Breaking the obesity cycle
Liggins Institute professor Paul Hofman discussed problems associated with childhood obesity and its role in perpetuating intergenerational cycles of obesity in an interview with Radio NZ’s Veronika Meduna. The interview first aired 31 July on Radio NZ National “Our Changing World”.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ourchangingworld/audio/20143512/childhood-obesity
Professor Hofman is a paediatrician specialising hormone related disorders of growth and metabolism during childhood. He combines clinical work at Auckland’s Starship Children’s Hospital with research at the Liggins Institute, where he is Director of the Maurice and Agnes Paykel Clinical Research Unit.
He also referred to issues related to childhood obesity in his inaugural professorial lecture “Persistent echoes of early life” which he presented at the University of Auckland on 30 July. Read more
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