[ExI] Ancel Keys strikes again

[William Flynn Wallace]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 8:54 PM, Rafal Smigrodzki <
rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>

​I too am interested in the history of this, and so I bought The Big Fat
Surprise, by Nina Teicholz, who spent nine years researching it.  Will let
you know.

bill w​


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