1977

U.S. Senate’s Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, chaired by George McGovern, published Dietary Goals in the United States, which put the diet-heart hypothesis “on the national agenda” (La Berge, 146). It “promoted increased carbohydrate and reduced fat consumption along with less sugar and salt. . . . With the publication of the Dietary Goals, the federal government officially supported the low-fat approach” (149).