Part Two:

Finding a Heart Healthy Diet

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Preface to Part Two Finding a Heart Healthy Diet

The Framingham Heart Study Begins Many Important studies - Too Many Black Swans

Ancel Keys - The Diet Heart Hypothesis - Saturated Fats / Mediterranean Diets The Cholesterol Issue

Ancel Keys on the Cover of "Time." Framingham "Saturated fats do not cause heart disease!"

President Eisenhower Failure of Best Care. Anti-Coronary Club - Mr Fit

Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial - Four Interventions - Low Cholesterol, Low Fat, Blood Pressure, Stop Smoking

Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial - Result - - Failure again - Yet adopted as the Standard of Care

Dietary Guidelines for Americans 1977 Are red meat and saturated fats and cholesterol causing heart disease, obesity, diabetes and some forms of cancer?

Private Public Partnerships Combining Talent? - Saving Public Money? Commercial Money in Research

Thomas Kuhn - Scientific Revolutions - Paradigms All paradigms are based on assumptions.

The Standard American Diet "Dietary Goals for Americans," was issued in February, 1980. - Nutrition Wars continue

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