
Kevin Hall
@kevinh_phd
Nutrition & metabolism scientist. Brady & Cameron’s dad. Tweets are my personal views.
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24-06-2009 03:06:16
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🧵 Thread: The dopamine deficiency theory of obesity might be backwards. For years, the story was: people with obesity have fewer dopamine receptors, get less reward from food, and overeat to compensate. But a new Nature Molecular Psychiatry study by Valerie L. Darcey, PhD, MS, RD just flipped that







Answers to a few questions from Nina Teicholz, PhD about incidences of censorship I recently experienced at NIH: 1. My request was denied by HHS to present an invited keynote talk on my ultra-processed food (UPF) research at the Bloomberg Philanthropies annual Food Policy Program


The ultimate test of #MAHA sincerity. Will they fund NIH nutrition research? So far zilch. Indeed, Kevin Hall left as a result. Industry has fought funding for years. Will Secretary Kennedy & Calley Means stand up against them and for our health? Well said Deirdre Tobias, ScD

The story of my departure from NIH leads the latest episode of the Science Vs podcast on the overall topic of declining support for science in the USA.