Walter C. Willett

Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems

Fracture Prevention With Vitamin D Supplementation

Oral vitamin D supplementation between 700 to 800 IU/d appears to reduce the risk of hip and any nonvertebral fractures in ambulatory or institutionalized elderly persons. An or...

Estimation of optimal serum concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D for multiple health outcomes

Plant-Based Dietary Patterns and Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes in US Men and Women: Results from Three Prospective Cohort Studies

Our study suggests that plant-based diets, especially when rich in high-quality plant foods, are associated with substantially lower risk of developing T2D. This supports curren...

Healthful and Unhealthful Plant-Based Diets and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in U.S. Adults

Pooled Results From 5 Validation Studies of Dietary Self-Report Instruments Using Recovery Biomarkers for Energy and Protein Intake

We pooled data from 5 large validation studies of dietary self-report instruments that used recovery biomarkers as references to clarify the measurement properties of food frequ...

Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents

UK Medical Research Council, British Heart Foundation, National Institute for Health Research, US National Institutes of Health.

Changes in Diet and Lifestyle and Long-Term Weight Gain in Women and Men

Specific dietary and lifestyle factors are independently associated with long-term weight gain, with a substantial aggregate effect and implications for strategies to prevent ob...

TEST OF THE NATIONAL DEATH INDEX

Journal Article TEST OF THE NATIONAL DEATH INDEX Get access MEIR J. STAMPFER, MEIR J. STAMPFER 1Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvar...

Adiposity as Compared With Physical Activity in Predicting Mortality Among Women

Some believe that improved physical fitness can counter the effects of overweight and obesity on illness and death. If so, the implication is that obesity may be a less importan...

Body Weight and Mortality among Women

Body weight and mortality from all causes were directly related among these middle-aged women. Lean women did not have excess mortality. The lowest mortality rate was observed a...

Weight, weight change, and coronary heart disease in women. Risk within the 'normal' weight range

<h3>Objective.</h3> —To assess the validity of the 1990 US weight guidelines for women that support a substantial gain in weight at approximately 35 years of age and recommend a...

Nutrition and breast cancer