1. WSRO Annual Meeting 2009
Sugar‐Moving Forward
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Introductory Remarks:
Staying Ahead‐Interpreting the Science
G. Harvey Anderson
Professor and Director, Programme in Food Science, Nutrition and
Regulatory Affair
Regulatory Affair
Department of Nutritional Sciences
Faculty of Medicine
University of Toronto
University of Toronto

2. US food industry enlisted in the battle
to curb obesity
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• Top US nutrition experts together with health organizations and leading
doctors have joined forces to ask President Barack Obama to combat obesity
doctors have joined forces to ask President Barack Obama to combat obesity
by creating a Presidential Commission on Healthy Weights, Healthy Lives
• “The increased rates of obesity will negate many of our nation’s investments in
health‐care and could actually condemn youths to shorter life spans than their
parents
parents”
• Signatories to the letter include CSPI, the American Diabetes Association,
American Public Health Association, National Consumers League, Partnership
for Prevention, Shape Up America, Trust for America’s Health, United Fresh
Produce Association, and a number of state‐level organizations.
Produce Association and a number of state level organizations
• The letter has also been signed by academics and industry experts including:
Kelly Brownell of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale
University, Christopher Gardner of the Stanford Prevention Research Center,
Lewis Landsberg of the Northwestern University Comprehensive Center on
Lewis Landsberg of the Northwestern University Comprehensive Center on
Obesity, and Barry Popkin of the University of North Carolina School of Public
Health.
• Food Navigator‐USA June/09

3. Whose Fault?
Agriculture, Food
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Regulations and the
Food Industry
Soft Drinks
Fast Foods
Cookies,
Candy, Chips
(Food industry marginalized)

4. Canadian Food Guide

5. Mediterranean Food Pattern
Oldways Foundation
Oldways Foundation

6. International CVD Death Rates
Source: American Heart Association

7. Why is he unhappy?
Why is he unhappy?

8. Death Takes a Holiday
Death Takes a Holiday

9. The Canadian Sugar Institute-Staying Ahead
• The Canadian Sugar Institute is the national, non‐profit
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association representing the industry on nutrition and
international trade affairs. The Institute provides a
science based Nutrition Information Service and seeks
science‐based Nutrition Information Service and seeks
fair treatment on international trade policies and
disputes.
• The goal of CSI's Nutrition Information Service is to
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inform and educate Canadians about sugars and healthy
eating, and to advocate for nutrition policies and
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recommendations that are based on reliable scientific
research. This service is managed by qualified nutrition
professionals and guided by a Scientific Advisory Council
and guided by a Scientific Advisory Council.

10. CSI‐Staying Ahead
(Why I am a member of SAC)
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• Sandra Marsden, MHSc, RD
President (joined CSI in 1987)
• Jenny Gusba, PhD
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Director of Nutrition and Scientific Affairs
jgusba@sugar.ca
jgusba@sugar ca
• Erin Colburn, MHSc, RD
Coordinator, Nutrition Communications
Coordinator Nutrition Communications
ecolburn@sugar.ca
• Kristy Hogger, B.Sc, RD
Kristy Hogger, B.Sc, RD

11. The Scientific Advisory Council 1995
• G. Harvey Anderson, PhD
Professor, Nutritional Sciences and Physiology
Director, Program in Food Safety , Nutrition and Regulatory Affairs
University of Toronto
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• N. Theresa Glanville, PhD, RD
Professor, Department of Human Ecology
Mount St. Vincent University, Halifax
• David D. Kitts, PhD
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Professor, and Chair Department of Food Science
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
• Rena Mendelson, DSc, RD
Professor
Ryerson University
• Bob Ross, PhD
Professor, School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Medicine
Queen s University
Queen's University
• Huguette Turgeon O'Brien, PhD, DtP
Département des sciences des aliments et de nutrition
Université Laval

12. 1st National Obesity Summit
Kananaskis Alberta May 9th, 2009
Kananaskis, Alberta, 2009.
Cardiac and Metabolic Benefits of Exercise
Robert Ross, PhD
Robert Ross PhD

13. For Reducing Obesity and Related CVD Risk,
Exercise Without (minimal) Weight Loss is Not a Failure
Ross et al. Cdn J Cardiology 24 (Supp D): 24D-31D, 2008.
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Obese Men and Women
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6 Decrease in abdominal and visceral Fat
4 Decrease waist circumference
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Increase in skeletal muscle mass
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Increase cardiorespiratory fitness
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0 Control Weight No Weight
Loss Loss Increase insulin sensitivity
Exercise Decrease cardiometabolic risk factors
No Change
in BMI

14. WSRO Annual Meeting 2009
Sugar‐Moving Forward
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Staying Ahead
Staying Ahead
– Current Science of Sugar
• Sugar and exercise‐Dr. Lawrence Spriet
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• Sugar and body weight‐Dr. Richard Mattes
• Nutrition Guidelines‐Dr. Rena Mendelson
• Biotechnology‐opportunities and challenges
Biotechnology opportunities and challenges
– Tom Schwartz and Dr. Charley Richard
– Private‐public sector collaboration in Agri‐food
innovation‐ D Ri k Y d
i i Dr. Rickey Yada