Sugar as a Drug - Radio Broadcast with PLID Physicians

Excessive consumption of sugar can promote cardiovascular diseases and lead to diabetes. In addition, the growing number of diabetes cases is considered as one of the major medical challenges of our time. Cardiovascular diseases are the number one cause of death in Germany. What are the traces that the "sweet life" leaves in us? Sugar, like other substances, also serves the reward system of man? How does this work in particular? What is the relationship between stress and eating habits? Can these mechanisms lead to an addiction?

The IPI physicians Prof. Andreas Birkenfeld (group leader and head of the Center for Metabolic Vascular Medicine in Dresden) and Prof. Peter Schwarz (group leader and head of the Diabetes Prevention Department at the University Clinic Dresden) are talking with Prof. Wieland Kiess (Director of the Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine at the Leipzig University Hospital and Member of the Board of the Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases) about sugar in all living conditions, its risks and addiction potential in the MDR broadcast "Dienstags direkt ".

Podcast: www.mdr.de/mdr1-radio-sachsen/podcast/dienstags/audio-348466.html