Intervention strategies to improve nutrition and health behaviours before conception

M Barker, SU Dombrowski, T Colbourn, CHD Fall… - The Lancet, 2018 - thelancet.com
The nutritional status of both women and men before conception has profound implications
for the growth, development, and long-term health of their offspring. Evidence of the …

[HTML][HTML] Developmental origins of health and disease: a lifecourse approach to the prevention of non-communicable diseases

J Baird, C Jacob, M Barker, CHD Fall, M Hanson… - Healthcare, 2017 - mdpi.com
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis,
affect individuals in all countries worldwide. Given the very high worldwide prevalence of …

[HTML][HTML] Why is changing health-related behaviour so difficult?

MP Kelly, M Barker - Public health, 2016 - Elsevier
Objective To demonstrate that six common errors made in attempts to change behaviour
have prevented the implementation of the scientific evidence base derived from psychology …

Interventions to prevent maternal obesity before conception, during pregnancy, and post partum

M Hanson, M Barker, JM Dodd… - The lancet Diabetes & …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Prevention of obesity in women of reproductive age is widely recognised to be important
both for their health and for that of their offspring. Weight-control interventions, including …

'Making every contact count': evaluation of the impact of an intervention to train health and social care practitioners in skills to support health behaviour change

W Lawrence, C Black, T Tinati… - Journal of health …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
A total of 148 health and social care practitioners were trained in skills to support behaviour
change: creating opportunities to discuss health behaviours, using open discovery …

[HTML][HTML] Growth phase estimation for abundant bacterial populations sampled longitudinally from human stool metagenomes

JJ Lim, C Diener, J Wilson, JJ Valenzuela… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Longitudinal sampling of the stool has yielded important insights into the ecological
dynamics of the human gut microbiome. However, human stool samples are available …

[HTML][HTML] The relationship between dietary quality and the local food environment differs according to level of educational attainment: A cross-sectional study

C Vogel, D Lewis, G Ntani, S Cummins, C Cooper… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
There is evidence that food outlet access differs according to level of neighbourhood
deprivation but little is known about how individual circumstances affect associations …

Breastfeeding history and risk of stroke among parous postmenopausal women in the Women's Health Initiative

LT Jacobson, EM Hade, TC Collins… - Journal of the …, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Background Stroke is the third leading cause of death among US Hispanic and non‐
Hispanic black women aged 65 and older. One factor that may protect against stroke is …

Knowledge about the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease is independently associated with variation in diet quality during pregnancy

L McKerracher, T Moffat, M Barker… - Maternal & child …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental factors affecting development through embryogenesis, pregnancy, and
infancy impact health through all subsequent stages of life. Known as the Developmental …

[HTML][HTML] Examination of how food environment and psychological factors interact in their relationship with dietary behaviours: test of a cross-sectional model

C Vogel, G Abbott, G Ntani, M Barker, C Cooper… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Background To improve population diet environmental strategies have been hailed the
panacea because they require little agency or investment of personal resources; this …