Person
D. Mark Hegsted (professor of nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health; consultant to the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs)
Documented money flows
Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity
- AGR-2.1: On 13 July 1965 the Sugar Research Foundation’s executive committee approved Project 226, a literature review of carbohydrates and cholesterol metabolism, and the foundation paid the Harvard authors D. Mark Hegsted and Robert McGandy $6,500 for it.
- AGR-2.2: According to Kearns et al. (2016), the 1967 New England Journal of Medicine review by McGandy, Hegsted and Stare disclosed other funding of the authors' experimental research and did not mention the Sugar Research Foundation's funding or participation.
- AGR-2.3: The Sugar Research Foundation’s research director, John Hickson, told Hegsted on 30 July 1965 that he would be disappointed if the sucrose aspect were “drowned out in a cascade of review and general interpretation,” and on 2 November 1966 that the draft was “quite what we had in mind.”
- AGR-2.4: Kearns, Schmidt and Glantz state that there is no direct evidence that the sugar industry wrote or changed the manuscript of the 1967 review and that the evidence the industry shaped its conclusions is circumstantial.
- AGR-2.6: In the first edition of Dietary Goals (February 1977), prepared with D. Mark Hegsted as a consultant, the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs recommended cutting sugar consumption by about 40 percent to about 15 percent of energy. The second edition (late 1977) kept a sugar goal and set it at refined and processed sugars, down about 45 percent to about 10 percent of energy.
- AGR-2.15: The documents do not establish whether the Sugar Research Foundation's funding changed the conclusions of the 1967 review.
Exhibits naming this entity
- Exhibit 584 12 September 2016 (online); 1 November 2016 (print). Kearns CE, Schmidt LA, Glantz SA; JAMA Internal Medicine 176(11):1680-1685: Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research: A Historical Analysis of Internal Industry Documents
- Exhibit 585 27 July 1967. McGandy RB, Hegsted DM, Stare FJ; New England Journal of Medicine 277(4):186-192: Dietary fats, carbohydrates and atherosclerotic vascular disease (Part 1)
- Exhibit 586 3 August 1967. McGandy RB, Hegsted DM, Stare FJ; New England Journal of Medicine 277(5):242-247: Dietary fats, carbohydrates and atherosclerotic vascular disease (Part 2)
- Exhibit 589 February 1977. U.S. Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs: Dietary Goals for the United States (first edition, Committee Print)
- Exhibit 590 14 January 1977. D. Mark Hegsted, in Dietary Goals for the United States (first edition): Statement of Dr. D. M. Hegsted, Professor of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health (press conference, 14 January 1977)
- Exhibit 607 19 September 2016. Katherine Rich, FoodNavigator: Sugar review: Rewriting history to expose a non-existent conspiracy