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Award winning journo Health & Wellness Editor, Daily Mail US Former Deputy Health Editor MoS Editor @notplantbased Author of Eat It Anyway @eviesimm on insta

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Eve Simmons
9 months
Here goes! This time last year my husband of six months & partner of 9 years said he wanted out. I was, predictably, a total mess. BUT said mess taught me very important lessons about marriage, divorce, financial independence etc 1/2
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Oh and there’s also a doubling of something odd called ‘scromiting’. That’s screaming and vomiting which lasts for weeks on end, with no treatment. A result of long term use of high potency cannabis.
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@NellFrizzell knowledge of how terrible your eyesight is, and adjustments made accordingly (i.e there is a dog you like over there but I know you can't see it so I'll describe to you in great detail)
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2 years
Legalising pot seems like a common sense policy but in fact, it’s a public health disaster that the MJ industry is doing its darnedest to cover up. totally unwoke, I know, but facts are facts. My report from sunny (smelly) LA here
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5 years
The woman who invented ‘I Quit Sugar’ had an eating disorder for a decade. Struggled writing this as it feels v uncomfortable to expose another woman but I felt someone has to in aid of the thousands of followers who replicate her eating 1/2
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7 years
@GraceFVictory @maxineali_ Also the term ‘body positive’ is about loving and appreciating your NATURAL body. NOT sculpting it into something unattainable
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Eve Simmons
3 years
If you shout loud enough - from the proverbial rooftops - someone eventually starts to listen. Astonishing achievement from @jowhiley @samcarlisle . Hopefully, one day, the Govt will work injustice out before it's pointed out by celebrities
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Eve Simmons
6 years
Can't quite believe this but I will be on @BBCWomansHour tomorrow to chat busting food anxiety. As far as mum is concerned, I've made it.
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Eve Simmons
3 years
In case anyone is interested, I no longer fancy Orlando Bloom
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Eve Simmons
6 years
This new year, I pledge to be more Sandra Oh
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6 years
Thank you to all my Team(s)
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Eve Simmons
4 years
This is almost guaranteed to make many perfectly nice people pretty mad at me. But healthcare professionals must put patients first, not profit (or how good they look in gym gear). Willing to say what you were all thinking 🤷🏻‍♀️ #notspon
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Eve Simmons
3 years
dear young girls everywhere: please, for the love of god, don't start working out three times a day.
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Adele Global
3 years
In her latest British Vogue interview, Adele talks about her workout habits and why she works out. “It was because of my anxiety. Working out, I would just feel better. It was never about losing weight, it was always about becoming strong”
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Eve Simmons
5 years
Call me shaming, unsympathetic & cruel if you like, but I won’t stop until influencers start taking responsibility for this never-ending tirade of ‘healthy eating’ (see:diet) quackery
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Eve Simmons
5 years
In the past 2 days I’ve received some of the most disgusting, abusive comments I have ever read. Why? BC I exposed a popular diet mantra for what it was: pseudoscientific BS founded out of one woman’s desire to grasp control of the uncontrollable. Thoughts below
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Eve Simmons
3 years
Is #ZeroCovid really a pipe dream fantasy? @devisridhar makes a convincing argument on podcast this weekend. Must admit I’m starting to believe it might be what we need to get us out of this mess good and proper
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Eve Simmons
5 years
Sometimes, life stops being cruel for a second and offers you something spectacular. I got engaged and couldn’t be happier tbh
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Eve Simmons
5 years
PSA: calling superfoods 'mesonutrients' will not change the scientific fact that no food is 'super'. Now run along inane press release
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Eve Simmons
4 years
I think the @bbcpress should pay the extra funds needed to keep @beatED ’s phone lines operating for longer than usual. It’s not an exaggeration to say this helpline is life saving
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Beat
4 years
We strongly discourage anyone with an #eatingdisorder to watch the BBC2 programme The Restaurant that Burns Off Calories airing tonight. We’re keeping our online support group open 3 hours longer & you can contact us by DM on Twitter if you need support
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Eve Simmons
4 years
people die from eating disorders. people die from eating disorders. people die from eating disorders (and one more time for the people watching Channel 5) people die from eating disorders.
