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‘If all else fails, sue.’
This is an astounding new report.
We know that big food companies deliberately engineer and market unhealthy products so that we eat too much of them, too often.
And lots of you will have seen that this is why multiple lawsuits are beginning in the USA.
But what you probably didn’t realise is that it isn’t just people who are harmed by unhealthy food who are using the law.
The companies who make unhealthy food are doing it too. But on a MUCH bigger scale...🧵
theguardian.com/society/2026…
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Centre for Evidence and Values in Healthcare next event! CONFLICTS OF INTEREST is our subject and we have a fantastic line up of people to help us talk, think and reflect on what we do about it. and it's ONLINE to include as many folk as possible. join us medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/ce…
"Conflicting Interests in Healthcare: what they are, what do they mean, what can we do about them?"
Online event this Thursday 22nd Oct with @mgtmccartney @ProfSunitaSah @CHPIthinktank @rebeccacoombes and many others should be spectacular.
This is one of the most important and least discussed subjects in modern medicine.
Some spots still available - booking details below.
onlineshop.st-andrews.ac.uk/…
Centre for Evidence and Values in Healthcare next event! CONFLICTS OF INTEREST is our subject and we have a fantastic line up of people to help us talk, think and reflect on what we do about it. and it's ONLINE to include as many folk as possible. join us medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/ce…
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Did you catch Dr Cathy Stannard on @BBCRadio4?
Cathy discussed many key issues in pain with @DoctorChrisVT & @xandvt – a great listen
🎧 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0032h…
⭐ Cathy guest-edited last year's Pain Matters 88 painconcern.org.uk/pain-matt…
Chris van Tulleken 🏳️🌈 retweeted
@DoctorChrisVT your caller asking for the proper medical terms for body parts to be used reminds of an old story. GP asks a little boy 'how are your waterworks?' Boy turns to father and asks 'Does he mean my penis, Daddy?'.
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I am HONOURED to have written about My Desk - and what can only be sarcastically referred to as my writing process - for India Knight
indiaknight.com/p/me-and-my-…
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Junk food is convenient, cheap and hard to resist. Yet against these daunting advantages governments have found a formidable array of counter-measures economist.com/international/…
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A terrible loss. She was the world's premiere infectious disease reporter -- an icon for all of us in public health science and journalism alike.
It is hard to believe that Helen Branswell has passed away. Just heartbreaking.
On January 4, 2020, Helen wrote STAT's first story on a mystery pneumonia outbreak in China. She saw the pandemic coming well before anyone was paying attention.
Helen was a journalist who knew more than most of the experts she interviewed. She understood the science, the history and the politics of every outbreak she covered. She asked the hardest (and best) questions and never let me get away with a vague answer
Experts learned from her. I certainly did
It's hard to imagine a world of pandemics, biological threats and so much more without a Helen Branswell to explain it all.
statnews.com/2026/10/13/hele…
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This question is really revealing as to what people think is sustainable and where they think the impacts of construction are. It’s almost all in the upfront impact of new materials. Even if they are natural. The most sustainable building is…
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We also wrote about this in our October newsletter - read it here firststepsnutrition.org/news
Infant Formula Marketing: Lessons From Recent Litigation
#FormulaMarketing #InfantFormula #CowMilkAllergy @BSACI_Allergy @EAACI_HQ @worldallergy @AAAAI_org @ascia_news
doi.org/10.1111/cea.70433
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I'm excited to present Barons next Thursday at the University of Northern Iowa!
It’s gonna be a whirlwind, and honestly, I can’t wait. The talk is at 6pm and open to the public, but come early because there’s going to be a food truck.
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A new RCT shows that even when UPF meals are nutritionally matched to non-UPF meals, they trigger higher insulin spikes, alter energy metabolism, and also change how your brain responds to food cues. Food processing matters far beyond macronutrients! nature.com/articles/s42255-0…
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As someone who believes that most books are a golden ticket to somewhere, I’m amused there is an actual golden ticket inside a few of What A Time To Be Alive!
Some great bookshops here - happy hunting
🎫 Order your signed copy of What a Time to Be Alive by @marinahyde from one of the below bookshops for the chance to win a year's AAA membership to The Rest is Entertainment! 🎫
@PortyBooks
@toppingsyork
@BackstoryLdn
@Books_n_friends
and the Faber website
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Wow Leicester Square just got even trashier etc
It’s publication day for my book, What A Time To Be Alive! Available now in bookshops, audiobook or here … linktr.ee/marinahydebook
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My last ever Guardian column!
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Always read the labels!
Why are supermarkets adding ultra processed ingredients to this !!!
Lidl is adding pea protein to beef mince and calling it “High Protein”.
What exactly is pea protein? It's a highly processed powder extracted from yellow peas. Sounds utterly unappetising to me!
Why on earth are we messing about with perfectly good beef?
Give me proper British beef, with one ingredient: BEEF!
This is exactly why I use my local butcher. I want to know what I'm eating and where it's come from.
Support British farmers and read those labels! 🇬🇧
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Check out this new interview I did on Freakonomics, where I'm the lone voice saying the meatpackers aren't so great.
"FRERICK: You shouldn’t be allowed to keep a dominant market position through bribery, yet they have." freakonomics.com/podcast/her…
The short course in travel medicine at
@LSHTM
is open for applications. It's one of the best courses I've ever taken and now I'm proud to teach on it alongside world class experts.
It's for physicians, pharmacists, specialist nurses - anyone interested in reducing risk for travellers with complex needs or itineraries.
Come join us in London from 2nd -6th November 2026
lshtm.ac.uk/study/courses/sh…
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New RCT from Oklahoma State University examines the metabolic effects of a 6-month UPF reduction intervention in 52 free-living healthy adults. Key outcomes for now:
📉 UPF share of diet: 63.8% ➡️ 41% of TEI
📉 Energy intake: -320 kcal/day.
mdpi.com/2674-0311/5/3/49
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Nearly a third of the government’s nutrition advisors still have “significant” ties to the food industry, including Coca Cola, reveals our new investigation.
Despite a new code of conduct banning links, members with ties are allowed to remain in post
bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026…
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"Conflicts of interest like this weaken public confidence."
A new investigation from The BMJ reveals that a third of the UK government's nutrition advisors are still paid by the food industry. @DoctorChrisVT joins us to discuss.
Read the full story now: bit.ly/4r5mgcP