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I know he has few fans here, but this view of him by a more enlightened medical doctor is well worth sharing.

What Every Doctor Should Know About Ancel Key’s Experiments

The post starts off with a bang with the still-rare point that he was a PhD in oceanography, specializing in eels. Then she starts in on his crimes against science:

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For those of you who aren’t fully convinced that butter and eggs are healthy, I’ve devoted the first half of this article to highlighting why, when your doctor recommends that you swap out saturated fats in foods like butter and eggs for polyunsaturated fat in products like Smart Balance and packaged breakfast cereals, it’s largely thanks to Ancel Keys and his misleading, even dishonest, public statements.

... After Keys made the cover of Time magazine on Jan 13, 1961, the American public was introduced to the idea that saturated fats were clogging their arteries, and that idea ultimately led to a sea change in the foods we eat. Real foods would increasingly replaced by processed, and the era of obesity and chronic disease would begin.
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Keys based his claim that saturated fat increases blood cholesterol on the experiments he’d done. But the experiments were not performed using real foods rich in saturated fat. His experiments used saturated fats that had been artificially created from vegetable oils using a process called hydrogenation. Hydrogenated vegetable oils contain not just saturated fat but also trans fat and a whole host of other unnatural molecules.

That's right! When he said his experiments were done with butter, they were actually done with margarine.

This might be one to print out and take with you to the doctor's office