This Spanish city centre has been car-free for 20 years. 12k people have moved into the centre since the ban. The Mayor says vehicles don’t have more right to public space than people — & he’s been re-elected 4 times since banning cars. Pontevedra via @WEF

sciencedirect.com/journal/appeti… Appetite special issue with 33 papers from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, France, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Qatar, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, UK and USA on the impact of COVID-19 on food intake, appetite and body weight. Stuart Flint

Dr Stuart Flint now on stage at #HCSAWinter23

Scaled Insights are pleased to have been announced as a Department of Business and Trade’s Northern Powerhouse Investment Champion for 2023-24.

Join Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine & Sciences Francesco Rubino Douglas Twenefour RD Stuart Flint ✨ Vicki Mooney ✨ Adrian Brown PhD RD + for a workshop on the stigma of obesity and the science of body weight regulation 🔬🦠 📅 9 Feb 24, 11-3pm 👥Online & in-person Register now!✍️kcl.ac.uk/events/a-pledg…

Positive effect of #education on reducing all-cause adult mortality: on average adult with 12 years of schooling 🏫 has 24.5% lower risk of mortality compared with adult with no schooling, with an average reduction in ⚰️ mortality risk of 1.9% per year of schooling.

Well done Nick Ferrari for cutting an interview short with a Minister who cannot answer direct & clear questions about why Lee Anderson had the whip removed. A model for all journalists. The public should not accept such robotic, vapid answers.

Fantastic work placement opportunity for an UG student. Government Affairs Researcher. 1-year Undergraduate Placement ABHI “…opportunity for someone looking to develop a career in research and/or government affairs with an interest in politics” abhi.org.uk/resource-hub/f…

A BBC Health News report just said “Vaping is nowhere near as harmful as smoking cigarettes.” Exquisitely bad timing given new meta-analysis evidence.nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Improving consumers awareness of food and drink is clearly important, however, the below would be extremely damaging & its important that you likewise call out ridiculous ideas "...with a tobacco-style pictorial warning - of the giant pot belly and other health consequences..."

WWF shelved report exposing River Wye pollution ‘to keep Tesco happy’ theguardian.com/environment/20…

Excellent postdoc opportunity with Nikos Ntoumanis at Danish Centre for Motivation and Behaviour Science Postdoc in Behavioural Sciences and Physical Activity - SDU Career Site Careers …sd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Packed room for keynote speech - addressing the nations priorities and funding - from Dr Vin Diwakar, Medical Director for Transformation, NHS England

Published today! Findings show higher internalised weight stigma in socioeconomically disadvantaged adults & pressure to lose weight from family & media in adolescence has long-term effects Amanda Hughes Laura Howe Dr Antonis Kousoulis Dr Helen Bould kenclare Link: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S26…

Great start to the Health Tech Summit 2024 in Copenhagen. Clayton Hamilton of WHO Europe with an opening keynote about health inequity in health technology

With media coverage & social media posts from #ECO2024 attendees, its timely to highlight a recent comment in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology on terminology ("weight loss jabs", "anti-obesity medications") used for #obesity pharmacotherapy. Keen to hear your thoughts! thelancet.com/journals/landi…

A series of leaked documents from the tobacco giant Philip Morris International has sparked concern about its research ethics and marketing of controversial new heated tobacco products bmj.com/content/385/bm…

Never forget.

does the METHOD study show that ZOE works? me and Deborah Cohen er no bmj.com/content/386/bm…

Check out our NEW publication in Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics on #weightstigma in UK dietitians. This is the largest study to date examining explicit & implicit #weightstigma in dietitians & 1st exploring lived experiences towards themselves & others. See thread 1/6 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…