4 thoughts on “Calorie Counting”

  1. When all is said and done I think we’re going to find vegetarian/vegan ideology behind the high carb/low fat disaster.

    2. I believe Gary Taubes covered this. I found this quote from this website: https://louisaenright.com/tag/senator-george-mcgovern/

      In 1976, Taubes reports, after two days of testimony, this committee turned “the task of researching and writing the first `Dietary Goals for the United States’” over to Nick Mottern, a labor reporter with “no experience writing about science, nutrition, or health” (5). Mottern relied on Harvard School of Public Health nutritionist Mark Hegsted’s low-fat beliefs. Hegsted, unlike E. H. Ahrens, whose laboratory at the Rockefeller University in New York City was doing seminal research on fat and cholesterol metabolism, saw no risks associated with such a major change to the American diet. Ahrens, as early as 1969, was concerned that eating less fat or changing the proportions of saturated to unsaturated fats could have profound and harmful effects on the body (3-6). Nevertheless, the Select Committee published Mottern’s dietary guidelines.

  2. The Kalifornia calorie guides required by law have pretty much put 90 percent of the small restaurants out of business in our area. I particularly miss the local “Coco’s”.

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