Metabolic Stalinism: A Century of
Lost Opportunity
The tragedy of modern metabolic impairments and a rapid loss
of cerebral volume over
the past half century
has been the direct
result of influence by a
small number of powerful scientists who have
influenced negatively
the understanding of
the causes and mechanisms of a range of
degenerative diseases –
obesity/diabetes/heart
disease, and dementias. From the 1920s
through the 1970s the
major figure in diabetes research was Elliot
Joslin and his textbook
on diabetes was mandatory. Joslin held the
view that diabetes was
a fat-driven condition
and that sugars were
not the causative agency, in spite of the knowledge that incidence of
this condition dropped
K Ration Dinner Kit
dramatically
during
both world wars, when
sugars were not readily available.
During
the 1950s Ancel Keys,
a brilliant American
physiologist who pioneered research into
nutrition and developed the famous US
K-Rations for use by
US servicemen during
WW2, developed the
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theory that fats and
cholesterol were the
driving force of cardiovascular disease, and
that sugars were not
significant. This double theory was then
extended to include
obesity and metabolic syndrome, and this
remains the view to this
day. Any researchers
who opposed this view