Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• RCT: Breakfast Consumption Augments Appetite, Eating Behavior, and Exploratory Markers of Sleep Quality Compared to Skipping Breakfast in Healthy Young Adults.
• High CD8 T Cell Receptor Clonality and Altered CDR3 Properties are Associated with Elevated Isolevuglandins in Adipose Tissue During Diet-Induced Obesity.
• Smoking Cessation, Weight Change, Type 2 Diabetes, and Mortality.
• Clinical Perspectives on Obesity Treatment: Challenges, Gaps, and Promising Opportunities.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Eating in 10-hour Window Can Override Disease-causing Genetic Defects, Nurture Health.
• Study: Time-Restricted Feeding Prevents Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome... In Mice Lacking a Circadian Clock.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Grocery Stores are Not Associated with More Healthful Food for Participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
• Low-carbohydrate Diet Score is Associated with Higher Glycated Haemoglobin: A Secondary Analysis of the UK National Diet and Nutrition Surveys Year 1–6.
• Results of Noninvasive Prenatal RHD Testing in Gestation Week 25 are Not Affected By Maternal BMI.
• "Crayfish consumed greater quantities of macrophyte tissue when predator cues were present, and this result was unexpected and is contrary to most observations in the literature."
• Weight Status Was Not Associated with Being Sedentary or Inactive When at School.
• Among older adults "institutionalization was not associated with poorer nutritional status compared to community dwellers."
• "Dietary gluten intake during adulthood was not associated with risk of microscopic colitis among women without celiac disease."
• RCT: No Effects of Montmorency Tart Cherry Juice Supplementation and FATMAX Exercise on Fat Oxidation Rates and Cardio-metabolic Markers in Healthy Humans.

Basic

• Exercise Without Dietary Changes Alleviates Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Without Weight Loss Benefits in Mice.
• Small Adipose Tissue Stores are Characterized By Reduced Cell Volume Instead of Cell Number in Cystic Fibrosis Mouse Models.
• Programming Mediated By Fatty Acids Affects Uncoupling Protein 1 (UCP-1) in Brown Adipose Tissue.
• Cysteine Thiol Oxidation on SIRT2 Regulates Inflammation in Obese Mice with Sepsis.
• ER-Associated Ubiquitin Ligase HRD1 Programs Liver Metabolism By Targeting Multiple Metabolic Enzymes.
• Microglia Play an Active Role in Obesity-associated Cognitive Decline.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• "Can a bunch of little nudges add up to a public health strategy with an effect on obesity?"
• Webinar: Event Information: Scientific Integrity Principles and Best Practices Across the Scientific Enterprise.
• Some Comments on the Update to BJP Guidance on Experimental Design and Analysis.
• The Challenge of Reforming Nutritional Epidemiologic Research.
• Letter to the Editor and Response Regarding an Assessment of a Health Promotion Model on Obese Turkish Children.

Clinical

• Influence of Age, BMI and Comorbidity on Major Outcomes in Acute Pancreatitis, a Prospective Nation-wide Multicentre Study.
• An Evidence-Based Review of Dietary Supplements on Inflammatory Biomarkers in Obesity.
• Whole-body Vibration Training in Obese Subjects: A Systematic Review.
• Android Fat as a Determinant of Metabolic Syndrome: Sex Differences.

Children and Adolescents

• “Your Body Feels Better When You Drink Water”: Parent and School-Age Children’s Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Cognitions.
• BMI Does Not Capture the High Fat Mass Index and Low Fat-free Mass Index in Children with Cerebral Palsy and Proposed Statistical Models that Improve This Accuracy.
• Body Fatness at a Young Age and Risks of Eight Types of Cancer: Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis of Observational Studies.
• Association of Childhood Obesity with Female Infertility in Adulthood.
• Prevalence of Overweight, Obesity, and Severe Obesity Among Children and Adolescents Aged 2–19 Years: United States, 1963–1965 Through 2015–2016.

Surgery

• Bariatric Surgery: Information, Misinformation, and Inertia.
• Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of Bariatric Procedures in Medicare-Eligible Patients a Systematic Review.
• Long-term Weight Change and Health Outcomes for Sleeve Gastrectomy (SG) and Matched Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB) Participants in the Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery (LABS) Study.

Drugs

• Semaglutide vs Liraglutide for Weight Loss in Patients with Obesity.
• RCT: Efficacy and Safety of MYL‐1501D Versus Insulin Glargine in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes After 24 Weeks: Results of the Phase III INSTRIDE 2 Study.
• Understanding of Anti‐diabetic Medication is Associated with Blood Glucose in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: At Baseline Date of the KAMOGAWA‐DM Cohort Study.
• Association of Hemoglobin A1c Levels with Use of Sulfonylureas, Dipeptidyl Peptidase 4 Inhibitors, and Thiazolidinediones in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Treated with Metformin.

