Introduction: A blog about Ancel Keys.

Since 2007, I've been following the trail of Ancel Keys (1904-2004) across the globe, from the Italian seaside village of Pioppi to the summit of Cerro Aucanquilcha in the Chilean Andes. I'm writing a biography of one of the 20th-century's most interesting and controversial scientists, physiologist and epidemiologist Ancel Keys. A gifted child who was a subject in Lewis Terman's longitudinal study of 1500 "child geniuses," Keys was also a biological oceanographer, a high altitude adventurer, the developer of the World War II K Ration, a pioneer in the modern study of starvation and rehabilitation, and a leading light in heart disease epidemiology. Join me on this expedition into the life and times of the man who "discovered" the Mediterranean diet and its benefits for heart health.