It is sugar, not salt, that causes high blood pressure, according to a new paper published in the American Journal of Cardiology:
‘This notion is supported by meta analyses of randomised control trials (large-scale studies) suggesting that sugar is more strongly related to blood pressure in humans than sodium.
‘Encouraging consumers to hold the sugar, not the salt, may be the better dietary strategy to achieve blood pressure control.’
Back in 1986, Linus Pauling cited John Yudkin‘s work, in How to Live Longer and Feel Better:
Against the general public acceptance of the proposition that coronary heart disease is caused by a high intake of animal fat (saturated fat) and the eating of foods containing cholesterol, Yudkin himself has shown that for some countries the correlation of coronary disease with intake of sugar is much better than that with intake of fat.
(Hat tip to Mangan.)