Gail Rees

Biographic Data

ID6266215
NAMEGail Rees
GIVEN NAMESGail
FAMILY NAMERees
SIGNATUREREES G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Plymouth
ORCID0000-0003-3775-8803
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX1

  • A comparison of nutritional intake and daily physical activity of girls aged 8-11 years old in Makkah, Saudi Arabia according to weight status

    Open AccessRabab Alkutbe, Rabab Al-Kutbe et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2017

    The results of this cross sectional analysis suggest that obesity in girls aged 8-11 years is linked to excessive energy intake from all macronutrients and the majority of girls in all weight categories are inactive. Research should be conducted to further investigate causal relationships in longitudinal studies and develop interventions to promote dietary change and activity that is culturally acceptable for girls in Saudi Arabia

  • A qualitative study exploring parental accounts of feeding pre‐school children in two low‐income populations in the UK

    Open AccessArabella K M Hayter, Arabella Hayter et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2013

    Good nutrition in the early years of life is essential, yet the diets of many pre-school children in the UK are known to be poor. Understanding the decisions parents make when feeding young children is very important in determining what type and nature of interventional support may be developed to promote good nutrition. The aim of this study was to explore using qualitative methods, parental perceptions of feeding their children in order to info…

  • Methodological development of an exploratory randomised controlled trial of an early years' nutrition intervention

    Open AccessRonald G Watts, Richard Geddie Watt et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2013

    Good nutrition in the early years of life is vitally important for a child's development, growth and health. Children's diets in the United Kingdom are known to be poor, particularly among socially disadvantaged groups, and there is a need for timely and appropriate interventions that support parents to improve the diets of young children. The Medical Research Council has highlighted the importance of conducting developmental and exploratory rese…

  • Developing a nutrition intervention in children's centres

    Open AccessHeather Ohly, Heather R Ohly et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2013

    Objective The present study explored parents’ requirements for healthy eating support prior to the development of a tailored intervention. Design A cross-sectional study of parents attending children's centres. Setting Children's centres in Cornwall (rural south-west England) and Islington (urban London borough). Subjects A total of 261 parents (94·2 % female) of pre-school children (aged 2–5 years) completed a questionnaire on factors influencin…

  • Vitamin D Intake and Other Risk Factors for Vitamin D Insufficiency in Middle Eastern People Living in the UK

    Wassan A Ahmed, Waleed Al-Murrani et al.ARTICLEEcology of Food and Nutrition2013

    A questionnaire was designed to obtain information about factors affecting vitamin D status in Middle Eastern people living in the UK. A total of 242 questionnaires were returned out of 350 distributed. A total of 85% of the sample was estimated to have a low vitamin D intake (< 5 μg/d). Other risk factors for vitamin D insufficiency included covering skin from sunlight (62% men and 84% women); low use of vitamin D containing supplements (18.5%) …

  • Parental food involvement predicts parent and child intakes of fruits and vegetables

    Heather Ohly, Juliet Pealing et al.ARTICLEAppetite2013Cited by: 6References: 16

  • A computerised tailored intervention for increasing intakes of fruit, vegetables, brown bread and wholegrain cereals in adolescent girls

    Open AccessGail Rees, Savita Bakhshi et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2010

    Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of a computer-generated tailored intervention leaflet compared with a generic leaflet aimed at increasing brown bread, wholegrain cereal, fruit and vegetable intakes in adolescent girls. Design Clustered randomised controlled trial. Dietary intake was assessed via three 24 h dietary recalls. Setting Eight secondary schools in areas of low income and/or high ethnic diversity, five in London and three in the …

  • The nutrient intakes of mothers of low birth weight babies – a comparison of ethnic groups in East London, UK

    Open AccessGail Rees, Wendy Doyle et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2005

    The objective of this paper was to compare the nutrient intakes of mothers of different ethnic origins after they had given birth to a low birth weight (LBW) baby (< 2.5 kg). A total of 165 participants from East London, UK completed a prospective 7-day diet diary using household measures, between 8 and 12 weeks post-partum. The data were originally collected as baseline data prior to two separate nutrition intervention studies and were combined …

  • Community study of menstrual iron loss and its association with iron deficiency anaemia

    P C Elwood, Gail Rees et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…1968References: 6

    Although anaemia, as conventionally defined, appears to be common in Great Britain (Kilpatrick, 1961; Elwood, 1964), little is known about the factors which are likely to cause a negative iron balance and eventually lead to iron deficiency anaemia. The main loss of iron from the body in females is by menstruation, but the relative impor tance of menstrual loss and dietary intake of iron in the determination of the level of circulating haemoglobin…