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In reply to the discussion: Saturated fat causes heart disease, eh? I wonder who told us that? [View all]suffragette
(12,232 posts)This raises the question of how much these were guided by industry influence.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-industry-shifted-blame-to-fat.html?_r=0
The Harvard scientists and the sugar executives with whom they collaborated are no longer alive. One of the scientists who was paid by the sugar industry was D. Mark Hegsted, who went on to become the head of nutrition at the United States Department of Agriculture, where in 1977 he helped draft the forerunner to the federal governments dietary guidelines. Another was Dr. Fredrick J. Stare, the chairman of Harvards nutrition department.
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/d-mark-hegsted-national-force-in-science-of-human-nutrition-dies/
Boston, MA D. Mark Hegsted, who was instrumental in the development of the federal Dietary Guidelines for Americans, died on Tuesday, June 16, 2009, at the age of 95 at a nursing center in Westwood, MA. Hegsted was a founding member of the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), among the first such departments in a medical or public health school in the world.