Simon Capewell
Family man, gardener, European.
#PublicHealth prof & #prevention researcher.
Advocating healthy #food & #tobacco policies everywhere.
Tweets mine, RTs not.
Last synced from Twitter 20m ago
Home Office is ‘institutionally racist’, said report into Windrush scandal
A report that concluded the Home Office was “institutionally racist” over its “hostile environment” policy towards migrants has been toned down, The Times has been told.The Windrush review
Tory cuts to councils making local patients' groups ‘unviable’, government warned
Sir Robert Francis QC tells Matt Hancock that Healthwatch branches are being put at risk
ZERO HOURS JUSTICE
How would you feel if you turned up for work one day and got told you aren't needed and you're not going to be paid? How would you feel if you had to live day by day, not knowing how you...
Mark Steel: Soon we’ll all enjoy supermarkets more – once the crowds of low-skilled migrant staff have been deported
From now on, wherever there’s a field of strawberries, instead of letting Romanians muck us about by picking them, the fruit can go rotten so British maggots can have somewhere to live at last
Priti Patel delays publication of reports on EU citizens and anti-terror laws
Exclusive: The Home Office has not yet published an investigation into the Windrush scandal which was promised a year ago
The Policy Dystopia Model: An Interpretive Analysis of Tobacco Industry Political Activity
In this thematic analysis, Selda Ulucanlar and colleagues develop taxonomies and an overall model to describe the political strategies used by the tobacco industry to influence policy around tobacco taxation and marketing.
The BBC normalised racism last night, pure and simple | Owen Jones
Why did our national broadcaster tweet the vile views of a Question Time audience member without challenge?, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
Sixty seconds on . . . the war on sugar
It’s quite different, not least because this war might actually be winnable. New research1 has shown that in Chile—a nation beset by obesity—sales of sugary drinks dropped by nearly a quarter in two years after the country introduced a “uniquely...
Simon Capewell
Sweet success!
Comprehensive #Chile strategies cut #SSB sales by 24%
@obesityactionsc
@BoydSwinburn
@actiononsugar
@OHA_updates
@Childrensfood
@PHE_obesity
@CRUK_Policy
@DiabetesUK
@food_active
@R_S_P_H
#sugar
@FPH
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North Korea: The prisoner who escaped with her guard
Simon Capewell
The #prisoner who escaped with her guard
from #NorthKorea.
Miraculous
@KenRoth
@martinmckee
@Debbie_abrahams
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Companies go Dutch to avoid fallout from Brexit
The Dutch government has lured 140 companies to the Netherlands since the Brexit referendum in 2016, The Times has learnt.In a sign that British-based businesses are boosting their preparations for
Social care is crumbling, and Johnson’s immigration plans will only make it worse | Polly Toynbee
Without cheap labour from overseas, wages will have to steeply increase if the prime minister wants to ‘fix’ the system, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
Correlation between biomarkers of exposure, effect and potential harm in the urine of electronic cigarette users
Objectives To determine if urinary biomarkers of effect and potential harm are elevated in electronic cigarette users compared with non-smokers and if elevation correlates with increased concentrations of metals in urine.
Study design and setting...
Simon Capewell
NOT "95% safer" ?
#eCigs #vape contains lots of harmful chemicals
#acrolein #aldehydes #benzene #diacetyl #heavymetals #tin #chromium #nickel #nanoparticles6 #freeradicals & #ultrafineparticles
@BathTR
@felly500
@ASH_LDN
@TobaccoFreeKids
@SimonChapman6
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Trust Me, I'm a Doctor - Series 9: Episode 6
Michael Mosley investigates whether simply thinking about food can help you lose weight.
Simon Capewell
#eatLancet #planetary #diet!
#redmeat as a treat
⬆️⬆️Healthy food
Live 10 years longer
@TheLancet
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Noncommunicable disease and obesity prevention strategies
Discussing taxes on sugary beverages, important components of noncommunicable disease (NCDs) and obesity prevention strategies.
The end of free movement: This is a nation dismantling itself over nonsense
The Home Office's new points-based system for European immigrants is a self-defeating catastrophe.
Simon Capewell
"Fewer #immigrants means
WORSE #publicservices & MORE #austerity".
Stellar @IanDunt slams #ToryBrexit.
@mrjamesob
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Formula companies push “toddler milk”
Formula companies must be desperate for sales. They are spending four times what they used to on advertising of “toddler milk,” formula ostensibly aimed at children who no longer need …
Heart doctors 'held back stent death data'
The trial suggested more people fitted with stents were dying after three years than those given surgery.
Simon Capewell
#heart stent #industry funded researchers hid evidence on XS #deaths
#industry $$$
BIASES research
CORRUPTS policy
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