#Obesity

Marie McInerney

mariemcinerney

It's @CroakeyNews megathread time again, looking back over the past week or so of stories we've run - most, as you'd imagine, looking at impacts of the #coronavirus pandemic, but

Learn & Grow with me | AlterAmego 🤝

AmegoAlter

You pick up a piping hot crispy fried fritter and take a bite *CRUNCH* and you LOVE it. But have you ever wondered that can you be manipulated by your

Christy Harrison, MPH, RD

chr1styharrison

News outlets need to STOP reporting that body size is an independent risk factor for COVID-19. To date, evidence indicates that the percentage of high-BMI folks with critical COVID cases

Macro "T2DM is a Global Pandemic Too" Four

MacroFour

Matthew claimed my answers to his question were false but didn't want to prove his claim. I've evidenced these all before in tweets. I'll now respond in detail under each

Shannon Young

SYoungReports

Sometimes this pandemic - and the way it's handled here - puts me deep in my thoughts about past crises I've witnessed and covered in Mexico. Not so much a

M. Kit Delgado, MD, MS

kit_delgadoMD

Appreciated the opportunity to comment on 2 excellent cohort studies led by @jLewnard (Kaiser) and @leorahorwitzmd (NYU) in @bmj_latest that give us a much better understanding of who gets sick

Symeon Cosburn

SymeonCosburn

1/ A Thread - basic facts: PLEASE SHARE.Using Govt. ONS figures for England & Wales (link at end).Av. age of death from Covid is in the 80s, the same as

Michael Mosley

DrMichaelMosley

In tomorrow's prog I help five people, who've put on too much weight during lockdown, try to get back in shape in 3 weeks. As part of that I ask

Sam Connor

criprights

Let's talk about behaviour, @DRC_AU. In a way that anyone can understand.All humans have 'behaviours'. You're talking about 'challenging behaviours'. But - challenging to who?These tweets contain info about child

Sam The Challenger

MohauHlonyana

7 Things A Low-Carb Diet Will Do For You.The human body needs healthy (unprocessed) fats, proteins & carbohydrates to function optimally.The aim of a low-carb diet is to reduce daily

Phil Buchanan

philxbuchanan

I thought maybe bizsplaining (@ahcarney's term) was over. Dead. I thought we recognized now that nonprofits are diff from biz. But, unbelievably, it lives on, even in this crisis, when

Ian Hoppe

IanHoppe

There's really three separate pieces to this issue that I think everyone needs to be aware of. The first is my main point in the video: That there's higher rates

VENI VIDI VICI

Caesar_VICI

6 HUGE BENEFITS OF VITAMIN D THAT NOBODY TALKS ABOUT As you all know, Vitamin D is a very important hormone that plays a role in powerful processes and synthesized

uché blackstock, md

uche_blackstock

A STAT investigation found that a common method of using analytics software to target medical services to patients who need them most is infusing racial bias into decision-making about who

Clean Air for Dulwich

CleanAirDulwich

Thread: Anyone listening to One Dulwich’s outrage at roads being closed to through-traffic might be mistaken for thinking it’s a brand new idea, never tried before. Except it has. Reducing

Neil Strauss

neilstrauss

Hmm, I wonder what changed in 2014? Nope, not what you think. This changed:https://www.drugtopics.com/pharmacy/actavis-sell-generic-reformulated-oxycontin-2014 And then:https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/little-known-generic-drug-companies