Thursday, 16th October Australian & New Zealand Obesity Society 2014 Annual Scientific Meeting

Stream: Metabolism & Integrative Physiology

• BAT in the Dark Ages: a biological context for the Renaissance - Greg Cooney
• Fatty shades of brown colour metabolism in humans - Paul Lee
• Molecular determinants of brown/beige fat function - Shingo Kajimura
• Central neural pathways directed to white, brown and transformed brite / beige fat - Nicole M Wiedmann
• Functional significance of rosiglitazone treatment on ß-adrenoceptor function on brite adipocytes derived from inguinal white adipose tissue - Dana S Hutchinson

Stream: Intervention & Clinical Studies

• Obesity paradox in people with type 2 diabetes - Sanjoy Paul
• ‘Systems biology – the next frontier in metabolic research’ - David James
• The good, the bad and the ugly; intermittent fasting and severe energy restriction in adolescents - Sarah Garnett
• Weight loss via the telephone – does it work? A systematic review and meta-analysis - Marina M Reeves
• Feasibility, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of a telephone-based weight loss program delivered via a hospital outpatient setting  - Megan Whelan

Stream: Public Health & Policy

• Why New York City’s Attempt to Ban Soda Fizzled - Joel Berg
• Socioeconomic inequalities in obesity: Why do they arise, and what can we do about them? - Kylie Ball
• Overweight and obesity in remote Indigenous Australia: Opportunity in a context of social inequity - Julie Brimblecombe
• The effect of a sugar sweetened beverage tax among different socioeconomic groups : A systematic review - Kathryn Backholer
• The double burden of malnutrition: a longitudinal, nationally representative study of Indonesian children - Cut N Rachmi

Stream: Psychology & Lifestyle Medicine

• A pedagogy for Lifestyle Medicine - Garry Egger
• Lifestyle medicine from cell to community. Closing the translational gap in chronic disease treatment and prevention - Michael Sagner
• Beyond lifestyle and obesity: Understanding 21st Century determinants of chronic disease - John Dixon
• Can a health coaching intervention prevent excessive gestational weight gain? - Helen Skouteris
• A New Model of Weight Loss Clinic in General Practice Using Multidisciplinary Approach in Group Sessions - Tri Tuyen Cao

Stream: Metabolism & Integrative Physiology

• Physiological and clinical impact of obesity in women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and the role of physical activity: Where to from here? - Nigel Stepto
• Modulation of Pancreatic Islet Oxidative and ER stress with IL-22 to Ameliorate Metabolic Syndrome in Obesity - Michael McGuckin
• Do liver secreted factors link obesity to diabetes? - Matthew J Watt
• Subcutaneous fat transplantation alleviates diet-induced glucose intolerance and inflammation in mice - Michael M. Swarbrick
• Characterisation of the Adiponectin Receptors: Cell-surface expression and signal transduction of AdipoR1 and AdipoR2 are palmitoylation-dependent - Jon Whitehead

Stream: Intervention & Clinical Studies 

• Circadian drivers of poor mental and physical health - Ian Hickie
• Sleep apnoea in children - Karen Waters
• Sex hormones, body composition and cardiometabolic health - Bu B Yeap
• Exercise, strict physical inactivity (experimental bed-rest) and their effects on visceral adipose tissue and fat distribution - Daniel Belavy
• CPAP use, weight change and metabolic outcomes: Data from 3 randomised controlled trials - Camilla M Hoyos

Stream: Public Health & Policy 

• Intuitive eating: is a shift away from dieting the answer to weight management? - Caroline Horwath
• Using incentives to stimulate behavioural change - Simone Pettigrew
• Avatars to assist health behaviour change - Leisl Capper
• Jamie’s Ministry of Food reduces take-away/fast food expenditure - Anna Flego
• Text message to promote breastfeeding and obesity-protective eating behaviours  in young children:  12 and 24 months BMI results - Mu Li

Stream: Lifestyle Medicine & Psychology

• A holistic model for dealing with chronic pain - Chris Hayes
• Group visits for chronic pain - Terina Grace
• Lifestyle medicine and the management of pain - Geoff Harding
• Getting taboo issues on the table: talking about overweight and obesity in New Zealand General Practice - Lesley Gray
• Influence of carotenoids on oxidative damage, inflammation and [NAD(H)] in human cerebrospinal fluid with age - Ross S Grant

