Special acknowledgement was made by the Consultation to the following individuals who were instrumental in the preparation and proceedings of the meeting: Dr C. Nishida, Department of Nutrition for Health and Development, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland; Dr P. Puska, Director, Department of Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland; Dr P. Shetty, Chief, Food and Nutrition Division, Rome, Italy; and Dr R. Weisel, Food and Nutrition Division, FAO, Rome, Italy.
The Consultation also expressed deep appreciation to the following individuals for their contributions to the running of the meeting and the finalizing of the report: Dr M. Deurenberg-Yap, Health Promotion Board, Singapore, Professor S. Kumanyika, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Professor J. C. Seidell, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and Dr R. Uauy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, England and Institute of Nutrition of the University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
The Consultation also thanked the authors of the background papers for the Consultation: Dr N. Allen, University of Oxford, Oxford, England; Dr P. Bennett, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Phoenix, AZ, USA; Professor I. Caterson, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; Dr I. Darnton-Hill, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; Professor W.P.T. James, International Obesity Task Force, London, England; Professor M.B. Katan, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands; Dr T.J. Key, University of Oxford, Oxford, England; Dr J. Lindströmn, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland; Dr A. Louheranta, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland; Professor J. Mann, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand; Dr P. Moynihan, University of Newcastle, Newcastleupon-Tyne, England; Dr P.E. Petersen, Noncommunicable Disease and Health Promotion, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland; Dr A. Prentice, Medical Research Council Human Nutrition Research, Cambridge, England; Professor K.S. Reddy, All India Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi, India; Dr A. Schatzkin, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA; Dr A.P. Simopoulos, The Centre for Genetics, Nutrition and Health, Washington, DC, USA; Ms E. Spencer, University of Oxford, Oxford, England; Dr N. Steyn, Medical Research Council, Tygerberg, South Africa; Professor B. Swinburn, Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Professor N. Temple, Athabasca University, Athabasca, Alberta, Canada; Ms R. Travis, University of Oxford, Oxford, England; Dr J. Tuomilehto, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland; Dr W. Willett, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; and Professor P. Zimmet, International Diabetes Institute, Caulfield, Victoria, Australia.
The Consultation also recognized the valuable contributions made by the following individuals who provided comments on the background documents: Dr Franca Bianchini, Unit of Chemoprevention, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France; Mr G. Boedeker, Economic and Social Department, FAO, Rome, Italy; Professor G.A. Bray, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA; Mr J. Bruinsma, Economic and Social Department, FAO, Rome, Italy; Dr L.K. Cohen, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA; Professor A. Ferro-Luzzi, National Institute for Food and Nutrition Research, Rome, Italy; Dr R. Francis, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England; Dr Ghafoorunissa, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India; Dr K. Hardwick, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA; Dr H. King, Department of Management of Noncommunicable Diseases, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland; Dr J. King, University of California, Davis, CA, USA; Dr L.N. Kolonel, University of Hawaii, Manoa, HI, USA; Professor N.S. Levitt, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; Dr P. Lingström, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Professor A. McMichael, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia; Professor S. Moss, Oral Health Promotion Committee, New York, NY, USA; Professor K. O’Dea, Menzies School of Health Research, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia; Professor D. O’Mullane, University of Cork, Cork, Ireland; Dr P. Pietinen, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland; Dr J. Powles, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England; Dr E. Riboli, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France; Dr S. Ro¨ snner, Huddinge University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden; Professor A. Rugg-Gunn, University of Newcastle, Newcastleupon-Tyne, England; Mr J. Schmidhuber, Economic and Social Department, FAO, Rome, Italy; Professor A. Sheiham, University College London Medical School, London, England; Professor S. Truswell, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Dr S. Tsugane, National Cancer Center Research Institute East, Tsukiji, Tokyo, Japan; Dr Ilkka Vuori, UKK Institute for Health Promotion Research, Tampere, Finland; Dr A.R.P. Walker, South African Institute for Medical Research, Johannesburg, South Africa; Dr S. Watanabe, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan; Dr C. Yajnik, King Edward Memorial Hospital Research Centre, Mumbai, India; and Dr S. Yusaf, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Acknowledgement was made by the Consultation to the following individuals for their continual guidance: Dr D. Yach, Executive Director, Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland; Dr D. Nabarro, Executive Director, Sustainable Development and Healthy Environments, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland; Mr H. De Haen, Assistant Director-General, Economic and Social Department, FAO, Rome, Italy; Dr G.A. Clugston, Director, Department of Nutrition for Health and Development, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland; and Dr K. Tontisirin, Director, Food and Nutrition Division, FAO, Rome, Italy.
The Consultation expressed special appreciation to Ms P. Robertson for her valuable contribution to the preparation and running of the meeting, to Mrs A. Haden and Mrs A. Rowe for their editorial assistance, and to Mrs R. Imperial Laue, Ms S. Nalty, Ms T. Mutru, Mrs R. Bourne, Mrs A. Manus, Mrs A. Ryan-Röhrich and Ms C. Melin for their assistance in checking, typing and finalizing the manuscript.
