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Infection Dr @HTropDis Assoc Prof @UCL TV: @MiradorMgmt Books: @RCWZW Author - Ultra-Processed People

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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

5 months

Ultra-Processed People is the @thetimes science book of the year. Hard to express how much this means to me - thanks to the hundreds of contributors and collaborators who did the research it is based on, and who continue to demand that real food is made affordable and available.

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Ben Spencer

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Our science + env books of the year are up, chosen with ⁦ @whippletom ⁩ and ⁦ @BenCooke135 ⁩. My picks include ⁦ @DoctorChrisVT ⁩ (book of 2023) ⁦ @camillalnord ⁩ ⁦ @Tom_J_Ireland ⁩ ⁦ @J_J_Kennedy ⁩ ⁦⁦ @mustafasuleyman ⁩

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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

1 year

At some point in all our lives we will be kept alive by a nurse. Morally and practically we should pay them properly. Yet my nursing colleagues have had a decade of real terms pay cuts - I support the #nursingstrike - it’s not about politics it’s about public health. Some say…

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GROWN UPS: If the humans in your care aren't at school for some reason then every day STARTING TOMORROW at 2:30pm @Xandvt and I will be live on Youtube, IG and Facebook. First topic will be BONES🦴💀. THERE IS HOMEWORK!!!🙄...

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This will have more impact on the kids that see it than multi-million pound public health campaigns. I’d love to see makers of ultra processed food banned from sponsoring sport.

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4 years

BBC Radio 4 News this morning referred to “violence because of the death of a black man”. Why not say “protests because of the killing of George Floyd by police”. This was confirmed at autopsy and is not in dispute.

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If you’re worried about the delayed second dose of the COVID vaccines here’s a thread. I live with my wonderful mother-in-law (below): she is high risk and has had a single dose. She's hoping for another but is worried about a delay. You may feel the same... #VaccineStrategy

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3 years

This is not an important study. Neither its findings nor its methods are clear. It is flawed to the point where it has no use. I’m sympathetic to David Davis not understanding cluster randomisation, bias in trials, t-tests and Kaplan Meier analyses, but...

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This is a very important study on vitamin D and Covid-19. Its findings are incredibly clear. An 80% reduction in need for ICU and a 60% reduction in deaths, simply by giving a very cheap and very safe therapy - calcifediol, or activated vitamin D.

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1 year

Got myself a new sis. ❤️

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I got to marry my best friend & most perfect human @xandvt yesterday. Officially the luckiest woman in the world! 👰🏼‍♀️💒🤵🏻‍♂️💍🥂💞🫶🎊 Best. Day. EVER! 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷

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Is anyone else struggling with these new Dyson urinals? #dysonfan #isthisreallyprogress @xandvt http://t.co/OXB7gof4uV

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3 years

Please keep your questions easy. He phones me for the answers and frankly it’s a hassle I could do without.

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3 years

On tomorrow's show, @xandvt will be here with the latest on the vaccine rollout and the roadmap out of lockdown. If you have any questions for him, simply post them below and we'll get through as many as we can.

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3 years

Several times a day my daughter, brother or wife will announce “COVID test!” before breaking wind. #anosmia #workingfromhome 💨 👃

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3 years

This morning the nearest walk-through COVID test site to my home in Hackney is...7.5 miles away in Chelsea. A lack of testing was understandable in March but in 2021, as a new highly transmissible variant emerges, it is almost impossible to believe this is where we are.

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Being a doctor with a sick kid is a particular kind of helplessness - but having colleagues like @yasmin_baki and the whole team at @uclh this morning made it much easier - they were just magnificent.

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My book Ultra-Processed People is published today. It’s about how UPF affects our bodies and the planet, and what you can do about it. If you struggle with eating - remember, it’s not you, it’s the food. Order here

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3 years

We will NOT be LIVE on Facebook or Instagram today (or probably tomorrow) - my wife has mastitis (has given permission to share) and is now receiving excellent treatment at @uclh - meanwhile I am discovering that she does even more than I thought she did (essentially everything).

