Dietary carbohydrates: role of quality and quantity in chronic disease

BMJ. 2018 Jun 13:361:k2340. doi: 10.1136/bmj.k2340.

David S Ludwig^{1

2

3}, Frank B Hu^{3

4}, Luc Tappy⁵, Jennie Brand-Miller⁶

¹ New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA david.ludwig@childrens.harvard.edu.
² Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Department of Nutrition, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA.
⁴ Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
⁵ Department of Physiology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
⁶ Charles Perkins Centre, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.

Abstract

David S Ludwig and colleagues examine the links between different types of carbohydrates and health