- John Yudkin
John Yudkin (8 August 1910 - 12 July 1995) was a British physiologist and scientist. He was raised in
London in aJewish family that had fled the Russianpogrom s of 1905. His father died when John was seven years old. His mother had to bring up five sons in very difficult circumstances. In 1933 he married Milly Himmelweit, who had fled from Germany. They had three sons and their partnership lasted 60 years.He wrote his PhD under the guidance of Marjorie Stephenson, a bacteriologist. He was very interested in science of nutrition. But to work in this field of research he had to become a medical doctor (
physician ). In 1938 he undertook research intovitamin A andriboflavin at the Dunn Nutrition Laboratory. He examined the link between sugar and various degenerative illnesses. During World War II he served as a military physician in West Africa and was busy with further studies.In 1945 he was appointed Professor of
Physiology at theUniversity of London . With his help the Bachelor's degree and Master's degree in nutrition were established at the College and the University. He advised the government of the young state ofIsrael on nutrition matters and was an energetic governor of theHebrew University of Jerusalem .Since 1957 he showed that the consumption of
sugar and refined sweeteners is closely associated withcoronary heart disease . He became internationally famous with his book "Pure, White and Deadly", which was also published in German.Literature
* Medicine and medical education in the new China, 1958
* The New Facts About the Sugar You Eat As a Cause of Heart Disease, Diabetes, and Other Killers. Peter H. Wyden, Publishing 1972
* Sweet and Dangerous, New York: Bantam Books, 1974
* The Penguin Encyclopaedia of Nutrition. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books; New York: Viking Penguin, 1985.
* Yudkin, John. Pure, White and Deadly. London; New York: Penguin, 1988
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