Thrilled to present some of our findings from Project Daire at #ISBNPA2024 in Omaha, Nebraska! 🇺🇸 It was inspiring to network with fellow professionals and hear the latest research on behavioral nutrition and physical activity worldwide!🌍🌎🌏 Thanks to the ISBNPA organisers!🌟

📢The upcoming Nutrition Society Congress 2024 will be hosted in Belfast 2-5 July 🌿 Dr Anne Nugent & Prof Jayne Woodside are co-chairing the local organising committee 🌍🍴🔬📊 Programme & more ↙️ bit.ly/3XdNcdJ #NutritionCongress #NutritionEvents

📢 Our latest report highlights the disconcerting deterioration in children's health. 📏 Height of 5 year-olds falling since 2013 🩺 Obesity among 10-11 year-olds up 30% 💉 Type 2 diabetes among under 25s up 22% Read more: ➡️ tinyurl.com/384fba2n Jamie Oliver

If you are joining us at the Congress next week, please look out for the delegate email on Friday for all the event information, programme and abstract booklet. bit.ly/3vPR5tG #NSCongress24

Had a great kickoff to the Nutrition Society Congress in Belfast! Looking forward to the next days’ schedule of exciting presentations and networking! 😊 #NSCongress24 Nutrition Society

It was a great opportunity to present our findings from Project Daire, a school-based food intervention study in Northern Ireland, on Day 3 of #NSCongress24 in Belfast! I also enjoyed learning about other exciting presentations on #schoolfood during the session 🍎 Nutrition Society

Thanks Mary Ward Anne Nugent and all Nutrition Society - here are the local helpers who did so much to make #NSCongress24 a success. Thanks to you all! Queen's University Belfast 🎓 IGFS QUB Public Health

📢 Hunger should not stand between a child & their education. ➡️ #SchoolMeals bridge this gap. How? ✅ They provide an incentive to vulnerable families to send children to school. ✅ Once children are in class on a full stomach, children can focus on learning.

In Project DAIRE, we developed an instrument to assess the whole-school food environment in primary schools 🍎 The instrument can measure whole-SFE and also enabled identification of recommendations to enhance SFE Read now ➡️ bit.ly/4f92vdc Nutrition Society Publications

In our GENIUS priority setting exercise, we identified the top 10 research priorities for the school food system in the UK 🍏 These should be considered by policymakers researchers and other school food stakeholders Read the article ➡️ bit.ly/3AzTJX1

(1/2) Publication news!🥳Our work on nutrition in schools in Cambridge Proceedings of the Nutrition Society is available now Jayne Professor Greta Defeyter Dr Charlotte E.L. Evans @mariemurphyPH Dilara Olgacher Maria Bryant (moving to Bluesky...) Nutrition Society Publications GENIUS School Food Network and colleagues doi.org/10.1017/S00296…

NEW! 🍎 Available now in Proceedings of the Nutrition Society Nutrition Society Publications A review of the key findings from GENIUS and progress to date, as well as a summary of the current literature, identification of knowledge gaps and areas of debate Read now ⬇️ bit.ly/4g5shjn

✨ Gisèle Pelicot transformed her pain into purpose, and silence into strength. 🗣️ By breaking her silence about surviving sexual violence, she empowered millions and became the face of courage, dignity, and resilience. Her message? Shame must change sides. There is #NoExcuse.

Happy New Year #schoolfood enthusiasts! Please don't forget that our petition calling for free, healthy and nutritious #schoolmeals for every child is still important this year. If you haven't signed yet, you can do so here: action.wemove.eu/sign/2024-09-f…

📢 Hunger should not stand between a child & their education. ➡️ #SchoolMeals bridge this gap. How? ✅ They provide an incentive to vulnerable families to send children to school. ✅ Once children are in class on a full stomach, children can focus on learning. #EducationDay

🍽️ 👩‍🎓 #SchoolMeals help ensure girls have a fair chance at an education. ✅ Providing take-home rations alongside school meals are proven to increase girls' enrollment by up to12%, reducing the risk of having them drop out to support their families. #IWD2025 #WomensDay

From cooks, to caterers, to small holder farmers -- #SchoolMeals are #ForAllWomenandGirls, not only by supporting girls' education, but also creating jobs & opportunities for women in local communities. ⬇️☘️ Smallholder farmer 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗲's local & fresh produce is procured

Happy International #WomensDay! Women and girls play a key role in food security and the nutritional well-being of their families and communities. Empowering women and girls fuels progress for everyone. 🌱🤲🌍 #IWD2025

💫 It's #InternationalSchoolMealsDay! ➡️️#SchoolMeals are more than just a plate of food at school, they ALSO support: 📚 Education  🍛Nutrition  💰Families  🌱Agriculture  🌳Local economies  Investing in school meals today = Investing in children & nations! 🔗Learn more:

🇺🇳📢 BREAKING NEWS: United Nations General Assembly resolution extending the Decade of Action on Nutrition to 2030 formally recognizes #SchoolMeals as a tool for nutrition, education & development and acknowledges the role of the School Meals Coalition Coalition in supporting this political