Boyd Swinburn

Research interests

Publications

• Ultra-processed foods and human health: the main thesis and the evidence

  The Lancet · 2025 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(25)01565-x

• Global trends in ultraprocessed food and drink product sales and their association with adult body mass index trajectories

  Obesity Reviews · 2019 · 10.1111/obr.12860

• The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change: The Lancet Commission report

  The Lancet · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(18)32822-8

• Global benchmarking of children's exposure to television advertising of unhealthy foods and beverages across 22 countries

  Obesity Reviews · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.12840

• The obesity transition: stages of the global epidemic

  The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s2213-8587(19)30026-9

• The share of ultra-processed foods and the overall nutritional quality of diets in the US: evidence from a nationally representative cross-sectional study

  Population Health Metrics · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1186/s12963-017-0119-3

• Global Nutrition Report 2016 From Promise to Impact Ending Malnutrition by 2030

  · 2016 · 10.2499/9780896295841

• Child and adolescent obesity: part of a bigger picture

  The Lancet · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(14)61746-3

• Patchy progress on obesity prevention: emerging examples, entrenched barriers, and new thinking

  The Lancet · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(14)61744-x

• Strengthening of accountability systems to create healthy food environments and reduce global obesity

  The Lancet · 2015 · 10.1016/s0140-6736(14)61747-5

• A proposed approach to systematically identify and monitor the corporate political activity of the food industry with respect to public health using publicly available information

  Obesity Reviews · 2015 · 10.1111/obr.12289

• Increased food energy supply as a major driver of the obesity epidemic: a global analysis

  Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2015 · 10.2471/blt.14.150565

• Acculturation and obesity among migrant populations in high income countries – a systematic review

  BMC Public Health · 2013 · 10.1186/1471-2458-13-458

• INFORMAS ( I nternational N etwork for F ood and O besity/non‐communicable diseases R esearch, M onitoring and A ction S upport): overview and key principles

  Obesity Reviews · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.12087

• The global obesity pandemic: shaped by global drivers and local environments

  The Lancet · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(11)60813-1

• A Prospective Study of Diet Quality and Mental Health in Adolescents

  PLoS ONE · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0024805

• Quantification of the effect of energy imbalance on bodyweight

  The Lancet · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(11)60812-x

• Changing the future of obesity: science, policy, and action

  The Lancet · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(11)60815-5

• Estimating the changes in energy flux that characterize the rise in obesity prevalence

  American Journal of Clinical Nutrition · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.2008.27061

• Increased food energy supply is more than sufficient to explain the US epidemic of obesity

  American Journal of Clinical Nutrition · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.2009.28595

• Impact of front-of-pack 'traffic-light' nutrition labelling on consumer food purchases in the UK

  Health Promotion International · 2009 · 10.1093/heapro/dap032

• Obesity prevention: a proposed framework for translating evidence into action

  Obesity Reviews · 2005 · 10.1111/j.1467-789x.2005.00184.x

• Body size, body composition, and fat distribution: a comparison of young New Zealand men of European, Pacific Island, and Asian Indian ethnicities.

  PubMed · 2004

• Diet, nutrition and the prevention of chronic diseases

  Figshare · 2003

• Preventive strategies against weight gain and obesity

  Obesity Reviews · 2002 · 10.1046/j.1467-789x.2002.00082.x

• The green prescription study: a randomized controlled trial of written exercise advice provided by general practitioners.

  American Journal of Public Health · 1998 · 10.2105/ajph.88.2.288

• Insulin resistance associated with lower rates of weight gain in Pima Indians.

  Journal of Clinical Investigation · 1991 · 10.1172/jci115274

• Low ratio of fat to carbohydrate oxidation as predictor of weight gain: study of 24-h RQ

  American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism · 1990 · https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpendo.1990.259.5.e650

• Impaired Glucose Tolerance as a Disorder of Insulin Action

  New England Journal of Medicine · 1988 · https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198805123181901

Current projects

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