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| A M PrenticeSummaryAffiliation: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Country: UK Publications
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Fast foods, energy density and obesity: a possible mechanistic linkA M Prentice
MRC International Nutrition Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Obes Rev 4:187-94. 2003..Among regular consumers they are likely to result in the accidental consumption of excess energy and hence to promote weight gain and obesity...- Beyond body mass indexA M Prentice
MRC International Nutrition Group, Public Health Nutrition Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 49 51 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK
Obes Rev 2:141-7. 2001..We argue that BMI continues to serve well for many purposes, but that the time is now right to initiate a gradual evolution beyond BMI towards standards based on actual measurements of body fat mass... - Fat and energy needs of children in developing countriesA M Prentice
MRC International Nutrition Group, London, and MRC Human Nutrition Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Am J Clin Nutr 72:1253S-1265S. 2000..The effects of such low fat intakes, particularly in terms of immune function, require investigation... - Immune function in rural Gambian children is not related to season of birth, birth size, or maternal supplementation statusS E Moore
International Nutrition Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Am J Clin Nutr 74:840-7. 2001..Excess mortality begins after puberty and has a maximal odds ratio of >10 for deaths between ages 25 and 50 y... - Body fat reference curves for childrenH D McCarthy
Institute for Health Research and Policy, London Metropolitan University, London, UK
Int J Obes (Lond) 30:598-602. 2006..To refine the diagnosis of childhood obesity by creating new sex-specific centile curves for body fat and to base these references on a simple and affordable method that could be widely adopted in clinical practice and surveys... - Overeating: the health risksA M Prentice
Medical Research Council International Nutrition Group, Public Health Nutrition Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom
Obes Res 9:234S-238S. 2001..These represent key targets for the design of public health initiatives... 
Evolutionary origins of the obesity epidemic: natural selection of thrifty genes or genetic drift following predation release?A M Prentice
MRC International Nutrition Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Int J Obes (Lond) 32:1607-10. 2008..We conclude that, far from being time to call off the search, recently developed genetic and bioinformatic methods will soon provide a definitive resolution to this long-standing 'thrifty gene' controversy...
Early programming of adult diseases in resource poor countriesA M Prentice
MRC International Nutrition Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Arch Dis Child 90:429-32. 2005..This paper explores the importance of the "developmental origins of health and disease" hypothesis in resource poor countries...- Ethnic differences in the relationship between fasting leptin and BMI in childrenS E Moore
MRC International Nutrition Group, Public Health Nutrition Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 28:17-21. 2004..To compare the relationship between fasting serum leptin levels and body mass index (BMI) in children from different ethnic groups... - Obesity and its potential mechanistic basisA M Prentice
MRC International Nutrition Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Br Med Bull 60:51-67. 2001.... - Variability of appetite control mechanisms in response to 9 weeks of progressive overfeeding in humansS A Jebb
MRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge, UK
Int J Obes (Lond) 30:1160-2. 2006..The critical elements of this dysregulation are poorly understood. Most previous research into what regulates the intake side of the energy balance equation has been handicapped by the use of short-term within-day experimental tests... - Energy and fat intake in obese and lean children at varying risk of obesityA F McGloin
Northern Ireland Centre for Diet and Health, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northen Ireland, UK
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 26:200-7. 2002..5+/-7.5 vs 24.9+/-9.4% body fatness; P<0.05). There was a significant trend for increasing fatness as fat intake increased (P<0.05). CONCLUSION: Fat intake is related to body fatness in childhood... - Leptin does not respond to 48 h fat deposition or mobilization in womenP R Murgatroyd
MRC Dunn Clinical Nutrition Centre, Cambridge, UK
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 27:457-62. 2003..To test the hypothesis that acute responses of plasma leptin concentration to energy balance manipulation are mediated by fat flux... - Urbanization and obesity in The Gambia: a country in the early stages of the demographic transitionM Siervo
MRC Human Nutrition Research, Nutrition and Health Group, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NL, UK
Eur J Clin Nutr 60:455-63. 2006..To investigate the distribution of overweight and obesity and its relationship with socio-economic and behavioural factors in a developing-country population undergoing rapid nutritional transition... - A pilot study on body image, attractiveness and body size in Gambians living in an urban communityM Siervo
MRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, Cambridge, UK
Eat Weight Disord 11:100-9. 2006..We also looked at cross-cultural differences in body image and views on attractiveness between Gambians and Americans...