Wisdom and Wellbeing With Dr Wannie

Did you know that in the UK people from Black African, African Caribbean and South Asian backgrounds are at risk of developing type 2 diabetes 15 years earlier than Caucasian people. Rates of cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in the UK, is highest in the South Asian population. Research suggests that experiencing racism can have a negative impact on mental health yet detention rates under the Mental Health Act during 2017/18 were four times higher for people in the ‘Black’ or ‘Black British’ group than those in the ‘White’ group.
In this episode I am joined by Layo Soruna, president of the Newcastle University Racial Equality in Medicine Society as we unpacked why these disparities exist and what we can do about them.
https://www.diabetes.org.uk/preventing-type-2-diabetes/diabetes-ethnicity
https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/risk-factors/ethnicity#:~:text=Research%20shows%20that%20in%20the,stroke%20than%20other%20ethnic%20groups.
https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/a-to-z/b/black-asian-and-minority-ethnic-bame-communities

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Body positivity, fat acceptance, health at every size? What do all of these mean? Are they relevant to me? All these are the types of questions I had in my head when I started to analyse my own attitudes towards fat and how it was impacting my self image and impacting how I treat others. Thankfully during my research I came across the blogs of the wonderful Michelle V Scott who was kind enough to agree to come on to the episode and talk to me about it all in more depth.