Meredith W Reiches
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 98588 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Meredith W Reiches |
| PRENOMES | Meredith W |
| SOBRENOME | Reiches |
| ASSINATURA | REICHES M W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4966-5639 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 30 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Does Menstrual Cycle Tracking Enhance Female Athlete Health and Performance? Evaluating Five Implicit Assumptions of an Emerging Paradigm
Sex disparities in Covid-19 outcomes in the United States
A life history approach to prenatal supplementation
While prenatal supplementation with protein, lipids, carbohydrates, and micronutrients has been used to improve infant outcomes in undernourished populations since the 1960s with inconsistent results, a flourishing body of literature within biological anthropology has used life history theory to explain why supplemental resources are often allocated to maternal survival and future reproduction and not to the current offspring. To date, however, p…
Reproductive Justice and the History of Prenatal Supplementation
In the 1980s, British researchers gave pregnant and nursing women in a rural community in The Gambia supplemental food in order to increase the size and health of their infants. While the supplement led to modest gains in birth weight during the rainy season, it did not enhance breast milk volume or quality. It did, however, cause women to feel healthier and to conceive again more quickly than expected, with unforeseen consequences: the new, unsu…
Aroused
Adolescence as a Biocultural Life History Transition
While the categories of adolescence and puberty are often treated as one, the existence of two distinct terms points to different kinds of maturation in humans. Puberty refers to a period of coordinated somatic growth and reproductive maturation that shifts individuals from nonreproductive juvenility to reproductive maturity. Adolescence includes the behavioral and social assumption of adult roles. Life history theory offers powerful tools for un…
Endocrine responses, weight change, and energy sparing mechanisms during Ramadan among Gambian adolescent women
Even using energy sparing behaviors, adolescent women enter negative energy balance when Ramadan and the agricultural season co-occur. Metabolic physiology shows a transient response to high glycemic index foods consumed at night. Older and larger individuals sustain greater losses during Ramadan
Is Poverty in Our Genes
We present a critique of a paper written by two economists, Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor, which is forthcoming in the American Economic Review and which was uncritically highlighted in Science magazine. Their paper claims there is a causal effect of genetic diversity on economic success, positing that too much or too little genetic diversity constrains development. In particular, they argue that "the high degree of diversity among African popula…
Puberty as a life history transition
BACKGROUND: James Tanner's landmark publication, Growth at Adolescence, was not only the first and most comprehensive treatise on the subject of human pubertal development of its time, its core insights have held up remarkably well over time. REVIEW: This review connects Tanner's contributions to contemporary understanding of puberty as a process fundamentally driven by neuroendocrine maturation. It introduces the concepts of the 'hour-glass of p…
Pooled energy budget and human life history
Human life history contains a series of paradoxes not easily explained by classical life history theory. Although overall reproductive output is higher than in related primates, juvenile growth is slower and age-specific reproductive rates decline faster with age. A simple energetic model would predict that growth and reproductive rates should be positively correlated and that reproductive effort should not decelerate with age. The pattern of neg…
Active ghrelin levels across time and associations with leptin and anthropometrics in healthy ache Amerindian women of Paraguay
Active (acylated) ghrelin is a peptide hormone secreted primarily by the stomach, positively associated with fasting, orexigenic, and promotes growth hormone secretion. It is therefore important to energy intake management. The objective of this pilot research was to (1) compare active ghrelin with previous measurements of leptin and anthropometrics; (2) assess the consistency of active ghrelin across time in this population; (3) extend our under…
Adolescence as a Biocultural Life History Transition
While the categories of adolescence and puberty are often treated as one, the existence of two distinct terms points to different kinds of maturation in humans. Puberty refers to a period of coordinated somatic growth and reproductive maturation that shifts individuals from nonreproductive juvenility to reproductive maturity. Adolescence includes the behavioral and social assumption of adult roles. Life history theory offers powerful tools for un…
