28 Quotes by Walter Willett

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

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.

It was a mistake, and this study really confirms that it was the wrong direction to go for nutritional advice. It did do harm. It was a lost opportunity. People were given the idea that it was only fat calories that counted. This should be the nail in the coffin for low-fat diets.

It was just about 15 years ago when a scientist at the National Institute on Aging concluded that it was good to be a little overweight rather than normal weight, ... And it was pure rubbish.

In general, it's been found -- both in this study and other studies -- that it's really (women who are) current or recent users of hormones who have an increased risk of breast cancer.

In the area of diet, we are only asking for fairly modest shifts,

A lost opportunity, ... only the very most motivated people will go to the Web and dig into this information.

Even the relatively small amount of trans fats are likely to be causing around 7,000 premature deaths from heart disease per year.

Trans fats really are a metabolic poison.