K. Dun Gifford Dies at 71; Started Group to Promote Healthy Eating

By BRUCE WEBER

Published: May 14, 2010

K. Dun Gifford, who started an influential nonprofit organization to combat obesity and promote healthy eating around the world, and whose well-connected life put him in celebrated company and at the scenes of many newsmaking events, died on Sunday in Exeter, N.H. He was 71 and lived in Cambridge, Mass.

K. Dun Gifford