I'm disappointed in that you seem to agree with the demonization of Keys without reading any of his work. I'm sure he would agree that scientific knowledge and understanding develops. His certainly did, he continued to conduct many studies both in the laboratory and in the field over a very long career.
Here is the paper containing the oft miss cited graph. The paper comes from 1953.
http://www.wisenutritioncoaching.co...clerosis-A-Problem-in-Newer-Public-Health.pdf .
Keys used data from 1948-1949 from
6 countries using WHO and FAO sources to create a graph You can read why the countries for that graph were selected or rather not selected. He wanted similar countries to the US, because what concerned him was the increasing mortality from heart disease in American men. He did not use data from countries that had recently been occupied or suffered movement populations in WW2. He didn't use spurious data from countries that didn't for example actually have death registration systems. Most importantly it wasn't a study, just one graph in a review about possible links between dietary fat and cholesterol and serum cholesterol and serum cholesterol, fat and heart disease.
Four years later, 2 other researchers critiqued the graph from the paper because of the selection of countries. The data they used was from 1951-3 The data for this period included 22 countries so they used that. That paper isn't online but there is an analysis with screen shots of it here .
https://rawfoodsos.com/2011/12/22/the-truth-about-ancel-keys-weve-all-got-it-wrong/
The Seven Countries study was a prospective one and did not start until 1958. It's focus was on not on the countries used in the graph. It focused on areas where traditional, contrasting diets were still being consumed ,cohorts also came from more industrial areas in each of the countries. The study could not report for many years and continued in some phases for 50. There are spin offs into aging that are continuing.
http://www.sevencountriesstudy.com/about-the-study/history/
It's amazing how the internet echo chamber works something is repeated ad infinitum, it even manages to get into books and papers as if it were fact. One blogger has looked at this studied 22 countries but cherry picked 7 of them myth .
https://thescienceofnutrition.wordp...ality-from-heart-disease-a-plagiaristic-note/
Keys wrote about the effect of trans fats on triglycerides back in 1961. He also demonstrated in the lab that hydrogenated oils raised serum cholesterol. The Seven Countries data was also analysed to show differences between fat types (eg trans fats and mortality and certain saturated fats and mortality had fairly similar correlations at 25 years). In an earlier analysis a lower mortality was associated with a higher consumption of olive oil ( but he certainly didn't claim causation see last sentence of abstract )
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091743585710493,
http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/124/6/903
The diet that Keys promoted was based on a Cretan one which was far from the lowest fat diet in those that he studied. One of his major books for was Eat well stay well the Mediterranean way, which as this blogger writes is far from a 'diet' book with sections on wine, game meats and expresso coffee
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2469.htm (rant over, will go away again)
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