Even though people are eating less cholesterol than they used to, more people are dying from heart disease — so something else in our diet, like sugar (fructose), might be the real culprit.
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Even though people are eating less cholesterol than they used to, more people are dying from heart disease — so something else in our diet, like sugar (fructose), might be the real culprit.
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Despite a decline in dietary cholesterol intake over the past 50 years, cardiovascular mortality has increased, indicating that other dietary factors, such as fructose, may be more relevant to heart disease risk than dietary cholesterol.
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Study: John Yudkin’s hypothesis: sugar is a major dietary culprit in the development of cardiovascular disease
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