Andrew Thorne-Lyman

America’s Protein Obsession, Explained | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Most Americans get plenty of protein—but under-consume other important nutrients.

Seafood is “the only natural source of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids” which are crucial for brain and heart health and difficult for the body to synthesize efficiently from plant sources, says CLF’s @andrewtl.bsky.social publichealth.jhu.edu/2026/america... @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social

Happy birthday to CSPI! Saving lives every day through science

If there was ever a good use of AI it was to create this scene.

That made me laugh. They actually did random draws of who sits on your oral exams in that dept though... I drew WW, Frank Hu and Marianne Wesling-Resnick. Was so nervous but they were all very kind.

They run models with restricted cubic splines all the time in NHS... we all had to learn how to do that...

In a new Op-Ed in @thehill.com , CLF’s Daphene Altema-Johnson, @andrewtl.bsky.social & @ptand.bsky.social discuss how the 2025 Dietary Guidelines promote more meat & dairy—but what Americans really need is more fiber, which comes from foods like legumes. thehill.com/opinion/heal...

We think dietary fiber was neglected in the latest dietary guidelines. Here is our take: www.washingtonpost.com/ripple/

Having no plant-based options at schools can mean going hungry — especially for students who rely on free school meals. Time to pass this bill to protect student health & tackle hunger! Take action: Text FUTURE to 30373.

@velazquez.house.gov @adams.house.gov @schiff.senate.gov

JAMA viewpoint: 'When Nutrition Science Is Ignored: Potential Public Health Cost of the 2025 Dietary Guidelines' by Kim A. Williams Sr, MD; Lily N. Dastmalchi, DO; Neal D. Barnard, MD. Published online January 28, 2026.

💬 Viewpoint: The 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans weakened evidence-based recommendations for plant-predominant diets, potentially impacting efforts to reduce #cardiovascular disease, #diabetes, and #obesity.

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America does not have a protein deficiency problem: it has a fiber problem. Sharing our commentary on the new dietary guidelines just published in The Hill. thehill.com/opinion/heal... @ptand.bsky.social @livablefuture.bsky.social @soiltosociety.bsky.social @thehill.com

I really wish Stephen Jay Gould was still alive.

why did the NICE non-bigoted and world famous evolutionary biologist of that generation have to die so young

The Median Isn’t the Message Reprint of Stephen Jay Gould's essay “The Median Isn't the Message.”

His essay about applying median survival statistics related to cancer to individual situations is one of my favorites. A must read for anyone with a loved one with cancer. journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/medi...

Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

Opinion | Attack of the clever crows What we can learn from the fish crows’ assault on our outdoor cushions.

Bad crows, bad crows whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do when they come for you?

Just created a starter pack to follow researchers and colleagues from the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future @livablefuture.bsky.social go.bsky.app/DKg6WCH

Join The Culinary Institute of America's Menus of Change featuring @aspenfood.bsky.social Food Leaders Fellows:

Anne McBride (The James Beard Foundation)
Tariq Sheriff (DC food policy innovator)
Rebecca Chesney (regenerative food systems expert)

Watch: menusofchange.org/webcast
#MenusOfChange

CLF will watch closely to see what the #MAHA Commission includes in their first report. Here’s what we will look for when the 2025-2030 dietary guidelines are released. clf.jhsph.edu/viewpoints/d... #PublicHealth

Just created a starter pack to follow researchers and colleagues from the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future @livablefuture.bsky.social go.bsky.app/DKg6WCH

Doesn’t the San Joaquin Valley also produce loads of dairy, and doesn’t dairy use lots of water? Why the focus on nuts and not dairy?

Every food (and food trend) has a story. I went looking for pistachio’s, with @tomphilpott.bsky.social @grocerynerd.bsky.social and baker Lena Derisavifard as my guides

Curious about pistachios and their environmental footprint? Please join this discussion at noon with my friend and colleague @tomphilpott.bsky.social from @livablefuture.bsky.social and bring all your burning questions about pistachios!

Rising Temperatures Are Scrambling the Base of the Ocean Food Web Scientists are gaining new insights into how plankton supports life on Earth — just as climate change is changing everything.

Rising Temperatures Are Scrambling the Base of the Ocean Food Web buff.ly/ezNO1AW 🦑🌎🧪

I'll be participating in a webinar about balanced energy protein supplementation in pregnancy tomorrow organized by
@edesianutrition.bsky.social
Please join us!

📅 13th February
⏰ 9:00–10:15 AM EST
🔗 Register: lnkd.in/euC3ibv8

Happy World Pulses Day everyone! Work some beans into your diets today!

Soil to Society: Optimizing Health and Nutrition The Soil to Society (S2S) project is in funded through the USDA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative's (AFRI) Sustainable Agriculture Systems (SAS) program. This 5-year, $10 million project emp...

Please follow @soiltosociety.bsky.social, a project bringing together nutritionists, crop and soil scientists, food scientists, economists and other discipines to create more nutritious, affordable and accessible whole-grain based foods. www.soiltosociety.org

Sorry, but we need a transformation of agriculture CLF researchers push back on a guest essay by Michael Grunwald.

“While our system is stunningly efficient at producing cheap milk, meat and eggs, it also has a well-documented relationship to serious public & planetary health issues." - @keevenachman.bsky.social #CLFExpert clf.jhsph.edu/viewpoints/s...

U.S. dietary guidelines should emphasize beans and lentils as protein, new proposal says The report, from an advisory committee to the USDA, also suggests encouraging people to reduce their intake of sugary drinks and sodium and eat more whole grains.

Nice to see coverage of the dietary guidelines committee's great work. The big question now is how to get Americans to eat more whole grains and beans. We'll be publishing a lot of papers on that in 2025 stay tuned... www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Thank you for your service! It's important work- don't let anybody tell you differently.

#nutrition nerds 🤓 ‼️

The scientific report of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee is live (this is the scientific report used to craft the Dietary Guidelines for Americans)

Big focus this edition on chronic disease & life-stage specific recs, with a health equity lens

DietaryGuidelines.gov

Hi Dylan thanks for this could you also pls add @lauraecaulfield.bsky.social