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Sonia Pombo RNutr @SPombo86
Joined January 2013
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Sonia Pombo RNutr retweeted
Food Standards Scotland@FSScot
12 May 2025
It’s #SaltAwarenessWeek 🧂 Did you know two thirds of us eat too much salt? Too much salt can raise your blood pressure, increasing your risk of heart disease or stroke. Find out ways to cut down at: bit.ly/4lHP08r #FoodStandardsScotland #HealthierEating #Salt
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Sonia Pombo RNutr retweeted
Action on Salt and Sugar@ActionSaltSugar
12 May 2025
The evidence is clear: too much salt is harming our health. 🩺 5 million living with undiagnosed high blood pressure ❤️ 1 in 4 UK deaths from heart attacks & strokes Join us this #SaltAwarenessWeek for our new report and to cut down on salt intake 👇 tinyurl.com/mryzcawj
Salt Awareness Week poster - 6 easy steps to reduce salt intake to the recommended 6g per day

ALT Salt Awareness Week poster - 6 easy steps to reduce salt intake to the recommended 6g per day
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Do you have a child aged 3-11 & live in #TowerHamlets? Take part in a quick and simple survey and receive £15 for your time! To take part visit bit.ly/4b9Q6ot Questions? Email s.pombo@qmul.ac.uk @TowerHamletsCVS @HWTowerHamlets @EthnicMinority_ @THParents @THCHS1
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Sonia Pombo RNutr retweeted
Action on Salt and Sugar@ActionSaltSugar
15 Aug 2024
💡We're #hiring! Join us as a communications officer to support the team across our influential research and advocacy work on salt and sugar reduction. #charityjobs Apply here: qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-…
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Sonia Pombo RNutr retweeted
Children's Food Campaign (no longer posting here)@Childrensfood
14 Aug 2024
New report from @ActiononSugar @ActiononSalt criticises unhealthy restaurant, cafe & takeaway food, & calls for better nutritional information plus mandatory targets for making food healthier @OHA_updates @UKSustain @BiteBack2030 @nesta_uk sustainweb.org/news/aug24-he…

Restaurant and takeaway food is mostly unhealthy, says new report | Sustain

A new report from Action on Salt and Action on Sugar has measured the healthiness of food on menus of a range of popular restaurants, cafes and takeaways, and finds the results very unappetising.

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Sonia Pombo RNutr retweeted
Centre for Public Health & Policy (CPHP)@CphpQmul
15 Aug 2024
Fantastic opportunity for Communications Officer interested in supporting the delivery of high-quality research to join our Research and Action on Salt and Obesity Unit 🔗Apply here - qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-… @QMUL_WIPH @actiononsugar @actiononsalt
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Sonia Pombo RNutr retweeted
Obesity Health Alliance - Account Inactive@OHA_updates
7 Aug 2024
Great to meet the new Public Health & Prevention Minister @GwynneMP today with representatives of our alliance. It was fantastic to hear firm commitments to bringing forward evidence-based policies to address obesity and tackle preventable health harms.
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Sonia Pombo RNutr retweeted
House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity Committee
@HLFoodObesity
30 Jul 2024
The House of Lords special inquiry committee on Food, Diet and Obesity has been reappointed by the House for the 2024-2025 session on Monday 29 July, to complete its work by 30 November.
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Sonia Pombo RNutr retweeted
Action on Salt and Sugar@ActionSaltSugar
23 Jul 2024
Join us this year for #SugarAwarenessWeek 18th-24th November 2024. This year we're taking a closer look at the key sources of sugar in children's diets and what we can do about it. Keep an eye on our website for updates actiononsugar.org/sugar-awar…
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Check out details @QMUL launch event for their new East London Civic Action Network "Building Health Equity in East London" @QMUL_WIPH eventbrite.co.uk/e/building-… @

Building Health Equity in East London - East London Civic Action Network

Join us at the launch of the East London Civic Action Network to explore how we can collectively build health equity across East London.

eventbrite.co.uk
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Sonia Pombo RNutr retweeted
Centre for Food Policy@FoodPolicyCity
11 Jul 2024
Fresh on the back of the #generalection2024, @HenryDimbleby will outline what he thinks an incoming UK government should be doing now and in the next 5 years to improve #foodpolicy and transform our #foodsystems. #FoodThinkers, Weds 17 July city.ac.uk/news-and-events/e…
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Sonia Pombo RNutr retweeted
Department of Health and Social Care
@DHSCgovuk
11 Jul 2024
Prevention is better than cure. This government will shift the focus of healthcare from simply treating sickness to preventing it in the first place. On his first visit as Health Minister @GwynneMP met staff @QMULQuitSmoking who help smokers to quit for good. @towerhamletsnow
Health Minister Andrew Gwynne visits a stop smoking service in Tower Hamlets, East London

