Increasing body size among adult Cook Islanders between 1966 and 1996

References

• BAKER, P. T., 1984, Migrations, genetics, and the degenerative diseases of South Pacific Islanders. In Migration and Mobility, edited by A. J. Boyce (London: Taylor and Francis), pp. 209–239. BAKER, P. T., HANNA, J. M., and BAKER, T. S., 1986, The Changing Samoans: Behavior and Health in Transition (New York: Oxford University Press).
   Google Scholar
• BINDON, J. R., 1995, Polynesian responses to modernization: overweight and obesity in the South Pacific. In Social Aspects of Obesity, edited by I. de Garine and N. J. Pollock (London: Gordon and Breach), pp. 227–251.
   Google Scholar
• BINDON, J. R., and BAKER, P. T., 1985, Modernization, migration and obesity among Samoan adults. Annals of Human Biology, 12, 67–76.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• BINDON, J. R., and BAKER, P. T., 1997, Bergmann's rule and the thrifty genotype. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 104, 201–210.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• BINDON, J. R., and CREWS, D. E., 1993, Changes in some health status characteristics of American Samoan men: preliminary observations from a 12-year follow-up study. American Journal of Human Biology, 5, 31–37.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• BYERS, T., WOLF, R., and WILLIAMSON, D. F., 1994, World-wide increases in body size during the twentieth century: global fattening? In Nutrition in a Sustainable Environment, edited by M. L. Wahlqvist, A. S. Truswell, R. Smith and P. J. Nestel (London: Smith-Gordon), pp. 203–207.
   Google Scholar
• EVANS, J. G., and PRIOR, I. A. M., 1969, Indices of obesity derived from height and weight in two Polynesian populations. British Journal of Preventive and Social Medicine, 23, 56–59.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• FRIENDLAENDER, J. S., 1975, Patterns of Human Variation (Cambridge Massachusetts: Harvard University Press).
   Google Scholar
• FRIENDLAENDER, J. S., and RHOADS, J. G., 1982, Patterns of adult weight and fat change in six Solomon Islands Societies: a semi-longitudinal study. Social Science Medicine, 16, 205–215.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• GALANIS, D. J., SOBAL, J., MCGARVEY, S. T., PELLETIER, DL., and BAUSSERMAN, L., 1995, Ten-year changes in the obesity, abdominal adiposity, and serum lipoprotein cholesterol measures of Western Samoan men. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 48, 1485–1493.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• HOUGHTON, P., 1990, The adaptive significance of Polynesian body form. Annals of Human Biology, 17, 19–32.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• KATZMARZYK, P. T., and LEONARD, W. R., 1998, Climatic influences on human body size and propor-tions: ecological adaptations and secular trends. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 106, 483–503.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• KERR, C., TAYLOR, R., and HEARD, G., 1998, Handbook of Public Health Methods (Sydney: McGraw-Hill).
   Google Scholar
• MCANULTY, J., and SCRAGG, R. 1996, Body mass index and cardiovascular risk factors in Pacific Island Polynesians and Europeans in New Zealand. Ethnicity and Health, 1, 187–195.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• MCGARVEY, S. T., BINDON, J. R., CREWS, D. E., and SCHENDEL, D. E., 1989, Modernization and adip-osity: causes and consequences In Human Population Biology, edited by M. A. Little and J. D. Haas (New York: Oxford University Press), pp. 263–279.
   Google Scholar
• MCGARVEY, S. T., LEVINSON, P. D., BAUSSERMAN, L., GALANIS, D. J., and HORNICK, C. A., 1993, Population change in adult obesity and blood lipids in American Samoa from 1976-1978 to 1990. American Journal of Human Biology, 5, 17–30.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• MINISTRY OF HEALTH FOR THE COOK ISLANDS, 1995, Cook Islands Statistical Bulletin (Rarotonga: Statistics and Medical Records Unit).
   Google Scholar
• NEWMAN, M. T., and MUNROE, E. H., 1955, The relation of climate and body size in U.S. males. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 13, 1–17.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• NILE, R., and CLARK, C., 1996, Cultural Atlas of Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific (Oxford: Andromeda Oxford).
   Google Scholar
• POPKIN, B. M., and DREWNOWSKI, A., 1998, Emerging trends in the nutrition transition. In From Nutritional Science to Nutrition Practice for Better Global Health. Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Nutrition, edited by D. W. Fitzpatrick, J. E. Anderson and M. L. Abbe (Ottawa: Canadian Federation of Biological Societies), pp. 261–262.
   Google Scholar
• ROBERTS, D. F., 1953, Body weight, race and climate. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 11, 533–558.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• RUFF, C. B., 1994, Morphological adaptation to climate in modern and fossil hominids. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, 37, 65–107.
   Google Scholar
• ULIJASZEK, S. J.,1993, Evidence for a secular trend in heights and weights of adults in Papua New Guinea. Annals of Human Biology, 20, 349–355.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• ULIJASZEK, S. J., 1995 Development, modernisation and health intervention. In Health Intervention in Less Developed Nations, edited by S. J. Ulijaszek (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 82-136. ULIJASZEK, S. J., and KERR, D. A., 1999, Anthropometric measurement error and nutritional status. British Journal of Nutrition, 82, 165–177.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• ULIJASZEK, S. J., and LOURIE, J. A., 1994, Intra- and inter-observer error in anthropometric measurement. In Anthropometry: the Individual and the Population, edited by S. J. Ulijaszek and C. G. N. Mascie-Taylor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 30–55.
   Google Scholar
• WEINER, J. S., and LOURIE, J. A., 1981, Practical Human Biology (London: Academic Press).
   Google Scholar