I watched BBC TVs Horizon, Sugar vs Fat last night. It took two identical twins, doctors Chris van Tulleken and Xand van Tulleken and asked one to eat an extreme sugar diet and the other an extreme fat diet for a month. I would have been really interested to compare this against an extreme protein diet.

This program was very interesting. It turns out that the fat diet (no veg, no carbs) was the more extreme of the two, although the thing I’ll remember is the time they mixed fat and sugar and found that a 50% mix of the two was highly addictive.

Dr Robert Lustig explains in his book that eating fat and sugary at the same time is a modern thing that we were not designed to run on and we should eat it in small quantities.

I thought at the time of reading that our common three course meal where you have fat and protein during starter and main course, then sugar in the dessert could be all wrong, but then having thought about it some more, common fast food “dishes” such as a burger and supersize soft drinks could possibly be close to this 50/50 split.

My answer to this is not to have dessert with meals that often, to leave it as a treat that I have once a month or once a week at most.

Links to the Horizon program follow:-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03t8r4h
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2546975/One-twin-gave-sugar-gave-fat-Their-experiment-change-YOUR-life.html