Food & Diet

• Implicit Attitudes and Self-esteem Towards Food Images After Consuming a Sugar or Diet Beverage.
• RCT: Mode of Infant Feeding, Eating Behaviour and Anthropometry in Infants at 6-months of Age Born to Obese Women – a Secondary Analysis of the UPBEAT Trial.
• Dietary Supplementation with the Microalgae Nannochloropsis Gaditana Reduces Weight Gain and Improves Metabolic Health in Rats.
• Consumption of Cherry Out of Season Changes White Adipose Tissue Gene Expression and Morphology to a Phenotype Prone to Fat Accumulation.
• RCT: Dietary Cholesterol Contained in Whole Eggs is Not Well Absorbed and Does Not Acutely Affect Plasma Total Cholesterol Concentration in Men and Women.

Caloric Restriction

• Functional Gut Microbiota Remodeling Contributes to the Caloric Restriction-Induced Metabolic Improvements.
• Calorie Restriction Attenuates Hypertrophy-induced Redox Imbalance and Mitochondrial ATP-sensitive K+ Channel Repression.
• Fasting and Time of Day Independently Modulate Circadian Rhythm Relevant Gene Expression in Adipose and Skin Tissue.
• Calorie Restriction Curbs Proinflammation that Accompanies Arterial Aging, Preserving a Youthful Phenotype.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Physical Activity is Related to Function and Fatigue but Not Pain in Women with Fibromyalgia: Baseline Analyses From the Fibromyalgia Activity Study with TENS (FAST).
• How Well do Activity Monitors Estimate Energy Expenditure? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the Validity of Current Technologies.
• Associations of Device-measured Physical Activity Across Adolescence with Metabolic Traits: Prospective Cohort Study.

Economics & Sociology

• Socioeconomic Status and the Association Between Height and Obesity Amongst First Class Primary School Children in Ireland.
• Interaction Between Parental Education and Household Wealth on Children’s Obesity Risk.

Epidemiology

• Health and Health Behaviors During the Great Recession: A Note on Drinking, Smoking, Obesity, and Physical Activity.
• Regression Models to Predict Corrected Height, Weight, and Obesity Indicators Among University Students in Beijing, China.
• Obesity Prevalence and Voting Behaviors in the 2016 US Presidential Election.
• The Association Between 25(OH)D Levels, Frailty Status and Obesity Indices in Older Adults.
• Prevalence of Overweight, Obesity, and Severe Obesity Among Adults Aged 20 and Over: United States, 1960–1962 Through 2015–2016.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• RCT: Breakfast Consumption and the Attention and Concentration of 18-27 Year-old Students.
• Links Between Obesity-Induced Brain Insulin Resistance, Brain Mitochondrial Dysfunction, and Dementia.

Equity and Disparities

• Socioeconomic Inequality in Excessive Weight: The Case of Indonesia.
• Racial Differences in Rates of Change of Childhood BMI and Blood Pressure Percentiles.

Stigma

• Respectful Language and Care in Childhood Obesity.
• Discrimination and Adiposity Among Latinos.
• Weight Bias Among Exercise and Nutrition Professionals: A Systematic Review.
• Preference for People-First Language Among Patients Seeking Bariatric Surgery.
• Beware of Shaming the Shamers.
• Book Chapter: Psychosocial Consequences of Body Weight and Obesity.
• Weight Loss Surgery Patients’ Gender-Differentiated Experiences of Vanity Stigma.

Policy Related

• FDA Issues Draft Guidance on the Labeling of Dietary Supplements Containing Live Microbials.
• Draft Guidance for Industry: Policy Regarding Quantitative Labeling of Dietary Supplements Containing Live Microbials.
• A Note on Sugar Taxes and Changes in Total Calorie Consumption.

Intergenerational Effects

• Longer-term Outcomes in Offspring of GDM Mothers Treated with Metformin Versus Insulin.
• LincRNA H19 Protects From Dietary Obesity By Constraining Expression of Monoallelic Genes in Brown Fat.
• Association of Gestational Diabetes with Maternal Disorders of Glucose Metabolism and Childhood Adiposity.
• Influence of Maternal Obesity on the Association Between Common Pregnancy Complications and Risk of Childhood Obesity.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Primary Biological Motivators in Food Advertisements: Energy Density and Sexual Appeals Compete for Appetitive Motivational Activation.
• Maternal Condition and Maternal Investment During Lactation in Mantled Howler Monkeys.
• Seasonal Shifts in Reproduction Depend on Prey Availability for an Income Breeder.
• Energetic Consequences for a Northern, Range-Edge Lizard Population.

Methods

• Preliminary Feasibility and Acceptability of the Remote Food Photography Method for Assessing Nutrition in Young Children with Type 1 Diabetes.
• Reliability of Joint Kinematic Calculations Based on Direct Kinematic and Inverse Kinematic Models in Obese Children.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Adaptive Fuzzy Integral Sliding Mode Control of Blood Glucose Level in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes: In Silico Studies.

