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Tim Lobstein

Researcher at University of Sydney

Publications -  147
Citations -  22520

Tim Lobstein is an academic researcher from University of Sydney. The author has contributed to research in topics: Overweight & Public health. The author has an hindex of 53, co-authored 140 publications receiving 20162 citations. Previous affiliations of Tim Lobstein include University of London & University of Sussex.

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Obesity in children and young people: a crisis in public health.

TL;DR: The present report has been written to focus attention on the issue and to urge policy-makers to consider taking action before it is too late.
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Worldwide trends in childhood overweight and obesity

TL;DR: There is a growing global childhood obesity epidemic, with a large variation in secular trends across countries, and effective programs and policies are needed at global, regional and national levels to limit the problem among children.
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Extended international (IOTF) body mass index cut-offs for thinness, overweight and obesity.

TL;DR: The international (International Obesity Task Force; IOTF) body mass index cut‐offs are widely used to assess the prevalence of child overweight, obesity and thinness and based on data from six countries fitted by the LMS method, they link BMI values at 18 years to child centiles, which are averaged across the countries.
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The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change: The Lancet Commission report

TL;DR: This work aims to demonstrate the efforts towards in-situ applicability of EMMARM, which aims to provide real-time information about concrete mechanical properties such as E-modulus and compressive strength.
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Prevalence of overweight among children in Europe.

TL;DR: A tendency for a higher prevalence of overweight among children in western and especially southern Europe is shown and some possible reasons for this are discussed.