Why were men keeling over in their mid 40s and early 50s from heart attacks and strokes back in the 1960s and 70s?
Was it smoking, drinking and leaded gasoline? Or was it when high-carb, Margerine, crisco (cotton-seed oil), peanut oil, corn oil, sunflower oil and breakfast cereals had just begin to take root, that combined with the popularity of mixed (hard liquor) soda drinks?