We are still seeing more #norovirus cases than in any season since we started our current reporting system. 📈
Here is what you can do to avoid the spread. 🧼
[1/2]
The announcement in today's #KingsSpeech to restrict junk food advertising and the sale of energy drinks is very welcome and comes at a time when rates of obesity and malnutrition in children & young people are rising.
@OHA_updates#CDOH
(2/4) Smoking remains the single greatest cause of health inequalities in the UK; driving death, disability, dementia and poverty across the whole population, but particularly in the most vulnerable groups where smoking rates remain stubbornly high.
Want to know what 'a day in the life' of a public health professional looks like?
Hear from @siobhanfarmer, Director of Public Health for @GlosCC.
Learn more about #WhatIsPublicHealth on FPH’s website: https://t.co/FNUmaJJH7s
https://t.co/sRnxnMsFQZ
Stoptober is almost here! Join the thousands of smokers quitting from October 1st.
When you stop smoking good things start to happen! Quitting smoking is much easier with the right support.
See how you can quit for good: https://t.co/5dwOdWySy9…
#stoptober
Sign up to our Childhood Obesity Trailblazer programme webinar next Tuesday 9 February 2-3pm to hear from @HealthierPlace about how they are successfully engaging local councillors in their work. Email [email protected] to book your place. @ADPHUK@OHA_updates @PHE_obesity
Day 1 at #NSWinter20: Symposia on population mineral malnutrition and micronutrient nutrition in health and disease plus a Keynote Lecture on global micronutrient deficiencies by Professor Paul Kelly. Don't miss the networking sessions at 17:15 - a chance to meet the speakers.
UK government requests guidance on vitamin D use. Call for recommendations from NICE and Public Health England on how nutrient may prevent and treat virus. https://t.co/Jr9eTpCa0Q
Having food is a privilege
Having a choice of food is an even bigger privilege
But the greatest privilege of all is having both the food and choice to follow any dietary pattern on a whim.