How does the environment in the womb affect babies’ health in later life? What could you do to give your baby the best start? Chat to scientists involved in lifelong health studies and find out for yourselves.
Cancer: In the genes?
19 March 2008, 19:00 - 20:30
How do your lifestyle and genetic make-up impact on your cancer risk? Can your genome protect itself? Does eating certain foods really make any difference? Sort through the mixed messages with scientists and make better choices for lifelong health.
Keeping Your Marbles
25 March 2008, 19:00 - 20:30
Think long term. Over a million people are likely to be afflicted by dementia in the UK by 2025. Will you be one of them? Talk to scientists researching Alzheimer's disease, and find out how to keep your brain healthy as you age.