Commentary

• A Hard Look at Defining Fitness to Serve.
• National Obesity Care Week: 5 Reasons to Take Action.
• Advice Regarding Alcohol Use By Individuals with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Primum Non Nocere.
• When is Milk Really Milk?
• How Unsaturated Fats Protect Against Cardiovascular Disease Revealed.
• Vitamin D Supplementation: Of Scandal, Sunlight, and Skin in the Game.
• People with Obesity – Their Heroic Battle to Defeat Their Genes in a Hostile Hypercaloric Sedentary Environment.
• Carbs, Good for You? Fat Chance!

General

• Human Milk Composition and Dietary Intakes of Breastfeeding Women of Different Ethnicity From the Manawatu-Wanganui Region of New Zealand.
• Unidirectional Transitions in Nectar Gain and Loss Suggest Food Deception is a Stable Evolutionary Strategy in Epidendrum (Orchidaceae): Insights From Anatomical and Molecular Evidence.
• Is Civility Contagious? Examining the Impact of Modeling in Online Political Discussions.
• "Knowledge Begins in Wonder": The Smithsonian Institution's Children's Room.
• Constructing and Validating a Scale of Inquisitive Curiosity.

Announcements

• IU Bloomington: Safety Program Receives Award From American Society of Safety Professionals.
• IU Bloomington: Researchers Receive Award for Significant Contribution to Industrial Hygiene.
• Staff Openings at IU SPH: Director of Special Projects and Executive Assistant to the Dean.
• NIH Seeking Nutrition Department Chief.
• FASEB Webinar: Enhancing Research Rigor and Reproducibility.
• FASEB Webinar: Promoting Good Mentoring in Science Careers.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track positions available in every department and two department chairs open – see multiple listings posted here.
• UAB’s NORC Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.

Featured

• Deletion of the Glucagon Receptor Gene Before and After Experimental Diabetes Reveals Differential Protection From Hyperglycemia.
• Hepatoprotective Effects of Insect Extracts in an Animal Model of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• A Genome-wide Association Study for Harness Racing Success in the Norwegian-Swedish Coldblooded Trotter Reveals Genes for Learning and Energy Metabolism.

Headline vs Study

• Satirical Headline Critique: EAT CHEESE LIVE FOREVER EAT CHEESE NEVER DIE.
• Headline: Parents Can Reduce Child Obesity Risk, Here’s the Trick to Doing So.
• Study: Conflicting Associations Among Observation of Caregiver Behaviors, Toddler Regulatory Abilities, and Toddler BMIz Trajectory in Longitudinal Observational Study. No Tricks; No Reducing Risk.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Omega-3 Fatty Acids Does Not Affect Physical Activity and Body Weight in Primary School Children.
• RCT: No Differential Effectiveness of Two High Protein Meal Replacement Programs—One Which Provides the Same Daily Energy Restriction (DER) and the Other Which Further Restricts Kilojoules Through Alternate Energy Restriction.
• "In the adjusted models, maternal metabolic complications were not associated with offspring neurodevelopment."
• High Amylose Cornstarch Preloads Stabilized Postprandial Blood Glucose but Failed to Reduce Satiety or Food Intake in Healthy Women.
• "There was no significant relationship between the objective time constraint and HEI score of food purchases."
• "In this meta-analysis, the choice of weight loss strategy did not confer a weight loss benefit."
• Visceral Fat Area Measured with Computed Tomography Does Not Predict Postoperative Course in Crohn´s Disease Patients.
• No change in BMI observed among "The 'Challenge for a Healthier Louisiana' program [which] supported twelve projects that addressed the root causes of obesity through integrated community-level changes."

Basic

• Hepatic Glucagon-Receptor Signaling Enhances Insulin-Stimulated Glucose Disposal in Rodent.
• Resveratrol Improves the Energy Sensing and Glycolipid Metabolism of Blunt Snout Bream Megalobrama Amblycephala Fed High-carbohydrate Diets By Activating the AMPK–SIRT1–PGC-1α Network.
• Lipid Metabolism in Insect Disease Vectors.
• Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) Channels: A Metabolic TR(i)P to Obesity Prevention and Therapy.
• Obesity Increases Airway Smooth Muscle Responses to Contractile Agonists.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Before, After, Pre, Post, and Bogus Claims.
• Why Causality, and Not Prediction, Should Guide Obesity Prevention Policy.

Clinical

• Epicardial Fat Distribution Assessed with Cardiac CT in Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia/Cardiomyopathy.
• Rethinking the Association Between Overweight/obesity and ADHD in Children: A Longitudinal and Psychosocial Perspective.
• The Role and Impact of Community Health Workers in Childhood Obesity Interventions: A Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis.
• Effects of Intentional Weight Loss in Patients with Obesity and Heart Failure: A Systematic Review.
• Dynapenic Abdominal Obesity as a Risk Factor for Worse Trajectories of ADL Disability Among Older Adults: ELSA Cohort Study.

