If YOU Think You Eat Healthy, You NEED To See This
A bowl of plain cornflakes with no frosting and no milk contains 8 teaspoons of sugar. A baked potato contains 9. White rice contains 10. A chocolate bar contains 7.5. Every “healthy” food on the table had more sugar in it than the junk food.
Dr. David Unwin, an NHS GP who has reversed Type 2 diabetes in 157 patients without medication, developed a system that converts the glycemic load of any food into teaspoons of sugar so that anyone, from a child to an elderly patient, can instantly understand the consequences of what they eat. His infographics have been translated into 35 languages by volunteers around the world, and the white rice fact alone has made him one of the most recognised GPs in the country.
He reveals one of the most striking facts in nutrition: your entire bloodstream, all five litres of blood, contains just one sugar cube of glucose. That is the total amount your body needs at any given moment. When you eat a banana (6 teaspoons), a bowl of rice (10 teaspoons), or drink a glass of orange juice, you are flooding a system designed to operate on almost nothing. For someone with insulin resistance or Type 2 diabetes, that single banana can double their blood sugar because their body can no longer regulate the excess.
Discover:
• Why plain cornflakes contain more sugar than a chocolate bar
• The fact that your entire bloodstream holds just one sugar cube of glucose
• Why white rice has the highest sugar equivalency of any common food
• How dried fruit marketed as healthy is actually 60 to 70 percent sugar
• Why a doctor spent 25 years blaming patients for advice that never worked
• How orange juice triggers a hunger cycle that drives overeating all day
• The free sugar infographics available in 35 languages for anyone to use
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@TheDiaryOfACEOClips
May 21, 2026 at 2:22 am
Watch the full episode here – https://youtu.be/zc8Nh4TMB1s
@justmeandmy
May 21, 2026 at 2:22 am
To be clear, he's not talking about sugar as in the chemical, but in how much sugar ends up in your blood from various foods once they're broken down. 5g of sugar is ~20 calories and many of us can turn that many calories over in 4 minutes. So what he left out is that you roughly need to replenish it every 2-5 minutes when exercising. And there's about "50 to 100 cubes of sugar" stored in your liver as glycogen.
@bycxt
May 21, 2026 at 2:22 am
It is a mistake to compare naturally occurring carbohydrates with highly processed sugars. Fruits and veges also have fibre, antioxidant compounds, anti inflammatory compounds, anti cancer compounds and are associated with good health. This kind of advice drives people towards high protein, high fat diets and denies their role in visceral fat and fatty liver, drivers of disease.
@krisdecke3322
May 21, 2026 at 2:22 am
How much other bad advice is the medical system putting our way??? Check out Dr Mathew Walker in NZ and his metabolic health trials into dementia and brain cancers.
@StopReadingTheComments
May 21, 2026 at 2:22 am
I am a chocoholic for Bryan Johnson's Blueprint cocoa powder. Stuff is delicious
@thewaybacktoyou--embraceYou23
May 21, 2026 at 2:22 am
I really admire and respect this man! A real man can realize their mistakes, admit they were wrong and say it out loud. We need leaders like this. The real deal. Thank you for this episode. 👏👏👏
@gospelofthomas77thpearl22
May 21, 2026 at 2:22 am
Eating cooked potato cold makes the sugar spike less.
@GoodT75
May 21, 2026 at 2:22 am
Watch Dr. Berg. Take his advice to cure yourself
@707Berto
May 21, 2026 at 2:22 am
Saw the thumbnail and was expecting Michael Pollan.
@mellD.7988
May 21, 2026 at 2:22 am
I like your show, but sorry, many of the discussions are becoming very dated. It depends a lot how you eat all the high glucose foods. Take rice. Rice kept in the fridge for 12 hours is seen a fiber by the body and not carb. It's resisten starch RS3 – check latest studies. Also, everyone knows now eating high glucose foods after protein or with fiber makes the spike less dramatic. Also, walking or doing any kind of gentle exercise after eating them (even for 5-10min) lowers the spike. Etc etc etc.
@mandydaly8940
May 21, 2026 at 2:22 am
Oh mother of God I’m shocked 😮
@VRWisdom
May 21, 2026 at 2:22 am
4:33 back when I did lots of 100 mile rides on my bicycle that is what the general advice was to carb load with LOTS OF spaghetti. I rationalized that if I only got sauce and no meat that was healthier too. lol
@RobReay-h6q
May 21, 2026 at 2:22 am
Enough with the protein obsession. Study after study after study states the people who consume the most carbohydrates live the longest
@teapot4two610
May 21, 2026 at 2:22 am
Realistically, How many cubes of sugar are in a can (330ml) of coke/pepsi. I see people drinking it in the pubs!!!
@djconnolly28
May 21, 2026 at 2:22 am
9 essential proteins, 2 essential fats, 0 essential carbs. Sugar = sugar — it doesn't matter the source. The sugar in the banana, the rice, and table sugar, etc., is chemically the same, and the biological pathways are the same as well. The one thing this video is leaving out is the fructose in the banana, which is worse than sugar (depending on your metabolism).
@fisherman1353
May 21, 2026 at 2:22 am
Sometimes people tend to think that someone consuming a lot of sure has to be by default obese,but that’s actually far away from the truth.
I’m slim and my blood glucose is almost pre diabetic,I’ve been indulging on sugar for a long time and astronomical amounts of it
@Real-Name..Maqavoy
May 21, 2026 at 2:22 am
It's (almost) not possible within USA. There are so many things with Sugar and a ton of other things that are not used in EU.
If you had the same meal of (chicken) one from US and one from EU. The difference would be very obvious.
The best type of food you can get (in US) is from Farmers and a trusted buyer off Meat/Fish.
@ellierennes9043
May 21, 2026 at 2:22 am
WOW, I didn’t know that either. 1tsp of sugar in your blood system. No wonder I gain weight if I eat more than 6tsp of sugar a day!! Protein here I come. No more three slices of freshly baked bread 😢
@ddugan64
May 21, 2026 at 2:22 am
The biscuits guy is hard to listen to, kind of a pedant isn't he… didnt think biscuits were rubbish food… wtf
@U_S_Dept_of_Common_Sense
May 21, 2026 at 2:22 am
Parasites
@TheTehMaster
May 21, 2026 at 2:22 am
wtf bro this experiment is wild, we are so cooked
@ChrisDranfield
May 21, 2026 at 2:22 am
This is misleading , there is no sugar in something like rice , sure you get an insulin spike but far less when consumed with a protein which is how most people consume rice.
This makes someone watching think I should just each a chocolate bar instead of rice. Ignoring everything else in chocolate.
@madanikhan1346
May 21, 2026 at 2:22 am
So he is saying he became doctor 25 years after he became doctor. ?
@SreedeviS-x9l
May 21, 2026 at 2:22 am
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@KamalaBra
May 21, 2026 at 2:22 am
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@Cdovez78
May 21, 2026 at 2:22 am
Death will always be champion .. foh scared ASSES
@projectmmf
May 21, 2026 at 2:22 am
Complex carbohydrates in rice, potatoes and so on are not unhealthy
@unorodriguez3368
May 21, 2026 at 2:22 am
That doctor sounds like an idiot. Brave that he admits to his stupidity. Kudos to him!
@avgejoeschmoe2027
May 21, 2026 at 2:22 am
I put a spoonful of unsweatened cocoa powder in my coffee and a spoonful of black strap molasses…..almost no sugar involved
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May 21, 2026 at 2:22 am
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@MahpiyaNotah
May 21, 2026 at 2:22 am
1 of 1!