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Rudy Gatta
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From Ravenna🇮🇹Now in Boston🇺🇸 kidnapped by my crazy wife @menicgiulia👩‍🔬Journalist✍🏼 Knight🎖️Marathoner🏃‍♂️ Family’s recipes @lacucinadelloracolo 🍽️
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Rudy Gatta @rudyshecat.bsky.social · Nov 28
It was an honor to be part of the group of people who contributed to the success of Consulate General of Italy in Boston: Capital of Italian Creativity in the World, whose festival took place in recent days in the heart of Massachusetts, USA. 🇮🇹✨ @menicgiulia.bsky.social
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Dichiarazione del Presidente #Mattarella a tre anni dall'aggressione dell’Ucraina da parte della Federazione Russa. 🇮🇹
February 24, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Thank you, Ilaria Iacoviello , for the great interview & your commitment to science! And to Fondazione Leonardo for making it possible. As for @menicgiulia.bsky.social , hearing her say these things fills me with pride every day. youtu.be/SkHrAXtvGXc
Intervista a Giulia Menichetti: il coraggio di sbagliare per crescere nelle STEM
YouTube video by Fondazione Leonardo
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February 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Kudos to my extraordinary wife, @menicgiulia.bsky.social who understands the complexity of foods better than I understand the shopping list. Jokes aside, I’m truly proud of you.
February 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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@menicgiulia.bsky.social 👏🏼👏🏼
erictopol.bsky.social Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Jan 31
There's a wide range of "ultra-processed foods." A recent Nature Foods paper zoomed in on this www.nature.com/articles/s43... and the graph rankings are shown below from @sciam.bsky.social
www.scientificamerican.com/article/whic...
February 1, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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@menicgiulia.bsky.social 👏🏼👏🏼
menicgiulia.bsky.social Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · Jan 24
Thank you to Dr. Bruce Levy & the 2024 Chair’s Research Award organizers for a fantastic event! Transitioning from physics to medical research has been a journey made possible by a culture of mentorship & support. Grateful to Dr. Dawn DeMeo, my 'medicine teacher.' Congrats to all awardees!
January 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Proud husband moment! 🏆 My wife @menicgiulia.bsky.social received an award from the prestigious @BrighamWomens, an @harvardmed.bsky.social teaching hospital. The details are blurry (thanks to her backlit photo), but it reflects her incredible talent. Congrats on this well-deserved recognition!
January 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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natureportfolio.nature.com Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Jan 16
A paper in Nature Food presents GroceryDB, a dataset with more than 50,000 food items sold at major grocery stores in the US that uses big data to provide information on processing—categorized by store, food category and price range. https://go.nature.com/3E7DMZu 🔒
This is figure 2, which shows food processing in grocery stores.
January 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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This seems to be a very practical
resource. Love it. Important as the body of evidence linking consumption of ultra processed foods to adverse health outcomes is increasingly robust.
January 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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www.wbur.org/news/2025/01... @menicgiulia.bsky.social
How processed is your food? A new database from MGB can help you find out
A new database from Mass General Brigham launched Monday with the nutritional value and "processing scores" for more than 50,000 foods available at Target, Whole Foods and Walmart. Here’s how it works...
www.wbur.org
January 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Over 50,000 food items, 1,000+ ingredients analyzed, and one mission: helping you choose less processed foods, highlighted in Nature Food: 🍎🛒
@karapedsgastrodoc.bsky.social
@menicgiulia.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Prevalence of processed foods in major US grocery stores - Nature Food
Information on the degree of processing of food items is key for better consumer choices. GroceryDB is a dataset with more than 50,000 food items sold at major grocery stores in the United States that...
www.nature.com
January 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Nature Food: Our paper revealing the degree of food processing in 50K+ items sold by Walmart, Target & Whole Foods is just out! 🍎📊
PDF at barabasi.com/science/publ...
See the data in action at www.truefood.tech
Thank @menicgiulia, @BabakRavandi et al.
January 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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That moment when my wife @menicgiulia.bsky.social on the News, single-handedly wiped 90% of my favorite snacks off the shelf. Guess it’s time to rethink my definition of ‘food.’ 😅 www.fox5ny.com/video/1576217
New tool tells the truth about processed foods
Think your favorite grocery store snacks are healthy? Think again. A Harvard researcher has created a groundbreaking database, TrueFood.tech, analyzing over 50,000 products from major retailers like W...
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January 14, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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When I met my wife Giulia Menichetti I was amazed by the work behind a scientific paper. This one took 3 years to be published but just minutes to read. So much happens in 3 years… Check it out ⬇️
menicgiulia.bsky.social Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · Jan 13
Estimated reading time: 30 minutes.
Time to publication: 3 years 😅
'Prevalence of processed foods in major US grocery stores' is finally published in Nature Food!
Read it here: rdcu.be/d55mU
Thread coming soon 🧵—after I recover! 😉
January 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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A new resource rating >50,000 foods from 3 grocery stores
(Walmart, Target, and Whole Foods) for degree of processing and breakdown of ingredients
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Website for consumers www.truefood.tech
January 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Italian journalist detained in Iran has been released.

"The plane repatriating journalist Cecilia Sala took off a few minutes ago," the Italian government said in a statement.
