I love the headline:
"The Questionable Link Between Saturated Fat and Heart Disease"
Read the entire article.
You will find concealed bad data collection practices -- that were concealed for nearly 50 years. You will find that the so-called "sample" of over 650 men were in fact just a few dozen. You will find that he took their "survey data" during Lent, a time when (in the period in question) he had to know Catholics do not eat meat. At all.
You will find willful and intentional refusal to investigate clearly-sounded warnings. You will find professors who lobbied Congress to endorse "nutrition" based on these so-called "studies."
And you will find that the American Heart Association is alleged to have been founded in part by Proctor & Gamble, the manufacturer of Crisco.
Our half-century effort to cut back on the consumption of meat, eggs and whole-fat dairy has a tragic quality. More than a billion dollars have been spent trying to prove Ancel Keys's hypothesis, but evidence of its benefits has never been produced. It is time to put the saturated-fat hypothesis to bed and to move on to test other possible culprits for our nation's health woes.
Put it to bed?
I say it's time to bury it, along with the people and institutions that promoted it.