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

your brain's response and everything from depression to dementia can be a result.

Weight has an interesting effect.

So it's definitely bad for all things to be overweight because that increases your risk of all these outcomes like Alzheimer's, etc.

But it doesn't mean that just because you're not overweight.

overweight, you're not at risk.

It still increases the risk, not as much as if you were obese.

Also, you might have fat on the inside that you can't see.

We've discussed this concept before of you being a potential toffee, Jonathan, which is thin on the outside, fat on the inside.

And that's because we have this thing called visceral fat around our organs, our liver,

that can weigh up to a couple of kilos and very hard to see it without scans and this is why a lot of Asians particularly South Asians suffer from lots of diabetes without necessarily being obese so you might have a risk of

having metabolic upsets without necessarily everyone saying, aha, it's because you're overweight.

No, it seems to be independent of that.

And it'd be increased if you had extra

body weight, but we don't think their systems are sort of closely correlated.

So the fact that you're getting inflammation has all kinds of effects on the body, which might vary between people.

So some people might get more effects in the brain.

Others might get more effects in where the weight is distributed.

Some might get more effects in the heart.

They're not necessarily all going to be the same in everybody, but you just got to realize that this is a very major risk factor for all kinds of problems.

But people don't always think about, you know, I'm having lots of sugar.

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