Do Diet Foods Make You Fat?

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2012

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Could diet foods be making you fatter? How do we learn to like the foods we eat? This week, we indulge in the science of appetite, diet and diabetes. We'll find out how our early experiences of food can alter our diets for life, and ask if low calorie alternatives to sweet and fatty foods can fool the brain into underestimating the energy content of the real thing. Also, how synthetic chemists are searching for compounds to monitor blood glucose and control diabetes. Plus, how regions of the brain can "catch" Alzheimer's from each other, we discover a new microscopy technique that can... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	Stripping down science, the naked scientists.
0:07.0	The Naked Scientists. Hello, it's Sunday the 5th of February 2012. Welcome to the Naked Scientists.
0:28.6	I'm Ben Valsler and I'm joined this week by Sarah Kaster Perry.
0:32.1	Hello! This week we are over I'm joined this week by Sarah Kaster Perry. Hello.
0:33.8	This week we are over indulging in the science of obesity.
0:37.8	We'll be finding out how our experiences of food when we're very young can influence our
0:41.7	eating habits later in life and how eating low calorie alternatives to sugar and fat may actually be making us fatter.
0:50.0	In the news we'll hear how regions of the brain can catch Alzheimer's from other regions,
0:54.8	how a new technique can make microscopes more sensitive than ever before,
0:58.8	and why one Australian ecologist thinks elephants could stop bushfires.
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1:35.0	Now, the eating habits we develop early in life can be very hard to change, so it's no wonder that people can
1:41.2	struggle to maintain a diet and find it very hard to shift weight
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