"Diet Wars": PBS Frontline show compares the most popular diets
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Diet Wars (PBS Frontline, from 2004):
Watch the 1-hour show online. (Video)
"Frontline," the excellent PBS investigative reporting show, discusses America's obesity epidemic and compares the most popular diet programs: Weight Watchers, Atkins, Pritikin, Ornish, South Beach, and Dr. Walter C. Willett's "Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy" diet.
I follow Dr. Walter Willett's advice myself. It agrees with what I learned in nutrition class. The South Beach Diet looks sensible too, for people trying to lose weight. Bill and Hillary Clinton both follow that.Dr. Willett is professor of epidemiology and nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health, a professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School, and the author of Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating. He is also one of the principal investigators on the Nurses Health Study, one of the largest, long-term studies to look at the effect of diet on health. Willett explains how his research on the Nurses Health Study led him to become one of the USDA food pyramid's greatest critics.
This page explains Dr. Willett's Harvard Food Pyramid.
"Diet Wars":
Introduction.
FAQ, comparing the Diets, and timeline of how Americans' diet advice has changed.
Interviews with nutritionists and the doctors behind The South Beach Diet, Eat More, Weigh Less, etc.
Interview with Dr. Walter Willett.
Comparing the Diets (Very good!):
Here is a chart comparing the basic elements of each diet profiled in "Diet Wars": its premise, its logic, and what critics are saying. Plus, a sample dinner from each plan.
Diet Wars (PBS Frontline, from 2004):
Watch the 1-hour show online. (Video)
"Frontline," the excellent PBS investigative reporting show, discusses America's obesity epidemic and compares the most popular diet programs: Weight Watchers, Atkins, Pritikin, Ornish, South Beach, and Dr. Walter C. Willett's "Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy" diet.
I follow Dr. Walter Willett's advice myself. It agrees with what I learned in nutrition class. The South Beach Diet looks sensible too, for people trying to lose weight. Bill and Hillary Clinton both follow that.Dr. Willett is professor of epidemiology and nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health, a professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School, and the author of Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating. He is also one of the principal investigators on the Nurses Health Study, one of the largest, long-term studies to look at the effect of diet on health. Willett explains how his research on the Nurses Health Study led him to become one of the USDA food pyramid's greatest critics.
This page explains Dr. Willett's Harvard Food Pyramid.
"Diet Wars":
Introduction.
FAQ, comparing the Diets, and timeline of how Americans' diet advice has changed.
Interviews with nutritionists and the doctors behind The South Beach Diet, Eat More, Weigh Less, etc.
Interview with Dr. Walter Willett.
Comparing the Diets (Very good!):
Here is a chart comparing the basic elements of each diet profiled in "Diet Wars": its premise, its logic, and what critics are saying. Plus, a sample dinner from each plan.