Research needs on food marketing to children. Report of the StanMark projectT Lobstein
International Association for the Study of Obesity, London, UK
Appetite 62:185-6. 2013
..The paper highlights the need for research which can directly support policy-making and which can evaluate its effectiveness...
Research for food and health in Europe: themes, needs and proposalsMark McCarthy
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Health Res Policy Syst 9:37. 2011
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- Evidence-based development of school-based and family-involved prevention of overweight across Europe: the ENERGY-project's design and conceptual framework
Johannes Brug
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
BMC Public Health 10:276. 2010
..Schools are an important setting for health promotion in this age group, but school-based interventions mostly fail to target and involve the family environment...
- Maternal and child obesity: some policy challenges
Tim Lobstein
International Association for the Study of Obesity, 12 Roger Street, London WC1N 2JU, UK
Proc Nutr Soc 70:506-13. 2011
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- International moves to strengthen food policies
T Lobstein
International Association for the Study of Obesity, London, UK
Proc Nutr Soc 68:221-4. 2009
..By improving child health, improvements can be expected in the health of future generations...
- Child obesity: what can be done and who will do it?
Tim Lobstein
International Obesity TaskForce of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, 231 North Gower Street, London NW1 2NR, UK
Proc Nutr Soc 67:301-6. 2008
..Alliances of public health interests can help to create that political support and promote health-enhancing environments...
- Defining and labelling 'healthy' and 'unhealthy' food
T Lobstein
1International Association for the Study of Obesity, 231 North Gower Street, London NW1 2NR, UK
Public Health Nutr 12:331-40. 2009
..To consider the use of systematic methods for categorising foods according to their nutritional quality ('nutrient profiling') as a strategy for promoting public health through better dietary choices...
Obesity in children and young people: a crisis in public healthT Lobstein
IASO International Obesity TaskForce, 231 North Gower Street, London NW1 2NS, UK
Obes Rev 5:4-104. 2004
- Extended international (IOTF) body mass index cut-offs for thinness, overweight and obesity
T J Cole
MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK
Pediatr Obes 7:284-94. 2012
..5, 25 and 30 kg m(-2)) to child centiles, which are averaged across the countries. Unlike other BMI references, e.g. the World Health Organization (WHO) standard, these cut-offs cannot be expressed as centiles (e.g. 85th)...
- Policies to prevent childhood obesity in the European Union
T Lobstein
Childhood Obesity Working Group of the International Obesity TaskForce, London, UK
Eur J Public Health 15:576-9. 2005
..The proposals are reported in the present paper...
- Regulating the commercial promotion of food to children: a survey of actions worldwide
C Hawkes
Consulting Services, Food and Nutrition Policy, London, UK
Int J Pediatr Obes 6:83-94. 2011
..To describe the global regulatory environment around food marketing to children in 2009 and to identify changes in this environment since 2006...
- Prevalence of overweight among children in Europe
T Lobstein
International Obesity Task Force, London, UK
Obes Rev 4:195-200. 2003
..A tendency for a higher prevalence of overweight among children in western and especially southern Europe is shown and some possible reasons for this are discussed...
- Evidence of a possible link between obesogenic food advertising and child overweight
T Lobstein
International Obesity TaskForce, London, UK
Obes Rev 6:203-8. 2005
..Furthermore, the content of the advertising appears to have a specific effect. The findings justify the need for taking precautionary measures to reduce children's exposure to obesogenic marketing practices...
