[Gathnet] Walter Willett on diet

[Scott McClatchey]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/diet/interviews/willett.html

Folks, this web site interview is worth reading in detail, by all.

Why? Well, consider how much money and time you will spend on medical 
care for yourself, then consider this quote (that I KNOW is backed up by 
outstanding data - I have studied this data myself):  "The potential 
impact of healthy diet, when you combine it with not smoking and regular 
physical activity, is enormous. For example, our studies have shown that 
we could prevent about 82 percent of heart attacks, about 70 percent of 
strokes, over 90 percent of type 2 diabetes, and over 70 percent of 
colon cancer, with the right dietary choices as part of a health 
lifestyle. The best drugs can reduce heart attacks by about 20 or 30 
percent, yet we put almost all of our resources into promoting drugs 
rather than healthy lifestyle and nutrition."

"Walter Willett is professor of epidemiology and nutrition at Harvard 
School of Public Health, a professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical 
School, and the author of /Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard 
Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating/."

Scott McClatchey