Stanley Ulijaszek
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 217122 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Stanley Ulijaszek |
| NOMBRES | Stanley |
| APELLIDO | Ulijaszek |
| FIRMA | ULIJASZEK S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6593-1103 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 82 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 121 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 80 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1986 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Caught in the Middle
Nutritional anthropology in the world
Nutritional anthropology is the study of human subsistence, diet and nutrition in comparative social and evolutionary perspective. Many factors influence the nutritional health and well-being of populations, including evolutionary, ecological, social, cultural and historical ones. Most usually, biocultural approaches are used in nutritional anthropology, incorporating methods and theory from social science as well as nutritional and evolutionary …
How active can preschoolers be at home? Parents' and grandparents' perceptions of children's day-to-day activity, with implications for physical activity policy
Attending to the full spectrum of children's movements highlights how children's activities interlink with family routines, available indoor and outdoor spaces, and the intended uses of these spaces. These interplays between space, care, and physical activity enacted at the household level should inform an integrated, systems-level public health approach to increasing health and well-being for preschool-age children. Suggestions for improvement i…
Women, Mobility, and Education in Twentieth-century England and Wales
The twentieth century saw substantial changes in the educational and occupational opportunities available to women in Britain. These may have been supposed to foster new patterns of female mobility. Yet studies of women's intergenerational mobility are rare and tend not to focus on education. This article develops a historically informed gauge of educational attainment-the Educational Cohort Code (ECC). Applying that gauge to the experiences of w…
Using a new socioepidemiological questionnaire to analyse associations between intergenerational upward social mobility and body fat distribution
Background As measured through body mass index (BMI), obesity is more prevalent among upwardly mobile adults than among adults born into middle-class families. Although BMI reflects general adiposity, health risks are more strongly associated with abdominal adiposity. It is therefore important to investigate associations between upward mobility and fat distribution. Methods A socioepidemiological questionnaire was developed, qualitatively validat…
Toward an Affective Political Ecology of Obesity
This article argues for an affective approach to obesity that destabilizes the conceptual boundaries between the biological and the social aspects of food, eating, and fatness. Its approach foregrounds visceral experience, attends to food both inside and outside the body, and explores how bodies labeled “obese” consume their political, economic, and material environments. This approach is termed affective political ecology. The authors’ aim is to…
Governance by campaign
This paper considers food as a site of public engagement with science and technology. Specifically, we focus on how public engagement with food is envisioned and operationalised by one non-profit organisation, foodwatch. Founded in Germany in 2002, foodwatch extensively uses new information and communication technologies to inform consumers about problematic food industry practices. In this paper, we present our analysis of 50 foodwatch e-newslet…
How does psychosocial stress affect the relationship between socioeconomic disadvantage and overweight and obesity? Examining Hemmingsson’s model with data from a Danish longitudinal study
Our study confirms to some extent that the associations between socioeconomic disadvantage and overweight and obesity can be explained by the domains included in Erik Hemmingsson's model, although our results should be interpreted with caution. Adult distress, disharmonious family environment and offspring distress accounted for some of the association in girls, whereas in boys it was primarily offspring distress, which had the greatest impact. Y…
Diet, Nutrition, and Disease across the Lifespan
Diet and nutrition need to be adequate to sustain human growth, sexual maturation, reproduction, and the physical labour needed to obtain food and support the successful maturation of offspring to reproductive age. This chapter examines human diet and nutrition as they relate to infectious disease experience, and how nutrition and infection influence the human life course, which is organized according to life history stages. Human life history th…
Nutritional Anthropology
Nutritional anthropology is the study of human subsistence, diet, and nutrition in comparative social and evolutionary perspective. In nutritional terms, humans are the sum total of their evolutionary history and more recent epigenetic and social past, as well as their present‐day social, cultural, and biological life histories. Many factors influence food preferences, dietary choice, and nutritional health of populations, including evolutionary,…
The problem with relying on dietary surveys
Theories of dietary change and DR-NCD emergence and resulting interventions could be improved through a more holistic approach to nutrition that integrates sociocultural and historical evidence about both the target population and the scientists doing the research
Mobile activism, material imaginings, and the ethics of the edible
Epigenetics and Obesity
