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...Stare built his career attacking quack diets and health food advocates on television and radio and in his nationally syndicated newspaper column, “Food and Your Health.” He argued that potentially harmful foods, such as those containing caffeine, could be beneficial when consumed in moderation...
...driven, absolutely dedicated to fighting misinformation,” said Dr. Elizabeth Whelan, who frequently collaborated with Stare and contributed to his best-selling book Panic in the Pantry: Facts and Fallacies About the Food...
...Stare also fought to improve nutrition for children in developing nations and supported the process of fluoridating public drinking water to prevent tooth decay. He defended food preservatives and chemical additives as beneficial and necessary at a time when naturalists countered that additives were detrimental...
Raised on a small farm in Columbus, Wis., Stare earned a doctorate in chemistry at the University of Wisconsin. He then studied in Europe for two years and attended medical school at the University of Chicago...
...Stare was invited to Harvard to establish a nutrition department at the School of Public Health—the first such program in the country not to be associated with an agriculture school. His department quickly became a premier institution for nutrition research, spawning several classes of experts who went on to found nutrition departments elsewhere...