Professor John Yudkin of the University of London, England, one of the world’s leading nutritionists, has given a hard blow to the theory that the amount of fat in a diet is connected with heart disease. Dr. Yudkin has demonstrated by his studies of two groups of heart patients in a London hospital in 1964 that the excessive consumption of sugar, not of fat, is the prime cause of the epidemic increase of heart disease in civilized countries. Quoting studies made by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, he has shown that sugar consumption has increased in countries with the highest prevalence of heart disease even faster than has fat consumption. In 1966 he and his associates repeated the studies under rigid scientific control and came to the same conclusion: “the person taking a lot of sugar has a greatly increased chance of developing myocardial infarction.”
One of the greatest authorities on the sugar vis-a-vis heart topic is M. O. Bruker, M.D., medical director at Eben-Ezers Hospital in Lemgo, Germany. For several decades he has conducted extensive studies on thousands of patients to determine the effect of sugar on their health. He has become convinced that the excessive consumption of white sugar is a major causative factor not only in arteriosclerosis and heart disease, but also in such diseases as caries, digestive disorders, liver and gallbladder diseases, obesity, and even cancer.
Findings of an American physician, Benjamin P. Sandler, M.D., are corroborative to the findings of many European doctors on sugar and heart disease. He also believes that sugar and starches in the diet, not fat, are responsible for the great increase in heart disease. He claims that heart attacks are caused by an oxygen deficiency in the tissues—which is caused by low blood sugar—which is caused by over-consumption of sugar and starches.
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