Ansel Keys News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

A professor connects the dots between the historical roots of anti-fat bias and racism within medicine.

While there are conflicting studies about whether moderate wine consumption is good for your coronary health, it's a carcinogen.

>> how do you suppose we got this so wrong? >> the saturated fat has been the diet culprit of the past 50, 60 years. it goes back to the 1950s where america was in the throes of the heart disease epidemic which had arisen out of nowhere to become the nation's number one killer. president eisenhower had a heart attack in 1955. one of the ideas what caused heart disease was proposed by one scientist who said it was saturated fats. there were other ideas of the time. ansel keys got that idea implanted into the american heart association, the knew tragsal guidelines of the american heart associati...

Then you get a scientist that decides i'll make it my cause. ansel keys. before you know it they have the studies going on, they say this is what the study show and they prove beyond a shadow of a doubt, fat and meat high cholesterol which equals heart attack. we have to cut fat and cholesterol. but it was incomplete science. they didn't have the result of the science in yet. this sound familiar. by the time the science does come in, they find a different picture, in fact there is no correlation between fat. >> there is a story in the book that i think is probably one of the most important sto...

Then you get a scientist that decides i'll make it my cause. ansel keys. before you know it they have the studies going on, they say this is what the study show and they prove beyond a shadow of a doubt, fat and meat high cholesterol which equals heart attack. we have to cut fat and cholesterol. but it was incomplete science. they didn't have the result of the science in yet. this sound familiar. by the time the science does come in, they find a different picture, in fact there is no correlation between fat. >> there is a story in the book that i think is probably one of the most important sto...