#155: Kimber Stanhope, PhD - Effects of Sugar Consumption on Body Composition, Lipid Regulation and Insulin Sensitivity

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🗓️ 20 December 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Episode 155: Researcher Dr. Kimber Stanhope of UC Davis discusses the scientific research that exists on sugar consumption and it's effect on health and body composition.

Kimber Stanhope, PhD, RD, is an associate research nutritional biologist in the Department of Molecular Biosciences at UC Davis. Her work focuses on investigating the effects of sugar consumption on the development of metabolic disease, utilizing well-controlled diet intervention studies in human subjects. She has more than 20 years of nutrition research experience, focused on contributing significantly to the clinical research that will define the optimally healthy diet and delineate the mechanisms involved. She also has a decade of experience as a public health educator, working as a registered dietitian with health clubs and health management organizations, and is the author of a children’s book on nutrition.

In this episode we discuss:

The differing metabolic effects of consuming different types of sugars (e.g. fructose, glucose, sucrose)
The dosages that negative consequences start appearing at
Misplaced concerns about fructose content in fruit
Do negative effects still occur in the absence of a calorie surplus and excessive body fat gain?
Fat accumulation at the liver
How do artificial sweeteners compare?
Effects of sugar consumption on hormones like leptin and adiponectin

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0:00.0	Let Mother Nature be your food processor, not the industry.
0:15.0	Just pick those foods as close to nature as they grow.
0:27.6	It takes a lot of fruit to get up to the levels of sugar consumption that you can get with three sodas and two cookies and dessert.
0:35.6	How low do we really need to go to be safe?
0:39.6	And I would like to know that answer, but I don't know where the money is going to come from for us to be able to find out.
1:09.2	Hello. Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio, the podcast that brings you evidence-based discussions with the world's leading researchers in fields related to nutrition and health.
1:14.9	I am your host, Danny Lennon, and you are listening to episode 155.
1:22.2	And on today's podcast, I'm delighted to have Dr. Kimber Stanhope from the University of California at Davis on the show.
1:25.4	Dr. Stanhope is a registered dietitian in addition to her PhD, and she's a
1:31.4	associate research nutritional biologist in the Department of Molecular Bioc Sciences at UC Davis.
1:38.3	And her work focuses on investigating the effects of sugar consumption on the development of metabolic disease,
1:46.0	utilizing well-controlled diet intervention studies in human subjects.
1:51.0	She has more than 20 years of nutrition research experience focused on contributing significantly to the clinical research base that we have and really helping inform how to,
2:04.6	I suppose, optimize healthy nutrition and the diet that contributes towards disease within humans,
2:12.6	as well as trying to delineate the mechanisms that are involved. So a really, really high-standing renowned researcher in this
2:19.3	area probably has been more prolific than the vast majority of people I can even think of in the
2:26.2	area of sugar consumption and human metabolism and health. And so that's what I wanted to try and get
2:32.8	her on to try and get a very evidence-based
2:34.7	perspective of when we're talking about sugar consumption, how it affects health and body composition.
2:40.2	What exactly does the research tell us? And what do we know and how far to either extreme
2:46.7	should this message go? And so hopefully we can get into some of the real nitty-gritty
2:52.3	of sugar metabolism and then how that relates to human health. The show notes to this episode
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