Chronic Diseases and Healthy Aging
Rethinking Dairy Fat
A new study, co-written by senior author Dariush Mozaffarian, dean of Tufts’ Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, finds that the fats in milk, cheese, and other dairy products aren’t linked to a higher risk of death in older adults.
Food price policy and mortality: How to even the playing field for participants in SNAP
A modeling study of food subsidies and food taxes suggests deaths from cardiometabolic disease could be reduced
Healthy Diets for Better Health
Friedman School Dean Dariush Mozaffarian supports launch of Food Is Medicine Working Group on Capitol Hill
Could Food Price Changes Save Lives?
Subsidies for healthy foods and taxes on unhealthy foods could reduce deaths from stroke, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, especially among Americans with lower socioeconomic status
Fixing America's Health Care
We should make our nation’s nutrition crisis a top nonpartisan priority
Small increases in physical activity reduce immobility, disability risks in older adults
Older adults who add 48 minutes of moderate physical activity per week can lower their chances for major mobility disability
Food policies have potential to lower US cardiovascular disease rates
Food policies, such as fruit and vegetable subsidies, taxes on sugar sweetened drinks, and mass media campaigns to change dietary habits, could avert hundreds of thousands of deaths from cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the United States, researchers project in a study published in PLOS Medicine by Jonathan Pearson-Stuttard from the University of Liverpool, UK and Imperial College London, UK, and colleagues at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, US.
Dietary Factors and Deaths From Disease
Dietary factors associated with substantial proportion of deaths from heart disease, stroke, and disease.
The Latest Research on Soy and Cancer
Consuming foods rich in isoflavones, found in soy, is associated with reduced mortality in women with hormone-receptor-negative breast cancer and women not treated with endocrine therapy
Eating whole grains led to modest improvements in gut microbiota and immune response
BOSTON (Feb. 8, 2017)—In a clinical trial, adults who consumed a diet rich in whole grains rather than refined grains had modest improvements in healthy gut microbiota and certain immune responses. The research was conducted in tandem with a study that looked at the effects of a whole-grain diet on energy metabolism. Both studies are published online today in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.