Eating a lot of fructose—like the sugar in soda and sweet snacks—can cause your liver to make more fat and pump it into your blood as triglycerides, which may increase your risk of 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, makes your liver produce more fat, which goes into your blood and raises triglyceride levels—this is a known cause of heart disease. So yes, it supports the claim.

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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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