Sex disparities in Covid-19 outcomes in the United States
Is Poverty in Our Genes
We present a critique of a paper written by two economists, Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor, which is forthcoming in the American Economic Review and which was uncritically highlighted in Science magazine. Their paper claims there is a causal effect of genetic diversity on economic success, positing that too much or too little genetic diversity constrains development. In particular, they argue that "the high degree of diversity among African popula…
Active ghrelin levels across time and associations with leptin and anthropometrics in healthy ache Amerindian women of Paraguay
Active (acylated) ghrelin is a peptide hormone secreted primarily by the stomach, positively associated with fasting, orexigenic, and promotes growth hormone secretion. It is therefore important to energy intake management. The objective of this pilot research was to (1) compare active ghrelin with previous measurements of leptin and anthropometrics; (2) assess the consistency of active ghrelin across time in this population; (3) extend our under…
Pooled energy budget and human life history
Human life history contains a series of paradoxes not easily explained by classical life history theory. Although overall reproductive output is higher than in related primates, juvenile growth is slower and age-specific reproductive rates decline faster with age. A simple energetic model would predict that growth and reproductive rates should be positively correlated and that reproductive effort should not decelerate with age. The pattern of neg…
Puberty as a life history transition
BACKGROUND: James Tanner's landmark publication, Growth at Adolescence, was not only the first and most comprehensive treatise on the subject of human pubertal development of its time, its core insights have held up remarkably well over time. REVIEW: This review connects Tanner's contributions to contemporary understanding of puberty as a process fundamentally driven by neuroendocrine maturation. It introduces the concepts of the 'hour-glass of p…
Is Poverty in Our Genes
We present a critique of a paper written by two economists, Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor, which is forthcoming in the American Economic Review and which was uncritically highlighted in Science magazine. Their paper claims there is a causal effect of genetic diversity on economic success, positing that too much or too little genetic diversity constrains development. In particular, they argue that "the high degree of diversity among African popula…
Endocrine responses, weight change, and energy sparing mechanisms during Ramadan among Gambian adolescent women
Even using energy sparing behaviors, adolescent women enter negative energy balance when Ramadan and the agricultural season co-occur. Metabolic physiology shows a transient response to high glycemic index foods consumed at night. Older and larger individuals sustain greater losses during Ramadan
A life history approach to prenatal supplementation
While prenatal supplementation with protein, lipids, carbohydrates, and micronutrients has been used to improve infant outcomes in undernourished populations since the 1960s with inconsistent results, a flourishing body of literature within biological anthropology has used life history theory to explain why supplemental resources are often allocated to maternal survival and future reproduction and not to the current offspring. To date, however, p…
Reproductive Justice and the History of Prenatal Supplementation
In the 1980s, British researchers gave pregnant and nursing women in a rural community in The Gambia supplemental food in order to increase the size and health of their infants. While the supplement led to modest gains in birth weight during the rainy season, it did not enhance breast milk volume or quality. It did, however, cause women to feel healthier and to conceive again more quickly than expected, with unforeseen consequences: the new, unsu…
Aroused
Adolescence as a Biocultural Life History Transition
While the categories of adolescence and puberty are often treated as one, the existence of two distinct terms points to different kinds of maturation in humans. Puberty refers to a period of coordinated somatic growth and reproductive maturation that shifts individuals from nonreproductive juvenility to reproductive maturity. Adolescence includes the behavioral and social assumption of adult roles. Life history theory offers powerful tools for un…
Sex disparities in Covid-19 outcomes in the United States
Does Menstrual Cycle Tracking Enhance Female Athlete Health and Performance? Evaluating Five Implicit Assumptions of an Emerging Paradigm
Biology (5 obras) · Medicine (5 obras) · Sociology (4 obras) · Endocrinology (3 obras) · History (3 obras) · Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (3 obras) · Population (3 obras) · Psychology (3 obras) · Public health (3 obras) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (2 obras)