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38 years ago a woman in Coventry sent a letter to some scientists. That letter went on to be the most important in Alzheimer's research. Last year, I met Carol Jennings, who wrote it. 1/ thetimes.co.uk/article/e78c47…

Meanwhile in the USA: sherwood.news/business/energ…

Just clocked the sponsor of this year’s #RideLondon - even to my jaded eyes the #Greenwashing seems pretty blatant. ridelondon.co.uk

‘Not chemical spanx’ tortoisemedia.com/2024/05/30/oze…

The Tory party have received unfair criticism this last few weeks. In the interests of balance,I’ve posted some charts below which show performance in various key areas such as life expectancy, the NHS, trade, immigration and the economy 🧵 #GeneralElection2024

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The UK SDIL reduced sugar in soft drinks and helped prevent dental caries and obesity in children. But what else? Published today in Nature Communications Dr Nina Rogers reports reductions in hospital admissions for childhood asthma - an unexpected benefit 😃🧋🥤👌nature.com/articles/s4146…

🚨Paper Alert🚨 ~ 2 years after the UK Soft drinks Industry Levy (sugar tax) was enforced we find a 21% reduction in incidence rates of NHS hospital admissions for asthma in children, aged 5-18y. Read in full: rdcu.be/dKnoB

Unhealthy commodities are responsible for a quarter of all European deaths says World Health Organization (WHO) theguardian.com/society/articl…

Chart Alert via chartr 📊 The US has been dining out more and more. Data from the USDA reveals that 53% of household food expenditure is now spent on food away from home, up from 41% in 1997. sherwood.news/personal-finan…

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No option is without an adverse outcome: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

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This article misses the point. The focus on final exam-based ‘maximisation’ of individual subject grades at 16 deters ‘riskier’ participation in important subjects. Broader curriculum, assessed over time, balanced scorecard at 18 = well-rounded education theguardian.com/technology/art…

🚨New Paper🚨 ~1 year after the UK sugar tax was enforced we show a daily reduction in sugar consumption from soft drinks of 3g in children and 5.5g in adults; across the whole diet reductions in sugar intake were 4.8g & 10.9g/day, respectively. Full read jech.bmj.com/content/early/…

New paper from Population Health Innovation Lab 's Alex Kalbus in PLOS One - Alex makes innovative use of COVID-19 lockdowns to isolate the independent effect of the neighbourhood food environment on diet but finds it doesn't explain differences in purchasing behaviour journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Getting the message out about the hidden epidemic of early-onset cancer in young people and the human cost of this tragedy. Great article in The Times and The Sunday Times magazine today with @ceineken Shine Cancer Support thetimes.com/article/ac231b…

New #SPHR research published in BMJPublicHealth finds association between social position & food delivery preferences in England Steven Cummins @frankdevocht Amy Yau London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine BristolUniCPH Thomas Burgoine Martin White (moving to BlueSky...) 💙🇪🇺🇺🇦 Jean Adams sphr.nihr.ac.uk/news-and-event…

New BMJPublicHealth paper by Steven Cummins et al finds online grocery delivery use is associated with higher household income, but not social grade. Online takeaway food delivery app use was associated with lower social grade, but not income. buff.ly/3WWkUm8