Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

@DoctorChrisVT

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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈
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Jul 22
‘If all else fails, sue.’ This is an astounding new report. We know that big food companies deliberately engineer and market unhealthy products so that we eat too much of them, too often. And lots of you will have seen that this is why multiple lawsuits are beginning in the
‘If all else fails, sue’: how ultra-processed food firms are using the courts to obstruct health...
From theguardian.com
Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈
@DoctorChrisVT
Aug 10
"It will turbocharge inequality; it is already facilitating a breathtaking shift of power and wealth from the hands of the many to the hands of a tiny number of men who – to put it in terms for which I can’t be sued – seem to hold dangerously damaged views about the value and
‘I hate what AI is doing to the minds and happiness of the young’: Katherine Rundell on the view...
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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈
@DoctorChrisVT
Jul 22
There is a separate discussion about how we define unhealthy products - the current HFSS definition and classification is shot through with loopholes. But, as a first step, a clear label on products that are agreed to be unhealthy is surely better for consumers than the current
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Jul 16
Replying to @DoctorChrisVT
This is a very bad idea if it is based on the 2018 NPM which by omission determines modified starches, emulsifiers and artificial sweeteners as 'healthy'. Fat, sat fat, sugar and salt are not 'unhealthy nutrients' as Vogel baldly states. Dose-response is critical when it comes
Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈
@DoctorChrisVT
Jul 10
In the UK we have a government definition of unhealthy food: ‘HFSS’ - High in Fat, Salt and Sugar. Whether a product is ‘HFSS’ is calculated using an equation (called the NPM 2004/5 if you want to know) that weighs stuff to limit (saturated fat, sugar and sodium etc) against ok
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A single, mandatory warning label on unhealthy foods is key to a joined-up approach to obesity
A mandatory front-of-pack and menu warning label to signify foods high in fat, sugar, and salt across all settings is a necessary step to tackle the UK's obesity epidemic, writes Christina Vogel The...
Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈
@DoctorChrisVT
Jul 10
The short course in travel medicine at @LSHTM is open for applications. It's one of the best courses I've ever taken (and now I'm proud to teach on it alongside world class experts!) For physicians, pharmacists, specialist nurses - anyone interested in reducing risk for
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