Prof Tim Spector

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ZOE Science & Nutrition · LIVE Q&A: Your gut health, dementia and weight loss questions answered by Prof Tim Spector, Prof Sarah Berry & Dr Federica Amati · 25 Jun 2026 podcast

This is an incredible opportunity that the NHS is squandering.

So that's when most people will take the drug, they'll lose weight, they'll stop taking the drug, they'll put the weight back on, they'll go back to their old ways.

And it really is a national disgrace if we can't use this long term and we need tools like the Zoe app, which costs a trivial fraction of the cost of the drug to be given in conjunction with them.

Great question.

And there's a reason I'm not a politician.

first one would be to have strict rules about what food should be served in government-run institutions something's very easy to do you just say in schools and in universities in you know public places hospitals that

We don't want any of the medium and high-risk ultra-processed foods.

That would be number one.

Very easy to do.

We've got our new ZOE classification that makes it really clear.

That would cut out 25% of the foods that are causing the most damage to our population.

I would ban, at the same time, vending machines and things like this that are also making our health staff really unhealthy.

My second one would be to pass a rule saying that any clearly unhealthy ultra-processed food is not allowed to have health claims on the packet to fool consumers, particularly parents of children that are being targeted with these high in protein, low calorie, low fat, high in vitamins, all this nonsense for really unhealthy rubbish.

And Tim, is that a big issue?

It's a huge issue.

Most people are completely fooled when they go into supermarkets about what to buy.

And they're trying to do the best for their family.

They think they're doing it because they see nice, pretty pictures or cartoons or people of happy, you know, farmers getting these products.

And it's all a lie.

And other countries have taken these steps.

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