Prof Tim Spector
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What about the rest of the world?
Most of the world, so the European Union, Australia, Canada, they're very similar.
Monocultures are the preferred economic model.
It might vary slightly.
So we have more wheat, for example, than corn.
And sugar beet has replaced Caribbean sugar plantations.
And they're massively subsidized by the European Union to make sugar equally...
cheap in Europe as it would be in places close to the Caribbean.
It's a worldwide problem now that the US has often started it off showing how people could get rich on this, how big corporations could make even more money and how all these byproducts could be sold to consumers.
And yeah, the rest of the world has a sweet tooth as well as absolutely embraced it.
They can, and they're specifically designed to do that because, as Michael said, they're created in laboratories.
by brilliant scientists who have had decades of trial and error to perfect their art to get this blend, particularly of three ingredients, sugar, salt, and fat, in that perfect combination that's called the bliss point that lights up the brain, the pleasure centers that are receptive to things like dopamine.
And
causes something similar to what happens in most cases of addiction, whether it's that big buzz from a cigarette or a drug or heroin or morphine or opiates.
And as well as that signal, it also seems to override the fullness signals.
We're learning this from the GLP-1 drugs, the azempic type drugs that are out there that work mainly on that pathway.
And we call this hyperpalatability.
So that's a way of describing these foods is that they override the normal body's response, which is to feel full.
And that's, in a way, why these products are so dangerous is because we overconsume them
in ways that our evolution and our genes have not prepared us for.
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