Appendix 1 (Chapter 2) – Associations between GDP per capita, fat intake and deaths from heart disease

Yerushalmy and Hilleboe suggested that there were a number of dietary components, which appeared to be positively related to heart disease, but that these were also a reflection of related attributes of various countries. They proposed that the amount of fat and protein available for consumption was an index of a country’s development: industrially; nutritionally; medically and in other aspects (p.2350) [2].

Data for Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita are available for 20 of the 22 countries reviewed by Yerushalmy and Hilleboe for 1950 [274]. The two countries for which data were unavailable were Ceylon and Israel.

GDP per capita and fat intake