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Hatty Willmoth

Food & Nutrition Reporter at Newsweek

I work for the Institute for Optimum Nutrition (ION), writing features, co-editing a cookbook, making podcasts, and doing some communications work too.

I'm also a freelance journalist and usually write health, wellness, fitness and nutrition content. I have bylines in the Independent, Fit&Well, Time & Leisure, Sussex Bylines, South West Londoner and Varsity.

Prior to January 2023, I was the staff writer at Optimum Nutrition magazine, a quarterly publication with the Institute for Optimum Nutrition. As part of this role, I wrote features (and some news) about nutrition - generally longform pieces, often with interviews from experts, and always with full referencing. I also assisted with a lot of editorial and design tasks on the magazine, including working with freelancers.

I have a Gold-Standard NCTJ Level 5 Diploma in Journalism, which I completed with News Associates. This covers news, digital journalism, media law, shorthand at 100 words per minute, court reporting and public affairs.

I have work experience with online newspaper South West Londoner and luxury lifestyle magazine Time & Leisure.

In July, I graduated from the University of Cambridge with a First-Class BA in History. As a student, I wrote for student publications Varsity and The Cambridge Student, as well as my personal blog.

I have a YouTube channel with 250,000 views and 2,000 subscribers.

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  • Ultra-Processed Foods Change Your Face. Dentists Reveal How
    21 Jan—Newsweek
    Common US Foods May Increase Risk Of Death By 10% By Hatty Willmoth Food & Nutrition Reporter 0 Eating too much ultra-processed food could affect our face shape, jaw development, breathing habits, dental health and oral hygiene, according to dentists. Ultra-processed food (UPF) is a category that refers to food made in factories with synthetic additives and industrial methods which would be inaccessible to home cooks—such as extrusion or preservatives. It is food that is designed to be...
  • Is 'Veganuary' Becoming Less Popular? Experts Explain
    15 Jan—Newsweek
    Man Explains Why He Thinks Veganuary Is Becoming Less Popular By Hatty Willmoth Food & Nutrition Reporter 0 Every January since 2014, people have taken on the Veganuary challenge, aiming to go totally—or mostly—plant-based for the whole month, but data from Google Trends indicates the challenge might be becoming less popular. At least, traffic for the search term "Veganuary" has been steadily declining since around January 2020 and hasn't been this low since January 2018. This might be...
  • 'Cycle Syncing': Experts Explain 'Empowering' Health Trend
    18 Jan—Newsweek
    Is Period Blood The Future Of Alzheimer's Treatment? By Hatty Willmoth Food & Nutrition Reporter 0 Cycle syncing is just one term for adjusting habits to optimize health and wellness at every point of a woman's menstrual cycle. New research by women's health and PMS relief brand Cycl Health has found that there has been a 1,484 percent uptick in global interest in people searching for "cycle syncing" in the last five years, which the brand told Newsweek indicates "a clear intrigue for a more...
  • Map Reveals Every US State's Favorite Junk Food
    15 Jan—Newsweek
    Food Scientist Shares Two 'High-Risk' Foods She'd Never Eat By Hatty Willmoth Food & Nutrition Reporter 1 Pizza is the United States' favorite junk food, hitting top spot in 37 out of 50 states, but nutrition experts say it doesn't have to be an unhealthy choice. "Pizza can be a balanced meal if prepared with wholesome ingredients," Amani Kaite, lecturer at the Institute for Optimum Nutrition, told Newsweek. "It can provide high-quality protein from toppings like chicken or salmon, calcium...
  • Trump's Food Tariffs Could Change the American Diet
    10 Jan—Newsweek
    The future tariffs that has said he will impose on foreign imports could make groceries more expensive and Americans less healthy, some experts have warned. "Import tariffs are a type of tax imposed on products entering a country, with the usual intention of discouraging imports in order to encourage domestic industries," Bryan Quoc Le told Newsweek. Quoc Le is a food scientist, food engineer and food industry consultant. "So far, Trump's import tariffs are planned to be applied to all...

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