Thursday, 15th October Australian & New Zealand Obesity Society 2015 Annual Scientific Meeting

The Parents’ Jury invites you to join leading health charities in launching Parents’ Voice – United for Healthy Children.

• Working with the food industry to improve health: lessons from the responsibility deal in England - Susan Jebb

To be announced.

• Bariatric surgery and type 2 diabetes: are there clinically important weight loss independent effects? - Samuel Klein
• Fasting diets – Fad or legitimate diet option? - Leonie K Heilbronn
• Does fat taste have a role in development of obesity? - Russell Keast
• The case for incorporating deliberate weight maintenance phases into weight loss interventions (before, during, and after) - Amanda Salis

• Move More, Sit Less! The campaign for a national physical activity action plan - Rohan Greenland
• How can we make moving rather than sitting the norm for children? - Jo Salmon
• Creating cities that are healthy by design - Billie Giles-Cortie
• Go4Fun: An effective scaled-up community based obesity treatment program for children - Christine Innes-Hughes
• An investigation into factors associated with weight loss: implications for policy for referrals to funded weight management programmes - Claire D Madigan

• Adipokines and Hypertension - Michael A Cowley
• Skeletal muscle as a secretory organ: implications for health and disease - Mark A Febbraio
• Insulin-sensitising adipokines - there's more to it than leptin and adiponectin - Kim Bell-Anderson
• Investigating the impact of Vitamin C on adiponectin secretion and metabolic parameters in a mouse model of Vitamin C deficiency - Johanna L Barclay
• Neurochemical characterisation of the sympathetic neural input to 'beige' fat cells  - Nicole M Wiedmann

• Psychological impact of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS): in the context of fertility and obesity - Mandy Deeks
• Cognitive function in adults with obesity - Christina Prickett
• Consequences of weight-related stigma - Kerry O'Brien
• Stories from big New Zealand men - Fiona Doolan-Noble

• Needs arising from the weight control clinic - Joseph Proietto
• Weighing the options in diabetes clinics - Jenny Gunton
• Unimolecular poly-agonism for the treatment of obesity and diabetes - Matthias Tschoep
• Maximising weight loss drug efficacy - Nicholas Finer

• Obesity - a brain disease? - Matthias Tschoep

• The effect of prenatal omega-3 fatty acid supplementation in infants on cardiometabolic risk factors at birth and at 12-year: a double blind, randomized controlled clinical trial - Rae-Chi Huang
• Dietary acid load, metabolic acidosis and insulin resistance - lessons from cross-sectional and overfeeding studies in humans - Rebecca S Williams
• Meal induced thermogenesis is not impaired in obese compared to healthy weight children - Kay Nguo
• The adequacy and consistency of using weighed food diaries to assess energy intake during ‘weight stable’ baseline phases of dietary interventions  - Leonie C Ruddick-Collins
• Obeticholic acid improves adipose morphometry/inflammation and metabolic function in diet-induced obesity but not in diabetic mice with nash - Fahrettin Haczeyni
• Predictors of susceptibility to weight change during a single cycle of weight gain and loss - Amy T Hutchison

• Factors associated with frequent consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages among Australian secondary school students - Maree Scully
• Sugar-sweetened beverage tax: framing the message for public acceptability - Jane Martin
• Why do parents give their children soft drinks? A path analysis model of factors associated with soft drink provision - Simone Pettigrew
• Public appetite for government action on sugary drinks - Caroline Miller
• Rating the nutrition environment and potential for improvement within community recreation centres  - Tara Boelsen-Robinson
• Apparent consumption of refined sugar in Australia (1938-2011) - Bill S Shrapnel

• Entrainability of circadian rhythms in gastric vagal afferent satiety signals by restricted food access - Stephen J Kentish
• Glucose metabolism affects ghrelin-induced feeding and motivation - Sarah H Lockie
• Grand-paternal obesity affects female grand-offspring metabolic pathways - Virginie Lecomte
• New insights into the Adiponectin Receptors: AdipoR1 and AdipoR2 show different cell surface expression and temporal signalling profiles and both are dependent on palmitoylation. - Sahar Keshvari

