originofoverweight

An exploration of the link between vitamin D and body weight. Ebook from Amazon/Kobo/ibooks. Paperback from Amazon and other retailers.

[originofoverweight @originoverwght]

Biology is vital to understand
☀️Nutrition
☀️Health
☀️Disease
☀️Inequalities
☀️Climate change
☀️Extinctions
☀️Pandemics
☀️Diversity

[Jon Douglas @atranscendedman]

In a study of 778 adults with long‑COVID (~192–197 per arm) researchers found that all three drug interventions improved quality of life scores (EQ‑5D‑5L) more than usual care by 12 weeks, although gains plateaued by 24 weeks.

[originofoverweight @originoverwght]

@ShaunLintern Yes. Was shocked when I realised midwives are no longer qualified nurses first. It's not safe.

[originofoverweight @originoverwght]

This account will be closing. You can find me here:
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[Giles E D Oldroyd 🏳️‍🌈 @gilesedoldroyd]

Early this year, scientists at Saitama University, Japan, used a fluorescence microscope to film plants using calcium signalling to respond to airborne warning messages from other plants. Brilliant!

Read more about it: https://t.co/fI1n7KUESI

[Deirdre Tobias, ScD @deirdre_tobias]

📉Q: Is the US "peak obesity"?
💉Q: Did the obesity drugs "change everything"?

🥬Let us look at the actual data behind the headlines...

Spoiler alert:
📉A: Way too early to know
💉A: One hell of a drug, but no

[Conor Kerley PhD, RD @ConorKerley]

Early morning walk to get some fresh and sun

Before an amazing and busy day at #SocialMediaFest

Hosted and organised by the fantastic @Tweetinggoddess

Wee factoid...if your shadow is longer than your body, you can not make vitamin D in your skin #kerleysrule
#vitamind

[NIHR Southampton BRC @SouthamptonBRC]

“The benefits of taking extra vitamin D during pregnancy persist into mid-childhood." 📢🌟

These are the new findings from our researchers and @MRC_LEU, @unisouthampton, @UHSFT, published in @AJCNutrition.

See more in the news today from @uosmedia 📰👀

https://t.co/gfFCWSzmW0

[Dr Alexey Kulikov @KulikovUNIATF]

Fat cells have a ‘memory’ of #obesity - hinting at why it’s hard to keep weight off.

This memory arises because the experience of obesity leads to changes in the #epigenome - a set of chemical tags that can be added to or removed from cells’ DNA and proteins that help to dial gene activity up or down.

For fat cells, the shift in 🧬 gene activity seems to render them incapable of their normal function. This impairment, as well as the changes in gene activity, can linger long after #weight has dropped to healthy levels

https://t.co/OyzY68u8y1

[originofoverweight @originoverwght]

On #Remembrance Sunday I remember my great grandfather who was a soldier in WWI, then, due to shell shock, he was unable to go down into the Anderson shelter in WWII with the rest of the family, and killed when his house was bombed during the blitz.

[Itai Yanai @ItaiYanai]

If you think the next big idea in your field will come from inside the field, you're probably wrong.

[Abd Tahrani @AbdTahrani]

Treating #obesity saves lives. Bariatric surgery has consistently for decades shown that it improves people lives and outcomes. Unfortunately access is limited globally even I countries where funding is available

[microscopic images. @microscopicture]

death of a single cell

[Ted Kyle @ConscienHealth]

"Yeah, but what about the long-term outcomes?" This is a recurring question in treating severe #obesity for #teens. Now in @NEJM we have a good answer for #MetabolicSurgery, thanks to @jryder1123 et al.

Life gets better for these youths.
https://t.co/McL1JgfICj

[John Lewis-Stempel @JLewisStempel]

Anyway, in other news: Here's a pic of our BTerrier rather cleverly aligning himself with a shaft of sunlight #dogs

[Zaher Toumi MD @ZaherToumi]

1) This study is already highlighted in @BBCNews as showing evidence that 'banning' new takeaway outlets reduces obesity by 5%.

Very bold claim...from a study that does not have enough evidence to support the claim...

@ConscienHealth
https://t.co/ghxCHuRmjc

[Stephen Griffin @SGriffin_Lab]

My latest piece for the @IndependentSage s*bstack series on how "Just the flu" has been such a damaging theme throughout the pandemic...

Pls retweet to stop the algorithm suppression on the link!

https://t.co/JbsfPTvwCp

[originofoverweight @originoverwght]

No mention of the effect on #UV and #VitaminD in this piece on the comparison of different particles for geoengineering to cool the planet.
https://t.co/wAFa42MQzo

[originofoverweight @originoverwght]

@MichaelMindrum Because it challenges the neoliberal obesity model, in which obesity is, at the same time, a major medical problem, yet also is not a medical condition.

[Dr Alexey Kulikov @KulikovUNIATF]

Study shows longitudinal associations between #airpollution exposures and increased insulin resistance in older individuals.

Maintaining 🏃🏾‍♀️moderate-to-vigorous #physicalactivity may mitigate the adverse effects of air pollution on #insulin resistance.

In older individuals dwelling in highly polluted areas, an increase of less than 12,000 #metabolic equivalent of task -min/week may be beneficial for insulin resistance. https://t.co/Wap1x8EzvS

[originofoverweight @originoverwght]

@DaniBeckman systemic

[originofoverweight @originoverwght]

@DaniBeckman Unfortunately, it is in the name of the virus. As is "acute". Both 'respiratory' and 'acute' are now outdated and the name SARS-Cov2 is misleading. The virus needs to be renamed. Severe sytemic virus perhaps?