Chris van Tulleken 🏳️🌈
@DoctorChrisVT
NHS Dr @HTropDis @UCLH Professor of Infection and Global Health @UCL @UNICEF_uk supporter Broadcasting: @MiradorMgmt Books: @RCWZW
*At most*, decreased daily expenditure can account for one-tenth of the obesity problem. !Diet appears to be responsible for >90% of the obesity crisis in developed (and developing) countries! 6/
New oped alert: Lax regulation of food additives is a real problem serious people worry about. But let's not lose sight of the big picture. Junk food is cheap, ubiquitous, and heavily advertised, while healthy food, relatively hard to come by. nytimes.com/2025/05/12/opi…
Actually quite a bleak tweet because for every kid like this there are hundreds of thousands of others who also might have picked up the Iliad but will be given smartphones and so will never touch it or any other book
My 12yo son is begging me for a phone, but he got so bored this summer that he went to the bookshelf and pulled off a copy of the Iliad, asked me if it was any good, and has been reading it for the last three days. Not helping his case.
Interesting new book by some well qualified authors for those who struggle with an addicted relationship to food. Would love to know what others think. newharbinger.com/9781648484681/…
When I was a child, I was taught life-saving as part of swimming. Surely everyone should learn this?
Every 2 minutes someone dies by drowning - that's 300,000 avoidable deaths per year. Here's what to do it you get into trouble in the water - FLOAT TO LIVE. 1. Tilt your head back with your ears submerged 2. Relax and try to breathe normally 3. Move your hands and legs to help…
Learn a new lifesaving skill this #WorldDrowningPreventionDay 💪 Join our Water Safety Team for a free webinar, tonight at 7pm. Find out how to stay safe around our coasts and inland waterways. Register here: bit.ly/4kV69tE
For #WorldDrowningPreventionDay, we asked fitness content creator Jacob Ward to jump into our sea survival pool and find his float 💪 Do you know how you float? Practising this skill could save your life one day. #RNLI #FindYourFloat #RespectTheWater #FloatToLive
your intentions may be honourable @gilescoren but you are getting the science wrong. Screening is complex and counter intuitive. It can be easy to think that you are doing good while causing harm. If you'd like to discuss (even over lunch) - let me know.....
A guy said I had saved his life and he wanted to take me out for lunch. So I went…. thetimes.com/article/de28d7…
There is an emerging consensus in the field. I’d add that the food and commercial environment also contributes to the rise of eating disorders worldwide.
Important insights: obesity is not caused by laziness. Movement has only marginal importance for causing obesity. Obesity is 90% due to diet, yet it’s not sudden gluttony in everyone. We’re poisoned by the ultra-processed food environment, foods that break our satiety system.
Do you know the true impact of the commercial determinants of public health? In the wake of editing @FutureHealthJ, @DoctorChrisVT talks ultra-processed food, alcohol and tobacco – and the conflicts of interest which hold back healthier policy – in the latest edition of…
New calorie data (from double labeled water) on 100-mile mountain ultras: ~15,800 kcal to cover the distance (while consuming roughly half that) ... followed by burning 4,200-4,900 in the 24hrs *after* the race, presumably for repair and replenishment. outsideonline.com/health/nutriti…
Probably one of the most prophetic paragraphs of the twentieth century - from Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985)
So looking forward to hosting the rather fabulous @ChrisGPackham! He's such a much-loved and talented science communicator. Can't wait to hear him natter about all things science and nature! 🤩
We're so, so excited to be having @ChrisGPackham come visit us and give a public talk. Chris is one of the foremost science communicators in the country and his work has so many synergies with our aims. It promises to be a really engaging evening! 🤩 shorturl.at/byZC9
There is now overwhelming evidence that what and how much we eat affects most health-related outcomes, including obesity and associated consequences pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.10…
Many moons ago, @KevinH_PhD and I talked about a book we both wished existed. No fads, no weight loss hacks—just the nutrition and metabolism science. I’m thrilled to announce that we wrote it! Out September 23 @Avery_Books & available now for pre-order. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671334/f…
I’m excited to announce my new book FOOD INTELLIGENCE coauthored with brilliant journalist @juliaoftoronto! Cutting through the confusion about diet & health, #FoodIntelligence describes the fascinating science of how food both nourishes and harms us. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671334/f……
It is exceedingly rare to find a nutrition book that actually belongs in the non-fiction section...this is one of them: congrats, Kevin and Julia!
I’m excited to announce my new book FOOD INTELLIGENCE coauthored with brilliant journalist @juliaoftoronto! Cutting through the confusion about diet & health, #FoodIntelligence describes the fascinating science of how food both nourishes and harms us. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671334/f……
Peasant life in eighteenth century France. Extraordinary to contemplate the fact that for most people for most of history existence was (from a modern perspective) a kind of living hell.