Italian journalist detained in Iran has been released
"The plane repatriating journalist Cecilia Sala took off a few minutes ago," the Italian government said in a statement.
www.brusselstimes.com
January 8, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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menicgiulia.bsky.social
Training course "Introduction to Network Medicine"
Join us! Applications are due by January 20!
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www.diag.uniroma1.it/network_medi...
January 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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3/ 🧑‍🔬🏛️ @barabasi.bsky.social Joseph Loscalzo
@harvardmed.bsky.social @massgeneralbrigham.bsky.social @nunetsi.bsky.social
#NutritionScience #AI #NetworkMedicine
December 30, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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2/ Fast forward to today: My co-authors and I distilled this journey into "Decoding the Foodome: Molecular Networks Connecting Diet and Health" for @annualreviews.bsky.social
Perfect reading for New Year’s resolutions about rethinking diets & research 😉
👉 Read it here: shorturl.at/GQeaW
The dark matter of nutrition. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has systematically measured 188 nutritional components that encompass essential micro- and macronutrients related primarily to energy intake and vitamin deficiencies. Although this knowledge has been transformative for the health sciences, these nutritional components represent only a fraction of the more than 139,000 chemicals we have collected, many of which have documented effects. For example, the 69 nutrients documented by the USDA Standard Reference Legacy database for raw garlic include vitamins such as ascorbic acid and amino acids such as alanine but miss important bioactive compounds such as allicin, ajoene, and p-coumaric acid. The number of health effects/bioactivities documented in FooDB is shown for each compound. The network neighborhood of sulforaphane’s targets in the protein–protein interaction network generates a connected component comprising 49 targets, surrounded by 9 additional isolated targets. Green indicates both sulforaphane’s targets and the binding links connecting them. Gray indicates proteins close to sulforaphane’s targets. Within the same region of the interactome are proteins that are epigenetic modifiers (blue). Proteins that are both sulforaphane’s targets and associated with a therapeutic area are filled with the color of the selected therapeutic area, while their border is colored green.
December 30, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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1/ 🎉 Happy New Year, everyone! 8 years ago, I was brainstorming BIG nutrition questions with colleagues—little did I know it would lead me across fields like cheminformatics, epidemiology, mass spectrometry, stochastic modeling, AI, and Network Science.
Nutrient composition of food. According to the Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies, the consumption of 100 g of raw onion delivers 45 nutritional components, whose amounts (measured in grams) span eight orders of magnitude. Among these 45 nutrients are compounds from different chemical classes, such as copper (a mineral), linoleic acid (a polyunsaturated omega-6 fatty acid, the most typical isomer of fatty acid 18:2), and quercetin (a flavonol). We rank the nutrients in onion in descending order of concentration on the ordinate axis. The gram amount of nutrient n per 100 g is reported as xn. Large-scale analysis of nutrient concentrations in food. (a) The concentration probability distribution Q(𝑥𝑛) for four nutrients across the 4,889 foods reported in NHANES 2009–2010 data, shown on a logarithmic horizontal axis. The four distributions are approximately symmetric on a log scale and have similar width and shape that are independent of the average concentration of the respective nutrient. Each symbol represents a histogram bin. (b,c) The observed common scale of nutrient fluctuations observed in the log space allows us to rescale all nutrients and compare them on a single plot, suggesting a methodology to detect foods with outlier concentrations. The pattern of nutrient outliers in different foods (quantified by a z score in the log space) is informative of the type and extent of processing, as shown here for (b) 100 g of raw onion compared with (c) 100 g of onion rings. (d,e) FoodProX is a random forest classifier that was trained over the nutrient concentrations within 100 g of each food, tasking the classifier to predict its processing level according to NOVA. FoodProX represents each food by a vector of probabilities {pi}, capturing the likelihood of the food being classified as an unprocessed food (NOVA 1), a processed culinary ingredient (NOVA 2), a processed food (NOVA 3), or an ultraprocessed food (NOVA 4). The final classification label, highlighted with a box on the right, is determined by the highest probability. The probability values were rounded to two decimal places.
December 30, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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This. 👇
December 31, 2024 at 2:29 AM
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It was an honor to be part of the group of people who contributed to the success of Consulate General of Italy in Boston: Capital of Italian Creativity in the World, whose festival took place in recent days in the heart of Massachusetts, USA. 🇮🇹✨ @menicgiulia.bsky.social
November 28, 2024 at 8:32 PM
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Join us tomorrow in Rome!
November 21, 2024 at 4:10 PM
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menicgiulia.bsky.social Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · Nov 20
A big thank you to the team behind the Festival of Italian Creativity @ItalyinBoston. Special thanks to Consul General @ArnaldoMinuti and Prof. @paologau for the opportunity to join the panel on Women in Science and Technology.
#ItalyinBoston
November 20, 2024 at 9:12 PM
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menicgiulia.bsky.social Giulia Menichetti @menicgiulia.bsky.social · Nov 19
About last week…hopefully the first of a long series of panels on #AI & #Food! 🙌 Big Thank you 🙌 to Erika Marthins, Johnny Drain, UN @aiforgood.bsky.social
#UN #aiforgood
November 20, 2024 at 9:11 PM