2025’s Health and Nutrition Highlights
Each year brings new findings that deepen our understanding of how nutrition and lifestyle shape health. In 2025, Tufts experts helped us interpret emerging...
Get to Know Chestnuts!
Whether roasted over an open fire or puréed into potatoes (see page 7), versatile chestnuts are a nutritious, palate-pleasing choice.
Chestnut Types. The fruits of...
Overdosing on Vitamins
Q: Â I know vitamins are important for health, but is there any case in which you can get too much of a vitamin?
A: Â Alice...
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- Seed Oils: The Facts
- NewsBites: Diverticulitis and diet; physical activity lowers death risk with diabetes.
- Expiration Dates, Explained
- Special Report: Added Sugar is Added Sugar
- Pumpkin: Beyond Pie
- Featured Recipe: Hearty Pumpkin Soup
- Ask Tufts Experts: Raw milk
- Myth of the Month: Pink salt is healthier than white
Seed Oils: The Facts Seed oils are getting a bad rap these days....
There is a rising tide of anti-seed oil sentiment in the United States. We have taken a deep dive into the facts surrounding some...
Hearty Pumpkin Soup
Steps:
1. In a soup pot, heat the olive oil over medium heat. Add the onions and garlic and cook, stirring occasionally, 3 to 4...
Low-fat Milk Associated with Lower Heart Disease Risk than Full-fat
A Norwegian study found drinking whole milk was associated with higher risk for coronary artery disease than drinking low-fat (1%) milk. (Coronary artery disease...
Old Advice for Avoiding Diverticulitis May be Revised
Dietary changes once recommended for avoiding a condition called diverticulitis are likely unnecessary—or even counterproductive. Pockets or pouches can form in the walls of...
Have Diabetes? Any Physical Activity is Associated with Lower Risk of Death
A look at the reported physical activity patterns of over 51,500 U.S. adults with diabetes found that being inactive was associated with higher risk...
Don’t Toss It Yet! 
“Expiration Dates” Explained
Americans throw away an estimated 30 percent of their food—much of which is still perfectly good. This wastes food and money and is bad...