@SocSocMed invites abstract submissions for this year's Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) #SSM2023. We are looking forward to welcoming you to Newcastle. Organised by @fuse_online @NCLalumni 🎯🌈👩‍👩‍👦🥁 @ECR_SSM @MCR_SSM https://t.co/SoB6S3J1Bn Abstract deadline: 28th February 23✍️

Join our mentoring scheme #SSMMentoring For more details contact @eleanorwinpenny @amylaiting

Great piece with @amylaiting in conversation with @CRUK_Policy on inequalities and healthy eating 👏👏👏👏👏 Health inequalities: Why is it harder for some people to eat healthily?

Nonetheless, our study provides evidence to support the use of advertising restrictions to reduce HFSS purchasing and such policies should be considered as part of obesity prevention strategies. 6/6

However, reductions were relative to what we expected w/o the policy & were not absolute – the policy was associated with reduced growth in HFSS purchasing! So, cohesive policies across the whole food environment are needed to improve diet & reduce diet inequalities. 5/6

There was some indication of greater reductions in households where the main food shopper was living with obesity, which would mean a well-targeted policy. Further research needed to confirm this! 4/6

The greatest reduction was for chocolate and confectionery, likely because there were no alternative products brands could advertise (as opposed to e.g. soft drinks where there are often zero or low calorie options). 3/6

The policy was associated with a 1001 kcal reduction in weekly household energy purchased from HFSS products, equivalent to each person buying ~1.5 fewer standard size bars of milk chocolate each week. 2/6

Very pleased to share our new @PLOSMed paper where we evaluated the @TfL restrictions on #HFSS advertising: https://t.co/uDKHKhTh4M 🧵 1/6 @CherryLawTW @l_cornelsen @petticrewmark @cthompson791 @martinwhite33 @NIHRSPHR

From @NIHRSPHR researchers - @TfL #JunkFood ad ban estimated to reduce calories from household weekly shop by 1,000 - that's around 385 calories or 1.5 standard milk chocolate bars per person! More at: https://t.co/duGX8BLUI4

Amy Yau and co-workers study food and drink purchases after the introduction of advertising restrictions across the London (UK) transport network: https://t.co/qHqz77HY7L @amylaiting @LSHTM #nutrition #HealthyEating #publichealth #diet

Really looking forward to sharing our findings at #PHSci! Abstract available now:

Tune in to @UKPHSci tomorrow where @NIHRSPHR researchers will be presenting their work including @amylaiting @AdamsEmmaAudrey @EmilyWidnall @EllieHolding1 @hbfairbrother @penny_breeze @frankdevocht https://t.co/k7KRJfCLtQ

New CEDAR Bulletin is out now! Full of our latest research, news, views, events and job opportunities 👉 https://t.co/6sKnuvgzfG 🏃‍♀️🍲🎓🗣️

How is food insecurity portrayed in UK newspapers? @amylaiting and @jeanmadams for @BioMedCentral blog

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New paper on portrayal of food insecurity in UK newspapers out today in #BMCPublicHealth: https://t.co/fc7GKGn5lU ⚫️Food insecurity was recognised as a growing problem ⚫️Newspapers were used to advocate for gov action & structural solutions ⚫️Existing solutions rely on charity

ICYMI: Our @BMJ_Open paper finds that lower socioeconomic groups and younger adults were more likely to report exposure to #HFSS ads, and that exposure to digital food delivery services ads and digital HFSS ads was associated with #obesity. #AdEnough https://t.co/iVhBONRkcJ

Survey of 1,552 adults published @BMJ_Open finds those in lower socioeconomic groups and younger adults more likely to report exposure to advertising for foods and drinks high in fat, salt and sugar. https://t.co/LBRxNlNAnF #Advertising #Health

Important new research led by @amylaiting : young people, women, and people from families with lower income all report seeing more junk food ads. References our @BiteBack2030 report which is nice and in the @BMJ_Open too!