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Diets aren’t shaped only by personal preferences — but by powerful actors and policies that determine what food is available, how it’s priced, and how it’s promoted and labelled.

📢 In case you missed it:
At #EASD2025, Richard Holt & Anne Peters presented the updated @easdnews.bsky.social & @amdiabetesassn.bsky.social consensus on adult #type1diabetes care.
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Heterogeneity in the development of diabetes-related complications: narrative review of the roles of ancestry and geographical determinants - Diabetologia The risk of developing diabetes-related complications is influenced by a combination of biological factors, clinical factors and social determinants of health that vary across countries and ethnic gro...

In our new special issue: Heterogeneity in the development of diabetes-related complications: narrative review of the roles of ancestry and geographical determinants link.springer.com/article/10.1.... See the full collection here diabetologia-journal.org/collections/...

Peroxisomal metabolism of branched fatty acids regulates energy homeostasis - Nature A UCP1-independent mechanism of thermogenesis involving ATP-consuming metabolism of monomethyl branched-chain fatty acids in peroxisomes is described and a previously unrecognized role for peroxisomes in adipose tissue thermogenesis is identified.

Based on preclinical studies and control of thermogenesis, dietary interventions implementing use of specific branched fatty acids or modulation of proteins involved in their metabolism might be a promising strategy to treat #obesity and related metabolic diseases www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Neighbourhood out-of-home food environment, menu healthiness, and their associations with meal purchasing and diet quality: a multiverse analysis - Nutrition Journal Background Governments worldwide have implemented various interventions to improve the healthiness of food offered by out-of-home outlets. However, there is limited evidence on whether healthier…

Study of 3,481 people in Great Britain finds that people bought out-of-home meals more often when there were more food outlets nearby, not based on how healthy the menus were.

@jeanmadams.bsky.social and colleagues recommend limiting outlet numbers may help improve diets.

The UK Congress on Obesity, hosted by @ukaso.bsky.social, focused on "Understanding Obesity: From Research to Clinical and Public Health Practice." Researchers from @mrcepid.bsky.social attended to enhance our knowledge of obesity.

Although it may seem that our attitudes and practices are decided independently, our thoughts and actions are often socially motivated. #behavioralscience #socialscience #SBC

The Global Week for Action on #NCDs begins on 18 September.

The campaign week will unite advocates from around the world under the theme Time to Lead. We’re focusing on managing+ preventing #obesity, linked to other #NCDs

@EasoPresident will be in New York for #UNGA2025!

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

📢 New article alert!

Want to encourage more sustainable diets? Then don’t talk about sustainability. That’s the surprising takeaway from my research.

Read the full article for free here: theimpactmagazine.org/magaz… (page 22-23)

Great network!

This has been quite successful in some countries

Being concious about adding plant based ingredients in meals go a long way! Adding spinach to your breakfast eggs and veg to your fried rice are small ways to improve overal intake.

Increasing familiarity with plant-based meals—not focusing on ingredients or individual dishes—may be a promising strategy to boost #plantbased meal consumption. Reducing food #neophobia may also be important, esp. in countries where dietary norms are less diverse: doi.org/10.1016/j.ap... #diets

Prioritize Breastfeeding: Create Sustainable Support Systems

Looking forward World Breastfeeding Week 2025 which is an annual celebration which is held every year from 1 to 7 August.

We love Mopane worms here in Zimbabwe!

We tasted mopane worms for the first time. They are a delicacy in Zimbabwe. They are really quite delicious.

If you are in Harare, Zimbabwe...

Food and cooking are the closest we may get to magic!

'We might think we have autonomy over our food choices, but we are all heavily influenced by our environment – physical, economic and social' - @petescarbs.bsky.social

When food meets culture…

A lot of the culturally significant foods come from a place of struggle.

In Zimbabwe, the ‘gango’ meal ( the word translating to wok/ roasting pan) is a mix of offal, organ meats and leafy vegetables!

This would make such a lovely gift! A Dutch Oven - unmatched quality, superior performance, and durability

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Adherence to the EAT-Lancet reference diet and risk of type 2 diabetes: results from the NutriNet-Santé cohort study AbstractBackground. In 2019, the EAT-Lancet Commission proposed a planetary, healthy, and reference diet, designed to reduce the global health–environmenta

In a large cohort study (89k adults, 9 yrs follow-up), greater adherence to the EAT-Lancet #diet was linked to smaller risk of #diabetes, supporting previous findings and confirming this (largely #plantbased) diet as a healthy & #sustainable diet: doi.org/10.1093/ije/... #diets #health #France

Food and Agriculture To equitably and nutritiously feed a growing population while limiting warming and biodiversity loss, we must transform how we produce and consume food.

Check out the Systems Change Lab's new Food & Agriculture dashboard!

Explore tons of data on status and trends of 3 major shifts needed for sustainable food systems:

1. Increase agricultural productivity sustainably & resiliently
2. Reduce food loss & waste
3. Healthier & more sustainable diets 🧪

Professor Pete Scarborough - Driving healthier food for people and planet Pete Scarborough, Professor of Population Health, discusses his career and the role that people and policy can have in healthier lifestyles and a more sustainable planet.

I did an interview with the @ox.ac.uk press team about the work we're doing on healthy sustainable diets. If I'd known they were taking full length photos, I might have put on better shoes.

Sustainable eating is cheaper and healthier - Oxford study | Global study shows vegan and vegetarian diets cheapest option in high-income countries‘£1 Chef’ Miguel Barclay backs study

Again, nonsense. Whole food plant based diets are proven the most affordable and sustainable.

Harming any sentient being in the absence of necessity is objectively wrong.

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