Sugar consumption associated with dementia risk, new evidence.
“Pure, white and deadly, how sugar is killing us”, this 1972 publication by British physiologist John Yudkin, following many years of research, was the first warning against the health effects of sugar consumption. Curiously, his ideas were rejected at the time.
Information later revealed that, at the same time, the industrial sugar lobby was funding studies drawing attention to the dangers of fat consumption and minimizing those of sugar.
Since then, global sugar production has increased 4-fold!
A large-scale study (following a cohort of over 210,000 people), the largest conducted to date, shows that daily consumption of dietary sugar is significantly associated with the risk of all-cause dementia and Alzheimer’s disease (1).
After the links demonstrated between sugar consumption, cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders, this study confirms the key role played by sugar in the rise of age-related diseases.
Today, despite the evidence, the sugar controversy persists, with researchers and public health advocates on one side denouncing the dangers of sugar, and the industrial sugar lobby on the other, seeking to trivialize the risks associated with sugar with misleading slogans such as “consume in moderation”.
And yet we must stop eating sugar, and without moderation!
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(1) : ZHANG, Sirui, XIAO, Yi, CHENG, Yangfan, et al. Associations of sugar intake, high-sugar dietary pattern, and the risk of dementia: a prospective cohort study of 210,832 participants. BMC medicine, 2024, vol. 22, no 1, p. 298.
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