Prof Tim Spector

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Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast · Dr. Tim Spector: The Truth About Diet, Gut Health, and Why Calories Fail | Health & Wellness | E410 · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

And so there's been some recent studies showing, giving people two identical diets.

And one was textured really softly, the other one, the original texture.

So one was processed, same basic ingredients, calories, et cetera.

And those people had nearly 400 calories more a day just because the food was softer.

And we know now that generally when you're having these particular high-risk foods, you will overeat by about 500 calories a day, which is over 20% of your intake without knowing it.

And you could have the identical food made from scratch, the identical food made there.

But now we're starting to understand the mechanisms.

And so this is why we've come up with an app that gives you this new ultra-processed risk score so you can scan stuff in a store and work it out.

Because it's not easy in your head to work out all these different combinations.

And this is what the manufacturers really rely on, that it's so hard to tell because they've all got health claims on the front and they all look fantastic and, you know, lots of healthy farmers and happy people and...

pictures of vitamins dancing around so it's understanding the basic science of what they're trying to do allows us to then combat it and realize okay this is the antidote these are the ones you have to avoid

Yeah, so, and it's currently free to download.

So it's, if anyone's listening, you know, it's a fantastic way, an aid to understand this whole thing.

And you just use as AI, you snap a food or you go into a store and snap the barcode and you can learn a lot from it.

So yeah, download it while it's still free.

Assume you don't have the app, you're in a hurry, you're looking at the back.

General, as a broad rule, the number of ingredients, things you don't understand, if there's several that

You don't know what that means.

That's a sign that there's lots of processing in there.

If you've got lots of emulsifiers in there, which are these things, these glues that stick the food together, that's generally a red flag.

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