Bourdieu suggested that the habitus contains the 'genetic information' which both allows and disposes successive generations to reproduce the world they inherit from their parents' generation. While his writings on habitus are concerned with embodied dispositions, biological processes are not a feature of the practical reason of habitus. Recent critiques of the separate worlds of biology and culture, and the rise in epigenetics, provide new oppor…
With the benefit of Foresight
Obesity emergence in the Pacific islands
Objective Between 1980 and 2008, two Pacific island nations – Nauru and the Cook Islands – experienced the fastest rates of increasing BMI in the world. Rates were over four times higher than the mean global BMI increase. The aim of the present paper is to examine why these populations have been so prone to obesity increases in recent times. Design Three explanatory frames that apply to both countries are presented: (i) geographic isolation and g…
Low parental economic capital and low grandparental social support are closely associated with obesity in preschool-aged children. Preliminary findings
Variation in Height and Bmi of Adult Indians
It is well known that height and weight are interrelated, and that both are related to socioeconomic variables. The objective of this study was to assess the effect of socioeconomic variables on the heights and weights of different groups of people, formed according to different levels of heights and weights, and to see whether there are sex differences in the variations in heights and weights. Data for adults aged 15–49 years were taken from the…
Income of parents, and not their education level, is associated with the weight status of their preschool children
Evolving Human Nutrition
When Culture Impacts Health
Bringing the hard-to-quantify aspects of lived experience to analysis, and emphasizing what might be lost in interventions if cultural insights are absent, this book includes case studies from across the Asia and Pacific regions -Bangladesh, Malaysia, New Guinea, Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Tuvalu and the Cook Islands. When Culture Impacts Health offers conceptual, methodological and practical insights into understan…
The emergence of obesity among Australian Aboriginal children
Obesity is of significant and growing concern among Australian Aboriginal children, and is linked to patterns of child growth. The aim of this paper is to show diverse patterns of growth and obesity emergence among Australian Aboriginal children using historical anthropometric data. Child growth in height, weight and body mass index (BMI) is reanalysed for children aged 2 to 19 years in Australian Aboriginal communities spanning two distinct time…
Predicting adult obesity from measures in earlier life
BACKGROUND: As most obese adults were not overweight as children, the prediction of adult obesity from childhood body size alone is limited. We constructed a two-way, multifactor risk assessment framework for predicting adult obesity during childhood using the Foresight Obesity System Map and tested it against longitudinal data from the 1958 National Child Development Study. METHODS: The framework divided study participants according to two categ…
What's in a Name? “Negritos” in the Context of the Human Prehistory of Southeast Asia
The "negrito" hypothesis posits that various indigenous groups throughout Island and Mainland Southeast Asia have a shared phenotype due to common descent from a putative ancestral population, representing a pre-agricultural substrate of humanity in the region. This has been examined and tested many times in the past, with no clear resolution. With many new resources to hand, the articles in this volume reexamine this hypothesis in a range of dif…
What’s in a Name
The “negrito” hypothesis posits that various indigenous groups throughout Island and Mainland Southeast Asia have a shared phenotype due to common descent from a putative ancestral population, representing a preagricultural substrate of humanity in the region. This has been examined and tested many times in the past, with no clear resolution. With many new resources to hand, the articles in this volume reexamine this hypothesis in a range of diff…
Detrimental effects of early rural life on blood pressure among urban male migrants in Wrocław, Poland
The purpose of the study was to compare the blood pressure of rural–to–urban migrants and the sedentary population (non–migratory) of the city of Wrocław, Poland. Additionally, the effect of time spent in the rural area on blood pressure was also assessed. The study sample consisted of 2753 males aged 25–75 years, following a medical examination, underwent an interview and anthropometric measurements between 1989–90. Based on the place of origin …
Epigenetics and Obesity
Bourdieu suggested that the habitus contains the 'genetic information' which both allows and disposes successive generations to reproduce the world they inherit from their parents' generation. While his writings on habitus are concerned with embodied dispositions, biological processes are not a feature of the practical reason of habitus. Recent critiques of the separate worlds of biology and culture, and the rise in epigenetics, provide new oppor…
Obesity in Biocultural Perspective
Obesity is new in human evolutionary history, having become possible at the population level with increased food security. Across the past 60 years, social, economic, and technological changes have altered patterns of life almost everywhere on Earth. In tandem, changes in diet and physical activity patterns have been central to the emergence of obesity among many of the world's populations, including the developing world. Increasing global rates …
Waiting for Trivers and Willard
