Background
Stare was born in Columbus, Wisconsin, and educated in chemistry and medicine at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Chicago.
Stare was born in Columbus, Wisconsin, and educated in chemistry and medicine at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Chicago.
1911–2002) was a prominent American nutritionist. In the aftermath of the second world war, he worked in the Netherlands on devising a dietary regime to cope with the malnutrition facing the Dutch people. In 1942, Stare founded the Department of Nutrition at Harvard which he led as a professor of nutrition until his retirement in 1976.
He was a firm believer in the essential goodness of the typical American diet, holding that "prudence and moderation" were the key to healthy eating.
An adviser to the United States government, Stare eschewed faddish notions holding, for example, that food additives were harmless, that sugar and Coca-Cola were acceptable parts of the diet. He was an early advocate of the benefits of regularly drinking water throughout the day.