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youtube.com/watch?v=8z9F0h… Love this! 1) getting outside 2) strength training in old age 3) body awareness and control. Fitness and falls prevention program. #fitness #antifragile #movement

New paper out creating an index that takes into account several components of the food environment. Bottom line: the quality of the food environment is associated with cardiovascular disease outcomes. authors.elsevier.com/c/1b~c~4pqpjmq…

Congrats to Michael Essman on his new study of media reactions to South Africa's sugary drinks tax. It's not surprising that most negative statements about the tax were made by the food industry, with high support from scientists & the government. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33676468/

We built a longitudinal nutritional database of food sold by large chain restaurants in the UK using automated Python programs (major time saver, compared to hand transcribing⏱). It can be used for relevant policy evaluations and potentially improve nutrient intake estimation.

This is an extraordinary interview by Jamie Oliver He shows a deep understanding of the challenges of securing child health, tackling socio-economic inequalities and ensuring food systems deliver for the people, which puts the government to shame with their duplicity and cruelty

New paper from the fab Megan Polden Kilocalorie labelling in the out-of-home sector before new regs: 21% of outlets had labelling, ~20% customers notice or use it when it's there, mean purchase is 1013kcal with 69% exceeding recommended 600kcal/meal bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Today the fabulous Kate Garrott presented our new framework categorising agentic demands of population interventions for diet and physical activity at #phsci sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

📢*NEW* paper to add to our work in this area (mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/research/studi…): Avoiding conflicts of interest and reputational risks associated with population research on food and nutrition: the Food Research risK (FoRK) guidance and toolkit for researchers bmj.com/content/384/bm…

Paper by Kate Garrott & colleagues MRC Epidemiology Unit deserves attention. Particularly when concerned about equity, degree to which people must understand intervention or change behavior is important for potential barriers. Framework helps examine demands interventions place on people.

New paper led by Megan Polden from our evaluation of menu calorie labelling requirements in England. Big increase in outlets providing any labelling - from 21% pre to 80% post. But only 15% of outlets met all best practice criteria. bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/4/e…

Philadelphia soda tax could help prevent diabetes, avert deaths hvrd.me/4nkn6c

implications for weight loss apps. if based on flawed linear models, where does that leave consumers? ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

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Private prisons to end after being found less safe and effective. private sector maximizes profits but not wellbeing washingtonpost.com/news/post-nati…

Yoshinori Ohsumi wins Nobel prize in medicine trib.al/TL2DHIL