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Chasing Life

Can You Have Your Cake and Drink Wine, Too?

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.58K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Is sugar in wine worse than the other sugar a person might eat in a day? Dr. Sanjay Gupta steps into the middle of this ongoing debate between friends. Plus, a TikTok trend claiming honey turns toxic when added to hot tea is put to the test. This episode was produced by Leying Tang. Medical Writer: Andrea Kane Senior Producer: Dan Bloom Technical Director: Dan Dzula Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Paging Dr. Gupta.

0:04.8

Thank you so much for joining us.

0:07.3

This is the show where I get to hear from you and I get to address your health questions.

0:12.7

We got a couple of interesting questions today, pretty thought-provoking.

0:16.3

My producer Jennifer is back with us today.

0:19.1

Who do we have first?

0:20.6

Hi Sanjay. So today we have a listener

0:22.9

calling in from Toronto, Canada, and she has this ongoing discussion with her friend about sugar intake.

0:31.3

Hi, Sanjay. My name's Bridget. I'm calling from Toronto, Canada. So my friend is always telling me that I eat too much sugar, and I disagree

0:39.1

with him. However, she has the glass of red wine most evenings with his meal, which I say is

0:45.9

worse than any kind of sugar amount of sugar I could be eating. Could you weigh in and let us know

0:51.5

your thoughts on this? Okay, Bridget, that is an interesting question.

0:57.0

Not sure I want to get between you and your friend necessarily, but this is a topic worth

1:02.9

discussing, the idea of comparing the amount of sugar in wine with the amount in food,

1:09.3

or a sweet treat. So how much sugar is in a glass of wine? Is it better

1:14.4

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