From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Oct. 4, 1989:

A Nobel Prize-winning biochemistry professor, visiting Kansas University this week, said that America was suffering from “nutrition ignorance.” Arthur Kornberg, professor of biochemistry at the Stanford University School of Medicine, spoke to an audience of about 250 people on “Understanding Chemistry as Life.” “Chemistry is constantly being misused and abused in the language,” said Kornberg, co-winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize for Medicine for his contributions to the understanding of biosynthesis. “These types of misconceptions bring me to a personal pet peeve, and that is the amount of unsubstantiated dietary advice that everyone seems to be following almost religiously — advice about cholesterol for example,” Kornberg said, adding that the American Heart Association had spent $6 million on nutrition studies but had no conclusive evidence that high cholesterol intake increased the chances of heart disease. Belief in most popular nutritional advice was “not much different than believing in faith healing and quacks,” Kornberg stated.