[ExI] Ancel Keys strikes again

Rafal Smigrodzki rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com
Thu Apr 14 01:54:57 UTC 2016


Some of you may be familiar with the name of Ancel Keys, the charlatan who
launched the low-fat diet fad and managed to get the might of the US
government behind his teachings. He is the one who cherry-picked
international diet comparison data in a landmark study at the onset of the
crusade against saturated fat.

Turns out he was guilty of intentional concealment of crucial research
results that could have nipped this insanity in the bud:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/12/this-study-40-years-ago-could-have-reshaped-the-american-diet-but-it-was-never-fully-published/

Apparently, he found in a controlled study that foods rich in
polyunsaturated fat killed people, while consumption of foods rich in
saturated fat resulted in longer survival. I am using a strong word like
"resulted" because it was a well-powered interventional study, not one of
hundreds of wishy-washy observational studies that can be always spun any
way you want. He did not like the results of his study, so he did not fully
publish them, and this most likely contributed to millions of unnecessary
deaths from exposure to vegetable oils and from reductions in animal fat
intake.

Ancel Keys may be one of the most deadly criminals of the 20th century, on
par with Eichmann and his ilk.

Rafał
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