Forthcoming Conference
- Healthy Beginnings – Preventing Obesity from Infancy
When:
Tuesday, June 12, 2012 from 9:15 AM to 4:00 PM (GMT)
Where:
Leeds Metropolitan University, City Campus
Portland Way
LS1 3HB Leeds
United Kingdom
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Event Details:
Conference Programme
Morning session – Understanding the issue
Chair: Dr Beckie Lang, University of Warwick
09.30 Registration
10.00 Welcome and conference introductions
10.05 Why start early?
Ms Julie Lanigan, University College London
10.40 Feeding styles, maternal interaction and obesity
Professor Jane Wardle, University College London
11.10 Obesity in infancy – perspectives and beliefs from the front line
Dr Sarah Redsell, University of Nottingham
11.40 Q and A
12.00 Lunch and posters
Afternoon session: Intervention and Prevention Strategies
Chair: Professor Pinki Sahota, Leeds Metropolitan University
13.15 Infant feeding and later obesity risk
Dr Mary Fewtrell, University College London
13.50 The NOURISH RCT and the EPOCH Collaboration.
Professor Lynne Daniels, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
14.40 Refreshments
15.00 EMPOWER – infants at increased risk of obesity
Dr Beckie Lang, University of Warwick
15.30 HENRY – results from the pilot study
Professor Mary Rudolf, University of Leeds
16.00 Q and A
16.15 Close
