John Yudkin famous quotes

If only a small fraction of what is already known about the effects of sugar were to be revealed in relation to any other material used as a food additive, that material would promptly be banned.
-- John Yudkin

#Sugar #Used #Fractions

...In most of the affluent populations I have considered, the prevalence of coronary disease is associated with the consumption of sugar. Since sugar consumption is only one of a number of indices of wealth, the same sort of association (to coronary disease) exists with fat consumption, cigarette smoking, cars...
-- John Yudkin

#Dark #Numbers #Car

Professor Ian McDonald of Guy's hospital in London...has found that, in young men, sugar raises the level of cholesterol in the blood, and especially...tri-glycerides.
-- John Yudkin

#Dark #Men #Mcdonalds

I did not agree..to having my article censored. ...The published report of the conference gives my name as a participant, but you will not find in it the paper I read. ...Scientists as a group are no more, and no less, influenced by emotional and irrational reactions than other people are.
-- John Yudkin

#Dark #Emotional #Names

...Directors of a large food-manufacturing firm (:)...At one extreme (: one) said it was not his job to protect people from themselves; he was not forcing people to eat his products, and if they chose to do so at the risk of harming themselves, it was of their own free choice.
-- John Yudkin

#Jobs #Dark #People

...Almost everything inside was filled with sugar, cheese, and weight-loss tips.

A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar

Frankly, I don't trust any diet that doesn't allow sugar.

You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FØRTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.

I was of the “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade, then wonder why life didn’t give you freaking sugar so you could drink the stuff” school of thought.

Carbohydrates, and especially refined ones like sugar, make you produce lots of extra insulin. I've been keeping my intake really low ever since I discovered this. I've cut out all starch such as potatoes, noodles, rice, bread and pasta.

I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.

You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.

Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people live, while only a fraction of that amount is appropriated to service the densely populated slums.

The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.