Children and Adolescents

• QuickStats: Number of Youths Aged 2–19 Years and Adults Aged ≥20 Years with Obesity or Severe Obesity — National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2015–2016.
• Defining Metabolically Healthy Obesity in Children: A Scoping Review.
• Gratitude Facilitates Healthy Eating Behavior in Adolescents and Young Adults.
• Body Mass Index Changes in Early Childhood.
• PedsQL 3.2 Diabetes Module for Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults: Reliability and Validity in Type 1 Diabetes.

Surgery

• Does Bariatric Surgery Cause Vitamin A, B1, C or E Deficiency? A Systematic Review.
• RCT: Effects of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Eating Behaviors, Affective Symptoms, and Weight Loss After Bariatric Surgery.
• Obesity Surgery Makes Patients Healthier and More Functional: Real World Results From the UK National Bariatric Surgery Registry.
• Causal Attributions for Obesity Among Patients Seeking Surgical Versus Behavioral/Pharmacological Weight Loss Treatment.
• Conversion of Standard Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass to Distal Bypass for Weight Loss Failure and Metabolic Syndrome: 3-year Follow-up and Evolution of Technique to Reduce Nutritional Complications.

Drugs

• Intranasal Oxytocin Reduces Weight Gain in Diet-induced Obese Prairie Voles.
• Efficacy and Safety of a Fixed-dose Combination of D-norpseudoephedrine, Triiodothyronine, Atropine, Aloin, and Diazepam in Obese Patients.
• Human-origin Probiotic Cocktail Increases Short-chain Fatty Acid Production Via Modulation of Mice and Human Gut Microbiome.

Food & Diet

• Food Texture: A Potential Dietary Consideration for Obesity Prevention?
• RCT: Glycemic Effects of a Low-Carbohydrate Enteral Formula Compared with an Enteral Formula of Standard Composition in Critically Ill Patients.
• Cardiovascular Disease Prevention By Diet Modification.
• Chia Oil Supplementation Changes Body Composition and Activates Insulin Signaling Cascade in Skeletal Muscle Tissue of Obese Animals.
• Serving Style Preferences for Various Meal Arrangements Among Children.

Caloric Restriction

• Investigation of the Long-term Sustainability of Changes in Appetite After Weight Loss.
• Restricted Calorie Intake and Autophagy: Is There a Link?
• The Effect of Fasting or Calorie Restriction on Autophagy Induction: A Review of the Literature.
• Time-Restricted Feeding Prevents Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome in Mice Lacking a Circadian Clock.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Post-workout Muscle Building and Repair Blunted in Obese Adults.
• Long‐term Determinants of Changes in Television Viewing Time in Adults: Prospective Analyses From the Young Finns Study.
• Self-regulated Use of a Wearable Activity Sensor is Not Associated with Improvements in Physical Activity, Cardiometabolic Risk or Subjective Health Status.
• The Effectiveness of EHealth Interventions on Physical Activity and Measures of Obesity Among Working‐age Women: A Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis.
• Worldwide Trends in Insufficient Physical Activity From 2001 to 2016: A Pooled Analysis of 358 Population-based Surveys with 1·9 Million Participants.

Economics & Sociology

• Healthy Eating Among Mexican Immigrants: Migration in Childhood and Time in the United States.
• Prospective Cohort Study of Overweight and Obesity Among Rural Indian Adults: Sociodemographic Predictors of Prevalence, Incidence and Remission.
• The Body as Metaphor: Social Class and Obesity.
• Financial Incentives Could Be Key to Tackling Australia's Obesity Crisis: CSIRO Study.

Epidemiology

• Obesity and Loss of Disease-free Years Owing to Major Non-communicable Diseases: A Multicohort Study.
• Weight Loss Increases All-cause Mortality in Overweight or Obese Patients with Diabetes: A Meta-analysis.
• Evaluation of a Summary Score for Dyslipidemia, Oxidative Stress and Inflammation (DOI Score) in Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Its Relationship with Obesity.
• Genetics of Severe Obesity.
• Insomnia Symptoms and Sleep Duration and Their Combined Effects in Relation to Associations with Obesity and Central Obesity.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Jerkies, Tacos, and Burgers: Subjective Socioeconomic Status and Meat Preference.
• Moderating Effects of Components of Resilience on Obesity Across Income Strata.
• Unfavourable Gender Effect of High BMI on Brain Metabolism and Connectivity.
• Neurobehavioral Correlates of Obesity are Largely Heritable.
• Regulation of Energy Rheostasis By the Melanocortin-3 Receptor.

Equity and Disparities

• Racial Differences in Mechanisms Linking Childhood Socioeconomic Status with Growth in Adult BMI: The Role of Adolescent Risk and Educational Attainment.
• Hospital Length of Stay By Race-Ethnicity and Weight Loss Procedure Types.
• Two‐Year Changes in Child Weight Status, Diet, and Activity By Neighborhood Nutrition and Physical Activity Environment.

Stigma

• Commentary: Tess Holliday: Public Health Threat.
• Respectful Language and Care in Childhood Obesity.
• Association Between Obesity and Patient-centered Measures Using the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.

