You ought to read "/The Big Fat Surprise/" by Nina Teicholz
(https://www.amazon.com/Big-Fat-Surprise-Butter-Healthy/dp/1451624425).
Her contention is that a guy by the name of Ancel Keys started it all
when he published a study in the 1950s called "The seven country study".
In it he asserted that the so-called "Mediterranean diet" was the key to
good health. Her research contends that the seven country study was
cherry picked from a study of about 30 countries. Keys went on a
multi-decade crusade to sell his theory, and a bunch of other
questionable dietary studies.
The American diet changed from a largely meat-centric (and higher in
fat) diet to the allegedly healthy low-fat diet of today.
Part of her analysis looks at the remarkably successful Atkins diet that
turns the Mediterranean diet on its head.
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On 1/22/2017 2:55 PM, Josh Reynolds wrote:
The more medical research I do, the more history I read, the more I'm
rapidly coming to the belief that the increase in processed sugar in
the 1940s and beyond in American foods has had a hugely negative
effect on our current social, mental health, medical, and political
issues. Not that it's the root cause (way too many factors), but it's
definitely a huge contributing factor.
Has anybody else looked up any research on this lately?
