#242: Jake Mey, PhD, RD – How Much Sugar is Too Much?
Sigma Nutrition Radio
Danny Lennon
4.8 • 626 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2018
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Jake is a registered dietitan and a human nutrition researcher. His work focuses on diet, muscle & metabolism.
He is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Integrated Physiology and Molecular Medicine at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center. He is also a contractor in Inflammation and Immunity research at the renowned Cleveland Clinic.
In This Episode We Discuss
- Understanding evidence-based research
- Can sugar, without caloric excess, still have detrimental health effects?
- Cleveland Clinic study: effect of wholegrains vs. refined grains on glucose metabolism
- How much sugar counts as a ‘high intake’?
- At what intakes we see issues
- Insulin resistance, AGEs and other issues
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| 0:00.0 | You know, if you have individuals that are specifically building certain amounts of sugar into their diet, you do run the risk |
| 0:22.1 | of getting calories without a lot of nutrition behind them. |
| 0:26.5 | And more importantly than that, is building long-term eating habits that you want to have |
| 0:33.3 | really be more healthy geared. |
| 0:36.3 | Whereas if you're just cutting sugar and focusing on calories |
| 0:40.4 | or, you know, building certain amounts of sugar into your diet, you may end up being more |
| 0:44.8 | body weight focused. Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio, whether you are a long-time listener |
| 1:08.7 | or whether you've just tuned in for the first time, |
| 1:11.3 | you are very welcome to the podcast. |
| 1:14.2 | We are all the way at episode 242 of the podcast today. |
| 1:18.7 | But before we get into that, a very special announcement that I will be giving more details over the coming days and weeks about this. |
| 1:27.4 | And I have hinted at previously last week on the show. |
| 1:31.8 | And if you are following me on Instagram, Danny Lennon underscore Sigma, |
| 1:37.0 | or if you're on the Sigma edition, emailing list, you will already know about this. |
| 1:41.0 | But some big news that I've announced over the past week or so is that this November 24th, |
| 1:47.9 | 2018 in Dublin, Ireland is going to be Sigma Nutrition Radio Live. |
| 1:53.1 | So the first time ever that the podcast is going to take place in front of a live studio |
| 1:58.7 | audience, you get your chance to be there and have your seat right in front of |
| 2:05.3 | the stage where I will be joined on the day by four world-class experts in the field of |
| 2:11.1 | nutritional science. So there's more deals up on the website, but to give you the cliff notes, |
| 2:17.1 | the special guests that will be joining me on the stage on the website, but to give you the cliff notes, the special guests |
| 2:18.4 | that will be joining me on the stage on the day are going to be another other than Martin |
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