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Practical evidence-based recommendations relating to educational strategies, psychological approaches, and behavioural models, to consider when developing interventions for the prevention of obesity in young (aged 4-6) children. (2012)
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Summerbell, C., Moore, H., Gibson, E., Vögele, C., Wildgruber, A., Krombholz, H., …Project, O. B. O. T. T. (2012). Practical evidence-based recommendations relating to educational strategies, psychological approaches, and behavioural models, to consider when developing interventions for the prevention of obesity in young (aged 4-6) children. Obesity Reviews, 13(s1), 129-132

Existing maternal obesity guidelines may increase inequalities between ethnic groups: a national epidemiological study of 502,474 births in England (2012)
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Heslehurst, N., Sattar, N., Rajasingam, D., Wilkinson, J., Summerbell, C., & Rankin, J. (2012). Existing maternal obesity guidelines may increase inequalities between ethnic groups: a national epidemiological study of 502,474 births in England. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 12(12), Article 156. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2393-12-156

Background: Asians are at increased risk of morbidity at a lower body mass index (BMI) than European Whites, particularly relating to metabolic risk. UK maternal obesity guidelines use general population BMI criteria to define obesity, which do not r... Read More about Existing maternal obesity guidelines may increase inequalities between ethnic groups: a national epidemiological study of 502,474 births in England.

Atlas Swam: Freedom, Capital, and Floating Sovereignties in the Seasteading Vision. (2012)
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Steinberg, P., Nyman, E., & Caraccioli, M. (2012). Atlas Swam: Freedom, Capital, and Floating Sovereignties in the Seasteading Vision. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 44(4), 1532-1550. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2011.00963.x

Political actors have long drawn on utopian imaginaries of colonizing marine and island spaces as models for idealized libertarian commonwealths. A recent inheritor of this tradition is the seasteading movement, which seeks to “further the establishm... Read More about Atlas Swam: Freedom, Capital, and Floating Sovereignties in the Seasteading Vision..

A community-based health promotion intervention using brief negotiation techniques and a pledge on dietary intake, physical activity levels and weight outcomes: lessons learnt from an exploratory trial (2012)
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Hillier, F., Batterham, A., Nixon, C., Crayton, A., Pedley, C., & Summerbell, C. (2012). A community-based health promotion intervention using brief negotiation techniques and a pledge on dietary intake, physical activity levels and weight outcomes: lessons learnt from an exploratory trial. Public Health Nutrition, 15(8), 1446-1455. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1368980011002862

Objective To assess the effectiveness of a brief face-to-face health promotion intervention which included a ‘pledge’ using brief negotiation techniques, compared with standard advice-giving techniques, delivered in a community setting. Design A para... Read More about A community-based health promotion intervention using brief negotiation techniques and a pledge on dietary intake, physical activity levels and weight outcomes: lessons learnt from an exploratory trial.