Eating too much fructose—like the sugar in soda and candy—can raise a substance in your blood called uric acid, which may damage your blood vessels, raise your blood pressure, and cause body-wide inflammation, all of which can lead to heart disease.

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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 that eating too much sugar, especially fructose, raises uric acid in the blood, which can damage blood vessels and lead to high blood pressure and heart disease—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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