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7th Jan 2007

Red Wine, Caffeine and Bugs in Your Gut


Dave Ansell

Helen Scales

Chris Smith

In the first show of 2007, Drs Chris, Dave and Helen find out why red wine is better for you than white wine or grape juice, and explore the science of healthy living with with London University researcher and author Roger Corder. We also discover the science behind another of the nation's favourite drugs, caffeine, with the help of Bristol University's Peter Rogers, and University of St Louis researcher Jeffrey Gordon explains how the bugs living in your intestines help you to make the most out of mealtimes. They might also, he thinks, make some people fat. Plus, in Kitchen Science, Dave demonstrates the physics of how salt keeps roads frost-free.

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Kitchen Science

 

Lifting Ice Cubes


If you've ever wondered why we salt the roads in Winter time - this kitchen science is for you. This week Dave is live in the studio, trying to investigate what happens when you add some salt to an icecube!

Questions

 

It's recommended that we eat 5 portions of fruit and vegetables a day. So I'd like to know, if I liquidise all of my portions into one, and drink the whole lot would that still count as my five portions and get me off the hook?


 

Everybody knows that salt melts ice. Why are there such big icebergs in the sea?


 

If we store seasonal fruit and vegetables will they still have all the same nutrients as when they're fresh?


 

If you don't eat enough cholesterol - does your body not just make it anyway?


 

Lee in Saffron Walden - If red wine is good for us, is sherry good too?


 

Does peanut butter help to lower your cholesterol?


 

Do high roasted coffee beans cause cancer?


 

What causes the tremor seen in heavy coffee drinkers, and is that related to dopamine like with Parkinson's Disease?




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