Parental investment theory has been put forward as a major evolutionary argument explaining male or female biased birth sex ratio, the Trivers‐Willard (T‐W) hypothesis, predicting that parents living in good circumstances will bias their investment to sons, whereas parents in poor circumstances will bias their investment toward daughters. Tests of the T‐W hypothesis on human beings have shown limited evidence for parents appearing to differentiat…
What's in a name? Accuracy of using surnames and forenames in ascribing Asian ethnic identity in English populations
The sensitivity, specificity, and predictive value of using characteristic names to ascribe Asian ethnic identity was tested for three data sets with different Asian populations. The technique was found to have high reliability, particularly if both first and second names were used
Human energetics methods in biological anthropology
Energy capture and conversion is fundamental to human existence, and over the past three decades anthropologists have used a number of approaches which incorporate energetics measures in studies of human ecology. In particular, measures of community-level energy balances and flows have been used to study human subsistence within the adaptability framework. Recent advances in energetics methodology are considerable, making measurements more practi…
Mobile activism, material imaginings, and the ethics of the edible
Variability in body physique, ecology, and subsistence in the Fly River region of Papua New Guinea
There are some 40,000 indigenous peoples of the Fly River drainage in Papua New Guinea. The 4,000‐mm rainfall contour ecologically demarcates hunter‐horticulturalist peoples living in the rainforests of the Upper Fly from hunter‐gatherer peoples living in the savanna‐swamplands of the Middle and Lower Fly. A complex of factors operate to create significant physical differences between Upper Fly peoples and those of the Middle and Lower Fly. The e…
Potential seasonal ecological challenge of heat strain among Australian Aboriginal people practicing traditional subsistence methods
It has been largely accepted that Australian Aboriginal people practicing hunting and gathering traditionally underused their objective economic possibilities by working short hours relative to nonhunter‐gatherer populations. However, the possibility that their subsistence quest might have been limited by potential heat strain has not been considered for Australian hunter‐gatherers. In this article the influence of work and heat load on the poten…
Toward an Affective Political Ecology of Obesity
This article argues for an affective approach to obesity that destabilizes the conceptual boundaries between the biological and the social aspects of food, eating, and fatness. Its approach foregrounds visceral experience, attends to food both inside and outside the body, and explores how bodies labeled “obese” consume their political, economic, and material environments. This approach is termed affective political ecology. The authors’ aim is to…
Relationships between undernutrition, infection, and growth and development
Women, Mobility, and Education in Twentieth-century England and Wales
The twentieth century saw substantial changes in the educational and occupational opportunities available to women in Britain. These may have been supposed to foster new patterns of female mobility. Yet studies of women's intergenerational mobility are rare and tend not to focus on education. This article develops a historically informed gauge of educational attainment-the Educational Cohort Code (ECC). Applying that gauge to the experiences of w…
Predicting adult obesity from measures in earlier life
BACKGROUND: As most obese adults were not overweight as children, the prediction of adult obesity from childhood body size alone is limited. We constructed a two-way, multifactor risk assessment framework for predicting adult obesity during childhood using the Foresight Obesity System Map and tested it against longitudinal data from the 1958 National Child Development Study. METHODS: The framework divided study participants according to two categ…
Serum insulin‐like growth factor‐I, insulin‐like growth factor binding protein‐3, and the pubertal growth spurt in the female rhesus monkey
While there is good evidence suggesting IGF‐I links to pubertal development and crown‐rump length growth among rhesus monkeys, linkages between IGF‐I and other measures of morphological growth have not been established. In this study, the pubertal growth spurt in a number of morphological characteristics of female rhesus monkeys is related to serum endocrine status of insulin‐like growth factor‐I (IGF‐I) and its binding protein, insulin‐like grow…
Maternal Employment and Child Nutritional Status in a Very Poor Population of Residents and Migrants from Bangladesh in Calcutta, India
Investigations of the effects of maternal employment on child nutrition in poor populations have have shown that children below the age of 1 year suffer nutritionally from having an employed mother, while older children benefit. This study examines this possibility in a very poor population in Calcutta, India. Z scores of height for age (H/A), weight for age (W/A) and weight for height (W/H) relative to NCHS references were calculated from cross-…
Energy Expenditure in Sago Processing by Women in the Purari Delta of Papua New Guinea
Palm sago is an important staple food for populations living at low density, and on marginal lands in Papua New Guinea and elsewhere in Melanesia.The exploitation of palm sago is a highly efficient means of provisioning a community with dietary energy, but has been shown to be an energetically costly activity.However, a previous estimate of the energy cost of sago making was not based on the measurement of oxygen consumption, but on an indirect p…
How active can preschoolers be at home? Parents' and grandparents' perceptions of children's day-to-day activity, with implications for physical activity policy
