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Martin White
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Martin White @martinwhite33.bsky.social · Mar 31
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...
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MRC Epidemiology Unit @mrcepid.bsky.social · 9d
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📖the full story 👉 buff.ly/4pbcVHt
🔖 the full paper in Nature Food buff.ly/JZBEVLn
🍽️ More about Mandala here buff.ly/WOHbQrI
New study quantifies how food production drives species extinction risk – with enormous variation across foods and regions
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MRC Epidemiology Unit @mrcepid.bsky.social · 9d
🌍 New research from the Mandala Consortium and Cambridge Zoology shows the scale of species extinction risk driven by food production, with huge differences across foods & regions. Impacts can vary by up to 1,000x depending on what we eat & where it’s produced. buff.ly/4pbcVHt 🧵 1/7
New study quantifies how food production drives species extinction risk – with enormous variation across foods and regions
www.mandala-consortium.org
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MRC Epidemiology Unit @mrcepid.bsky.social · 21d
In an accompanying review @martinwhite33.bsky.social, who leads the Mandala Consortium, and colleagues set out 27 practical ideas to transform food systems for the better, covering farming, manufacturing, supply chains & what ends up on our plates.

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Key action areas for transforming the UK food system: insights from the Transforming UK Food Systems (TUKFS) Programme project portfolio | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The UK food system is a driver of the public health crisis of non-communicable disease, is linked to the cost-of-living crisis, and contributes to climate change, biodiversity loss and soil…
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MRC Epidemiology Unit @mrcepid.bsky.social · Aug 13
In this BMJ paper, @martinwhite33.bsky.social and colleagues present a new MRC and NIHR framework that provides an integrated guide for using a natural experimental approach to evaluating population health and health system interventions.

Read the paper at buff.ly/cEXl6km
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Martin White @martinwhite33.bsky.social · 25d
Honoured and grateful - many thanks. Sorry to have not been there this year!
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MRC Epidemiology Unit @mrcepid.bsky.social · Jul 16
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Takeaways can negatively impact the diet and diet-related health outcomes of local residents

Local authority urban planners can deny planning for new takeaways in management zones around schools

But what are the long term impacts of these exclusion zones?

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Seb Walsh @sebwalsh.bsky.social · Jun 14
>10 years old but still as relevant - 10 tips for progressing from PhD to PI from @martinwhite33.bsky.social

fuseopenscienceblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/from...
From PhD to PI in ten 'easy' steps
Our warts-and-all account of what it's like to do public health research.
fuseopenscienceblog.blogspot.com
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Martin White @martinwhite33.bsky.social · May 28
Karen Hofman and Susan Goldstein cal for G20 to implement health taxes to tackle the rising tide of NCDs. The numbers are staggering, the arguments compelling.
theconversation.com/sugary-drink...
Sugary drinks, processed foods, alcohol and tobacco are big killers: why the G20 should add its weight to health taxes
The G20 should acknowledge that diseases like high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes are part of a system in which commercial actors are causing ill health.
theconversation.com
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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · May 23
Our new research hub on the co-benefits for health of sustainable diets has just got itself a BlueSky account! Follow @thrivingfoodfuture.bsky.social for info about the project.

Cool logo, eh?
THRIVING Food Futures logo. On a white background there is the word 'thriving' in green. On the left is a picture of a plate, leaf and fork all overlapping in green. But artistic, like.
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Oxford Future of Food @oxfutureoffood.bsky.social · May 22
Next week we welcome @jeanmadams.bsky.social to Oxford for our Wednesday seminar. Professor Adams will be talking about mandatory calorie labelling and what it reveals about public health policy making.
Join in person @oxmartinschool.bsky.social or online 👇
www.futureoffood.ox.ac.uk/event/an-eva...
An evaluation of mandatory calorie labelling in the out-of-home sector
Future of Food seminar: Professor Jean Adams
www.futureoffood.ox.ac.uk
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Martin White @martinwhite33.bsky.social · May 14
Surprisingly not!
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Martin White @martinwhite33.bsky.social · May 11
In other news, the weather is bueno and the jacarandas in bloom...
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Martin White @martinwhite33.bsky.social · May 11
I have more to say about this, but will maybe wait until I've heard and seen more...
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Martin White @martinwhite33.bsky.social · May 11
At #ECO2025 @jeanmadams.bsky.social and @harryrutter.bsky.social answering some difficult questions with vaguely unpopular but insightful answers. #systemsthinking @easoobesity.bsky.social
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Scott Lloyd @scottylloyd.bsky.social · May 8
Webinar: Introducing the updated framework for using natural experiments to evaluate population health interventions

