Prof Tim Spector

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ZOE Science & Nutrition · How to eat sugar without gaining weight (crush your cravings and end energy crashes) | Prof Tim Spector & Prof Sarah Berry · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

So for two days they just ate honey?

Exactly, yes.

So they must have been really stressing their sugar sensors at that point.

But then they would go, you know, several weeks without any honey, and they'd go back to their other regular diets.

And I think that's probably what we evolved to be able to deal with, these different food sources, but not...

having the equivalent of five tablespoons of honey every day mixed in with their other food.

And I think this is the difference between the modern world that we see now, that little bits of either sugar itself or fake sugars are put into all our foods.

Then this is a stress that we weren't involved to deal with.

Your organs like the pancreas, which is inside your system here, feeds into the intestines

is producing this insulin eventually gets tired, and eventually it stops working as well.

And so you have to produce more of it, and that leads to a whole breakdown in the system.

So that's really what we think is driving a lot of this problem of this epidemic of type 2 diabetes.

And that's why we're seeing much more type 2 diabetes in children, which was totally unknown 40 years ago, because they're being...

Instead of breast milk, they're doing formula feed with lots of sugar in it, and then they're straight onto pouches and ultra-processed foods, high amounts of sugar, then sugary drinks all the time.

And it's just an excess that, combined with these other things in unhealthy habits we have at the moment and ultra-processed foods, combination is causing these big problems and our then inability to deal really efficiently with sugar.

You know, I had that.

I mean, that was my breakfast.

The old days was a muesli and an orange juice before going to work.

And, you know, at 10.30, I had this real dip and I was tired and

hungry and had to have some more sugar.

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