Ancel Benjamin Keys (January 26, 1904 – November 20, 2004) was an American physiologist who studied the influence of diet on health. In particular, he hypothesized that replacing dietary saturated fat with polyunsaturated fat reduced cardiovascular heart disease.[1][2] Modern dietary recommendations by health organizations,[3][4] systematic reviews,[5][6] and national health agencies[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] corroborate this.
Keys studied starvation in men and published The Biology of Human Starvation (1950), which remains the only source of its kind. He examined the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease and was responsible for two famous diets: K-rations, formulated as balanced meals for combat soldiers in World War II, and the Mediterranean diet, which he popularized with his wife Margaret.
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^"Fat". Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council and Department of Health and Ageing. September 24, 2012. Retrieved September 23, 2019.
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with his wife Margaret. Ancel Benjamin Keys was born in Colorado Springs on January 26, 1904 the son of Benjamin Pious Keys (1883–1961) and Carolyn Emma...
ISBN 0-674-80237-3. Keys, Ancel (1959). Eat Well and Stay Well. United States: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0-385-06575-7. "AncelKeys Obituary". The American...
Experiment: AncelKeys and the Men Who Starved for Science. New York: Free Press. ISBN 0-7432-7030-4. with calories restricted to 1.570 per day Keys, A.; Brožek...
diet was first publicized in 1975 by the American biologist AncelKeys and chemist Margaret Keys (a husband and wife team), but failed to gain widespread...
Countries Study is an epidemiological longitudinal study directed by AncelKeys at what is today the University of Minnesota Laboratory of Physiological...
1950s, White collaborated with AncelKeys in developing the diet-heart hypothesis. White authored the Foreword to AncelKey's 1959 book Eat Well and Stay...
theory of nutrition started in the early 1950s in the United States by AncelKeys and promoted in much of the Western world. Naughton first saw Super Size...
Mare ('Sea Museum'), in an ancient building named Palazzo Vinciprova. AncelKeys (1904–2004), an American physiologist, lived and worked from 1963 to 1998...
Yudkin's failure to account for confounding factors led to harsh words from AncelKeys at the time. From the late 2000s, there was a resurgence of interest in...
were limited. These findings were established in large part by scientist AncelKeys. The pyramid is divided into daily, weekly, and monthly frequencies, but...
(Kent State University Press, 2006). Tracy, Sarah W. "A global journey–AncelKeys, the FAO, and the rise of transnational heart disease epidemiology, 1949–1958...
differences in coronary heart disease. Why are women so superior? The 1995 AncelKeys Lecture". Circulation. 95 (1): 252–64. doi:10.1161/01.cir.95.1.252. PMID 8994444...
woodstockschool.in. Tucker, Todd (2007). The Great Starvation Experiment: AncelKeys and the Men Who Starved for Science. University of Minnesota Press. pp...
was unclear, with conflicting statements made by both Ubisoft and Ancel. While Ancel and Ubisoft reported several times that the game was still in development...
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ISBN 9788185002309. Tucker, Todd (2007). The Great Starvation Experiment: AncelKeys and the Men Who Starved for Science. University of Minnesota Press. p...
July 1972 edition of the Journal of Chronic Diseases by AncelKeys and others. In this paper, Keys argued that what he termed the BMI was "if not fully satisfactory...
Psychological Association president and educational psychologist Lee Cronbach, AncelKeys, and Robert Sears himself. Over fifty men became college and university...
Calories and discussed information cascades and the role of physiologist AncelKeys in widely held beliefs related to diet and fat. Tierney follows Taubes...
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virus rather than bacteria. To study the effects of diet and nutrition, AncelKeys of the University of Minnesota Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene placed...
1990), American-born physician, pioneer in family planning. January 26 – AncelKeys (died 2004), American nutritionist. March 13 – René Dumont (died 2001)...
invented a method and machinery to score tests electronically. K-rations – AncelKeys developed the rations for the U.S. military and also conducted dietary...
produced more than 150 million pounds of Spam for the War Department. AncelKeys at the University of Minnesota is credited with creating K-rations. Honeywell...
politician, former leader of the Australian Democrats, after long illness. AncelKeys, 100, American scientist, co-inventor of the K-ration. Ian Lewis, 69,...
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