Fri 23 May
12:00 - 13:15

Register at events.teams.microsoft.com/event/f01e66...
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Jean Adams 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦 @jeanmadams.bsky.social · Apr 2
We are hiring! We're looking for two post-doc researchers to help us deliver a randomised controlled trial of group model building to address inequalities in diet in English local authorities.

Two 3y posts, ideally starting in July. Closing date 4 May.

Full details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50905/
Research Associate x 2 (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Associate x 2 (Fixed Term) in the MRC Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
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MRC Epidemiology Unit @mrcepid.bsky.social · Apr 11
Researchers for the Mandala Consortium studied the environmental sustainability of inpatient paediatric menus, while assessing the potential to maintain/improve the nutritional value and the appeal of the dishes, and the related costs to the NHS.

Watch - buff.ly/AGZDHIe
Designing more environmentally sustainable hospital menus
The Mandala Consortium is a research project focusing on transforming urban food systems for planetary and population health. Can changes to inpatient paedia...
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MRC Epidemiology Unit @mrcepid.bsky.social · Apr 22
Written by the Unit’s Prof. @jeanmadams.bsky.social and published in PLOS Medicine, this perspective reflects on the importance of both life and social scientists utilising the NOVA system to investigate “the key questions of both which foods, and which aspects of food systems, cause the most harm”.
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Kristie De Garis @kristiedegaris.bsky.social · Apr 22
Just finished this 5m long drystone seating area on the banks of the loch.

It will hold a single piece of oak across the three protruding stones to form a bench.

Built by hand, no mortar, just time, attention, and stone. All materials sourced locally.

#Scotland #Nature #Environment #Sustainable
A head-on shot of the finished drystone wall, showing the full arch and the even, tight stonework. The three large protruding stones, meant to hold a bench, are clearly visible. Behind, a stand of thin trees in early leaf frames the scene. A close, angled view of the wall from the right-hand side. The depth of the wall and the precise fit of the stones are visible. The three bench supports jut out confidently, and the coping stones curve cleanly along the top edge. A wide view of a newly built drystone wall, recessed into a grassy bank with a light woodland backdrop. The wall features a curved arch of upright coping stones along the top and three protruding flat stones spaced across the middle, intended to support a bench. Earth around the wall is still rough from the recent build.
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Martin White @martinwhite33.bsky.social · May 1
That is fabulous - well done! I just hope the seat isn't going to be too high for people with short legs! This seems to be a common problem in a number of public places...
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Martin White @martinwhite33.bsky.social · May 1
Agree Pete, but the bigger gains will come from the uprating of the tax in line with inflation, albeit this is going to be staggered over years...
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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · Apr 29
A few thoughts on the UK government proposal to amend the Soft Drinks Industry Levy.

TL;dr good on milk drinks, threshold change could backfire, missed opportunity to align with environmental policy on plant-based milks.
Strengthening the Soft Drinks Industry Levy consultation
www.gov.uk
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Bennett Institute for Public Policy @bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk · Apr 18
🎙️How can we make food that is good for health, societies, the planet and the economy?

Governments need to develop food strategies that are comprehensive, that cross all government departments and really take a holistic view - says @martinwhite33.bsky.social
@mrcepid.bsky.social

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Martin White @martinwhite33.bsky.social · Apr 18
Important investigative piece in @bmj.com Nice video explainer...

Bans on junk food advertising in outdoor spaces derailed by industry lobbying www.bmj.com/content/389/...
Bans on junk food advertising in outdoor spaces derailed by industry lobbying
Councils trying to bring in policies to protect the public from unhealthy food adverts face a “tobacco playbook” of tactics to stymie their plans, such as financial warnings and claims advertisers “ca...
www.bmj.com
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Apr 17
You have to read this article.
"The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants."
By @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
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