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147: Sugar Rush with Dr. Karen Throsby
Category: Health
Duration: 01:04:04
Publish Date: 2022-01-09 14:00:00
Description: Today we’re continuing our series of episodes looking at the intersection of parenting and food.  Recently we heard from Dr. Michael Goran, co-author of the new book SugarProof: The hidden dangers of sugar that are putting your child’s health at risk and what you can do, where we discussed what the research says about the impact that sugar has on our bodies and our children’s bodies.  But when I was looking around to see who is looking at issues related to sugar that looks at what happens in the body but also raises the head up to look at broader social and cultural issues as well I found the work of today’s guest, Dr. Karen Throsby.   Dr. Throsby is Associate Professor in Gender Studies at the University of Leeds in England.  She obtained a Bachelor’s degree from Lincoln College, Oxford, and completed a Master’s and Ph.D from the Gender Institute, London School of Economics.  Her research explores the intersections of gender, technology, the body, and health, and explores how bodily transformations happen and what this says about the wider social context they live in.  She is currently working on a book called Sugar Rush: Science, Obesity, and the Social Life of Sugar which begins from the question: “What are the social meanings and practices of sugar in the context of a ‘war on obesity’?”.  She focuses less on the ‘truths’ about the dietary debates on sugar but instead uses it to think about how scientific knowledge is produced, validated, and used, our panics around health and body size, and the politics of food and its lived inequalities.   [accordion] [accordion-item title="REFERENCES"] Avena, N.M., Rada, P., & Hoebel, B. G. (2008). Evidence for sugar addiction: Behavior al and neurochemical effects of intermittent, excessive sugar intake. Neuroscience & Behavioral Reviews 32(1), 20-39. Benton, D. (2010). The plausibility of sugar addiction and its role in obesity and eating disorders. Clinical Nutrition 29, 288-303. Courtwright, D.T. (2010). The NIDA brain disease paradigm: History, resistance and spinoffs. Biosocieties 5: 137–147. Lenoir, M., Serre, F., Cantin, L., & Ahmed, S.H. (2007). Intense sweetness surpasses cocaine reward. PLoS One 8 (e698): 1-10. Throsby, K. (2019). Pure, white and deadly: Sugar addiction and the cultivation of urgency. Food, Culture & Society 23(1), 11-29. [/accordion-item] [/accordion]
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