• Trends in self-reported health related quality of life among obese individuals with age - John Dixon
• Effectiveness of current interventions in obese New Zealand children and adolescents - Yvonne C Anderson
• Whanau Pakari: perception versus reality – how active are obese New Zealand children? - Kris Moller
• RAFG - Relative Adult Fat Gain - Ted Arnold
• Motivators and barriers to engaging in healthy eating and physical activity in young adult men - Clare E Collins
• Obstetric and Gynaecologic care of women who are overweight or obese: A survey of practice. - Nicole Edge
• A ‘Western’ dietary pattern, adiposity and inflammation: pathways to depression and mental health problems in adolescents - Romy Gaillard
• Do ketogenic diets really suppress appetite? A systematic review and meta-analysis - Alice A Gibson
• Patterns of Sedentary Behaviour and Physical Activity Before and Three Months After Bariatric Surgery - Juliana Gomes Zabatiero
• Barriers and Facilitators for Physical Activity in Adults before Bariatric Surgery - Juliana Gomes Zabatiero
• Weigh Forward: A clinical audit of weight management in Australian general practice - Robyn Hemmes
• Translation of Basic Science Research into Brief Opportunistic Intervention and Follow-up for Pragmatic Primary Care Weight Management - Anne-Thea McGill
• Efficacy of the Omega-3 Index in predicting NAFLD in overweight and obese adults: a pilot study - Helen Parker
• The neuro-endocrinology of eating - Hendrik Rensburg
• Dietitian Connect: a feasibility study to evaluate the addition of video consultations with a dietitian to a web-based weight loss program. - Megan E Rollo
• PREVIEW: PREVention of diabetes through lifestyle Intervention in Europe and around the World – Where are we now?   - Marta Silvestre
• Treating overweight and obese adults in General Practice – a systematic review - Elizabeth A Sturgiss
• Assessing the effectiveness of a lifestyle weight loss intervention on an obese outpatient population in New South Wales - Rebecca L Venchiarutti
• A qualitative study of maternal views on preschoolers’ dietary self-regulation and feeding strategies - Heidi J Bergmeier
• Supportive Sport Climate Increases Competence, Relatedness, Internalisation of Motivation, and Physical Activity in Overweight Children - Andreas Heißel
• Report of the first 50 patients attending the ACT public Obesity Management Service - Kristen Murray
• Development and Implementation of an Obesity Management Service in the ACT: A Preliminary Report - Kristen Murray
• The clinical obesity maintenance model - an evaluation - Jayanthi Raman
• Food "Micro-Intake" events: a common but underexplored aspect of ingestive behaviour in model animals - John R.B. Lighton
• Duodenal linoleic acid sensing lowers glucose production in rats and mice via a CCK-independent neuronal network - Brittany A Rasmussen
• The role of GH in Obesity - Hendrik Rensburg
• The role of rT3 in metabolism in obesity treatment - Hendrik Rensburg
• New integrated approach for whole room indirect calorimetry: Accuracy and usability - Russell Rising
• EMPOWER: The development and pilot-testing of an evidence-based weight loss mobile telephone app - Kylie Ball
• The effectiveness of whole-of-community interventions by socioeconomic position - Tara Boelsen-Robinson
• A comparison of the content of Australian supermarket catalogues and the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating. - Adrian Cameron
• Dietary calcium, diary intakes and childhood overweight/obesity in Chinese children and adolescents: a cross-sectional study - Yanrong Chen
• Trends in childhood obesity prevalence according to socioeconomic position: A systematic review - Alexandra C Chung
• A review of eating and food-related difficulties for young people in out-of-home care and their possible association with unhealthy weight gain - Rachael Cox
• Identifying social influences on the implementation of canteen practices in primary schools - Tessa Delaney
• Cross-sectional association between eating behaviors and body composition among children and adolescents in South China - Ruonan Duan
• The association between community awareness of obesity-related factors in cancer risk and obesity-related outcomes; changes from 2004-2012 - Kerry A Ettridge
• One Local Government area, 180 health promoting schools, long day care and kindergartens - what it takes to deliver at scale - Chad Foulkes
• 67 workplaces, 26,690 employees and we are a quarter of the way there: Delivering health promoting workplaces at scale as part of a systems intervention - Chad Foulkes
• The role of GPs in preventing excessive gestational weight gain among obese women early in pregnancy - Lisa Y Gibson
• Jamie’s Ministry of Food  - Jessica Herbert
•   Comparison of body mass index (BMI), body adiposity index (BAI), waist circumference (WC), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) as predictors of cardiovascular disease in an adult population in Singapore - Benjamin Chih Chiang Lam
• Obesity prevalence in a sample of low socioeconomic children: Cross sectional associations with physical activity, sedentary and eating behaviour - Jennifer Marks
• Measuring the ‘healthiness’ of food outlet types in Australian suburbs’ community food environment - Hamid Moayyed
• Healthy lifestyle behaviours and intentions in adolescents from Western Sydney - Vanessa A. Shrewsbury
• Scope and characteristics of obesity prevention initiatives in Australia 2013 - Elizabeth Waters