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Meet the man who hijacked your health and made you sick.

Modern health is a dumpster fire. And if you trace the origins, you'll find one man gleefully lighting the match: Ancel Keys.

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Zahra Sethna and Kristina Morros
Jan 24, 2025
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If you’ve never heard of Ancel Keys, buckle up. By some accounts, he is the main villain in your health story — a scientist who weaponized bad data to sell lies and set us on the road to chronic disease.

The low-fat lie that duped the world

Keys was a professor of physiology who, in the 1950s, proposed what became known as the diet-heart hypothesis, claim…

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