Dr. George Mann

Dr. George V. Mann was one of the leading figures against the diet-heart hypothesis. He was professor of biochemistry and medicine at Vanderbilt University, a recipient of a career investigatorship from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and an assistant professor of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health.  As an associate director of the Framingham Heart Study he had a close vantage point in one of the landmark studies on heart disease. He also studied the Masai a pastoral African people who consumed a high fat diet.  His strong views are found in a number of articles and in the book Coronary Heart Disease: The Dietary Sense and Nonsense which he edited. 

His views on diet-heart and cholesterol are as follows: saturated fat and cholesterol in the diet are not the cause of coronary heart disease. That myth is the greatest ‘scientific’ deception of the century, and perhaps any century.

Articles

Demaret, Kent and Judith Weinraub. (January 22, 1979).  Dr. George Mann Says Low Cholesterol Diets Are Useless, but the 'Heart Mafia' Disagrees. People.

Selected Works

Mann, George V. et al. (September 1, 1955). Exercise in the Disposition of Dietary Calories — Regulation of Serum Lipoprotein and Cholesterol Levels in Human Subjects. The New England Journal of Medicine 253:349-355.

Mann, G.V., Shaffer, R.D., Anderson, R.S., and Sandstead, H.H. (July-August 1964). Cardiovascular Disease in the Masai. Journal of Atherosclerosis Research 4:289-312.

Mann, George V. (December 1971). Obesity, the Nutritional Spook.  The American Journal of Public Health 61(8):1491-1498.

Mann, George V. et al. (1972). Atherosclerosis and the Masai. American Journal of Epidemiology 95 (1):26-37.

Mann, George V. (July 24, 1974). The Influence of Obesity on Health. The New England Journal of Medicine 291:178-185.

Mann, George V. (August 1, 1974). The Influence of Obesity on Health. The New England Journal of Medicine 291:226-232.

Mann, George V. (April 7, 1977). Diet and Obesity. The New England Journal of Medicine 296:812.

Mann, George V. (September 22, 1977). Diet-Heart: End of an Era. The New England Journal of Medicine 297:644-650.

Mann, George V. (July-August, 1985). Coronary Heart Disease—"Doing the Wrong Things". Nutrition Today.

Mann, George V. (May 21, 1994). Metabolic Consequences of Dietary Trans Fatty Acids. The Lancet 343(8908):1268-1271.

Mann, George V. (Ed.). (June 1, 1993). Coronary Heart Disease: The Dietary Sense and Nonsense – An evaluation by scientists. Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.