Coming up on today's show. Do you want pleasure now or do you want something far better in the future? So if you want pleasure now, eat the trifle, eat the cake. But if you want a better future, well, you've got to work towards that. Let's put a lot more energy into thinking about a healthy species-specific diet. So if you had a human being in a zoo, what would you feed them to keep them

maximally well? Isn't it what we should all eat? What we're seeing at the moment is a gigantic

experiment and many of us are eating the wrong foods and I'm seeing the consequences in every

clinic I do. 150 grams of boiled rice. What is that equivalent to in terms of teaspoons of sugar? And the answer is

about 10. A banana is about the same as six teaspoons of sugar on the glycemic load. Bananas are sugar

sticks, very little fibre. You wouldn't believe the number of overweight people that eat bananas

for the potassium, which is some sort of nonsense put out by the banana growers, I dare say.

I can sprint with my grandchildren. I can play and roll around. That's life. Eating cakes alone,

that's not life at all. Go for a little bit of pain now and a better future. You'll be glad

you did, because I certainly am. Dr. Enwin, what would you say is the most important thing about type 2 diabetes people aren't

being told?

Oh, that's great.

The most important thing is that how it all turns out for most of you and for myself

depends upon my lifestyle mainly.

And so that, again, for most of my patients with type 2 diabetes

and I have type 2 diabetes.

Every meal is both an opportunity or it could be a threat.

So you have a sort of choice really on a daily basis of what you eat

because for most of us that's what affects blood sugar and it's blood sugar over time

that cumulatively affects what's going to happen in terms of your health. So this can be a great

message of hope and that's what gets me up in the morning

and what sends me to my clinic. I've just come out of clinic today and in every clinic

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