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Watching #survivingthevirus - just blown away by Florentino’s family allowing all of us into their lives at a time when they really had no idea what would happen. Such strength and courage.

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4 years

Barely visible under his PPE @NeunMax leads my brothers cardioversion here - a remarkably stressful situation for me made less so by fantastic colleagues.

@bbcpress

BBC Press Office

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The tense moment when your identical twin flatlines in A&E, as a result of treatment for the ongoing after-effects of COVID-19. Watch @xandvt and @DoctorChrisVT in their new documentary #SurvivingTheVirus : My Brother & Me, @BBCOne , 9pm

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21 years ago as a medical student the NHS gave me an emergency bilateral orchiopexy, saving my twisted testicle. The result: a year ago Lyra was born @uclh where I work. Happy Birthday from a grateful patient, employee and father. #NHS70 Pic below - of daughter not testicle

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3 years

A piece in the @nytimes today asserted that the UK “quietly updated its vaccination playbook to allow for a mix and match regimen". This is both strictly true and entirely misleading. #mixandmatch #vaccine Thread...

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California Begins Vaccinating Inmates, but Not at Its Hardest-Hit Prisons (Published 2021)

Los Angeles County has seen a spike in cases. India approves two vaccines. Researchers say Africa’s relatively low case numbers are probably inaccurate.

www.nytimes.com

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Turns out the Science Media Centre (who hosted a press conference casting doubt on the evidence on ultra-processed food) is funded by companies that make… …ultra-processed food. Superb reporting by @rebeccacoombes in the @bmj_latest (no paywall!)

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4 years

Millions of us have had COVID and survived but not unscathed - whatever has happened to you, you’re not alone. This documentary tonight on @BBCOne follows the extraordinary patients and clinical teams at @uclh and @htropdis where I’m proud to work. #survivingthevirus

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8 years

So Sam Cam's stylists pay is identical to my NHS salary after 14yrs as a doctor.

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Samantha Cameron 'employs £50,000 fashion adviser' on salary paid by taxpayer

'When tough decisions have to be made, I'm not sure the wife of the prime minister needs a special adviser', says MP

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10 months

My five part prescription: 1. Treat the companies that make and sell Ultra-Processed Food like we treat tobacco companies. They shouldn’t fund health research or contribute to health policy. The scientists & medics they pay shouldn’t have a voice when it comes to health… 🧵

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And in @Telegraph , @DoctorChrisVT , @KamilaRCGP and @DavidHalpernCBE gave me their prescription for changing the future of Britain’s health

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1 year

Ultra-Processed People has been number 1 on the Sunday Times Bestseller list for two weeks running. Thanks to all the readers who’ve engaged with it and shared the difference it’s making to their lives. Two people who remain unaffected by the book are my own daughters…

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4 years

Hard to get excited about space travel today. Feels more vanity than science, and somehow linked to the core of our current problems. A billionaire, a one man inequality generator, seeks to leave all our earthly problems behind. And the first to escape? Two white men.

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4 years

Someone just did a fantastic “reply all” at work. I won’t get involved for an hour or so, wait till people are really steaming. Then I start with “Could someone please take me off this mailing list”. #holdtight

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“If you ask how I feel about a second wave...I just feel scared” ICU consultant Mike Patterson from @uclh speaking on #survivingthevirus

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The kind, dignified man in this profile piece doesn’t seem to have much in common with my brother - currently picking his nose👆👃and farting 💨next to me in a car in the way to #OperationOuch filming. Did you actually meet him @soniasodha ?? #FakeNews

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How CBBC's 'Dr Xand' learned surviving Covid isn't child's play

TV presenter and medic tells of his own illness, government failures and how to win over the anti-vaxxers

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3 years

Imagine having the power and money to fix some of the significant problems on earth and doing this instead.

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The tech billionaire space race: who is Jeff Bezos up against?

As Amazon founder prepares to jet off in his Blue Origin vessel, can he compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX?

