Growing Towards Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome: From a Perspective of Systems Physiology and Nutrition

Propellers of growth trajectories to obesity and the metabolic syndrome

• A G Dulloo
• V Antic
• J-P Montani

Obesity during growth in Switzerland: role of early socio-cultural factors favouring sedentary activities

• P M Suter
• N Ruckstuhl

Early adiposity rebound: causes and consequences for obesity in children and adults

• M F Rolland-Cachera
• M Deheeger
• F Bellisle

Early growth, and coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes: experiences from the Helsinki Birth Cohort Studies

• J G Eriksson

The thrifty ‘catch-up fat’ phenotype: its impact on insulin sensitivity during growth trajectories to obesity and metabolic syndrome

• A G Dulloo
• J Jacquet
• J-P Montani

Adiposity in children born small for gestational age

• L Tappy

Developmental origins of obesity: a sympathoadrenal perspective

• J B Young

Dietary fat and fat types as early determinants of childhood obesity: a reappraisal

• K Macé
• Y Shahkhalili
• S Stan

Weight cycling during growth and beyond as a risk factor for later cardiovascular diseases: the ‘repeated overshoot’ theory

• J-P Montani
• A K Viecelli
• A G Dulloo

Poster Abstracts