The Claim

Despite a decline in dietary cholesterol intake, the rise in cardiovascular mortality supports the hypothesis that fructose-containing sugars may be a major dietary contributor to cardiovascular disease.

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

What the research says

Roughly balanced

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Cause and effect
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In plain English

Even though people are eating less cholesterol, more people are dying from heart disease — so maybe sugar, especially fructose, is to blame instead.

See the scientific wording

The rise in cardiovascular mortality despite declining dietary cholesterol intake supports the hypothesis that fructose-containing sugars may be a major dietary contributor to cardiovascular disease.

What the research says

1 study

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

    Even though people are eating less cholesterol, heart disease is still rising — this study says sugar, especially fructose, might be the real culprit behind it, not cholesterol.

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