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Vaccine #Misinformation for Profit: Conspiratorial Wellness Influencers & the Monetization of Alternative Health Study examines how influencers "...promote antivaccination messaging, & weaponize this information to direct their followers to buy products & services."

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Another dodgy nutrition claim doing the rounds on social media – IPAN PhD student Emily Denniss (she/her) reminded users to be wary of influencers offering up dietary advice following her recent study finding lots of untrustworthy advice: deakin.au/4aFdhpj heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/…

It has been estimated that the anti-vaccine online industry accumulates annual revenues of $35 million, and that their audience of 62 million followers may be worth upward of a billion dollars a year for the big social media platforms. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… By John Cook

The production, promotion and high consumption of UPFs is a massive problem. Note how Australia's consumption is climbing! 'Deny, denounce, delay’: the battle over the risk of ultra-processed foods ft.com/content/0b9ad1… via @ft

How can you tell is an influencer is legit or full of sh*t?! 1️⃣ they make claims that evoke fear 2️⃣ all or none statements 3️⃣ they’re selling something related to their claims 4️⃣ obvious conflict of interests 5️⃣ they speak outside their expertise CC: NEURODIVERGENT SUPPORT WIRED

Dr Priscila Machado, Research Fellow at the Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition at Deakin University is working to help Australians recognise and decrease their consumption of ultra-processed foods. Learn more about available Heart Foundation funding 👇pulse.ly/wckodigmg2

A great opportunity to do a PhD on an important topic with a brilliant supervisory team!

More than 40% of the food we eat is ultra-processed, IPAN research has shown. But clever marketing can dupe us into thinking we're making healthy choices. Dr @ppmachado_'s Heart Foundation-backed study examines how to communicate about UPFs to consumers. deakin.au/4eOzunY

🔊Calling for abstracts for the 48th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Nutrition Society of Australia, "Food for All: Promoting Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Nutrition" in Sydney. View abstract guidelines here ⬇️ ow.ly/EW9R50SqCcV Abstracts close 11 August

Interested in cutting back on meat?🥩 IPAN's Laura Marchese shared 4 tips via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand to help you make healthy meat-free choices whilst dining out 👇 ipan.deakin.edu.au/2024/08/4-ways…

We’re pleased to announce IPAN’s Dr Priscila Machado was successful in an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) application for her work focusing on addressing the harms of ultra-processed food in Australia. @ppmachado_ @deakinresearch

There is so much manly-man wellness BS! Is the "manosphere" hurting our health?💪 Our new documentary, HARDER BETTER FASTER STRONGER, drops Oct 23 on CBC & CBC Gem

Food security superstar Dr Rebecca Lindberg this week advocated to add safeguards to a Senate bill to ensure healthy foods are incentivised for tax offsets. Thanks for bringing the voice of vulnerable, food insecure Australians to the hearing. 🙏 Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=r_H62_…

Whilst supplements/multivitamins tend to make promises about their health benefits, IPAN's @DrHelen_Mac advised caution about such claims via Guardian Australia as “often the ingredients are [in concentrations] just too low to have any physiological benefit.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

HIV Futures — Australia’s longest running survey of health and wellbeing among people living with HIV — is now open! If you are eligible to participate we would love the hear from you. We would also greatly appreciate people sharing widely. hivfutures.org.au