Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• A Call to Action to Inform Patient-centred Approaches to Obesity Management: Development of a Disease-illness Model.
• Transgenerational Obesity and Healthy Ageing in Drosophila.
• Physical Activity is Associated with Improved Lipid and Weight-Loss Outcomes After Metabolic Bariatric Surgery in Adolescents with Severe Obesity.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Yo-Yo Dieting Can Make You Weaker - Here’s How Much Weight Change Can Be a Problem.
• Study: Weight Cycling is Associated with [not Necessarily the Cause of] Lower Muscle Mass and Strength and a Greater Likelihood of Developing Sarcopenic Obesity.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Exploring the Myth of the Chubby Gamer: A Meta-analysis of Studies on Sedentary Video Gaming and Body Mass.
• "Consuming above a commonly recommended intake of 0.5 servings of total red meat per day, or about three 3 oz. servings per week, does not negatively influence markers of glycemic control or inflammation in groups of adults without diagnosed cardiometabolic disease."
• Metabolic Adaptation is Not Observed After 8 Weeks of Overfeeding but Energy Expenditure Variability is Associated with Weight Recovery.
• "A U.K. study that measured diet and cognitive decline over an almost 25-year period did not show an association between a healthier diet in midlife and a lower risk for dementia later in life."
• RCT: Tart Cherry Juice: No Effect on Muscle Function Loss or Muscle Soreness in Professional Soccer Players After a Match.
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Dietary Self-monitoring Through a Digital Photography App vs Calorie Tracking on Weight Loss.
• RCT: No Additional Long‐term Effect of Group Versus Individual Family Intervention in the Treatment of Childhood Obesity.
• RCT: No Significant Effect of a Family Physical Activity Planning Program on BMI.

Basic

• The Host Response to Poly(lactide-co-glycolide) Scaffolds Protects Mice From Diet Induced Obesity and Glucose Intolerance.
• The Dualistic Effect of COX-2-Mediated Signaling in Obesity and Insulin Resistance.
• Adipose Tissue-Derived Autotaxin Causes Cardiomyopathy in Obese Mice.
• Electroacupuncture Reduces Body Weight By Regulating Fat Browning-Related Proteins of Adipose Tissue in HFD-Induced Obese Mice.
• NTCP Deficiency in Mice Protects Against Obesity and Hepatosteatosis.
• Obesity After Neonatal Overfeeding is Independent of Hypothalamic Microgliosisuscle Mass and Strength in a Population of Males and Females with Obesity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Fighting Obesity with Coffee and Headlines.
• A Source of Systematic Bias in Self-reported Physical Activity: The Cutpoint Bias Hypothesis.
• Letter: Ultra-Processed Food and Obesity: The Pitfalls of Extrapolation From Short Studies.
• Reply: Challenges Interpreting Inpatient and Outpatient Human Nutrition Studies.
• Reply to Reply.
• Identifying and Clarifying Arguments in a Recent Debate Regarding Measures Based on Memory-based Methods.

Clinical

• Public Notification: Detoxi Slim Contains Hidden Drug Ingredient.
• Safety and Efficiency of Single-Incision Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in Obese Patients: A Case-Matched Comparative Analysis.
• Obesity and Health Care Experiences Among Women and Men Veterans.
• Association Between Regional Body Fat and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among Postmenopausal Women with Normal BMI.

Children and Adolescents

• Adolescent Sugar-sweetened Beverage Consumption: An Extended Health Action Process Approach.
• A Look Back at Healthy Lifestyle Behavioral Patterns Among School-Age Children: Are We Neglecting Healthy Weight for Overweight Kids?

Surgery

• Meta-analysis: Banded Versus Nonbanded Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.
• Changes in Gut Microbiome After Bariatric Surgery Versus Medical Weight Loss.
• Changes in Body Composition, Comorbidities, and Nutritional Status Associated with Lower Weight Loss After Bariatric Surgery in Older Subjects.
• Overvaluation of Weight or Shape and Loss‐of‐Control Eating Following Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• Meta-analysis: Comparative Efficacy and Safety of Pharmacotherapies for the Treatment of Obesity Among Adults.
• Certain Medtronic MiniMed Insulin Pumps Have Potential Cybersecurity Risks: FDA Safety Communication.

Food & Diet

• Meta-analysis: Coffee Intake and Obesity.
• RCT: Protein Supplementation Elicits Greater Gains in Maximal Oxygen Uptake Capacity and Stimulates Lean Mass Accretion During Prolonged Endurance Training.
• Habitual Breakfast Patterns do Not Influence Appetite and Satiety Responses in Normal Vs. High-Protein Breakfasts in Overweight Adolescent Girls.
• The Case for Eating Jellyfish.
• Feeding the World with Data: Visions of Data-Driven Farming.
• Commentary: What Really Matters: Ultra-Processed or Calorie-Dense?

Caloric Restriction

• PGC-1a integrates a metabolism and growth network linked to caloric restriction.
• Sulfate assimilation regulates hydrogen sulfide production independent of lifespan and reactive oxygen species under methionine restriction condition in yeast.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Meta-analysis: Does Beef Protein Supplementation Improve Body Composition and Exercise Performance?
• Cardiorespiratory Fitness Modulates the Proportions of Monocytes and T Helper Subsets in Lean and Obese Men.
• Cannabis Use in Active Athletes: Behaviors Related to Subjective Effects.
• Types of Sedentary Behavior and Risk of Cardiovascular Events and Mortality in Blacks: The Jackson Heart Study.

Epidemiology

• Associations Between Boys’ Early Childhood Exposure to Family and Neighborhood Poverty and BMI in Early Adolescence.
• Weight Cycling as a Risk Factor for Low Muscle Mass and Strength in a Population of Males and Females with Obesity.
• The Duration of the Interpregnancy Interval in Multiparous Women and Maternal Weight Gain Between Pregnancies: Findings From a UK Population-based Cohort.
• The Impact of Obesity and Insulin Resistance on Thyroid Cancer: A Systematic Review.
• An International Survey of Obesity and Underweight in Youth and Adults with Intellectual Disabilities.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• RCT: Cognitive Effects of Adding Caloric Restriction to Aerobic Exercise Training in Older Adults with Obesity.
• Giving Pork the Chop: Response Inhibition Training to Reduce Meat Intake.

