Friday, 16th October Australian & New Zealand Obesity Society 2015 Annual Scientific Meeting

Nick Finer
Can we predict clinical response to medical weight loss therapies?

• Evaluating the impact of the mother-child relationship on pre-schoolers’ eating styles, physical activity patterns and subsequent weight status: moving from unidimensional to bidirectional associations within the mother-child dyad - Helen Skouteris

• Effects of rapid, substantial weight loss in obese elderly persons. - Cilla Haywood
• A process evaluation of the supermarket healthy eating for life randomized controlled trial - Dana Lee Olstad
• α-melanocyte stimulating hormone regulates glucose homeostasis via melanocortin-5 receptor expressed in skeletal muscle - Weiyi Chen
• The relationship between obesity and low back pain and disability is affected by mood disorders – A population-based, cross-sectional study of men - Louisa Chou

• Childhood obesity: understanding it’s true effects on later health through life-course analyses - Matthew Sabin
• Type 2 diabetes, oxidative stress and antioxidants - Glenn D Wadley
• HDL and glucose metabolism: a therapeutic sweet spot? - Bronwyn Kingwell
• Six-month calorie restriction in overweight individuals elicits transcriptomic response in subcutaneous adipose tissue that is distinct from effects of energy deficit - Yan Y Lam
• Improvements in sleep apnoea endpoints and quality of life are related to the degree of weight loss: results from the randomized, double-blind SCALE sleep apnoea trial - Joseph Proietto

• Measuring systems change: how do you know if you are making a difference? - Boyd Swinburn
• Using systems thinking for community obesity prevention - Steve Allender
• Chronic disease prevention: building a system that’s more than the sum of its parts - Sonia Wutzke
• The Victorian healthy eating enterprise: creating a vibrant healthy eating culture in Victoria using a complex systems approach to prevention  - Veronica Graham
• Developing a community capacity supported childhood obesity monitoring system in the Great South Coast, Victoria. - Nicholas Crooks

• The importance of gut derived factors to the efficacy of bariatric surgery - Carel Le Roux
• Gastrointestinal determinants of food intake in humans - Christine Feinle-Bisset
• The vagus in gut-brain mediated appetite regulation - Amanda Page
• Adjuvant therapies and the efficacy of the adjustable gastric band – insights from a rodent model - Cheuk man Christine Lee
• Medium chain fatty acids are readily metabolised by the hypothalamus and regulate energy balance in mice - Vanessa R Haynes

 12:45pm - 1:00pm Q&A

• Implementing interventions to tackle obesity in primary care - Susan Jebb
• Project Energize: ten years of evolution - Elaine Rush
• PEACH: Key learnings and challenges from the statewide roll out of a childhood obesity management project - Helen Vidgen
• From research to reality: The experience of translating the Infant Program for community wide implementation - Rachel Laws

• Effects of sit-stand workstations on children’s school sitting time, anthropometric measures and blood pressure - Ana María Contardo Ayala
• Energy requirements during puberty in healthy adolescents: a systematic review - Hoi Lun (Helen) Cheng
• Efficacy and safety of liraglutide 3.0 mg in adult overweight and obese weight loss responders without diabetes: results of the randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled 56-week SCALE Obesity and Prediabetes trial - Ian Caterson
• The on/off diet: effects of week-on, week-off energy restriction compared to continuous energy restriction - Michelle Headland
• Associations between insulin sensitivity and postprandial gut peptide profiles 1 year after gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy and gastric band surgery - Charmaine Tam
• Early weight loss, eating behaviours and socioeconomic factors predict long-term weight loss in adolescents with obesity and clinical insulin resistance; the RESIST study - Megan L Gow
• Improvements in diet, fitness and weight in men following the PULSE type 2 diabetes mellitus prevention program; arandomised controlled trial - Clare E Collins
• Weight loss outcomes for obese adolescents in a tertiary clinic: implications for practice - Natalie Lister
• Restricting eating to only when biochemically “hungry”: Feasibility of the Hunger Training method - Michelle R Jospe
• Does diet-induced weight loss reduce muscle strength in overweight or obese adults? A systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical trials - Radhika V Seimon
• Integrating an extended contact intervention into the ‘Get Healthy Information and Coaching Service®’ to support maintenance of lifestyle changes - Brianna Fjeldsoe
• A national survey of Australian pregnant women’s receptiveness to gestational weight gain monitoring. - Jane Bowen

