Christy answers an audience question about whether eating sugar is bad for your health, with a deep dive into what the research really says. If you’ve ever felt bad about eating sugar, or ever wondered about the connection between sugar and health conditions like diabetes, this episode is for you.

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• Study linking weight stigma with with higher consumption of sugary foods (contains food- and weight-stigmatizing language)

• Experimental showing that people subjected to weight stigma eat more than twice as many sweets as nonstigmatized people (contains food- and weight-stigmatizing language)

• Episode 80 of Food Psych with Marci Evans 

• Episode 139 of Food Psych with Lisa Du Breuil

• Swedish study linking lower sugar consumption to higher risk of CVD (contains nutritional minutiae/numbers and food- and weight-stigmatizing language)

• 2020 study on sugar and diabetes (contains food- and weight-stigmatizing language and nutritional minutiae) 

• 2016 review on sugar and diabetes (contains food- and weight-stigmatizing language and nutritional minutiae)

• Episode 224 of Food Psych with Lauren Newman 

• My 2017 piece on diabetes for Epicurious (contains nutritional minutiae)

• Small study showing that for people with Type 2 diabetes, their blood glucose responds to perceived sugar intake more than actual sugar intake (contains food- and weight-stigmatizing language and nutritional minutiae)

• Research showing that intuitive eating is associated with better diabetes management, regardless of weight (contains food- and weight-stigmatizing language and nutritional minutiae)