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Exhibit 534

Dietary Goals for the United States, Second Edition (committee print)

Exhibit 534 ยท Committee print

Dietary Goals for the United States, Second Edition (committee print)

decrease consumption of animal fat, and choose meats, poultry and fish which will reduce saturated fat intake.

Staff print, 95th Cong., 1st sess., Stock No. 052-070-04376-8. Records that meat and egg producers requested additional hearings (24 March and 26 July 1977) and that the National Live Stock and Meat Board submitted 24 experts (p. xxx). Replaces the first edition's 'decrease consumption of meat and increase consumption of poultry and fish' with the animal-fat wording (p. xl). Keeps a 300 mg cholesterol goal but suggests 'easing the cholesterol recommendation in order to increase egg consumption' for young children, pre-menopausal women and the elderly (p. xxxix; Suggestion 6). Supplemental forewords: Percy, Schweiker and Zorinsky list reservations about the cholesterol goal and the evidence (pp. vii-ix); Dole writes 'I am pleased that the second edition deletes language from the first edition recommending "eat less meat"' (p. xi). McGovern signs the Foreword as chairman (p. v).

Source
U.S. Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs
Date
December 1977
Quoted from
Food Selection Suggestion No. 3, p. xl (replacing the first edition's "decrease consumption of meat and increase consumption of poultry and fish")
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://archive.org/details/CAT79715358
Accessed
2026-11-09
Cited by
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Finding AGR-2.6
Primary record 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.
Finding AGR-4.2
Primary record 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'."