{"id":625903,"date":"2026-10-10T00:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T00:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/625903\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T00:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T00:30:21","slug":"what-nutrition-expert-walter-willett-eats-in-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/625903\/","title":{"rendered":"What nutrition expert Walter Willett eats in a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-block-animation has-fly-in-animation wp-block-paragraph\">For decades, research by <a href=\"https:\/\/hsph.harvard.edu\/profile\/walter-c-willett\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Walter Willett<\/a>, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has played a significant role in illuminating how diet and other lifestyle choices can impact chronic disease risk. He shared his daily diet in an Oct. 8 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2026\/10\/08\/what-walter-willett-most-cited-nutrition-expert-eats-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Washington Post article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-block-animation has-fly-in-animation wp-block-paragraph\">Willett likes to start the day with steel-cut oats topped with yogurt, nuts, and fruit\u2014usually blueberries, which have shown to be protective against neurodegenerative diseases\u2014in addition to a small glass of orange juice. He likes to have a plant-based meal for lunch, often choosing a large salad from the School\u2019s salad bar, or a sandwich on whole grain bread (usually peanut butter with a little bit of jam or honey) and a carrot if he\u2019s at home. For dinner, he and his wife will usually have chicken or fish with vegetables.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-block-animation has-fly-in-animation wp-block-paragraph\">Known as the world\u2019s mostly highly cited nutrition expert, Willett is principal investigator of the <a href=\"https:\/\/nurseshealthstudy.org\/about-nhs\/history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Nurses\u2019 Health Study<\/a> and co-chairman of the <a href=\"https:\/\/hsph.harvard.edu\/news\/this-dietary-pattern-could-save-lives-and-the-planet\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025 EAT-Lancet Commission<\/a> on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-block-animation has-fly-in-animation wp-block-paragraph\">When asked his advice to readers, he said, \u201cIf I could put 40 years of research into one answer, it would be to eat a variety of healthy, mostly plant-based foods, and find a way to do it that\u2019s enjoyable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the Washington Post article:<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-block-animation has-fly-in-animation wp-block-paragraph\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2026\/10\/08\/what-walter-willett-most-cited-nutrition-expert-eats-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">At 81, he\u2019s the most-cited nutrition expert. Here\u2019s what he eats in a day.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nLast Updated<\/p>\n<p>Get the latest public health news<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-block-animation has-fly-in-animation wp-block-paragraph\">Stay connected with Harvard Chan School<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For decades, research by Walter Willett, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[134,111,139,556,69],"class_list":["post-625903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-health","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nutrition","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}