Current Projects

The EMET Lab is one of the 3 sites in the CALERIE study, the first human trial of calorie restriction to examine potential benefits for parameters related to longevity.
The EMET lab is studying the accuracy of calorie contents listed in restaurants, to determine whether currently listed values are sufficiently accurate to be a useful contributor to public health measures to facilitate weight control.
Emergency Food Product study. The EMET lab recently obtained funding to examine the effects of emergency food products, on long-term body weight. The study relates to our interest in the role of dietary variety in weight regulation, hunger, satiety and food cravings.
The EMET lab is conducting an intervention study called the Worksite Healthy Weight for Life project to examine whether worksites are an efficient way to deliver effective weight control interventions to adult population groups.

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For more information about the Energy Metabolism Laboratory, please visit the USDA, Agricultural Research Service.

Tipping the Scales
Restaurant foods and frozen meals contain more calories than they claim, study finds.

Ask The Professor: Why does caffeine give you energy?

Sacrificing Food In The Name Of Nutrition
It takes dedicated researchers and disciplined volunteers to fuel nutrition studies, which lead to important discoveries about food and health.

Roberts' New Book Profiled In Chronicle Of Higher Education
Tufts Nutritionist's Research Makes Waves Across The Country

Sacrificing Food In The Name Of Nutrition
It takes dedicated researchers and disciplined volunteers to fuel nutrition studies, which lead to important discoveries about food and health.

Formula for Disaster
British researchers are working on a baby formula that would make infants resistant to obesity later in life. Tufts nutrition expert Susan Roberts is skeptical.