
Maddie Thomas
@mt_nutrition
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19-01-2021 18:46:10
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Sharing our second podcast with Adrian Brown PhD RD Prof Charlotte Hardman Flora Douglas Prof Paul Gately highlighting the importance of lived experience and exploring eating as a behaviour so we can co-develop interventions - let us know what you think ! Rowett Institute abdn.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/…

Today Prof Paul Gately attended a parliamentary event representing the FIO-FOOD Grant Team to provide a summary of project objectives and highlight how to support more effective policy outcomes for people living with #obesity and #foodinsecurity


1/4📢 Delighted to share our new paper from Maddie Thomas - Supermarket top-up of Healthy Start vouchers increases fruit and vegetable purchases in low-income households doi.org/10.1111/nbu.12… @TheMooreLab Nilani Sritharan (she/her) Tim Rains Alex Dalton


📰 A new academic evaluation of Sainsbury's top up of NHS Healthy Start Scheme vouchers in 2021 finds the scheme increased the amount of fruit and veg bought by almost 1 portion a day per household! Great evidence that retailers supporting the scheme can help to level up dietary


💥📢 New preprint from FIO-FOOD Grant!! osf.io/pjkhd/ In a sample of PLWO: 1️⃣ The COL crisis was associated with food insecurity 2️⃣Food insecurity was associated with greater use of budgeting, supermarket offers, energy saving appliances, and resourcefulness 📝💰🛒⏲️💡🧐


Great LIVE talk from Adrian Brown PhD RD at British Nutrition Foundation Annual Day 2023 in London, presenting insights from the FIO-FOOD Grant project 👏#obesity #foodinsecurity


Congratulations to our Nutrition and Lifestyle Analytics team from University of Leeds who were today awarded an Economic and Social Research Council Celebrating Impact Prize. The team were delighted to accept the award with our project partners Sainsbury’s and Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD).


We've been named this year's Peas Please Pledger Champion! This was awarded in recognition of our commitment to increase the proportion of our vegetable sales by 1%, for example through initiatives such as the Nectar Great Fruit & Veg Challenge where we offer customers








I’m delighted to share more info about our UKRI funded evaluation of the HFSS legislation, WP6 of the FIO-FOOD Grant project (DIO Food), supported by Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD) and using CDRC data assets – read more here about the sales data analysis, RQs and partners cdrc.ac.uk/news/

It was so nice to be back at University of Leeds today! Great to learn about so many exciting examples of industry & academia collaboration.