Industry views of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy: a thematic analysis of elite interviews with food and drink industry professionals, 2018–2020 by Jean Adams, Martin White, Harry Rutter, Richard Smith, Steven Cummins, Tarra L Penney, Hannah Forde, Cherry Law, Catrin P Jones, Dolly van Tulleken

“…The aim of this study, therefore, was to explore how senior food and drink industry professionals viewed the SDIL.Design We undertook a qualitative descriptive study using elite interviews. …”
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Beer Potomania: Why Initial Fluid Resuscitation May Be Harmful by Zhuo Lin Yu, Lisa Fisher

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Understanding why at-risk population segments do not seek care for tuberculosis: a precision public health approach in South India by Harkesh Dabas, Beena E Thomas, Sarah Helfinstein, Mokshada Jain, Hannah Kemp, Sema K Sgaier, Elisabeth Engl, Gayathri Natarajan, Prithivi Prakash, Jayabal Lavanya, Murugesan Jagadeesan, Rebekah Chang, Tichakunda Mangono, Shamim Mannan, Grace K Charles

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When a non-drinker continues to be a non-drinker during adolescence. A reply to Raninen et al by Karin Boson, Sabina Vlasman, Kristina Berglund

“…The shift from asking ‘why adolescents drink?’ to ‘why do they not drink?’ …”
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Rum, Gin and Maize: Deities and Ritual Change in the Gold Coast during the Atlantic Era (16th century to 1850) by Emmanuel Akyeampong, Samuel A. Ntewusu

“…Through food and drink, we analyze changing notions of spiritual efficacy and the ascendancy of war deities, and we interrogate how shifts in socio-political contexts aligned with those in the spiritual realm. …”
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Contribution à l’histoire de la boulangerie romaine : étude de « pains/galettes » découverts en Gaule by Andreas G. Heiss, Véronique Matterne, Nicolas Monteix, Margaux Tillier, Camille Noûs

“…In the same vein as the previous considerations, we follow the idea that a dish or a drink represent artefacts, in the current definition as objects “predominantly shaped by human action”. …”
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The complexity of caffeine's effects on regular coffee consumers by Mateja Lesar, Jakob Sajovic, Dušanka Novaković, Maša Primožič, Eva Vetrih, Martin Sajovic, Anja Žnidaršič, Peter Rogelj, Andreas Daffertshofer, Zoran Levnajić, Gorazd Drevenšek

“…Why does coffee wake us up? Is it because it contains caffeine, or because we are used to it waking us up after drinking it? …”
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COVID-19 – if the cure is worse than the disease. The Italian chaos by Giuseppe FERRARI

“…Why an healthcare system which has been defined as an “excellence” has run the risk to badly collapse? …”

The Poisson Extension of the Unrelated Question Model: Improving Surveys With Time-Constrained Questions on Sensitive Topics by Benedikt Iberl, Anesa Aljovic, Rolf Ulrich, Fabiola Reiber

“…The difference between prevalence estimates might be explainable by problems of the UQMs’ validity; we discuss possible causes for these problems, and why the UQMP or similar approaches can be valuable nonetheless. …”
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School food policy in secondary schools in England and its impact on adolescents’ diets and dental health: the FUEL multiple-methods study by Miranda Pallan, Marie Murphy, Breanna Morrison, Irina Pokhilenko, Alice Sitch, Emma Frew, Clare Rawdin, Rachel Adams, Ashley Adamson, Suzanne Bartington, Alexandra Dobell, Rhona Duff, Tania Griffin, Kiya Hurley, Emma Lancashire, Louise McLeman, Sandra Passmore, Vahid Ravaghi, Suzanne Spence, Peymane Adab

“…Plain language summary Why have we done this research? We wanted to find out how well secondary schools meet the school food standards in England and how these standards influence the dietary intake and dental health of pupils. …”
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