Economics & Sociology

• The indelible weight of place: Childhood neighborhood disadvantage, timing of exposure, and obesity across adulthood.
• Causation or Assortative Mating - The Social Dynamics in Couples With Both Partners Suffering from the Same Lifestyle Disease : A Case Series Study From a German Cohort Study of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients in a Disease Management Programme.

Equity and Disparities

• Plus Size and Obese Workers: Anthropometry Estimates to Promote Inclusive Design.
• A Health Equity Approach to Obesity Efforts: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief.
• Socio-Economic, Psychosocial, Lifestyle and Community Factors do Not Explain Ethnic Inequalities in Obesity in Disadvantaged Israeli Mothers.

Stigma

• Regarding Obesity as a Disease is Associated with Lower Weight Bias Among Physicians.
• Commentary: Five Things to Know About Bullying and Weight Bias.

Policy Related

• How do Age and Major Risk Factors for Mortality Interact Over the Life-course? Implications for Health Disparities Research and Public Health Policy.
• Eat, Play, Live: RCT Within a Natural Experiment Examining the Role of Nutrition Policy and Capacity Building in Improving Food Environments in Recreation and Sport Facilities.
• Protocol of a Research Project ‘Projections of the Burden of Disease and Disability in Finland – Health Policy Prospects’ Using Cross-sectional Health Surveys and Register-based Follow-up. (pdf)
• Does the Ban on Trans-fats Improve Public Health? In Search of the Optimal Policy Response.
• ‘Market Failure’ Arguments are a Poor Guide to Policy.

Intergenerational Effects

• Meta-analysis: The Association Between Maternal BMI and Child Obesity.
• Fathers’ Obesity Might Impact Offspring’s Health.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• In Search of an Undersea Kelp Forest's Missing Nitrogen.
• De Novo Design of Symmetric Ferredoxins that Shuttle Electrons in Vivo.
• Measuring Phenotypic Flexibility By Transcriptome Time-course Analyses During Challenge Tests Before and After Energy Restriction.
• Farm Animals for Studying Muscle Development and Metabolism: Dual Purposes for Animal Production and Human Health.

Methods

• Obesity Perception Survey Among Youth in Turkey: Instrument Development and Test-retest Reliability (pdf).
• Validation of NoSAS (Neck, Obesity, Snoring, Age, Sex) Score as a Screening Tool for Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Analysis in a Sleep Clinic.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Identifying Pre-disease Signals Before Metabolic Syndrome in Mice By Dynamical Network Biomarkers.
• Real-Time Model Predictive Control of Human Bodyweight Based on Energy Intake.

Commentary

• Obesity: A Disease and a Debate for Pets, Too.
• Nutrition Experts Reveal the Biggest Misconception We All Have About Sugar.
• Clinician Roundtable: Can Dietary Interventions Prevent Asthma, Atopy in Children?
• Metabolically Healthy Obesity: What's in a Name?
• Dietary Guidelines for Americans: An Introduction.
• Does Our Poor Remembrance of Things Past Doom Much Nutrition Research?
• Obesity Takes the Brakes Off Neurological Mechanism that Stops Overeating.
• How Much Caffeine is Too Much?
• The Urgent Need for Fresh Thinking on Childhood Obesity.
• Healthy Diets and Sustainable Food Systems.
• Interpreting Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Young Clinical Populations—Folklore and Fallacy.

General

• RCT: Effectiveness of Polypill for Primary and Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases.
• Puppy Love: Choosing the Perfect Pooch Poses Challenges Similar to Dating.
• Stabilizing Food Production Through Crop Diversity.
• "Heartspeakers" -- The Discovery Files.
• Ordered Quantile Normalization: A Semiparametric Transformation Built for the Cross-validation Era.
• Taste of Life: Science Outreach Made Delicious.
• Impact of Diabetes on the Symptoms of Breast Cancer Survivors.
• The Unique Neurology of the Sports Fan’s Brain.
• A General Framework for Comparing Predictions and Marginal Effects Across Models.
• Isaac Asimov Asks, “How do People Get New Ideas?”: A 1959 Essay By Isaac Asimov on Creativity.
• Fear-Based Medical Misinformation and Disease Prevention: From Vaccines to Statins.
• How Americans Decided Dogs Can’t Eat Grains.
• Wired Bacteria Form Nature’s Power Grid: ‘We Have an Electric Planet’.

Announcements

• Reproducibility and Replicability in Science: Next Steps - Sept 24.
• Training Program: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Training Program: AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• Short Course: Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research, Indiana University Bloomington (July 29-August 2, 2019).

Featured

• Genetic Overlap Between Executive Functions and BMI in Childhood.
• RCT: Video Teaching Leads to Improved Attitudes Towards Obesity.
• RCT: "Disclosures may actually drive increased brand awareness and amplify intake effects in the marketed product specifically."
• Instrumental Variable Approach to Estimating the Scalar‐on‐function Regression Model with Measurement Error with Application to Energy Expenditure Assessment in Childhood Obesity.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Fighting Obesity with a Single Cup of Coffee.
• Headline: Coffee to Fight Against Obesity and Diabetes.
• Study: Caffeine Exposure Induces Browning Features in Adipose Tissue in Vitro and Acute Thermogenic Changes in Humans. No Diabetes. No Obesity.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Abstract: "Contrary to study hypotheses, frequent family meals were associated with more, rather than less, overweight/obesity among youth with ADHD (P < .001)."
• RCT: No Effect of Meal Intake on Physiological or Perceptual Responses to Self-selected High Intensity Interval Exercise.
• Contrary to Our Hypotheses, During Negative Prediction Error (mismatched Cue-taste) Versus Matched Palatable Cue-taste, Women Showed Increased BOLD Response in the Central Operculum …and Postcentral Gyrus ….
• Contrary to the Prediction that Brain Size Evolves Through Energetic Trade-offs with Life-history, We Found that Adults, but Not Juveniles, of Fast-living Species Had Larger Relative Brain Sizes.
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, women living in households with higher production diversity did not have more diverse diets when controlling for other covariates of dietary diversity..."
• Abstract: Animal and Plant Protein Usual Intakes are Not Associated with Mortality in US Adults.
• Abstract: Bread Consumption is Not Associated with Weight-, Diabetes- and CVD-Risk Related Health Outcomes in US Adults: Results From NHANES 2011–2014.
• RCT: Docosahexaenoic and Arachidonic Acid Supplementation of Toddlers Born Preterm Does Not Affect Short-Term Growth or Adiposity.
• "This review found little evidence that interventions aimed solely at increasing water consumption reduce sugar-sweetened beverage intake."
• Reductions in Body Weight and Insulin Resistance are Not Associated with Changes in Grey Matter Volume or Cortical Thickness During the PREVIEW Study.

