Tufts University's Health and Nutrition Letter (HNL)
Volume 42 • Number 9 • November 2024
It’s estimated that over 300 million pounds of food are thrown away every Thanksgiving! Don’t let your leftovers add to the waste. A World of Waste. The food you throw away ends up in a landfill, where it decomposes and releases the powerful greenhouse gas methane. (Composting also creates methane, …
Issue Highlights
The same factors that raise the risk for heart disease also impact brain disease, including stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, and other …
Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), commonly referred to as simply cardiovascular disease or heart disease, is a major cause of illness …
After several years of limiting our travel, many of us are getting back out on the road (or the rails, …
You hear it all the time: shift your eating habits; move more; make this or that other healthy lifestyle change. …
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer among men in the U.S. and around the globe. Worldwide, there are …
