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Hegsted was the father of the seminal "Dietary Goals for Americans," the predecessor to the "Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Photograph by Suzanne Camarata © 2009, President and Fellows of Harvard College |
D. Mark Hegsted, national force in science of human nutrition, diesD. Mark Hegsted, who was instrumental in the development of the federal "Dietary Guidelines for Americans," died Tuesday, June 16, 2009, at the age of 95 at a nursing center in Westwood, Mass. Hegsted was a founding member of the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), among the first such departments in a medical or public health school in the world. |
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