Basic

• Carbohydrate Sensing Through the Transcription Factor ChREBP.
• Atg7-Knockdown Reduces Chemerin Secretion in Murine Adipocytes.
• Eicosapentaenoic Acid Increases Browning Markers in Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue and Primary Adipocytes From Wild Type and UCP-1 Deficient Mice.
• Iron Deficiency Anemia (IDA) Promotes Visceral Obesity Due to Defective Adipose Tissue Browning.
• Dysferlin Deficiency Alters Lipid Metabolism and Remodels the Skeletal Muscle Lipidome in Mice.
• Amygdala NPY Circuits Promote the Development of Accelerated Obesity Under Chronic Stress Conditions.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Ultra-Processed Food and Obesity: The Pitfalls of Extrapolation From Short Studies.
• Comment on “a Comparative Effectiveness Study of Degludec and Insulin Glargine 300 U/mL in Insulin‐naïve Patients with Type 2 Diabetes”.
• Freshly Prepared Meals and Not Ultra-Processed Foods.

Clinical

• RCT: Effects of Weighted Hula-Hooping Compared to Walking on Abdominal Fat, Trunk Muscularity, and Metabolic Parameters in Overweight Subjects.
• Effects of Exercise in Addition to a Family-Based Lifestyle Intervention Program on Hepatic Fat in Children with Overweight.
• Regression to Normal Glucose Regulation in American Indians and Alaska Natives of a Diabetes Prevention Program.
• Health Coaching to Encourage Obese Adults to Enroll in Commercially-available Weight Management Programs.

Children and Adolescents

• Impact of the B’more Healthy Communities for Kids Intervention on Diet and Food-Related Behaviors Among Low-Income Urban African American Youth and Their Adult Caregivers.
• Dietary Energy–Density and Adiposity Markers Among a Cohort of Multi-ethnic Children.
• Young Adult Cancer: Influence of the Obesity Pandemic.
• Do Children Carry the Weight of Divorce?
• Systematic Review: Snack Food and Beverage Consumption and Young Child Nutrition in Low‐ and Middle‐income Countries.

Surgery

• Influence of Energy Balance on the Rate of Weight Loss Throughout One Year of Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass: A Doubly Labeled Water Study.
• Meta-analysis: Endoscopic Gastric Plication for Morbid Obesity.
• Pros and Cons of Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery in Obese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

Drugs

• RCT: Combined GLP-1, Oxyntomodulin, and Peptide YY Improves Body Weight and Glycemia in Obesity and Prediabetes/Type 2 Diabetes.
• Cannabidiol Inhibits Sucrose Self‐administration By CB1 and CB2 Receptor Mechanisms in Rodents.
• RCT: Effect of the Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonist Eplerenone on Liver Fat and Metabolism in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Statin Users Have an Elevated Risk of Dysglycemia and New‐onset‐diabetes.

Food & Diet

• Meta-analysis: The Effects of Probiotic Supplementation on Clinical Symptom, Weight Loss, Glycemic Control, Lipid and Hormonal Profiles, Biomarkers of Inflammation, and Oxidative Stress in Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.
• Abstract: RCT: Effects of Protein, Fat and Both Protein and Fat on Glycemic Response of a Meal.
• Sugar in Mind: Untangling a Sweet and Sour Relationship Beyond Type 2 Diabetes.
• Dietary Carbohydrate Restriction Improves Metabolic Syndrome Independent of Weight Loss.
• A Proposed Nutrient Density Score that Includes Food Groups and Nutrients to Better Align with Dietary Guidance.
• Dietary Protein and Changes in Biomarkers of Inflammation and Oxidative Stress in the Framingham Heart Study Offspring Cohort.

Caloric Restriction

• RCT: Effects of Caloric Restriction on Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Fatigue, and Disability Responses to Aerobic Exercise in Older Adults with Obesity.
• Refeeding Abolishes Beneficial Effects of Severe Calorie Restriction From Birth on Adipose Tissue and Glucose Homeostasis of Adult Rats.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Meta-omics Analysis of Elite Athletes Identifies a Performance-enhancing Microbe that Functions Via Lactate Metabolism.
• How do Novice and Improver Walkers Move in Their Home Environments? An Open-sourced Infant’s Gait Video Analysis.
• RCT: Effects of Functional and Traditional Training in Body Composition and Muscle Strength Components in Older Women.

Economics & Sociology

• Effects of Contextual Economic Factors on Childhood Obesity.
• Impact of Overweight or Obesity Trajectory on Health Expenditure in Korea.

