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Suggestion: The 1977 USDGA should be called the President Eisenhower Diet after first eminent person to be prescribed the diet (by Ancel Keys PhD and Paul Dudley White MD in 1955) following President's 1st heart attack amzn.to/2ZzyigE
Over next 14 yrs, Eisenhower suffered 6 further heart attacks. His heart was defibrillated 14 times. He died in intractable heart failure. Heart transplant was not considered, amongst other reasons, because it was finally realised that he had T2DM (diagnosis originally missed)
At autopsy ”coronary atherosclerotic occlusive disease, multifocal, severe, with multiple recanalized thrombi” (p.321) is reported. His right coronary artery is patent; left anterior descending coronary artery has 10% narrowings; his circumflex artery is totally obstructed.
Since Eisenhower is insulin-resistant (IR), Keys’ high-carbohydrate low-fat diet is contra-indicated since it must produce carbohydrate-sensitive hypertriglyceridaemia, Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD), type 2 diabetes and atherogenic dyslipidaemia in those with IR.
Since Eisenhower is insulin-resistant (IR), Keys’ high-carbohydrate diet is contra-indicated since it produces carbohydrate-sensitive hypertriglyceridaemia, Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD), type 2 diabetes and atherogenic dyslipidaemia (in those with IR).
In part as result of this Presidential association, Keys’s untested diet that failed to prevent extensive coronary atherosclerosis would become low fat “heart-healthy” diet prescribed to billions of humans around world after 1977, specifically to prevent coronary atherosclerosis
And no one since has ever bothered to ask: If the diet did not work for Eisenhower, why should it work for me (or my patients)?
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