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(Wolfville,
NS) - Acadia University will host the 28th Annual Huggins
Science Seminar, Wednesday, October 18th, 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. in
the auditorium of the K.C. Irving Environmental Science Centre. This
year’s distinguished speaker is Dr. Walter Willett, an expert in the
field of Nutritional Epidemiology.
Dr. Willett’s lecture
is entitled, “Diet and Health: A Progress Report.” He will discuss
the focus of nutritional advice given by the USDA Food Guide Pyramid
to reduce total fat intake and consume large amounts of
carbohydrate, despite advice being inconsistent with evidence that
unsaturated fats have beneficial metabolic effects and reduce the
risk of coronary heart disease. He will also examine more recent
evidence which indicates the large majority of carbohydrates in the
North American diet, consisting of refined starches and sugars, have
adverse metabolic effects and increase risks of heart disease and
type 2 diabetes.
A professor of
Epidemiology and Nutrition, Chairman of the Department of Nutrition
at Harvard School of Public Health, and Professor of Medicine at
Harvard Medical School, Dr. Willett is internationally renowned. Dr.
Willett has focused much of his work over the last 25 years on the
development of methods to study the effects of diet on the
occurrence of major diseases. An author of over 1,000 research
papers, Dr. Willett is the most cited nutritionist internationally
and is among the five most cited persons in all fields of clinical
science. He is also the recipient of many national and international
awards for his research.
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