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...Willett and Walker will also work with others to study preventive diets for babies and children, according to the University...
Walker and Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition Walter C. Willett are working together to create a nutrition research center and a training program for medical students, officials said...
...defects, antioxidants as a hedge against cancer, and zinc as a booster of aging immune systems. Both federal and state regulatory agencies have been cracking down on nutrient health claims. The FDA says it will hold label claims to standards similar to those applied to drugs. Advises Dr. Walter Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health: "At this time I say don't take megadoses, but I'm not ruling out that in two or three years we might change our mind...
According to Dr. Walter Willett at the Harvard School of Public Health, overall calories may play a larger role than fat: Americans may simply be eating too well. Willett points out that breast-cancer rates tend to be highest in prosperous countries where people are well nourished. In such lands of plenty, girls begin to menstruate at an earlier age, women tend to have their children later in life and menopause also comes later. Late menopause (after 50), delayed childbearing (after 30) and early onset of menstruation (before 12) are all acknowledged "risk factors" for breast cancer. For older women...
Critics of the fat theory also point to several studies that seem to refute it, including a survey by Willett of 90,000 nurses from 34 to 59. Though the diets ranged from 32% fat content to about 44% (the U.S. average is 42%), the Harvard researcher could find no correlation between fat intake and the incidence of breast tumors. One problem with Willett's study: many researchers believe that dietary fat must be more radically reduced, to about 20% of total calories, to affect the occurrence of breast cancer...