New preprint 📢 we looked at differences in 1463 blood🩸 #proteins by #vegetarian and #vegan diet groups in UK Biobank as measured using Olink Proteomics Karl Smith-Byrne (he/him) Keren Papier Josh Atkins medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Two new Research Assistant posts available in our team! Working with Jessica Renzella and Lauren Bandy and Rachel Pechey. Evaluating interventions for healthy, sustainable diets (e.g. SALIENT) and lower alcohol consumption. shorturl.at/aJNO8 shorturl.at/DRW48

Please share! Last chance to register for the Nutrition Society #diet and #colorectalcancer meeting - deadline Friday 8th ⬇️ nutritionsociety.org/events/3rd-nut… Human Nutrition & Exercise Research Centre Prof Bernard Corfe James L Thorne

Excited to take part in the 3rd Nutrition Society conference on nutrition and colorectal cancer in ☀️Newcastle. Thanks for organising Fiona Malcomson !

Our latest paper on dietary amino acids and risk of stroke subtypes in EPIC-CVD is now online in the European Journal of Nutrition. We found that people with higher intake of the amino acid proline had lower ischaemic stroke risk. rdcu.be/dqoMi

📣 The final member of the El Susto panel has been announced as researcher Dr Hannah Forde! Join Hannah Forde, Toral Gathani, Diego Aguilar-Ramirez and the film’s director Karen Akins on 29 November to watch the film. Food provided, open to members of the University and the public.🍕

A pleasure to have been a part of this work! In this study of up to ~474,000 UK Biobank participants, we found a higher adherence to the EAT-Lancet reference diet to be associated with lower incident cancer risk and all-cause mortality. 🌎🌱🥗 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Excited to be in Australia in 2024! 🌞 I'll be presenting our deliberative work on food subsidies and taxes at: DelDemUCan 6th Deliberative Democracy Summer School, 7-9th Feb University of Sydney Food Governance Conference, 14-16th Feb Australian friends: wanna get coffee? ☕️

Our 2022 paper about SSB taxes & marketing received *9* insightful commentaries! We've responded: ijhpm.com/article_4544.h… Policymakers could maximise SSB taxes' impact by emphasising longer term ambitions (⬇️ soft drink consumption) instead of short term reformulation goals

🚨LEAP conference | Oxford | April 2024 🚨 A fantastic transdisciplinary conference on all environmental and health aspects of food and farming, with a particular focus on meat. Call for abstracts is open. Please share and apply! SHIFT leap.ox.ac.uk/article/leap-c…

Had an absolute pleasure speaking at the House of Lords. It was great to be part of a discussion that will contribute to the future of food 🍎🍕🥗House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity Committee parliamentlive.tv/event/index/42…

First FEED study publication alert 📢📢 We assessed the performance of contemporary #plantbased diets against the 🇬🇧 dietary guidelines. WHO/Europe SHIFT Oxford Population Health (OxPop) Read more 👇 mdpi.com/2072-6643/16/9…

Delighted that our paper investigating the role of >2,000 proteins with risk of nine cancers (and their subtypes) using cis pQTL Mendelian randomisation is now out in Nature Communications. nature.com/articles/s4146…

An exciting postdoctoral position in my group! Dietary profiles, health risk from chronic diseases, and dynamics of life-course health jobs.inrae.fr/en/ot-21966

Plasma proteins are a potential diagnostic tool to detect multiple diseases, including cancer. A study in Nature Communications leverages multi-omics data to identify 1,463 proteins associated with 19 common cancers in UK Biobank participants. go.nature.com/4ao3TWQ

🚨New paper - exploring red and processed meat consumption in Scotland: tinyurl.com/4s69pb62 Intake highest at dinners & on Sundays Bolognese & ham sandwiches top sources 🍝🥪 Majority from supermarkets 🛒 Insights can inform design of effective meat reduction strategies

🌟 Exciting workshop opportunity! 🌍 Want to explore addressing climate change in your personal / professional life? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿We're seeking well-off people in Scotland (income >£59,200 or household income >£100,000). You don't need to be into climate at all. Full details below 👇

Thrilled to share our opinion piece on methodological considerations for conducting or interpreting research on #UltraProcessedFood and health #nutritionresearch #epidemiology #Epitwitter IJE doi.org/10.1093/ije/dy…