Thursday, 3rd December Joint Annual Scientific Meeting of the Nutrition Society of NZ and the Nutrition Society of Australia

Professor Rachel Novoty (Hawaii)
Ass Prof Louise Signal (Wellington)
Dr Beverley Mulhausler (Adelaide)

• Maternal nutrition and the early life origins of obesity  - Beverly Muhlhausler
• Through the eyes of a child: Environmental interventions to end childhood obesity - Louise Signal
• Multilevel multicomponent intervention strategies for childhood obesity prevention  - Rachel Novotny

Posters will be listed as presenting authors register.   A number of posters will be selected for a short presentation during the poster session - these authors will be contacted in October.

• Citrus flavonoids and hepatic n-3 LC-PUFA biosynthesis - Ramez Alhazzaa
• The relationship between dairy intake, body composition, and physical activity among pre-pubertal children  - Tahibia Awan
• 'Physiological' temperature found to be prime for extracting sweet cherry anthocyanins - Melanie L Blackhall
• Sustained olive leaf phenolic consumption in humans and health benefits; Transcriptomic profiling and mechanisms of action - Anna Boss
• Lean mass significantly predicts bone health in pre-menopausal Pacific Island women living in New Zealand - Maria Casale
• Association between urinary sodium intake, sodium-to-potassium ratio and blood pressure in adults - Karen E Charlton
• Systematic review of the safety of non-nutritive sweeteners - Peter Clifton
• Effect of adding peanuts to the diet on snacking behaviour and total energy intake - Alison M Coates
• Young men’s motivators and barriers to healthy eating and their preferences for a healthy eating intervention - Clare Collins
• Theanine consumption, stress and anxiety in human clinical trials: a systematic review - Julian M Everett
• The composition of breakfast and its effects of cognitive and academic performance of elementary and secondary school students - Gabriella Fiocco
• Compliance with wrist-worn accelerometers in 9 to 11 year olds: PEDALS  - Harriet Harrex
• A systematic investigation into validating a source data verification method to improve data quality in clinical research - Lauren Houston
• Dietary intervention reduces markers of neutrophil activity in obese adults with asthma in a fourteen week RCT - Megan E Jensen
• Effects of tocotrienol-rich fraction on prevention of deterioration of bone quality - Kakeru Kono
• Exploring eating behaviour using the Three Factor Eating Questionnaire (TFEQ) in overweight and obese women - Rozanne Kruger
• School canteens: a systematic review of stakeholder’s perception and use  - Tanya Lawlis
• Sodium, potassium and blood pressure in adults - Dorothy Mackerras
• Comparison of dietary patterns of adults in Brazil and New Zealand - Sue Mason
• Nutrition knowledge and estimation of kilojoules: who is getting it right? - Tracy McCaffrey
• Health and nutritional literacy of New Zealand nursing students - Gael Mearns
• eHealth technology use in health and behavioural interventions for children and adolescents: a systematic review - Carly J Moores
• Impaired cerebrovascular responsiveness to a working memory task in older adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) - Rhenan S Nealon
• Consumption with fork or spoon? Effects on acute food intake, eating rate and palatability - Lisa P Newman
• Dietary salt intake and discretionary salt use in an Australian population sample: 2011 and 2014 - Caryl A Nowson
• Is food addiction a stable phenomenon? - Kirrilly M Pursey
• What is the traditional Mediterranean diet? - Sue Radd-Vagenas
• Dietary fatty acids, plasma phospholipid fatty acids and associations with blood lipids in healthy South Africans from the PURE study - Marilize Richter
• Diet quality in end stage renal failure patients on dialysis - Lauren Roach
• The use of RSM to produce a nutritious fruit leather product  - Geoffery Savage
• Exploring the dietary intake and patterns of young New Zealand European women with different body composition profiles - Jenna Schrijvers
• Genome stability of infants as measured by the Cytokinesis block micronucleus cytome assay and influence of type of feeding - Mansi Singh
• Fostering environmental education within a university campus food outlet environment - Chelsea Slobbe`
• Forearm to finger-tip skin temperature gradients contribute to resting metabolic rate in the thermoneutral zone - Mario J Soares
• Okara as flour substitute for the development of nutritious functional snack food  - Rachel Tan Choon Hui
• Dietitians’ and nutritionists’ utilisation of counselling approaches to facilitate eating behaviour change: pilot study - Jasmine S Thomson
• Potential role of boysenberry to prevent atherosclerosis - Asuka Uchida
• Sugar intake in a cohort of Australian children - Millie Watson
• Psychological wellbeing in adults with type 2 diabetes following weight loss and weight maintenance - Nerylee Watson
• Evaluation of nutrition risk in independent living older adults within the Waitemata and North Shore community - Carol A Wham
• The effects of resveratrol supplementation on obesity in humans: a systematic review - Serena Whitby
• Impact of food supplementation on weight loss in randomised controlled dietary intervention trials: a systematic review - Cinthya Wibisono
• Comparison of fruit and vegetable intakes during weight loss in males and females - Rebecca L Williams
• Improving shopping and budgeting behaviours in people with depression - Dorota Zarnowiecki

Deep Dive into discretionary intakes

Dr Flavia Fayet-Moore, founder and director of Nutrition Research Australia, is a registered nutritionist, Accredited Practicing Dietitian and Honorary Associate of the University of Sydney.

Flavia’s research focuses on assessment of diet and nutritional status in large population studies and in the field of nutrigenomics. She graduated from the University of Toronto with an Honours Bachelor of Science obtained her Master of Nutrition and Dietetics from the University of Sydney and went on to complete a PhD.

She is an active member of the Nutrition Society of Australia, the Dietitian’s Association of Australia, the Australasian College of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine, and a founding board member of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine.

Sponsored by

Prof Lynn Moore (Boston USA)

• Dietary minerals, blood pressure, and heart disease – separating fact from fiction - Lynn Moore