Life Without Sugar
The sugar bowl is empty, but fruit is still on the menu. Alan Davies explores cravings, cakes and the prospect of a healthier life without refined sugar.
No more sugar in the pantry. In this episode of Life Without, Alan Davies dethrones the white gold, leaving humanity with nothing sweeter than the natural sugars found in fruit, honey and lactose.
The programme examines how sugar lights up the brain's reward centres and why people build such deep emotional attachments to it. It also explores the health benefits of giving it up, the challenge of replacing it in cooking and what farmers might grow if sugarcane fields were returned to nature.
Featuring Professor Susan Jebb, public health nutrition scientist at the University of Oxford, and Dr Neil Buttery, food historian and chef.
An ITN production for BBC Radio 4
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- Fri 20 Nov 202614:45BBC Radio 4
- Sat 21 Nov 202605:45BBC Radio 4
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