Seven Countries Study

They've also been drinking 700 milliliters of wine.

Now, I can't come in here and tell you to start doing that, but I can tell you, and we know this with great, something called the Seven Countries Study, followed male cohorts at five-year intervals from 1965 to 1990 and recorded everything they ate.

400 grams of pasta and or bread a day, almost a bottle of wine a day.

So...

Ancel, Ancel Keys.

Ancel Keys era un profesor de la Universidad de Minnesota que hizo el Seven Countries Study, que fue el primer estudio que analizó la dieta mediterránea y lo que hizo fue desplazarse a Creta a vivir para estudiar la dieta mediterránea.

Allí estudió la longevidad y la, la, la asoció, pues con, con los hábitos.

En Japón es distinto.

The question is, what was the evidence when Ansel Keys and the American Heart Association put out this video? very strong policy statement in 1961.

And the answer is there was one large study by Ancel Keys himself called the Seven Countries Study.

It's been analyzed by me, by others.

The fundamental flaw in it is it that shows association and not causation, right? he purported to show in seven countries, mainly in Europe, but also the US and Japan, that the more saturated fat you ate, the more likely you were to die from a heart attack, from cardiovascular disease.

And again, he invented K-rations that fed soldiers during the war.

And he was a lead researcher in a famous study called the Seven Countries Study, which looked at the root cause of cardiovascular disease.

Now, his biggest idea was that specific dietary fats could raise blood cholesterol levels and increase the risk of heart disease.

Kind of simple, right? Like a lot of medicine is based on that now.

Do we have epidemiology? Oh my God.

Back to Ancel Keys, Seven Countries Study and beyond.

We've known for decades that high saturated fat diets kill people.

And that's not what Dave Asprey's saying, that's not what keto and paleo people are saying.

That, of course, should have been the last we've heard of Keys' theory.

Inexplicably, however, he was able to establish significant influence within the American Heart Association, and by 1958, the American Heart Association, with Keys now at the helm, launched the Seven Countries Study.

Not surprisingly, he anchored the results with three countries from his six countries graph, perhaps foretelling the findings before it was eventually published in 1978.

It's also pertinent to point out that at the time, the American Heart Association was sponsored by Procter & Gamble, makers of the extremely profitable vegetable oil shortening Crisco.

And on the back of his political maneuvering, Ancel Keys' star continued to rise.

In 1961, he fronted the cover of Time magazine, in which his views featured prominently in an article vilifying saturated fat and going so far as to claim that smoking played little role in heart disease.

Ironically, it's documented that by 1968, Keys' own Seven Countries Study indicated that cardiovascular disease was actually associated and probably caused by smoking, although this competing information was not disclosed to the public until 1980, well after the horse had bolted.

Still, the Seven Countries Study didn't necessarily have to be the final word on the topic.

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... who, who in the, I think in the '60s, brought out the, brought out the Seven Countries Studies-

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... where he looked at 22 countries and released the results of 6-