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To the Editor: Popkin et al. (Sept. 5 issue)¹ compared dietary trends among racial and socioeconomic groups in the United States between 1965 and 1989–1991. Judged on the basis of today's dietary wisdom, persons with high incomes in 1965 had especially poor diets, with improvement by 1989–1991. Persons with low incomes had less change in diet over this period.

Dietary advice to the public, of course, has changed substantially since the 1960s.^2,3,4,5 Emphasis on the four basic food groups (encouraging substantial intake of red meat and whole milk) gradually shifted to an increasing concern about saturated-fat intake. The authors' data . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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