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Stuart Gillespie
@stuartgillespie.bsky.social
Nutrition, food justice, health, cycling | writer, freelance
Non-res senior fellow, IFPRI | hon associate IDS
FOOD FIGHT https://canongate.co.uk/books/5139-food-fight-from-plunder-and-profit-to-people-and-planet/
SUBSTACK: stuartgillespie.substack.com
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'FOOD FIGHT' shows how our food system has warped into something that's making us (and our planet) sick.
But its main focus is on how to turn things around.
Out in April 2025 but open for pre-order here:
buythebook.online/foodfight
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Cold but glorious Xmas ramble along Sussex coast....

Happy holidays!
December 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Big step forward...

Check out @unicef.org new digital toolkit and world-first Model Legal Language for protecting children from unhealthy and ultra-processed food marketing

knowledge.unicef.org/child-nutrit...
December 17, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Thanks @dansaladino.bsky.social for selecting 'Food Fight' as your book of the year!

(nice summary at 5.07 mins)

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Food Programme - The Food Books of 2025 - BBC Sounds
Leyla Kazim discusses some of the year's best food writing with Ruby Tandoh and guests.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
December 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Reposted by Stuart Gillespie
Ok, with this year being what it has, we all deserved and needed this today. Do yourself a favor and watch it. You deserve it.
David Byrne: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
youtu.be
December 3, 2025 at 1:08 AM
It's December...here's my best of '25 list!

(at least, that's when I read 'em)

@juliabelluz.bsky.social @profdevisridhar.bsky.social @kevinh-phd.bsky.social @mikebernerslee.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social et al...
December 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Many thanks….without sounding too smug, 😊 there are some great books on this list
November 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Last week saw the long-awaited launch of the The Lancet Group Series on Ultra-Processed Food and Human Health.

Reviewed here:

stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/ultra-proc...

Three papers -- each one is excellent, together, they represent a landmark.
November 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
🔥Lancet Series on UPFs and human health

Charts the global rise of UPFs - drivers, consequences and solutions - ending with a vision for the food system that emphases local food producers, preserving cultural foods transitions and economic benefits for communities

www.thelancet.com/series-do/ul...
Ultra-Processed Foods and Human Health
This 3-paper Series reviews the evidence about the increase in ultra-processed foods in diets globally and highlights the association with many non-communicable diseases. This rise in ultra-processed ...
www.thelancet.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Reposted by Stuart Gillespie
NGO says Swiss food giant is 'putting the health of babies at risk for profit' by adding sugar to babyfood.
Nestle accused of risking baby heath in Africa, Asia and Latin America
NGO says Swiss food giant is 'putting the health of babies at risk for profit' by adding sugar to babyfood.
bit.ly
November 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Reposted by Stuart Gillespie
What to Eat Now. Today is publication day!

Today marks the official publication of my new book, What to Eat Now!  All 703 pages of it! Order it---ISBN 9780374608699---from Amazon   Barnes & Noble   Books-a-Million   Bookshop   Powells   Target It's a thoroughly revised version of What to…
What to Eat Now. Today is publication day!
Today marks the official publication of my new book, What to Eat Now!  All 703 pages of it! Order it---ISBN 9780374608699---from Amazon   Barnes & Noble   Books-a-Million   Bookshop   Powells   Target It's a thoroughly revised version of What to Eat, published in 2006. A lot has changed, much more than I imagined when I set out to do this.  I thought it would be a six-month project, but it's now four years later.
www.foodpolitics.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Livelier than usual outside our place tonight
November 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Turning points in food histories

The diminishing returns of bird poo, foxhole cuisine and the start of a global rampage

stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/turning-po...
Turning points in food histories
Diminishing returns of bird poo, foxhole cuisine and the start of a global rampage
stuartgillespie.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Enjoyed this chat with Philipp Blom the other day

Bear with it...we do get to solutions eventually!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6rA...
November 2, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Reposted by Stuart Gillespie
Fixing Food Systems Will Take More than Good Intentions - V sensible thoughts from IPES-Food heavyweights Shalmali Guttal, Sofia Monsalve and Pat Mooney foodtank.com/news/2025/10...
November 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
This excellent book brilliantly captures the breadth of the health challenge – with chapters on diet, exercise, mental health, transport, water, clean air, gun control, smoking, health care systems – while deep-diving into the detail of both problems and solutions.

@profdevisridhar.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
If you're wandering around Brussels on Saturday 15 November and feel like a book-browse and chat, drop in to @waterstones.bsky.social !

www.waterstones.com/events/book-...
Book signing - Stuart Gillespie | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Book signing - Stuart Gillespie today.
www.waterstones.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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I wrote about how and why social media has largely become boring and why it's a bad idea to eat your own brain: www.forkingpaths.co/p/is-social-...
Is social media just...boring now?
Social media is destroying democracy and accelerating idiocracy. But it's also just...really, really boring.
www.forkingpaths.co
October 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Reposted by Stuart Gillespie
🚨 JUST PUBLISHED 🚨

⚠️ The 2025 @lancetcountdown.bsky.social report reveals climate change inaction is costing lives and livelihoods, and harming the economy.

❤️‍🩹 Protecting people’s health demands all hands on deck.

Read more: www.lancetcountdown.org/2025-report/ #LancetClimate25
October 29, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Are you ready for a Food Fight? OAS Interim Head, Robin Ireland, provides his views of @stuartgillespie.bsky.social's excellent new book.

www.obesityactionscotland.org/blogs/food-f...
October 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
How's this for a World Food Day partnership!?

www.nestlehealthscience.us/stories/nest...
October 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM