John Yudkin

John Yudkin FRSC 8 August 1910 12 July 1995 was a British physiologist and nutritionist and the founding Professor of the Department of Nutrition at Queen Elizabeth College London Yudkin wrote several books recommending lowcarbohydrate diets for weight loss including This Slimming Business 1958 He gained an international reputation for his book Pure White and Deadly 1972 which warned that the consumption of sugar sucrose which consists of fructose and glucose is dangerous to health an argument he had made since at least 1957 Specifically he wrote that sugar consumption was a factor in the development of conditions such as dental caries obesity diabetes and heart attack