JBF Food Conference Agenda Highlights Impact of Sugar Consumption on Health
The James Beard Foundation has organized its fifth annual food conference around the theme of “Health & Food: Is Better Food the Prescription for a Healthier America?” The October 27-28, 2014, event in New York City will reportedly provide attendees a “better sense of actual health trends … and what solution-oriented food-system leaders and the medical community can do to make a difference.”
An October 27 conference segment will include a conversation titled “Sugar and Health: What Is the Connection?” between Robert Lustig, M.D., and sustainability consultant Jonathan Halperin. Lustig, a neuroendocrinologist at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, has garnered media attention in recent years for comparing sugar to a poison and linking it to metabolic dysfunction, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, liver cancer, and other noncommunicable diseases. A second conversation titled “The Sweet Truth” will feature New York University Professor Marion Nestle and food journalist Corby Kummer, author of a monthly food column for The Atlantic magazine.
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