Just a spoonful of sugar helps the blood pressure go up.

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Stephanie Nguyen

Robert H Lustig

چکیده

While thoroughly endearing, Mary Poppins isn’t a doctor, and her medical advice is highly suspect. Hypertension, both as a primary phenomenon and as a component of the metabolic syndrome, has been increasing in prevalence over the last two decades [1,2]. Naturally, dietary indiscretion is the main culprit, but which dietary factor? The US FDA recently announced plans to regulate salt consumption in an effort to curb this epidemic [3]. But might they have missed something? Could it be our sugar intake as well?

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