Obesity and Diabetes
Food price policy and mortality: How to even the playing field for participants in SNAP
August 29, 2018
A modeling study of food subsidies and food taxes suggests deaths from cardiometabolic disease could be reduced
Healthy Diets for Better Health
January 17, 2018
Friedman School Dean Dariush Mozaffarian supports launch of Food Is Medicine Working Group on Capitol Hill
Fixing America's Health Care
August 6, 2018
We should make our nation’s nutrition crisis a top nonpartisan priority
Fasting glucose as a marker for greater weight loss on a high-fiber, low-glycemic diet
August 29, 2017
Researchers from the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, together with colleagues from Gelesis and the University of Copenhagen, presented preliminary data demonstrating that study participants with high fasting plasma glucose lost more weight than those with low fasting plasma glucose when following a high-fiber, low-glycemic load diet.
Dietary Factors and Deaths From Disease
March 20, 2017
Dietary factors associated with substantial proportion of deaths from heart disease, stroke, and disease.
New study finds that eating whole grains increases metabolism and calorie loss
March 2, 2017
Researchers at Tufts begin to quantify benefits of a whole-grain diet.
Regular intake of sugary beverages, not diet soda, associated with prediabetes
November 15, 2016
An epidemiological analysis of data from 1,685 adult Americans finds that regular consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, but not diet soda, is associated with increased risk of prediabetes and increased insulin resistance.
Study finds link between childhood cancer and poor dietary quality in adulthood
March 2, 2017
Survivors of childhood cancer have poor adherence to federal dietary guidelines in adulthood, a new study finds.
High variability suggests glycemic index unreliable indicator of blood sugar response
September 12, 2016
Glycemic index values can vary by 20 percent within an individual and 25 percent among individuals, according to the results of a controlled feeding clinical trial.
Healthy Fats and Improvement of Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes
July 20, 2016
Eating more healthy fats in place of either carbs or saturated fats improves risk factors for type 2 diabetes.