Attending to the full spectrum of children's movements highlights how children's activities interlink with family routines, available indoor and outdoor spaces, and the intended uses of these spaces. These interplays between space, care, and physical activity enacted at the household level should inform an integrated, systems-level public health approach to increasing health and well-being for preschool-age children. Suggestions for improvement i…
What's in a Name? “Negritos” in the Context of the Human Prehistory of Southeast Asia
The "negrito" hypothesis posits that various indigenous groups throughout Island and Mainland Southeast Asia have a shared phenotype due to common descent from a putative ancestral population, representing a pre-agricultural substrate of humanity in the region. This has been examined and tested many times in the past, with no clear resolution. With many new resources to hand, the articles in this volume reexamine this hypothesis in a range of dif…
What's in a name? Accuracy of using surnames and forenames in ascribing Asian ethnic identity in English populations
The sensitivity, specificity, and predictive value of using characteristic names to ascribe Asian ethnic identity was tested for three data sets with different Asian populations. The technique was found to have high reliability, particularly if both first and second names were used
Mining, modernisation and dietary change among the Wopkaimin of Papua New Guinea
This paper examines retrospectively the changes in food and nutrient intake which have taken place over a nine‐year period in which the intrusion of a major gold and copper mine has brought rapid socio‐economic and ecological change to the Papua New Guinea Wopkaimin population, especially those who now rely upon cash incomes. A small proportion of the population remains subsistence‐oriented. Since 1975 taro (Colocasia), the traditional staple, ha…
The Ok Tedi Health and Nutrition Project, Papua New Guinea
Adult physiques of three populations living close to a major gold and copper mine are described and compared. Men of all three groups do not differ in stature, sitting height, biceps, triceps, subscapular and medial calf skinfold thicknesses. However, Wopkaimin men are heavier, with bigger mid-upper arm circumference and bi-iliac diameter than their Ningerum and Awin counterparts. Women of all three groups have similar stature, sitting height, bi…
Variability in body physique, ecology, and subsistence in the Fly River region of Papua New Guinea
There are some 40,000 indigenous peoples of the Fly River drainage in Papua New Guinea. The 4,000‐mm rainfall contour ecologically demarcates hunter‐horticulturalist peoples living in the rainforests of the Upper Fly from hunter‐gatherer peoples living in the savanna‐swamplands of the Middle and Lower Fly. A complex of factors operate to create significant physical differences between Upper Fly peoples and those of the Middle and Lower Fly. The e…
Patterns of Human Growth
Energetic cost of standard activities in Gurkha and British soldiers
Measurements of basal metabolic rate and energy expenditure at lying, sitting, standing, and performing a step test at four levels of exercise, were made on Gurkha soldiers stationed in Britain and on British controls matched by body weight and occupational background. There was no significant difference in basal metabolic rate (BMR), nor in the energy cost of lying, sitting and standing between the two groups. Gurhas showed significantly lower g…
Age at menarche of European, Afro-Caribbean and Indo-Pakistani schoolgirls living in London
Age at menarche is reported for 1,365 European, 530 Afro-Caribbean and 282 Indo-Pakistani schoolgirls taking part in a cross-sectional anthropometric survey in the London Area Health Authorities of Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster, and Brent and Harrow, in 1980-81. Mean ages at menarche are 13.59 +/- 0.37 years (European), 13.18 +/- 0.11 years (Afro-Caribbean) and 13.06 +/- 0.20 years (Indo-Pakistani). The European value is significantly highe…
Basal metabolic rate and physique of Gurkha and British soldiers stationed in Britain
Measurements of basal metabolic rate (BMR) and physique were made on Gurkha soldiers stationed in Britain, and on British controls matched by body weight and occupational background. Gurkhas were significantly shorter, with greater body mass index, calf circumference and subscapular skinfold thickness than the European controls, although there was no difference in BMR between the two groups. For the Gurkhas, linear regression analysis incorporati…
Estimating energy and nutrient intakes in studies of human fertility
Two methods of dietary recording, the 24-hr recall and the weighed dietary intake methods, are considered appropriate for estimating energy and nutrient intakes in studies of human fertility. The former method gives lower estimates than the latter, although weighed intakes may underestimate true intakes. Examination of food intakes of pregnant, lactating, and non-pregnant, non-lactating New Guinean women shows their diet to be less homogeneous th…
Dietary and nutrient intakes of 25 Ningerum (New Guinea) adult males at two times of the year
In nutritional studies of traditional societies, it is often assumed that dietary intakes are sufficiently homogeneous for dietary studies of short duration to be adequate for accurate assessment of group nutrient intake. The present study examines this assumption by considering food and nutrient intakes of 25 adult males in rural Papua New Guinea (PNG). Five‐day weighed dietary intakes were carried out on each individual twice, with a 6‐month in…
Population and sex differences in arm circumference and skinfold thicknesses among Indo-Pakistani children living in the East Midlands of Britain
