The Truth About Ancel Keys: We’ve All Got It Wrong

Just an incredible blog post about one of the most important studies behind America’s fear of dietary fat.

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Why Coconut Oil Isn’t Fit for Pigs! | Physical Culture Study on April 28, 2015 at 9:31 am
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[…] across the United States for hungry customers. Yes before the onset of dieticians waving Ancel Keys‘s case studies, coconut oil was a staple of the US diet for some Americans. The Second World […]

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Misused or Misunderstood? The History of the Body Mass Index | Physical Culture Study on July 30, 2015 at 8:34 am
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[…] Ancel Keys, the man often accused of leading the anti-fat movements of the 70s and 80s, was also influential in the proliferation of BMI charts amongst doctors. In 1972, physiology he published “Indices of Relative Weight and Obesity,” a landmark study of more than 7,400 men in five countries examining which height-weight formula matched up best with each subject’s body-fat percentage, as measured more directly. Keys was attempting to settle a decade’s long debate amongst the medical community about which formula best measured obesity and life expectancy. […]

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Guest Post: The Nutritional value of avocados – 7 reasons to eat this delicious food – Physical Culture Study on January 11, 2017 at 11:01 am
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[…] decades we were led to believe that all fats, no matter where they came from, were the work of the devil and if we wanted to stay […]

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Old School Supplements: Choline and Inositol – Physical Culture Study on March 28, 2017 at 4:21 pm
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[…] A behaviour particularly common amongst North American bodybuilders. Owing primarily to the low fat scare of the 1980s and 1990s, many bodybuilding aficionados still discard the egg yolk for fear of its […]

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What Is My BMI | So Am I Overweight? on June 3, 2018 at 11:08 am
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[…] Ancel Keys, the man often accused of leading the anti-fat movements of the 70s and 80s, was also influential in the proliferation of BMI for women charts amongst doctors. In 1972, physiology he published “Indices of Relative Weight and Obesity,” a landmark study of more than 7,400 men in five countries examining which height-weight formula matched up best with each subject’s body-fat percentage, as measured more directly. Keys was attempting to settle a decade’s long debate amongst the medical community about which formula best measured obesity and life expectancy. […]

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BMI Index | So Am I Overweight? on June 3, 2018 at 11:10 am
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[…] Ancel Keys, the man often accused of leading the anti-fat movements of the 70s and 80s, was also influential in the proliferation of BMI charts amongst doctors. In 1972, physiology he published “Indices of Relative Weight and Obesity,” a landmark study of more than 7,400 men in five countries examining which height-weight formula matched up best with each subject’s body-fat percentage, as measured more directly. Keys was attempting to settle a decade’s long debate amongst the medical community about which formula best measured obesity and life expectancy. […]

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Body Mass Index | So Am I Overweight? on June 3, 2018 at 11:30 am
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[…] Ancel Keys, the man often accused of leading the anti-fat movements of the 70s and 80s, was also influential in the proliferation of BMI charts amongst doctors. In 1972, physiology he published “Indices of Relative Weight and Obesity,” a landmark study of more than 7,400 men in five countries examining which height-weight formula matched up best with each subject’s body-fat percentage, as measured more directly. Keys was attempting to settle a decade’s long debate amongst the medical community about which formula best measured obesity and life expectancy. […]

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BMI | So Am I Overweight? on June 3, 2018 at 11:40 am
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[…] Ancel Keys, the man often accused of leading the anti-fat movements of the 70s and 80s, was also influential in the proliferation of BMI charts amongst doctors. In 1972, physiology he published “Indices of Relative Weight and Obesity,” a landmark study of more than 7,400 men in five countries examining which height-weight formula matched up best with each subject’s body-fat percentage, as measured more directly. Keys was attempting to settle a decade’s long debate amongst the medical community about which formula best measured obesity and life expectancy. […]

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