Epidemiology

• Two-Year Weight Loss but Not BMI Predicts Mortality and Disability in an Older Japanese Community-Dwelling Population.
• Body Weight Variation Patterns as Predictors of Cognitive Decline Over a 5 Year Follow-Up Among Community-Dwelling Elderly.
• Birthweight, Lifetime Obesity and Physical Functioning in Mid-adulthood: A Nationwide Birth Cohort Study.
• Obesity‐related Cancers are Increasing in Young Adults.
• Efficacy of Population‐wide Diabetes and Obesity Prevention Programs: An Overview of Systematic Reviews on Proximal, Intermediate, and Distal Outcomes and a Meta‐analysis of Impact on BMI.
• Association Between Smoking Hookahs (Shishas) and Higher Risk of Obesity: A Systematic Review of Population-Based Studies.
• Mendelian Randomization Analysis of Hemoglobin A1c as a Risk Factor for Coronary Artery Disease.
• Changes in Obesity Among US Children Aged 2 Through 4 Years Enrolled in WIC During 2010-2016.
• Associations Between Measures of Sarcopenic Obesity and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality: A Cohort Study and Mendelian Randomization Analysis Using the UK Biobank.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Linking Risk Attitudes, Time Preferences, and BMI in Catalonia.
• Promoting Positive Body Image and Intuitive Eating in Women with Overweight and Obesity Via an Online Intervention.
• Changing Mindset Affects Brain Responses and Portion Size Selection in Adults with Overweight and Obesity.
• How a Combination of Two Contradicting Concepts is Represented: The Representation of Premium Instant Noodles and Premium Yogurts By Different Age Groups.
• Association of Anxiety with High-Cost Health Care Use Among Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Obesity Remodels Activity and Transcriptional State of a Lateral Hypothalamic Brake on Feeding.

Equity and Disparities

• Abstract: RCT: The Effects of Experimentally Manipulated Social Status and Food Insecurity on Acute Eating Behavior and Risk for Obesity Among Adolescents.
• Obesity and gender-biased access to deceased donor kidney transplantation.

Ethics

• Obesity, Ethics, and Healthcare a Patient-centered Approach.
• Revisions of Gastric Bypass—A Moral Obligation.
• Revisions of Gastric Bypass—A Moral Obligation—Reply.

Stigma

• Abstract: Examining Correlates of Explicit and Implicit Weight Bias Among Pre-healthcare Undergraduate Students.
• Validation of the Two-Factor Weight Bias Internalization Scale (WBIS-2F).

Policy Related

• Menu Descriptions and Nutrient Content of Food Items in U.S. Restaurants.
• Cost-Effectiveness of the U.S. Federal Restaurant Menu Calorie Labeling Law for Improving Diet and Health: A Microsimulation Modeling Study.
• Current Status and Response to the Global Obesity Pandemic: Proceedings of a Workshop.

Intergenerational Effects

• Prenatal Exposure to Acetaminophen and Overweight in Childhood.
• Sperm epimutation biomarkers of obesity and pathologies following DDT induced epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of disease.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• A Hypothesis Linking the Energy Demand of the Brain to Obesity Risk.
• Effects of Reproduction and Environmental Factors on Body Temperature and Activity Patterns of Wolverines.
• Gene Expression Changes in Response to Field-to-lab Transition in the Argentine Ant, Linepithema Humile.

Methods

• Abstract: Testing the Validity of a Natural Spoken Language Application for the Self-Monitoring of Daily Dietary Intake.
• Assessing Activity Energy Expenditure From Body-worn Sensors During Free-living.
• The Validity of Resting Energy Expenditure Predictive Equations in Adults with Central Obesity: A Sub-sample of an RaNCD Cohort Study.

Commentary

• Twin Studies and the "Heritage of Corpulence" Part 1: Separating a shared environment from shared genes.
• Twin Studies: Determining the "Heritage of Corpulence" Part 2: The contributions of heredity and environment on obesity.
• Glaring Disparities in Obesity Effects, Care, and Policy.
• The Biggest Health Problem: Obesity.
• For Food to Be (Thy) Medicine: Of Will, and Way.
• Exercising Power Over People with Obesity.
• Obesity Leads to Higher Rates of Long-term Opioid Use for Chronic Pain.
• Vacationing Can Lead to ‘creeping Obesity’.
• When You're Told You're Too Fat to Get Pregnant.
• Fixing Hungry Microglia May Help Us Treat Obesity-related Cognitive Decline.
• The Case for Diet Soda: It Gets a Bad Rap, but the Research Tells a Different Story.
• A Lifetime of Medical Neglect.
• Poetry: Fructose-Drunk.

General

• New Evidence Supports the Presence of Microbes in the Placenta.
• Experiment with ‘lost’ Wallets Reveals that People are Surprisingly Honest.
• This Weird Animal Eats Rocks for Breakfast.
• Associations of Mental Health and Family Background with Opioid Analgesic Therapy.
• Altered Ocular Parameters From Circadian Clock Gene Disruptions.
• Repressed Wnt Signaling Accelerates the Aging Process in Mouse Eyes.
• Videos: The New Statistics: Estimation and Research Integrity.
• Do Tiny Fish Rule the Reefs?
• Ruminants: Evolutionary Past and Future Impact.
• Some Cancers are Rising in Millennials. Obesity Might Be Why.
• One Thing to Change: Anecdotes Aren’t Data.
• Detecting Bias with Generative Counterfactual Face Attribute Augmentation.

Video & Audio

• Audio: Cruel Impact of Weight Stigma.
• Podcast: Fasting as a potent antidote to obesity, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and the many symptoms of metabolic illness.

Announcements

• Meeting Abstracts: Nutrition 2019 Abstracts Available in Current Developments in Nutrition.
• Meeting Webcast: The Secretary’s Advisory Committee for Healthy People 2030.
• First Protocols Posted for 2020 Advisory Committee Evidence Reviews.
• Training Program: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Training Program: AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• Short Course: Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research, Indiana University Bloomington (July 29-August 2, 2019).

