Barrie Margetts
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Barrie Margetts
@BazMargetts
Emeritus Professor, former local politician, Internationalist and socialist. Free Palestine
Southampton, England Katılım Mart 2019
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Very frustratingly, some Southampton postcodes are today experiencing low pressure/no water. 💧
If you’re SO15/SO16 you may be affected so look out for updates as they come in. I will share more when I have it.
I’m in touch with @SouthernWater pushing for a swift fix. (1/2)
Southern Water@SouthernWater
We’re sorry that customers in parts of Southampton and Eastleigh are without water. The first bottled water station is set up at Places Leisure Centre – Passfield Avenue, SO50 9NL. We will share details of the additional bottled water stations shortly. ow.ly/F72i50UtiyW
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@CMonteiro_USP Powerful vested interests have far too much influence over US, EU, and UK food policy. They want to keep the status quo- that enables Big Food to keep making huge profits on selling UPFs. Only reason to not restrict UPFs is Big Food profits controlling USDA
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Based on allegedly limited evidence linking dietary patterns high in UPF to obesity outcomes (other outcomes also associated with UPF were ignored), the USDG 2025-2030 report made no recommendation on UPF intake. Agree? Sir Bradford Hill likely wouldn’t. nesr.usda.gov/sites/default/…
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A first-of-its-kind lawsuit against 11 UPF industries alleging they engineer their UPF products to be addictive with details on the actions taken to target children including internal memos, meetings & the research conducted to create addictive substances.
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Brilliant explanation by Mark Lawrence on why limiting UPF intake should be an integral part of dietary guidelines to promote both public health and planetary sustainability.
Mark Lawrence@MarkLawrence_Oz
Fundamentals of healthy and sustainable diets explained in terms of dietary: variety, balance and moderation, for dietary guidelines and food guides. With proposal to replace the vague term 'discretionary foods' with 'Ultra-processed foods'. See new paper-rdcu.be/d1U93
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@MarkLawrence_Oz @CMonteiro_USP @PhilBakerNZ @kesievert @marionnestle @ChristinaPolla8 @ppmachado_ @BenjaminM_Wood @StuartGillesp16 I struggle with ‘Plates’. They don’t look like meals & how foods are prepared & eaten by families/people( and in different cultures). Are they for policy makers as a guide for optimal food systems for human and planetary health? Good that this advises few UPFs. For debate!
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Fundamentals of healthy and sustainable diets explained in terms of dietary: variety, balance and moderation, for dietary guidelines and food guides. With proposal to replace the vague term 'discretionary foods' with 'Ultra-processed foods'. See new paper-rdcu.be/d1U93
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Council committees to be bypassed in bid to build more homes. Shameful- councils should be funded to build more social housing, not making it easier for ripoff builders to build expensive poor quality housing for profit bbc.com/news/articles/…
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Important testimony from the Head of the US FDA today in the US Senate, addressing UPFs and food addiction.
Kevin Hall@KevinH_PhD
@DrCaliff_FDA @NIH @US_FDA 👀👀👀
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One of the great 'burning injustices':
New figures published today show babies born in areas with the highest child poverty rates can expect to live 5 years fewer than those born in the areas with the lowest rates of child poverty.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation@jrf_uk
Today's @ONS stats illustrate the devastating impacts of poverty on life expectancy. Most areas across Great Britain have experienced a fall in life expectancy. 📢 With some of the most deprived areas having the lowest expectancy. 1/3
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Thought-provoking symposium to open our @nutsocaus 2024 Annual Scientific Meeting discussing levers for healthy & equitable food systems, including how UPF systems are structured for profitability, rise of multi-stakeholderism & the political power of the UPF industry #NSA2024
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Labour policies making things considerably worse for the poorest! Labour now the party for the well off. Who is standing up for the poor and oppressed in the country and world? Who is standing for truth and justice for Palestinian people?
Joseph Rowntree Foundation@jrf_uk
The benefits of Keir Starmer's plan for change must be felt by the worst off 📢 New research shows average disposable incomes for the bottom 40% will be £440 lower by 2029 than this year. Lowest-income households will be hit hardest. 1/6
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@MohammedAlo You missed your basic epidemiology& public health course in medical school. Infant, maternal and early child mortality were high, once got to five & not living & working in poverty good chance of living to 70+. Is your work funded by Big Food?
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Back when people only lived to age 40?
Elie Jarrouge, MD@ElieJarrougeMD
The obesity epidemic didn’t exist a century ago. Why? Food was real, unprocessed, and not engineered for addiction. We can reverse it—not with gimmicks or injections, but by rewinding the clock to what real food used to be. Meat, eggs, butter, and vegetables—not sugar, seed oils, and ultra-processed junk.
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Imperial conference: Tackling the harms of Ultra-Processed Foods imperial.ac.uk/news/258854/im…
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Excellent. What we really need is a joined up birth to death health and care system run by Govt, not private sector. Separating health and care into NHS and local govt respectively doesn't work, blocks up the acute system and has too many gaps in the underfunded care system.
Dr Rachel Clarke@doctor_oxford
My direct, heartfelt appeal in today’s @guardian to @wesstreeting & @Keir_Starmer in the light of yesterday's vote on AD. If you sincerely care about dying people, surely you will now publicly & urgently commit to proper funding for our threadbare palliative care?
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My direct, heartfelt appeal in today’s @guardian to @wesstreeting & @Keir_Starmer in the light of yesterday's vote on AD.
If you sincerely care about dying people, surely you will now publicly & urgently commit to proper funding for our threadbare palliative care?
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I just signed a petition: Fund end-of-life care. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/fund…
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@SolHughesWriter And worse, she declared this issue when she was appointed to cabinet and he thought it was ok then. So obviously it is now abut her mild criticism of P and O and pro big business growth strategy
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@SolHughesWriter You know the answer! Any excuse to get rid of left ash leaning person and for what she rightly said about P & O and Starmer's big business mates! Compare this to how he backs right wing MPs who have done far worse. Hypocrite and a typical weak bully
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@LabourSatvir You highlight a key issue, the postcode lottery of palliative care. All people should have access to quality care throughout their lives. The govt must invest more in NHS run ( keep private sector out of it) quality care for all
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I want to say a huge thank you to everyone that has been in touch about the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, being debated in Parliament today.
I want to share my statement on the Bill and details of how I will vote today.
Read my statement: satvirkaur.info/assisted-dying…
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Prem Sikka@premnsikka
Hunger is a violation of basic human rights – we should be outraged by UK's food bank crisis. Work doesn't pay. 38% of universal credit claimants are at work. 1% has more wealth than 70% of the population combined. Must redistribute income/wealth. bigissue.com/opinion/food-b…
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