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Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Carbo-loading for Boston Marathon? Tufts scientists say: 10-12g carbs/kg body weight 36-48 hrs before race. Simple carbs like plain pasta work best. But don't forget hydration - glycogen storage needs water. And older runners need more protein as muscle mass declines:https://bit.ly/4mBHcpJ

Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

NYT piece on Food is Medicine and how medical schools are teaching doctors about nutrition - not just biochemistry, but practical application. 🗞️: nyti.ms/4stKRXO

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Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Congrats to Dr. Udita Sanga on her Belmont Forum fellowship! Her research bridges Indigenous knowledge and climate science to build resilient food systems while preserving community authority & cultural identity. 🌏 Read more: bit.ly/4soAPHA

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Tufts University @tufts.edu · 13/03/2026

In an analysis of Tufts students and alumni spanning decades, nutrition researchers found that people who had persistently healthy patterns gained less weight. | @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social now.tufts.edu/2026/03/02/y...

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Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Elizabeth Stites (Feinstein Center) and Evan Griffith, DVM (Cummings School) explore what nomadic herders can teach us about resilience and sustainability in uncertain times. 🌍🐐 "Pastoralism is built on accepting uncertainty not as a threat, but as a constant." 🔗: now.tufts.edu/2026/02/17/h...

Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

🍫 Protein bars feel like a healthy shortcut but many are ultra-processed and unnecessary for most people. Tufts nutrition experts explain why whole foods are usually the better choice: bit.ly/4rsuLxw

Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

🇧🇷🐘 From Brazil to Tufts, Ana’s work bridges nutrition science, behavior change, and public health. As an MS student, she’s turning evidence into action through community nutrition and professional education. 🔗 Read more about Ana's journey: bit.ly/4a1UBBE

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Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

William A. Masters has been awarded the 2026 Georg and Greta Borgström Prize for Global Food Security 🏆 His work brings economics, agriculture, and nutrition together to make healthy diets more affordable worldwide. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4jWQpre

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Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Trace amounts of heavy metals can naturally occur in food, but levels are typically well below what’s known to cause harm. Evidence shows that dietary variety and balance matter far more than avoiding specific foods. 🧪 Read more on Tufts Now: bit.ly/4sRKqIr

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Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

A Friedman School alum, Dan found his path at the intersection of nutrition, research, and community-engaged work—and continues to apply that translational mindset every day. 🌎 Read Dan’s full alumni story and see how Friedman training shapes careers: bit.ly/4qow5ld

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Dr. Jess Sparks @jesssparks.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

@tuftsnutrition.bsky.social PhD student Dhini Purnamasari's new paper is out today highlighting how #ClimateChange is exacerbating critical regulatory gaps necessary to protect #MigrantFishers fundamental #LaborRight to refuse hazardous fishing work. Read here 👇: www.frontiersin.org/journals/sus...

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Frontiers | Climate change and the right to refuse hazardous fishing work

Climate change is worsening occupational safety and health risks for fishers. Few legal frameworks adequately protect fishers’ right to refuse hazardous work...

Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Feel your blood pressure rising? A cardiologist shares tips on when to get checked, how to monitor blood pressure at home, and what those numbers really mean. 🫀 now.tufts.edu/2025/11/20/f...

Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Proud to spotlight Friedman alumna Dr. Alison Brown, now a program director at the NIH. Her path from community nutrition work to national policy leadership shows the impact of rigorous, interdisciplinary training: Read more here: bit.ly/4olW7DX

Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Three Tufts University faculty — including our own Renata Micha and Dariush Mozaffarian — have been named among the world’s most highly cited researchers. 🌱 Read more on Tufts Now: bit.ly/44aszl8

Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Tufts Board Chair Jeff Moslow and Linda Moslow have funded an initiative uniting medicine and nutrition, with focus on menopause and longevity. Read more: now.tufts.edu/2025/11/06/4...

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Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

A new endowed professorship in data science has been established at the Friedman School, with Professor Elena Naumova named as the inaugural appointee: 🌱 now.tufts.edu/2025/11/04/f...

Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

🌍 A new report from the Feinstein International Center, led by Friedman’s Erin Coughlan de Perez, reviews 119 Anticipatory Action frameworks in 43 countries—showing how acting before disasters can save lives: bit.ly/3LqTN0g

Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

🌍 Tomorrow: The 2025 EAT–Lancet Commission launches at the Stockholm Food Forum. Friedman School's Dr. Patrick Webb joins global experts exploring how to feed a growing population within planetary limits, while centering justice and equity. 🔗 : bit.ly/46TP3rr 🏷️ @patrickwebb.bsky.social

Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Friedman School alumnus Tong Deng Anei, N19 (MAHA) turned a childhood marked by war in Sudan into a lifelong mission of service. 🌍 From Tufts to the U.N., he now works to ensure that communities in South Sudan are supported with dignity and data-driven humanitarian action: bit.ly/4nq4tdI

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A Survivor of War Brings Dignity to the Vulnerable

Despite educational and financial obstacles, Tong Dei Anei earned his Master of Arts in Humanitarian Assistance degree through the Feinstein International Center and the Friedman School of Nutrition S...

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Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Food allergy or food intolerance? The difference matters. Allergies involve the immune system and can be life-threatening. Intolerances affect digestion and are uncomfortable, but not life-threatening. “Sensitivities” aren’t a medical diagnosis. Learn more: bit.ly/48jumau

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How to Tell if You Have a Food Allergy or Intolerance

Whether an immune or digestive, the cause of your diet related discomfort determines the treatment, say Tufts Friedman School experts

Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Famines remain a global threat, from Gaza to Sudan. New research from Friedman’s Paul Howe offers fresh tools to understand how famines form and how to prevent them, using integrated analysis and new ways to map their scale. Read more: bit.ly/3VOzlZh

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New Insights for Understanding and Preventing Famines

Two new papers published by Feinstein Director Paul Howe offer insights that could improve famine prevention and response. Howe is the Irwin H. Rosenberg Profes

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Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

In the Mississippi Delta, community voices are shaping solutions to food access challenges. Through the Delta GREENS Food is Medicine Project, Tufts researchers are working to build more equitable food systems. 🌱 Read more: now.tufts.edu/2025/09/02/m...

Making Progress Toward Equitable Food Systems in the Mississippi Delta

A School of Medicine assistant professor highlights community members’ stories to understand and address their unique food access challenges.

Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions @oceansolutions.stanford.edu · 05/09/2025

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#NewPaper in Science Advances finds that domestic fishing vessels account for the majority of port visits around the world. Comprehensive inspections at port for both foreign and domestic fishing fleets are a key deterrent for #illegalfishing. 🔗 stanford.io/45LXlB2 📷 Hong Wu/Getty Images

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Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

🚰 Can wastewater surveillance work without sewers? A new study shows how communities without modern sanitation can still track wastewater to catch outbreaks, stopping dangerous diseases before they cross borders: now.tufts.edu/2025/08/13/c...

Can Wastewater Surveillance Work Without Sewers?

Study shows how places without modern sanitation systems can still use wastewater to catch outbreaks before dangerous diseases travel across borders.

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Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

🛒 Dollar stores are on the rise, but are they hurting diets? A new Tufts study finds households often balance less healthy dollar store buys with more nutritious foods elsewhere: now.tufts.edu/2025/08/11/d...

Dollar Stores’ Food Options May Not Be Hurting American Diets Overall

Analysis shows that while less healthy foods are staples of discount chains, households are compensating with healthier purchases elsewhere.

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Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

🌍 Future foods, healthier planet. Tufts researchers, including Friedman School collaborators, show how biomaterials and cellular agriculture can help build sustainable food systems in a new Nature article: now.tufts.edu/2025/08/11/m...

Maintaining a Healthy Planet With Future Foods

As the global population rises and environmental stressors pile up, the question of how to ensure food security for all grows increasingly pressing. A new study

Parke Wilde @parkewilde.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

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On Point at @wbur.org with Meghna Chakrabarti had an interesting conversation this week with Dariush Mozaffarian from @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social, Kate Bauer from University of Michigan, and several SNAP participants, about waiver policies restricting what one can buy. www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...

