Wrote papers on solutions of childhood obesity, supervised work of 2 PhD students and 2 MPhil students on this subject. Gave seminars in Departments of Pediatrics of the Aga Khan University, the Dow University of Health Sciences, the Nishtar Medical College and the Frontier Medical College as well as Department of Community Health Sciences of KMDC (Karachi Medical and Dental College) and Faculty of Medicine of Ziauddin University.

Main Contributions: 1st to 6th generation solutions of childhood obesity, logical and mathematical definitions of childhood obesity, validation of these definitions based on anthropometric data collected using instruments with least counts of 0.005 cm and 0.005 kg and CDC Growth Charts and Tables extended from 0.01 to 99.99 percentiles. Introduced energy-channelization I-III in nutritional-status classification as well as concepts of pseudo-gain of height and mass, mathematical criteria to assign build (small, medium and big), instantaneous obesity and true obesity.

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