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Ep. 52 Philip Ovadia MD Metabolic Health, Diet, Cholesterol, Heart Disease, and Modern Medicine

The Moral Imagination

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Saturated Fat and Heart Disease

In the 1970s, Ansel Keys published a seminal study on saturated fat and heart disease. He put forth this theory that people were eating in their diets is what was causing heart disease. In 1980, the first version of the US dietary guidelines are released. We eat less fat, we eat less meat, we eat more grains, cereals, processed food,. Our health has worsened by any metric you can look at.

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