Professor Tapsell is a leading Australian researcher in Nutrition and Dietetics She began her career with a Bachelor of Science (majoring in Biochemistry and Pharmacology) and Graduate Diploma in Nutrition and Dietetics (University of Sydney,1976)followed by a Masters in Health Personnel Education (UNSW, 1985) and a PhD in Public Health and Nutrition (Wollongong 1996). Her career began as a dietitian and has included employment in hospital and community health settings, before moving to in academia, management and research 1990. Apart from leading the research team at the Smart Foods Centre, Professor Tapsell also jointly manages the Food and Health Strategic Research Initiative at the University, and has previously led the National Centre of Excellence in Functional Foods. Since 2003, Professor Tapsell has been the Editor in Chief of Nutrition & Dietetics, the scientific journal of the DAA and Dietitians New Zealand. She is leading the Scientific Program Committee for the International Congress of Dietetics, to be held later this year in Sydney. She serves on several scientific advisory panels in Australia and overseas, most recently the Expert Working Group on Climate Change and Food Security (Prime Minister’s Science Engineering and Innovation Committee), and the Dietary Guidelines Working Committee (National Health and Medical Research Council).
Journal Articles
Dietary intake after treatment in child cancer survivors (with Jennifer Cohen, Claire E. Wakefield, Catharine A.K Fleming, Rebecca Gawthorne, and Richard J. Cohn), Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (2012)
BACKGROUND: Childhood cancer survivors (CCS) are at increased risk of complications such as obesity, diabetes,...
Activity counts from accelerometers do not add value to energy expenditure predictions in sedentary overweight individuals during weight loss interventions (with Sze Yen Tan and Marijka Batterham), Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (2011)
Background: Knowing the total energy expenditure (TEE) of overweight adults is important for prescribing weight...
Consumers' salient beliefs regarding dairy products in the functional food era: a qualitative study using concepts from the theory of planned behaviour (with Deborah Nolan, Elizabeth Neale, Yasmine Probst, and Karen E. Charlton), Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (2011)
Background Inadequate consumption of dairy products without appropriate dietary substitution may have deleterious health consequences....
Development and validation of an Australian database for estimating the seafood content of canned products (with Elizabeth Neale, Yasmine Probst, and Marijka Batterham), Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (2011)
Canned fish products are of increasing popularity in Australia; however current Australian nutrient databases do...
Effects of dairy products on Crohn's Disease symptoms are influenced by fat content and disease location but not lactose content or disease activity status in a New Zealand population (with Deborah Nolan, Rong Hu, Dug Yeo Han, and Lynnette Ferguson), Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (2011)
Background Dairy products have been perceived as having the potential to cause adverse effects in...
Conference Papers
Baseline characteristics of volunteers in the smart clinical trial: associations between habitual physical activity and lifestyle disease risk factors (with Qingsheng Zhang, Jane E. O'Shea, Rebecca L. Thorne, Marijka Batterham, and Karen E. Charlton), Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (2010)
Physical Activity has been suggested to have favorable effects on various cardiovascular risk factors, and...
Cholesterol-lowering effects of B-glucan containing breakfast cereals and snack bars (with Karen E. Charlton, Marijka Batterham, Jane E. O'Shea, Rebecca L. Thorne, Qingsheng Zhang, and Eleanor Beck), Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (2010)
Fibre: male participants not getting enough (with Rebecca L. Thorne, Jane E. O'Shea, Qingsheng Zhang, Marijka Batterham, and Karen E. Charlton), Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (2010)
A regular intake of dietary fibre has been associated with a number of health benefits....
Pork, beef and chicken have similar effects on acute satiety and appetite regulatory hormone responses (with Karen E. Charlton, Marijka Batterham, Jane E. O'Shea, Rebecca L. Thorne, Qingsheng Zhang, and Eleanor Beck), Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (2010)
Start date may predict attrition 6 months into a 12mth dietary intervention weight loss trial (with Jane O'Shea, Marijka Batterham, Karen Charlton, Yasmine Probst, Rebecca Thorne, Qingsheng Zhang, and Holley Jones), Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (2010)
Participant recruitment is a difficult and time consuming aspect of clinical trials, often resulting in...
Book Chapter
Dietary fat and carbohydrate composition: Metabolic disease (with Marc A. Brown, Len H. Storlien, Xu-Feng Huang, Paul L. Else, Janine A. Higgins, and Ian L. Brown), Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (2010)
Nutrigenomics: a genomic approach to human nutrition (with Dilip K. Ghosh), Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (2009)
Nutrition in the prevention of chronic disease (with Y. C. Probst), Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (2008)
Increasing prevalence rates of chronic disease requires a more sophisticated view of the effects of...
Potential impact of anthocyanins on brain health function (with Dilip K. Ghosh), Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (2008)
The hypocholesterolaemic Effect of chronic Soy Consumption may be linked to Equol (with Barbara Meyer, Theresa A. Larkin, Alice Owen, Lee Astheimer, and Peter Howe), Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (2002)
Report
Food, health and nutrition: where does chicken fit? (with Karen E. Charlton, Yasmine Probst, and Patrick J. Blackall), Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (2008)
The link between diet and health is important, given the prevalence of diet related disease,...