This episode of a podcast called Revisionist History explores Dr. Ivan Frantz' life work and one of the most comprehensive studies of the Mediterranean diet. After listening to The Basement Tapes (Links to an external site.)(you can stop after 30 minutes), respond to the prompts below.http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/20-the-base...
1.Describe Dr. Ivan Frantz' opinions about diet and cholesterol. What were his thoughts early in his career about its affect on heart disease?
2. Two approaches to studying the effects of diet on human health were discussed, the epidemiological (observational) study and the controlled clinical trial. What are the pros and cons inherent with each? What advantages did Dr. Frantz' Minnesota study have over these two approaches?
3. What were the results of the Minnesota study? What is linoleic acid and is it good for us? Explain.
4. At the end of the podcast, Malcolm Gladwell (the narrator) asks Frantz' son how he things his father would have reacted to the results. What does he say and what implications does this have for the process of science?