How to Cut Down on Sugar, With Dr. Yoni Freedhoff
The Upgrade by Lifehacker
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🗓️ 3 February 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Trying to lower your sugar intake? We’re learning how this week with the help of two experts. First, Kathleen DesMaisons, addictive nutrition guru and author of Potatoes Not Prozac: Simple Solutions for Sugar Addiction, walks us through her practical and effective approach to gradually cutting sugar out of your diet. Then we speak with Dr. Yoni Freedhoff, author of The Diet Fix: Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work, about why we should avoid diet fads and what habits we should focus on instead.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to The Upgrade, the podcast from the team at LifeHacker, where we help you improve your life one week at a time. |
| 0:19.6 | I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of |
| 0:21.8 | Lifehacker. And I'm Alice Bradley, Lifehacker's deputy editor. And today we're talking about sugar. |
| 0:27.6 | You know sugar, the white devil? The ivory shadow? The devil's candy? The playmate of Satan? |
| 0:34.0 | Yes, the devil itself. Everywhere you look, there's news about how sugar is making you fat, |
| 0:40.0 | it's making you tired, it's making you stupid. Then why must it be so delicious? I cannot answer that |
| 0:45.5 | question, but I think we're going to talk to some people who can. We are. Some studies have shown |
| 0:49.4 | that high sugar diets are linked to impaired memory, as well as reduced brain volume. |
| 0:54.6 | Nikes. It's also been associated with an increased risk of depression. |
| 0:58.1 | And of course, studies show that it's been linked to obesity and diabetes and cardiovascular |
| 1:02.3 | disease. And yet it's so delicious. You know, Alice, it's killing you. |
| 1:06.6 | It's cruel. I'm eating a Snickers bar right now as we record this. |
| 1:11.1 | Well, I can't help myself. |
| 1:12.4 | Well, at least you're not eating white flour because that's going to... |
| 1:16.7 | True. |
| 1:17.4 | One bite and you'll be dead. |
| 1:19.0 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:19.6 | Yep. |
| 1:20.8 | Our producer Michaela Heck spoke with addiction specialist Kathleen Desmaison, |
| 1:24.6 | who talked about her approach to gradually cutting down on sugar. |
| 1:27.6 | The really ironic thing is because we've done this background ahead of time and basically |
| 1:35.7 | rewired the brain, that going off of sugar is a non-event. |
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