Professor Tim Spector

We're fighting a food environment.

you know, multi-billion dollar industry wants us to eat this crap food.

Your gas station, they're being bribed to fill everything around you with the worst foods.

The worse the food, the more they pay the supermarkets to have it in a point where you're going to buy it.

So you need to have tricks to counteract that.

And not going to a supermarket is often one way to avoid doing that.

If my house was filled with crap food, I would probably be

snacking you know i find it really hard to throw stuff away you know you go to workplaces and you see people with piles of biscuits and m&ms there you know they should be banned so there are certain things you say we need to fight back by changing the rules a bit just like you wouldn't have you know glasses of vodka in an office

for people to just have a swig if they fancy it.

You shouldn't have candies and sweets and these things in the current environment where, you know, we're fighting a battle.

Like, you know, they used to have cigarettes that were free everywhere.

You forget.

And they changed that environment.

So the cigarettes are now really hard to get at.

That makes it easier for people to fight the habit.

to avoid the possibility that i get really really hungry really really late at night and my only options are shit for example you know um which has been a bit the big change but it's forming habits and that's the other thing so it's yes you've got knowledge then you've got these tricks tricks to avoid often the the worst offenders and then you've got to come up with these these new habits that you you make that are going to break the old ones so

Rather than reaching for your breakfast cereal in the morning, you've got a different one ready to go.

And often we've found that if you can change that first meal of the day.

it becomes a lot easier because that's the one you're mainly in control of and realise when the other risky events are.

Well, hopefully we can do millions more.