An American physiologist who led the Seven Countries Study, launched in 1958, one of the first large international investigations linking diet, particularly saturated fat intake, to cardiovascular disease risk, work that shaped mid twentieth century dietary guidance and remains debated by later researchers over how it weighted saturated fat against other dietary and lifestyle factors.
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Notable ForLeading the Seven Countries Study on diet and cardiovascular disease 2 Ancel Keys
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Ancel Keys coined the term Body Mass Index in his 1972 paper Indices of Relative Weight and Obesity, renaming and popularizing the weight-to-height-squared ratio Adolphe Quetelet had described in the 1830s (Quetelet is not yet a live Health figure entity).
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Source United States National Institutes of Health Official Site
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1. Encyclopedia Britannica
2. United States National Institutes of Health Official Site
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