Growing Body Of Research Challenges Prevailing Views About Role Of Fats In Diet.

reports that in recent years, studies have cast doubt on the findings, methods, and prestige of University of Minnesota academic Ancel Keys, who in 1957 “embarked on an ambitious, global mission to reverse the heart attack epidemic through studying diet,” producing research that “helped define national nutrition guidelines today,” but may have “played a role in creating the American obesity and diabetes epidemics.” The article says Ohio State University researcher Jeff Volek said that challenging the prevalent orthodoxy of Keys’ work in the 1990s “could mean trouble with peer review boards or even losing consideration from funding sources like the National Institutes of Health.” https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/14/umn-nutritionist-presents-a-fat-problem-for-modern/