Dame Jenni Murray and Woman’s Hour legacy on health – The Yorkshire Post says

The Barnsley-born Woman’s Hour presenter won many plaudits when she chose to share her breast cancer diagnosis with her listeners in 2007 so they could become part of her journey.

And it is the same with her no-nonsense book, Fat Cow, Fat Chance, in which the indomitable Dame Jenni talked about obesity and the weight-loss surgery that has given her a new lease of life. The first to admit that she was “scared witless”, she now has meals on smaller plates and believes that societal attitudes need to change. “It is a disease and there is treatment for it which, in the long run, will save the NHS a lot of money,” she goes on.

Words of wisdom that are synonymous with Woman’s Hour, one of Radio 4’s flagship programmes, they now offer so much food for thought for politicians and health professionals that they now need to be heeded.

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