Follow a lecture by Dr David Diamond to see how food myths spread.

BOOKS

Letter on Corpulence
Addressed to the Public — third edition
https://www.google.com/books/edition/...

Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution
https://www.amazon.com/Dr-Atkins-New-...

The Great Starvation Experiment: The Heroic Men Who Starved so That Millions Could Live
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Starvati...

How to eat well and stay well the Mediterranean way by Ancel and Margaret Keys
https://www.amazon.com/How-eat-well-s...

War on Disease: History of the Lister Institute
https://www.amazon.com/War-Disease-Hi...

Nutritional Epidemiology by Walter Willett
https://www.amazon.com/Nutritional-Ep...

Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health, by Marion Nestle
https://www.amazon.com/Food-Politics-...

VIDEOS

David Diamond- Demonization and Deception in Cholesterol Research
   • David Diamond- Demonization and Decep...  

Steve Jobs, Climate Change, and Beef: Insights from Chris MacAskill | The Proof Podcast
   • Steve Jobs, Climate Change, and Beef:...  

Mastering the Art of Healthy Eating: Diet Tips and Nutrition Research | Dr Willett | The Proof
   • Mastering the Art of Healthy Eating: ...  

The Minnesota Semistarvation Experiment
   • The Minnesota Semistarvation Experiment  

Italy and Crete Pilot Study 1957
   • Italy and Crete Pilot Survey 1957  

PAPERS

Statin therapy is not warranted for a person with high LDL-cholesterol on a low-carbohydrate diet by David Diamond
https://journals.lww.com/co-endocrino...

Ancel Keys: The legacy of a giant in physiology, nutrition, and public health
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...

Ten Years of Life: Is It a Matter of Choice?
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama...

Red Meat Consumption and Mortality: Results From 2 Prospective Cohort Studies
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama...

Cross-cultural associations:
Cross-cultural correlations after 25 and 50 years follow-up
https://www.sevencountriesstudy.com/s...

So Is It Okay to Eat More Red and Processed Meat? A study last October said so, but the journal’s decision to publish wasn’t necessarily okay.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...

10 patients, 10 years – Long term follow-up of cardiovascular risk factors in Glut1 deficiency treated with ketogenic diet therapies: A prospective, multicenter case series
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Review of Big Fat Surprise should have questioned author's claims by Henry Blackburn
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/la...

Long term effects of ketogenic diet in obese subjects with high cholesterol level
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16652...

They Starved So That Others Be Better Fed: Remembering Ancel Keys and the Minnesota Experiment
https://jn.nutrition.org/article/S002...

LESSONS FROM SERUM CHOLESTEROL STUDIES IN JAPAN, HAWAII AND LOS ANGELES by Ancel Keys
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rzdJ...

Time magazine cover story of Ancel Keys
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1at-y...

Atherosclerosis: A Problem in Newer Public Health by Ancel Keys 1953
http://www.epi.umn.edu/cvdepi/wp-cont...

Fat in the Diet and Mortality from Heart Disease
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X1mT...

Comparative ecologic relationships of saturated fat, sucrose, food groups, and a Mediterranean food pattern score to 50-year coronary heart disease mortality rates among 16 cohorts of the Seven Countries Study
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4143...

Further response from Hoenselaar
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa...

0:00 Truth goggles?
2:10 Dr. Diamond claim about LDL
2:49 Banting: low carb?
6:31 Densmore: no carbs?
8:07 Kellogg: vegetarian?
8:38 Pennington & Atkins: fat?
9:53 Is low carb healthy?
10:53 Ancel Keys
12:19 The Minnesota Starvation Experiment
13:41 Ancel Keys Time magazine cover
14:34 Ancel Keys famous 1953 graph
23:03 The Seven Countries Study
25:33 Epidemiology
29:18 Dr. Diamond paper on statins
30:47 France
34:32 How misinformation spreads