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Dr

Anita Lawrence

Senior Lecturer (Human Nutrition)
Agriculture And Food
Dietary guidelines
Sustainable healthy diets
Healthy ageing
Bone health
Dental health
Dairy foods
Dietary patterns
Obesity
Nutrition research
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Dr

Anita Lawrence

 
Division
Veterinary And Agricultural Sciences
 
Primary Interest
Human Nutrition
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Dr

Anita Lawrence

 

Dr Anita Lawrence is a Senior Lecturer in Human Nutrition in the School of Agriculture and Food within the Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences. She completed a MMed Sci and a PhD in Human Nutrition in the UK at the University of Sheffield.

Anita is a Registered Nutritionist and has worked as a nutrition scientist in a variety of senior roles in the UK and Australia for more than two decades. Anita’s research interests focus on nutrition science, dietary advice and guidelines, dietary patterns, sustainable healthy diets, nutrition research methods and the impact of dairy food intake on health. They also include the impact of human nutrition on bone and dental health, obesity, cardiometabolic diseases and ageing.

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 12 most recent scholarly works by Anita Lawrence.

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Interpretive nutrient profiling algorithms are a limited tool for assessing the healthiness of countries' packaged food and beverage supplies, and the conclusions are not substantiated by the data

Mark Lawrence, Anita Lawrence, Rosemary Stanton, Christina Pollard, Claire Pulker, Julie Woods, Bronwyn Ashton

Journal article  |  2019  |  Obesity Reviews

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Effects of dietary fat and carbohydrate on daytime sleepiness and mood.

AS Wells

Journal article  |  2010

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The role of milk in the British diet.

AS Wells

Journal article  |  2001  |  International Journal of Dairy Technology

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Effects of carbohydrate and lipid on resting energy expenditure, heart rate, sleepiness, and mood

AS Wells, NW Read, IA Macdonald

Journal article  |  1998  |  Physiology & Behavior

The effects of gastric infusions of fat and carbohydrate on physiological and psychological measures were compared using a within ..

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Effects of meals on objective and subjective measures of daytime sleepiness

AS Wells, NW Read, C Idzikowski, J Jones

Journal article  |  1998  |  Journal of Applied Physiology

Effects of recent food ingestion on daytime sleepiness were assessed in 16 subjects (8 men and 8 women) who were each studied on t..

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Alterations in mood after changing to a low-fat diet

AS Wells, NW Read, JDE Laugharne, NS Ahluwalia

Journal article  |  1998  |  British Journal of Nutrition

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The influence of food on pain perception in healthy human volunteers

SA Zmarzty, AS Wells, NW Read

Journal article  |  1997  |  Physiology & Behavior

The aim of this study was to investigate if food could reduce pain perception in a group of 16 healthy human volunteers (8 male an..

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Influences of fat and carbohydrate on postprandial sleepiness, mood, and hormones

AS Wells, NW Read, K UvnasMoberg, P Alster

Journal article  |  1997  |  Physiology & Behavior

Paired studies were conducted in 18 healthy volunteers (9 men, 9 women) to investigate whether differences in mood and daytime sle..

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Effects of a specific CCK-A antagonist, Loxiglumide, on postprandial mood and sleepiness

AS Wells, NW Read, M Fried, J Borovicka, M DAmato

Journal article  |  1997  |  Journal of Psychopharmacology

Previous studies have demonstrated that feelings of sleepiness increase after ingestion of a fat-rich meal. The aim of the study w..

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Role of cholecystokinin as a regulator of solid and liquid gastric emptying in humans

J Borovicka, C Kreiss, K Asal, B Remy, C Mettraux, A Wells, NW Read, JB Jansen, M DAmato, AB Delaloye, M Fried, W Schwizer

Journal article  |  1996  |  American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

The role of endogenous cholecystokinin (CCK) in the regulation of gastric emptying remains controversial. We therefore studied the..

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Influences of fat, energy, and time of day on mood and performance

AS Wells, NW Read

Journal article  |  1996  |  Physiology & Behavior

Paired studies testing the effects of lower energy high-fat, low-CHO meals (3181 kJ, fat:CHO energy ratio 54:41) and higher energy..

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INFLUENCES OF DIETARY AND INTRADUODENAL LIPID ON ALERTNESS, MOOD, AND SUSTAINED CONCENTRATION

AS WELLS, NW READ, A CRAIG

Journal article  |  1995  |  British Journal of Nutrition

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Clinical Health (organs, Diseases and Abnormal Conditions)
Other Medical and Health Sciences
Other Psychology and Cognitive Sciences

Credentials

Positions

Senior Lecturer (Human Nutrition)

Agriculture And Food

Member

Nutrition Society of Australia

Education

Doctor of Philosophy in Human Nutrition

University of Sheffield

Master of Medical Science in Human Nutrition

University of Sheffield

Post Graduate Certificate of Education

University of Wales

Home Economics (Food)

University of Wales

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