Global Dietary Database

Collecting, evaluating, & translating global dietary data to improve interventions, policy, public health, & the global food supply.

[Global Dietary Database @globaldietdata]

🎉‼️ GDD 2018 final estimates have begun rolling out on https://t.co/M21FJo8GLJ. These estimates are jointly stratified by age (starting at 0-11 months), sex, education, rural or urban status, and years 1990-2018. Create your account or login for access!

[Global Dietary Database @globaldietdata]

New @GlobalHealthBMJ from Dr. Victoria Miller: "Global Dietary Database 2017: data availability and gaps on 54 major foods, beverages and nutrients among 5.6 million children and adults from 1220 surveys worldwide"
Check it out! https://t.co/FMdD8a7xLV

[Global Dietary Database @globaldietdata]

Join the @BPC_Bipartisan event today at 11 am EDT.
You can register here: https://t.co/SlEJRaJTj8

[Global Dietary Database @globaldietdata]

Now, more than ever, we need the creation of policies to protect the health of those underrepresented. It is imperative that strategies respond to the needs of communities, and our dietary database aims to help by assessing both maternal and child health. #InvestInNutrition

[1,000 Days @1000Days]

#Breastfeeding is on track to reach 2025 #WHA target🎉

But we need greater action to reach 2030 target, says #SOFI2020. Without it, #SDG 🤱 target (70% of infants exclusively breastfed) won’t be reached until 2⃣0⃣3⃣8⃣. #InvestInNutrition

[Global Dietary Database @globaldietdata]

We support the @GNReport mission to #LeaveNoOneBehind. Our GDD project works to fill the gaps in nutrition survey data availability.
We hope researchers can use this comprehensive resource to address inequalities in our food system.
#livewithempathy

[Global Nutrition Report @GNReport]

"Our promise to #LeaveNoOneBehind hinges on addressing inequities in food, health & social protection systems"

'Equity & the right to food: A systemic approach...', by Director of Nutrition @FAO & @UNSCN Coordinator @StinekeOenema is now live👉https://t.co/QYguMG9ye1

#HLPF2020

[Global Dietary Database @globaldietdata]

Today at 3 PM EDT the @UN will be discussing the second SDG: ending hunger and achieving food security.

At GDD we estimate global food intake to help provide strategies to improve health policies around the world. We encourage you all to watch the #HLPF!

[Saul Morris @SaulMorris19]

What we eat is the biggest contributor of our health outcomes. Hard to believe that for years, there were no standardised, comparable data on what different populations eat. Fantastic webinar by @globaldietdata explains how they have collated analysed and disseminated the data.

[Global Dietary Database @globaldietdata]

We are so excited to watch our PI @Dmozaffarian on @billmaher this Friday, June 12th!

Please tune in to learn more about the ways COVID-19 has impacted the food system, nutrition, and how the virus has shed light on diet-related chronic diseases.

[Global Dietary Database @globaldietdata]

Tomorrow @globaldietdata and @TuftsNutrition will stand in solidarity with the Black community. We encourage you to join & reflect on structural racism in society & academic institutions.

In response, the GDD Webinar is postponed to Thursday, June 11 @ 9am

#ShutDownAcademia

[Global Dietary Database @globaldietdata]

REMINDER: Don't forget to sign up for our webinar on June 10th at 9am EST. We will give an overview of the GDD project and how this unique resource can be useful to you!

Register by clicking the link below 👇:

https://t.co/U9YHcO4XT9

[Global Dietary Database @globaldietdata]

Our PI @Dmozaffarian will be providing an overview of food and nutrition issues in an era of COVID-19 as a backdrop for strengthening federal nutrition research. Join June 2, 2:30 pm EST:

[Global Dietary Database @globaldietdata]

Register for our first webinar June 10th, 9 am EST. We'll be providing a crash course in everything from our data collection & modeling processes, partnerships, #FoodEx2, and new dissemination platform. We look forward to answering all your questions!

https://t.co/U9YHcOmyKH

[Global Dietary Database @globaldietdata]

Our Investigator @DrRenataMicha and the @GNReport published their 2020 report. Check out to see how diet quality improvements can help to end malnutrition in all its forms here:

https://t.co/vrLPWHeOmi

[Global Dietary Database @globaldietdata]

Listen in as our Principal Investigator @Dmozaffarian discusses the critical links between #nutrition and #COVID19 :

[Global Dietary Database @globaldietdata]

Check out the 8th edition of the GDD Newsletter!

Topics include: How #Covid19 is impacting our work, answers to your #FAQ about our methods, and a special note from our Principal Investigator @Dmozaffarian

https://t.co/qEWHEZ1Sdy

[Global Dietary Database @globaldietdata]

We have the power to change the #foodenvironment and make an impact on our health.

Read about a new study in Chile that found a landmark law requiring warning labels on unhealthy foods made a difference in purchases of sodas, bottled water and juices.

https://t.co/1SZ4wgBVsX

[Global Dietary Database @globaldietdata]

Come check out the newest edition of the @globaldietdata newsletter!

Learn about:
1) Our partners @INDDEXProject
2) GDD 2008-2020 #timeline
3) Demographic and Health Surveys @USAID
...and more!

https://t.co/e9qU5ebrAA

[Global Dietary Database @globaldietdata]

@globaldietdata would like to express our sincere thanks and gratitude to all of our data owners. The dietary survey data you have contributed to us over the past 10 years has made the development of the GDD possible! #ThanksgivingWeek

[Global Dietary Database @globaldietdata]

#ThrowbackThursday to last year at @nutritionorg presenting on our global dietary estimates.

We are working hard and are excited to present new results at #Nutrition2020 this Spring. Will we see you in Seattle?

[Rebecca Lindberg @relindberg]

Lessons today from @Dmozaffarian @MHIF_Heart lecture
1) Cannot judge food by calories alone
2) Obesity is only one impact of poor nutrition
3) Eat protective foods
4) Change will require systems change
#foodismedicine