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On Teens, Nutrition, and Exercise: How to Encourage Healthy Habits
April 17, 2024
Experts across Tufts outline the challenges for today’s teens when it comes to healthy eating and physical activity, and how parents and caregivers can help.
“How can we help teens develop a healthy relationship with food and movement, and create preferences that will carry them forward?” asks Erin Hennessy, dean for research strategy and associate professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, and director of the project ChildObesity180. 
Eight Ways to Raise Happier, Healthier Kids
April 2, 2024
Tufts experts offer evidence-based tips for helping your kids thrive—now and into the future.
If you’re raising kids, your goal is probably simple: You want happy and healthy young people who are ultimately equipped to navigate life on their own.
But the path to that goal often involves a lot of twists and turns. Sometimes it’s even downright rocky.
Luckily, Tufts experts in a variety of fields have spent years identifying strategies that may help smooth the way. Here are a few of their tips.
1. Eat real food, together. 
Paul Howe on the Role of Conflict in Causing Hunger, and How We Define Famine
April 8, 2024
Paul Howe, Director of the Friedman School's Feinstein International Center, has spoken with several major news outlets lately about the role of conflict in causing hunger, and how we define famine. 
Research Grant Awarded to Zhongyao Li
March 25, 2024
Zhongyao Li, a doctoral student in the Nutrition Epidemiology and Data Science program, has received an Oncology Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group Research Grant for her project “Ultra-Processed Food Consumptions and Breast Cancer Risk and Mortality in Two Large Prospective Cohort Studies.”
In this study, Zhongyao aims to examine the association between ultra-processed food consumption and the risk of developing breast cancer among participants, as well as risk of mortality among breast cancer survivors in the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) and NHS II. 
Apply For a Fully Funded PhD in Cellular Agriculture
March 19, 2024
Cellular agriculture (cell ag) is a rapidly growing field which seeks to address the growing environmental, animal welfare, labor, and public health concerns of industrial livestock production by creating agricultural products from cell culture. 
Tufts Marathon Team 2024 - Featured Runners
March 19, 2024
The Tufts Marathon Team (TMT), in collaboration with Bank of America, offers the opportunity to run the Boston Marathon while raising critical funds to benefit childhood obesity, cancer, hunger/famine, and healthy aging to name a few. Since first taking part in the Marathon in 2003, TMT has raised more than $8.5 million to support these crucial issues in food and nutrition. 
Nicole Tichenor Blackstone on Sustainable Protein Choices
March 18, 2024
"When it comes to carbon footprint, water use, or land use, red meat tends to be worse than a source of poultry, like chicken. Nevertheless, there are absolutely environmental sustainability concerns and animal welfare concerns with large-scale poultry production."
Dr. Nicole Tichenor Blackstone, Assistant Professor in the Division of Agriculture, Food, and Environment is quoted in The Guardian and offers insights into animal protein consumption. 
Friedman School Based Research Featured in Appetite
March 8, 2024
A team of researchers, many of whom are based at the Friedman School, have recently published a paper in the journal Appetite that examines the relationship between caregivers' autonomy and competence and their feeding practices before and during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The paper, titled "The longitudinal association between caregivers' perceived competence and autonomy and children's dietary consumption before and 10 months into the COVID-19 pandemic," can be found at the link below. 
Announcing the Sabina Robillard Student Prize Fund
March 8, 2024
The Feinstein International Center is proud to announce the establishment of an annual award to honor the memory and legacy of Sabina Carlson Robillard. We are grateful for the alumni, faculty, staff, and friends who generously endowed this fund honoring Sabina in perpetuity. 
Developing Healthy Communities
March 6, 2024
Featured Course: Developing Equitable, Inclusive Community Environments for Physical Activity (NUTC 212)