Policy Related

• RCT: Influence of Front-of-package Nutrition Labels on Beverage Healthiness Perceptions.
• Perceived Effectiveness and Fairness of Obesity Taxes in Turkey.
• Food Deserts Don’t Cause Obesity. But that Doesn’t Mean They Don’t Matter.
• Weight Gains From Trade in Foods: Evidence From Mexico.

Intergenerational Effects

• Prevalence of Low Birth Weight and Its Association with Maternal Body Weight Status in Selected Countries in Africa: A Cross-sectional Study.
• Folate Treatment of Pregnant Rats Abolishes Metabolic Effects in Female Offspring Induced By a Paternal Pre-conception Unhealthy Diet.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Ingestive Behavior of Bornean Orangutans (Pongo Pygmaeus Wurmbii): Coping with Mechanical Challenges While Foraging.
• Starvation Tolerance of Extraordinarily Heavy Embayment Copepod Acartia Steueri in Sagami Bay, Japan.
• Dietary Antioxidants, but Not Courtship Effort, Affect Oxidative Balance in the Testes and Muscles of Crickets.
• Female Status, Food Security, and Stature Sexual Dimorphism: Testing Mate Choice as a Mechanism in Human Self‐domestication.

Methods

• Framework for Estimating Sleep Timing From Publicly Observable Activity on Online Social Network Sites.
• Narrative Review of New Methods for Assessing Food and Energy Intake.
• National Institutes of Health Pathways to Prevention Workshop: Methods for Evaluating Natural Experiments in Obesity.
• Use of Deep Learning to Examine the Association of the Built Environment with Prevalence of Neighborhood Adult Obesity.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• The Proposal to Lower P Value Thresholds to 0.005.
• Lowering the P Value Threshold—To the Editor.
• Lowering the P Value Threshold—Reply.
• Arm Circumference-to-Height Ratio as a Situational Alternative to BMI Percentile in Assessing Obesity and Cardiometabolic Risk in Adolescents.

New Books

• New Book: Interval Weight Loss for Life.
• New Book: Practical Guide to Obesity Medicine.
• New Book: Handbook of Obesity Treatment, Second Edition.
• New Book: Treating Obesity with Personalized Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
• Data Release: CDC Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity - Legislation.

Commentary

• Genes that Make You Fat, but Keep You Healthy.
• Really? Cardio Beats Strength on Metabolism?
• Big, Bad, and Unfortunate Mistakes.
• Cosmopolitan editor defends putting plus-size model Tess Holliday on cover.
• In Defense of Sugar: A Critique of Diet-Centrism.
• In Critique of “In Defense of Sugar”: The Nuance of Whole Foods.
• The Demonization of ‘Diet’ Is Nothing New.
• Sugar Wars - Commentary From the Editor.
• Is Any Alcohol Dangerous to Your Health?
• Availability of High-fat Foods Might Drive the Obesity Epidemic.

General

• Sedentary Songbirds Maintain Higher Prevalence of Haemosporidian Parasite Infections than Migratory Conspecifics During Seasonal Sympatry.
• Ancient Herders Enriched and Restructured African Grasslands.
• Introducing ‘Letters to Young Scientists,’ a New Column From Science Careers.
• What I Learned About Weight Loss From Spending a Day Inside a Metabolic Chamber.

Video & Audio

• Audio: Sleep Deprivation and Muscle Loss.

Announcements

• Dietary Guidelines Public Call for Nominations September 6 - October 6.
• IU School of Public Health Bloomington Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track Positions Available in Every Department and Two Department Chairs Open – See Multiple Listings Posted Here.
• UAB’s Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) Seeks Post-Doctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• Research Symposium: Use of Real-World Data to Improve the Prevention and Care of Diabetes-Related Outcomes.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track positions available in every department and two department chairs open – see multiple listings posted here.
• UAB’s NORC Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.

Featured

• Implementation of Environmental Enrichment After Middle Age Promotes Healthy Aging and Reduces Fatness in Mice.
• Suppression of Insulin Feedback Enhances the Efficacy of PI3K Inhibitors.
• Does Obesity Shorten Life? Or is It the Soda? On Non-manipulable Causes. (pdf)
• RCT: Cardiovascular Safety of Lorcaserin in Overweight or Obese Patients.

Headline vs Study

• Media critique: What You Need to Know About Stories Proclaiming ‘no Safe Level of Alcohol’.
• Headline: Losing Just One Night of Sleep Could Affect Your Metabolism and Lead to Obesity, According to a New Study.
• Study: Acute Sleep Loss Alters Genome-wide DNA Methylation and Metabolic Fuel Utilization in Humans. No Obesity.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Intragastric injection of BTX-A does not appear to be an effective method of achieving preoperative weight loss in super-obese patients."
• "…the associations of any breastfeeding, duration and exclusiveness of breastfeeding, and age at the introduction of solid foods with general, visceral, and organ fat measures at the age of 10 y are largely explained by family-based sociodemographic factors."
• Obesity Does Not Increase the Incidence and Severity of Intraoperative and Postoperative Complications After Lung Lobectomy.
• No Evidence of Overweight in Long‐Term Survivors of Childhood Cancer After Glucocorticoid Treatment.
• RCT: "The DPA [daily physical activity] program evaluated here did not improve the psychosocial well-being of elementary school-aged children more than usual practices."
• "These data suggest that sedentary behavior is not associated with changes in cognitive performance in interventions that intend to reduce sedentary behavior."
• "The results of the present study suggest that arterial stiffness is not associated with sitting time in obese African Americans."
• RCTs: "1200 mg/day calcium supplementation may reduce risk of colorectal adenomas among those with normal BMI but not in overweight or obese individuals..."

