A wearying point-by-point takedown of everything Ansel Keys ever did. Another reviewer pointed out this book could be excellent source material for a future decent book on the topic - because this one isn't it.

Was there solid science behind the diet-heart hypothesis and the focus on reducing fat to lower cholesterol? Definitely not. Did the recommended low-fat diets cause harm to the generations that followed them? Possibly. Is there too much industry money in the American Heart Association and the RDA? Obviously, but that could be said about most "scientific" groups in government - from big-oil funded environmental research to the corn industry research into alternative fuels.

So two interesting books here - the effects of diet on health (full body and just the heart, at least what we know) and the fraternity approach to science and the RDA (ala Mad Men, perhaps). The problem with this book is that these are mashed together and then buried under piles of evidence and anecdotes. 4 stars for the subject matter, 1 star for the presentation.