Body mass index (BMI) is the cornerstone of the current classification system for obesity and
its advantages are widely exploited across disciplines ranging from international …

Thirty years ago international nutritionists were focussing on childhood malnutrition, the
'protein gap'and how to feed the world's burgeoning population, and medical services in the …

Parental environmental factors, including diet, body composition, metabolism, and stress,
affect the health and chronic disease risk of people throughout their lives, as captured in the …

Severely obese (ob/ob) mice are deficient in the adipocyte-derived hormone leptin, which
acts on the hypothalamus to control appetite and energy expenditure. 1 The administration …

The prevalence of clinical obesity in Britain has doubled in the past decade. The Health of
the Nation initiative has set ambitious targets for reversing the trend in recognition of the …

Fast foods are frequently linked to the epidemic of obesity, but there has been very little
scientific appraisal of a possible causal role. Here we review a series of studies …

Total free living energy expenditure was compared in lean and obese women by the new
doubly labelled water method and partitioned into basal metabolism and thermogenesis …

An analysis of early growth patterns in children from 54 resource-poor countries in Africa
and Southeast Asia shows a rapid falloff in the height-for-age z score during the first 2 y of …

In experimental animals, maternal diet during the periconceptional period influences the
establishment of DNA methylation at metastable epialleles in the offspring, with permanent …

Iron lies at the center of a battle for nutritional resource between higher organisms and their
microbial pathogens. The iron status of the human host affects the pathogenicity of …