Jenny Gillespie PhD
@jennygillespi82.bsky.social
All things infant, child & YP health & wellbeing, food, nutrition & health #PhD #dietitian#angusactiveschoolsvolunteer #educationscotland #netball #publichealth #nutrition #inequalities #systemsthinking #obesityprevention
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Very important update from @foodgov - do not give slushies (ice drinks containing glycerol) to children under 7 years of age
www.food.gov.uk/news-alerts/...
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FSA updates advice on risk to children of glycerol in slush ice drinks
The FSA Board has called on industry to work with the regulator to help protect children from the effects of glycerol in slush ice drinks, based on an assessment showing a risk to children under the a...
www.food.gov.uk
June 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Very important update from @foodgov - do not give slushies (ice drinks containing glycerol) to children under 7 years of age
www.food.gov.uk/news-alerts/...
www.food.gov.uk/news-alerts/...
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⚠️ Is the government gambling with children's health by delaying restrictions on #junkfood advertising?
@franbernhardt.bsky.social from @sustainweb.org offers fresh insight for our latest podcast.
🎧 Listen in full: bit.ly/4kFmNy8
@franbernhardt.bsky.social from @sustainweb.org offers fresh insight for our latest podcast.
🎧 Listen in full: bit.ly/4kFmNy8
June 13, 2025 at 11:22 AM
⚠️ Is the government gambling with children's health by delaying restrictions on #junkfood advertising?
@franbernhardt.bsky.social from @sustainweb.org offers fresh insight for our latest podcast.
🎧 Listen in full: bit.ly/4kFmNy8
@franbernhardt.bsky.social from @sustainweb.org offers fresh insight for our latest podcast.
🎧 Listen in full: bit.ly/4kFmNy8
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Disappointing delay to junk food advertising ban.
"One of the key ways to reduce illness and death caused by harmful products is to introduce tighter restrictions on advertising those products."
👀Read our response➡️ bit.ly/43sGVfw
"One of the key ways to reduce illness and death caused by harmful products is to introduce tighter restrictions on advertising those products."
👀Read our response➡️ bit.ly/43sGVfw
May 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Disappointing delay to junk food advertising ban.
"One of the key ways to reduce illness and death caused by harmful products is to introduce tighter restrictions on advertising those products."
👀Read our response➡️ bit.ly/43sGVfw
"One of the key ways to reduce illness and death caused by harmful products is to introduce tighter restrictions on advertising those products."
👀Read our response➡️ bit.ly/43sGVfw
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BREAKING - Govt. plans to back healthy food were BLOCKED by ultra-processed food giants 🚨
Our FOIA requests reveal food manufacturing lobbyists demanded that reference to ‘minimally processed and nutritious foods’ was removed from Government guidance - and they succeeded
✍ soilassociation.co/TTHTB
Our FOIA requests reveal food manufacturing lobbyists demanded that reference to ‘minimally processed and nutritious foods’ was removed from Government guidance - and they succeeded
✍ soilassociation.co/TTHTB
May 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
BREAKING - Govt. plans to back healthy food were BLOCKED by ultra-processed food giants 🚨
Our FOIA requests reveal food manufacturing lobbyists demanded that reference to ‘minimally processed and nutritious foods’ was removed from Government guidance - and they succeeded
✍ soilassociation.co/TTHTB
Our FOIA requests reveal food manufacturing lobbyists demanded that reference to ‘minimally processed and nutritious foods’ was removed from Government guidance - and they succeeded
✍ soilassociation.co/TTHTB
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@drshobajohn.bsky.social Head of @obesityactionsc.bsky.social concluded proceedings, outlining our path ahead: “We would be guided by the question 'what do we need to do more to ensure a healthy food environment for our children?”
May 2, 2025 at 11:42 AM
@drshobajohn.bsky.social Head of @obesityactionsc.bsky.social concluded proceedings, outlining our path ahead: “We would be guided by the question 'what do we need to do more to ensure a healthy food environment for our children?”
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🤝 We've joined 40+ organisations urging the government to take immediate action to protect babies and young children from harmful food and drink products!
It follows the shocking findings of a BBC Panorama investigation into baby food pouches.
🔗 tinyurl.com/3we7d2jk
#babyfood #childhealth
It follows the shocking findings of a BBC Panorama investigation into baby food pouches.
🔗 tinyurl.com/3we7d2jk
#babyfood #childhealth
May 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
🤝 We've joined 40+ organisations urging the government to take immediate action to protect babies and young children from harmful food and drink products!
It follows the shocking findings of a BBC Panorama investigation into baby food pouches.
🔗 tinyurl.com/3we7d2jk
#babyfood #childhealth
It follows the shocking findings of a BBC Panorama investigation into baby food pouches.
🔗 tinyurl.com/3we7d2jk
#babyfood #childhealth
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We along with our partners @soa-25.bsky.social were in Scottish Parliament today to mark our 10th anniversary. Children attending called for action to improve the food environment in Scotland to help meet Scottish Government target to halve childhood obesity by 2030.
@foodcoalition.scot
@foodcoalition.scot
April 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
We along with our partners @soa-25.bsky.social were in Scottish Parliament today to mark our 10th anniversary. Children attending called for action to improve the food environment in Scotland to help meet Scottish Government target to halve childhood obesity by 2030.
@foodcoalition.scot
@foodcoalition.scot
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Funded PhD opportunity for qualitative work on health inequalities and factors affecting health outcomes at University of Aberdeen, in partnership with Aberdeen City Council
Please share!
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Please share!
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Understanding and addressing factors affecting health outcomes: a study of lived experiences at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Understanding and addressing factors affecting health outcomes: a study of lived experiences at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com
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April 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Funded PhD opportunity for qualitative work on health inequalities and factors affecting health outcomes at University of Aberdeen, in partnership with Aberdeen City Council
Please share!
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Please share!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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🗣️ 'On a daily basis children in particular are bombarded by food offers and advertising, encouraging them to buy and eat much more than they need'
@libdems.org.uk Peer Baroness @alisonsuttie.bsky.social speaking during a @houseoflords.parliament.uk debate.
Watch in full: ➡️ bit.ly/4jsoJcCa
@libdems.org.uk Peer Baroness @alisonsuttie.bsky.social speaking during a @houseoflords.parliament.uk debate.
Watch in full: ➡️ bit.ly/4jsoJcCa
April 16, 2025 at 8:25 AM
🗣️ 'On a daily basis children in particular are bombarded by food offers and advertising, encouraging them to buy and eat much more than they need'
@libdems.org.uk Peer Baroness @alisonsuttie.bsky.social speaking during a @houseoflords.parliament.uk debate.
Watch in full: ➡️ bit.ly/4jsoJcCa
@libdems.org.uk Peer Baroness @alisonsuttie.bsky.social speaking during a @houseoflords.parliament.uk debate.
Watch in full: ➡️ bit.ly/4jsoJcCa
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If the Government is serious about achieving its mission to prevent illness and disease instead of just treating it when it comes, it must bring about change that means that everyone, regardless of where they live or how much money they earn, is able to access healthy food and drink.
🗣️ 'Can the government become one of the first countries in the Western world to reverse the problem of obesity'?
@henrydimbleby.bsky.social referencing the importance of the #NationalFoodStrategy on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme.
🎧 Listen in full (2hrs 34 mins in): tinyurl.com/2dp4xznw
@henrydimbleby.bsky.social referencing the importance of the #NationalFoodStrategy on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme.
🎧 Listen in full (2hrs 34 mins in): tinyurl.com/2dp4xznw
April 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
If the Government is serious about achieving its mission to prevent illness and disease instead of just treating it when it comes, it must bring about change that means that everyone, regardless of where they live or how much money they earn, is able to access healthy food and drink.
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Our President @felly500.bsky.social writes in The MJ today about public health funding.
Local public health teams play a critical role in keeping the nation healthy, but without the necessary funding, improving people’s health is not possible.
www.themj.co.uk/funding-comm...
Local public health teams play a critical role in keeping the nation healthy, but without the necessary funding, improving people’s health is not possible.
www.themj.co.uk/funding-comm...
Funding commitment will keep us off the critical list
The Government has put delivering economic growth at the centre of its policy commitments and a healthy nation is essential to achieving this ambition. Improving...
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April 10, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Our President @felly500.bsky.social writes in The MJ today about public health funding.
Local public health teams play a critical role in keeping the nation healthy, but without the necessary funding, improving people’s health is not possible.
www.themj.co.uk/funding-comm...
Local public health teams play a critical role in keeping the nation healthy, but without the necessary funding, improving people’s health is not possible.
www.themj.co.uk/funding-comm...
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Good piece by @rhistorer.bsky.social on school meal costs
Those calling for more school meals should read this & consider how underfunded the current system is
Schools are forced to pay the difference between DfE funding & the total catering costs
Some schools have to find £5 per meal!
