Fructose, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Sucrose and Health

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxi

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2. Overviews

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Fructose, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Sucrose, and Health: Modern Scientific Understandings

      • James M. Rippe

      Pages 3-12

   3. Sucrose, HFCS, and Fructose: History, Manufacture, Composition, Applications, and Production

      • John S. White

      Pages 13-33

   4. Metabolism of Nutritive Sweeteners in Humans

      • Luc Tappy, Leonie Egli, Christel Tran

      Pages 35-50

   5. Solid Versus Liquid Calories: Current Scientific Understandings

      • Joshua B. Jones, Janice Lee, Richard D. Mattes

      Pages 51-62

   6. Non-nutritive Sweeteners

      • John D. Fernstrom

      Pages 63-84

3. Global Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85

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   2. Worldwide Consumption of Sweeteners and Recent Trends

      • Bernadette P. Marriott, Christopher J. Fink, Terri Krakower

      Pages 87-111

   3. Added Sugars and Health: Evidence from Prospective Cohort Studies and Controlled Dietary Trials

      • John L. Sievenpiper

      Pages 113-123

   4. Crystalizing Global Sugar Policy: Public Health Promise or Perception

      • Roger Clemens, Yanni Papanikolaou

      Pages 125-135

   5. Evolution of High Fructose Corn Syrup Within the Sweeteners Industry

      • John W. Bode, Mark W. Empie, Kyd D. Brenner

      Pages 137-148

4. Functional Effects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149

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   2. Sweeteners and Dietary Quality

      • Rosanne Rust

      Pages 151-168

   3. The Effects of Sweeteners on Energy Regulating Hormones

      • James M. Rippe

      Pages 169-185

   4. Sweeteners and the Brain

      • Athylia Paremski, Miguel Alonso-Alonso

      Pages 187-197

   5. Are Sugars Addictive? Perspectives for Practitioners

      • Rebecca L. W. Corwin, John E. Hayes

      Pages 199-215

5. Sweeteners in Healthy Populations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217

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   2. Sugar Intake in Children and Adolescents and Its Effects on Health

      • Craig A. Johnston, John P. Foreyt

      Pages 219-227

   3. Flavored Milk, Dietary Quality, and Childhood Nutrition

      • Kristine Clark, James M. Rippe

      Pages 229-246

The metabolic and health effects of both nutritive and non-nutritive sweeteners are controversial, and subjects of intense scientific debate.  These potential effects span not only important scientific questions, but are also of great interest to media, the public and potentially even regulatory bodies. Fructose, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Sucrose and Health serves as a critical resource for practice-oriented physicians, integrative healthcare practitioners, academicians involved in the education of graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, and medical students, interns and residents, allied health professionals and nutrition researchers, registered dietitians and public  health professions who are actively involved in providing data-driven recommendations on the role of sucrose, HFCS, glucose, fructose and non-nutritive sweeteners in the health of their students, patients and clients.   Comprehensive chapters discuss the effects of both nutritive and non-nutritive sweeteners on appetite and food consumption as well as the physiologic and neurologic responses to sweetness.   Chapter authors are world class,  practice and research oriented nutrition authorities,  who provide practical, data-driven resources based upon the totality of the evidence to help the reader understand the basics of fructose, high fructose corn syrup and sucrose biochemistry and examine the consequences of acute and chronic consumption of these sweeteners in the diets of young children through to adolescence and adulthood.

 

Fructose, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Sucrose and Health fills a much needed gap in the literature and will serve the reader as the most authoritative resource in the field to date.

• High fructose corn syrup
• Liquid calories
• Non-nutritive sweeteners
• Nutritive sweeteners
• Sucrose
• Sugar sweetened beverages

From the book reviews:

“The book is divided into 5 sections: An Overview, a focus on the global perspectives, on the functional effects of sugars, on sugars and health and on sugars in chronic disease. … this book is an essential addition to the library shelves of universities, food companies and governmental organisations.” (Mike J. Gibney, Frontiers in Nutrition, November, 2014) "This book provides comprehensive evidence-based science from the leading experts on the health consequences of consuming sugars containing fructose.  The science behind sugar and health is complex and the authors of this book provide an open-minded, detailed guide to understanding the health effects of fructose, high fructose corn syrup, sucrose and health.  This is especially important because of today's polarizing debate on sugars and health, which at times leads to exaggerations and distortions of the scientific evidence." (Mark Dreher PhD, Nutrition Science Solutions, LLC, July, 2014)

• Rippe Lifestyle Institute, Shrewsbury, USA

  James M. Rippe

Dr. Rippe is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School with post graduate training at Massachusetts General Hospital. He is currently the Founder and Director of the Rippe Lifestyle Institute, Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at Tufts University School of Medicine and Professor of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Central Florida. Over the past 20 years Dr. Rippe has established and run the largest research organization in the world exploring how daily habits and actions impact short and long-term health and quality of life. This organization, Rippe Lifestyle Institute (RLI) has published hundreds of studies that form the scientific basis for the fields of lifestyle medicine and high performance health. Rippe Lifestyle Institute also conducts numerous studies every year on nutrition and healthy weight management. Dr. Rippe also serves as the Chairman of the Center for Lifestyle Medicine at the University of Central Florida (CLM at UCF). The CLM at UCF is the first University based organization to conduct basic research and teach students at all levels in the area of lifestyle medicine. The CLM at UCF is located in a state-of-the-art 8,000 square foot facility in the Research Park adjacent to the UCF campus. Dr. Rippe leads a team of UCF faculty conducting basic research in all aspects of lifestyle medicine at the CLM at UCF.

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