#61 Dr. Kimber Stanhope - Metabolic Effects of Sugar
In this episode of The Muscle Memoirs Podcast, I am joined by Dr. Kimber Stanhope to discuss the metabolic effects of sugar.
Kimber Stanhope received a M.S. in Nutrition Science and a Ph.D. in Nutritional Biology from the University of California at Davis, where she is currently an Associate Research Nutritional Biologist in the Department of Molecular Biosciences. Dr. Stanhope is a nationally and internationally recognized expert on the health effects of sugar consumption. She has devoted more than 16 years to investigating the effects of sugar consumption on the development of metabolic disease, utilizing well-controlled diet intervention studies in human subjects. She is also a registered dietitian and has worked in all aspects of nutrition, including dietetic counseling and public health.
References
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4822166/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6530989/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32916151/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31935149/
Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
04:45 Difficulties conducting human nutrition research
11:30 Added sugar in the modern food environment
16:45 Metabolic effects of sugar consumption independent of changes in body weight
32:15 Glucose vs. fructose - differences in metabolism & hepatic uptake
37:45 How sugar can be damaging to health
41:00 Should we be concerned about the sugar content in fruit?
46:50 The effects of high fructose corn syrup on cardiovascular risk factors
54:50 Where have we gone wrong in our quest to attenuate the rising rates of obesity and cardiometabolic disease?
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