I am now watching the 3rd video in the
Nutrition: Past and Future video series,
3 The Journalist Gary Taubes 3: Ancel Keys Was Very Bad 1
This video discusses how low-carbers, some paleo supporters and advocates of a high fat diet argue that Ancel Keys fooled most of the scientific community with flawed scientific studies. This argument is made by Gary Taubes in his book Good Calories, Bad Calories. Dr. Lustig also makes these arguments in the BBC series,
The Men Who Made Us Fat.Lustig's argument is that Ancel Keys decided that saturated fat was the cause of cardiovascular disease in 1952, before he did any scientific studies and then Keys spent the next 50 years of his career trying to justify this belief of his.
The problem with this is simple. It's not true.
In the 6 countries study of 1953, Keys showed a correlation between dietary fat and heart disease. But Keys had not yet focused on saturated fat. That would come later.
In the 7 countries study, released in 1970, Keys argued that serum cholesterol levels and dietary saturated fat was correlated with heart disease. So, Keys was willing to change his views based on the scientific evidence.
Also, this video takes on the mythology that Keys cherry picked the 7 countries included in the 7 countries study, that Keys deliberately excluded most of the 22 countries because if Keys had included them Keys' beliefs would have been proven false.
Again. Not true. A careful look at the data taken from 22 countries that Yerushalmy and Hilliboe talked about in their 1957 criticism of Keys shows that dietary animal fat was correlated with heart disease, but that dietary animal protein was even more strongly correlated with heart disease.
You can watch this video
here.