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Volume 35, Number 1, February 2006
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Obesity, fat, and public health
pp. 1-2(2)
Author: Ebrahim, Shah

Treatment and prevention of obesity—are there critical periods for intervention?
pp. 3-9(7)
Authors: Lawlor, Debbie A; Chaturvedi, Nish

Public health aspects of weight control
pp. 10-12(3)
Author: Breslow, Lester

Commentary: On `public health aspects of weight control'
pp. 12-14(3)
Author: Breslow, Lester

Commentary: Obesity is not a newly recognized public health problem—a commentary of Breslow's 1952 paper on `public health aspects of weight control'
pp. 14-16(3)
Authors: Simmons, Rebecca K; Wareham, Nicholas J

Commentary: What's past is prologue
pp. 16-17(2)
Author: Bain, Chris

Commentary: The importance of addressing the rise of overweight and obesity—progress or lack of action during the last fifty years?
pp. 18-20(3)
Authors: Uauy, Ricardo; Lock, Karen

Commentary: Obesity and mortality—light at the end but still a long tunnel
pp. 21-22(2)
Authors: Caballero, Benjamin; Wang, Youfa

Commentary: Prescient visions of public health from Cornaro to Breslow
pp. 22-23(2)
Author: Olshansky, S Jay

Obesity amidst poverty
pp. 24-30(7)
Authors: Webb, Felicia; Prentice, Andrew

Cochrane Column
pp. 31-33(3)
Authors: Young, Taryn; Stead, L; Lancaster, T; Yach, Derek; Saloojee, Yussuf

Cohort profile: 1958 British birth cohort (National Child Development Study)
pp. 34-41(8)
Authors: Power, Chris; Elliott, Jane

Cohort profile: The Southampton Women's Survey
pp. 42-48(7)
Authors: Inskip, Hazel M; Godfrey, Keith M; Robinson, Siân M; Law, Catherine M; Barker, David JP; and the SWS Study Group,

Cohort Profile: The 1946 National Birth Cohort (MRC National Survey of Health and Development)
pp. 49-54(6)
Authors: Wadsworth, Michael; Kuh, Diana; Richards, Marcus; Hardy, Rebecca

The epidemiology of overweight and obesity: public health crisis or moral panic?
pp. 55-60(6)
Authors: Campos, Paul; Saguy, Abigail; Ernsberger, Paul; Oliver, Eric; Gaesser, Glenn

Commentary: Understanding the epidemiology of overweight and obesity—a real global public health concern
pp. 60-67(8)
Authors: Kim, Soowon; Popkin, Barry M

Commentary: There is a public health crisis—its not fat on the body but fat in the mind and the fat of profits
pp. 67-69(3)
Author: Orbach, Susie

Commentary: Current perspectives on obesity and health: black and white, or shades of grey?
pp. 69-72(4)
Authors: Blair, Steven N; LaMonte, Michael J

Commentary: The epidemic of obesity—what's in a name?
pp. 72-74(3)
Author: Flegal, Katherine M

Commentary: Obesity—public health crisis, moral panic or a human rights issue?
pp. 74-76(3)
Author: Lobstein, Tim

Commentary: Obesity claims and controversies
pp. 77-78(2)
Authors: Stevens, June; McClain, Jill E; Truesdale, Kimberly P

Commentary: Counterpoint to Campos et al.
pp. 79-80(2)
Author: Rigby, Neville

Response: lifestyle not weight should be the primary target
pp. 81-82(2)
Authors: Campos, Paul; Saguy, Abigail; Ernsberger, Paul; Oliver, Eric; Gaesser, Glenn

What aspects of body fat are particularly hazardous and how do we measure them?
pp. 83-92(10)
Authors: Snijder, MB; van Dam, RM; Visser, M; Seidell, JC

The emerging epidemic of obesity in developing countries
pp. 93-99(7)
Author: Prentice, Andrew M

Food environments and obesity—neighbourhood or nation?
pp. 100-104(5)
Authors: Cummins, Steven; Macintyre, Sally

