All speakers' Understanding Sweetness presentations are available below as downloadable PDFs.

	Gary Beauchamp, PhD "Sweet Taste Perception is Innately Organized" Download PDF
	George Blackburn, MD, PhD "Sugars and Sweeteners: Need, Desire, and Safety" Download PDF
	Sue Borra, RD "Consumer Attitudes Towards Healthy Eating and Sugars" Download PDF
	Connie Diekman, MEd, RD, FADA "Understanding and Managing Sweetness in Daily Life" Download PDF
	Julie Miller Jones, PhD Presentation Coming Soon
	Karen Teff, PhD "Endocrine and Metabolic Effects of Consuming Sweetened Beverages" Download PDF
	Brian Wansink, MS, PhD "What To Do About the Trend of More" Download PDF
	Holly Wyatt, MD "Learning from Losers: Findings from the National Weight Control Registry" Download PDF
	Debra Zellner, PhD "Are Sweets Addicting?" Download PDF

Managing Sweetness

Managing Sweetness is an Oldways approach to helping consumers make wise choices about sweet-tasting foods and drinks. With obesity continuing to be a growing worldwide health concern, and with consumers continuing to largely ignore dietary advice and programs, we believe this approach can help individuals balance their calories, and enjoy healthy eating and drinking.

Why Sweetness?

Consuming sugars is of broad importance to a healthy diet. Anthropologists and nutrition scientists believe that the human preference for sweetness is innate, and a key factor in the evolution of our species. In excess, however, sugar can become a "villain." The solution is not to banish, but to balance the consumption, without compromising the pleasures of eating.

Managing is a basic principle of a successful life. A few examples of the things we try to manage wisely: anger, checkbooks, calories, marriage, driving speeds, relationships, sun exposure, homework, work assignments, and alcohol.

Background

We inaugurated the Managing Sweetness program at a scientific conference in Mexico City in 2004, during which the scientific experts drew up a a Scientific Consensus Conference Statement.Two years later, scientists updated this Statement during a Conference held in Brussels in conjunction with the European Union's Platform for Diet, Physical Activity and Health. And just this past fall we held four Managing Sweetness conferences in Latin America (Sao Paulo, Santiago, Buenos Aires and Mexico City). The reception among health professionals for the Managing Sweetness approach has been strongly positive.

The next Managing Sweetness Conferences will be held in the US and China: April 2, 2008 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC and April 29, 2008 in Beijing.

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