#468: High Sugar Intakes Without Excess Calories: Harmful or Benign?

Sigma Nutrition Radio

Danny Lennon

Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 633 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

There is almost universal agreement that excess added sugar in the diet is detrimental to health. However, much of this negative health impact clearly relates to the ability of high sugar intakes to drive excess calorie intake and fat accumulation, which cause health issues.

But what about situtaions of where there is not a calorie surplus (hypercaloric diet) or weight gain?

Some people claim that sugar is inherently damaging. While others push back and claim sugar is only a problem in the context of a hypercaloric diet. So which position is more accurate? What evidence do we have?

In this episode, Dr. Alan Flanagan and Danny Lennon take a look at situations of eucaloric (or even hypocaloric) diets, and what impact sugar has. Specifically, they investigate: in a situation where someone is not overconsuming calories or gaining weight, what health impacts do added sugars have? And if there are these calorie-independent effects, at what thresholds do they occur?

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio. You are listening to episode 468 of the podcast. My name is Danny Lennon,
0:24.1	and beside me is Dr. Alan Flanagan. Alan, how are you today? I'm good. I'm wondering,
0:29.8	given that expertise is dead, whether we should just drop the doctor and maybe drop any
0:34.6	pretense to knowing what we're talking about whatsoever. Maybe people will like us more.
0:39.0	Well, I mean, the good thing that you've learned now is that your PhD in nutrition is now worthless.
0:44.4	You actually, you're less credible to talk about nutrition now than if you hadn't done that.
0:50.3	Exactly. Funny, I had stuck with my blog in 2014 when I knew nothing, you know.
0:55.4	Let's just lean heavily on your background in law and never mention any expertise in
1:00.4	nutrition whatsoever. I think that'll be good. Exactly. Exactly. Let's play a legal lens to all
1:05.5	these topics of metabolism. Yeah, LDL has not been proven beyond all reasonable doubt and must be acquitted.
1:13.9	Yeah, let's just pepper in that language everywhere.
1:16.8	Yeah, exactly.
1:17.9	That would be excellent.
1:19.5	Take a jury of our peers and present them the evidence.
1:23.3	If I can convince these people, then it doesn't matter what anything else is.
1:27.0	Well, today we have quite interesting topic.
1:30.7	It's one I think probably has been many years since directly, at least this has been looked
1:36.4	at on the podcast.
1:37.8	And it came about from a couple of listeners who have found this an interesting question.
1:42.6	And so it's one that's worth diving into in a bit more detail.
1:46.8	And we're going to be talking about the impact of sugar on health, which you can think,
1:51.5	oh, well, that isn't really that controversial or big of a question.
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