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...There are really few better things that could be done for the public health than to get trans fats out of the food supply,” Walter C. Willett, the Stare professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health and a prominent researcher on the health effects of trans fats, told the council...
...prevent neural tube defects. I think that as far as infertility is concerned, this is a good initial step, but it needs to be replicated in other studies.” The other investigators involved in the study were Stare professor and chair of the nutrition department Walter Willett, assistant professor of epidemiology Janet Rich-Edwards ’84, and professor of biostatistics Bernard Rosner...
Game over for students in Attleboro, Mass., who yelled "You're it!" one final time at Willett Elementary School last week. The school has forbidden tag--as well as touch football and all other "chase" games--during recess, a move that made national headlines. As in schools from South Carolina to Wyoming that have implemented similar bans recently, Attleboro administrators cite fears that children could get hurt and their parents might sue. According to some parents, another factor was concern that such games could hurt self-esteem if, say, one kid were always...
School of Public Health Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition Walter C. Willett wrote in an e-mail that the adverse metabolic effects of trans fats translate into tens of thousands of premature deaths from heart disease in the United States each year. He also said that trans fats are likely the cause of 40 percent of Type 2 Diabetes in the country. In Europe, most food companies have eliminated trans fats from their products, and Denmark has completely banned the sale of products containing trans fats, according to Willett...
...These bans are important because they can put pressure on the food industry and [Food and Drug Administration] to do what should have already been done by now,” Willett said...