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

And interestingly, after doing the Zoe studies early on, I...

I changed from having a banana as my regular fruit to an apple or a pear because I could notice a difference in the sugar to fiber ratio, in a way, of some of these fruits.

So absolutely, fruits are good.

They've all got something good about them, but not all fruits are created equal.

I think a gradual approach is what's needed.

I think most of us went through that phase when we were perhaps teenagers having lots of sugar in our tea and coffee, and we slowly weaned ourselves off it.

And that changed your taste buds.

If you like flavored yogurt, then try and gradually wean yourself off it and get onto plain yogurt and start reducing the amount of sugar or honey you put into it.

You can do this quite easily with a gradual approach.

Look at the things you have as a daily habit and just look at them a bit more cynically.

You'll get a short-term benefit because you're not getting the harmful metabolic effects of the sugar, but you're still left with a very sweet tooth that means that you will be craving sugars.

So ideally, you want to be cutting down on both.

And that's possibly because of your, you know, your senses are tickled by these artificial sweeteners into...

They're done deliberately to fool us because they don't want to say, you know, sugar is 80% of this product and they divide it into five different groups.

And just put it in context, that's two and a half teaspoons of sugar.

That's quite generous, I think.

I would be looking personally at, you know, one to one and a half teaspoons, which, you know, I can visualize that.

Would I have a bit of food and tip a heaped teaspoon of sugar on it?

Might do, if I was feeling it, but I wouldn't want to be wanting more than that.

For breakfast cereal, I look at the percentage sugar.

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