Mikael Fogelholm

Academy of Finland, Finland

Mikael Fogelholm, PhD

Academic positions:
Director of the UKK Institute for Health Promotion Research, Tampere, Finland

All commercial positions (in last five years):
President of the 12th European Congress on Obesity, Helsinki, 2003.
President of the Finnish Association for the Study on Obesity, 2002-2004.

Member of editorial board:
- International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism
- Scandinavian Journal of Nutrition
- Obesity Reviews

Previous positions (in the last five years):

Research interests:
- Physical activity and obesity
- Assessment of body composition
- Exercise and nutrition

Any other information:

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Diabetes & Endocrinology > Diabetes & Obesity (since 14 November 2005)

All recent recommendations

• 3.0
  Physical activity energy expenditure has not declined since the 1980s and matches energy expenditures of wild mammals.
  Recommended by Mikael Fogelholm
  
• 6.0
  Physical activity recommendations and decreased risk of mortality.
  Recommended by Mikael Fogelholm
  
• 3.0
  The effects of high-intensity intermittent exercise training on fat loss and fasting insulin levels of young women.
  Recommended by Mikael Fogelholm
  
• 4.8
  A novel interaction between dietary composition and insulin secretion: effects on weight gain in the Quebec Family Study.
  Recommended by Mikael Fogelholm, Ian Macdonald with Jose Lara
  
• 3.0
  Body mass index, physical activity and erectile dysfunction: an U-shaped relationship from population-based study.
  Recommended by Mikael Fogelholm
  
• 6.0
  Cardiorespiratory fitness and adiposity as mortality predictors in older adults.
  Recommended by Mikael Fogelholm
  
• 3.0
  APPLE Project: 2-y findings of a community-based obesity prevention program in primary school age children.
  Recommended by Mikael Fogelholm
  
• 3.0
  Physical performance and school physical education in overweight Spanish children
  Recommended by Mikael Fogelholm
  
• 3.0
  Sugar intake, soft drink consumption and body weight among British children: further analysis of National Diet and Nutrition Survey data with adjustment for under-reporting and physical activity.
  Recommended by Mikael Fogelholm
  
• 3.0
  Leisure time physical activity in middle age predicts the metabolic syndrome in old age: results of a 28-year follow-up of men in the Oslo study.
  Recommended by Mikael Fogelholm
  
• 3.0
  The relationship between obesity and injuries among U.S. adults.
  Recommended by Mikael Fogelholm
  
• 6.0
  Low carbohydrate-high protein diet and mortality in a cohort of Swedish women.
  Recommended by Mikael Fogelholm
  
• 3.0
  Dietary energy density is associated with energy intake and weight status in US adults.
  Recommended by Mikael Fogelholm
  
• 3.0
  Addition of aerobic exercise to dietary weight loss preferentially reduces abdominal adipocyte size.
  Recommended by Mikael Fogelholm
  
• 6.0
  Association of long-distance corridor walk performance with mortality, cardiovascular disease, mobility limitation, and disability.
  Recommended by Mikael Fogelholm
  
• 3.0
  Body mass index is inversely related to mortality in older people after adjustment for waist circumference.
  Recommended by Mikael Fogelholm
  
• 6.0
  Physical activity and survival after breast cancer diagnosis.
  Recommended by Mikael Fogelholm
  
• 3.0
  Relation between the changes in physical activity and body-mass index during adolescence: a multicentre longitudinal study.
  Recommended by Mikael Fogelholm