Eat, drink, and be healthy :b the Harvard Medical School guide to healthy eating
by Walter Willett, Patrick J. Skerrett, William Hope · first published 2001
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Evidence-based, research-grounded guide to eating well, valued for collating nutrition science into one place and for advice that avoids fad diets. Suited to readers who want credible dietary guidance rather than trends.
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xi, 419 pages : 23 cm
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I recommend Eat Drink and Be Healthy for credible advice grounded in scientific research http://www.amazon.com/Eat-Drink-Be-Healthy-Harvard/dp/068486...
on “Ask HN: What should we eat?” ↗…very low sugar, became a vegetarian. So most of the impact came from changing my diet and not merely from exercising. Good books on diet: In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan What To Eat, Marion Nestle Eat, Drink and Be Healthy, Walter Willett Mindless Eating, Brian Wansink Why We Get Fat, Gary Taubes
on “Study finds hunter-gatherers' energy expenditure same as modern Westerners'” ↗Consider a classic like Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Eating by Walter Willett. All evidence-based. No fad crap you usually get in this space. You won't be surprised by any of the advice, but it's nice to see it all collated…
on “Aspartame sweetener to be declared possible cancer risk by WHO, say reports” ↗…protein and 15% fat, while fish is about 99% protein. Chicken is somewhere around 95% i think. McD "meat" is really a slurry with probably even higher levels of fat. Nothing unhealthy? I highly recommend "Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy" from W. Willett of Harvard Medical. Mediterranean diets high in fish and vegetables are almost unquestionably healthier, and probably the healthiest diet around.
on “Wendy's Wants to Start Uber-Like Surge Pricing in 2025” ↗…making the competition irrelevant. Visual Communication -- old book currently out of print but timeless principles for effective communication. Visual communication is often more effective than words. Eat, Drink and Be Healthy -- How to enjoy food but stay in great shape. You do not need to live on steamed broccoli and granola to do this! Lots of bland foods are unhealthy and lots of healthy foods are actually tasty. You just…
on “Ask HN: Best books you read in 2012” ↗…10 years is that whole foods matter and that you cannot reduce them to their macronutrient profile. Two foods with identical profile yield totally different results.I recommend to read Willet book on eat, drink and be healthy. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/eat-drink-and-be-healthy-wal...
on “The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food” ↗…motions. Start off slowly. If you can afford it, consider a trainer. But I am a DIY type, as I imagine many here are. Eat right (I generally ignore weight lifting diet advice and try to follow the advice in Eat Drink and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide, which generally advises a Mediterranean-style diet and is based on aggregating data from several of the most long-term studies of diet). Make sure you are sleeping…
on “Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health?” ↗Harvard's Nutrition Source web site [0] is the best source I've found. It has a wealth of evidence-based information. The accompanying book "Eat Drink and Be Healthy" discusses what features make a study reliable or not. The web site will be more up-to-date on specific dietary advice. The Harvard School of Public Health are behind 2 of the biggest ongoing studies…
on “Ask HN: Where to get reliable information on nutrition/health?” ↗This is not an area where I have much more than a passing interest, so much of this is over my head, so to speak. I was first introduced to the idea of healthy moderate drinking in Walter Willett's Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy. Here is a link to one of the studies he cites: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12519921 Does this study not constitute a randomized trial on the benefit of moderate drinking?
on “Are the benefits of moderate drinking a myth?” ↗"Eat, Drink and be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating" by Walter C. Willett is very down on milk. If you need the calcium for osteoporosis or whatever then there's better sources, up to and including supplements.
on “Ask HN: How do you stay (somewhat) healthy?” ↗I defer to Walter C. Willet, M.D., who writes in "Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy" (co-developed with the Harvard School of Public Health): "There's no question that two types of fat -- saturated fat, the kind that's abundant in whole milk or red meat, and trans fats, which are found…
on “How did we come to believe saturated fat and cholesterol are bad for us?” ↗