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Records Found in Dusty Basement Undermine Decades of Dietary Advice

“If biology has an Indiana Jones, it is Christopher Ramsden: he specializes in excavating lost studies, particularly those with the potential to challenge mainstream, government-sanctioned health advice. His latest excavation … undercuts a pillar of nutrition science. Ramsden, of the National Institutes of Health, unearthed raw data from a 40-year-old study, which challenges the dogma that eating vegetable fats instead of animal fats is good for the heart. The study [the Minnesota Coronary Experiment], the largest gold-standard experiment testing that idea, found the opposite, Ramsden and his colleagues reported in the BMJ.”

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