Standard American Diet Food Pyramid
Better Health Workshop
The McGovern Report – 1977
Senator George McGovern Hoped that nutrition science would recommend a “best diet” for Americans.
Several senators following Nathan Pritikin favoured a vegetarian diet. The Seventh Day Adventist Church was strongly involved.
George V. Mann, and E.H. "Pete" Ahrens, said the science was immature and the guidelines proposed were inadequate.
The guidelines were adopted in 1980 in the USA, and similar legislation was passed in most English speaking countries about 1982 - 1983.
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