Sponsored by an educational grant from the Corn Refiners Association. Endorsed by the Medical Nutrition Council.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
3:00 PM–5:00 PM
Chairs
Edward Saltzman, MD, Tufts University, Boston, MA
Presentations
Sweetened Beverages and Obesity: Separating Supposition, From Demonstrated Fact, From Misinformation, David Allison, PhD, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
Solid Versus Liquid Calories – Their Effects on Appetite: Current Understandings and Putative Mechanisms, Richard D. Mattes, PhD, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Metabolic Consequences of Consuming Fructose, Glucose, High Fructose Corn Syrup and Sucrose, Kimber Stanhope, PhD, University of California, Davis, CA
Are Sweetened Beverages Addictive: Emerging Understandings from Functional MRI Studies, Miguel Alonso-Alonso, MD MPhil, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
Metabolic and Endocrine Response and Health Implications of Consuming Sweetened Beverages: Findings from Recent, Randomized, Controlled Trials, James M. Rippe, MD, Rippe Lifestyle Institute, Shrewsbury, MA
Check out highlights from ASN’s Scientific Sessions at EB 2012:
Fructose, Sucrose and High Fructose Corn Syrup: Relevant Scientific Findings and Health Implications
The biochemistry and metabolism of fructose, sucrose and high fructose corn syrup and other nutritive sweeteners and other implications for the food industry, John White, PhD, Founder and President, White Technical Research – see presentation here
Fructose: pure, white, and harmful? Fructose, by any other name is a health hazard, George Bray, MD, Chief Division of Clinical Obesity and Metabolism, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA – see presentation here
The metabolic consequences of fructose: it’s alcohol without the buzz?, Robert Lustig, MD, Professor, Clinical Pediatrics, UCSF, San Francisco, CA – see presentation here
What do government agencies consider in the debate over added sugars?, David Klurfeld, Ph.D., Program Leader, U.S. Department of Agriculture – ARS, Beltsville, MD – see presentation here
Health implications of fructose, sucrose and high fructose corn syrup: What do we really know?, James Rippe, MD, Rippe Lifestyle Institute, Shrewsbury, MA – see presentation here
Q & A from attendees at Experimental Bio – see Q & A here