Choosing the Right Healthcare Provider
Knowing when—and where—to seek medical care is one of the most important skills for protecting your long-term health. From routine preventive visits to managing...
New Dietary Guidelines for Americans
The U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services have released the 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. First introduced in 1980 and revised...
The Loneliness Factor
In May 2023, the U.S. Surgeon General declared loneliness a public health epidemic. Loneliness—the feeling that you don’t have as many meaningful or close...
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...
Added Sugar is Added Sugar
When most people think of “sugar,” they picture that spoonful of white crystals that sweetens their coffee, tea, or baked goods. Those white crystals...
10 Choices that are Better for You…and the Planet
Worried about your health and the health of the planet? Experts have good news for you! “Many of the same foods and activities that...
Is There Proof? Correlation vs. Causation Matters
Did you know eating ice cream increases your risk for sunburn? That’s not actually true, of course. But if you make a graph comparing...
Diabetes, Explained
Diabetes affects over 38 million people in the United States, and another 97.6 million people aged 18 years or older (38 percent of the...
What About Milk(s)?
There is a lot of conflicting information out there about cow’s milk and the flood of milk alternatives in the marketplace. Here, we will...
Easy, Healthy Breakfast Ideas
While you sleep, your body uses up the energy it has stored from the previous day’s meals. Eating a healthy breakfast replenishes this fuel...