Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene: Diet-Cholesterol Study

Time Period: Early 1960s

Joseph Anderson and Francisco Grande prepare fat mixtures to get the proper fatty acid compostion for meals fed on a metabolic ward to measure effects on serum cholesterol. This series of controlled, cross-over experiments began in the 1950s and led to the well-known Keys Equation published in a series of papers in Metabolism in 1965.

Note that they have sizable containers from the commercial company laboratories representing coconut oil (Cargill), corn oil (Mazola), cottonseed oil (Cremo) and others.