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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 email: [log in to unmask]