Inside Tim Spector’s weekly food shop - 6 grocery rules to lower your blood pressure, cholesterol, and heart disease risk | Prof Tim Spector & Prof Sarah Berry
ZOE Science & Nutrition

Inside Tim Spector’s weekly food shop - 6 grocery rules to lower your blood pressure, cholesterol, and heart disease risk | Prof Tim Spector & Prof Sarah Berry

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 24, 20261 hr 2 min

Supermarket shelves are full of foods promising to be healthy: high-protein, low-fat, gluten-free, sugar-free. How do you know what's true? Today, Professors Tim Spector and Sarah Berry, world-leading experts in nutrition and diet, share the six rules they use for their own weekly grocery shopping. They cover which food labels are worth trusting and which are just marketing scams, how to make snacking a part of a healthy diet, and why your daily staples, like bread, matter more than the occasional treat. By the end of this episode, you'll know exactly what to reach for o...

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Welcome to Zoe, Science and Nutrition, where world-leading scientists explain how their research can improve your health. A neon sign hangs above your head, buzzing and flickering. Bathed in its harsh light, it feels as if you've been standing motionless for hours. Your eyes are wide as they flit back and forth.

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A bead of sweat runs down your furrowed brow as you whisper into the void, what yogurt should I buy? In our grandparents' day, the weekly shop was easy, with little to choose from, and much of it was simple whole food.

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Today, we're inundated with choices. There are hundreds of snack options, an endless range of breads, and a thousand different yogurts. It can be so overwhelming that we feel paralyzed by too much choice. So today, I talked to two of the world's leading nutrition scientists about how they do their

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