@JeremyVineOn5
Jeremy Vine & Storm Huntley on 5
4 years
Should schools weigh pupils to make sure they shift the pounds they've put on during the lockdown? Health experts want two weigh-ins in September and then in the spring to keep kids on track. But could this just create a generation of calorie counters? #JeremyVine
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Eve Simmons
7 years
literally the only teen mag trying to do something different/positive 😞
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Eve Simmons
4 years
A national pandemic does not give you free license to fat-shame and spread scaremongering propaganda that incites distorted views about food. Even if you are a ‘heart doctor’
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Eve Simmons
2 years
love living in a world where ppl think writing something they disagree with entitles them to send you online abuse 👍
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Eve Simmons
5 years
I’m fed up of hearing ‘off the record’ of wellness bloggers who push out pics of perfectly lit vegetables in the name of ‘health’ whilst hiding their own messed up eating problems
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Eve Simmons
2 years
Doctors out here have told me they’re seeing cases of cannabis poisoning most days - it is the most common form of any type of poisoning in adolescents in California.
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Eve Simmons
4 years
To all the diet zealots shamelessly using this global tragedy to push their warped ideas about food, read this, shut up and eat a bloody biscuit
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Eve Simmons
4 years
PLEASE can no one watch this utterly irresponsible piece of scraping the barrel crap television
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Eve Simmons
5 years
Of course there’s absolutely no shame in any mental health problem, and speaking as a survivor of one, it would serve our health far better if these people would just be honest about their real problems rather than masking them with pseudoscientific food rules
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Eve Simmons
1 year
Took on one of the most controversial treatments in psychiatry this week: ECT. Despite the terrifying images, I think my conclusion is, we’re actually not giving it enough…
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Eve Simmons
5 years
Fed up of supposedly 'authentic' celebs 'coming out' about depression/anxiety/panic attacks but hiding an eating disorder like it's some sordid secret. Why? Perhaps it's something to do with their back catalogue of healthy eating (restrictive) cookbooks...
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Eve Simmons
6 years
when all your loud-mouthed activism finally pays off. Thank you @jo_elvin for making our dreams come true. Only in tomorrow’s Mail on Sunday 🤯
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Eve Simmons
5 years
A classic celebrity response - ‘I was just talking about ME and MY food choices’. Well, I’m afraid it stops being that simple as soon as your following reaches 100k (or even 50 tbf)
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Eve Simmons
7 years
Thank you @bbcthree for letting me defend #ToTheBone when no one else seems to be doing so. @martinoxon @lilycollins
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Eve Simmons
2 years
Two days a go I was outside a children’s gymnastics centre watching my 2 y/o niece do a class and the smell of weed was stifling
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Eve Simmons
4 years
Look I get that a lack of privacy is horrible but if I read one more tweet accusing THE MEDIA (caps) I think I’ll eat my newspaper. We are not all heartless devils. We report facts that are in the public interest & let’s be honest you all end up talking about it at dinner parties
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Eve Simmons
4 years
If I had as much money as @jamescracknell , I'd pay him and every other celebrity to stop giving health recommendations in interviews. This is the worst yet, IMO
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Eve Simmons
5 years
my darling girl @stephiblackwell chatting openly about the illness no one wants to talk about is a lovely reminder that some human beings aren't narcissistic politicians and are quite wonderful actually @reallorraine
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Eve Simmons
5 years
FYI influencers no one every asked you to do that 'job'. You're not gifting us anything with your narcissism. I'm not #blessed to read 200 word captions about your holibobs. And I don't care how much you paid for an SLR to bestow upon us pics of your ass crack. THANKS BYE
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Eve Simmons
7 years
Gone & got my own column in the #mailonsunday 😉
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Eve Simmons
5 years
@tash_wynarczyk @jellymalin my bf says the same when I eat raisins out of those little weird cardboard boxes with the murdery girl on the front
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Eve Simmons
5 years
If we spoke about eating disorders with the same candid honesty we do depression/anxiety, perhaps 1000s more would ask for help. I can’t thank #gbbo ’s Steph enough for speaking out about hers in aid of the rest of us. Take note celebrities #authenticself
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Eve Simmons
4 years
Oh thank god
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Eve Simmons
2 years
Are you reading @SadiqKhan
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Eve Simmons
5 years
Anyway I’m at the @afoodfestival enjoying sugar-laden cookie dough ice cream so I *think* we all know who’s winning
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Eve Simmons
4 years
For months I’ve considered writing about this, but worried ppl would consider it a sign of weakness. Then I remembered the plan I’ve stuck to all along: if reading this would’ve made 22 y/o me less wretched/desperate/alone, I should probably talk about it
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Eve Simmons
4 years
I’d like to know the names of the medical professionals endorsing this incredibly concerning starvation programme
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Eve Simmons
6 years
there's something wrong when privileged celebrity chefs who are m8s with David Cameron are informing public health policy rather than QUALIFIED professionals
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Eve Simmons
3 years
Looking to speak to a carer/health worker who would be willing to walk out of their job if forced to have the jab. In the interest of exploring the repercussions of this no jab/no job policy. They can be Anon. Please DM or tweet me!
