Prof Tim Spector

speaker

647 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 3 Aug

Prof Tim Spector’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 1.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

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

Or they've just given you a very small portion size.

That's the other way around it.

So baby portions.

But generally, for me, it's a red flag.

But I would never buy anything that says low calorie on it because, you know, an S maybe, you know, you wanted to switch from regular Coke to diet Coke, which is probably slightly better for you.

You know, if you've got diabetes or something, yes, in those instances might be worth it.

But generally it's a red flag.

Yes.

The whole area is a massive red flag.

And if you're not having lots of sugar, you're having lots of chemical sweeteners.

And we still don't know the long-term effects of those.

Well, it sort of depends on what product you're looking at.

In general, the certification of organic in the U.S.

is pretty poor.

So there's lots of misclassification and misselling, and you might end up paying twice as much for something that says organic.

If it's a product, for example, that has high pesticide or herbicide use, buying an organic one is likely to give you less of that chemical.

So a good example might be if you have oats for breakfast every day, then you'll be getting only 20% of the spray chemical on it, the glyphosate on your oats, if you chose the organic one and it was true.

But for many products, it's probably not worth it, and I'd rather people spend their money buying better quality fruit and veg than only getting organic.

In general, we should support farmers that try and do things organic because it means they are taking more care.

um over those products and so there are lots of exceptions but um some things it's not worth you know um if you're worried about the spraying of chemicals and you're buying an orange well you just peel the orange you know it's got a thick skin so you're not going to get it anyway things you're having a lot of then then you might want to reduce your those particular risks like berries and strawberries get sprayed a lot so again if you're having those regularly might be worth it but

Showing 421–440 of 647 · page 22 of 33