Professor Paul Gately, Professor

Professor Paul Gately

Professor

Paul has been at the helm of MoreLife since it was established at Leeds Beckett University in 1999 and it is now one of the largest specialist training and services provider for tackling childhood and adult obesity. MoreLife’s research was commended as an impact case study for the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF).

Paul has led a broad range of innovative obesity research from understanding the influence of obesogenic environments to the impact of high protein diets on obese children, always conducted with the needs of service users at the heart of his research activities. With a strong focus on the link between research and practice, he believes this approach has never been more important. In addition, Paul and colleagues contribute to policy and practice development in the public, private and not for profit sectors in the areas of obesity, nutrition and physical activity. He has secured contracts worth over £20 million from the NHS and Local Authorities and has acted as a principal investigator for £5million worth of grants from charities and research funding agencies.

Professor Paul Gately, Professor

Ask Me About

  1. Childhood obesity
  2. Treatment of obesity
  3. Diet
  4. Eating disorders
  5. Exercise and physical activity
  6. Obesity
  7. Weight management

Selected Outputs

  • NHS Health and Social Care Awards2009 Excellence in Commissioning for partnership with NHS Rotherham
  • NIHR Review Board
  • Centre for Social Justice Advisor
  • Trustee of the Charity – Obesity UK
  • 66% of adults in Maldon are considered overweight or obese

    Clacton Gazette - online

    Paul Gately, Professor of Exercise and Obesity at Leeds Beckett University and CEO of MoreLife said: “The Public Health England evidence is clear that people who are suffering from obesity or are overweight are at greater risk of serious illness or death from Covid-19."

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  • Could SDIL’s sweet success expand beyond soft drink? ‘The lack of taxation for sugary milk drinks definitely needs more thought’

    Food Navigator - online

    The UK’s soft drink tax has probably been of greatest benefit to the Childhood Obesity Plan, says Association for the Study of Obesity Chair Dr Maria Bryant, and similar principles should ‘absolutely’ be applied to sugary milk drinks.

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  • Fat chance of a healthy UK as millennials turn obese

    Yorkshire Post - online

    Paul Gately, professor of exercise and obesity at Leeds Beckett University, says health experts have been warning about this issue for decades. “Obesity has been an issue across all age groups for 20 or 30 years. We’ve known this problem has been coming but we just haven’t really done anything about it.”

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  • Obvious warning signs of child obesity

    Irish Examiner - online

    Professor Paul Gately, professor of exercise and obesity at Leeds Beckett University, said the BMI calculator is the best indicator of obesity, saying the likelihood of an inaccurate result in children is very low.

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  • Sugar ‘obsession’ could skew obesity strategy

    Food Manufacture - online

    Britain’s “complete obsession” with sugar could skew the government’s childhood obesity strategy due next month, warns a leading obesity expert, who was dismissive of a sugar tax.

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  • Griffiths C; Gately P; Marchant PR; Cooke CB (2014) Response to 'Area-level deprivation and adiposity in children: is the relationship linear?'. International journal of obesity (2005), 38 (1), pp. 161-162.

    https://doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2013.66

  • Hobkirk JP; King RF; Gately P; Pemberton P; Smith A; Barth JH; Harman N; Davies I; Carroll S (2013) The predictive ability of triglycerides and waist (hypertriglyceridemic waist) in assessing metabolic triad change in obese children and adolescents. Metabolic syndrome and related disorders, 11 (5), pp. 336-342.

    https://doi.org/10.1089/met.2012.0152

  • Gately PJ; Curtis C (2013) Implementing behaviour change for healthier lifestyles in obese children. Nutrition Bulletin, 38 (1), pp. 43-49.

    https://doi.org/10.1111/nbu.12006

  • Griffiths C; Marchant P; Gately P; Cooke CB (2012) Cross Sectional Comparisons of Body Mass Index and Waist Circumference in British Children: Mixed Public Health Messages. Obesity, 20 pp. 1258-1260.

    https://doi.org/10.1038/oby.2011.294

  • Hobkirk JP; King RF; Gately P; Pemberton P; Smith A; Barth JH; Carroll S (2012) Longitudinal factor analysis reveals a distinct clustering of cardiometabolic improvements during intensive, short-term dietary and exercise intervention in obese children and adolescents. Metabolic syndrome and related disorders, 10 (1), pp. 20-25.

    https://doi.org/10.1089/met.2011.0050

  • Hester JR; McKenna J; Gately PJ (2010) Obese young people's accounts of intervention impact. Patient Education and Counseling, 79 (3), pp. 306-314.

    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pec.2009.11.005

  • O'Donovan G; Blazevich AJ; Boreham C; Cooper AR; Crank H; Ekelund U; Fox K; Gately PJ; Giles-Mutrie B; Reilly JJ (2010) The ABC of physical activity for health: a concensus staement from the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences. , 28 (6), pp. 573-591.

  • O'Donovan G; Blazevich AJ; Boreham C; Cooper AR; Crank H; Ekelund U; Fox KR; Gately P; Giles-Corti B; Gill JMR (2010) The ABC of physical activity for health: A consensus statement from the British association of sport and exercise sciences. Journal of Sports Sciences, 28 (6), pp. 573-591.

    https://doi.org/10.1080/02640411003671212

  • Radley D; Cooke CB; Fuller NJ; Oldroyd B; Truscott JG; Coward WA; Wright A; Gately PJ (2009) Validity of foot-to-foot bio-electrical impedance analysis body composition estimates in overweight and obese children. International Journal of Body Composition Research, 7 (1), pp. 15-20.

  • Duckworth LC; Gately PJ; Radley D; Cooke CB; King RFGJ; Hill A (2009) RCT of a high-protein diet on hunger, motivation and weight-loss in obese children: An extension and replication. Obesity, 17 pp. 1808-1810.

    https://doi.org/10.1038/oby.2009.95

  • King RFGJ; Hobkirk JP; Cooke CB; Radley D; Gately PJ (2008) Low-density lipoprotein sub-fraction profiles in obese children before and after attending a residential weight loss intervention. Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis, 15 (2), pp. 100-107.

    https://doi.org/10.5551/jat.E490

  • Hester J; McKenna J; Gately PJ (2009) Discussing Lifestyle Behaviours with Obese Children.

  • Hester JR; McKenna J; Gately PJ (2009) Discussing lifestyle behaviours with obese children.

  • Hester J; McKenna J; Gately PJ (2007) Discussing Lifestyle Behaviours with Obese Children.