Featured

• Effects of Weight History on the Association Between Directly-Measured Adiposity and Mortality in Older Adults.
• Combining Biomarker and Self-reported Dietary Intake Data: A Review of the State of the Art and an Exposition of Concepts.
• Dissonance in Naming Adiposity: A Quantitative Survey of Naming Preferences From a Convenience Sample of Health Professional and Lay Population in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Sleeping with the TV on May Make You Gain Weight.
• Study: Association [Not Necessarily Causation] of Exposure to Artificial Light at Night While Sleeping with Risk of Obesity in Women.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Significant Effect of Food, Health, & Choices: Curriculum and Wellness Interventions Intervention to Decrease Childhood Obesity in Fifth-Graders.
• RCT: No Significant Effects of Sport for LIFE: All Island in Children From Low Socio-economic Status.
• RCT: "Girls Active may not have had an effect on the random 90 girls per school included in the evaluation."
• RCT: "In the setting of routine prenatal care, lifestyle advice given by trained healthcare providers was not successful in limiting GWG and pregnancy complications."
• RCT: A Comprehensive Multicomponent School-based Educational Intervention Did Not Affect Fruit and Vegetable Intake at the 14-year Follow-up.
• Meta-analysis: "The current evidence suggests that quercetin intake did not show a notably favorable effect on weight loss."
• D2d Study: Vitamin D Supplementation Does Not Significantly Reduce Risk of Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: "Supplementation with lunasin-enriched soy extract for 8 weeks did not result in significant changes in serum lipids, glucose, insulin resistance, blood pressure, BMI, or waist circumference."
• RCT: A Single-Dose of a Polyphenol-Rich Fucus Vesiculosus Extract is Insufficient to Blunt the Elevated Postprandial Blood Glucose Responses Exhibited By Healthy Adults in the Evening.
• RCT: No Impact of Hunger on Male Perception of Female Physical Attractiveness in Relation to Adiposity.
• "In this updated meta-analysis, vitamin D supplementation was not associated with reduced major adverse cardiovascular events, individual CVD end points (myocardial infarction, stroke, CVD mortality), or all-cause mortality."

Basic

• Leptin’s Hunger-suppressing Effects are Mediated By the Hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenocortical Axis in Rodents.
• Obesity-associated, but Not Obesity-independent, Tumors Respond to Insulin By Increasing Mitochondrial Glucose Oxidation.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Differences in Nominal Significance (DINS) Error Leads to Invalid Conclusions: Letter Regarding, “Diet Enriched with Fresh Coconut Decreases Blood Glucose Levels and Body Weight in Normal Adults”.
• Child Obesity in Leeds: Cherrypicking Data to Indicate a Fall.
• Guidelines for Medical Nutrition Therapy in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: Systematic Review and Critical Appraisal.
• Using Automation to Combat the Replication Crisis: A Case Study From Controlled-rearing Studies of Newborn Chicks.

Clinical

• RCT: Effects of protein quantity and type on diet induced thermogenesis in overweight adults.
• The relationship between food label use and dietary intake in adults: A systematic review.

Clinical

• How to Improve Health Literacy to Reduce Short- and Long-term Consequences of Maternal Obesity?
• Willing to Go the Extra Mile: Prospective Evaluation of an Intensified Non-surgical Treatment for Patients with Morbid Obesity.
• Effects of a Mediterranean Eating Plan on the Need for Glucose-Lowering Medications in Participants with Type 2 Diabetes: A Subgroup Analysis of the PREDIMED Trial.
• Enrolment of Families with Overweight Children Into a Program Aimed at Reducing Childhood Obesity with and Without a Weight Criterion: A Natural Experiment.
• Metabolic Adaptation is Not Observed After 8 Weeks of Overfeeding but Energy Expenditure Variability is Associated with Weight Recovery.
• Managing Obesity: Scaling the Pyramid to Success.

Children and Adolescents

• Dose Response Relationship Between Program Attendance and Children’s Outcomes in a Community Based Weight Management Program for Children and Their Families.
• Lower Incidence Rate of Type 1 Diabetes After Receipt of the Rotavirus Vaccine in the United States, 2001–2017.

Surgery

• Role of Ethnicity on Weight Loss and Attrition After Bariatric Surgery.
• Nutritional Deficiencies in Patients After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass and Sleeve Gastrectomy During 12-Month Follow-Up.

Drugs

• Therapeutic Effects of Curcumin and Ursodexycholic Acid on Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease [in Rats].
• The Antiobese Effect of AT1 Receptor Blockade is Augmented in Mice Lacking Mas.
• Lilly Decides to Advance Tirzepatide for Obesity.

Caloric Restriction

• Effects of Aging and Caloric Restriction on Fiber Type Composition, Mitochondrial Morphology and Dynamics in Rat Oxidative and Glycolytic Muscles.
• Effects of Timing of Food Intake and Fat/carbohydrate Ratio on Insulin Sensitivity and Preconditioning Against Renal Ischemia Reperfusion Injury By Calorie Restriction.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT:Telemonitoring-supported Exercise Training, Metabolic Syndrome Severity, and Work Ability in Company Employees.
• Trends in Meeting Physical Activity Guidelines Among Urban and Rural Dwelling Adults — United States, 2008–2017.
• A Cellular Census of Human Lungs Identifies Novel Cell States in Health and in Asthma.

Economics & Sociology

• Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Circumstances, Adiposity and Cardiometabolic Risk Measures in Children with Severe Obesity.
• Increasing Socioeconomic Disparities in Sedentary Behaviors in Chinese Children.
• Cost-effectiveness of an Educational Healthcare Circuit for Bariatric Surgery in France.

Epidemiology

• Intake of Vegetables and Fruits Through Young Adulthood is Associated with Better Cognitive Function in Midlife in the US General Population.
• Association Between Serum Vitamin B12 Concentration and Obesity in a Nationally Representative Sample of US Adults.
• BMI and Body Composition in Relation to 14 Cardiovascular Conditions in UK Biobank: A Mendelian Randomization Study.
• Older Adults with Lowest Risk of Developing Type 2 Diabetes: Results From a Large and Diverse US Cohort (2003–2016).
• Body Composition and Falls Risk in Older Adults.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Perceived Weight Discrimination Mediates the Prospective Association Between Obesity and Physiological Dysregulation: Evidence From a Population-Based Cohort.
• Dietary Choline is Related to Neural Efficiency During a Selective Attention Task Among Middle-aged Adults with Overweight and Obesity.
• Nutrition Transition, Overweight and Obesity Among Rural-to-urban Migrant Women in Kenya.
• The Relationship Between Obesity and Depression Among Federally Qualified Health Center Patients. (pdf)
• Food Cue Reactivity in Food Addiction: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study.
• BMI-associated Gene Variants in FTO and Cardiometabolic and Brain Disease: Obesity or Pleiotropy?

Equity and Disparities

• Disparities in Trajectories of Changes in the Unhealthy Food Environment in New York City: A Latent Class Growth Analysis, 1990–2010.
• Decomposing Ethnic Differences in BMI and Obesity Rates Among New Zealand Pre-schoolers.
• Disparities in Food Access Around Homes and Schools for New York City Children.

