Talk:D. Mark Hegsted

A fact from D. Mark Hegsted appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 July 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that research done by D. Mark Hegsted in the 1960s on the effects of diet on cholesterol levels led to recommendations to reduce consumption of the saturated fats found in meat and eggs?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/July.

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Misleading Claims Connecting Hegsted to the Sugar Industry[edit]

According to a review conducted by Columbia University, "In the mid-1960s, Harvard nutrition scientists, led by D. Mark Hegsted, had just completed a study showing that consuming saturated fat from foods such as butter raised cholesterol levels-to the dismay of the dairy industry, which had funded the research. The study also looked at sugar, which showed little effect. The sugar industry later learned of the findings and gave the Harvard scientists money to review the literature and elaborate upon their theories."

This review suggests the dairy industry funded the original study that found saturated fat raised cholesterol while sugar had very little effect. Once the sugar industry found out about the favorable results relating to sugar, they hired Hegsted to look into it further.

This biography looks like it was written to discredit Hegsted's legitimate findings and should be corrected.

--JPWikiEditor (talk) 23:07, 8 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, JPWikiEditor. I would be happy to cut that entire segment. For now it is moved to its own section. Thank you for your comments here. -SusanLesch (talk) 23:50, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Because six months went by since your post, I removed it just now. -SusanLesch (talk) 23:52, 9 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]