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3 years

I’m not telling anyone what to eat! I I’m saying we need to regulate the industries that make money from harming people. It worked with cigarettes and it will work with food and gambling.

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@DoctorChrisVT @BBCBreakfast Please stop telling people what to do, drink and eat. If I want an occasional @CocaCola I'll have one and Doctor Chris if you can't get food you want on location take it with you!

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Nestlé sent a floating supermarket deep into the Amazon, creating a market from some of the most vulnerable children on earth - now children in the forest as young as 7 are living with diabetes. Worth considering when you purchase their products.

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Children as young as SEVEN living in Amazon are developing diabetes

BBC documentary What Are We Feeding Our Kids? revealed how children as young as seven living in regions of the Amazon are developing diabetes as the result of ultra-processed junk foods.

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Some of the best scientists and the brightest people I know are GPs. And no one becomes a GP because they couldn’t specialise; General Practice is one of the most demanding areas of medicine (in fact it IS a specialty) and it attracts some of the very best.

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4 years

My brother has a vision of personal responsibility.

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'Everyone as individuals does have an important role to play.' Are we too relaxed about the coronavirus? @xandvt shares his views with @MissAlexjones and @gethincjones . #TheOneShow

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Banning ultra-processed food would be disastrous - I strongly disagree with this piece. People need more choice not less. UPF is the most affordable, available food for many people in the U.K. You can’t ban food that people are dependent on.

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Banning ultra-processed food is not a nanny-state issue. It’s common sense | Simon Jenkins

Britain’s health is a national scandal, not just because of the state of the NHS, but because the government refuses to take action on our diets, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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11 months

My brother and I are in ‘Who Do You Think You Are’ tonight on @BBCOne at 9pm. Of all the television programs we’ve made this was the most personally affecting and the most important story to tell…🧵

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Follow dynamic duo @DoctorChrisVT and @xandvt on a moving & emotional journey as they find out more about their Dutch ancestry. Tonight at 9pm on @BBCOne .

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7 years

"It is a stigmatizing insult to the mental ill to be lumped with Trump" Prof Allen Frances, chairman of the task force that wrote the DSMIV

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7 years

"Bad behavior is rarely a sign of mental illness"

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4 years

Infant formula is a £50 billion industry. It’s growing because manufacturers are using the kind of marketing techniques you might expect from the tobacco industry to exploit COVID fears. Here’s our publication in @TheLancet and a thread

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1 year

“Nurses aren’t just for Covid, they’re for life” Inspiring to stand with my nursing colleagues lawfully withholding their labour again today for fair pay and to make long term conditions better for everyone #NursesStrike @uclh @theRCN

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3 years

My brother demonstrates the central dogma of molecular biology on @BBCMorningLive . Remarkable, not because he did it well but because he did it at all.

@BBCMorningLive

BBC Morning Live

@BBCMorningLive

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. @xandvt demonstrates how the Covid vaccine works. #MorningLive

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1 year

My book about Ultra Processed Food and why we can’t stop eating it is published on the 27th April. It’s going to make a lot of people very angry and I’m excited about that. It really isn’t you…it’s the food. #UPP #UPF

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Do you know what UPF is? (Hint: it's nothing to do with suncream) @DoctorChrisVT is here to explain why it's not you, it's the food. Giving you the information you need to make better choices, Ultra Processed People arrives in April:

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Lots of truth in this video - colossal damage to business, mental health and treatment of non-COVID disease. But these are the exact reasons NOT to release lockdown early. Crushing community transmission before gradual release is the best hope of avoiding further lockdowns.

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James Melville 🚜

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This isn’t living. It’s existing. And for millions of people, it’s not even just existing, it’s destroying them. It’s time to start unlocking. Enough is enough. #EnoughIsEnough

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My brother has written a beautiful piece about being a long distance dad in the pandemic, and in general. I’m so proud of him, his son, Julian, and his co-parents for somehow making it all much better than ok.

