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...
Should You Be Counting Calories?
If you want to lose weight—or keep from gaining—chances are you’re very aware of calories.
You consume them in foods and beverages. You “burn” them...
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...
Diet and Cancer
Scientists are learning more about the association between dietary intake and cancer. This connection is becoming increasingly clear for colorectal cancer and for the...
Preventing Stroke: New Guidelines Released
Every year in the U.S., 600,000 people have a first stroke, and 160,000 die from stroke, making it the fifth leading cause of death...