Purpose The aim of this paper is to review the evidence of the association between energy
balance and obesity. Methods In December 2015, the International Agency for Research on …

A review of the literature concerning the design, utilisation and validation of food-frequency
questionnaires (FFQ) has been carried out using a semi-systematic approach to obtaining, …

The objective of this narrative review is to examine the nutrition transition and its consequences
when populations in Africa modernize as a result of socio-economic development, …

Environmental influences that impair growth and development in early life may be risk factors
for ischaemic heart disease. To test this hypothesis, 5654 men born during 1911-30 were …

One third of the Indian babies are of low birth weight (<2.5 kg), and this is attributed to maternal
undernutrition. We therefore examined the relationship between maternal nutrition and …

Within a context of public policy debate in the United Kingdom on social exclusion, health
inequalities, and food poverty, the metaphor of the ‘food desert’ caught the imagination of …

A protective role for dietary antioxidants in asthma has been proposed. However, epidemiological
evidence to implicate antioxidant vitamins is weak, and data on the role of flavonoid-…

In a randomised crossover trial 58 subjects aged 30-64 with mild untreated hypertension were
allocated either to a control group eating a typical omnivorous diet or to one of two groups …

If poor food retail access in deprived areas of British cities is linked, as suggested in many of
the policy debates of the late 1990s, via compromised diets/undernutrition to poor health …

Objective: To establish the prevalence of the risk of undernutrition, using criteria similar to
those used by the Malnutrition Advisory Group (MAG), in people aged 65 y and over, and to …