caa a22 4500 38809723X CHVBK 20180307125307.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199905 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0029665199000506 doi S0029665199000506 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0029665199000506 New understanding in obesity research [Elektronische Daten] A public-health approach considers the relevance of nutritional research in the prevention and management of obesity. Well-defined and internationally-agreed definitions based on BMI allow an assessment of the worldwide prevalence of overweight and obesity. There are about 250 million obese adults in the world, and many more overweight. Obesity is emerging in the Third World, first in urban middle-aged women. With economic developments, obesity then occurs in men and younger women. In the West childhood obesity is rapidly emerging, with concern that early-onset obesity is especially hazardous. In Asians the risks of excess visceral fat occur at lower body weights than in Caucasians. The propensity to visceral obesity in Asians may relate to malnourished mothers and low birth weight. The International Obesity Task Force is considering many issues, including the health economics of obesity. It has developed a strategy to define childhood obesity, which in children over 6 years is likely to predict long-term weight and health problems. While the search for genetic markers of obesity continues, with particular interest in the leptin gene, it is clear that societal change, with the decline in physical activity and the passive overconsumption of high-fat diets are major contributors to the global increase in obesity. The public-health aspects of obesity research are therefore challenging. Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1999 Public health nationallicence Obesity nationallicence Overconsumption nationallicence Physical activity nationallicence James W. P. T. Rowett Research Institute, Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB21 9SB, UK Ralph A. Rowett Research Institute, Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB21 9SB, UK Proceedings of the Nutrition Society Cambridge University Press 58/2(1999-05), 385-393 0029-6651 58:2<385 1999 58 PNS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0029665199000506 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 conference jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0029665199000506 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- James W. P. T. Rowett Research Institute, Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB21 9SB, UK NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ralph A. Rowett Research Institute, Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB21 9SB, UK NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Proceedings of the Nutrition Society Cambridge University Press 58/2(1999-05), 385-393 0029-6651 58:2<385 1999 58 PNS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge