Dr. Stephen Sinatra a well respected cardiologist and author of Cholesterol Myth discusses about Cholesterol and Heart disease. According to him, Cholesterol is not the number one perpetrator of most heart disease. In fact, only a small percentage of LDL is bad because it’s an inflammatory.

The number one perpetrator of the inflammation of the heart and arteries is the sugar. So here, we can see that sugar and heart disease is connected to each other. We are not only talking about diabetes here. Now we understand why often times, a person with diabetes also have heart problems because high sugar levels also causes inflammation to your cardiovascular system.

Watch the video closely so that we can have a better understanding on the relationship of Sugar to Heart Disease.