At last we are getting some movement on Cholesterol’s innocence and sugar’s guilt

BMJ 2013;346:e7800

Right now, beyond reiterating sugar’s obvious importance as a source of calories, even the British Heart Foundation feels that present uncertainties prevent it taking a position on other effects it might have. But Lustig remains confident that things will continue to move in his (and Yudkin’s) direction. We have causation as well as correlation, he says. “These shifts occur slowly. I think we’re in the middle of a shift. We will see where it goes.”

BMJ – “Sugar and the heart: old ideas revisited”