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Exhibit 589

Dietary Goals for the United States (first edition, Committee Print)

Exhibit 589 ยท Committee print

Dietary Goals for the United States (first edition, Committee Print)

5. Reduce sugar consumption by about 40 percent to account for about 15 percent of total energy intake.

First edition of the Select Committee's Dietary Goals (chair: George McGovern). Lists six goals, the fifth being a reduction in sugar consumption. Contains the statements of Hegsted, Winikoff and Lee from the 14 January 1977 press conference; Hegsted is thanked in the text for working 'very closely and patiently' with the staff.

Source
U.S. Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs
Date
February 1977
Quoted from
U.S. Dietary Goals, item 5, p. 12 (explanation at p. 43)
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://archive.org/details/CAT10527234
Accessed
2026-11-09
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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.