Since this thread started I have been reading up on this issue. I have been reading through Keys and other source work trying to wrap my head around it. From the looks of it, Keys went in trying to grab ~650 diet logs from Crete and Corfu. So ~325 on each island. This was his design of the Seven Countries Study that started the Mediterranean Diet. His actual results that he published - just 33 people from Crete alone (I forget the number off hand for Corfu). He took the data gathered on Crete from the ~300 individual's diet logs and threw it out to leave just 33, and I don't remember why.

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Posted by Big Scrub TX

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Posted on 8/9/17 at 2:43 pm to Junky

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Since this thread started I have been reading up on this issue. I have been reading through Keys and other source work trying to wrap my head around it. From the looks of it, Keys went in trying to grab ~650 diet logs from Crete and Corfu. So ~325 on each island. This was his design of the Seven Countries Study that started the Mediterranean Diet. His actual results that he published - just 33 people from Crete alone (I forget the number off hand for Corfu). He took the data gathered on Crete from the ~300 individual's diet logs and threw it out to leave just 33, and I don't remember why.

It was about 30 on Corfu. Literally, the "7 countries study) covers about 60 men on 2 islands...during Lent AND still mired in post-war austerity. A lot of the food samples were simply destroyed (oh yes, they weren't there in person doing the tracking. Rather, they were putting foodstuffs in urns and shipping them off-continent for analysis. Can't even be marginally referred to as "science."

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