👏🚨📰 Bravo! President @Claudiashein announced today an increase to #sodataxes to address the massive disease burden of sugary beverages 🥤☠️ Funds will be used solely for health — a bold move to prevent NCDs in one of the countries most affected by soda consumption. 💪🏥🇲🇽

Bundle of food policies being implemented in Ghana. Quite embarrassing being from NZ where none of these policies are being implemented. Excellent advocacy work by ⁦@alaar⁩ and colleagues.

Debates on UPFs continue: ?the wobbles of a paradigm shift? Part of the differences in viewpoints is ‘splitters’ vs ‘lumpers’. Splitters (who predominate at the Congress) want to control for everything in reductionist studies. The lumpers see the whole system as the problem.

Mexican President as a strong health champion presenting on sugary drinks on her morning broadcast to the nation. ⁦@SBarquera⁩ #IUNS2025

Great plenary presentation by ⁦@SBarquera⁩ on obesity. Promising early indications of health impacts on reducing hypertriglyceridaemia and obesity trajectories in Mexico

Colombia is the latest Latin Am country to take a multi-pronged approach with FOP warning labels, tax on UPFs, and tax on single use plastics. ⁦@lindseypsmith⁩ #IUNS2025

Argentina uses a dual approach to reduce sodium content- regulated maximum limits and front of pack warning labels. Luciana Castronova

Great progress in South Africa on reducing sodium content in several food categories. Political will, regulations, monitoring and sanctions are all essential. Rebone Ntsie #IUNS2025

Fuel to Food: Huge sustainability issues around UPF - excellent presentation from ⁦@MarkLawrence_Oz⁩

I have just sat through a 90 minute session on progress on the Decade of Action on Nutrition. In reality, it was a sad testimony to INaction. Not a single word about the role of commercial power to delay action. This needs to be front and centre!!

Common (misleading) narratives on global nutrition. Inge Brouwer #IUNS2025

Trade policies increase availability of micronutrient availability BUT also UPF availability. Lynnette Neufeld FAO

Brazil highlighted as a country taking a wider systemic approach to food and nutrition- it has now left the UN Hunger Map. Political and policy support for small farmers, school meals, agroecology etc. Dr Niyta Rao #ICN2025

What is the most common surgical operation in Fiji? Lower limb amputation due to diabetes! Fiji has one of the world’s highest rates of obesity and diabetes.

Bottom lines from Barbara Burlingame urging nutrition scientists to come out of ivory towers and into spaces where their research can make a difference.

Excellent presentation by ⁦@drayeshaverrall⁩ about Labour’s plans ahead for ‘prevention first’ health. ⁦@HealthCoA⁩ is very keen continue these important discussions because the current policy direction for prevention is a disaster.

Excellent presentation by ⁦@gary_sacks⁩ on the commercial determinants of health. For harm industries there are levers to Disperse, Democratise, Dissolve - some heavy duty approaches but they been applied in various industries.

Talking about the negative impacts our current food systems have on health, equity and the environment can be quite depressing so I always try to finish with hopeful positive messages.

Great Lancet editorial on UPFs—except the claim that policies targeting all UPFs are unrealistic due to their vast number. Maybe true in UK/US, where UPFs dominate. But in most countries, real food still prevails—or UPFs are just starting to rise. Yet! https://t.co/EG1hMoGN1E

Answers to a few questions from @bigfatsurprise about incidences of censorship I recently experienced at NIH: 1. My request was denied by HHS to present an invited keynote talk on my ultra-processed food (UPF) research at the Bloomberg Philanthropies annual Food Policy Program