Walter Willett Quotes

With breast cancer, nothing is straightforward. It makes sense for most people to make their dietary decisions based on what it does for heart disease. That's where the data are most strong. - Walter Willett

We wanted to get parents and voters informed about what was happening to the schools and in the schools, especially in terms of the budget. We want to make sure schools are fairly represented. - Walter Willett

Treatment doesn't bring back the risk to that of someone without hypertension, ... High blood pressure raises the risk threefold and treatment reduces it by 25 percent. - Walter Willett

This was sort of a new experience. - Walter Willett

This does very strongly refute the dominant view in the 1990s, that reducing the amount of fat in the diet would spontaneously lead to weight loss. What's happened to the American diet during this low-fat period is, people were given the idea that if they reduced calories from fat, weight would go down. Clearly, that has not happened. - Walter Willett

There is a huge potential for reducing the major causes of death, from cardiovascular disease and diabetes, ... Diet and Optimal Health: A Progress Report. - Walter Willett

The results are not a surprise, ... We have come to understand many of the pieces - and they add up to major health benefits. - Walter Willett

One of the problems with a low-fat diet is that it actually drives down the good cholesterol -- the HDL -- in our blood (and that) ... will probably increase the risk of heart disease. - Walter Willett

No research has ever shown that people who eat more eggs have more heart attacks than people who eat fewer. - Walter Willett

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