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D. Mark Hegsted
Harvard nutrition professor who co-directed the Sugar Research Foundation’s first heart disease project.
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- worked at Harvard University (professor of nutrition) 1965–1966
- funded by Sugar Research Foundation ($6500) 1965–1967
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worked at
- Harvard University 1965–1966 professor of nutrition Scholarship & press 1
funded by
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Sugar Research Foundation
1965–1967
$6500
Scholarship & press
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Paid to Hegsted and his co-author Robert McGandy together, for the 1967 literature review.
involved in
- Sugar Research Foundation Project 226 Scholarship & press 1
appears in
- Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research (2016) correspondent in the documents Scholarship & press 1
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- 1965–1966 D. Mark Hegsted worked at Harvard University
- 1965–1967 Sugar Research Foundation funded D. Mark Hegsted
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Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research: A Historical Analysis of Internal Industry Documents (JAMA Internal Medicine 176(11)), Kearns, Schmidt and Glantz, JAMA Internal Medicine (author manuscript via PubMed Central), Nov 2016.
Scholarship & press
D. Mark Hegsted, professor of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health and codirector of the SRF’s first CHD research project from 1965 to 1966,
Eventually, the SRF would pay them $6500
Project 226 resulted in a 2-part literature review by McGandy, Hegsted, and Stare “Dietary Fats, Carbohydrates and Atherosclerotic Disease,” in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) in 1967.
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