Martin White
@martinwhite33.bsky.social
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Martin White
@martinwhite33.bsky.social
· Mar 31
We did an analysis for the House of Lords Committee on Food, Diet and Obesity to look at the overlap between foods high in salt, fat and sugar (HFSS) and ultra-processed (UPF). We extended the analysis and it is published today (open access):
nutrition.bmj.com/content/earl...
nutrition.bmj.com/content/earl...
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The Mandala Consortium comprises of researchers from:
University of Cambridge (@cam.ac.uk)
University of Birmingham (@unibirmingham.bsky.social)
University of Warwick (@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social)
University of Exeter (@exeter.ac.uk)
Learn more - buff.ly/SvWbu51
The Mandala Consortium comprises of researchers from:
University of Cambridge (@cam.ac.uk)
University of Birmingham (@unibirmingham.bsky.social)
University of Warwick (@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social)
University of Exeter (@exeter.ac.uk)
Learn more - buff.ly/SvWbu51
October 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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The Mandala Consortium comprises of researchers from:
University of Cambridge (@cam.ac.uk)
University of Birmingham (@unibirmingham.bsky.social)
University of Warwick (@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social)
University of Exeter (@exeter.ac.uk)
Learn more - buff.ly/SvWbu51
The Mandala Consortium comprises of researchers from:
University of Cambridge (@cam.ac.uk)
University of Birmingham (@unibirmingham.bsky.social)
University of Warwick (@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social)
University of Exeter (@exeter.ac.uk)
Learn more - buff.ly/SvWbu51
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The Mandala Consortium is conducting a range of research projects across Birmingham to investigate how the food system is changing
Research has found that the expansion of free school meals to all children would bring significant economic & social benefits as well as tackling food insecurity
The Mandala Consortium is conducting a range of research projects across Birmingham to investigate how the food system is changing
Research has found that the expansion of free school meals to all children would bring significant economic & social benefits as well as tackling food insecurity
October 29, 2025 at 4:31 PM
(1/2)
The Mandala Consortium is conducting a range of research projects across Birmingham to investigate how the food system is changing
Research has found that the expansion of free school meals to all children would bring significant economic & social benefits as well as tackling food insecurity
The Mandala Consortium is conducting a range of research projects across Birmingham to investigate how the food system is changing
Research has found that the expansion of free school meals to all children would bring significant economic & social benefits as well as tackling food insecurity
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The LEAP conference is back in Oxford on 22nd April 2026. We have @martinwhite33.bsky.social and @suepritch.bsky.social as keynote speakers. Abstract submissions will open early next year. Save the date! @oxfutureoffood.bsky.social
LEAP conference 2026
Date for the 2026 LEAP conference
www.futureoffood.ox.ac.uk
October 22, 2025 at 7:40 AM
The LEAP conference is back in Oxford on 22nd April 2026. We have @martinwhite33.bsky.social and @suepritch.bsky.social as keynote speakers. Abstract submissions will open early next year. Save the date! @oxfutureoffood.bsky.social
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Save the date! The LEAP conference will return on 22 April 2026. Come and join us at Worcester College in Oxford to discuss meat and dairy production and consumption.
We are thrilled that @suepritch.bsky.social and @martinwhite33.bsky.social will be delivering keynotes.
@oxmartinschool.bsky.social
We are thrilled that @suepritch.bsky.social and @martinwhite33.bsky.social will be delivering keynotes.
@oxmartinschool.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Save the date! The LEAP conference will return on 22 April 2026. Come and join us at Worcester College in Oxford to discuss meat and dairy production and consumption.
We are thrilled that @suepritch.bsky.social and @martinwhite33.bsky.social will be delivering keynotes.
@oxmartinschool.bsky.social
We are thrilled that @suepritch.bsky.social and @martinwhite33.bsky.social will be delivering keynotes.