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I’m a long-distance dad so Covid was terrible – but it helped me let go of my guilt

I worried so much about not seeing my son, who lives in Canada, during Covid, but then I realised that he was fine – and being very well looked after

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There are six times as many outdoor ads in the most deprived areas of England as there are in the least deprived. Extraordinary new report by @adfreecities which shows how much advertising affects health and how it targets low income communities🧵

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Four in five billboard ads in England and Wales in poorer areas

Exclusive: campaigners say outdoor ads pushing fast food, alcohol and more risk deepening health inequalities

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3 years

So high transmission rates in a partially vaccinated population is the ideal scenario to give a selective advantage to variants which are vaccine resistant. The vaccines are nearly miraculous- let’s not waste them in a rush to open pubs a few weeks earlier.

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3 years

Thanks for your enquiry. Dr Chris isn’t able to respond personally but we’ll pass on your message Dinah.

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3 years

My wonderful husband is going to be taking half an hour out of his busy day to amuse and entertain your children! (I do wonder if he might find 5 minutes this week to do the same for his own 🙄)

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We need clear, honest labels on our food. This is one of a set of policies I suggested to the @HLFoodObesity committee yesterday. More here: (The bored couple behind me are my parents!)

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Slap black octagons on junk food, say top diet experts

Dr Chris van Tulleken, associate professor at University College London, said the food industry was acting in a similar way to big tobacco by selling addictive products.

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In my book I describe how the British Nutrition Foundation is funded by almost every food company you can think of, including Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Mondelēz, PepsiCo, Mars, Danone, Kerry and Cargil. It’s a great example of how these companies influence policy and your health…🧵

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Are all ultra-processed foods bad for us or can some be a part of a healthy balanced diet? Reviewing the science behind the concept of UPF, we are pleased to share our position statement. Read it here ⤵️ #healthydiet #nutrition #research

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Every time my family receives excellent NHS care I think about what it would have cost in so many other countries. #ProtectOurNHS

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3 years

This is extraordinary.

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The host here — the father of a child with Down Syndrome — does incredibly well to not lose it in the face of Dawkins’ grim and indefensible rhetoric. Dawkins is advocating eugenics with the thinnest layer of politeness on top.

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3 years

This only makes sense if you know that, following a COVID infection, my brother developed a heart rhythm problem...and narcissistic personality disorder.

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3 years

I really put my *heart* 🫀 into this film AMRITE?! Puns aside, it was a ⚡️ shock⚡️ to receive this nomination! 🤣😳 Ahem. It is a huge honour. Absolutely thrilled for the wonderful team from @littlegemtv & of course my lovely brother @DoctorChrisVT . Thank you @RTS_media 🤩

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3 years

We'd all love the facts - which we'd have if Chartwells simply shared the "hamper" specification. Those "whipping up a storm" are justifiably concerned about i) feeding vulnerable children or ii) how their taxes are spent. Why not help them find the facts?

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Simon Clarke MP

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There are a lot of people seeking to whip a storm up on Twitter tonight. Too much to hope in age of instant outrage to wait for the facts before jumping in. DfE are likewise investigating.

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Can you imagine being mistaken for this person on a daily basis?

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3 years

“I once posed for a publicity pic for a popular panel show with my fly undone” Absolutely no way that’s true 😬

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Infant formula should have a maximum price cap - an essential food for infants should not be subject to market forces.

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Sir Michael Marmot

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UK 2023: “Due to the soaring cost of infant formula, families experiencing food poverty are being forced to resort to unsafe feeding practices, including stretching out time between feeds and giving their babies food which is not suitable, like porridge."

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1 year

Looks like there’s an editor with a grudge at the @DailyMailUK …I had thought that marrying them would be an insurance against this type of attack but it seems no one is safe.

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What it's REALLY like being married to a healthy-eating fanatic

It all started with the Alpen, but things didn't really come to a head until the night of the Aldi pre-prepared lasagne.

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Hi @MailOnline - I have never and would never describe Calpol as “the heroin of childhood.” Please could you change this headline ASAP.

