📢 Good to see an article about improving child health in today's Financial Times Our latest #BrokenPlate report found some children are on average up to 1.3cm shorter than their peers by the age of 10–11. Yet diet is often overlooked as a determinant of the height of #UK children. 👇

✨ 🤩 📆 Our journal club is back next month with @DrRachelG Dr Pippa Gibson PhD RNutr & moderator Juliette Kellow RD 📃 We'll be discussing a paper around night shift workers & #obesity management🌙 ➡️ Sign up free: bit.ly/3PVoF8O #CPD #Nutrition BDA Obesity Group Obesity Health Alliance

📢 Our webinar exploring how to scale up community-led food initiatives in partnership with is now available! It gives an insight into efforts to build a global movement to ensure all citizens have access to healthy and #nutritious food. Watch in full: ➡️

Congratulations to our very own Jane Deville-Almond for being shortlisted for the Innovation Award and the Primary Care Nurse of the Year Award 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 #diabetes #nursing #awards

👏 Great point by MP Zarah Sultana MP in UK House of Commons debate - the newly elected Metro Mayors were voted in on a platform of supporting the expansion of #FreeSchooMeals This shows voters want more children to have access, especially with 900,000 pupils in #England currently

For those interested in #sleep & #obesity please see the brilliant work from ESRAA A MAKHDOM PhD. The results: short sleep duration was associated with increased adiposity cross-sectionally and increased risk of 5% weight gain over 2 years (after adjustment) #ECO2024 @IMSR_UoB

Dieters could get daily GP texts reminding them to lose weight dailymail.co.uk/health/article… via Daily Mail Online

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Interesting breakdown of the latest #zoe study drguess.substack.com/p/my-kingdom-f…

📣Register for our All-island Obesity Action Forum to hear John Jordan discuss his experience of living with obesity and how it impacted his family journey. Register now: safefood.net/professional/e… 📍 Dublin 📅 June 18 🕙10:00am – 1pm INDI UCD Research University College Dublin

We met with Josh and Nathan last week and absolutely love what they are doing. We are excited to be supporting them going forward. If anyone can help it would be much appreciated by all of the team 👍🏽

Check out the interview with Josh here

Money blog: US fast food chain to open 60 restaurants in UK - with dish you have to sign waiver to eat | UK News | Sky News 🤨🤨 news.sky.com/story/money-bl…

We are excited to be working with Saltire Sky Theatre for their show MANikin - a one-man play that focuses on male obesity and body image. Watch at the Wee Red Bar (Edinburgh college of art - EH3 9DF) throughout August (2nd-6th, 8th-13th, 15th - 20th, 22nd - 25th) at 5pm.

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We are getting very busy with a lot of exciting things in the pipeline. As a result, we are looking for experts to join our board of trustees but also volunteers to help with the day to day running of the charity. Contact [email protected] if you’re interested in getting involved 😃

Looking forward to this today YORA Leeds Beckett #obesity