ALT Health Minister Andrew Gwynne visits a stop smoking service in Tower Hamlets, East London

Health Minister Andrew Gwynne visits a stop smoking service in Tower Hamlets, East London

ALT Health Minister Andrew Gwynne visits a stop smoking service in Tower Hamlets, East London

Health Minister Andrew Gwynne visits a stop smoking service in Tower Hamlets, East London

ALT Health Minister Andrew Gwynne visits a stop smoking service in Tower Hamlets, East London

Health Minister Andrew Gwynne visits a stop smoking service in Tower Hamlets, East London

ALT Health Minister Andrew Gwynne visits a stop smoking service in Tower Hamlets, East London

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Sonia Pombo RNutr retweeted
UK Prime Minister
@10DowningStreet
5 Jul 2024
Wes Streeting MP @wesstreeting has been appointed Secretary of State for Health and Social Care @DHSCgovuk.
Wes Streeting MP appointed Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.

ALT Wes Streeting MP appointed Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.

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Sonia Pombo RNutr retweeted
Department of Health and Social Care
@DHSCgovuk
9 Jul 2024
We welcome Andrew Gwynne MP @GwynneMP as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Prevention.
Andrew Gwynne MP appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department of Health and Social Care.

ALT Andrew Gwynne MP appointed as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department of Health and Social Care.

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Sonia Pombo RNutr retweeted
Polly Toynbee@pollytoynbee
5 Jul 2024
Here’s what @wesstreeting should do: Build new multi-disciplinary teams around GPs Major expansion of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Remake a public dental service Levies on junk food, salt and sugar THE ONLY WAY IS UP has the prescription: guardianbookshop.com/The-Onl…

UK Prime Minister
@10DowningStreet
5 Jul 2024
Wes Streeting MP @wesstreeting has been appointed Secretary of State for Health and Social Care @DHSCgovuk.
Wes Streeting MP appointed Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.

ALT Wes Streeting MP appointed Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.

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👏👏 Well said @OHA_updates @katfoodjenner Our next government must make health the easy choice thegrocer.co.uk/politics/our…

Our next government must make health the easy choice

Every government for decades has failed to take the necessary action to improve people's lives, says Katharine Jenner, director at the Obesity Health Alliance

thegrocer.co.uk
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Our research has been covered @BBCNews 👏bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c511… Bradford Council are collecting data on children's diets to better understand their community's needs We @QMUL @ActEarlyCities are also doing this in #TowerHamlets @TowerHamletsNow @THCitizens Details below 👇

Bradford Council collecting data to curb childhood obesity

One in three children in Bradford are overweight or obese by the time they leave primary school.

bbc.co.uk
Sonia Pombo RNutr@SPombo86
24 Jun 2024
Do you have a child aged 3-11 & live in #TowerHamlets? Take part in an online children’s food survey! Only 1 child per household - £15 for your time To take part visit bit.ly/4b9Q6ot @THInterFaith @NHS_ELFT @THCHS1 @StHildasEast @THCitizens @THGPCareGroup
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Do you have a child aged 3-11 & live in #TowerHamlets? Take part in an online children’s food survey! Only 1 child per household - £15 for your time To take part visit bit.ly/4b9Q6ot @THInterFaith @NHS_ELFT @THCHS1 @StHildasEast @THCitizens @THGPCareGroup
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Families from all backgrounds welcome! We want to best represent the beautiful diversity of Tower Hamlets community Any questions, please get in touch! s.pombo@qmul.ac.uk @QMUL_WIPH @ActEarlyCities @TH2GETHER @TowerHamletsSSN @katiejcole @TowerHamletsNow @HWTowerHamlets @eehnN2
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Thank you @QMUL_WIPH - it's great to feel valued and appreciated, but I couldn't do any of it without being part of an amazing team @KawtherH @_moniquetan @JingSongEpi @NourhanB_ and others!
Wolfson Institute of Population Health@QMUL_WIPH
24 Jun 2024
Many congratulations @SPombo86 @a_papamichail @sara_paparini @MeganClinch and more!
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