Tag: world war 2

• Whole-food Plant-based Diets and Impact on Heart Disease Mortality

  A common accusation regarding Keys is that he made his claims regarding diet and nutrition without the benefit of studies. There are numerous studies both before and after this paper performed by Keys and other researchers.

  Some examples are listed below.

  One result of the British naval blockade of the North Sea during WWI was that over 400,000 Germans died due to malnutrition from 1914 to 1918.

  Dr. Mikkel Hindhede (1862-1945) was the manager of the Danish National Laboratory for Nutrition Research in Copenhagen during World War I.

  Denmark converted to a diet "mostly of milk, vegetables and bran" and "the people received sufficient nutrition".

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  30 April 2026

• Ancel Keys and the High-Fat Diet “Experts”

  Popular commentators frequently accuse Keys of manipulating data in his 1953 paper, Atherosclerosis, A Problem in Newer Public Health.

  This study is sometimes referred as the Six Countries Study. A number of popular commentators think this is the Seven Countries Study— they count England and Wales as two countries.

  This paper was presented in Amsterdam in 1952 and in January 1953 in New York.

  Far too much attention is paid to one page of a minor discussion paper written in the early 1950s. Keys writes,

  “The fact that the present high rate from degenerative heart disease in the United States is not inevitable is easily shown by the comparison with some other countries.”

  This was the purpose of the paper.

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  24 July 2018