In: European Journal of Applied Physiology, 2003, vol. 90, no. 5-6, p. 554-561
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In: Obesity Facts, 2014, vol. 7, no. 1, p. 15–25
The concept of energy gap(s) is useful for understanding the consequence of a small daily, weekly, or monthly positive energy balance and the inconspicuous shift in weight gain ultimately leading to overweight and obesity. Energy gap is a dynamic concept: an initial positive energy gap incurred via an increase in energy intake (or a decrease in physical activity) is not constant, may fade out...
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In: British Journal of Nutrition, 2000, vol. 84, no. 2, p. 135-137
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In: Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 2000, vol. 59, no. 4, p. 511-517
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In: European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2018, vol. 72, no. 9, p. 1310–1313
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In: European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2020, vol. 74, no. 3, p. 445–453
In the tropical island of Mauritius, the rise in obesity has accelerated in the past decades, and could be contributed by low physical activity and increased sedentary behavior. The study objectives were to generate the first dataset of total energy expenditure (TEE), to estimate physical activity in Mauritian children, and to explore differences due to gender and ethnicity.Subjects/methods:...
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In: British Journal of Nutrition, 2020, vol. 124, no. 5, p. 481–492
It is increasingly recognised that the use of BMI cut-off points for diagnosing obesity (OB) and proxy measures for body fatness in a given population needs to take into account the potential impact of ethnicity on the BMI–fat % relationship in order to avoid adiposity status misclassification. This relationship was studied here in 377 Mauritian schoolchildren (200 boys and 177 girls, aged...
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In: International Journal of Obesity, 2018, vol. 42, no. 8, p. 1395–1405
As yet, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have not added much to our understanding of the mechanisms of body weight control and of the etiology of obesity. This shortcoming is widely attributed to the complexity of the issues. The appeal of this explanation notwithstanding, we surmise that (i) an oversimplification of the phenotype (namely by the use of crude anthropometric traits) and...
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In: Obesity Reviews, 2015, vol. 16, p. 7–18
Despite the poor prognosis of dieting in obesity management, which often results in repeated attempts at weight loss and hence weight cycling, the prevalence of dieting has increased continuously in the past decades in parallel to the steadily increasing prevalence of obesity. However, dieting and weight cycling are not limited to those who are obese or overweight as substantial proportions of...
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In: European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2018, vol. 72, no. 5, p. 665–679
Although Switzerland is considered a small country, it has its share in discoveries, inventions and developments for the assessment of energy metabolism. This includes seminal contributions to respiratory and metabolic physiology and to devices for measuring energy expenditure by direct and indirect calorimetry in vivo in humans and small animals (as well as in vitro in organs/tissues), for...
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