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My brother knows a lot about a few things. Cleaning a bathroom is not one of them. And yet here he is, instructing the nation in the finer points of cleaning spittle off a mirror. These are strange times.

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…that nurses are paid above average wage. 1. They should be: it’s incredibly skilful work with enormous responsibilities 2. This is a nursing STAFF strike which includes many people who are paid way below average and who have been terribly affected by the economic crisis

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Phone just stolen by a kid on a bike. 1. Register your phone here (go on - do it now). Once stolen report it online and resale value drops to nil. 2. Back up your phone (again - now) so you're... 3. ...not tempted to risk your life. Just hand it over.

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3 years

I’m not promoting breast or chest feeding. I’m asking that education given to healthcare professionals is not sponsored by an industry by a long and well evidence history of actions that harm children in violation of WHO and UNICEF codes.

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PhlipHeads

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@DoctorChrisVT @xandvt @bmj_latest @UNICEF_uk @WHO @WHOCodeNI Surely promoting breast milk over formula merely privileges lactating humans over non-lactating trans-mothers? Chest is best, as they don’t say today. Yet.

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This is key to understanding the obesity crisis. When people have money they eat completely differently and have much lower rates of diet related disease - so we don’t need to ban foods. We need to reduce poverty, inequality and make good food affordable and available.

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3 years

Giving children information about COVID doesn't frighten them - it helps them feel safe and empowered (plus they help their grown ups do the right things!). It was huge fun collaborating on this - resources for teachers, schools, parents & children of all ages.

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3 years

A website has been launched to provide interactive activities to help children better understand #COVID19 testing and how to stay safe during the pandemic. Check it out 👇 @educationgovuk @xandvt @DoctorChrisVT

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3 years

We're facing the worst crisis for children since WW2 becuase of COVID. I’m asking @DominicRaab to safeguard the UK's long-term commitment to 0.7% #UKAid . Government must set out how it will protect children & their futures. Join me & @UNICEF_uk - please share #SaveUKAid

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1 year

Now some people (many ministers) say it will exacerbate inflation but the evidence says otherwise - paying public sector workers properly is not an engine of inflation. High prices are coming from increases in the price of energy and food, imported from elsewhere in the world…

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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

3 months

The food industry is using tobacco tactics to sell us harmful addictive product so we need to use tobacco control tactics to regulate them. Their money is dirty. Great to be on @BBCr4today this morning with @BiteBack2030 - now onto the House of Lords!

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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

3 years

I made a podcast called #AddictedtoFood with my brothers, our mum and some of the world’s leading experts on addiction, weight, food and family. It’s high fat, zero calorie with all natural ingredients. May contain traces of @xandvt . Subscribe here -

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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

1 year

Amazon are out of stock of #UltraProcessedPeople which I am told is “a good problem”…especially as independent bookshops still have stock so please support them and buy at - it’s the literary equivalent of buying bread from your local bakery!

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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

3 years

Or just send me your questions and I’ll send him the answers as per.

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BBC Morning Live

@BBCMorningLive

3 years

. @xandvt ’s Monday morning surgery opens again tomorrow 🩺 If there's a question you’d like him to answer, leave it in the comments below. #MorningLive

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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

3 years

Not sure I want to be included in the list of knighted children’s entertainers 😬

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@CrochetTrooper

3 years

@xandvt @DoctorChrisVT Serious question here, why don't you and Chris have a Knighthood for all your hard work in the medical world but also making all these wonderful OO episodes, other shows and your online videos? Doesn't the Queen notice?

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4 years

Sir, you are wrong.

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10 months

The rise in gastrointestinal cancers is one of the most alarming and underreported health crises - and the evidence linking it to Ultra-Processed Food is growing as @devisridhar describes in this excellent piece…🧵

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Why is cancer striking earlier? One answer could be a diet of ultra-processed foods | Devi Sridhar

Clear action is needed to give more children affordable access to healthier foods. We can’t wait another decade for change, says Devi Sridhar of the University of Edinburgh

www.theguardian.com

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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

3 years

Even after a single dose I’ve mastered Stairway.