@oxmartinschool.bsky.social
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📖the full story 👉 buff.ly/4pbcVHt
🔖 the full paper in Nature Food buff.ly/JZBEVLn
🍽️ More about Mandala here buff.ly/WOHbQrI
📖the full story 👉 buff.ly/4pbcVHt
🔖 the full paper in Nature Food buff.ly/JZBEVLn
🍽️ More about Mandala here buff.ly/WOHbQrI
New study quantifies how food production drives species extinction risk – with enormous variation across foods and regions
mandala-consortium.org
September 30, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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📖the full story 👉 buff.ly/4pbcVHt
🔖 the full paper in Nature Food buff.ly/JZBEVLn
🍽️ More about Mandala here buff.ly/WOHbQrI
📖the full story 👉 buff.ly/4pbcVHt
🔖 the full paper in Nature Food buff.ly/JZBEVLn
🍽️ More about Mandala here buff.ly/WOHbQrI
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🌍 New research from the Mandala Consortium and Cambridge Zoology shows the scale of species extinction risk driven by food production, with huge differences across foods & regions. Impacts can vary by up to 1,000x depending on what we eat & where it’s produced. buff.ly/4pbcVHt 🧵 1/7
New study quantifies how food production drives species extinction risk – with enormous variation across foods and regions
www.mandala-consortium.org
September 30, 2025 at 12:17 PM
🌍 New research from the Mandala Consortium and Cambridge Zoology shows the scale of species extinction risk driven by food production, with huge differences across foods & regions. Impacts can vary by up to 1,000x depending on what we eat & where it’s produced. buff.ly/4pbcVHt 🧵 1/7
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In an accompanying review @martinwhite33.bsky.social, who leads the Mandala Consortium, and colleagues set out 27 practical ideas to transform food systems for the better, covering farming, manufacturing, supply chains & what ends up on our plates.
buff.ly/7e8hte7
(5/5)
buff.ly/7e8hte7
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Key action areas for transforming the UK food system: insights from the Transforming UK Food Systems (TUKFS) Programme project portfolio | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The UK food system is a driver of the public health crisis of non-communicable disease, is linked to the cost-of-living crisis, and contributes to climate change, biodiversity loss and soil…
doi.org
September 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM
In an accompanying review @martinwhite33.bsky.social, who leads the Mandala Consortium, and colleagues set out 27 practical ideas to transform food systems for the better, covering farming, manufacturing, supply chains & what ends up on our plates.
buff.ly/7e8hte7
(5/5)
buff.ly/7e8hte7
(5/5)
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In this BMJ paper, @martinwhite33.bsky.social and colleagues present a new MRC and NIHR framework that provides an integrated guide for using a natural experimental approach to evaluating population health and health system interventions.
Read the paper at buff.ly/cEXl6km
Read the paper at buff.ly/cEXl6km
August 13, 2025 at 11:28 AM
In this BMJ paper, @martinwhite33.bsky.social and colleagues present a new MRC and NIHR framework that provides an integrated guide for using a natural experimental approach to evaluating population health and health system interventions.
Read the paper at buff.ly/cEXl6km
Read the paper at buff.ly/cEXl6km
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Takeaways can negatively impact the diet and diet-related health outcomes of local residents
Local authority urban planners can deny planning for new takeaways in management zones around schools
But what are the long term impacts of these exclusion zones?
Read - buff.ly/S04RDSP
Takeaways can negatively impact the diet and diet-related health outcomes of local residents
Local authority urban planners can deny planning for new takeaways in management zones around schools
But what are the long term impacts of these exclusion zones?
Read - buff.ly/S04RDSP
July 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
(1/6)
Takeaways can negatively impact the diet and diet-related health outcomes of local residents
Local authority urban planners can deny planning for new takeaways in management zones around schools
But what are the long term impacts of these exclusion zones?
Read - buff.ly/S04RDSP
Takeaways can negatively impact the diet and diet-related health outcomes of local residents
Local authority urban planners can deny planning for new takeaways in management zones around schools
But what are the long term impacts of these exclusion zones?
Read - buff.ly/S04RDSP
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>10 years old but still as relevant - 10 tips for progressing from PhD to PI from @martinwhite33.bsky.social
fuseopenscienceblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/from...
fuseopenscienceblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/from...
From PhD to PI in ten 'easy' steps
Our warts-and-all account of what it's like to do public health research.
fuseopenscienceblog.blogspot.com
June 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
>10 years old but still as relevant - 10 tips for progressing from PhD to PI from @martinwhite33.bsky.social
fuseopenscienceblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/from...
fuseopenscienceblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/from...
Karen Hofman and Susan Goldstein cal for G20 to implement health taxes to tackle the rising tide of NCDs. The numbers are staggering, the arguments compelling.
theconversation.com/sugary-drink...
theconversation.com/sugary-drink...
