a bomb, the evenings, college football, stadium, plumbing, and inspection rates are looking pretty good this summer in europe until a new variant of covet harris. how sadly delta our topic on to the point the, to the point on w o . o could what we eat, be the difference between life and death. between a light fever or a stay in intensive care. we know that obesity can lead to severe cove. it $900.00 complications. ask him high blood pressure or diabetes. so is our diet, our destiny? could eating few animals and more plants be the solution when you study suggests it could come down to survival of the vegetarians and what

kind of could be 19 special. i'm monica jones and i am a vegetarian it's true. been one for more than 30 years. even though my family then insisted that it's important to eat, need a common notion in those days. so now there is a study that says vegetarians could be in better shape to deal with a co, with 90 infection. let's find out why. the idea that diet has a role in preventing disease has been around for decades. i've had a victim to eat a range of foods, including fruit and vegetables. today the outcome of a cove at 19 infection appears to be the latest in a string of ways in which vegetarians may fed better in terms of health. a recent us study published in one of the british medical journals publications looked at how being predominantly vegetarian impacted the severity of

a covert infection. people who mostly followed a plan based diet were found to be 73 percent less likely to develop a moderate to severe case of cove. it if they did get infected puffs compared to those who ate the high protein, low carbohydrate diet, it's sort of embedded in a huge discussion of how they help the big problem he has. how do we find this out? and this is a interesting study because they use a population which is likely to, to be infected with co it. and i'd like to, to expose to cover it. so that, that is really interesting because of the participants in the study were from line health care workers in france, germany, italy, spain, the u. s. and the u. k. more than 2000 dr nurses was to record what they ate. whether or not they got coded and if they did, how low and severe their illness was to follow,

predominantly plant based diet were much less likely to get seriously l if they became infected. even when age an exercise, habits were taken into account. what we eat also reflects who we are more broadly in western countries. vegetarians are also more likely to be well educated, health, conscious, and female. these factors all have a bearing on the outcome of a covert infection from minute crucial point of view. it's always, i think it's worrying about attrition is generally not a good idea. it's, it's in most cases the diet is fine. if you sort of get some a balanced and go to one extreme or the other. i think that the risks to push people into eating disorders is often worse than in the benefit one could of the for years there's been a debate about the relationship between lifestyle choices and disease curve. it is just the latest reason to do so, and it shows that

a healthy diet doesn't necessarily protect against disease, but it can support immunity. man for more, i'm joined by she know crookshank. she's professor off a bio medical sciences and an immunology is of university of manchester is a very good to have you with us. and going by this reports, i suspect that you are a budgetary and perhaps a beacon actually, no, i am not carrying or v can i do re, predominantly plan based diet. so, but i do enjoy confessions may as well. okay, so it's not all that bad but died related health issues. they certainly have been quickly recognized as a huge risk factor. what exactly happens to our immune system when our diet is not healthy? well, it's not really surprising that guy has an impact on our mean. because if you think about the ability to find confection and the ability to get new trends from the

face that we are really fundamental for life. the very, very interest wind waiting, know that a very typical western diet that high and low in vegetables can call something called met, inflammation. this is where your immune gets out of balance and you have a kind of a low level inflammation, which surprisingly makes you less able to deal specifically with infections. so you are more vulnerable to cope it. so it is well known that our western style diet is famously unhealthy, lots of sugar sausages, you name it all boosting as we just said, our inflammatory levels, which is bad for our immune system. but why even has cobit 19 cause such havoc, income trees like india, where a vegetarian diet is so much more widespread? well, you've got to look at all the different factors that come into play there. unfortunately,

we've got a lot of poverty in jail. got a lot of overcrowded, so that means it's very easy for the inspection to spread. you may have people who are malnourished, you may have people who have other infections, make them less able to fend off the disease. and we have issues around am, a lack of treatment, resources, oxygen, etc. so there's an infrastructure issue there. so cove, it's not just about having a diet. also by looking at the other way you can mitigate your risks. looking at ventilated, your spaces are looking at how much close contact you've got with people. and right now if people watching this start to panic can sink. oh my god, i have not been eating healthily. i have to change for last year. british prime minister boys johnson launched and eat healthy campaign as part of the united kingdom fight against the pandemic. how long does it take to have any effect

anything you can report they already? well, i'm not sure how much you're having in the u. k. probably. i'm not aware that he's looking at that, but certainly we know the in, in just for the 6 weeks time, you can really see a huge impact on your immune system. print, changing your lifestyle, just bringing in a bit more variety and the food that you eat, looking at how you can get 5 so that your exercise in a little bit more not sitting at your computer screen. all say those sorts things can have a really quick effect. i'm just so simple to do that we can all do it. it sounds really easy, but i'm just wondering, is there a one size fits all healthy diet and lifestyle? i think there will be very ation cuz some people are more predisposed to conditions than others. however, the very simple steps such as looking at the variety in your diet and looking at

