Mar 16 2020 20 mins 98
Sugar. We eat too much of it, but how worried should you be about what is doing to your health? While there can be considerable debate in many areas of nutrition science, along with conflicting recommendations on what we should eat, sugar is one food that everyone unites on in acknowledging that we eat too much of it. In this episode, I explore the different ways that added sugar can sneak into food, explore the truths (and lies) about some of the health claims made about it, and give you tips on how to eat less of it – all with no ‘12-week sugar detox program’ needed. Links referred to in the podcast Sugar and body weight meta-analysis https://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.e7492 Sugar and hyperactivity in kids meta-analysis https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/391812 Whole fruit and energy intake https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2019.00066/full