Those calling for more school meals should read this & consider how underfunded the current system is
Schools are forced to pay the difference between DfE funding & the total catering costs
Some schools have to find £5 per meal!
🍽️ Schools are warning of extra pressures from the rising cost of outsourced catering contracts, with caterers warning a return to the school meal standards of the 1990s is on the cards
schoolsweek.co.uk
April 5, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Good piece by @rhistorer.bsky.social on school meal costs
Those calling for more school meals should read this & consider how underfunded the current system is
Schools are forced to pay the difference between DfE funding & the total catering costs
Some schools have to find £5 per meal!
Those calling for more school meals should read this & consider how underfunded the current system is
Schools are forced to pay the difference between DfE funding & the total catering costs
Some schools have to find £5 per meal!
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We did an analysis for the House of Lords Committee on Food, Diet and Obesity to look at the overlap between foods high in salt, fat and sugar (HFSS) and ultra-processed (UPF). We extended the analysis and it is published today (open access):
nutrition.bmj.com/content/earl...
nutrition.bmj.com/content/earl...
March 31, 2025 at 8:35 AM
We did an analysis for the House of Lords Committee on Food, Diet and Obesity to look at the overlap between foods high in salt, fat and sugar (HFSS) and ultra-processed (UPF). We extended the analysis and it is published today (open access):
nutrition.bmj.com/content/earl...
nutrition.bmj.com/content/earl...
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"The Board is intended to pool members’ collective ideas, influence and effort from across the food system to help set ambition and create the conditions for systems change."
really?
..so why does it comprise so many Big Food reps who clearly don't want systems change?
"The Board is intended to pool members’ collective ideas, influence and effort from across the food system to help set ambition and create the conditions for systems change."
really?
..so why does it comprise so many Big Food reps who clearly don't want systems change?
Leading food experts join Government food strategy to restore pride in British food
Leading figures across the food system have today joined the Government to advise on its food strategy
www.gov.uk
March 26, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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"The Board is intended to pool members’ collective ideas, influence and effort from across the food system to help set ambition and create the conditions for systems change."
really?
..so why does it comprise so many Big Food reps who clearly don't want systems change?
"The Board is intended to pool members’ collective ideas, influence and effort from across the food system to help set ambition and create the conditions for systems change."
really?
..so why does it comprise so many Big Food reps who clearly don't want systems change?
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www.foodpolitics.com/2025/03/does...
Does the public trust the food industry? Not so much..
advice?
If the food industry wants trust from the public, it should behave in a trustworthy manner.
Does the public trust the food industry? Not so much..
advice?
If the food industry wants trust from the public, it should behave in a trustworthy manner.
Does the public trust the food industry? Not so much. - Food Politics by Marion Nestle
It turns out, the public doesn’t trust the food industry much. Food industry trust in the dumps, but things are looking up: Consumer trust in the food industry is at dire levels. But there are modest ...
www.foodpolitics.com
March 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
www.foodpolitics.com/2025/03/does...
Does the public trust the food industry? Not so much..
advice?
If the food industry wants trust from the public, it should behave in a trustworthy manner.
Does the public trust the food industry? Not so much..
advice?
If the food industry wants trust from the public, it should behave in a trustworthy manner.
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🧵 1/ Corporate corruption is a major but often overlooked threat to public health. Our new @thelancet.bsky.social commentary, led by Helen Walls with Dina Balabanova, argues that industries harming health should be called out for what they are: corrupt.
March 26, 2025 at 6:34 AM
🧵 1/ Corporate corruption is a major but often overlooked threat to public health. Our new @thelancet.bsky.social commentary, led by Helen Walls with Dina Balabanova, argues that industries harming health should be called out for what they are: corrupt.
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T'was always thus
the dog that doesnt bark.....
the dog that doesnt bark.....
March 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
T'was always thus
the dog that doesnt bark.....
the dog that doesnt bark.....
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📢 Shifting to more sustainable healthy food in UK school and hospital meals could:
✅Save the NHS £millions
✅Fight climate change
✅Improve the nation’s health.
That's why we’ve joined @feedbackglobal.bsky.social and 25 health & environmental organisations calling for change: tinyurl.com/5etdtw2v
✅Save the NHS £millions
✅Fight climate change
✅Improve the nation’s health.
That's why we’ve joined @feedbackglobal.bsky.social and 25 health & environmental organisations calling for change: tinyurl.com/5etdtw2v
March 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
📢 Shifting to more sustainable healthy food in UK school and hospital meals could:
✅Save the NHS £millions
✅Fight climate change
✅Improve the nation’s health.
