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Giles Yeo
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Giles Yeo
@GilesYeo
MBE; Professor @Cambridge_Uni @WolfsonCam, food intake & #obesity; Broadcaster; Author, #WhyCaloriesDontCount out now; on Instagram & Threads @gilesyeo
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    Giles Yeo
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    Jun 21, 2021
    Folks, my new book on #calories 'Why Calories Don't Count' 🍫 is out now! #WeEatFoodNotCalories Available at all good bookshops, or order here hyperurl.co/CaloriesDontCo…
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    Giles Yeo
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    Jun 15, 2022
    When I bought this bottle of wine 20yrs ago, I told myself I wouldn’t drink it until I became Professor. Today, I opened it! From Oct, I’m Professor of Molecular Metabolism @Cambridge_Uni Thanks to my wife for her unending support & all my friends & colleagues over the years🍾
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    Giles Yeo
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    Apr 13, 2023
    UK folks, super important. Photo ID will be required to vote for the next election, but University IDs won't work, risking the silencing of young voices. Students can now get a suitable photo ID for FREE from @nusuk 👇Please RT
    National Union of Students UK
    From nus.org.uk
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    Giles Yeo
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    Oct 9, 2020
    Some personal news folks. I have appointed an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the Queen’s Birthday 2020 Honours List, for services to ‘Research and Communication and Engagement’. Who'da thought eh?
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    Giles Yeo
    @GilesYeo
    Jun 9, 2024
    Oh man, I’m so so sad to hear the news about my friend #MichaelMosely. RIP my brother… Thoughts to Claire and the rest of his family
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    Giles Yeo
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    Nov 9, 2021
    So surreal to receive my #MBE from Prince William at Windsor today!
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    Giles Yeo
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    Jul 26, 2024
    Hey @StevenBartlett I’ve been on your pod & appreciate the varied guests and opinions you host… but please, please believe me when I say that this guy is truly dangerous, and a smear on the UK medical community
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    Steven Bartlett
    @StevenBartlett
    Jul 25, 2024
    Big pharma is covering up deaths? 🤯 In today’s episode of The Diary of a CEO, I sit down with @DrAseemMalhotra who is an award-winning cardiologist who believes statins (the number one drug prescribed for heart disease) are overprescribed and their benefits are exaggerated. In
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    Giles Yeo
    @GilesYeo
    Aug 12, 2019
    The VAST majority of post-doctoral scientists (these are folks that have spent many years earning a PhD in a specialized area..the definition of expert) don't earn £36K/yr. SHAME on you & the government for your idiocy & xenophobia. thesun.co.uk/news/9699349/m…
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    Giles Yeo
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    Jan 3, 2023
    Your annual reminder that detoxes are pseudoscience and don’t work.
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    Giles Yeo
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    Dec 1, 2022
    I came to give my last lecture of term to the 1st yr medics and vets @Cambridge_Uni and found this at the lectern. Made my day and brought a tear to my eye!
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    Giles Yeo
    @GilesYeo
    Jan 14, 2022
    👇🏼your annual reminder that your liver is a professional ‘detox’ organ. If that isn’t working, you need a hospital, not kale juice.
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    Giles Yeo
    @GilesYeo
    Jun 9, 2019
    I am very disappointed with this piece in @guardian #Languagematters. If you call some food ‘clean’ then other food is ‘dirty’. So by eating a certain food, suddenly I’m dirty or false. Food shaming is unhealthy and unhelpful. #cleaneating
    A dietitian's guide to 'clean eating': what it is and how to do it right
    From theguardian.com
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    Giles Yeo
    @GilesYeo
    Apr 8, 2019
    Because obesity is not a choice and doctors are also human beings. It is like asking why doctors get cancer.
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    Ken D Berry MD
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    Apr 5, 2019
    Why are there so many FAT Doctors??? "According to the 2007 Physicians Health Study, 40% of the 19 000 doctors were overweight and 23% were obese." ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
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    Giles Yeo
    @GilesYeo
    Aug 6, 2019
    No words. Let me tell you what would save the NHS money, if we stopped treating sick people completely. Let them get picked off by the hyenas. OBESITY IS NOT A CHOICE.
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    Michael Buerk suggests NHS let obese people die early to save money
    The 73-year-old British broadcaster said people should be free to overindulge and, if they die, they should be seen as weak rather than medically ill.