Clare Farrand
@ClareFarrand
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Public Health Nutritionist | Technical Officer @WHOEURO
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Joined September 2010
Meal delivery apps are a rapidly growing part of the digital food environment. Their implications on health🏃, nutrition🍔, environment🌳& society🏠could be huge, but are not yet fully understood. @WHO_Europe is analyzing the systems around these apps👉 https://t.co/RIDsk8Frjv
📱What are the implications of meal delivery apps? Past research shows that meals purchased outside the home can be less healthy than home-made food. To better understand the impact this growing sector has on health, WHO/Europe has released a new report 👇
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Join us tomorrow for our webinar on digital food environments - and some interesting discussions about meal delivery apps. Registration open @georgeinstitute @OHID @actiononsalt
What are your plans for 7 December? Join @WHO_Europe NCDs Office for a webinar on digital food environments! We’ll be discussing meal delivery apps 🍽 https://t.co/oScWqBJyQa
#WHO #mealdelivery #beatNCDs #foodenvironments #digitalization
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World Breastfeeding Week 2021 starts today! 🤱🏻🤱🏿🤱🤱🏽 #Breastfeeding is the best start to life for any infant. Breastfeeding brings lifelong benefits for both mother and baby. Let’s #protectbreastfeeding! #WBW2021
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#Breastfeeding is vital to the health and wellbeing of women and children. @WHO recommends: 🔵Initiating breastfeeding within 1 hour of birth 🔵Exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of life 🔵Continued breastfeeding up to 2 years of age + #SDG3 #protectbreastfeeding
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During #WorldBreastfeedingWeek, WHO/Europe highlights Sweden’s experience in gathering data to understand the reasons behind a decline #breastfeeding rates. Read more here 👉 https://t.co/ZdLALAJZrH
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#COVID19 has highlighted how fragile food systems can be. Fact is, #FoodSecurity in our Region is concerning. Read all about it in @FAO report, fresh off the press, supported by @WHO_Europe @UNICEF @UNECE @WMO and @WFP #OneHealth #GlobalGoals
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Fascinating to hear more about the many challenges to health - presented by many issues- online food delivery services and food labelling issues ++ in the #ECO2021 session on Barriers to Health in Europe: Perceptions and Reality. @MauraMurphymm shares her experience 🙌🙌🙌
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From an #environmental and #publichealth standpoint, should we care about the dietary quality of ultra-processed plant-based foods? 🍔 One of the many topics that we discussed during our joint @WHO_Europe NCDs Office and @EASOobesity session at #ECO2021
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Thank you @EASOobesity for a very interesting few days. We @WHO_Europe were pleased to have the opportunity to share some of our work @KremlinKW @AftonHalloran @holly_rippin on #digitalfoodenvironments at #ECO2021
Very interesting session at #ECO2021 on digital tools, challenges and the opportunities within the EU Data Space for identifying opportunities for #publichealth improvement
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New country support package launched to accelerate salt reduction in the WHO European Region https://t.co/D0gS2AnWAT
@WHO_Europe @WHO @Branca59 @JoaoBreda2 @ChizN0214
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It's #SaltAwarenessWeek, and we #UnPackedTheSalt in savoury snacks. They may look 'healthy', but they are still packed with #salt. We are calling for more @actiononsalt
Find out what’s hiding in your favourite veggie snacks! New research by @georgeinstitute, @HeartFoundation and @VicHealth finds that veggie savoury snack options hide alarming amounts of salt that could be damaging to heath. Read more: https://t.co/8DNHzQHaF5
#UnpackTheSalt🧂🧂🧂
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What happens when you replace salt with 25% KCl (+75% NaCl) in many villages in Peru? https://t.co/hL053MXjHq A small reduction in blood pressure and 51% reduced risk of developing hypertension @NatureMedicine by @jjaimemiranda @cronicasperu
@CayetanoHeredia and colleagues
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New Researcher Profile - always a newsletter highlight! Read more about our @annet_hoek in our latest newsletter https://t.co/X2tH4WWwGN
@georgeinstitute #LessSalt
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Hear hear @redthanbetter. Bloody well done @alichristou 👩🎓
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Huge congrats to all our colleagues @CPONDPacific1 - and now fellow WHOCC-ers. Wonderful news.
Congratulations to @CPONDPacific1 for being designated @WHO Collaborating Centre. What an amazing milestone for @FNUFiji and for #TeamCMNHS! 👏👏😃💗
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Congratulations to @UOW and @georgeinstitute for being awarded a two-year LINK’s grant to work in collaboration to address the burden of excess #salt intake in South Africa 🧂 Read more here - https://t.co/47wqOTESig
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Roll up, roll up - read all about it.
See our latest WHO Collaborating Centre on Population Salt Reduction newsletter here, along with a link to subscribe if you are interested in keeping up to date on all things salt (reduction) related! https://t.co/omobTBc4Zy
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Thrilled to be nominated as a finalist in the 2019 VicHealth Awards for our work with food manufacturers to #unpackthesalt. Congratulations to our fellow finalists. All deserving of recognition!
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Proud to be part of @georgeinstitute, working to improve the health of millions of people worldwide.
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Thank you @BreakfastFiji1 for having us on the show to talk about #FoodSwitch @georgeinstitute Great to work with @CPONDPacific1 @ArtiPillay1 @FNUFiji to develop this app to help people make healthier choices in Fiji
@ClareFarrand from @georgeinstitute and @DonaldW29668940 from @FNUFiji were on Breakfast Show this morning on @FijiOneNews to discuss more about #FoodSwitch Fiji app. Download now on apple and android phones and get your nutritional in4 to make healthier food choices. #tackleNCD
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