Animation: Sweet taste liking
This video explores why our enjoyment of sweet tastes is a natural human response, and what current research tells us about how this relates to diet, body weight and health.
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Animation: Sugars and Type 2 Diabetes
In this video, we take a clear and balanced look at what type 2 diabetes is, what drives it, and where sugars fit into the wider picture of diet and health.
GLP-1 Medications Conversation
Our GLP-1 Medications Conversation explores the rapid rise of GLP-1 medications, their effects on weight loss, and key challenges such as weight regain and nutritional risks—alongside their growing impact on how consumers eat and shop.
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Policy Update: Effects of Sugars Taxes on Public Health
Our updated review of the evidence on sugars taxes - how they influence consumption, product reformulation and public health outcomes, particularly obesity.
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Animation: Limitations and challenges of evidence on food policy
This video explains how to critically assess the evidence behind food policies on sugars—such as taxes, reformulation and labelling—by understanding the key limitations, uncertainties and the challenges of linking these policies to real-world health outcomes.
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Animation: Global recommendations on sugars
This video looks at the evidence behind global recommendations on sugars, and what this means for everyday eating and drinking.
Animation: Pleasure vs addiction
This video looks at the common myth that sugar is “addictive” and explains why current scientific and clinical evidence does not support this.
Animation: Sugar in a balanced, sustainable food system
This video explores sugar’s role in sustainable diets, highlighting how sugar cane and beet support circular, resource‑efficient food systems by making full use of the whole plant.
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Animation: Sugars and body weight
This video explores what the science tells us about sugars, body weight and related health conditions, and explains why total calorie intake and energy balance are key.
Animation: Sugars and health - improving worldwide understanding
Understand how WSRO brings scientific clarity to the often‑misunderstood topic of sugars and health.
Animation: What are sugars?
Short animation explaining what sugars are.
Animation: The role of sugars in food and the diet
Short animation explaining the role of sugars in food and the diet.