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6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.

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Hello, this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.

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I'm Neil.

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And I'm Georgie.

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In winter, people find different ways of keeping warm, like wearing extra clothes or staying indoors.

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But in some countries, there's another way of keeping the cold out – going for a sauna.

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Yes, Nordic countries like Sweden and Finland have a long history of taking saunas, but now they're popping up in Britain too.

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Have you ever been for a sauna, Georgie?

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I have, yes, and if I'm honest, I'm not a huge fan.

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I don't really like being too hot, it's uncomfortable.

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What about you, Neil?

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Oh, really?

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I quite like a sauna.

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You feel really refreshed afterwards.

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So, what is a sauna?

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Well, a typical sauna is a small wooden room heated with steam to around 80 degrees Celsius.

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It's hot enough to make anyone sweat.

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But are saunas good for your health as well?

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That's what James Gallagher wanted to find out for BBC Radio 4 programme Inside Health.

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We're seeing what saunas do to the human body.

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They're popping up all over the country with claims that high temperatures boost your health and wellbeing.

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But are they all they're cracked up to be?

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James wants to find out if saunas are all they're cracked up to be.

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He means are they as good as people say?

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And that's exactly what we'll be finding out in this episode, along with some useful new words and phrases.

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And remember, you can practise all the new vocabulary from this episode with the quiz and worksheet on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.

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But now I have a question for you, Georgie.

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The word sauna comes from the Finnish language, but what does it mean?

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Does it mean a.

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sweat, b.

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hot water, or c.

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bathhouse?

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Oh, I'm going to guess c.

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bathhouse.

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OK, well, we'll find out if you're right at the end of the programme.

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In recent winters, saunas have grown in popularity in the UK.

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BBC reporter James Gallagher met some people going to Moor a Sauna, a beach sauna in South Wales.

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He asked them why they love saunas so much.

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Hello everyone!

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Who loves a sauna?

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Me!

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Me!

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Tell me why.

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Oh, it's just so relaxing.

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It just makes you feel at ease.

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It's also great for relaxing muscles if you're up tense or anything like that at all.

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Yeah, I always love coming down here when I'm a bit stressed out and by the time that I'm finished, I feel like I've completely reset.

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It's wonderful.

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The first speaker says saunas make her feel at ease, a phrase meaning comfortable and relaxed.

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And the next speaker thinks saunas are great if you feel tense, an adjective meaning worried and unable to relax.

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Saunas make the final speaker feel like she's reset.

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You might already know the word reset to mean turning a computer off and on again when it's not working.

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But used in connection with a person, reset means to start again after a rest so that you feel better about life.

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So it seems saunas do help people feel better.

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But is there actual medical evidence that it's good for us?

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Here's James Gallagher again speaking with Professor Damien Bailey, an expert in human physiology for BBC Radio 4 programme Inside Health.

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When we start to connect this to the arguments around health benefits, is there a health benefit to going in a sauna?

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Yeah, I mean, I looked at the research really closely.

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I was fascinated by the evidence.

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Huge benefits, I mean, really huge benefits.

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And it's cultural, of course.

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Five million people in Finland, 90% of them use saunas.

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Maybe we should be copying what the Finns do because there's a 40% reduction in all-cause mortality with the sauna goers.

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Now, this is what we would call observational data, but it's based on thousands and thousands of sauna goers.

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These are observational data sets, so we really do need what we call RCTs, randomized controlled trials, so everything, just as you've mentioned there, everything is absolutely controlled.

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But we can't turn our noses up at the current data, the observational data.

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Damien discusses the evidence from Finland, a country where 90% of the population are regular sauna-goers.

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And it's impressive, a 40% reduction in deaths from all causes.

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But it's important to remember that this is based on observational data – information collected from watching people's natural behaviour and not from controlled medical trials.

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Nevertheless, this observational data is based on evidence from thousands and thousands of Finns over many years.

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That's why Damien thinks we shouldn't turn our noses up at it.

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We shouldn't reject it simply because we think it's not good enough for us.

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Well, all this talk about saunas has made me want to give it another try.

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But not before you reveal the answer to your question, Neil.

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I asked you what the Finnish word sauna means.

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Is it a sweat, b hot water or c bathhouse?

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I said bathhouse, am I right?

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You are absolutely correct.

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Well done.

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Yay!

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OK, let's recap the vocabulary we've learnt in this episode.

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If something is not all it's cracked up to be, it isn't as good as people say.

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When someone's at ease, they feel comfortable and unstressed, whereas a tense person is worried and unable to relax.

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When someone resets, they start again after a rest, which has made them feel better about life.

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Personal data is information collected from watching people's natural behaviour without interfering in it.

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And finally, if you turn your nose up at something, you reject it because you think it's not good enough for you.

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Once again, our six minutes are up, but if you want to improve your English with more trending topics and useful vocabulary, you'll find plenty on our website bbclearningenglish.com.

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See you again soon, but for now it's goodbye.

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Goodbye.

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