caa a22 4500 388096756 CHVBK 20180307125306.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199902 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1079/PNS19990003 doi S0029665199000051 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1079/PNS19990003 Jebb Susan A. MRC Dunn Clinical Nutrition Centre, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2DH, UK Obesity: from molecules to man [Elektronische Daten] [Susan A. Jebb] Obesity is now a major public health problem in both developed and developing countries. In the UK over 16 % men and 17.5 % women are obese, an increase of more than 100 % since 1980. However, interventions to prevent and treat obesity are hampered by an inadequate understanding of the aetiology of this condition. The present paper considers the current state of knowledge regarding the causes of obesity, including some of the genetic, metabolic, behavioural and environmental factors which influence energy balance. The present paper comprises The Nutrition Society Medal Lecture and focuses in particular on the research carried out at the MRC Dunn Nutrition Centre in Cambridge. It argues that despite decades of intensive research there is relatively little evidence of genetic or metabolic defects to explain the majority of cases of human obesity. Instead we must look to behavioural and/or environmental factors which may be underpinning the current epidemic of obesity. Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1999 Obesity nationallicence Energy intake nationallicence Energy expenditure nationallicence Body fat nationallicence Proceedings of the Nutrition Society Cambridge University Press 58/1(1999-02), 1-14 0029-6651 58:1<1 1999 58 PNS https://doi.org/10.1079/PNS19990003 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 conference jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1079/PNS19990003 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Jebb Susan A. MRC Dunn Clinical Nutrition Centre, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2DH, UK NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Proceedings of the Nutrition Society Cambridge University Press 58/1(1999-02), 1-14 0029-6651 58:1<1 1999 58 PNS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge