Publications and presentations to date are limited to the first round of data collection.
Several papers are in preparation using the data collected late 2007 early 2008.

 

Physical Activity and Body Composition

• Telford RD. Low Physical Activity and Obesity: Causes of Chronic Disease or Simply
Predictors? Med. Sci. Sports Exerc, Vol. 39, No. 8, pp. 1233–1240, 2007

• Telford RD et al (entire LOOK staff) The lifestyle of our kids (LOOK) project: Outline of
methods. J Sci Med Sport. 2007 Oct 8; [Epub ahead of print]

• Telford RD. The Lifestyle of our Kids study. Commonwealth Health Ministers’ Yearbook
2007.

• Richard D. Telford, Ross B. Cunningham, Robin M. Daly, Graham J. Reynolds, Tony
Lafferty, Karen J Gravenmaker, Marc M. Budge, Ahmad Javaid, Shona L. Bass, Rohan M.
Telford. Discordance of adiposity measurement in prepubescent children. Annals of Human
Biology, May–June 2008; 35(3): 334–341

• Telford RD and Cunningham RB. Reformulation of Body Mass Index and Percent Body fat to
remove the height bias in 8 year-old boys and girls. In Press Obesity, January 2008.
Up-coming Presentation

.• RM Telford, RB Cunningham, M Budge, A Javaid, K Gravenmaker, RD Telford et al.
Relationships between physical activity, fitness and body composition in 8 year-old boys and
girls. American College of Sports Medicine AGM, New Orleans, May2007.

• Telford RD et al. Is % body fat as well as BMI a height biased measure in pre-pubertal
children? Abstract and oral presentation accepted, Sports Medicine Australia National
Conference, November 2008

• Telford RM RB Cunningham, PA Saunders, RD Telford. Patterns of Physical Activity in Prepubescent Children Abstract and oral presentation accepted, Sports Medicine Australia
National Conference, November 2008

• Telford RD, RB Cunningham G Reynolds, A Lafferty A Javaid K Gravenmaker M Budge et al.
The LOOK study and measurement of body composition in pre-pubertal c hildren. Invited
address, Symposium on Paediatric Health, University of Sydney, November 2008

Bone Health

• G. Ducher, R.M. Daly, G.A. Naughton, P. Eser, R. English, A. Patchett, K.J.
Gravenmaker, M.J. Seibel, A. Javaid, R.D. Telford, S.L. Bass. Overweight Children Are More at Risk to Sustain a Forearm Fracture due to Poor Bone Strength Relative to Body Weight (submitted) 30th Annual Meeting for the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, Montreal, Canada (Sept 2008)

• G. Ducher, R.M. Daly, G.A. Naughton, P. Eser, R. English, A. Patchett, K.J. Gravenmaker, M.J. Seibel, A. Javaid, R.D. Telford, S.L. Bass. Physical fitness is associated with greater bone strength in prepubertal children, irrespective of their body weight (submitted) International Osteoporosis Foundation – IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis, Bangkok, Thailand (Dec 2008)

• R. English, P. Eser, A. Patchett, R. Daly, G. Naughton, M. Seibel, R. Telford, S. Bass.
Optimising bone health in pre-pubertal children: the importance of muscle strength. (published in J Bone Miner Res 22:S487, 2007) 29th Annual Meeting for the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, Hawaii, USA

• G. Ducher, R.M. Daly, P. Eser, G.A. Naughton, R. English, A. Patchett, K.J. Gravenmaker, M.J. Seibel, A. Javaid, R.D. Telford and S.L. Bass The difference in bone strength between overweight children and normal-weight peers is larger in the lower limbs than in the upper limbs (submitted) Australian and New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society (ANZBMS) Annual Meeting, Melbourne (August 2008)

• G. Ducher, G.A. Naughton, R.M. Daly, P. Eser, R. English, A. Patchett, K.J. Gravenmaker, M.J. Seibel, A. Javaid, R.B. Cunningham, R.D. Telford, S.L. Bass. Overweight children have poor bone strength relative to body weight, placing them at greater risk for forearm fractures (accepted for oral presentation) Asics Conference of Science and Medicine in Sports, Hamilton Island (Oct 2008)

• R. English, P. Eser, A. Patchett, R. Daly, G. Naughton, M. Seibel, R. Telford and S. Bass.
Optimising bone health in pre-pubertal children: the importance of muscle strength.
(published in J Sci Med Sport 10:S106; 2007 Australian Conference of Science and
Medicine in Sports, Adelaide

 

Metabolic Health

• Data from this section of the LOOK project was presented at the American College of
Sports Medicine annual conference in New Orleans 30 may – 2 June 2007.

• Waring P, P Hickman, J Potter, R Cunningham, A Lafferty, E Southgate, RD Telford
Blood Inflammatory markers in relation to physical activity and body fat levels in prepubertal
children Abstract and oral presentation accepted, Sports Medicine Australia
National Conference, November 2008

• P Waring et al. Relationships between physical activity, fitness and blood levels of C
Reactive Protein in 8 year-old boys and girls. American College of Sports Medicine AGM,
New Orleans, May 2007.

• “Risk factors for cardiovascular disease are already strongly associated with body fat in 8
year old Australian children: cross sectional data from the LOOK study”. P. Waring et al.
(Submitted Medical Journal of Australia, June 2008)

• The influence of physical activity, physical education and body composition on insulin
sensitivity and metabolic syndrome – the first two years of the LOOK study. Telford RD
et al (In Preparation).

Psychology

• Professor Byrne delivered a keynote address on the psychological aspects of the LOOK
Study at an international symposium “Research on Positive Health Determinants: The
Importance of Health Promotion”, Trondheim, Norway, 20 May 2008.

• Publication in preparation: Spurrier NJ, Byrne DG, et al. Body Image of Primary School Aged
Children; Relationship with Body Mass and Physical Activity.

 

Pedagogy

• Stuckey D. Presentation to National ACHPER Conference 2007.. A study of student
attitudes to normal primary PE classes compared to a specialist PE program.

Academic Achievement

• Prosser LA and Jiang S “Relationship Between School Physical Activity and Academic
Performance” has been accepted for publication in Th