Professor Sarah Berry

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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

20 years ago, fat was demonized.

Any fat in a food was considered the worst thing.

Now it's sugar that's demonized.

Absolutely, there's a problem that we're consuming too much free or added sugar in our food that's causing short-term increases in inflammation, that's causing excess calorie.

But it's not the baddie of everything that we're consuming.

It's often a marker

of actually a bad food intake.

So I think that is actually the most important factor to think about when we think about the impact of sugar on health, whether it's free or whether it's intrinsic.

What we mean by free sugars are basically sugars that are outside the structure of a food.

I think that's the most simple way to think about it.

So that includes added sugar.

So in the UK, that would typically be sucrose, so table sugar added by yourself or by manufacturers.

In the US, that would typically be high fructose corn syrup added as food is processed.

But free sugars also includes honeys, syrups, and fruit juices.

So when we think of free sugars, it's the sugar that's either added by us at the table or manufacturers into the food.

but it also includes the fruit juices, the fruit syrups, honey, and so forth.

Energy drinks are highly variable.

So it depends on the type of energy drink.

But most energy drinks are packed full of sugar.

Most types of Coca-Cola are packed full of sugar.

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