Keto possibly superior to other diets
There was actually a study published in JAMA way back in the 50’s concluding that a higher fat diet was superior for weight loss. Too bad it got swept under the rug in favor of Ancel Keys’ “7 countries study.” The latter has cost this country a lot of money and heartache. Ironically, Ancel Keys moved to Italy in his retirment and adopted a Mediterranean diet and lived to be 100, while Americans left behind eating all the seed oils died…in ever increasing numbers.
I’ve probably said it too many times, but the first time I heard about how he cherry-picked the data for that study, I was designing safety-critical radio systems for commercial airplanes. It occurred to me if any of us people working on those systems did what he did, we’d be in jail. But in the public health world it was just peachy.