Welcome to Sex, Body and Soul. I'm Kate Roberts, founder of the Body Agency, and on this show,

we talk about the marvel that is our bodies and souls, what they can do and what we need to thrive.

You out there, listen up. We have some pretty hard, but juicy conversations here, and you need to hear this.

Let's go. We all know sugar is bad for us

and sugar addiction is a real thing and very hard to shake with so much food noise around us.

Food industry giants bombard media with tempting snacks often disguises health food,

even diet food that's packed with sugar. Our guest, Nina Tricksaltz,

is a best-selling New York Times author of The Big Fat Surprise, and she's shaking up the nutrition

world with often controversial guidance on what to eat. We delve into what sugar actually does your body, which health risks

it exasperates, and even how the sugar industry is endangering lives beyond its consumption.

Welcome to the show, Nina.

Good morning, Nina. Great to see you again.

Hello, Kate. Great to be here.

Nina, our big topic today is sugar. Sugar, the industry, sugar, what it does to our body. And let's dive right in. I would love to know why you got into this industry.

Well, actually, my work started off looking at dietary fat. And when I

started investigating the world of the low fat diet, the low fat diet is what we were recommended

to eat for so long. If you reduce fat, you dramatically increase carbohydrates. And that's what we have done as a nation. We've

increased carbohydrates since 1970, but like 30%. So let me explain. Carbohydrates include sugar,

but it also includes starches. So when you eat pasta, bread, potatoes, those starch molecules, as soon as you eat them, they are just sugar molecules

holding hands. So they become sugar in your body. So when we talk about sugar, we're really

talking about anything that becomes sugar once you eat it. So that's also high sugar fruits

like pineapple and mango. So we have to recognize that sugar comes in all these forms.

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