Walter Willett
Walter Willett
Walter Willett, M.D., Dr.P.H.is an American physician and nutrition researcher. Currently, Willett is the Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition and the chair of the department of nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health. He is also a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School...
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It was just about 15 years ago when a scientist at the National Institute on Aging concluded that it was good to be a little overweight rather than normal weight, ... And it was pure rubbish.
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Even if you do see a small benefit for, say, breast cancer, you couldn't be sure it was due to fat and not due to the fact that the women also increased their fruit and vegetable intake and there was also a small weight loss. I think it's clear this study was a mistake.
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A lost opportunity, ... only the very most motivated people will go to the Web and dig into this information.
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It was a mistake, and this study really confirms that it was the wrong direction to go for nutritional advice. It did do harm. It was a lost opportunity. People were given the idea that it was only fat calories that counted. This should be the nail in the coffin for low-fat diets.
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People should be able to assume that hospitals are serving them the healthiest food possible. In this case, their trust has clearly been betrayed.
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In the area of diet, we are only asking for fairly modest shifts,
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No research has ever shown that people who eat more eggs have more heart attacks than people who eat fewer.
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Further adding, Increased intakes of polyunsaturated fat also probably explain most of the major declines in coronary mortality in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia over several decades.
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This does very strongly refute the dominant view in the 1990s, that reducing the amount of fat in the diet would spontaneously lead to weight loss. What's happened to the American diet during this low-fat period is, people were given the idea that if they reduced calories from fat, weight would go down. Clearly, that has not happened.
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Five to 6 grams of trans fat is a huge amount just from one serving. Food services usually use the same oils for cooking fish, chicken and other foods as they do fries, so if they've got the high level in fries, they've got it in lots of foods.
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We wanted to get parents and voters informed about what was happening to the schools and in the schools, especially in terms of the budget. We want to make sure schools are fairly represented.
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If you step back and look at the data, the optimum amount of red meat you eat should be zero.
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No single food will make or break good health. But the kinds of food you choose day in and day out have a major impact.
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A diet rich in fruits and vegetables plays a role in reducing the risk of all the major causes of illness and death