Nutrition is a major modifiable health driver, yet remains inconsistently taught in medical education 🩺
This new paper supported by @qmulcphp.bsky.social highlights ongoing gaps in nutrition training and offers practical ways to equip doctors and support prevention ambitions 👉 tinyurl.com/4c67wath
Tackling the growing burden of diet-related diseases cannot be achieved by single policies alone.
It requires a coordinated mix of policies and incentives that work together to encourage reformulation and reshape the food system 🤝
We joined @thegrocer.bsky.social to discuss
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Graphic of soft drinks alongside text: "The SDIL has achieved a 46% reduction in sugar content in drinks. Mandated policies clearly work and do good for public health."
The Soft Drinks Industry Levy turned 8 years old yesterday!
Since it began, it has slashed the sugar content in drinks, proven the impact of mandated policies, and is a strategy that the government can - and must - learn from to improve the nutritional quality of all food and drink 🥇
11th - 17th May 2026 - Salt Awareness Week
Salt Awareness Week is fast approaching – and we’d love to have you involved! ✨
We’ll be spotlighting the many ways salt impacts our body, health and environment – and calling on gov and industry to ‘salt it out’ for good.
👀 Get involved and download our free resources: tinyurl.com/mtj586j5
In the UK, over 7.2 million people live with chronic kidney disease (CKD). With salt remaining a major CKD risk factor, early prevention and salt reduction is vital.
This #WorldKidneyDay remember - less salt supports healthier kidneys 💫
Learn more about salt's kidney impact: tinyurl.com/4c238smr
📢 "It is shocking that after nearly a decade of promises, eight consultations, four delays and constant lobbying, the UK could be left with unhealthy food advertising rules that affect as little as 1% of ad spend."
Read our full quote in @theguardian.com: tinyurl.com/3jyj82sb
🗣️ "Weight-loss drugs are not, and must never be treated as, a substitute for effective food policy. Depending on GLP-1s to counter the harms of unhealthy food environments is simply putting a plaster on a system that continues to generate ill health"
Read more @theguardian.com
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Obesity is a complex condition shaped by multiple factors.
One crucial influence is our food environment, which is central in determining our diets. This #WorldObesityDay we’re taking the time to remember where obesity prevention must sit – within government.
Learn more: www.worldobesityday.org
It is astonishing that the government has introduced this trade measure allowing tariff-free sugar imports. This trade deal is detrimental to public and environmental health and uses taxpayer money to undermine both.
Learn more from @foodrise.bsky.social 👇
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We are proud to join over 100 other food businesses, NGOs and academics in calling for a Good Food Bill to fix our failing food system and #FixFoodForGood
Learn more 👀
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🚨 Reminder - only 2 weeks to go until our exciting art event!! 🚨
Limited tickets available so sign up now: tinyurl.com/4wxdhmef
Curious about what to expect? Read more in the London Daily News 👇
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👀 Fascinating new @foodrise.bsky.social blog - with the Autumn Budget quietly boosting the UK's access to cheap sugar, its become clear that if we're serious about protecting health then trade and public health policies must better align - rather than contradict.
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With excess salt a major driver of high blood pressure, consumers can’t simply “opt out” when so much is added before food is even purchased.
Responsibility sits with government and the food industry, not individuals alone.
🔎 Learn more: tinyurl.com/8nwmtdf4
In the report we found:
🔹Nearly 1 in 4 supermarket soups exceed the Governments maximum salt target.
🔹Almost 1 in 6 would receive a red front-of-pack warning label for high salt.
🔹Some tins contain almost an entire adult’s daily salt limit in one go!
Image: Report front page - "Soups: A snapshot into the salt content of ready-to-eat soup"
A single pack of soup can contain more salt than two McDonald’s cheeseburgers! 🚨
Soup is often viewed as a healthy, convenient lunch option - but how much salt are some soups hiding?
📑 Find out in our new report: tinyurl.com/8nwmtdf4
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We're delighted to invite you to ‘Beneath Sweetness’, a free art and networking event with @qmulcphp.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social designed to explore how sugar shapes our everyday lives ✨
📅 5 – 8pm on 5th March
📍 Neuron Pod, London
Book your tickets now!