Basic

• Glucomannan Hydrolysate Promotes Gut Proliferative Homeostasis and Extends Lifespan in Drosophila Melanogaster.
• Loss of the E3 Ubiquitin Ligase MKRN1 Represses Diet-Induced Metabolic Syndrome Through AMPK Activation.
• P53 in AgRP Neurons is Required for Protection Against Diet-Induced Obesity Via JNK1 in Mice.
• MTOR Signaling in X/A‐Like Cells Contributes to Lipid Homeostasis in Mice.
• Hepatocyte ALOXE3 is Induced During Adaptive Fasting and Enhances Insulin Sensitivity By Activating Hepatic PPARγ in Diet-Induced and Genetically Obese Mouse Models.
• The Circulating Metabolome of Human Starvation.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• The Claim that Effectiveness Has Been Demonstrated in the Parenting, Eating and Activity for Child Health (PEACH) Childhood Obesity Intervention is Unsubstantiated By the Data.
• The Challenge of Reforming Nutritional Epidemiologic Research.
• Low Carb Diets Could Shorten Life (really?!).
• Commentaries on Viewpoint: Use Aerobic Energy Expenditure Instead of Oxygen Uptake to Quantify Exercise Intensity and Predict Endurance Performance.
• Perspective: Limiting Dependence on Nonrandomized Studies and Improving Randomized Trials in Human Nutrition Research: Why and How.
• Anti-obesity Effects of Spirulina Maxima in High Fat Diet Induced Obese Rats Through Activating AMPK Pathway and SIRT1.
• Misrepresentation of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center Weight Loss Predictor.
• Reply to DM Thomas et al.

Clinical

• The Responsibility of Veterinarians to Address Companion Animal Obesity.
• An Addiction Model-based Mobile Health Weight Loss Intervention in Adolescents with Obesity.
• Impact of Primary Breast Cancer Therapy on Energetic Capacity and Body Composition.
• Post-prandial Uridine Physiology is Altered By Obesity. (pdf)
• RCT: A Church-Based Weight Loss Intervention in African American Adults Using Text Messages (LEAN Study).
• RCT: A Ketogenic Diet Reduces Central Obesity and Serum Insulin in Women with Ovarian or Endometrial Cancer.
• Men and Women Respond Differently to Rapid Weight Loss: Metabolic Outcomes of a Multi‐centre Intervention Study After a Low‐energy Diet in 2500 Overweight, Individuals with Pre‐diabetes (PREVIEW).

Children and Adolescents

• "Higher participation in organized sport was associated with increased participation in free play over time" in five-year cohort study of fourth grade children.
• Interaction Between Parental Education and Household Wealth on Children's Obesity Risk.
• Validation of Dietary Reference Intakes for Predicting Energy Requirements in Elementary School-age Children.

Surgery

• The Efficacy of Energy-Restricted Diets in Achieving Preoperative Weight Loss for Bariatric Patients: A Systematic Review.
• RCT: EUS-Guided Intragastric Injection of Botulinum Toxin a in the Preoperative Treatment of Super-Obese Patients.
• Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery-Induced Weight Loss and Metabolic Improvements are Similar in TGR5-Deficient and Wildtype Mice.
• Bariatric Surgery Improves the Employment Rate in People with Obesity: 2-year Analysis.

Drugs

• RCT: Efficacy and Safety of Semaglutide Compared with Liraglutide and Placebo for Weight Loss in Patients with Obesity.
• Induction of Beige Adipocytes By Naturally Occurring β3-adrenoceptor Agonist P-synephrine.
• RCT: Efficacy and Safety of Once-weekly Dulaglutide Versus Insulin Glargine in Mainly Asian Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus on Metformin And/or a Sulfonylurea.
• Cardiovascular Safety of Lorcaserin in Overweight or Obese Patients.
• RCT: Effect of Sitagliptin on Energy Metabolism and Brown Adipose Tissue in Overweight Individuals with Prediabetes.

