A joint symposium of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in
collaboration with the International Obesity TaskForce Friday 4th February
2005 at the Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London - Full details -
http://www.iaso.org/conferences/feb4.pdf

Registration:
Corporate rate £150 - Non-profit £50 - Concessions - on application.
Cheques payable to "IASO". Registration forms and full details available
on www.iaso.org/conferences/feb4.pdf

The conference will examine:

* New approaches to assessing the world's malnourished.
* The Millennium report on the challenge of childhood malnutrition.
* What is the optimum growth standard for children?
* Implications of the new standards for growth and food needs for babies
and children. * Developing new criteria for the optimum weight in adults:
underweight and obesity. * The optimum BMI and weight for people over 65
years. * WHO: The new perspective on the energy needs of babies, infants
and children. * How much food do adults need? * Developing FAO's estimates
of the world's hungry: new concepts of needs for food energy. * Food
quality not quantity? * Assessing human energy requirements. * Is physical
activity important for health? * Food quality in relation to energy
balance. * Establishing global concepts of food quality: the WHO 916
report.


Confirmed Programme
09.15 Welcome coffee and registration
10.00 Introduction: Dean - Prof Andy Haines, Professor of Public Health
and Primary Care

Session 1 - New approaches to assessing the world's
malnourished Chair: Prof John Waterlow, Professor of Nutrition 10.10 The
Millennium report on the challenge of childhood malnutrition Prof Philip
James, Hon Professor of Nutrition (Chair of the UN Commission on the
Nutritional Challenges of the 21st Century, Chair of the IOTF, Director of
the Public Health Policy Group) 10.30 What is the optimum growth standard
for children? Dr Mercedes de Onis, Department of Nutrition for Health and
Development, World Health Organization 10.50 Implications of the new
standards for growth and food needs for babies and children Prof Ricardo
Uauy, Professor of Public Health Nutrition 11.10 Developing new criteria
for the optimum weight in adults: underweight and obesity Prof Philip
James 11.30 The optimum BMI and weight for people over 65 years Prof
Astrid Fletcher, Professor of Epidemiology and Ageing 11.50 Developing
FAO's estimates of the world's hungry: new concepts of needs for food
energy Dr Prakash Shetty, Head of Nutrition Planning, Assessment and
Evaluation Service, Food and Agriculture Organization 12.10 Panel
Discussion 12.45 Lunch

Session 2 - Food quality not quantity? - Chair:
Prof Ricardo Uauy 14.15 Assessing human energy requirements:
methodological approaches and lifestyle considerations Dr Prakash Shetty
14.35 Is physical activity important for health? Prof Jerry Morris,
Emeritus Professor of Public Health 14.55 Food quality in relation to
energy balance - Prof Andrew Prentice, Professor of International
Nutrition 15.15 Establishing global concepts of food quality: the WHO 916
report Prof Ricardo Uauy, Professor of Public Health Nutrition 15.30 Tea
Session chair - Prof Philip James 15.50 UK and global strategies for
improving nutrition - Panel Discussion 16.50-17.00 Chairman's summary



Neville Rigby
Director of Policy and Public Affairs
IASO International Obesity TaskForce
231 North Gower Street
London NW1 2NS
Tel 44 20 76911907
Fax 44 20 73876033
Mobile 447939250347
www.iotf.org /  www.iaso.org



Dr Suzanne Higgs
School of Psychology
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham, UK
B15 2TT

Tel: 0121 414 4907   Fax: 0121 414 4897
www.psychobiology.bham.ac.uk
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