Association between socioeconomic status and adiposity in urban Cameroon
pp. 105-111(7)
Authors: Fezeu, Leopold; Minkoulou, Etienne; Balkau, Beverley; Kengne, André-Pascal; Awah, Paschal; Unwin, Nigel; Alberti, George KMM; Mbanya, Jean-Claude

Commentary: Varying relation of socioeconomic status with obesity between countries at different stages of development
pp. 112-113(2)
Author: Song, Yun Mi

The association of fat patterning with blood pressure in rural South African children: the Ellisras Longitudinal Growth and Health Study
pp. 114-120(7)
Authors: Monyeki, KD; Kemper, HCG; Makgae, PJ

Maternal smoking during pregnancy in relation to child overweight: follow-up to age 8 years
pp. 121-130(10)
Authors: Chen, Aimin; Pennell, Michael L; Klebanoff, Mark A; Rogan, Walter J; Longnecker, Matthew P

Whose socioeconomic status influences a woman's obesity risk: her mother's, her father's, or her own?
pp. 131-138(8)
Authors: Ball, Kylie; Mishra, Gita D

Commentary: The place in life course research of validated measures of socioeconomic position
pp. 139-140(2)
Author: Blane, David

Body mass index and mortality from ischaemic heart disease in a lean population: 10 year prospective study of 220 000 adult men
pp. 141-150(10)
Authors: Chen, Zhengming; Yang, Gonghuan; Zhou, Maigeng; Smith, Margaret; Offer, Alison; Ma, Jieming; Wang, Lijun; Pan, Hongchao; Whitlock, Gary; Collins, Rory; Niu, Shiru; Peto, Richard

Weight change and risk of endometrial cancer
pp. 151-158(8)
Authors: Trentham-Dietz, A; Nichols, HB; Hampton, JM; Newcomb, PA

Weight history and risk of endometrial cancer among Chinese women
pp. 159-166(8)
Authors: Xu, Wang Hong; Xiang, Yong Bing; Zheng, Wei; Zhang, Xianglan; Ruan, Zhi Xian; Cheng, Jia Rong; Gao, Yu-Tang; Shu, Xiao-Ou

Commentary: Weight gain, weight loss, and endometrial cancer
pp. 166-168(3)
Author: Webb, Penelope M

Cause-specific mortality in old age in relation to body mass index in middle age and in old age: follow-up of the Whitehall cohort of male civil servants
pp. 169-178(10)
Authors: Breeze, Elizabeth; Clarke, Robert; Shipley, Martin J; Marmot, Michael G; Fletcher, Astrid E

Commentary: BMI and mortality in the elderly—a life course perspective
pp. 179-180(2)
Authors: Hardy, Rebecca; Kuh, Diana

Obesity has a greater impact on cardiovascular mortality in younger men than in older men among non-smoking Koreans
pp. 181-187(7)
Authors: Park, Hye Soon; Song, Yun-Mi; Cho, Sung-Il

Commentary: Obesity and cardiovascular disease risk among the young and old—is BMI the wrong benchmark?
pp. 187-189(3)
Authors: Flint, Alan J.; Rimm, Eric B.

Weight change and changes in the metabolic syndrome as the French population moves towards overweight: The D.E.S.I.R. Cohort
pp. 190-196(7)
Authors: Hillier, TA; Fagot-Campagna, A; Eschwège, E; Vol, S; Cailleau, M; Balkau, B

Physical activity and change in body mass index from adolescence to mid-adulthood in the 1958 British cohort
pp. 197-204(8)
Authors: Parsons, Tessa J; Manor, Orly; Power, Chris

The Fat Baby: Stories by Eugene Richards
pp. 205-206(2)
Author: Shaw, Mary

Essay Review of: The Obesity Epidemic: Science and Ideology. Michael Gard and Jan Wright (eds). Routledge, pp. 218, £22.99, 2005, ISBN: 0415318963.
pp. 207-208(2)
Author: KLEIN, RICHARD

A Life in Public Health. An insider's retrospective. Lester Breslow, NY: Springer Publishing Co., 2004, pp. 248, $53.80. ISBN: 0-8261-2714-2.
pp. 208-209(2)
Author: HOLLAND, WALTER

Courses, meetings and conferences listed
pp. 210-210(1)

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