My opinion piece just out in The BMJ "Investing in public health policies that help tackle the climate emergency makes economic sense, as well as being good for human and planetary health." Grantham LSE The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change

“I certainly don’t veto van Tulleken’s valiant efforts to raise awareness around diet-related disease – but I won’t be binning the baked beans just yet.” Check out my first article with @courieronline My take on a controversial topic – the UPF saga. thecourieronline.co.uk/are-we-ultra-p…

Congratulations to two of our current stage 3 dietetics students, Yi Jia Sim and Jacob Hamilton, who presented findings from their research scholarships at today’s celebration event 🌟👏🏼 fantastic to see such passionate researchers! Jacob I Hamilton Newcastle Biomedical, Nutrition & Sport Sci Newcastle University

"You can't have a health secretary who is not dealing with diet." It's "completely nonsensical" to have a health secretary who has to recuse herself from discussions about sugar, former government food tsar Henry Dimbleby tells #TimesRadio. Stig Abell

A FAO/UNICEF/WHO initiative identifies the Nova UPF score as one of the four most suitable metrics to monitor healthy diets globally. Here, a call to national governments, UN agencies, donors and funders, civil society organizations, and researchers. data.unicef.org/wp-content/upl…

New publication📢 Our report in Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics discusses PPI activities with South Asian communities in NE England. Together we explored how to ⬆️ engagement in diet & dementia prevention research. This has informed follow on projects - stay tuned! 👉🏼doi.org/10.1111/jhn.13…

Thrilled to share our narrative review which provides a clinician-focused update on nutrition for dementia prevention 🧠🍽️ Grateful to have worked alongside such an excellent team 🤩. Thank you to Claire McEvoy RD & Colin McClure for the invitation to contribute toward this series.

📢🎓Do you employ new #graduate dietitians? Come join our Networking Event, Thursday 16th January, with final year dietetic students Newcastle University Newcastle Biomedical, Nutrition & Sport Sci A great chance to #connect and #showcase your organisation. Find our more📷👇 or sign up here tinyurl.com/3f3zcsn6

📢Calling UK obesity health professionals, researchers, and lived experience. Can you help one of our Master's dietetic students on their project with Association for the Study of Obesity UK to address weight stigma in hospitals? Complete this survey on a new weight stigma checklist shorturl.at/08zh8 💡

Are you a South Asian parent in Northeast England with a child aged 5-12yr? My coursemate is conducting a study exploring dietary habits of South Asian children, aiming to improve health and nutrition education for South Asian families. More details below.

🚨New paper alert 🚨 Our latest study explores inter-individual differences in the effects of dietary nitrate on blood pressure and nitric oxide biomarkers using a novel replicate crossover design Free open access 🔗: link.springer.com/article/10.100… 🧵⬇️

One of our Master's Dietetic students Kristen Dunlop is carrying out a survey on post-ICU patients and needs your opinions! See below for more details 👇

Are you a student at Newcastle University? 🧑‍🎓 Do you want to learn about healthy & sustainable eating, & have a chance to win £100 in shopping vouchers? 🍎🛒 Check out Eatwell NCL, an online course for students w/ educational videos and easy healthy recipes: forms.office.com/e/dg2YNKZHKY

💡Last Thursday our Dietetics team attended the inspiring Learning and Teaching conference Newcastle University! We were delighted to see Jacob there, one of our final year MDiet students, with his work on EatWell NCL. Well done to Jacob & the team🍎🍉🍓