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Obesity in the UK

• National Obesity Observatory


• Foresight obesity project


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International

• International Obesity Task Force

Publications and journals

• Economics and Human Biology (journal)

Academic research groups

• Biological Anthropology and Comparative Anatomy Research Unit (BACARU) (University of Adelaide)


• MRC Human Nutrition Research (University of Cambridge)

Policy

• Rudd Centre for Food Policy and Obesity (Yale University)


• Obesity Initiative (Trust for America's Health)

Visualising and communicating the experience of the obese body

• Full Body Project (Leonard Nimoy Photography)


• Big Fat Blog


• Beautifully Big Collection (Florence Studio)

Food

• Timeline of dietary advice (Social Issues Research Centre (SIRC))


• Research Centre for the History of Food and Drink (The University of Adelaide, Australia)


• Social and Cultural Food Studies (FOST, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
  

The Energized Body

• Athletes of the Heart


• Andrew Carnie: Science and Art

Items of interest

UBVO SEMINARS

The UBVO seminar series programme for Hilary Term 2012 has commenced! Check out the programme here. Don't forget that you can listen to all of the old seminars at the UBVO page in Oxford's iTunesU.

 

OPINION PAPERS ONLINE

In a new, ongoing series of opinion papers, UBVO Fellows, associates and students are invited to consider how material objects, performance art or events can help us to think about obesity in different ways. You can find the UBVO Opinion Papers here.