Sugary drinks, processed foods, alcohol and tobacco are big killers: why the G20 should add its weight to health taxes
The G20 should acknowledge that diseases like high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes are part of a system in which commercial actors are causing ill health.
theconversation.com
May 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Karen Hofman and Susan Goldstein cal for G20 to implement health taxes to tackle the rising tide of NCDs. The numbers are staggering, the arguments compelling.
theconversation.com/sugary-drink...
theconversation.com/sugary-drink...
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Our new research hub on the co-benefits for health of sustainable diets has just got itself a BlueSky account! Follow @thrivingfoodfuture.bsky.social for info about the project.
Cool logo, eh?
Cool logo, eh?
May 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Our new research hub on the co-benefits for health of sustainable diets has just got itself a BlueSky account! Follow @thrivingfoodfuture.bsky.social for info about the project.
Cool logo, eh?
Cool logo, eh?
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Next week we welcome @jeanmadams.bsky.social to Oxford for our Wednesday seminar. Professor Adams will be talking about mandatory calorie labelling and what it reveals about public health policy making.
Join in person @oxmartinschool.bsky.social or online 👇
www.futureoffood.ox.ac.uk/event/an-eva...
Join in person @oxmartinschool.bsky.social or online 👇
www.futureoffood.ox.ac.uk/event/an-eva...
An evaluation of mandatory calorie labelling in the out-of-home sector
Future of Food seminar: Professor Jean Adams
www.futureoffood.ox.ac.uk
May 22, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Next week we welcome @jeanmadams.bsky.social to Oxford for our Wednesday seminar. Professor Adams will be talking about mandatory calorie labelling and what it reveals about public health policy making.
Join in person @oxmartinschool.bsky.social or online 👇
www.futureoffood.ox.ac.uk/event/an-eva...
Join in person @oxmartinschool.bsky.social or online 👇
www.futureoffood.ox.ac.uk/event/an-eva...
In other news, the weather is bueno and the jacarandas in bloom...
May 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
In other news, the weather is bueno and the jacarandas in bloom...
At #ECO2025 @jeanmadams.bsky.social and @harryrutter.bsky.social answering some difficult questions with vaguely unpopular but insightful answers. #systemsthinking @easoobesity.bsky.social
May 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
At #ECO2025 @jeanmadams.bsky.social and @harryrutter.bsky.social answering some difficult questions with vaguely unpopular but insightful answers. #systemsthinking @easoobesity.bsky.social
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Webinar: Introducing the updated framework for using natural experiments to evaluate population health interventions
Fri 23 May
12:00 - 13:15
Register at events.teams.microsoft.com/event/f01e66...
Fri 23 May
12:00 - 13:15
Register at events.teams.microsoft.com/event/f01e66...
Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams
Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams
events.teams.microsoft.com
May 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Webinar: Introducing the updated framework for using natural experiments to evaluate population health interventions
Fri 23 May
12:00 - 13:15
Register at events.teams.microsoft.com/event/f01e66...
Fri 23 May
12:00 - 13:15
Register at events.teams.microsoft.com/event/f01e66...
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We are hiring! We're looking for two post-doc researchers to help us deliver a randomised controlled trial of group model building to address inequalities in diet in English local authorities.
Two 3y posts, ideally starting in July. Closing date 4 May.
Full details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50905/
Two 3y posts, ideally starting in July. Closing date 4 May.
Full details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50905/
Research Associate x 2 (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Associate x 2 (Fixed Term) in the MRC Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
April 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
We are hiring! We're looking for two post-doc researchers to help us deliver a randomised controlled trial of group model building to address inequalities in diet in English local authorities.
Two 3y posts, ideally starting in July. Closing date 4 May.
Full details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50905/
Two 3y posts, ideally starting in July. Closing date 4 May.
Full details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50905/
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Researchers for the Mandala Consortium studied the environmental sustainability of inpatient paediatric menus, while assessing the potential to maintain/improve the nutritional value and the appeal of the dishes, and the related costs to the NHS.
Watch - buff.ly/AGZDHIe
Watch - buff.ly/AGZDHIe
Designing more environmentally sustainable hospital menus
The Mandala Consortium is a research project focusing on transforming urban food systems for planetary and population health. Can changes to inpatient paedia...
buff.ly
April 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Researchers for the Mandala Consortium studied the environmental sustainability of inpatient paediatric menus, while assessing the potential to maintain/improve the nutritional value and the appeal of the dishes, and the related costs to the NHS.
