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Cost-Effectiveness of Salt Reduction
National salt reduction strategy is cost-effective ‘best buy’ for 183 countries worldwide.
A Call to Action
The first global analysis of complementary foods marketed in lower-income countries highlights the need for basic quality assurance services to improve nutritional consistency and reduce childhood malnutrition.
Trump and the Deepening Refugee Crisis
Two Tufts professors say the future for millions of displaced people worldwide—especially women—could be dire with a new administration hostile to foreign aid.
How A Former Tufts President Created The Friedman School
The Little Magician Who Could: How Former Tufts President Jean Mayer Made the Friedman School Appear Out of Thin Air.
Shaping the Global Nutrition Agenda
Friedman students tasked to represent views of North America in a global dialogue in Rome: Young scientists actively involved in UN priority-setting around the global actions needed to achieve healthy diets and nutrition
Regular intake of sugary beverages, not diet soda, associated with prediabetes
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.
Center for Nutrition Assistance Research To Enhance Food Security and Dietary Quality
USDA Awards New RIDGE Center to Partnership of Tufts and UConn.
Study finds link between childhood cancer and poor dietary quality in adulthood
Survivors of childhood cancer have poor adherence to federal dietary guidelines in adulthood, a new study finds.
High folate intake linked with nerve-damage risk in older adults with common gene variant
Consuming too much folate (vitamin B9) is associated with increased risk for a nerve-damage disorder in older adults who have a common genetic variant.
Simin Meydani Named Vice Provost for Research
A nutrition scientist, she led the Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts.