Effects of Sugars and Sugar Alternatives on Human Health and Disease
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Carbohydrates".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 June 2024 | Viewed by 1347
Special Issue Editors
Interests: metabolic changes in obesity; links between obesity metabolism and intestinal microbiome; GLP-1 and GI hormones
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2. Department of Clinical Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Interests: nutritional physiology and medicine; metabolic changes in obesity; appetite control/regulation of satiety; gastrointestinal hormones; taste perception; gut-brain-axis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
About 30% of the world's population is overweight or obese, which represent an important risk factor for non-communicable diseases, such as cardiovascular disease and metabolic diseases. Several studies report a positive association between the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and the worldwide rise in obesity cases. Based on these findings, the World Health Organization recommends a reduction in sugar consumption.
Alternative sweeteners have gained interest as substitutes for conventional sweeteners (such as sucrose, glucose, or fructose). The goal is to achieve a reduction in sugar consumption without compromising the sweet taste. Alternative sweeteners are usually categorized into three groups: artificial low-caloric sweeteners (such as sucralose, aspartame, acesulfame K, etc.), natural low-caloric bulk sweeteners (such as xylitol, erythritol, maltitol, etc.), and rare sugars (such as D-allulose, tagatose, trehalose, etc.).
The role of these alternative sweeteners and their impact on health and disease is, however, highly debated. Although the compounds are approved for human use and considered toxicologically safe, their short- and long-term impacts on human health and disease remains uncertain.
This Special Issue of Nutrition aims to collect the latest research on the links between the effects of sugars and sugar alternatives consumption and human health and disease.
Prof. Dr. Christoph Beglinger
Dr. Anne Christin Meyer-Gerspach
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sweeteners
- low-calorie sweeteners
- rare sugars
- cardiovascular disease
- metabolic disease
