Red meat linked to higher stroke risk
Frequently consuming red meat appears to increase the risk of stroke significantly, while choosing to eat poultry and other proteins, such as fish or nuts, lowers the risk, according to a new study by researchers at Harvard School…
Web site to promote food stamp reform
Article in UPI, December 13, 2011, featuring HSPH's Walter Willett
Farm bill reform could trim Americans' waistlines
Coverage in the Huffington Post, December 7, 2011, featuring HSPH's Walter Willett
Former U.S. President George W. Bush visits HSPH-affiliated AIDS clinic in Tanzania
December 2, 2011 -- On World AIDS Day, George W. Bush and Laura Bush visited the new Mnazi Mmoja Center for Excellence in HIV Care and Education in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) helped establish the…
Nutrition news: USDA’s ‘MyPlate’ doesn’t go far enough
The USDA’s MyPlate icon, aimed at providing Americans with easy-to-understand information about how to eat healthy, is an improvement on the old food pyramid but lacks certain key ingredients, said Walter Willett, chair of the Department of Nutrition…
'Old ways' of healthy eating by ethnic group
Coverage on WBUR's CommonHealth blog, November 24, 2011, featuring HSPH's Walter Willett
Food fight: Pizza and spuds win, school kids lose
Blog post on the Huffington Post by HSPH's Walter Willett, November 23, 2011
Eat like a Mediterranean — but how?
Coverage in Los Angeles Times, November 21, 2011, with quotes from HSPH's Dimitrios Trichopoulos and Walter Willett
Nutrition news: Widely studied Mediterranean diet linked to good health
Two Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) professors — Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Vincent L. Gregory Professor of Cancer Prevention, and Walter Willett, chair, Department of Nutrition and Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition — discuss what research…
HSPH profs offer new recipes for addressing U.S. obesity epidemic
HSPH Prof. Walter Willett renews his criticism that the healthy eating recommendations in the U.S. Dietary Guidelines—source of the well-known food pyramid and the new MyPlate icon—don’t go far enough in a Perspective article in the October 27,…