Arm circumference, triceps and subscapular skinfold thicknesses of 2224 Indo-Pakistani children aged 3-10.9 years living in Nottingham and Leicestershire were measured. The children were classified into populations according to country of origin, and religion, prior to analysis. Significant between-population differences were shown for all three variables, the effect being stronger in males than in females. Sex differences in arm circumference an…
Human energetics methods in biological anthropology
Energy capture and conversion is fundamental to human existence, and over the past three decades anthropologists have used a number of approaches which incorporate energetics measures in studies of human ecology. In particular, measures of community-level energy balances and flows have been used to study human subsistence within the adaptability framework. Recent advances in energetics methodology are considerable, making measurements more practi…
Influence of birth interval and child labour on family energy requirements and dependency ratios in two traditional subsistence economics in Africa
The consequences of different birth intervals on dietary energy requirements and dependency ratios at different stages of the family lifecycle are modelled for Gambian agriculturalists and !Kung hunter–gatherers. Energy requirements reach a peak at between 20 and 30 years after starting a family for the Gambians, and between 15 and 20 years for the !Kung. For the Gambians, shorter birth interval of 30 months. For the !Kung, the lack of participat…
Resting energy expenditure and body composition in rural Sarawaki adults
The resting energy expenditure (REE) of 43 men and 41 nonpregnant women aged 18-42, of the Iban tribe in rural Sarawak, was measured using the Oxylog and analyzed in relation to fat mass (FM) and fat-free mass (FFM) derived from measurements of skinfold thickness, to estimates of the specific energy expenditure of the FFM, and to microclimatic variables. Measured REEs exceeded values predicted from FFM by 9-22%, but were consistent with the metab…
Evidence for a secular trend in heights and weights of adults in Papua New Guinea
Evidence for a secular change in heights and weights of adults of 13 populations in Papua New Guinea was sought by comparing data collected at two different times, using three types of source. These are: (1) values obtained from the literature; (2) previously unpublished measurements made by author; and (3) data found in the research notes of A.C. Haddon, and which were collected between 1897 and 1914. An increase in heights and weights has taken…
Human Variation and Biocultural Adaptation in Papua New Guinea Human Biology in Papua New Guinea
Iban energy nutrition and shifting agriculture
This paper reports findings of a cross‐sectional, harvest season anthropometric study of 533 children under 10 years age, and 447 men and 564 women aged over 18 years, belonging to the Iban tribe of rural Sarawak. Neither the weight‐for‐height nor height‐for‐age of children was associated with the type of fallow vegetation from which households had cleared farms for rice cultivation, although weight‐for‐height reflected reported morbidity. Among …
Energetics, lifestyles, and nutritional adaptation
Energetics, adaptation, and adaptability
Energy capture and conversion are fundamental to human existence, and over the past three decades biological anthropologists have used a number of approaches which incorporate energetics measures in studies of human population biology. Human groups can vary enormously in their energy expenditure. This review considers evidence for genetic adaptation and presents models for physiological adaptability to reduced physiological energy availability an…
Energetics, lifestyles, and nutritional adaptation
Age of eruption of deciduous dentition of Anga children, Papua New Guinea
The emergence of deciduous dentition has been reported to be slower in non-Europeans than Europeans at the earlier but not later stages, and to be little affected by nutritional status. Emergence of deciduous dentition is reported for 135 young Anga children of the highland fringe of Papua New Guinea, and compared with their nutritional status as assessed by stature for age, and weight for stature. Emergence is delayed relative to European (Canad…
Relationships between undernutrition, infection, and growth and development
Energy Expenditure in Sago Processing by Women in the Purari Delta of Papua New Guinea
Palm sago is an important staple food for populations living at low density, and on marginal lands in Papua New Guinea and elsewhere in Melanesia.The exploitation of palm sago is a highly efficient means of provisioning a community with dietary energy, but has been shown to be an energetically costly activity.However, a previous estimate of the energy cost of sago making was not based on the measurement of oxygen consumption, but on an indirect p…
Immunology and growth faltering of Anga children, Papua New Guinea
Nutrition-infection interactions among poor children of the less-developed world influence growth and development. However, the relative importance of each is difficult to determine, because the relationship is mediated by immunological status. In this analysis, relationships between immunological measures and anthropometry were sought among 41 Anga, Papua New Guinea children aged 0-7 years. These had elevated serum total leucocyte and leucocyte …
Immunology and growth faltering of Anga children, Papua New Guinea
Nutrition–infection interactions among poor children of the less-developed world influence growth and development. However, the relative importance of each is difficult to determine, because the relationship is mediated by immunological status. In this analysis, relationships between immunological measures and anthropometry were sought among 41 Anga, Papua New Guinea children aged 0–7 years. These had elevated serum total leucocyte and leucocyte …
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