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The new institute integrates food-based nutritional interventions into health care

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The new institute integrates food-based nutritional interventions into health care

A first-of-its-kind, newly established research institute aims to address an apparent gap in the health system by working to integrate food-based nutritional interventions into healthcare to treat diseases and promote health equity. The Food is Medicine Institute at Tufts University’s Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, launched today, establishes a university-wide initiative to transform … Read more

From the floods in Houston to the crisis in the Middle East, the Baker Institute seeks solutions to pressing problems

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From the floods in Houston to the crisis in the Middle East, the Baker Institute seeks solutions to pressing problems

After discussing energy, immigration, guns, flooding, foreign relations, transportation, elections and health care, Ambassador David M. Satterfield turned to poetry. Satterfield, director of the Baker Institute for Public Policy, reads a few lines from a poem by Sam Walter Foss wrote in the 1950s: The heat of the sun will be released in 10 million … Read more