Stigma

• Fat Shaming is Making People Sicker and Heavier.
• Book Chapter: Philosophy, Bias, Stigma.
• Weight-based Victimization, Eating Behaviors, and Weight-related Health in Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents.

Policy Related

• FDA MedWatch Alert: Fecal Microbiota for Transplantation: Safety Communication.
• Getting Real on Rationality—Behavioral Science, Nudging, and Public Policy.
• Taxes and front-of-package labels improve the healthiness of beverage and snack purchases.
• The Dismal Record of Soda Taxes. (pdf)
• Person-centred, Safe and Effective Care in Maternity Services: The Need for Greater Change Towards Best Practice.
• Primer on US Food and Nutrition Policy and Public Health: Protect School Nutrition Standards.
• Canada Announces Its First-ever Food Policy.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy and Offspring Body Composition in Adulthood: Results From Two Birth Cohort Studies.
• Steroid Hormones in Cord Blood Mediate the Association Between Maternal Prepregnancy BMI and Birth Weight.
• Prenatal Risk Predicts Preschooler Executive Function: A Cascade Model.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Dietary Ecomorphological Dispersion and Phenotypic Integration in Felidae and Mustelidae (Mammalia; Carnivora).
• Survival is Negatively Related to Basal Metabolic Rate in Tropical Andean Birds.
• Reproductive and Environmental Drivers of Time and Activity Budgets of Striped Skunks.

Methods

• Reliability and usefulness of upper gastro intestinal contrast studies to assess pouch size in patients with weight loss failure after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass.
• Methodological approach to the assessment of the obesogenic environment in children and adolescents: A review of the literature.

Commentary

• Gut-based Interventions for Diabetes Move Closer to Clinical Reality.
• Partnering to Tackle the Obesity Epidemic: How Employers are Rethinking Obesity to Better Address Care, Treatment, and Engagement with Their Employees.
• Ultra-Processed Food: What Now?
• Everything You Need to Know About Whey Protein.
• Can Eating Chicken Save the Planet?
• Dietary Supplements Linked with Severe Health Events in Children, Young Adults.
• How Many Steps a Day do You Really Need? Spoiler: It Isn't 10,000.
• A Touching Concern for the Health of Mannequins.
• A Furry Fitbit? No, but Dog Owners are More Active.
• Looking for Health Outcomes From Health Policies.
• Our Daily Diet of Plastic.
• Big Changes: Bariatric Surgery, Marriage, and Divorce.

General

• John Urschel Learns the ‘Secret Code’ of Calculus.
• Limiting the Damage: Molecular Basis of Extended Healthspan in Bats.
• Copernicus's Revolutionary Ideas Reorganized the Heavens.
• Spending at Least 120 minutes a Week in Nature is Associated with Good Health and Well-being.
• Commentary on the Problem of Headlines vs Studies: Hyped-up Science Erodes Trust. Here’s How Researchers Can Fight Back.
• Sexual Conflict in Water Striders, Dragonflies and Diving Beetles.
• Quantitative Framework for Coffee Leaf Rust (Hemileia Vastatrix), Production and Futures.
• Discovery and Inhibition of an Interspecies Gut Bacterial Pathway for Levodopa Metabolism.
• A 53-Year-Old Network Coloring Conjecture is Disproved.
• Diet for One? Scientists Stalk the Dream of Personalized Nutrition.
• Can Home Cooking Reverse the Obesity Epidemic?
• One-quarter of People with Diabetes in the U.S. Are Rationing Their Insulin.
• A Twitter Account Corrects One of the Biggest Problems in Health Reporting.
• What Universities Can Learn From One of Science’s Biggest Frauds.
• Why do Zebras Have Stripes? A Hair-Raising New Theory is 'Clever, Complex and Beautiful'.
• Secretary Perdue Announces Kansas City Region as Location for ERS and NIFA.
• The Thrill of Defeat: What Francis Crick and Sydney Brenner Taught Me About Being Scooped.
• EFSA Issues New Advice on Phosphates.
• In Conversation with Dr. George A. Bray, 2019 W.O. Atwater Memorial Lecturer.

Announcements

• Ellen MacArthur Foundation Launched the Food Initiative.
• Survey: Metadata2020 Survey "to understand the familiarity and usage of metadata ... in scholarly communication."
• Webinar: Innovations in the Food System: Shaping the Future of Food - a Workshop [Aug 7-8].
• Webcast: Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Meeting 2 [July 10-11].
• Dr. Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, Scrutinizer of Aging, Dies at 84.
• Training Program: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Training Program: AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• Short Course: Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research, Indiana University Bloomington (July 29-August 2, 2019).

Featured

• Scarcity Mindset Alters Neural Processing Underlying Consumer Decision Making.
• RCT: The Consequences of Foster Care Versus Institutional Care in Early Childhood on Adolescent Cardiometabolic and Immune Markers.
• Social Transmission of Food Safety Depends on Synaptic Plasticity in the Prefrontal Cortex.
• Targeting Glucose Metabolism to Enhance Immunotherapy: Emerging Evidence on Intermittent Fasting and Calorie Restriction Mimetics.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Study finds avocados curb appetite and help with weight loss.
• Study: This was a 6-hour RCT demonstrating effects on short-term reports of hunger – neither effects on actual food intake nor on body weight were studied.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Videogames that Encourage Healthy Behavior Did Not Alter Fasting Insulin or Other Diabetes Risks in Children.
• Lack of Improvement of Sperm Characteristics in Obese Males After Obesity Surgery Despite the Beneficial Changes Observed in Reproductive Hormones.
• RCT: Limited "effects on inflammatory and glycemia-related markers of a whole-grain pasta containing barley β-glucans and Bacillus coagulans BC30, 6086 in healthy overweight or obese volunteers."
• RCT: The Degree of Aminoacidemia After Dairy Protein Ingestion Does Not Modulate the Postexercise Anabolic Response in Young Men.
• "In our comparative cohort study of preterm infants with a gestational age of 30–33 weeks, we found no advantage to routine use of probiotics."
• "Contrary to previous research, this data suggests that men who exercise at high volume will not experience negative outcomes to their sexual function..."
• RCT: No evidence that "a planning competence training (Planungskompetenztraining, PKT) can support participants of a medical rehabilitation program to foster lifestyle change."
• "...the hypothesis was not confirmed, since the high-saturated-fat diet-induced obese rats did not present cardiac dysfunction or impaired intracellular Ca2+ handling proteins."
• "Obesity-related cancer risks appear not to be offset or eliminated by high levels of physical activity or fitness."
• RCT: No Effect of Glucomannan on Body Weight Reduction in Children and Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity.
• RCT: "Among persons at high risk for type 2 diabetes not selected for vitamin D insufficiency, vitamin D3 supplementation at a dose of 4000 IU per day did not result in a significantly lower risk of diabetes than placebo."

