Walter Willett Quotes (17 Quotes)


    A lost opportunity, ... only the very most motivated people will go to the Web and dig into this information.

    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.

    Treatment doesn't bring back the risk to that of someone without hypertension, ... High blood pressure raises the risk threefold and treatment reduces it by 25 percent.

    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.

    In general, it's been found -- both in this study and other studies -- that it's really (women who are) current or recent users of hormones who have an increased risk of breast cancer.


    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.

    It would be a huge misinterpretation to believe that it doesn't matter what we eat to prevent heart disease and cancer.

    The experts are at odds with each other over some aspects of weight control. When the U. S. Department of Agriculture released their new food pyramid in April, many critics cheered that, at last, better guidance was being given to consumers on making healthy food choices. Yet even the new pyramid which makes more recommendations about quantities of food, exercise, and allows for individual differencesamong other thingshas also been criticized as insufficient. It's clear that we need to rebuild the pyramid from the ground up, ... not just tip it on its side and dress it up with new colors.

    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.

    There is a huge potential for reducing the major causes of death, from cardiovascular disease and diabetes, ... Diet and Optimal Health A Progress Report.

    The results are not a surprise, ... We have come to understand many of the pieces - and they add up to major health benefits.

    With breast cancer, nothing is straightforward. It makes sense for most people to make their dietary decisions based on what it does for heart disease. That's where the data are most strong.

    One of the problems with a low-fat diet is that it actually drives down the good cholesterol -- the HDL -- in our blood (and that) ... will probably increase the risk of heart disease,

    People should be able to assume that hospitals are serving them the healthiest food possible. In this case, their trust has clearly been betrayed.

    No research has ever shown that people who eat more eggs have more heart attacks than people who eat fewer.

    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.

    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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