That's why we’ve joined @feedbackglobal.bsky.social and 25 health & environmental organisations calling for change: tinyurl.com/5etdtw2v
✅Save the NHS £millions
✅Fight climate change
✅Improve the nation’s health.
That's why we’ve joined @feedbackglobal.bsky.social and 25 health & environmental organisations calling for change: tinyurl.com/5etdtw2v
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Call me a Luddite but things to stop burnout should be based in evidence. If the job is so bad that people can’t do it- change the job, not the amount of yoga. Opportunity cost for covering for staff having sabbaticals to prevent burnout may be…burnout
March 6, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Call me a Luddite but things to stop burnout should be based in evidence. If the job is so bad that people can’t do it- change the job, not the amount of yoga. Opportunity cost for covering for staff having sabbaticals to prevent burnout may be…burnout
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Sickness is always political in a modern economy because the causes of illness are often the consequence of government decisions. That is why the government will always have a responsibility for mental ill health, even if it is going to try to deny it today. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...
Why is mental health the government’s responsibility?
This comment was made by someone called TomB on this blog yesterday. I hope he will forgive me for lightly editing it for use here, but the sentiments are ones I found myself strongly agreeing with:
I...
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March 18, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Sickness is always political in a modern economy because the causes of illness are often the consequence of government decisions. That is why the government will always have a responsibility for mental ill health, even if it is going to try to deny it today. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...
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There's a word for countries where it's illegal to criticise their leader
Trump at the DOJ: "I believe that CNN and MSNDC, who literally write 97.6% bad about me, are political arms of the Democrat Party. And in my opinion, they are really corrupt and they are illegal. What they do is illegal."
March 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
There's a word for countries where it's illegal to criticise their leader
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Wes Streeting a plan for NHS England so obviously intended to prepare it for sale that he might as well have called in Goldman Sachs to deliver it. In that case, what is the remaining point of Labour?
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...
What is the role for Labour now that it is so obviously the Tory party?
Wes Streeting, Labour’s health minister, whose remit only effectively extends to England, said last night that the NHS was full of brilliant people who were set up to fail.
He used this claim to just...
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March 14, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Wes Streeting a plan for NHS England so obviously intended to prepare it for sale that he might as well have called in Goldman Sachs to deliver it. In that case, what is the remaining point of Labour?
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...
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Listening to Sarah Woolnough from @thekingsfund.bsky.social presenting on 'A whole system approach to tackle #poverty: where does the health system fit?' 'The health of the nation has deteriorated from a society in distress' says Sarah @resolvepoverty.org #PlacesAgainstPoverty #NHS
March 13, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Listening to Sarah Woolnough from @thekingsfund.bsky.social presenting on 'A whole system approach to tackle #poverty: where does the health system fit?' 'The health of the nation has deteriorated from a society in distress' says Sarah @resolvepoverty.org #PlacesAgainstPoverty #NHS
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Registration now open! Join us for our free half-day conference "Healthy Food Environment: Time to Deliver" on June 10th in Glasgow. Featuring Minister @jennimintomsp.bsky.social & experts from NHS Tayside, @uofgshw.bsky.social and @fsscot.bsky.social Register now! tinyurl.com/26t67c9s
Healthy Food Environment: Time To Deliver
Join us in exploring evidence-based approaches to improve Scotland's food environment and public health outcomes.
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March 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Registration now open! Join us for our free half-day conference "Healthy Food Environment: Time to Deliver" on June 10th in Glasgow. Featuring Minister @jennimintomsp.bsky.social & experts from NHS Tayside, @uofgshw.bsky.social and @fsscot.bsky.social Register now! tinyurl.com/26t67c9s
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www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Diagnosis creep
we are not getting sicker – we are attributing more to sickness
medicine is not a sticking plaster for every behavioural and social problem
Diagnosis creep
we are not getting sicker – we are attributing more to sickness
medicine is not a sticking plaster for every behavioural and social problem
The Age of Diagnosis by Suzanne O’Sullivan review – are we really getting sicker?
A neurologist discusses the dangers of overdiagnosing conditions from Lyme disease to ADHD in an era where technology meets pathology
www.theguardian.com
March 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Diagnosis creep
we are not getting sicker – we are attributing more to sickness
medicine is not a sticking plaster for every behavioural and social problem
Diagnosis creep
we are not getting sicker – we are attributing more to sickness
medicine is not a sticking plaster for every behavioural and social problem