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James E. Tillotson

Professor, Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University

Education

AB, Harvard College, Behavioral Sciences
MA, Boston University, Biology
MBA, University of Delaware
PhD in food science and technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Professional Activities

Professor of Food Policy, School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University; Adjunct Professor, Department of Family Medicine & Community, Tufts School of Medicine.

Curriculum Vitae

James E. Tillotson

Courses

Spring 2010

• EIB B280 - The Global Food Business

Research Interests

International and domestic food and agribusiness; government food policies; government regulation of the food industry.

Selected Publications

• Americans’ Food shopping in Today’s Lousy Economy (part 2), Nutrition Today, Volume 44, Number 5 September/October, 2009 (in press)
• Americans’ Food shopping in, Today’s Lousy Economy (part 1), Nutrition Today, Volume 44, Number 4, July/August, 2009
• What Goes up Always comes down: The Facts about Agricultural Commodity Cycles, Nutrition Today, Volume 44, Number 3, May/June 2009
• Why does My Food Suddenly Cost so Much?, Nutrition Today, Volume 44, Number 1, January/February, 2009
• Fast Food -- Starbucks and Our New Caffeine Culture, Nutrition Today, Volume 43, Number 5, September/October, 2008
• Agribusiness – the backbone Of our diet for better ….or for worse? (Part 2) Nutrition Today, Volume 41, Number 6 November/December, 2006 in Press
• Agribusiness – the backbone Of our diet for better ….or for worse? (Part 1) Nutrition Today, Volume 41, Number 5 September/October, 2006
• Op-ed: Iowa City eating experience Iowa City Press-Citizen< August 18, 2006
• Who’s the Average Joe Eater To Believe ? Nutrition Today, Volume 41, Number 3 May/June, 2006
• Whole Foods Market – Redefining the Supermarket Experience Nutrition Today, Volume 41, Number 2 March/April, 2006
• The Mega-Brands that Rule Our Diet (Part 2) Nutrition Today, Volume 41, Number 1 January/February, 2006
• The Mega-Brands that Rule Our Diet (Part 1) Nutrition Today, Volume 40, Number 6 November/December, 2005
• "Wal-Mart and Our Food," Nutrition Today, Volume 40, Number 5, (September/October 2005)
• "The Heavy Burden of Eating-Out Today," Nutrition Today, Volume 40, Number 5, (July/August 2005)
• "10 Things Congress Needs to Know about Obesity," Nutrition Today, Volume 40, Number 4, (May/June 2005)
• "Health Claims 2005: A New Tower of Babel?" (Part 2) Nutrition Today, Volume 36, Number 6 (March/April 2005)
• "Health Claims 2004: A New Tower of Babel?" (Part 1) Nutrition Today, Volume 36, Number 6 (November/December 2004)
• Op-ed: "No wonder we’re getting so fat," The Boston Globe, September 17, 2004
• "Who’s Filling Up Your shopping bag?" (Part 2) Nutrition Today, Volume 39, Number 5 (September/October 2004)
• "Who’s Filling Up Your shopping bag?" (Part 1) Nutrition Today, Volume 39, Number 4 (July/August, 2004)
• Op-ed: "Nation’s Obesity Problem Fed by Farming Subsidies," The Wichita Eagle (Kansas) June 27, 2004
• "Global Food Companies in the Developing World: Benefactors, Malefactors or Inevitable Change Agents?" Nutrition Today, Volume 39, Number 3 (May/June 2004)
• "America’s Obesity: Conflicting Public Policies, Industrial Economic Development, and Unintended Consequences," Annual Reviews of Nutrition, Vol. 24 (July 2004)
• "Pandemic Obesity: What is the Solution?" Nutrition Today, Volume 39, Number 1 (January/February 2004)
• "Pandemic Obesity: Time for a Change in Economic and Development Politics Affecting the Food Industry?" Nutrition Today, Volume 38, Number 6 (November/December 2003)
• "Pandemic Obesity: Agriculture’s Cheap Food Policy is a Bad Bargain," Nutrition Today, Volume 38, Number 5 (September/October 2003)
• "Pandemic Obesity: Unintended Policy Consequences," Nutrition Today, Volume 38, Number 4 (July/August 2003)
• "Multinational Food Companies and Developing Nations’ Diets," Food Policy Options: Preventing and Controlling Nutrition-related Non-Communicable Diseases, WHO/World Bank, (July 2003)
• "Fast-Casual Dining – Our Next Eating Passion?" Nutrition Today, Volume 38, Number 3 (May/June 2003)
• "Convenience Foods," Encyclopedia of Food Sciences & Nutrition, 2nd edition Academic Press, London, (April 2003)
• "The Politicalization of Food Quality," Nutrition Today, Volume 38, Number 2 (March/April 2003) reprinted in Fruit Processing (January 2004)
• "Does Nutrition Sell? Do Health Claims Work?" (Part 2) Nutrition Today, Volume 38, Number 1 (January/February 2003)
• "Does Nutrition Sell? Do Health Claims Work?" (Part 1) Nutrition Today, Volume 37, Number 6 (November/December 2002)
• "What does the future hold for American Food Companies?" Nutrition Today, Volume 37, Number 5 (September/October 2002)
• "Have Health Messages Spurred Industry-sponsored Academic Research?" Nutrition Today, Volume 37, Number 4 (July/August 2002)
• "We're fat, getting fatter! What is the Food Industry's Role?" Nutrition Today, Volume 37, Number 3 (May/June 2002)
• "Food Brands: Friend or Foe?" Nutrition Today, Volume 37, Number 2 (March/April 2002)
• "Our Ready-Prepared Ready-to-eat Nation," Nutrition Today, Volume 37, Number 1 (January/February 2002) reprinted in the Annual Editions: Nutrition 2004 (April 2004)
• "Global Supermarkets," Nutrition Today, Volume 35, Number 3 (May/June 2000)
• "Are Your Juices and Your Company Ready for the Next Century? Changing World, Changing Tastes," Fruit Processing (July 2000)
• "Juices in the 21st Century: A Futuristic Vision of the Global Fruit & Vegetable juice Industry," Annuals of the 22nd International Federation of Fruit Juice Producers, Paris, France. (August 1999)
• "Innovations in Food Companies in the United States," Proceeding of Innovation from Research to Companies in the Food Sector Conference, Trolleholm, Sweden. (July 1999)