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Food For Thought

The Shocking Truth About Sugar

Food For Thought

Rhiannon Lambert

Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.84K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Whether you are afraid of it or think you’re addicted to it, there is no doubt that sugar is in all of our lives. It’s now suggested that sugar is found in about 75% of the foods we eat with it amounting to as much as 15% of UK adult’s daily calorie intake. While eating too much sugar is associated with obesity and a host of problems, there’s so much misinformation that oftentimes makes eating even moderate amounts of sugar sound worse than it is. After all, we do need sugar to live. This week’s Food For Thought sees Registered Dietitian and senior teaching fellow, Duane Mellor and I uncover all the myths that you really need to stop believing and explore whether sugar really is the devil it’s made out to be. For more information, visit Rhitrition.com and Instagram.com/Rhitrition

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0:00.0

What is a meaningful life? What does it mean to flourish? In her new book, Antonia Case,

0:07.7

the editor-in-chief of New Philosopher magazine, tells the riveting story of her journey around

0:13.5

the world in search of what matters most. Called Radiant and Wise by Kate Forsyth,

0:21.3

Flourish, the extraordinary journey into finding your best self,

0:25.7

publishers on the 11th of May from Bloom's Brie Continuum.

0:32.7

This podcast has been sponsored by Zoe, the personalised nutrition programme that helps you

0:38.0

understand how to eat for your long-term health. Now, long-timelessness of the podcast may

0:43.3

remember Zoe from previous episodes, or I've recorded with Zoe Co-founder, Professor Tim

0:47.8

Specter. He's an expert on the gut microbiome and Professor Specter and his team of scientists

0:53.3

discovered that identical twins can have completely different responses to the same food.

0:59.2

And this is something we talk about with our clients all the time in the clinic, and that means

1:02.7

that both twins could eat a sugary muffin, and they would have a complete different response,

1:07.4

which is fascinating, and one could feel great, and the other could feel that slump,

1:11.4

and the increased hunger due to their different blood sugar responses. So, here we go. Zoe's research

1:18.3

found that the change in blood sugar and blood fat levels can vary 10 fold from person to person.

1:23.4

Then on top of that, identical twins only share a quarter of their gut bugs, despite being genetically

1:29.7

identical. So, basically, we're all different, which is what we talk about all the time in the

1:34.1

podcast, we're unique in how we respond to food and how we process what we eat. This solidifies

1:39.6

what we've always believed, and if you want to understand how to eat to increase your energy

1:44.8

and improve your long-term health, I'm so excited to be able to offer you 10% off with

1:50.2

code food 10. So, that's food in the numbers 1-0. So, you can start Zoe's incredible personalised

1:57.5

nutrition programme. So, if you guys all head over to joinzoe.com and you use the code food 10,

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