The European Heart Journal review also addresses this and concludes: "In each case, the allegations prove to be false upon review of the primary source material."

"Those impugning the methods and motives of the SCS frequently make one or more of the following four allegations: (i) The SCS team had access to data from 22 countries and chose the data from only seven for the study. (ii) Countries with higher saturated fat and low heart disease rates, particularly France, were purposefully excluded. (iii) Dietary data in Greece were artificially low in saturated fats due to data collection during Lent. (iv) Keys and the SCS team ignored or suppressed analyses suggesting sugar was more highly correlated with heart disease than saturated fat."