• Prevalence of morbid and severe obesity in Australian children age 7-15 years, 1985 to 2007 - Louise L Hardy
• Waist-to-height ratio as a measure of central adiposity in Aboriginal children - Steven Phan
• Evidence of a plateau in the prevalence of obesity among Australian women with a higher, but not a lower, level of educational attainment between 2000 and 2012 - Emma Gearon
• Does childhood obesity affect economic prosperity in adulthood? - Nicole Black
• Prevalence and socio-demographic distribution of body weight, diet and activity among Australian adolescents, 2009-10 to 2012-13  - Philippa Niven
• Childhood growth trajectories as predictors of adolescent cardiovascular structure and function: a community-based prospective study - Alanna N Hanvey

• Incentivising physical activity and reduced sedentary behaviours to improve heart health: The Active Choices Incentive (ACHIEVE) study - Kylie Ball
• Many causes of leptin resistance in obesity - Eglantine Balland
• Induction of Heme-oxygenase (HO-1) in obese mice reduces food intake, weight gain and liver steatosis and increases adiponectin despite increased adipose tissue inflammation - Johanna L Barclay
• Women's perceptions of diet and physical activity in relation to polycystic ovary syndrome.  - Amanda Binny
• Sugar sweetened beverage consumers’ attitudes to educational and beverage pricing interventions  - Miranda Blake
• Nutritional value of food and beverages consumed in community recreation centres - Tara Boelsen-Robinson
• Obesity promoting infant feeding practices of Chinese immigrant compared to non-immigrant mothers living in Australia - Kristy Bolton
• A comparison of BMI trajectory in Macanese and Australian adults: reflective of nutrition and lifestyle transitions in China - Kaye E Brock
• Impact of school nutrition policy on the school food environment: a systematic review - Ruby Brooks
• 'Addiction-like' behaviour and synaptic impairments in diet-induced obesity - Robyn M Brown
• Active transport and obesity: a logic pathway requiring more evidence - Vicki Brown
• Online marketing of sugar-sweetened beverages to Australian young people  - Aimee Brownbill
• Obesity management in middle age adults with low health literacy in general practice: The Better Weight Management in General Practice Trial - Ian Caterson
• Effect of fructose on meal triglyceride response  - Peter Clifton
•  A systematic review of the safety of non-nutritive sweeteners - Peter Clifton
• Motivators and barriers to engaging in healthy eating and physical activity in young adult men: a cross-sectional study. - Clare Collins
• Implementing the Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) intervention in residential out-of-home care: Program outcomes and lessons learnt. - Rachael Cox
• A RCT of Intragastric balloons in obese adolescents: Preliminary data - Jacqui Curran
• Bariatric surgery: prior history in parents does not mean future intention for children - Jacqui Curran
• eLunch? Will parents use online canteens to purchase their child’s lunch? - Tessa Delaney
• How feasible are technology-based strategies to support the implementation of healthy canteen policies? - Tessa Delaney
• Obesity prevention in infants using m-health: findings from the Growing healthy program - Elizabeth Denney-Wilson
• The effects of built environment attributes on physical activity: a systematic review of the Australian literature - Belen Zapata Diomedi
• Identifying effective obesity prevention advertisements: focus groups with Australian adults - Helen Dixon
• Investigating the relationship between energy restriction, weight loss and cognitive function - Miriam E Ellis
• Delivering on the WHO global action plan for the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases in Australia at a sub-state level: what can be achieved locally? - Chad Foulkes
• Achieving scale and depth in early learning centres and schools: implications for practice and examples of policy, environmental and behavioural change - Chad Foulkes
• How do people with obesity perceive injury? - Janet Franklin
• Exercise counteracts the inhibitory effect of dieting on thermogenesis. - John-Paul Fuller-Jackson
• Defining characteristics of patients attending a large hospital's obesity clinic in South Australia who receive bariatric surgery. - Kellie Fusco
• Waist circumference increased faster than body weight among urban Australian adults between 1989 and 2012 - Emma Gearon
• Blooming Together: the acceptability of a comprehensive model of maternity care for women with obesity to achieve a healthy pregnancy    - Lisa Gibson
• Overweight, stunting and underweight in Indonesian children: what are the associated risk factors? - Megan Gow
• Youth with type 2 diabetes who adhere to a very low energy diet achieve rapid weight loss and remission of type 2 diabetes; the SHAKE IT pilot study - Megan L Gow
• Which body composition measures best predict adolescent cardiovascular structure and function: Community-based cross-sectional study - Alanna N Hanvey
• Investing in prevention, a cost evaluation of the SALSA program - Louise Hardy