just being a little bit more mobile. i'm not talking extreme exercise looking at your stress levels. these are things that we can all do and the very least they improve are wealthy. now, obviously, i mean to, to have a healthy diet to exercise all of that. it's fairly much common knowledge and certainly in parts of the world where people can actually afford to have a healthy life style. they still don't all do it. i mean, if this doesn't make us change our habits, what will well, i think that we have actually seen some positive steps into changing our habit because we've seen a lot of people know that they were forced to stay in doors. they really salt the times that they could go outside and they've been exploring their neighborhood. they've been trying to find the green areas. there is more curiosity about what we can do to stay healthy. so there is more of an interest in that. so i think

optimistic actually that maybe now we can start to make a difference, but we need education campaigns so that people know what to do, what to eat, and how to get those things that can make them feel better. what did you have for lunch? just to follow up. well that's, that's one way. and one way to do it. she knows you know, crookshank, the professor of biomedical sciences and in the knowledge is that much of the university. thank you so much for your time. thank. so if a healthy lifestyle protects us from getting seriously ill, what about some mis healthy habits? time for your questions. now, over to derek bull crew that nicotine protects you from coded $19.00 oh, a little over a year ago. what's called the nicotine officers made headlines when, when

a couple of studies suggested that tobacco's best known, active chemical might help to protect you from getting perfect 19. the hypothesis was based on what the researchers said was a disconnect between the number of smokers coming down with the disease and the number of smokers that should have been coming down with a disease. since then, however, there's evidence from other studies that when adjusted for other factors, smokers likely do get cobra 19 as often as non smokers. and what's clear is that when they do get it, it's more likely to take a serious turn that really shouldn't come as much of a surprise, i mean, pandemic, or no. pandemic smoking is just terrible for your health. and at least the groundwork for many of the co morbidities that are associated very clearly with

more severe cove at $900.00 outcomes. there is an interesting aspect to this question. however, that still being pursued, which is what effect nicotine might have when given to people directly, rather than by having them inhaled smoke from from burning tobacco. there are a couple of different studies looking at things like whether for instance, nicotine patches applied to non smoker patients. and hospitals might affect the course of their covert. 19. some researchers think the chemical might interfere west or, or block the receptor that the virus uses to enter cells. and that it could therefore contribute maybe to a future treatment in some way. but the studies i found looking into questions like that are pretty small scale and they haven't yet released findings. so i wouldn't

count on a really convincing argument for it anytime soon. in derek williams there and he'll be back tomorrow. of course, that's all from this addition of our cobit $900.00 special. thank you so much for joining us and to stay healthy. who's the green? do you feel worry to ask me to kneel, host of the on the green fence. and so we need to change solutions are out the join me for a deep storage, the green transformation to me for the banner

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so ever in germany on the corona virus pandemic brought cultural life here in germany to such a sudden hold that many exhibitions that were long planned are just now getting there moment in the sun. recent edition to berlin's already rich museum landscape. is the for to liam, which as its name implies, imagined the interest sexuality of nature, technology and society in the future. in this black que houses, berlin's booty and exhibition space, the rooftop skywalk with a view over berlin's government order is a popular attraction. inside the building, the exhibition focuses on one of life's most pressing questions. how do we want to live gabriella? tip, the curator. begin him as we begin with questions. because how often do we

ask in our daily lives? how do we wanna have future to look like one and the name of the exhibition one, open the visitors eyes to why the perspective of these visions of the future were created by 150 researchers in cooperation with several designers. berlin's art on comp design studio has one and award for the innovative use of media in the exhibition a for often back is the creative director of the project that was in a tie, a spectrum of interaction and design important to us that we don't use media ready existing today kind of like touch screen instead focused on mental reality. just just to throw that so that my dearest future world is conscious transporting interaction and not only convey textually from this interactive dimension plays an

important role in this area to. it focuses on how humans will treat the environment in the future. this marvel run symbolizes biological cycles as recycling processes in our everyday lives. this huge wouldn't sculpture as the exhibitions main attraction. it was developed by a computer using a mathematical formula when anything else that i area as i and this course generative design. people specifically designers to sit in front of a computer, do not plan a specific product. instead, they plan a process and then they press the button and then how the rhythms lead to the final result. you don't design the find products, but instead you are creating the process that needs to it. so this is a wonderful new approach to design design of. mm hm. it's all about deceleration and sticking to the basics, the idea is for visitors to reflect on their own lives. and forget about time

hasn't been in the area, is dedicated to humanity for adding dial investment. can't the focus is not on changing the world around us. but instead of thinking about how we assume and i can change our selves of behavior. and by doing that, all of the world's problems will simplify them at the tutorial encourages visitors to take their thoughts about the future home with them curator company. and i want everyone to get actively involved in my phone. so that's how we want to encourage our visitors to think about the future. after all, the future, something that appears out of nowhere over night and days that way. we shape our own future with an immense human shape. and every one is involved in this process. should play an active role in this i name and thanks to the visitors, help me. the consortium will be continuously developed so that it remains

a house of the future. speaking of shaping the future, it took a twist of the future to illuminate the past in amsterdam. and rembrandt masterpiece painting night watch from 1640 to just got a bit bigger. a marriage of art and artificial intelligence has enabled the right to them to recreate parts of the clinic painting that were snipped off 70 years after and had finished well, and so, and i don't see the bus i met during their studies in bordeaux later they worked in niger anesha, one of the poorest countries in the world, and it was there that there shared architectural vision took shape what that says. it was like the 2nd school of architecture teaching them to be sparing with resources entre respect, simplicity, and as this years, winters of architecture is highest. honor the principal prize, their advocacy of sustainability and social justice gains even more traction. a

typical 1970 s apartment block in bordeaux quickly built ugly and not ecological friendly. so what should be done with it? tear it down and build something new. with a french architectural office like a towel, and that is simply not an option. should never wish never diminish because on ways we have to consider what he's already there, the memory, the life that people spend even in difficult conditions. ready 530 public housing, you know, small and dark. oh, the architect was an extension rather than demolition. perish modules were mounted on the old facade and the outer walls opened up to the new belt. it was a logistical challenge. we did it without removing any family

from the, from to believe what we said, a mission of transforming the space of living in a much better way. and we were expecting that it could really show the relevance of this process of transformation. the result was light filled spaces which can be individually configured, outfitted with thermal curtains and insulated glazes, which are usually found only in luxury lusts. but this conversion cost to just the fractions of plants emulation and rebuilding would have cost affordable, sustainable construction, using simple mean tall and aim to bring social considerations back into architecture as well as ecological ones. for years the dual has studied the construction and interior climate is greenhouses already at school. we were interested greenhouses. i think it's also linguist, transparency,

that we really are interested in, in our architecture. and the idea of playing with a climate and not fighting against these 2 buildings in dunkirk really do look like enormous greenhouses by the 1990 s. all that remained of the shipyard in the northern french city was a warehouse. you're marked to become a museum space. the 2 architects didn't want to get rid of its huge interior space . so instead of completely overhauling it, they built a similar warehouse next to it. now it's one of france's most spectacular exhibition spaces. pritzky surprises, recognition of the timeliness of the duel approach to building on bearing what's already there. and using minimal means to achieve maximum effect with an emphasis on sustainability and affordability. in a way, we are quite never seen opinion, but at the end we are we agreed on everything. so it's,

i think it's something like magical, like i told understand feature in our culture magazine arts 21 this coming saturday . meanwhile, british sculptor anthony gormley, has won nearly all the top awards in the course of his career. and yet his interrogation around the human body and how we occupy space continues with works in his favor material, terra cotta iron and steel. a new exhibition in south western germany is an event to say the least. ah, one of the antony normally is best known sculptures is also his largest angel if the north is 20 meters high. with a wingspan of a jumbo jet. compared to this giant angel mankind is anything but the measurable things. a smaller angel has now landed in the show vaccine to finance a human sculpture fathom in itself and the space around it. it brings us to gormley

main, subject the human body, my body and your body, all our bodies, our spacious. they are special, their vehicle. they are the the carry all the adventures that we will make in space. time culture equals body equal space in this small but well curated retrospective. got any gormley uses, scientific curiosity and an experimental approach to explore what a body can be. an apparently exploding forcefield. a tense state of being pumped up with faded breath or compressed the stick thin as a jack committee. oh, i make questions. can we look at the body? not as a thing, but as a place, not as appearance,

but an extraordinary system of transformation. can we look at the body not as kind of the idea of beauty, but as a potential plato potential exploring those philosophical questions has earned the 70 year old gormley many accolades, including the turner prize despite the 3 dimensionality of his work. he's not so keen on the term sculpture. for decades, he's used his own body as a template, not out of narcissism, but as readily available material. his gormley clones have also made political statements. critical mass was one of his most violent installations, a battlefield of human bodies. critical mass was really a meditation, if you like, on,

on our species relation to itself. and the fact that genocide has been part of our species history. from chaotic times, the work can also be light and even playful. here, for instance, his peeled rubber boots like apple, human paths as a thin trail with worn out soles. it's almost data is stick. there is a button. and does it berg, didn't any gormley cut his own clothes into strips from underpants to show the result? is a body surrounded by clothing? yep, so open and uncovered. i want to say that our final skew, you know, we have a skew, we have a list. we have this in, we have the architecture skin, i want to say next, think of the final skin, which is the perceptual skin, the horizon that surrounds us these days,

just visiting a museum again as horizon expanding, experiencing gormley work is even more so well, you can also expand consciousness and horizons by visiting our website, w dot com slash culture. and until we meet again, all the best from us in berlin and stay safe in the the news. the news, the news the me to the point.

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