#Obesity

Talking of desperate blame shifting Matt Hancock will attempt that re Public Health England - a body he is responsible for & who take direction from him.Last year ministers outlined
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1/ I said I won’t be spending too much time on Twitter this week but I feel I need to point something out at this time given the headlines about
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Some thoughts on the role of the potato in healthy diets, and on frying them.In 1962 British working class diets had more starch from potato than from bread. Much of
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A thread about the low carb approach to managing T2D & obesityI'm an NHS GP and I'm keen to share this with other GPs, nurses & dietitians because this approach
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So, school closures are back on the agenda and the "crunch meeting" between @educationgovuk and @10DowningStreet is today. So, before the inevitable tragic error is made for a second time,
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Questioning the lockdown is seen as a domain of anti-science, alt right, conspiracy theorists. But the effects of these lockdowns are destructive to mental health, devastating to low income populations
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"Jai jai shiv shankar, kaata laage na kankar, ke pyaala tere naam ka piya..."NCB: In boyhood, bollywood movies made "charas ganja" sound like evil poison and I once asked my
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The European Centre for Disease Control have datasets covering Ireland on Covid admissions. Here are some charts to show you the past numbers and why despite the dismal news we
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Very disappointing reporting by @NickTriggle et al again from the BBC. An article that makes a number of bogus claims without caring to reference any of them.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55757790A thread [1/8] The
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It's going to be very interesting to see what happens or not with 'Gear Change' and cycling in the UK in the coming months and years. One thing that most
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I’m gonna do a No Nuance November thread on here bc no one watched my tik tok 1. Anti-Blackness is the main cause of division amongst every POC community.
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The lack of understanding of statistics & ability to understand what “contributing” or “secondary” factors means is really disconcerting. Where are #Republicans & conservatives getting that the #CDC lied about
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Progressives going from blaming capitalism and hierarchy for the obesity epidemic to saying "this is a positive good #healthatanysize" was one of the first things that made me seriously question
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after looking at some of my old essays I made a promise with myself never to write a full essay about twitter again. I almost broke that promise today to
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#LockdownVoices "I’m a Headteacher with over 1,000 students… schools need to be open now…""As a Headteacher of a secondary school with over 1000 students we have no in-school transmissions and
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@DrPaulOffit tells @JAMA_current he was totally surprised that both mRNA vaccines have 94-95% efficacy. In January, he said, "no one would have thought this was possible."#JAMAlive In his live interview,
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