• A qualitative exploration of how and why physical activity and sedentary behaviour change in the post-secondary school transition - Jennifer R Hatt
• TRPV1 Channels: fibre type and diet specific integration of glucose and lipid metabolism in skeletal muscle. - George Hatzinikolas
• Animals selected for high cortisol responsiveness have reduced melanocortin signalling and increased propensity to obesity - Sakda D Hewagalamulage
• Retention of women in weight management interventions: issues and considerations - Briony Hill
• Predicting later outcome in bariatric surgery: a systematic literature review - Annemarie Hindle
• H19/IGF2 DNA methylation is associated with body composition in young adults. - Rae-Chi Huang
• Be Positive Be Healthe: a targeted and tailored eHealth weight loss program for young women. - Melinda Hutchesson
• eHealth behavioural interventions targeting smoking, nutrition, alcohol, physical activity and/or obesity (SNAPO) in young adults: A systematic review - Melinda J Hutchesson
• Using the Food Standards Code to prevent chronic diet-related illness: new opportunities for public health? - Alexandra Jones
• The population epidemiology and concordance of vascular function in Victorian 11-12 year old children and their parents - Freya Kahn
• Muscle-specific overexpression of AdipoR1 or AdipoR2 gives rise to differential local and systemic effects. - Sahar Keshvari
• Effects of self-regulation on weight loss and weight loss maintenance: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Emily J Kothe
• Diets and Health Stars – what are Australian adults using for weight loss and/or health improvement in 2015? - Anita S Lawrence
• Weight-lowering effect of liraglutide 3.0 mg in overweight and obese adults: the SCALE obesity and prediabetes trial - Carel Le Roux
• Metabolic benefits of endurance exercise training for females born small on high fat diet - Nurul Dayana Mahizir
• A PWS clinic – is it worth the effort? - Elisia Manson
• Combining DALYs and QALYs weights in epidemiological modelling  - Ana Maria AM Mantilla Herrera
• If your adolescent friends are physically active, are you? - Jennifer Marks
• Agonism of GPR120 regulates markers of skeletal muscle metabolism - Andrew J McAinch
• Workshop using the brief opportunistic intervention  'Supporting Weight Management in Primary Care' programme - Anne-Thea McGill
• The effectiveness of a systems approach to obesity prevention within an ACT high school - Lynne Millar
• Physical and sedentary behaviour in pre-schoolers: A systematic review of parental influences - Jennifer Mitchell
• Combining the messages of obesity prevention and environmental sustainability in early childhood classrooms: Pilot test of a pedagogical intervention.  - Heather Morris
• Differential effects of fat and sugar on central and peripheral inflammation and memory. - Margaret J Morris
• Hair cortisol levels, perceived stress and body mass index in women and children living in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhoods: The READI study - Dana Lee Olstad
• Young adults' eating patterns: a qualitative study - Felicity J Pendergast
• “That’s how we did it in my day”: exploring grandparents’ role in supporting healthy lifestyle behaviours when caring for their 1-5 year old grandchildren. - Rebecca A Perry
• Early weight loss with liraglutide 3.0 mg is a good predictor of clinically meaningful weight loss after 56 weeks - Joseph Proietto
• Greater importance of lean mass than fat mass in the determination of bone mineral density: evidence from Prader-Willi syndrome - Louise Purtell
• Understanding the role of adipocyte progenitor cells in the development of adipose tissue - Arthe Raajendiran
• Effectiveness of low intensity weight management programs in Australia: A narrative review - Zahrasadat Rafiei
• Differential regulation of markers of nutrient metabolism in skeletal and cardiac muscle cells by GPR43 - Gayathri Rajaraman
• Proposed approach for monitoring the corporate political activity of the food industry - Gary Sacks
• Segmented patterns of physical activity and sedentary behavior among a sample of Victorian primary school children - Claudia Strugnell
• Adherence to physical activity and screen-time guidelines among a sample of Victorian primary and secondary school children using an OPT-OUT consent process - Claudia Strugnell
• Recruitment in general practice - experiences from a pilot implementation study of obesity management in primary care - Elizabeth Sturgiss
• Predictors of continuing attendance at an outpatient weight management clinic - Priya Sumithran
• Subsidised access to medicine in Australia: Has anyone asked patients what they think? - Daniel Thut
• Endurance exercise training does not alter the miRNA profile of human white adipocytes - Thomas Tsiloulis
• An evaluation of manufacturer-declared serving size of discretionary packaged products in Australia - Jason HY Wu
• PREVIEW Study Australia: analysis of screening and recruitment results - Radhika Seimon

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