"How to Eat, Drink and Be Healthy"
Harvard Nutritionist Walter Willett to Speak at PAHO Meeting on Transfatty Acids
WHAT: A special presentation by renowned nutrition expert Dr. Walter Willett of Harvard University. Dr. Willett’s 2001 book How to Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating challenged key aspects of contemporary nutritional advice and contributed to improved dietary recommendations to the public.
Dr. Willett is part of a task force convened by PAHO to examine the feasibility of eliminating transfatty acids (trans fats) from food supplies throughout the Americas and to discuss other aspects of public health nutrition policy.
WHEN: Thursday, April 26, 12 noon
WHERE: PAHO Headquarters, 525 23rd St., N.W., in Room C on the 2nd Floor. PAHO is at Virginia Avenue and 23rd St., some 4 blocks south of Foggy Bottom Metro.
WHO: Dr. Walter Willett is Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health. He serves as Principal Investigator of the Nurses’ Health Study II, a long-term study that has found, among other things: a positive association between alcohol consumption and breast cancer (but no relation with fat intake), a positive association between animal fat and red meat consumption and risk of colon cancer, strong inverse associations between vitamin E consumption and coronary heart disease, and a positive association between partially hydrogenated vegetable fats and coronary heart disease.
PAHO: The Pan American Health Organization, founded in 1902, works with all the countries of the Americas to improve the health and quality of life of their peoples. It serves as the Regional Office of the World Health Organization (WHO).
For more information please contact , PAHO, Public Information, 202-974-3122.