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Fat content of chips, quality of frying fat and deep-frying practices in New Zealand fast food outletsJudith Morley-John
Department of Community Health, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Aust N Z J Public Health 26:101-6. 2002..CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS: Deep frying practices could be improved through operator training and certification options. Even a small decrease in the mean fat content of chips would reduce the obesogenic impact of this popular food...- High childhood obesity in an Australian populationAndrea M Sanigorski
School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University, 1 Gheringhap Street, Geelong, Victoria 3220 Australia
Obesity (Silver Spring) 15:1908-12. 2007..The objective was to determine the prevalences of overweight and obesity in regional Australian children and to examine the association between BMI and indicators of socioeconomic status (SES)... 
The 'Sydney Principles' for reducing the commercial promotion of foods and beverages to childrenBoyd Swinburn
WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125, Australia
Public Health Nutr 11:881-6. 2008..The Sydney Principles should guide the formation of an International Code on Food and Beverage Marketing to Children...
Cost-effectiveness of active transport for primary school children - Walking School Bus programMarjory Moodie
Deakin Health Economics, Public Health Research Evaluation and Policy Cluster, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125, Australia
Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 6:63. 2009..abstract:..- Process evaluation of a community-based adolescent obesity prevention project in TongaKalesita F Fotu
School of Public Health, Fiji School of Medicine, Fiji
BMC Public Health 11:284. 2011..This paper reflects on the process evaluation for MYP, against a set of Best Practice Principles for community-based obesity prevention... - The development of a network for community-based obesity prevention: the CO-OPS CollaborationSteven Allender
World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia
BMC Public Health 11:132. 2011..abstract:.. - An exploratory cluster randomised controlled trial of knowledge translation strategies to support evidence-informed decision-making in local governments (The KT4LG study)Elizabeth Waters
Jack Brockhoff Child Health and Wellbeing Program, McCaughey Centre Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
BMC Public Health 11:34. 2011.... - Healthy eating and obesity prevention for preschoolers: a randomised controlled trialHelen Skouteris
School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
BMC Public Health 10:220. 2010.... - Assessing cost-effectiveness in obesity (ACE-obesity): an overview of the ACE approach, economic methods and cost resultsRob Carter
Deakin Health Economics, Public Health Research Evaluation and Policy Cluster, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125, Australia
BMC Public Health 9:419. 2009..In this paper, we report on the cost results and associated methods together with the innovative approach to priority setting that underpins the ACE-Obesity study... - Scaling up community-based obesity prevention in Australia: background and evaluation design of the Health Promoting Communities: Being Active Eating Well initiativeAndrea M de Silva-Sanigorski
WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia 3217
BMC Public Health 10:65. 2010..This paper describes the design of the evaluation of the five primary care partnership-based initiatives in the 'Go for your life' Health Promoting Communities: Being Active Eating Well (HPC:BAEW) initiative... - Evaluation of the childhood obesity prevention program Kids--'Go for your life'Andrea de Silva-Sanigorski
The McCaughey Centre, Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
BMC Public Health 10:288. 2010..Once the K-GFYL program 'criteria' are reached the school/service is assessed and 'awarded'. This paper describes the design of the evaluation of the statewide K-GFYL intervention program... - Moving beyond 'rates, roads and rubbish': How do local governments make choices about healthy public policy to prevent obesity?Steven Allender
Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Aust New Zealand Health Policy 6:20. 2009.... - Obesity prevention: the role of policies, laws and regulationsBoyd A Swinburn
WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Melbourne, 3125, Australia
Aust New Zealand Health Policy 5:12. 2008..A political willingness to use policy instruments to drive change will probably be an early hallmark of successful obesity prevention... - Estimating the effects of energy imbalance on changes in body weight in childrenBoyd A Swinburn
School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125, Australia
Am J Clin Nutr 83:859-63. 2006..Estimating changes in weight from changes in energy balance is important for predicting the effect of obesity prevention interventions... - Effects of TV time and other sedentary pursuitsB Swinburn
School of Exercise and Nutrition, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia
Int J Obes (Lond) 32:S132-6. 2008..Regulations to reduce the heavy marketing of energy dense foods and beverages on TV may be the most effective public health measure available to minimize the impact of TV viewing on unhealthy weight gain... - Estimating the changes in energy flux that characterize the rise in obesity prevalenceBoyd A Swinburn
WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention, Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing, and Behavioural Sciences, Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Am J Clin Nutr 89:1723-8. 2009.... - The Pacific OPIC Project (Obesity Prevention in Communities) -- objectives and designsBoyd Swinburn
School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125, Australia
Pac Health Dialog 14:139-46. 2007.... - Increased food energy supply is more than sufficient to explain the US epidemic of obesityBoyd Swinburn
Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
Am J Clin Nutr 90:1453-6. 2009..The major drivers of the obesity epidemic are much debated and have considerable policy importance for the population-wide prevention of obesity... - The global obesity pandemic: shaped by global drivers and local environmentsBoyd A Swinburn
WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention, Deakin University, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
