ISBT Webinars

High Fructose Corn Syrup: What should you believe?

Wednesday, Octoer 14, 2009

High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) has been sensationalized by the media in recent years, wrongly targeted as a unique contributor to obesity. Top researchers addressed myths about the impact of high fructose corn syrup on the American diet, the nutritional consequences of reformulating HFCS-sweetened products with sugar, and discussed how it is likely to be viewed in the upcoming 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans in this ISBT webinar. Presenters included:

• David Klurfeld
  

  David Klurfeld is National Program Leader for Human Nutrition in the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He has responsibility for the scientific direction of the intramural human nutrition research conducted by USDA laboratories. Prior to government service, he was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Nutrition & Food Science at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan for 11 years. Before that he was on the faculty of The Wistar Institute and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine for 15 years.

  He has published on the relationship of diet and prevention of diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and gallstones. Among his scientific discoveries are the first demonstration that red wine consumption resulted in fewer cardiovascular lesions, that the cholesterol-filled cells in human arterial lesions are white blood cells and, that reducing calories was more important than reducing fat in the diet for decreasing cancer growth. Dr. Klurfeld has published more than 165 research articles in scientific and medical journals. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American College of Nutrition for 6 years and is currently an Associate Editor of the American Journal for Clinical Nutrition. He is a member of the Board of Scientific Advisors of the American Council on Science and Health.

  Dr. Klurfeld received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and both master=s and doctorate degrees in pathology from the Medical College of Virginia.

• John S. White
  

  Dr. John S. White is president and founder of WHITE Technical Research, an international consulting firm located in Argenta IL, serving the food and beverage industry since 1994.

  He received a B.A. in biology from the University of California at San Diego and a Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1978 from the University of Utah. He served joint appointments as Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

  Dr. White worked in food industry research and management for 13 years, developing a specialization in nutritive sweeteners. He is one of the foremost experts in high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), the result of twenty-eight years of research on the production, functionality, applications, consumption and metabolism of this sweetener.

  He enjoys present and past affiliations with the American Chemical Society (Washington, DC), the Institute of Food Technologists (Chicago, IL), the American Council on Science and Health (Washington, DC), the International Life Sciences Institute (Washington, DC), the Calorie Control Council (Atlanta, GA) and the Corn Refiners Association (Washington, DC).

  In addition to nutritive sweeteners, Dr. White has published two widely used reference books on proteins, peptides and enzymes.

• James M. Rippe
  

  James M. Rippe, M.D. is a best-selling author, world-renowned cardiologist, and founder of the Rippe Lifestyle Institute. Known as the father of the modern American walking movement, Dr. Rippe's research organization has published hundreds of studies that form the scientific basis for high performance health. The author of forty-one books, including eighteen consumer health titles and twenty-three medical texts, Dr. Rippe continues writing, teaching, and developing fitness programs for corporations and professional athletes, and he edits the only comprehensive textbook and journal in lifestyle medicine. He is married to television news anchor Stephanie Hart, and together they have four children.

We hope that ISBT members enjoyed our first webinar. You may watch the webinar in the window below.