Holding Back the Years

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A look at how to stay well, live longer and be healthy - whatever age you are.

Hosted by Bill Turnbull, Fiona Phillips and Dr Rangan Chatterjee, Holding Back the Years looks at how to stay well, live longer and be healthy - whatever age you are.

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Holding Back the Years: Series 3: Episode 5

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Episode 5

Series 3

BBC One - Holding Back the Years, Series 3, Episode 5

What life expectancy lessons can be learned from Japan?

Exploring concerns about ageing. This edition comes from Coventry. What lessons can be learned from Japan, the country with the longest life expectancy in the world?

Fiona Phillips and Dr Rangan Chatterjee present a series designed to help people to live longer while increasing the quality of their lives.

This edition comes from Coventry, and asks - with the NHS moving towards rationing more surgery for chronic conditions, is having an operation a right? We meet the OAP hoarders who are being threatened with eviction, and what lessons can we learn from the country with the longest life expectancy in the world - Japan?

Holding Back the Years: Series 3

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Lifestyle magazine show looking at how to stay well, live longer and be healthy

Fiona Phillips and Dr Rangan Chatterjee present the around UK show designed to help save your time, your money and your health.

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