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Should SNAP pay for junk food?

A dozen states are banning people from buying sodas and some sugary snacks using federal food assistance. The effort is part of the “Make America Healthy Again” campaign led by Secretary Robert F. Ken...

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Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Don’t fear fats, just pick the right ones. 🥑🌰 Healthy fats are essential and can actually improve your health, according to senior scientist at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Alice H. Lichtenstein: now.tufts.edu/2025/08/04/d...

Don’t Avoid Fats, Just Choose the Right Types

Consuming the right balance of good and bad fats can improve your health. You don’t have to avoid all fats, a Tufts nutrition expert says.

Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

As the Gulf of Maine warms faster than almost anywhere on Earth, researchers, including Friedman School alums, are working with coastal communities to protect livelihoods and adapt to shifting seas: now.tufts.edu/2025/07/31/g...

The Gulf of Maine Is Warming Faster Than Pretty Much Anywhere Else

Spanning roughly 36,000 square miles, stretching from Cape Cod at the south to the Canadian province of Nova Scotia at the north, the Gulf of Maine is a vast ec

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Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Food is a powerful form of medicine that can manage, prevent, and potentially reverse chronic diseases 🥗 Students across Tufts’ health sciences disciplines recently took part in a hands‑on culinary medicine course, built in partnership with Community Servings: now.tufts.edu/2025/07/22/c...

Cooking in the Name of Health

A new pilot course in culinary medicine offered by Tufts University and the nonprofit Community Servings taught medical, dental, and nutrition students cooking skills and the role of nutrition in trea...

Will Masters @willmasters.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

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This year's #AAEA2025 coincides with launch of the UN system's #SOFI2025 report on The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World. Beyond diet costs and affordability, this year's report includes new work from @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social and @fao.org on relative cost of different foods:

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3.4 Price inflation of nutrient-dense foods relative to other foods: Are there differences?

This report documents how high food price inflation is associated with increases in food insecurity and child malnutrition.

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Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Faculty, students & alumni from the Friedman School are sharing cutting-edge research on nutrition, food systems & equity at the AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting in Denver: now.tufts.edu/2025/07/21/f...

Friedman Community Participates in the 2025 AAEA Meeting

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Dr. Jess Sparks @jesssparks.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

🚨Our new paper examines how #ClimateChange threatens the achievement of #DecentWork in fishing, underscoring the urgent need for worker-driven, climate-sensitive labor policies. .https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X25002623#fig0005 @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social

Conceptual framework showing the linkages between climate change and decent work in industrial fisheries.

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Tufts University @tufts.edu · 23/06/2025

A center of excellence focused on nutrition science and medicine is key to a new Tufts/Indian Institute of Science collaboration, with an agreement signed on June 23 by Tufts University President Sunil Kumar and IISc Director Govindan Rangarajan. Learn more: now.tufts.edu/2025/06/23/t...

Members from Tufts University, including President Sunil Kumar, Bernard Arulanandam, Vice Provost for Research; Christina Economos
Dean, Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy; and Kyongbum Lee, Dean, School of Engineering pose for a photo with members of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), including Govindan Rangarajan, director of the Indian Institute of Science.

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Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

☕️ Good news for black coffee lovers: A new study from researchers at the Friedman School links 1–2 cups a day to lower risk of death, but cream & sugar may cancel the benefits: now.tufts.edu/2025/06/16/h...

Hold the Cream and Sugar: Black Coffee Linked to Lower Risk of Death

In a new study, researchers found the link between coffee consumption and mortality risk changes with the amount of sweeteners and saturated fat added.

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Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy @tuftsnutrition.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Should we eat more protein? Nutrition experts at Tufts explain when eating extra protein may be warranted, and when it’s not: 🥚🐟 now.tufts.edu/2025/06/10/s...

Should I Eat More Protein?

Nutrition experts at Tufts explain when eating extra protein may be warranted, and when it's not.