Physician who pioneered a diet to lower cholesterol

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In an article on nutrition in this newspaper in 2005, Professor Barry Lewis was hailed by the writer as “the greatest brain in the world when it comes to lipids”. The content of the piece pertained to the health benefits of drinking orange juice first thing in the morning and whether it produced too much bad cholesterol and increased the risk of heart disease. The renowned St Thomas’ professor of lipid metabolism — namely the breakdown and storage of fats for energy — would be the clear expert on the matter and his answer was reassuring: orange juice was unsuitable only in its long-life versions because of the high sugar content that could trigger the production of large amounts of triglycerides, another sort of blood

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