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Eve Simmons
6 years
Thank you to the fabulous @reallorraine for having me round for a cuppa to talk food fads and biscuits 💕
@lorraine
Lorraine
6 years
'I want people to just eat and enjoy eating.' For author @EveSimmns , dieting led to an unhealthy relationship with food and eventually she developed anorexia. Eve has now written a book about her own experience in the hope of discouraging fad diets. #Lorraine
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Eve Simmons
3 years
It seems like a particularly apt time to call on social media influencers to take responsibility for their part in the epidemic of mentally ill young people (especially girls). It is not empowering/feminist if other women are suffering because of it.
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Eve Simmons
6 years
what about adverts for non-food slimfast shakes and meal replacement programmes flaunting unattainable bodies in bikinis? 🤔 They're fine apparently
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James A Wong
6 years
Oh! ‘Junk’ food ads are to be banned on the tube. Whether this will apply to stuff like organic, superfood energy balls made with just 5 ingredients (but still sky high in fat and sugar), remains to be seen. #WatchThisSpace
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Eve Simmons
3 years
who the f**k cares
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Eve Simmons
6 years
Funnily enough, I - an EATING DISORDERS campaigner - am not all that interested in sampling your ‘Slim Me Tea’. READ MY WEBSITE FFS
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Eve Simmons
7 years
Instead of shaming people for the stuff they feed their kids, give them more money/time/better housing so that they can afford the fucking humous you recommend @PHE_uk
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Eve Simmons
6 years
It's rare, but sometimes in life, things do work out
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Eve Simmons
6 years
Really appreciate the shout out in this, but can I reiterate that this book is opposite end of the spectrum to ours. Ours is a safe place for people with eating disorders, which this book quite clearly is not.
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Dr Zoe Harcombe, PhD
6 years
Oops - sorry about the link - hope this is still open view:
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Eve Simmons
2 years
Landed in the UK to find I’m being burned at the stake! Ppl rly hate women journos ey. While i accept healthy criticism of any piece (journos have limited space and are always writing with their newspaper audience in mind so the narrative will never be to everyone’s taste…) 1/3
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Eve Simmons
6 years
Doctors receive less than 2 hours training about eating disorders over the course of six years. No wonder mine told me to 'drink chocolate milkshakes' @beatED
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Eve Simmons
6 years
how to have an eating disorder (on a plane) by amelia freer
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Eve Simmons
5 years
SUGAR ADDICTION IS A THING!!!!!!!!! (said no credible science expert ever)
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Barney Calman
5 years
This is literally what happens inside your body when you eat a biscuit.
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Eve Simmons
2 years
Contractions hurting? Why not rub an old leaf on your foot? Or we could research effective evidence-based treatments for pregnant women, rather than fobbing them off with hippy tosh. Thanks for highlighting @JamesTitcombe @catherineroyuk
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Eve Simmons
4 years
in today's 'what is wrong with people' news: a public health conference hosting a session entitled 'managing EATING DISORDERS through a KETOGENIC diet'. Honestly who is coming up with this crap
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Public Health Collaboration
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Here we go, the speaker schedule for #PHCvcon2020 !!! If you haven't already be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel and the "Premieres" of all the talk will appear in your feed 🙂📺👍
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Eve Simmons
5 years
Yes, we're in the midst of an anorexia crisis. But blaming social media lets the unforgivable faults with the system get off scot-free. My investigation for TMoS (forgive the apprentice-final-three-candidate pic)
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Eve Simmons
5 years
Also it wasn’t just about choices. It was statements about foods being good or bad/naughty/guilt free/refined sugar free/free of ‘nasties’ etc etc
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Eve Simmons
2 years
Influencers like Ella didn't mean any harm. But failing to acknowledge the stories of people like me, who feel her diet advice contributed to our #eatingdisorders , is hurtful. And in this era of reflection on past errors, now is perhaps the perfect time.