Food & Diet

• Switching From a High-fat Cellulose Diet to a High-fat Pectin Diet Reverses Certain Obesity-related Morbidities.
• Opportunistic Food Consumption in Relation to Childhood and Adult Food Insecurity: An Exploratory Correlational Study.
• RCT: Reductions in Food Cravings are Similar with Low-fat Weight Loss Diets Differing in Protein and Carbohydrate in Overweight and Obese Adults with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Polyphenols Regulating MicroRNAs and Inflammation Biomarkers in Obesity.
• Dietary Carbohydrate Intake and Mortality: A Prospective Cohort Study and Meta-analysis.
• Influence of Food Texture on Energy Metabolism and Adiposity in Male Rats.
• RCT: High Protein, Partial Meal Replacement Program with or Without Alternate Day Fasting.
• The Impact of Food Order on Postprandial Glycemic Excursions in Prediabetes.

Caloric Restriction

• Resistance Training and Caloric Restriction Prevent Systolic Blood Pressure Rise By Improving the Nitric Oxide Effect on Smooth Muscle and Morphological Changes in the Aorta of Ovariectomized Rats.
• Experiences of Using Very Low Energy Diets for Weight Loss By People with Overweight or Obesity: A Review of Qualitative Research.
• Gut Microbiota Mediates the Anti-obesity Effect of Calorie Restriction in Mice.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Association of Physical Activity with Age-related Changes in Muscle Echo Intensity in Older Adults: A 4-year Longitudinal Study.
• RCT: Telephone-delivered Physical Activity and Weight Management Intervention for Individuals with Lower Extremity Amputation.
• High-intensity Interval Training Elicits Improvements in Objective Measures of Cardiorespiratory Fitness Within 8 Weeks in Diseased Cohorts Compared with No Intervention.
• Association of Objectively Measured Physical Activity with Brown Adipose Tissue Volume and Activity in Young Adults.

Epidemiology

• Metabolic Markers, Regional Adiposity, and Adipose Cell Size: Relationship to Insulin Resistance in African-American as Compared with Caucasian Women.
• Sarcopenia as a Predictor of Hospitalization Among Older People: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Estimated Global Overweight and Obesity Burden in Pregnant Women Based on Panel Data Model.
• Compositional Associations of Time Spent in Sleep, Sedentary Behavior and Physical Activity with Obesity Measures in Children.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Which is Better in Fat Times and in Lean Times: The Macho Man Vs. The Nice Guy? Priming Effects on Polish and Norwegian Students' Mate Preferences.
• Social Dominance Modulates Stress-induced Neural Activity in Medial Prefrontal Cortex Projections to the Basolateral Amygdala.

Equity and Disparities

• Ethnic Disparities of Beverage Consumption in Infants and Children 0-5 Years of Age; National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2011 to 2014.
• Geographic Differences in Obesity Prevalence and Its Risk Factors Among Asian Americans: Findings From the 2013–2014 California Health Interview Survey.
• Investigating Socioeconomic Disparities in the Potential Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Environments of Churches.

Stigma

• Weight Stigma is a Modifiable Risk Factor.
• How and why weight stigma drives the obesity 'epidemic' and harms health.

Policy Related

• Public Perceptions of Sugar Sweetened Beverage Taxes: An Integrative Literature Review.
• New Bill Aims to Limit Kids’ Drink Options By Offering Milk or Water.

Intergenerational Effects

• Gestational Weight Gain Per Pre-Pregnancy BMI and Birth Weight in Twin Pregnancies: A Cohort Study in Wuhan, China.
• INSIGHT Study Maternal Return to Work and Infant Weight Outcomes.
• Prospective Cohort Studies of Birth Weight and Risk of Obesity, Diabetes, and Hypertension in Adulthood Among the Chinese Population.
• Neonatal Morbidity in the Offspring of Obese Women Without Hypertension or Diabetes.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The Role of Curvature Feedback in the Energetics and Dynamics of Lamprey Swimming: A Closed-loop Model.
• Blood Pressure is Associated with Resting Energy Expenditure and Body Composition in Non-obese 18–39 Year-olds: Results of the Ic-basarot Project.
• Extreme Physiological Plasticity in a Hibernating Basoendothermic Mammal, Tenrec Ecaudatus.
• Impact of Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions on Global Human Nutrition.

Methods

• Sheep as a Model for Control of Appetite and Energy Expenditure.
• The Weight‐Focused Forms of Self‐Criticising/Attacking and Self‐Reassuring Scale: Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Associations with Control, Loss of Control of Eating and Weight in Overweight and Obese Women.
• Potential Biases in Machine Learning Algorithms Using Electronic Health Record Data.
• Controversy and Debate Paper #1: The Fatal Flaws of Food Frequency Questionnaires and other Memory-Based Dietary Assessment Methods.
• Controversy and Debate: Memory based Methods Paper #2.
• Controversy and Debate: Memory-Based Dietary Assessment Methods Paper #3.
• Controversy and Debate: Memory based Methods Paper #4.
• Anthropometric Indices as Surrogates for Estimating Abdominal Visceral and Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue: A Meta-analysis with 16,129 Participants.
• Can the Artificial Intelligence Technique of Reinforcement Learning Use Continuously-monitored Digital Data to Optimize Treatment for Weight Loss?

