Dietitian & researcher. Health inequalities, Maternal and Infant Nutrition, Autism, @DOHaD_Society, @BDA_Dietitians, Public Health Views are my own
Glasgow
Joined September 2014
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🚨NEW PUBLICATION 🚨
Our new paper explore youth's exposure to & engagement with unhealthy food marketing.
Young people in Scotland feel overly exposed to unhealthy food ads, impacting their eating habits.
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Find out more ⤵️
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Only 3 days left to access the **Flash Sale** pricing for the BDA Scotland Conference, 18th September 2024, to be held virtually and in person at 'thestudio', Glasgow. A great opportunity to network and explore the four pillars of practice 🙌 Book now....buff.ly/4fvE3nF
Thrilled to have worked with an incredible research team! Also delighted to engage with several key media outlets. Research paper below, and for a brief summary, click here newsweek.com/autism-pregnanc…
@Jana_J_Anderson @PsychGenNIPH
New study led by @cfriel15 finds maternal consumption of a healthy dietary pattern was associated with reduced likelihood of offspring #autism diagnosis. Whether this is causal remains uncertain.
Paper 👉rb.gy/sc2yyn
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New study provides evidence of physical and mental health benefits of active commuting, with strongest benefits seen for cyclists.
Paper -bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/cont…
#cycletowork #walktowork
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🚨BREAKING: Russia has been DOWNGRADED on the global civic freedoms index and labeled “increasingly authoritarian” by its authors.
Oh wait, did we say Russia? We meant the UK.
Catherine Friel retweeted
This is how you REALLY examine your breasts.
Let me show you -
What to look for
Where to feel
How to feel
What a cancer might feel like
I NEVER checked mine - I didn’t think I would get #breastcancer. I was wrong.
Please share this with anyone who needs to learn
Catherine Friel retweeted
Our paper on the outcomes of our dietitian led NJ service is now out in the Journal of the Intensive Care Society @GuildfordHpb @RoyalSurrey @Adam_Frampton1 @rajibaji1983 @PARADicmSHIFT
Catherine Friel retweeted
We have 35 prescribing qualified dietitians in Scotland and will have a further 10 by the summer. We need to push for this for our profession as it has been a long 4 years trying to make SP work. We all need to support #prescribingnow to bring dietetics to equal other AHPs as IPs
Want independent prescribing rights? Yes! we thought so… Support the #PrescribingNow campaign by writing to your local MP. Here’s everything you need: bda.uk.com/news-campaigns/ca…
Want to know more? Read on
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There's still time to apply ⤵️
Interested in doing a #PhD? We are offering funded PhD studentships across our research programmes. View eligibility criteria, topics and how to apply ➡️ gla.ac.uk/sphsustudentships
📅 Applications close on the 17th of February.
➡️Follow our students on Twitter: @SPHSUStudents
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Male university students have walked out of their exam in protest against Taliban’s decision to BAN female students from university education.
Several male professors have also resigned so far.
This must happen across the country NOW!
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1/. As the death toll rises to 41 today, four women you should know who were deliberately and unlawfully killed in Iran when protesting gender apartheid and the killing of #Masha_Amini:
Hadis Najafi, aged 20, shot six times when security forces opened fire on her.
Catherine Friel retweeted
A UK gov ‘budget’ that benefits wealthiest over poor/middle income earners, tanks the £, pushes up the cost of (v substantial) borrowing, and is castigated as reckless.
And yet Tories (& right wing commentators) will demand that @scotgov blindly follows suit. Mmm…
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(1/5) Which social class mechanisms explain health inequalities in the UK best? A thread doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.…
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Any academic dietetics colleagues out there looking for a new role? Exciting opportunity at GCU. See below 👇
#vacancy Head of Department Occupational Therapy and Human Nutrition and Dietetics - closing date 30 September 2022 - for more information and to apply, click here: gcu.ac.uk/latestvacancies/jo…