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Eve Simmons
6 years
OR put narcissistic, bullish TV health 'gurus' in a box, shut it, lock it, and stick the key up a porcupine's arse.
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Eve Simmons
4 years
My first meal out during AN treatment was for my boyfriend's 23rd birthday. I had to fight with every cell to steer my brain away from predicting how much each course would 'cost' me, calories-wise. My boyfriend's words helped: 'you don't know, so what's the point in guessing?'
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Eve Simmons
2 years
Also mad to me that ppl seem to be implying I’ve ‘made stuff up’ given that my report was based on countless published studies, metaanalyses and quotes from doctors working on the front line. Tbh this is better quality evidence than what health claims related to CBD are based on
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Eve Simmons
4 years
A new low for insta influencers everyone. Any other deadly illnesses u wanna take a pop at for 'likes'? What part of 'eating disorders kill people' don't these idiots understand? lol that I was considering featuring his new book on our pages @jamessmithPT_
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Eve Simmons
4 years
Literally what are you on about
@zoeharcombe
Dr Zoe Harcombe, PhD
4 years
Liver vs apple for essential nutrients - compared for 100 calories, not 100g, to be as favourable as possible to the apple. I'd rather eat the apple, but I don't kid myself that it's healthier.
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Eve Simmons
4 years
Without the honesty of wonder women like ⁦ @EJWoolf ⁩, the truth about what extreme diets - and eating disorders - do to your body, goes undiscussed, putting thousands more at risk. Thank you mummy (!) Emma for doing this with us ❤️
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Eve Simmons
4 years
How NOT to write about ‘healthy lifestyles’ demonstrated fabulously by @thetimes
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Eve Simmons
4 years
@fredsirieix1 I think your reply is both irresponsible and appalling, and laughs in the face of the mental illness with the highest mortality rate. I hope to god no one you know suffers and eating disorder Fred - and you never have to find out for yourself how truly dangerous this sh*t is
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Eve Simmons
4 years
Are oven chips to blame for our rise in eating disorders? Of course not - and the mere suggestion tells us even the professionals don’t understand what it’s like to live with this disease
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Eve Simmons
2 years
Breast cancer prevention may seem like a sensible focus for research, but the truth is, most of it is down to luck. The ever-brilliant @Liz_ORiordan explains why a genetic test to spot your risk might end up doing more harm than good
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Eve Simmons
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I love a good BBC doc. But the last few on antidepressants have been irresponsible & potentially harmful to ppl who rely on these lifesaving drugs to get through the day (I’ve been one of them)
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Eve Simmons
2 years
Dr Hilary Jones says people with anorexia don't go to restaurants. Jesus H Christ
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Eve Simmons
6 years
*deep breath* Anorexia doesn't just disappear. It STILL hasn't for me, so naturally, I wrote about it on the internet.
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Eve Simmons
4 years
Why eating disorders remain the Cinderella of mental illness is beyond me. They are potentially fatal - the only MH problem that directly kills
@TheBJPsych
BJPsych Journals
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"Anorexia nervosa affects most organ systems, with 80% suffering from #cardiovascular complications." Read the #BJPsych systematic review & meta-analysis aiming to define echocardiographic abnormalities in #anorexianervosa . 👉 @CambUP_Psych @rcpsychEDFac
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Eve Simmons
7 years
doctor doesn't = dietitian, guys
@bmj_latest
The BMJ
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"Until med students get more nutrition training I suggest drs refer patients to dietitians for individualised evidenced based dietary advice" #BMJresponse
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Eve Simmons
6 years
HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY TO US (still expecting to wake up from this ridiculousness any day now) 💕💅🏻
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Eve Simmons
6 years
A man, telling a professional woman that he knows her profession better than she does? How very out of the ordinary
@Dr_Ellie
Dr Ellie
6 years
Worth reading this thread in which the deputy leader of the Labour Party tells me what I should know.
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Eve Simmons
6 years
This thread is a thing of beauty. Thank goodness for @BootstrapCook
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4 years
why are the guardian publishing this crap
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6 years
Seems some become health experts simply by calling themselves ‘health experts’. Gonna start introducing myself as Madonna & see what happens
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4 years
Rly wish my all time favourite heroes would stop going on my all time favourite podcast & ruining their facade of intelligence by spouting totally unscientific BS about how carbs are bad for you @DavidLammy think before u casual keto-plug to millions of vulnerable listeners
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