Deirdre Tobias, ScD

I enjoyed having the @vivalongevity.bsky.social crew over for a long chat about all things epidemiology last fall.

The full episode is here: youtu.be/JJeoYQ6FaAw?...

Here's to hoping it's just a temporary transition 😬

How are my fellow 100% soft money academic researchers doing this morning?

the influencer-to-epidemiologist ratio is stressful

Whooooooeyyyyy!

📑Here's the full 148-page ultra-processed foods civil lawsuit filing against a whole slew of major US food companies:

It's...a doozie🧨

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Heyyyyyyy! Thanks!

Longitudinal observational cohort studies are absolutely essential to public health and a critical pillar of chronic disease research. We would be virtually nowhere in the UPF storyline without nutritional epidemiology.

To this day, no one enters my office for the first time without asking about my grandfather's portrait

They’re up to 70% of the American diet. But the US has no policy on ultraprocessed foods | CNN Federal guidance on the pitfalls of ultraprocessed foods, which likely play a key role in the US obesity epidemic, isn’t yet available. Here’s what’s at stake.

It was a pleasure to host Meg Tirrell and colleagues from CNN to cover our ongoing study at the NIH Clinical Center on mechanisms of ultra-processed food. If you subscribe to CNN, you can see the video and read about it here: www.cnn.com/2024/11/22/h...

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I was told this place had better science discourse. Where you nerds at?