Obesity and Shape
Micronutrients
EC projects
Other

Obesity and Shape

Ashwell M. Shape: the waist-to-height ratio is a good, simple screening tool for cardiometabolic risk. Nutrition Today 2010; (in press)

Ashwell M, Browning L. The increasing importance of waist-to-height ratio to assess cardiometabolic risk: a plea for consistent terminology. The Open Obesity Journal (in press) 2011.

Ashwell M. Charts based on body mass index and waist-to-height ratio to assess the health risks of obesity: A review. . The Open Obesity Journal (in press) 2011.

Browning L, Hsieh S, Ashwell M. A systematic review of waist-to-height ratio as screening tool for the prediction of cardiovascular disease and diabetes: 0.5 could be a suitable global boundary value. Nutrition Research Reviews 2010; 23(2): 247-269.

Ashwell M, Gibson S. Waist to height ratio is a simple and effective obesity screening tool for cardiovascular risk factors: analysis of data from the British National Diet and Nutrition Survey of adults aged 19 to 64 years. Obesity Facts 2009; 2(2): 97-103.

Hsieh SD, Ashwell M, Muto T, Tsuji H, Arase Y, Murase T. Urgency of reassessment of role of obesity indices for metabolic risks. Metabolism 2010; 59(6): 834-40.

Ashwell M. An examination of the relationship between breakfast, weight and shape. Br J Nurs 2010; 19(18): 1155-9.

Ashwell M. Obesity risk: importance of the waist-to-height ratio. Nurs Stand 2009; 23(41): 49-54.

de la Hunty A, Ashwell M. Are people who regularly eat breakfast cereals slimmer than those who don’t? A systematic review of the evidence. BNF Nutrition Bulletin 2007; 32: 119-129.

McCarthy HD, Ashwell M. A study of central fatness using waist-to-height ratios in UK children and adolescents over two decades supports the simple message--'keep your waist circumference to less than half your height'. Int J Obes (Lond) 2006; 30(6): 988-92.

de la Hunty A, Gibson S, Ashwell M. A review of the effectiveness of aspartame in helping with weight control. BNF Nutrition Bulletin 2006; 31: 115-128.

Ashwell M, Hsieh S. Six reasons why the waist-to-height ratio is a rapid and effective global indicator for health risks of obesity and how its use could simplify the international public health message on obesity. International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition, 2005; 56(5): 303-307.

McCarthy HD, Ashwell M. Trends in waist:height ratios in British chlidren aged 11-16 over a two-decade period. Proc Nutr Soc 2003; 62: 46A.

Ashwell M. Waist to Height Ratio and the Ashwell ® Shape Chart could predict the health risks of obesity in adults and children in all ethnic groups. Nutrition and Food Science 2005; 35(5): 359-364.

Micronutrients

Wallace AM, Gibson S, de la Hunty A, Lamberg-Allardt C, Ashwell M. Measurement of 25-hydroxyvitamin D in the clinical laboratory: current procedures, performance characteristics and limitations. Steroids 2010; 75(7): 477-88.

Spichtinger D, Pongratz I, Jonsson J, Braun S, Colmer C, Poms R et al. Key issues in European food science research: a review of the European Food Science Day 2009. Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Foods 2010; 2: 114-119.

Lanham-New SA., Buttriss JL., Miles LM., Ashwell M., Berry JL.4, Boucher BJ.5 et al. Proceedings of the Rank Forum on Vitamin D British Journal of Nutrition 2010.

de la Hunty A, Wallace A, Gibson S, Viljakainen H, Lamberg-Allardt C, Ashwell M. UK Food Standards Agency Workshop Consensus Report: the choice of method for measuring 25OHD to estimate vitamin D status for the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey British Journal of Nutrition 2010; 104: 612-619.

Cavelaars AE, Doets EL, Dhonukshe-Rutten RA, Hermoso M, Fairweather-Tait SJ, Koletzko B et al. Prioritizing micronutrients for the purpose of reviewing their requirements: a protocol developed by EURRECA. Eur J Clin Nutr 2010; 64 Suppl 2: S19-30.

Ashwell M, Stone EM, Stolte H, Cashman KD, Macdonald H, Lanham-New S et al. UK Food Standards Agency Workshop Report: an investigation of the relative contributions of diet and sunlight to vitamin D status. British Journal of Nutrition 2010; 104: 603-611.

Lambert JP, Ashwell M. Developing micronutrient reference values: prioritization of tool development by the EURRECA Network of Excellence. Eur J Clin Nutr 2010; 64 Suppl 2: S11-8.

Ashwell M, Stone E, Mathers J, Barnes S, Compston J, Francis RM et al. Nutrition and bone health projects funded by the UK Food Standards Agency: have they helped to inform public health policy? Br J Nutr 2008; 99(1): 198-205.

Ashwell M. A review of the Food Standards Agency's Optimal Nutrition Research Programme (N05). British Nutrition Foundation Nutrition Bulletin 2005; 30(4): 76-84.

Gibson S, Ashwell M. Implications of low red meat consumption for iron status of young people in Britain. Nutrition and Food Science 2004; 34(6): 253-259.

Singh M, Ashwell M, Sanderson P, Cade J, Moreton J, Fairweather-Tait S et al. Risk of iron overload in carriers of genetic mutations associated with hereditary haemochromatosis: UK Food Standards Agency workshop. Br J Nutr 2006; 96(4): 770-3.

Gibson S, Ashwell M. The association between red and processed meat consumption and iron intakes and status among British adults. Public Health Nutr 2003; 6(4): 341-50.

Burns L, Ashwell M, Berry J, Bolton-Smith C, Cassidy A, Dunnigan M et al. UK Food Standards Agency Optimal Nutrition Status Workshop: environmental factors that affect bone health throughout life. Br J Nutr 2003; 89(6): 835-40.

EC projects

Koletzko B, Decsi T, Molnar D, de la Hunty A (eds). Early Nutrition Programming and Health Outcomes in Later Life. Springer, 2009.

Ashwell M, de la Hunty A, Demmelmair H, Koletzko B. EARNEST - the Early Nutrition Programming Project Standardy Medyczne 2009; 37: 1-73.

Ashwell M, de la Hunty A. What is the EARNEST Dissemination and Exploitation Consensus Panel (DECP)? Adv Exp Med Biol 2009; 646: 189-94.

Ashwell M, Lambert JP, Alles MS, Branca F, Bucchini L, Brzozowska A et al. How we will produce the evidence-based EURRECA toolkit to support nutrition and food policy. Eur J Nutr 2008; 47 Suppl 1: 2-16.

Ashwell M, Claessens M. Best practice in communicating the results of European research to the public. Adv Exp Med Biol 2005; 569: 60-3.

Other

Howlett J, Ashwell M. Glycemic response and health: summary of a workshop. Am J Clin Nutr 2008; 87(1): 212S-6S.

Ashwell M, Barlow S, Gibson S, Harris C. National diet and nutrition surveys: the British experience. Public Health Nutr 2006; 9(4): 523-30.