'Leaning Out', Sarah Ruggins, Podcast on Asma al-Assad, Obesity
About this episode
The episode discusses food policy, women's leadership challenges, and features a record-breaking cyclist's inspiring story.
A new report from the Health and Social Care Committee says customers are being pushed towards products high in fat, sugar and salt which are typically cheaper than more nutritious food and that the government's food policy needs overhauling. The chair of the committee, Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran, talks to Nuala McGovern about their recommendations. New analysis in The Economist suggests after years of progress fewer women are reaching executive positions and there may be signs that younger women are becoming less interested in promotion. Nuala McGovern speaks to the author of that analysis and a woman who left an executive role to rebalance her life. We hear from Sarah Ruggins who recently broke the world record for cycling the length of Europe - a distance of over 6,000 kilometres – double the length of the Tour de France. She only started cycling three years ago having spent a decade recovering from a condition that saw her bedridden and immobile – Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, one of medicine’s most painful conditions. Sarah now holds three ultra-cycling records. Known at one point as the Diana of the Middle East and the rose of the desert, Asma al-Assad, the wife of…
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