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Replacement of Dropouts May Bias Results: Comment on “The Effect of Green Tea Ointment on Episiotomy Pain and Wound Healing in Primiparous Women: A Randomized, Double‐blind, Placebo‐controlled Clinical Trial”.
• Error in Statistical Code in Cluster Randomized Trial on the Effect of a Breakfast in the Classroom Initiative on Obesity in Urban, School-aged Children.
• Have We Really Found the Limit of Human Endurance?
• After Outcry, USDA Will No Longer Require Scientists to Label Research ‘preliminary’.
• “Permeable to Bad Science:” Journal Retracts Paper Hailed By Proponents of Homeopathy.

Basic

• A PRDM16-Driven Metabolic Signal From Adipocytes Regulates Precursor Cell Fate.
• Cyanidin-3-O-Galactoside-Enriched Aronia Melanocarpa Extract Attenuates Weight Gain and Adipogenic Pathways in High-Fat Diet-Induced Obese C57BL/6 Mice.
• Clcn3 Deficiency Ameliorates High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity and Adipose Tissue Macrophage Inflammation in Mice.
• Excessive Visceral Adiposity Induced By a High-Fat Diet is Associated with Increased Fibrosis and Decreased Immune Cellularity of the Mesenteric Lymph Node in Mice.
• Estradiol and NADPH Oxidase Crosstalk Regulates Responses to High Fat Feeding in Female Mice.
• GABA-Stimulated Adipose-Derived Stem Cells Suppress Subcutaneous Adipose Inflammation in Obesity.
• GDF15 Mediates Adiposity Resistance Through Actions on GFRAL Neurons in the Hindbrain AP/NTS.
• Decelerating Ageing and Biological Clocks By Autophagy.

Clinical

• Long-Term Effects of a Novel Continuous Remote Care Intervention Including Nutritional Ketosis for the Management of Type 2 Diabetes: 2-Year Non-randomized Clinical Trial.
• RCT: Postprandial Levels of GLP-1, GIP and Glucagon After 2 Years of Weight Loss with a Paleolithic Diet in Healthy Obese Women.
• RCT: A Lifestyle Program Targeting Women with Obesity and Infertility Improves Their Fertility.

Children and Adolescents

• Do Country-level Environmental Factors Explain Cross-national Variation in Adolescent Physical Activity? A Multilevel Study in 29 European Countries.
• RCT: Efficacy of a Home-Based Parent Training-Focused Weight Management Intervention for Preschool Children.

Surgery

• Donor Metabolic Characteristics Drive Effects of Faecal Microbiota Transplantation on Recipient Insulin Sensitivity, Energy Expenditure and Intestinal Transit Time.
• Gastro-Intestinal Tract Cancers Following Bariatric Surgery: A Review.
• Comparative Study of Resting Metabolic Rate and Plasma Amino Acid Profile in Patients Who Underwent Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass and Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy: 6-Month Follow-up Study.

Drugs

• RCT: Postprandial Hypoglycaemia After Roux‐en‐Y Gastric Bypass and the Effects of Acarbose, Sitagliptin, Verapamil, Liraglutide and Pasireotide.
• RCT: Assessment of Compounded Transdermal Mirtazapine as an Appetite Stimulant in Cats with Chronic Kidney Disease.
• Lack of Durable Improvements in β-Cell Function Following Withdrawal of Pharmacological Interventions in Adults with Impaired Glucose Tolerance or Recently Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: Oral Semaglutide Versus Subcutaneous Liraglutide and Placebo in Type 2 Diabetes (PIONEER 4).

Food & Diet

• Capsaicin and Genistein Override the Action of Obestatin to Decrease Lipid Accumulation in 3T3-L1 Cells.
• Investigating the Effect of Sex and Ketosis on Weight-loss-induced Changes in Appetite.
• Different Acute Effects of Fructose and Glucose Administration on Hepatic Fat Content.
• RCT: The Effect of High Compared with Low Dairy Consumption on Glucose Metabolism, Insulin Sensitivity, and Metabolic Flexibility in Overweight Adults.
• RCT: High-protein Feeding Induces De Novo Lipogenesis in Healthy Humans.
• Animal-based and Plant-based Protein-rich Foods and Cardiovascular Health: A Complex Conundrum.
• RCT: Findings "do not provide evidence for choosing white over red meat for reducing CVD risk."
• Plant- and Animal-protein Diets in Relation to Sociodemographic Drivers, Quality, and Cost.
• Fiber Intake Predicts Weight Loss and Dietary Adherence in Adults Consuming Calorie-Restricted Diets.
• Meta-analysis: 46 Studies Identified By the FDA Demonstrates that Soy Protein Decreases Circulating LDL and Total Cholesterol Concentrations in Adults.

Caloric Restriction

• Methionine Restriction Delays Senescence and Suppresses the Senescence-associated Secretory Phenotype in the Kidney Through Endogenous Hydrogen Sulfide.
• A Novel Nutritional Supplement Prevents Muscle Loss and Accelerates Muscle Mass Recovery in Caloric-restricted Mice.
• Early Time-Restricted Feeding Improves 24-Hour Glucose Levels and A
  Ects Markers of the Circadian Clock, Aging, and Autophagy in Humans.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Ready to Move: A Unique University Worksite Wellness Initiative.
• Exercise Trials for Blood Pressure Control: Keeping It Real.
• Neighbourhood Built Environment and Physical Function Among Mid-to-older Aged Adults: A Systematic Review.

