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Folks, my new book on #calories 'Why Calories Don't Count' 🍫 is out now! #WeEatFoodNotCalories Available at all good bookshops, or order here hyperurl.co/CaloriesDontCo…
Giles Yeo
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Giles Yeo
@GilesYeo
MBE; Professor @Cambridge_Uni @WolfsonCam, food intake & #obesity; Broadcaster; Author, #WhyCaloriesDontCount out now; on Instagram & Threads @gilesyeo
- When I bought this bottle of wine 20yrs ago, I told myself I wouldn’t drink it until I became Professor. Today, I opened it! From Oct, I’m Professor of Molecular Metabolism @Cambridge_Uni Thanks to my wife for her unending support & all my friends & colleagues over the years🍾
- UK folks, super important. Photo ID will be required to vote for the next election, but University IDs won't work, risking the silencing of young voices. Students can now get a suitable photo ID for FREE from @nusuk 👇Please RT nus.org.uk/photo-id
- Some personal news folks. I have appointed an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the Queen’s Birthday 2020 Honours List, for services to ‘Research and Communication and Engagement’. Who'da thought eh?
- Oh man, I’m so so sad to hear the news about my friend #MichaelMosely. RIP my brother… Thoughts to Claire and the rest of his family
- Hey @StevenBartlett I’ve been on your pod & appreciate the varied guests and opinions you host… but please, please believe me when I say that this guy is truly dangerous, and a smear on the UK medical communityBig pharma is covering up deaths? 🤯 In today’s episode of The Diary of a CEO, I sit down with @DrAseemMalhotra who is an award-winning cardiologist who believes statins (the number one drug prescribed for heart disease) are overprescribed and their benefits are exaggerated. In
00:00 - The VAST majority of post-doctoral scientists (these are folks that have spent many years earning a PhD in a specialized area..the definition of expert) don't earn £36K/yr. SHAME on you & the government for your idiocy & xenophobia. thesun.co.uk/news/9699349/m…
- Your annual reminder that detoxes are pseudoscience and don’t work.
- I came to give my last lecture of term to the 1st yr medics and vets @Cambridge_Uni and found this at the lectern. Made my day and brought a tear to my eye!
- 👇🏼your annual reminder that your liver is a professional ‘detox’ organ. If that isn’t working, you need a hospital, not kale juice.
- I am very disappointed with this piece in @guardian #Languagematters. If you call some food ‘clean’ then other food is ‘dirty’. So by eating a certain food, suddenly I’m dirty or false. Food shaming is unhealthy and unhelpful. #cleaneating
- Because obesity is not a choice and doctors are also human beings. It is like asking why doctors get cancer.Why are there so many FAT Doctors??? "According to the 2007 Physicians Health Study, 40% of the 19 000 doctors were overweight and 23% were obese." ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
- No words. Let me tell you what would save the NHS money, if we stopped treating sick people completely. Let them get picked off by the hyenas. OBESITY IS NOT A CHOICE.
