SugarScience
@SugarScienceNow
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#SugarScience is the authoritative source for scientific evidence about #sugar & its impact on #health. SS believes in #science & healthy choices for all.
San Francisco, CA
Joined December 2013
Looks like Renaldo is up on the scientific literature about the health harms of sugar-sweetened beverages. @CSPI @ucsf_library @PublicHealth @American_Heart @RobertLustigMD @actiononsugar @MikeBloomberg
Changing the game: why it matters that footballers are shunning the corporate capture of their sport https://t.co/8NKgL6poRu
@ncdalliance @1CINyS @SBarquera @nyshepa @HealthyFA @CA4LessSoda
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“Nothing is more important than nutrition for correct and optimal bodily and mental functioning,” Dr. Lustig writes, and he advocates eating what he calls “Real Food” that is low in sugar and high in fiber. @WSJ
https://t.co/TTUSf8F8XX
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Doctors rarely urge lifestyle changes on their patients, especially changes in eating habits. Not all calories are the same.
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The Californians for Less Soda Coalition and @AHACalifornia are hosting a free virtual screening Thurs., April 15th of @ElSustomovie in support of AB 1163, a bill to repeal the statewide moratorium on local sugary drink taxes in CA. Register here:
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Check out our study of @UCSF employees during a sugary beverage ban. A university-wide sales ban was effective, but even more effective paired with an education initiative. https://t.co/S5WUCi2RiK
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For some people a sales ban that takes the temptation out of the workplace may not be enough.
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Video: "The Truth about Type 2 Diabetes and the choices we make." What is it like to have #diabetes and what can you do to protect yourself? Witnesses talk about this disease and about strategies to prevent or recover from it. Via https://t.co/LH04zTmBJ8
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Thank you for your in-depth article @crenshawseeds on our prenatal exposome study. It was a multidisciplinary collaboration with @msirota84 @rmfrosch and @CaliforniaDTSC
More than 50 chemicals never before detected in humans have been found in blood samples from mothers and their newborns, according to a new paper by @TraceyJWoodruff, @DimiAbrams. I covered this for @LiveScience.
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State preemption is one of the soda industry's strategies for suppressing soda taxes and other solutions to the obesity epidemic. See how much your state politicians were paid to support it here:
ajph.aphapublications.org
We sought to examine the strategies promoting and countering state preemption of local sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes in the United States. Using Crosbie and Schmidt’s tobacco preemption...
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TODAY'S THE DAY! Don't miss our live Q&A at 7:30 PM CT with Director Karen Akins along with other filmmakers. Remember, El Susto is available all day for $1 at https://t.co/1ZlD8CFeZP. Please help us spread the word!
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"A cluster-randomized controlled trial of an elementary school drinking water access and promotion intervention." Gala Moreno, Laura Schmidt, Lorrene Ritchie, Charles McCulloch @Cabanam @Cbrindis @anishaipatelmd, et al. @UCSF @UCSF_IHPS @MontefiorePeds
https://t.co/QymgDCp7Tt
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How the American Diet Turbocharges COVID-19. Interview with @RobertLustigMD in @MotherJones: “What we didn’t know, until this pandemic, is that #chronicdisease also sets you up for morbidity and mortality from acute diseases like COVID-19." @UCSF
motherjones.com
The pandemic's toll is further proof that we're eating ourselves sick.
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Our millions of #industrydocuments make a great dataset for image analysis! Researchers recently churned through our collections for document analysis & recognition rsrch (DAR) project called 'Visual Question Answering' - https://t.co/ONVC9EwbCG
@ucsf_archives @ucsflibdatasci
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Today is World Digital Preservation Day! Since last year's digital preservation celebration on November 7, 2019, the @UCSF Industry Documents Library has added 152,445 new #industrydocuments for preservation in our archives. #WDPD2020 @ucsf_archives @ucsf_library
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Anisha I. Patel and Laura A. Schmidt (2020). Healthy beverage initiatives in higher education: An untapped strategy for health promotion. Public Health Nutrition @StanfordMed @UCSF_IHPS @UCSF @CambridgeCore
https://t.co/oqeBOCew4I
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Beverage Advertisement Receptivity Associated With #SugaryDrink Intake & Harm Perceptions Among California Adolescents. @benchaffee, Miranda Werts, @justinswhite, Elizabeth Couch, Janelle Urata, Jing Cheng, Cristin Kearns @ucsfdentistry @UCSF_IHPS @UCSF
https://t.co/vZxckfVEvj
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“Sugar Conspiracy”: How Sweet Tycoons Convinced Us Sugar Is Not Bad & Pinned the Blame on Fat. “We need to stop blaming individuals for getting sick and start changing our crazy food environment,” says Laura Schmidt, lead investigator of @SugarScienceNow
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Lamentable ver este tipo de información por @HEB. Parece NO comprender que el #EtiquetadoParaLaSalud califica las características del producto y NO su porción como incorrectamente afirman. Prefiere alimentos o productos SIN sellos. Evita todo lo posible consumir #comidachatarra
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It was rather close to having health protection warning label placed on it. Better yet to just tear it down. @CSPI @marionnestle @AHABayArea @bittman
Another piece of San Francisco’s history will soon disappear: The glowing neon Coca-Cola sign that has stood sentinel for Bay Bridge commuters for nearly a century is coming down.
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Excess fructose intake may contribute to a range of behavioral disorders from ADHD to manic depression. https://t.co/tx6snJpZ5r
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Congratulations to @JoanneSpetz, PhD, on her selection as the new director of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies! @UCSF_IHPS @UCSF @Healthforce @UCSFNurse
https://t.co/qpDsp0DOwT
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Over 10K previously confidential RJ Reynolds #tobaccoindustrydocuments posted today! https://t.co/CWKkax73yE
@ucsf_archives @ucsf_library
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