Lancet 378:804-14. 2011..This absence increases the urgency for evidence-creating policy action, with a priority on reduction of the supply-side drivers... - The Pacific Obesity Prevention in Communities project: project overview and methodsB A Swinburn
WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia
Obes Rev 12:3-11. 2011.... - Obesity prevention programs demand high-quality evaluationsBoyd Swinburn
WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention, Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing, and Behavioural Sciences, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria
Aust N Z J Public Health 31:305-7. 2007..There is an important opportunity to build collaborative mechanisms across community-based obesity prevention sites to enhance the program and evaluation quality and to accelerate knowledge translation into practice and policy... - Utility-based quality of life of overweight and obese adolescentsCatherine L Keating
Deakin Health Economics, Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Value Health 14:752-8. 2011..To explore the relationship between overweight/obesity and utility in adolescents... - Association between the family environment and television viewing in Australian childrenMoniek van Zutphen
School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
J Paediatr Child Health 43:458-63. 2007..To describe the time children spend watching television (TV) and to assess associations between TV viewing time, the family environment and weight status... - Association of key foods and beverages with obesity in Australian schoolchildrenAndrea M Sanigorski
School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University, 1 Gheringhap Street, Geelong, Victoria 3220, Australia
Public Health Nutr 10:152-7. 2007..To examine the pattern of intake of key foods and beverages of children aged 4-12 years and the association with weight status... - The cost-effectiveness of Australia's Active After-School Communities programMarjory L Moodie
Deakin Health Economics, Public Health Research Evaluation and Policy Cluster, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia
Obesity (Silver Spring) 18:1585-92. 2010..To improve its cost-effectiveness credentials as an obesity prevention measure, a reduction in costs needs to be coupled with increases in the number of participating children and the amount of physical activity undertaken... - The health-related quality of life of overweight and obese adolescents--a study measuring body mass index and adolescent-reported perceptionsCatherine L Keating
Deakin Health Economics, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria, 3125, Australia
Int J Pediatr Obes 6:434-41. 2011.... - The process evaluation of It's Your Move!, an Australian adolescent community-based obesity prevention projectLouise B Mathews
School of Education, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria 3217, Australia
BMC Public Health 10:448. 2010.... - Childhood obesity--a sign of commercial success, but a market failureRob Moodie
Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Int J Pediatr Obes 1:133-8. 2006..We argue that significant government intervention is needed to correct this market failure, as has been done for other major health problems... - Screen time and physical activity behaviours are associated with health-related quality of life in Australian adolescentsKathleen E Lacy
WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention, Deakin University, Geelong Waterfront Campus, 1 Gheringhap Street, Geelong, Vic, 3220, Australia
Qual Life Res 21:1085-99. 2012..To explore the cross-sectional relationships between health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and physical activity (PA) behaviours and screen-based media (SBM) use among a sample of Australian adolescents... - A prospective study of diet quality and mental health in adolescentsFelice N Jacka
Barwon Psychiatric Research Unit, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
PLoS ONE 6:e24805. 2011..However, there are no existing prospective studies of this association in adolescents, the onset period of most disorders, limiting inferences regarding possible causal relationships... - Calibration and reliability of a school food checklist: a new tool for assessing school food and beverage consumptionPeter J Kremer
Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research, Deakin University, Waterfront Campus, Gheringhap Street, Geelong, Australia
Asia Pac J Clin Nutr 15:465-73. 2006..Inter-recorder reliability was good (kappa 0.51). The SFC was designed to measure energy from food and beverages in schools. It has good accuracy and reliability and the revised version should further improve accuracy of the instrument... - Reducing obesity in early childhood: results from Romp & Chomp, an Australian community-wide intervention programAndrea M de Silva-Sanigorski
WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention Deakin University Geelong Australia
Am J Clin Nutr 91:831-40. 2010..There is growing evidence that community-based interventions can reduce childhood obesity in older children... - Evidence-informed process to identify policies that will promote a healthy food environment in the Pacific IslandsWendy Snowdon
WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention, Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Public Health Nutr 13:886-92. 2010..To implement a systematic evidence-informed process to enable Fiji and Tonga to identify the most feasible and targeted policy interventions which would have most impact on diet-related non-communicable diseases... - Problem and solution trees: a practical approach for identifying potential interventions to improve population nutritionWendy Snowdon
Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria 3125, Australia
Health Promot Int 23:345-53. 2008..Problem trees are a relatively simple tool to implement, easy to adapt to differing needs, can generate a wealth of information and can be more widely used... - Obesity and undernutrition in sub-Saharan African immigrant and refugee children in Victoria, AustraliaAndre M N Renzaho
School of Health and Social Development, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Victoria, Australia
Asia Pac J Clin Nutr 15:482-90. 2006..In conclusion, obesity and overweight are very prevalent in SSA migrant children and undernutrition, especially wasting, was also not uncommon in this target group... - The role of a Prospective Public Health Intervention Study Register in building public health evidence: proposal for content and useElizabeth Waters
