Sugar is the main culprit

A recent study, published in our local paper the Pantagraph, supports Gary Taubes' contention that sugar is a major culprit for hypertension. It focuses on this link only, not purporting to support Taubes' other claims that sugar is the cause of higher cholesterol, heart disease, diabetes, possibly Alzheimer's, or as Taubes puts it, practically all the major diseases of modern civilization.