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What if sugar is worse than just empty calories? An essay by Gary Taubes

BMJ 2018; 360 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j5808 (Published 04 January 2018) Cite this as: BMJ 2018;360:j5808

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Re: What if sugar is worse than just empty calories? An essay by Gary Taubes

In the article in BMJ current issue, Gary Taubes writes: "This research (Stanford University, my note!), mostly in animals, supported John Yudkin’s contention that consuming large doses of sugar could cause a cluster of metabolic abnormalities that associate with heart disease: insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes, hepatic lipogenesis, dyslipidaemia, ectopic fat accumulation, and perhaps visceral fat accumulation as well.9".

This is my question: "Do you think that consuming large doses of sugar could cause a cluster of metabolic abnormalities that associate with heart disease in all individuals, rather than possibly in subjects involved by relative constitution-dependent, Inherited Real Risk, I've discovered 20 years ago?".

Sergio Stagnaro and Simone Caramel. Inherited Real Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: bedside diagnosis, pathophysiology and primary prevention. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2013; 4: 17. Published online 2013 Feb 26. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2013.00017 http://www.frontiersin.org/Review/ReviewForum.aspx [MEDLINE]

Stagnaro S., West PJ., Hu FB., Manson JE., Willett WC. Diet and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes. N Engl J Med. 2002 Jan 24;346(4):297-298. [MEDLINE]

Sergio Stagnaro and Simone Caramel. The Key Role of Vasa Vasorum Inherited Remodeling in QBS Microcirculatory Theory of Atherosclerosis. Frontiers in Epigenomics and Epigenetics. http://www.frontiersin.org/Epigenomics_and_Epigenetics/10.3389/fgene.201... [MEDLINE]

Sergio Stagnaro and Simone Caramel. The Inherited Real Risk of Coronary Artery Disease, Nature PG., European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 67, 683 (June 2013) | doi:10.1038/ejcn.2013.37 [MEDLINE]

Caramel S., Marchionni M., Stagnaro S. Morinda citrifolia Plays a Central Role in the Primary Prevention of Mitochondrial-dependent Degenerative Disorders. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. 2015;16(4):1675. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25743850 [MEDLINE]

Stagnaro Sergio. Epidemiological evidence for the non-random clustering of the components of the metabolic syndrome: multicentre study of the Mediterranean Group for the Study of Diabetes. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2007 Feb 7; [MEDLINE]

Stagnaro Sergio. Pre-Metabolic Syndrome, Classic And Variant, Precedes For Decades The Metabolic Syndrome. April20, 2009. http://sciphu.com, and at URL http://wwwshiphusemeioticscom-stagnaro.blogspot.com/

Stagnaro Sergio. Pre-Metabolic Syndrome and Metabolic Syndrome: Biophysical-Semeiotic Viewpoint.International Atherosclerosis Society. www.athero.org, 29 April, 2009. http://www.athero.org/commentaries/comm904.asp

Stagnaro S., Singh RB. Influence Of Nutrition On Pre-Metabolic Syndrome And Vascular Variability Syndrome. Editorial, The Open Nutrition Journal. Bentham Sci. Publish. Nutraceuticals Journal, 2009, Volume 2, http://www.benthamscience.com/open/tonutraj/articles/V002/118TONUTRAJ.pdf

Competing interests: No competing interests

08 January 2018
Sergio Stagnaro
Director of Quantum Biophysical Semeiotic Research Laboratory
Simone Caramel, Marco Marchionni, Mario Siniscalchi, Massimo Rinaldi
Quantum Biophysical Semeiotic International Cociety
Via Erasmo Piaggio N°23/8 16039 Riva Trigoso Genoa Italy