Eating a lot of fructose, like in sugary drinks, makes your liver produce more fat-carrying particles that can clog your arteries over time.

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John Yudkin’s hypothesis: sugar is a major dietary culprit in the development of cardiovascular disease

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2024

This study says eating too much sugar, especially fructose, makes your liver produce more bad fat particles that clog arteries, which matches exactly what the claim says.

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John Yudkin’s hypothesis: sugar is a major dietary culprit in the development of cardiovascular disease

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DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2024.1407108

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