Watch - buff.ly/AGZDHIe
Watch - buff.ly/AGZDHIe
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Written by the Unit’s Prof. @jeanmadams.bsky.social and published in PLOS Medicine, this perspective reflects on the importance of both life and social scientists utilising the NOVA system to investigate “the key questions of both which foods, and which aspects of food systems, cause the most harm”.
April 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Written by the Unit’s Prof. @jeanmadams.bsky.social and published in PLOS Medicine, this perspective reflects on the importance of both life and social scientists utilising the NOVA system to investigate “the key questions of both which foods, and which aspects of food systems, cause the most harm”.
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Just finished this 5m long drystone seating area on the banks of the loch.
It will hold a single piece of oak across the three protruding stones to form a bench.
Built by hand, no mortar, just time, attention, and stone. All materials sourced locally.
#Scotland #Nature #Environment #Sustainable
It will hold a single piece of oak across the three protruding stones to form a bench.
Built by hand, no mortar, just time, attention, and stone. All materials sourced locally.
#Scotland #Nature #Environment #Sustainable
April 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Just finished this 5m long drystone seating area on the banks of the loch.
It will hold a single piece of oak across the three protruding stones to form a bench.
Built by hand, no mortar, just time, attention, and stone. All materials sourced locally.
#Scotland #Nature #Environment #Sustainable
It will hold a single piece of oak across the three protruding stones to form a bench.
Built by hand, no mortar, just time, attention, and stone. All materials sourced locally.
#Scotland #Nature #Environment #Sustainable
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A few thoughts on the UK government proposal to amend the Soft Drinks Industry Levy.
TL;dr good on milk drinks, threshold change could backfire, missed opportunity to align with environmental policy on plant-based milks.
TL;dr good on milk drinks, threshold change could backfire, missed opportunity to align with environmental policy on plant-based milks.
Strengthening the Soft Drinks Industry Levy consultation
www.gov.uk
April 29, 2025 at 7:41 AM
A few thoughts on the UK government proposal to amend the Soft Drinks Industry Levy.
TL;dr good on milk drinks, threshold change could backfire, missed opportunity to align with environmental policy on plant-based milks.
TL;dr good on milk drinks, threshold change could backfire, missed opportunity to align with environmental policy on plant-based milks.
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🎙️How can we make food that is good for health, societies, the planet and the economy?
Governments need to develop food strategies that are comprehensive, that cross all government departments and really take a holistic view - says @martinwhite33.bsky.social
@mrcepid.bsky.social
pod.fo/e/2c3eac
Governments need to develop food strategies that are comprehensive, that cross all government departments and really take a holistic view - says @martinwhite33.bsky.social
@mrcepid.bsky.social
pod.fo/e/2c3eac
April 18, 2025 at 8:36 AM
🎙️How can we make food that is good for health, societies, the planet and the economy?
Governments need to develop food strategies that are comprehensive, that cross all government departments and really take a holistic view - says @martinwhite33.bsky.social
@mrcepid.bsky.social
pod.fo/e/2c3eac
Governments need to develop food strategies that are comprehensive, that cross all government departments and really take a holistic view - says @martinwhite33.bsky.social
@mrcepid.bsky.social
pod.fo/e/2c3eac
Important investigative piece in @bmj.com Nice video explainer...
Bans on junk food advertising in outdoor spaces derailed by industry lobbying www.bmj.com/content/389/...
Bans on junk food advertising in outdoor spaces derailed by industry lobbying www.bmj.com/content/389/...
Bans on junk food advertising in outdoor spaces derailed by industry lobbying
Councils trying to bring in policies to protect the public from unhealthy food adverts face a “tobacco playbook” of tactics to stymie their plans, such as financial warnings and claims advertisers “ca...
www.bmj.com
April 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Important investigative piece in @bmj.com Nice video explainer...
Bans on junk food advertising in outdoor spaces derailed by industry lobbying www.bmj.com/content/389/...
Bans on junk food advertising in outdoor spaces derailed by industry lobbying www.bmj.com/content/389/...
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You have to read this article.
"The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants."
By @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
"The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants."
By @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
April 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
You have to read this article.
"The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants."
By @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
"The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants."
By @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.
April 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.