Swap Out Sugar
Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley
BBC
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Cutting back on free sugars can not only do wonders for your waistline and your oral hygiene, surprising research shows it could also improve your memory and help your brain. But it can be hard to resist those sugar cravings! In this episode, Michael Mosley is joined by Dr Evelyn Medawar, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, who has been studying the effects of our gut microbiome on our eating preferences, and reveals a potential tip to help crack sugar cravings. The secret lies in dietary fibre, like that found in fruit. So, trade your sweet treats for fruit and learn how this healthy switch can transform your brain, biome and your life.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds. |
| 0:02.0 | Hello everyone, it's Michelle Vassage, and welcome to my podcast Rule Breakers. |
| 0:06.0 | But you sit down and be bright. |
| 0:08.0 | Celebrating women's voices. |
| 0:10.0 | You're very welcome to now you're asking with me, Marion Keys Keys and me Tara Flynn. |
| 0:14.8 | This is juicy. No limits, no limits. |
| 0:17.2 | Celebrating women. |
| 0:18.8 | Where to be a woman is the podcast celebrating the best of women's well-being. We're on a quest to find out |
| 0:24.4 | where in the world women are living their best lives. Celebrate yourself. |
| 0:28.8 | Lesson on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.0 | BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:39.0 | Mm, really tasty. We would all like some quick and simple ways to improve our health, but we're inundated with often conflicting advice. |
| 0:48.0 | So if you were going to try just one thing to improve your mental and physical well-being. What should it be? |
| 0:54.0 | Perhaps the martial art of Tai Chi to improve your immune system. Maybe a few nuts to slow |
| 1:00.9 | ageing. Or how about cleaning your teeth to give your brain a boost. |
| 1:06.0 | I'm Dr Michael Mosley and this is just one thing where each episode will explore |
| 1:12.0 | one thing you can start doing today to improve your health or |
| 1:16.2 | life in ways you might not expect. |
| 1:21.0 | Ten years ago I discovered to my shock that I had type 2 diabetes, but I managed to get my blood sugars under control by losing 9 kilos. |
| 1:30.0 | Since then I have improved my diet, cutting out junk food and doing a lot more cooking from scratch. |
| 1:35.0 | But like most people I still get these occasional mad crazy cravings for sugary food. |
| 1:41.0 | One way to try and satisfy your sugar cravings is to eat more fruit. |
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