The diet/heart hypothesis started as an attempt to show that eating cholesterol causes raised cholesterol levels causes heart disease. This is why Keys’ early studies in the 1950’s all focused on trying to establish a relationship between cholesterol intake and cholesterol levels. When absolutely none could be found, Keys needed to find another suspect and, for some reason, fat was the chosen one. Speaking personally, I can see some logic for trying to find a relationship between cholesterol eaten and cholesterol in the body. However, given that there isn’t one, I find no logic at all in the
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