Ep.45 Why Aren’t My Diets Working? Food Myths, Weightloss & Calorie Counting With Dr Tim Spector
Working Hard with Grace Beverley
sophie@grace-beverley.com
4.2 • 901 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Do we really know what we should be eating? Multi-award winning expert Tim Spector argues we might not. Professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London and honorary consultant physician at Guy's and St Thomas' he aims to point us in the right direction so we know the hard truths behind food fads, dieting, nutrition and gut health. Having written five books, including the bestsellers Spoon-Fed and The Diet Myth he is one of the most cited scientists in the world. His research aims to debunk eating myths and answers the most important questions like should we be calorie counting? What should we be eating for our gut health and why do most diets fail?
- why you need to eat different foods everyday
- what we should and shouldn’t be eating
- the best foods for our diets
- why you shouldn’t eat late at night
- the shocking facts behind the ultra-processed foods you're eating everyday
- how to lose weight and maintain it
- does the keto diet actually work?!
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| 0:31.9 | I want to talk quickly about the keto diet. |
| 0:35.4 | I'm Tim Spector. |
| 0:36.9 | Best selling author and medical professor. |
| 0:38.3 | With over 1,000 original articles published in the world's top journals. |
| 0:42.3 | What would be the biggest pieces of advice you'd give in terms of being able to lose weight? |
| 0:46.3 | Um... |
| 0:48.3 | Should we be skipping breakfast? |
| 0:50.3 | Well, food is complicated, our bodies are complicated. |
| 0:54.2 | The key bit is for your gut is to reduce ultra-processed foods. |
| 0:58.5 | The average person isn't going to do well long-term on the keto diet. |
| 1:02.5 | They can mix these chemicals to fool your brain in a way that we've never evolved to do. |
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