Cochrane Health Promotion and Public Health Field, VicHealth, 15 31 Pelham Street PO Box 154, Carlton South, Melbourne, VIC 3053, Australia
J Public Health (Oxf) 29:322-7. 2007..It is argued that this initiative has the potential to facilitate increased global cooperation and efficiency in the production of high quality evidence and ultimately in improved health outcomes for populations... - Sustaining dietary changes for preventing obesity and diabetes: lessons learned from the successes of other epidemic control programsBoyd Swinburn
School of Health Sciences, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
Asia Pac J Clin Nutr 11:S598-606. 2002..The barriers for preventing obesity/diabetes are no less formidable, but the strategies for surmounting them have been well tested in other epidemics... - The runaway weight gain train: too many accelerators, not enough brakesBoyd Swinburn
School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Melbourne, Victoria 3125, Australia
BMJ 329:736-9. 2004 - Double disadvantage: the influence of ethnicity over socioeconomic position on childhood overweight and obesity: findings from an inner urban population of primary school childrenElizabeth Waters
School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Int J Pediatr Obes 3:196-204. 2008..To examine the relationship between overweight/obesity in children, socioeconomic status and ethnicity/cultural background... - Effectiveness of prevention programmes for obesity and chronic diseases among immigrants to developed countries - a systematic reviewAndre M N Renzaho
WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention and Related Research and Training, Public Health Research, Evaluation and Policy Cluster, Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125, Australia
Public Health Nutr 13:438-50. 2010..To determine whether interventions tailored specifically to particular immigrant groups from developing to developed countries decrease the risk of obesity and obesity-related diseases... - Impact of front-of-pack 'traffic-light' nutrition labelling on consumer food purchases in the UKGary Sacks
School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Health Promot Int 24:344-52. 2009..Further research on the influence of nutrition signposting will be needed before this labelling format can be considered a promising public health intervention... - The role of cultural values and religion on views of body size and eating practices among adolescents from Fiji, Tonga, and AustraliaMarita P McCabe
School of Psychology, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
Br J Health Psychol 18:383-94. 2013..This study investigated cultural values related to body image and eating practices in Western and non-Western societies... - Healthcare utilization and costs in severely obese subjects before bariatric surgeryCatherine L Keating
Deakin Health Economics, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
Obesity (Silver Spring) 20:2412-9. 2012..Overall, healthcare costs in the severely obese population were more than double those incurred by the general population... - Regulation to create environments conducive to physical activity: understanding the barriers and facilitators at the Australian state government levelJane Shill
World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention, Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
PLoS ONE 7:e42831. 2012..This study sought to identify potential policy/regulatory interventions targeting PA environments, and barriers/facilitators to their implementation at the Australian state/territory government level... - Assessing the intake of obesity-related foods and beverages in young children: comparison of a simple population survey with 24 hr-recallCheryl Ann Bennett
WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention, Deakin University, Geelong 3217, Australia
Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 6:71. 2009..abstract:.. - Increasing community capacity to prevent childhood obesity: challenges, lessons learned and results from the Romp & Chomp interventionFlorentine P de Groot
WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention, Deakin University, 1 Gheringhap Street, Geelong, Victoria 3220, Australia
BMC Public Health 10:522. 2010.... - Two important exceptions to the relationship between energy density and fat content: foods with reduced-fat claims and high-fat vegetable-based dishesHelen A La Fontaine
School of Health Sciences, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Melbourne, Victoria 3125, Australia
Public Health Nutr 7:563-8. 2004..To test the hypothesis that many foods with reduced-fat (RF) claims are relatively energy-dense and that high-fat (HF) vegetable-based dishes are relatively energy-dilute... - Obesity prevention in children and adolescentsBoyd Swinburn
School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Melbourne 3125, Australia
Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am 18:209-23. 2009..A positive public health approach encompassing environmental, regulatory, sociocultural, and educational strategies offer the best chance of reducing obesity without increasing disordered eating patterns... - A systematic policy approach to changing the food system and physical activity environments to prevent obesityGary Sacks
School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University, Burwood, Australia
Aust New Zealand Health Policy 5:13. 2008..It also serves to highlight the need for a coordinated approach to policy development and implementation across all levels of government in order to ensure complementary policy action... - The pursuit of muscularity among adolescent boys in Fiji and TongaLina A Ricciardelli
School of Psychology, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125, Australia
Body Image 4:361-71. 2007..Boys' reasons for pursing muscularity included the attainment of strength and fitness, sporting performance, physical work, dominance, and health. These findings are examined in relation to previous research with Western adolescent boys... - School canteens: using ripples to create a wave of healthy eatingA Colin Bell
Med J Aust 183:5-6. 2005 - Long-term effects of a reduced fat diet intervention on cardiovascular disease risk factors in individuals with glucose intoleranceSarah J Ley
Department of Community Health, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand
Diabetes Res Clin Pract 63:103-12. 2004....