Radio New Zealand - Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa

Show notes for Saturday 16 June 2012

Quick Hits

12:15  The science of salt      

12:40   Mussels

12:55   Ketchup liberation

13:15   Painkiller abuse

13:25   Gout

13:45   Tech news     

The small print

First up this week, the advice that salt is bad for us and we should limit how much of it we eat is one of the key public health messages today. In the US the director for the Center of Disease Control and Prevention has gone so far as to say that reducing how much salt you eat is as important to your long term health as giving up smoking!  But does the science behind all these warnings really stack up? Science writer Gary Taubes doesn't think so.

LINKS:

• Gary Taubes here
• NY Times article here
• Why we get fat here
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At 12:40pm we're steaming mussels with Rachel Taulelei. The green-lipped mussel is our largest seafood export; it's shipped to more than 70 countries around the world and tastes great!

At 12:55pm a question that's perplexed civilisations since the dawn of time. How do you get the last bit of tomato sauce out of the bottle? Now a team of American researchers thinks it's found the answer.

After the 1pm news world soccer's governing body FIFA is warning players about using and abusing painkillers. Loads of players are doing it but FIFA's worried about the long-term effects on their health.

At about 1:25pm, gout. It's a condition that's affected aristocrats and royalty through the ages and now gout causes agony for more than 100,000 New Zealanders. We look at what causes it and the latest treatments with GP Dr Don Simmers.

And before we go Charles Arthur beams in with the latest from the world of technology. This week, the rush to get top level domain names like .app, .shop and .book plus Apple cosies up to Facebook and takes on Google Maps.

We'll be playing these tracks too....

• Track: C'est pas facile pour les aigles
• Artist: Amadou and Mariam featuring Ebony Bones
• Album: Folila
• Label: NONESUCH
• Catalogue #: 979623
• Broadcast at: 12:35
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• Track: Medication
• Artist: New Build
• Album: Yesterday Was Lived and Lost
• Label: POD
• Catalogue #: 702157
• Broadcast at: 13:10
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• Track: Apache
• Artist: Michael Viner's Amazing Bongo Band
• Album: Sampled Volume 3
• Label: Virgin
• Catalogue #: 811703
• Broadcast at: 13:45
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• And our theme is:
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• Track: The Green Termite
• Artist: Jefferson Belt
• http://www.myspace.com/jeffersonbelt
• Album: Table Manners
• Label: Round Trip Mars
• Catalogue #: RTM 2009