Fructose, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Sucrose and Health

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.

Fructose, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Sucrose, and Health: Modern Scientific Understandings. - Sucrose, HFCS, and Fructose: History, Manufacture, Composition, Applications, and Production. - Metabolism of Nutritive Sweeteners in Humans. - Solid Versus Liquid Calories: Current Scientific Understandsings. - Non-Nutritive Sweeteners. - Worldwide Consumption of Sweeteners and Recent Trends. - Added Sugars and Health: Evidence from Prospective Cohort Studies and Controlled Dietary Trials. - Crystalizing Global Sugar Policy: Public Promise or Perception. - Evolution of High Fructose Corn Syrup within the Sweeteners Industry. - Sweeteners and Dietary Quality. - The Effects of Sweeteners on Energy Regulating Hormones. - Sweeteners and the Brain. - Are Sugars Addictive? Perspectives for Practitioners. - Sugar Intake in Children and Adolescents in Effects on Health. - Flavored Milk, Dietary Quality, And Childhood Nutrition. - Childhood Obesity and the Consumption of 100% Fruit Juice: Where are the Evidence-Based Findings? . - Sugar Sweetened Beverages and Hydration. - Sugar, Sports Drinks, and Performance. - Sweeteners and Diabetes. - Fructose, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Sucrose and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. - Sugars and Cardiovascular Disease.