Jonathan C. K. Wells

Research interests

Publications

• Daily energy expenditure through the human life course

  Science · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abe5017

• Boys are more likely to be undernourished than girls: a systematic review and meta-analysis of sex differences in undernutrition

  BMJ Global Health · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-004030

• The double burden of malnutrition: aetiological pathways and consequences for health

  The Lancet · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(19)32472-9

• Understanding the rise of cardiometabolic diseases in low- and middle-income countries

  Nature Medicine · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-019-0644-7

• The obstetric dilemma: An ancient game of Russian roulette, or a variable dilemma sensitive to ecology?

  American Journal of Physical Anthropology · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22160

• Sarcopenic obesity: A Critical appraisal of the current evidence

  Clinical Nutrition · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clnu.2012.06.010

• Correlates of physical activity: why are some people physically active and others not?

  The Lancet · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(12)60735-1

• Infancy Weight Gain Predicts Childhood Body Fat and Age at Menarche in Girls

  The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1210/jc.2008-2489

• Maternal capital and the metabolic ghetto: An evolutionary perspective on the transgenerational basis of health inequalities

  American Journal of Human Biology · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.20994

• Use of Accelerometers in a Large Field-Based Study of Children: Protocols, Design Issues, and Effects on Precision

  Journal of Physical Activity and Health · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1123/jpah.5.s1.s98

• Cohort Profile: The 1993 Pelotas (Brazil) Birth Cohort Study

  International Journal of Epidemiology · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dym177

• Sexual dimorphism of body composition

  Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beem.2007.04.007

• Programming of body composition by early growth and nutrition

  Proceedings of The Nutrition Society · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1017/s0029665107005691

• Objectively Measured Physical Activity and Fat Mass in a Large Cohort of Children

  PLoS Medicine · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040097

• The thrifty phenotype as an adaptive maternal effect

  Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-185x.2006.00007.x

• The evolution of human fatness and susceptibility to obesity: an ethological approach

  Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1017/s1464793105006974

• Adolescent Physical Activity and Health

  Sports Medicine · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.2165/00007256-200636120-00003

• Measuring body composition

  Archives of Disease in Childhood · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.2005.085522

• The Thrifty Phenotype Hypothesis: Thrifty Offspring or Thrifty Mother?

  Journal of Theoretical Biology · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1006/jtbi.2003.3183

• Physical Inactivity: Prevalence and Associated Variables in Brazilian Adults

  Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1249/01.mss.0000093615.33774.0e

• Programming of lean body mass: a link between birth weight, obesity, and cardiovascular disease?

  American Journal of Clinical Nutrition · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/77.3.726

• Adjustment of fat-free mass and fat mass for height in children aged 8 y

  International Journal of Obesity · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.ijo.0802027

• Energetics and the Evolution of the GenusHOMO

  Annual Review of Anthropology · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.31.040402.085403

• A critique of the expression of paediatric body composition data

  Archives of Disease in Childhood · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.85.1.67

• Natural Selection and Sex Differences in Morbidity and Mortality in Early Life

  Journal of Theoretical Biology · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1006/jtbi.1999.1044

• Four-component model of body composition in children: density and hydration of fat-free mass and comparison with simpler models

  American Journal of Clinical Nutrition · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/69.5.904

Current projects

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