Harvard Healthy Eating Advice

Author: Dr. Walter Willett [USA]
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: Healthy foods, Scientific eating habits, an authoritative report from the Harvard research team. Subverts the popular dietary guidelines recommended by 50 nutritious recipes. The National Bestseller Based on Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health Research A Revolutionary Guide to Healthy Eating Eating That Topplesthe USDA Food Pyramid. ——AsseenontheTodayshow！Dr. Willett presents a delicious and healthy eating style. He overturns the dietary pyramid, which is considered a symbol of healthy eating in the United States, and many nutrition scientists will have great controversy over this. However, no matter what, few can deny that the advice provided in this book is a good dietary prescription. —Susan Robert, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, USDA Human Nutrition Research Center at Tufts University Walter Willett, Professor of Epidemiology at Stanford University School of Medicine, in this comprehensive and well-reasoned healthy eating guide, provides extensive evidence of the connection between proper diet and a healthier, longer life. The book is beautifully written, logically rigorous, and establishes a set of scientific dietary strategies that should be in every family’s book. —Dr. Ralph Paffenbarger, Professor of Epidemiology at Stanford University School of Medicine How can you have a satisfied body? Start with healthy eating habits! The USDA's dietary pyramid is extremely wrong and even dangerous. The benefits of n-3 fatty acids in nuts and certain oils for the cardiovascular system. The anti-cancer effects of lycopene in tomatoes. The potential hazards of excessive calcium intake. The benefits of taking a multivitamin daily. The cardiovascular benefits of drinking alcohol moderately daily. The traditional diet of mashed potatoes, roasted steak, and broth in the Midwest of the United States is one of the unhealthiest diets in the world. Finally, we can move away from the various hyped and confusing dietary guidelines and follow a guide with a solid research foundation that we can trust. Thank you, Dr. Willett and his colleagues, for expressing this viewpoint so clearly and acceptably. Throw away those useless guides—this book is what you need. —Molly Carterson, author of MOOSEWOOD Cooking Book The purpose of this book is to share our research findings with you. For twenty years, my colleagues and I have studied the long-term effects of diet on health, and this research is still ongoing. This book will help you make rational dietary choices and, hopefully, keep you healthy and energetic as you age, with very sufficient evidence to support this. One of the most important conclusions of this book is: healthy eating—does not mean there is only one healthy diet—does not mean a restrictive, monotonous diet. In fact, the opposite is true. The traditional diet of mashed potatoes, roasted steak, and broth in the Midwest of the United States is one of the unhealthiest diets in the world, and compared to the diet described in the later chapters of this book, it is particularly monotonous. The diet described in the later chapters of this book is only a part of the healthy and appetizing, abundant diet.