@mariofusco

Mario Fusco 🇪🇺🇺🇦

3 years

Here in Italy people started to share this figure claiming that this is the diagram of the 5G chip that has been inserted in the covid vaccine. In reality it is the electric circuit of a guitar pedal and I believe that putting it in the covid vaccine has been an excellent idea💡

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3 years

Most of us in the U.K. have had a vaccine by now but around the globe we are a tiny minority. We won’t be safe until we are all safe. #GiveTheWorldAShot Support the work of UNICEF reducing vaccine inequality here 👉 @unicef_uk @crowdfunderuk #VaccinesWork

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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

3 years

I ate like a child for ⁦ @BBCOne ⁩ #WhatAreWeFeedingOurKids

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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

3 years

The remarkable thing is that people believe @xandvt is a real person - we used CGI to create a duplicate of me a few years ago as I was busy. He’s now animatronic and runs with fairly cheap software. It’s not even AI - more like a talking doll. It’s very obvious once you spot it.

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Dr Xand van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

3 years

I’ll take it

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1 year

I’ve made it into the book aisle at @asda ! Wonderful to have the book at the place where people actually buy their food. It’s selling like hot cakes…and so is all the fruit and veg. #UltraProcessedPeople

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3 years

Label stuff as UPF. Make real food cheaper. Make UPF more expensive. Reduce inequality. Tax billionaires. Stop marketing UPF to children and adults. #WhatAreWeFeedingOurKids

@joemcmanners

joemcmanners

3 years

@DoctorChrisVT Really enjoyed it- destroys the idea that people’s diet is about ‘choice’. And the food industry needs regulating properly. What should government be doing more of?

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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

3 years

Very hard to see how this doesn’t violate the @WHO ’s own code of practice on the marketing of breast milk substitutes.

@WHOFoundation

WHO Foundation

3 years

Thank you @Nestle for your donation to the #COVID19FUND and your continued support to fight the #COVID19 pandemic For more information: #healthforall #vaccinEquity

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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

6 years

If you can’t be bothered to read the article, just look at my daughter’s face for the answer. #parentingtips

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Does being a doctor make me a better parent?

It’s bizarre to think that doctors make good parents – in fact, the opposite may well be true

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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

3 years

Weighing children at school whilst leaving in place the structures that drive overweight is so harmful. Weight is a product of the food environment which is a product of policy.

@catlhaworth

catherine Haworth

3 years

@mgtmccartney @DoctorChrisVT My boy got weighed and we got the "you're overweight" letter. His weight wasn't and still isn't a problem. The methodology behind the letter was/is flawed. He still asks if he is fat and is now 8. Stop weighing children it does more harm than help. 😭

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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

3 years

The damage is that it’s a distraction from meaningful interventions which actually save lives. It promotes really bad science.

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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

9 months

“UPF consumption is not driven by indolence or greed, but poverty, intensive marketing and foods designed to make us keep eating.” Strong editorial in the ⁦⁦ @guardian ⁩ on the need for policy on Ultra-Processed Food.

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The Guardian view on ultra-processed food: blame business, not consumers | Editorial

Editorial: Evidence is mounting on the health costs of these products. The real culprit is financialised growth, not inadequate individual willpower

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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

6 months

Ultra-Processed People has been shortlisted for @Waterstones Book of the Year. They’ve been incredibly supportive so thanks to their wonderful booksellers and everyone who bought the book from their local Waterstones. To be on this list is a dream for me.

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@Waterstones

Waterstones

6 months

Our booksellers have spoken and we're delighted to reveal the Waterstones #BookOfTheYear Shortlist 2023 From spellbinding fantasy to captivating historical fiction, literary satire, devious puzzles, views from past & present and ways to look to the future:

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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

3 years

Lovely. The longer the interval between doses the more effective the antibody response. Many immunologists and infection scientists are rightly saying I told you so!

