Posted on 11/23/2004 6:54:56 AM PST by Rakkasan1
Ancel Keys, the University of Minnesota public health scientist whose nutrition and diet research ultimately fed thousands of soldiers and saved countless people from heart disease, died Saturday. He was 100.
Perhaps best known as the creator of the K ration, the ready-to-eat meal U.S. troops carried in World War II, Keys had a knack for taking on some of the largest public health issues of the 20th century at just the right time.
He led a landmark study on starvation that helped guide relief efforts in postwar Europe. Major studies on coronary disease helped put him on the cover of Time magazine in 1961 as America struggled with an epidemic of heart attacks. He was an early advocate of the Mediterranean diet and, with his wife, wrote two books dedicated to healthy eating.
Colleagues on Monday recalled Keys as a direct and demanding scientist who fought to win acceptance for work now viewed as groundbreaking. His belief, for instance, that a person's diet and smoking habits could predict future health was "somewhat heretical" for his time, said Dr. Russell Luepker, Mayo professor of public health at the U.
He was an "incredible, detail-oriented, compulsive guy, and good scientists need to be that way," Luepker said. "You always knew where the guy stood. Some would say he was gruff and intolerant. He was intolerant of poorly done research."
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He's been canned.
I remember them fondly........
if you could get them hot, some were better than MRE's.
Well, he seems to have been eating right enough to reach 100yrs. Not bad.
Remove helmet liner, invert helmet over fire (if allowed in situation), open rats, empty int helmet an stir until heated......serves 1......caution: clean helmet before use.....
K ration named after Mr. Keys. I've heard many horror stories but they were nutritionally sound for the day. My Mom in Florida recently was eating MREs in hurrican recovery.
Bump to inventor of "Neat-to-eat-mysterymeat-treats"!
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