There’s a lot of hype about superfoods that are said to have near-mystical properties to promote health. Should we be chowing down on blueberries, Swiss chard, pomegranates and pumpkin? Or do we need to concentrate on goji and acai berries and galangal? Get the straight and skinny on superfoods from one of the world’s leading nutrition researchers.
Guest: Walter C. Willett, MD, DrPH, Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition and Chairman of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is the author of Eat, Drink and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating, and Eat, Drink and Weigh Less (with Mollie Katzen). He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
Click here to download our podcast.
The People's Perspective on Medicine