April 7, 2025 — Efforts to improve global nutrition often run up against an inescapable truth: poverty, more than preference, limits healthy food choices. Two new studies highlight the complexity of this challenge and suggest that simply making nutritious foods more available or promoting dietary change isn’t enough – especially for the world’s poorest communities. Healthy Nutrition Out of […]
January 5, 2025 — In Nature Medicine on Friday, a striking new study from Brazil suggested that a conditional cash transfer program might have a strong effect on reducing incidence and mortality from tuberculosis in persons with extreme poverty and disadvantaged ethnic backgrounds. In fact, researchers documented more than a halving of risk. It’s quite popular to argue that […]
October 6, 2024 — Change is in the air at this year’s FNCE – the annual Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. This is the world’s largest meeting of food and nutrition experts, registered dietitians, and nutritionists. But this year, we are seeing a subtle shift in the agenda at FNCE: less […]
September 6, 2023 — A sure way to make a good program look bad is to offer up flawed evidence for its benefits. Then call it the biggest and best evaluation ever. So it is with a study of Food Is Medicine, impaired by a problem with regression to the mean. That little problem does not stop some pretty […]