@EsteeTorok

Estée Torok

3 years

Single-dose administration and the influence of the timing of the booster dose on immunogenicity and efficacy of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AZD1222) vaccine: a pooled analysis of four randomised trials

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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

3 years

...I’m not clear why he would share something he didn’t understand and follow it with such dogmatic assertions about policy?

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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

3 months

Where do our calories come from? I said on @StevenBartlett 's podcast that "75% of calories consumed globally come from six companies" I meant to say that 75% of calories come from six *crops*...but how many (or few) companies handle our food is an interesting question. 🧵

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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

3 years

Like all infant formula companies HiPP is not compliant with the @WHO code and @nationaltrust should follow the example of @RCPCHtweets @bmj_latest and @UNICEF_uk and not enter into a partnership. The Code protects all mothers and children regardless of their feeding choices.

@nationaltrust

National Trust

3 years

@GemmaScott1609 @RCPCHtweets @CamillaKingdon We only ever work with like-minded brands that share our values and passions and our work with HiPP Organic will help us reach more people than ever. HiPP’s supporting our work to look after nature by planting 50,000 trees and is providing ways for young families… (2/4)

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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

4 years

In fact I am the star of #OperationOuch - @xandvt is the co-star.

@ThisDoctorCan

This Doctor Can

4 years

For our first #ThisDoctorCan blog post of 2020, @DoctorChrisVT , infectious diseases doctor and co-star of @OperationOuch , tells us what it's like to juggle two careers - one in medicine and the other in broadcast. Find out more about his journey here:

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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

4 years

I'm making a doc for @BBCOne about children living with obesity. This is NOT a weight loss show - it’s about the forces that drive the obesity epidemic and what needs to change. We want to speak to families with weight related issues especially if impacted by COVID-19.

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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

1 year

…not from overpaying nursing staff.

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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

3 years

GROWN UPS - if your humans are not at school (!) then @xandvt and I are doing LIVE TEACHING DAILY at 2:30pm. All questions welcome and we will focus on 🦴 BONES ☠️ today. Subscribe on YouTube - Dr Chris & Dr Xand via @YouTube

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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

1 year

Many, if not most, of us struggle to eat the right food in the right quantities and we blame ourselves. My book, Ultra-Processed People, is about who and what we should really blame. It’s not you it’s the food. Comes out 27th April. Pre-order here

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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

4 years

Great result for a scheme giving heroin to users - huge reductions in crime and homelessness. This approach is so necessary. ⁦ @UKLEAP ⁩ ⁦ @wudzee0 ⁩

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UK's first full heroin perscription scheme extended after vast drop in crime and homelessness

‘Prison, increased sentencing, police crackdowns and all other efforts to break that cycle have failed,’ says police and crime commissioner

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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

4 years

The human body has only one stomach: the pudding stomach. The other stomach is a purely mythical organ with no scientific evidence for its existence.

@MrsBeckie

Beckie P

4 years

@xandvt @DoctorChrisVT can you settle an argument I'm having with my 7yr old daughter Amelie?? She is insistent that she has two stomachs, one being a pudding stomach....she will not believe me that she is WRONG!! Please back up this poor mum!

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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

3 years

Worth remembering that Nestlé position themselves as a health/nutrition company. “Good food, Good life”. As the worlds largest food company they have commodified the ill health of the most vulnerable people on earth and they know it.

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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

4 years

A state regulated supply of drugs of abuse would be one of the most effective public health measures it’s possible to imagine - it would end wars and transform lives for the better around the globe.

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Government urged to sell cocaine and ecstasy in pharmacies

Campaigners say sale of drugs should be nationalised to undermine organised crime

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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

3 years

Disclaimer - I’m not vaccine scientist, I'm a molecular virologist and I do give vaccines so can understand the logic used by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation - the JCVI - who made the recommendation. Details here -

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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

1 year

My book Ultra-Processed People is out next week. The first review is in from the most terrifying reviewer of all - my daughter Lyra (chief UPF enthusiast). Pre-order now:

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Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈

3 years

“Don’t throw that away - it will be perfect for making muffins”. ⁦ - @fashiondvt ⁩, every single day for the last fortnight.

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