Economics & Sociology

• The Price of Ultra-processed Foods and Beverages and Adult Body Weight: Evidence From U.S. Veterans.
• Socioeconomic Inequalities in Childhood-to-adulthood BMI Tracking in Three British Birth Cohorts.
• Examining Cumulative Inequality in the Association Between Childhood SES and BMI From Midlife to Old Age.
• BMI in Religious Contexts: Exploring the Multilevel Influences of Religion.

Epidemiology

• "Among individuals with MI, those that have engaged in any light or moderate physical activity were more likely to survive their MI."
• The Role of Country of Birth, and Genetic and Self-identified Ancestry, in Obesity Susceptibility Among African and Hispanic Americans.
• Association of Exposure to Artificial Light at Night While Sleeping with Risk of Obesity in Women.
• Clinical Manifestations and Factors Associated with Osteosarcopenic Obesity Syndrome: A Cross-Sectional Study in Koreans with Obesity.
• Cross-sectional and Prospective Associations of Actigraphy-Assessed Sleep Regularity with Metabolic Abnormalities.
• Tantalizing Data and Ample Buzz for Personalized Nutrition.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Precision Medicine Analysis of a Behavioral Counseling Strategy to Improve Adherence to Diabetes Self-management Among Youth.
• Review: Temperament in Obesity-related Research: Concepts, Challenges, and Considerations for Future Research.
• Lived Experience of Obese People Who Feel that They are Addicted to Food (PDF).
• Longitudinal Preliminary Study of Addiction-Like Responses to Food and Alcohol Consumption Among Individuals Undergoing Weight Loss Surgery.
• Do Emotions Cause Eating? The Role of Previous Experiences and Social Context in Emotional Eating.

Equity and Disparities

• Does the Ethnic Density Effect Extend to Obesity? A Cross-sectional Study of 415 166 Adults in East London.
• Obesity and Disparities in Human Papillomavirus Vaccination for U.S. Adolescent Girls and Young Women.
• Effects of Economic Inequality on Obesity.

Stigma

• Weight Bias in Radiology Resident Selection.
• The Role of Weight Stigma in Parental Weight Talk.
• Implications of Differing Attitudes and Experiences Between Providers and Persons with Obesity.
• Addressing Internalized Weight Bias and Changing Damaged Identifies for People Living with Obesity.
• Perceived Weight Discrimination Mediates the Prospective Association Between Obesity and Physiological Dysregulation.
• How Doctors Can Stop Stigmatizing — and Start Helping — Kids with Obesity.

Policy Related

• Insights on the Influence of Sugar Taxes on Obesity Prevention Efforts.
• USDA Launches New School Nutrition Training Website.
• Executive Order on Modernizing the Regulatory Framework for Agricultural Biotechnology Products.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal, but Not Paternal or Grandparental, Caffeine Intake is Associated with Childhood Obesity and Adiposity.
• Association of Infant Feeding Patterns with Taste Preferences in European Children and Adolescents: A Retrospective Latent Profile Analysis.
• Maternal and Offspring Genetic Risk of Type 2 Diabetes and Offspring Birthweight Among African Ancestry Populations.
• The Effect of Maternal Dietary Habits During Pregnancy on Neonate Leptin Methylation Patterns and Gestational Age (PDF).
• Time-restricted Feeding Reduces High-fat Diet Associated Placental Inflammation and Limits Adverse Effects on Fetal Organ Development.
• Maternal Dietary Glycemic and Insulinemic Indexes are Not Associated with Birth Outcomes or Childhood Adiposity at 5 Years of Age in an Irish Cohort Study.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Evolution Of, and Via, Developmental Plasticity: Insights Through the Study of Scaling Relationships.
• About “spendthrift” and “thrifty” Phenotypes: Resistance and Susceptibility to Overeating Revisited.
• Elephants Have a Nose for Quantity.

Methods

• Obesity and Chemotherapy Administration: Between Empiric and Mathematic Method Review.
• Application of Stable Isotope Labels for Metabolomics in Studies in Fatty Liver Disease.

Commentary

• Diet is a Vital Sign.
• Associations of Dietary Cholesterol and Egg Consumption with Incident Cardiovascular Disease and Total Mortality.
• The History of the Bagel: A New York City Story By Way of Poland and the Lower East Side.
• Perspective: Should Exclusive Breastfeeding Still Be Recommended for 6 Months?
• Medical Misinformation and the Internet: A Call to Arms.
• Fighting for the Common Ground of Better Diet.
• The Humble Glycemic Index Marks Global Diabetes Risk.
• 5 Little-known Facts About Protein.
• Better Metadata Could Help Save the World!

General

• Functional Regulators of Bacterial Flagella.
• Monkeys Use Their 'eagle' Call to Warn Each Other About Drones.
• Definitions of Sex and Intimacy Among Gender and Sexual Minoritised Groups in Urban India.
• To What Extent is Blood a Reasonable Surrogate for Brain in Gene. Expression Studies: Estimation From Mouse Hippocampus and Spleen.
• Research Integrity is Much More than Misconduct.
• When Pigs Fly: Emotional Support Animals, Service Dogs and the Politics of Legitimacy Across Species Boundaries.
• Life Finds a Way: Parthenogenesis in Asian Water Dragons [with Video].
• The Early Origin of Feathers.
• Forensic Pollen Scientists are Helping the US Track Opioids.
• Small, Furry and Powerful: Are Mouse Lemurs the Next Big Thing in Genetics?

Video & Audio

• Podcast: Diego Rose on Environmental Sustainability and Our Food.
• Podcast: Rick Larrick on the Hidden Energy Cost of Our Food.
• Outdated Gender Stereotypes are Harming Science.

Announcements

• IU to Acquire Fastest University-owned AI Supercomputer.
• Web-computing Platform Was Created By IU Scientists to Support and Publish Reproducible Neuroscience Research.
• Training Program: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Training Program: AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• Short Course: Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research, Indiana University Bloomington (July 29-August 2, 2019).