Ty Beal

Ty Beal is a Senior Technical Specialist and global nutrition scientist at the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), where he leads the Food Systems Data and Analytics sub-unit. His work focuses on diet quality, micronutrients, animal-source foods, food processing, and evidence for nutrition policy and food systems decision-making.

Nutrition Advice Shifts From Nutrient Targets to Minimally Processed Foods

At Aspen Ideas: Health, NPR’s Allison Aubrey moderated a nutrition panel with Jessica Knurick, Ty Beal, and Dariush Mozaffarian that argued the clearest dietary advice is also the hardest to implement: eat mostly whole or minimally processed foods, and change the food environment so that choice is easier. The speakers treated fights over seed oils, protein, saturated fat, alcohol, glucose spikes, and plant-based labels as real but often secondary to the larger questions of ultra-processed foods, school-meal infrastructure, food access, and policy incentives.

The Aspen InstituteJun 25, 202621 min read