Gibson, S. (1997). Obesity: is it related to sugar in children’s diets?. Nutrition & Food Science, 97(5), pp.184-187. Children’s diets tend to be higher in sugars than those of adults, and parents often associate sugar with obesity. Contrary to this hypothesis, surveys of various age groups all tend to show an inverse relationship between sugars […]

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Gibson, S. (1996). Consumption of cakes, biscuits and confectionery by British schoolchildren: association with nutrient intakes. Abstract Fat energy was positively associated with cake consumption, inversely with sweets and not signficantly with biscuits or chocolate. Conclude that above-average intakes of cakes, biscuits and confectionery do not appear to have a marked efect on fat energy […]

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Eves, A., Gibson, S., Kilcast, D. and Rose, D. (1994). Influence of Nutrition Information on the Attitudes and Knowledge of Dieters. Nutrition & Food Science, 94(5), pp.17-21. Reports a study in which a structured questionnaire was used to elicit the attitudes and knowledge of 451 women (18‐35 years), 217 dieters and 234 non‐dieters to nutritional […]

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