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Science, food environments, and public health needs have all moved. But what hasn’t moved since 2004 is the Nutrient Profile Model...
…up until this week!
We joined @oha-updates.bsky.social to discuss why this model was in urgent need of a revamp and what it now means for public health 👇
Quote tile: "We welcome the government’s long-awaited update to the Nutrient Profile Model, which represents a clear improvement on the outdated 2004 model and better reflects current evidence on free sugars. Now's the time to close those loopholes, apply the model consistently, and let the product speak for itself, not the marketing. - Sonia Pombo Head of Research and Impact at Action on Salt"
At last, the Nutrient Profile Model (NPM) has been updated 🎉
The updated model brings in some important changes that set better food standards and aligns more strongly with scientific evidence, encouraging healthier options for all.
Read the news and our full quote: tinyurl.com/4xwvsn6m
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We’re refreshing our charity website and would love your feedback to help us improve it! Please take this short 3-minute survey to share your thoughts and help us build a better platform.
📝 Complete survey: forms.gle/fSDePjyRXBc4...
🗣️ "Swapping alcohol for excessive sugar is not a health win. The rise of these high-sugar drinks risks undermining public health efforts and confusing consumers who are trying to make better choices."
Read our full quote below:
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⚠️ Brits are eating the equivalence of 22 packets of crisps worth of salt a day! ⚠️
Latest @thebhf.bsky.social polling has revealed a critical lack of awareness and urgency around salt reduction for better health.
Read the full story in @theguardian.com below:
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We’ve joined @oha-updates.bsky.social to welcome new rules restricting junk food marketing on TV & online - a big step forward for children’s health 👇
Today marks the start of the long-awaited advertising ban of junk food products 📺
Whilst we start the year off with some celebration, we can't help but think of what could have been were this policy not weakened by excessive industry lobbying.
Learn more down below 👇
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Infographic - 2025 Recap
Infographic - "What reports did we publish?"
Infographic - "We joined a variety of events, webinars, conferences, parliamentary discussions and outreach activities"
Infographic - "This year saw some positive announcements for food policy"
What an interesting year it’s been for food policy!
As 2025 comes to an end, we’ve seen some welcomed progress throughout the sector and would like to say an enormous thank you for all of the support!
📩 Catch up on all our highlights from the year: tinyurl.com/4p7xkw52
This has got to stop.
Junk food companies are exploiting every loophole to push unhealthy food on young people🎯
Does the new advertising ban go far enough if it misses out outdoor advertising and still lets companies advertise their brand name anywhere they like?
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🆕 New study from @qmul.bsky.social reports that England is losing the progress it once made in preventing, diagnosing, and managing high blood pressure - and in some areas is even reversing back to levels seen 20 years ago!
Read more on the study and what it means for salt 👉 tinyurl.com/yv6ktcac
⚠️ The food environments around us play a key and fundamental role in shaping what we eat, and when high salt and sugar foods are the cheapest and easiest available, public health suffers.
Read the latest report from @foodfoundation.bsky.social on the state of the nation's food industry 👇
The Soft Drinks Industry Levy has cut the sugar in soft drinks across the UK and last week's news of its expansion is a promising step forward for public health.
We spoke to @cbsnews.com on how the levy has protected the health of children and how it differs from U.S policies 👇
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The SDIL Expansion - quote from Dr Kawther Hashem: "We know the levy works and when the rules are clear and consistent, manufacturers act fast. Today's welcomed announcement builds on that progress, but if we're truly committed to improving the nation's health, and the nation's teeth, we'll need to be even more ambitious"
Fantastic news for sugar reduction - an expansion of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL) AND a lower sugar threshold! 🎉
The SDIL has already cut vast levels of sugar out of UK diets and today’s news builds crucially on that progress.
📖 Read full story: tinyurl.com/yhwnhh6p
We were thrilled to feature as a guest on the latest @pitncpodcast.bsky.social episode! We discussed:
👉 The importance of salt reduction
👉 Why previous reduction policies have failed
👉 What needs to happen to keep salt a public healthy priority
Listen below!
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