Thankyou @ClairePalermo for magically weaving part of Judy Tweedie’s story in the seminar of honour - vale Judy you will be missed #DA2023

Prof Claire Palermo championing mentoring and supporting colleagues Monash Nutrition #DA2023

“By helping someone you may not change the world, but you can change the world for them” Well said, thank you Dr Dinesh Palipana OAM Dietitians Australia #DA2023

If we’re looking to collective weight change as evidence that a community is eating ‘better’, we’d be struck down in the courts of reasonable doubt.

Even after a year off Ozempic and Wegovy, people are vomiting themselves into dehydration and stomach paralysis. cnn.com/2023/07/25/hea…

Additional seating for #MeanjinOration23 feat Noel Pearson and Dr Amy McQuire is SOLD OUT! You can still join us online by registering here ➡️ qut.edu.au/events/meanjin… #QUTYarns

“Even just one maternity care provider who believed in our ability to birth, on our own terms, (and) believed that our larger bodies were capable, made all the difference.” hipp.org.au/2023/08/16/wei…

Other than an anaphylactic allergy, there’s nothing in a food that can do more harm to a child than fear of food. The intention to have kids be healthy is great, but unfortunately, a lot of what we’re doing is counterproductive.” washingtonpost.com/parenting/2023…

Hear, hear!!

Health Promotion International is pleased to announce the launch of the Mike Daube Early Career Advocacy Series. Giving Early Career Researchers the opportunity to have their voice heard on important public health and health promotion topics. academic.oup.com/heapro/pages/d…

The upcoming referendum seems pretty simple to me. Do we want Indigenous Australians to be recognized in the constitution? And do we want to accept their request to be consulted about things that affect them? I’m voting “Yes”. For more info click here: voice.gov.au/about-voice

Quoted in The Guardian today: ‘We have a huge disconnect between what weight science says and what policy currently says and we have a whole heap of weight discrimination hanging from that misinformation’ theguardian.com/australia-news…

I still have so much to learn in this space, but I know enough to say that anyone who has signed up to "first do no harm" really needs to pay attention.

What part don’t you understand? #Yes23

“When food is stripped of its cultural context, reduced to a set of numbers, and eaten as a means to an end—whether that end is self-improvement or "race betterment"—we lose the simple joy of eating for pleasure, without shame or guilt.” wellandgood.com/eugenics-nutri…

In this #podcast episode, we delve into the harmful effects of weight centrism in healthcare, speaking to people with #LivedExperience & experts Dr Fiona Willer AdvAPD, PhD & Leah Brennan Centre for Eating, Weight and Body Image about the harmful effects of weight centrism in healthcare⬇️ butterfly.org.au/podcast/under-…