Sarah Keogh

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The Claire Byrne Show · The dangers of hidden sugar · 15 Jun 2026 podcast

You'd have to drink so much of it to actually get any benefits.

reasonable amount of iron to be of value to you know kind of stick with your steak if you're looking for iron.

So the main thing that we would see in relation to sugar in the body is there's a fat in your blood called triglyceride which is quite similar to cholesterol and the only difference being that this tends to be increased if you have a lot of sugar so if people are drinking like huge amounts of fruit juice

um soft drinks or eating a lot of foods that are high in sugar like sweets or chocolate or things like that and it's one of the things that can increase this triglyceride and that does that's where we see an association between a very high sugar diet and an increased risk of heart disease so that's the big one in the body with that but again it's at quite high levels like if you're having like a fruit yogurt that typically has one teaspoon of added sugar in it that's not having the effect but if you're drinking you know a pint of fruit juice rather than a small glass of fruit juice or if you're having a lot of soft drinks that's where we see that as an issue

And other things that we see, you know, people talk to me, does sugar cause cancer and does it cause all these other things?

Where we would see it, if someone is overeating on sugar and they gain weight, we do know that that excess weight increases the risk of certain things.

So we don't see it as directly caused by the sugar, but more that the sugar, if you're taking a lot of it, particularly from soft drinks, the body doesn't register the calories very well.

So you can end up overeating and that can be the contribution to weight gain.

So I think it's a really interesting one.

And the FSA, I've been looking at this over the last couple of years and they had a statement out in May as well.

So what it is is that the slushy drinks, when the sugar tax came in, a lot of manufacturers took out the sugar to go along with it, but they were using a replacement called glycerol, which is very safe for adults, for most people.

But if you take it in very large amounts, small children, they were found they were having some issues with it.

And that, you know, an Irish study found they were looking at 21 children and they found that if they had a lot of this, that it was dropping their blood sugars and causing problems.

So we are seeing that if children are taking high amounts of slushies that have this glycerol in it, that there's nausea, vomiting and headaches.

So the Food Safety Authority is recommending that children under 10 don't get them.

And whether we go to an all out ban, I'm not sure because it depends on, you know, how people respond to that and if they do keep children away from them.

But there was 21 children hospitalized.

Now the kids have taken a lot of the slushy with that, but they'd had very severe low blood sugars with that.

So it is definitely something that is being monitored and being careful.

So the advice to parents at the moment is that the glycerol based, the sugar free or the low sugar slushies are not suitable for the under 10s.

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