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Diet and Human Atherosclerosis — Carbohydrates

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Only recently have dietary carbohydrates been considered to play a harmful part in health. For thousands of years peoples have been consuming large quantities of carbohydrate, mainly because they are the basis of cheap food and because they satisfy hunger, and it was the dentists that were the first to point out that dietary carbohydrates could produce pathological lesions. Then in 1961 (1) it was reported that the level of triglyceride in the fasting serum seemed to be directly related to the amount of carbohydrate eaten.

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    Giorgio Ricci

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MacDonald, I. (1975). Diet and Human Atherosclerosis — Carbohydrates. In: Sirtori, C., Ricci, G., Gorini, S. (eds) Diet and Atherosclerosis. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 60. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9029-3_4

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