The Lacuna Project

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Agency

Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs (McGovern committee)

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • 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-2.7: In 1977 the International Sugar Research Foundation, successor to the Sugar Research Foundation, submitted a brief to the Select Committee stating that the first edition of Dietary Goals was “misleading” and “not based on scientific evidence.”
  • AGR-4.2: According to the second edition of Dietary Goals (December 1977), meat and egg producers requested additional Senate hearings in 1977. The second edition then replaced the first edition's "decrease consumption of meat and increase consumption of poultry and fish" with "decrease consumption of animal fat, and choose meats, poultry and fish which will reduce saturated fat intake." Senator Dole wrote that he was "pleased that the second edition deletes language from the first edition recommending 'eat less meat'."

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 534 December 1977. U.S. Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs: Dietary Goals for the United States, Second Edition (committee print)
  • Exhibit 535 March and July 1977. U.S. Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs: Diet Related to Killer Diseases, Vol. III (Response to Dietary Goals for the U.S. - Re: Meat, 24 March 1977) and Vol. VI (Re: Eggs, 26 July 1977)
  • 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 591 1977. International Sugar Research Foundation, in Dietary Goals for the United States: Supplemental Views: Sucrose and Health: A Brief Submitted by the International Sugar Research Foundation to the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs