Paul Nuki

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Senior editor, global health security and campaigns @Telegraph

London telegraph.co.uk/global-health-… Joined May 2009

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Paul Nuki @PaulNuki 2h

1/8 Bird flu strains in Asia and the West may be gaining function through 'assortment' - a natural mixing process. At the same time, human cases and fatality rates are increasing, with 14 cases recorded globally so far this year. Chart from @Airfinity

Paul Nuki @PaulNuki 1d

I’ll never understand why people who claim to be dedicated to free choice are so dedicated to preventing the information needed to guide those choices from being published.

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"Public health" crank wants warning labels on all "ultra-processed" food. bmj.com/content/393/bm…
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Paul Nuki @PaulNuki 2d

Many more cattle ranch workers infected with H5N1 than reported, says US farming union.

The organisation says dairy workers are not being tested and some have "very severe" symptoms.

Full read in link below...

Paul Nuki @PaulNuki 2d

This is an important piece of work. Long story short: The government's food labelling system is dangerously misleading and should not be relied on.

We need a new and honest traffic light system for food labelling - one which is designed and overseen by an panel of specialists who are independent of industry and government.

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Our new paper about UPF is published today in @BMJMedicine - we show the proportion of UPF products which are high in fat, sugar and salt compared to UK government guidance (spoiler alert - it's a lot).

This is important because so much of the discussion around UPF has focused on whether ALL of it is unhealthy or whether we should just worry about a few categories of products.

So we took a database of products and asked two simple questions:

1. What proportion of Ultra Processed Food products are high in sugar, salt, saturated fat and energy according to UK dietary guidance?

2. What proportion of UPF is defined as 'unhealthy' by the two existing classification systems that we use to define unhealthy food,
- Front of Pack Traffic Lights and
- the HFSS definition (High Fat, Sugar, Salt)?

Here's what we did, and what we found...🧵

bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/5/1/e0…
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Paul Nuki @PaulNuki 2d

1/5 Young women should ensure they are vaccinated against measles before getting pregnant, doctors say. The warning comes following the death of a mother in the US shortly after giving birth.