The Bluestocking, vol XXIII: deadly sugar and party paydays
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Evening all, sorry for the late night newsletter. Hope you enjoy the links! Helen The Sugar Conspiracy Ancel Keys was brilliant, charismatic, and combative. A friendly colleague at the University of Minnesota described him as, “direct to the point of bluntness, critical to the point of skewering”; others were less charitable. He exuded conviction at a time when confidence was most welcome. The president, the physician and the scientist formed a reassuring chain of male authority, and the notion that fatty foods were unhealthy started to take hold with doctors, and the public. (Eisenhower himself cut saturated fats and cholesterol from his diet altogether, right up until his death, in 1969, from heart disease.)
The Bluestocking, vol XXIII: deadly sugar and party paydays
The Bluestocking, vol XXIII: deadly sugar and…
The Bluestocking, vol XXIII: deadly sugar and party paydays
Evening all, sorry for the late night newsletter. Hope you enjoy the links! Helen The Sugar Conspiracy Ancel Keys was brilliant, charismatic, and combative. A friendly colleague at the University of Minnesota described him as, “direct to the point of bluntness, critical to the point of skewering”; others were less charitable. He exuded conviction at a time when confidence was most welcome. The president, the physician and the scientist formed a reassuring chain of male authority, and the notion that fatty foods were unhealthy started to take hold with doctors, and the public. (Eisenhower himself cut saturated fats and cholesterol from his diet altogether, right up until his death, in 1969, from heart disease.)