• The 'livelighter' mass media campaign increases knowledge of the health consequences of overweight - Belinda Morley
• Finding the keys to successful adult-targeted advertisements on obesity prevention: an experimental audience testing study - Helen Dixon
• Discrepancies between consumers’ nutrition beliefs and current nutrition guides - Zenobia Talati
• Sandwiches, sausages and scones: food served to preschoolers at licenced childcare services in New Zealand - Sarah Gerritsen
• Impacts of Jamie’s Ministry of Food Victoria mobile kitchen program - Marj Moodie
• Fluctuations in money availability within an income cycle impacts diet quality of remote Indigenous Australians - Thomas Wycherley
• Excess weight gain in infants: an exploration of the beliefs and behaviours of socioeconomically disadvantaged mothers - Elizabeth Denney-Wilson
• Early life protein intake: food sources, correlates and tracking across the first five years of life - Karen J Campbell
• The impact of timing of introduction of solids on infant above-normal body mass index in the context of breastfeeding - Cong Sun
• Paying people to lose weight: a systematic review of the effectiveness of financial incentives for weight loss provided by health insurers - Jaithri Ananthapavan
• Reorientating approaches to the obesity epidemic: Evaluating obesity prevention programs in rural settings - Samantha L Kozica-Olenski
• Typical portion size of discretionary foods and beverages among Australian adults: results from the 2011-12 National Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey - Miaobing Zheng

• Alternating between cafeteria and chow diets is sufficient to shift the gut microbiota towards an obese phenotype - Margaret J Morris
• Lower muscle sympathetic nerve activity is associated with liver insulin sensitivity in non-diabetic men with obesity - Daniel Chen
• A key novel role for mammalian target of rapamycin complex 2 (mTORC2) in G protein-coupled receptor regulation of glucose uptake in skeletal muscle, adipose tissue and cardiac myocytes - Dana Hutchinson
• Mice fed a high starch diet become obese without glucose intolerance. - Amanda E Brandon
• Caspase-2,  a novel regulator of metabolic reprogramming during ageing and its role in lipid metabolism - Claire H Wilson
• ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Micro RNAs as biomarkers of bariatric surgery outcome and putative regulators of hepatokines selectively after gastric bypass, but not sleeve gastrectomy - Aida Zarfeshani
• Using translating ribosome affinity purification (TRAP) to investigate gene expression in beige or ‘browned’ adipocytes - Mojgan Nazari
• Identification and characterisation of the interferome and HHIP (Hedgehog Interacting Protein) as novel regulators of adipogenesis implicated in the modulation of local and systemic insulin sensitivity - Jon Whitehead

• Investigating general medication prescription by general practitioners during a 12 month randomised controlled weight loss trial - Nick Fuller
• Attitudes and weight management practices of primary care professionals towards large New Zealand men - Fiona Doolan-Noble
• Translational research: Are community-based child obesity treatment programs scalable?  - Louise L Hardy
• Preconception weight management: an untapped area of women’s health - Skye McPhie
• txt4two: An mHealth intervention promoting healthy weight gain in pregnancy - Jane C Willcox
• The change of emotional eating following bariatric surgery and its influence on weight loss outcomes: A systematic literature review - Matilda Page
• Are “Importance of weight loss” and confidence in one’s ability to achieve weight loss meaningful measures? - Janet Franklin
• A systematic review of associations between parent-child relationship quality and obesity risk in adolescence - Heidi J Bergmeier
• The relationship between habitual physical activity and cognitive function in healthy-weight and obese young women - Helen Parker
• Readability and content analysis of lifestyle education resources for weight management in Australian general practice   - Elizabeth Denney-Wilson

• Metabolically normal and abnormal obesity - Samuel Klein