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Oxygen Uptake Kinetics and Speed-time Correlates of Modified 3-minute All-out Shuttle Running in Soccer Players.
• A mathematical model of type 1 diabetes involving leptin effects on glucose metabolism.

Commentary

• Wondering Why More Teens Aren’t Thinking Weight Loss.
• Diet Boosts the Effectiveness of a Cancer Drug.
• Meeting the Challenge of Scale for Obesity Care.
• If You're Worried About the New Alcohol Study, Here's Some Perspective.
• What Will It Take to Reverse Childhood Obesity? More than a Single Solution.
• The Madness of Hunger.
• Lorcaserin — Elixir or Liability?
• Lorcaserin: From Also-Ran to Holy Grail in the NEJM.

General

• No More Excuses for Non-reproducible Methods.
• Longevity Examined: An Ancient Greek’s Very Modern Views on Ageing.
• The "finding that judgment depends on context may be applicable to any field in which humans categorize continuous distributions."
• Sexual Dimorphism in Drosophila Melanogaster Survival of Beauveria Bassiana Infection Depends on Core Immune Signaling.
• Sons May Be Bad for Maternal Health at Older Age. New Evidence for Costs of Reproduction in Humans.
• Hypogonadism and Its Treatment Following Ischaemic Stroke in Men with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• How Healthy is the Healthspan Concept?
• Evaluating the Replicability of Social Science Experiments in Nature and Science Between 2010 and 2015.
• Alien Signals to Earth Could Piggyback on Neutron Star Collisions.
• UK Weather: Food to Increase in Price Because of Extreme Conditions.

Video & Audio

• It's Not the Fat that Makes Us Unhealthy.

Announcements

• IU Bloomington: Professional Athletic Training Program Receives Scholarship Funding From Bill Cramer Professional Development Award.
• $1.5 Million Gift Establishes Endowed Johnson Chair for Diversity and Leadership at IU.
• Closing Friday—2018 Nominations for TOS Council and the Nominating Committee.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track positions available in every department and two department chairs open – see multiple listings posted here.
• UAB’s NORC Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.

Featured

• Genotype-by-sex-by-diet Interactions for Nutritional Preference, Dietary Consumption, and Lipid Deposition in a Field Cricket.
• RCT: "Saturated Fat Is More Metabolically Harmful for the Human Liver Than Unsaturated Fat or Simple Sugars."
• Household Food Insecurity and Psychosocial Dysfunction in Ecuadorian Elementary Schoolchildren.
• RCT: First "evidence that an after-school setting has a better impact than a school-based setting in delivering a universal wellness prevention programme."

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Diabetes 'can Be Kept at Bay with a Glass of MILK Every Day at Breakfast Time'.
• Study: Acute Effects of Milk Proteins in Breakfast Meals on Postprandial Glucose, Satiety Ratings, and Subsequent Meal Intake. No Diabetes.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No effects of "Hit n Run, a video game based on the principles of Go/No-Go inhibition training, in young adults who reported disinhibited eating" on food-specific inhibitory control or caloric intake.
• Local Metabolic Hypothesis is Not Sufficient to Explain Coronary Autoregulatory Behavior.
• "Contrary to frequently reported unintended weight loss, our systematic review does not provide evidence for a lower energy or protein intake in patients with AD [Alzheimer's Disease] compared to controls."
• RCT: "Treatment with the dopamine agonist cabergoline does not prevent weight regain in obese individuals following weight loss."
• RCT: No Differential Effects of Two Preoperatory Weight Loss Diets on Hepatic Volume and Surgical Complications in Morbid Obese Bariatric Surgery Candidates.
• RCT: "Increasing the dose of calcium supplementation in RYGB operated patients with slightly elevated PTH levels does not normalize PTH levels, regardless of the type of supplement."
• RCT: No Evidence for Added Benefits of Ten Top Tips (10TT) is a Primary Care-led Behavioural Intervention Which Aims to Help Adults Reduce and Manage Their Weight By Following 10 Weight Loss Tips Beyond Usual Care.
• "Correlations between all nutritional intake and [gastrointestinal symptoms] were not statistically significant" during a marathon in recreational runners.

Basic

• SGLT2 Knockout Prevents Hyperglycemia and is Associated with Reduced Pancreatic β-cell Death in Genetically Obese Mice.
• Dietary Stearic Acid Regulates Mitochondria in Vivo in Humans.
• Disruption of G0/G1 Switch Gene 2 (G0S2) Reduces Abdominal Fat Deposition and Alters Fatty Acid Composition in Chickens.
• Activation of Histone Deacetylase 4 (HDAC4) in Adipocytes Leads to Beige Adipocyte Expansion and Reduced Adiposity in H4-TG Mice.
• Intestinal Metabolism and Bioaccumulation of Sucralose in Adipose Tissue in the Rat.
• CD38 Deficiency Protects Heart From High Fat Diet-Induced Oxidative Stress Via Activating Sirt3/FOXO3 Pathway.
• Absence of Leptin Signaling Allows Fat Accretion in CF Mice.
• Emerging Role of AMPK in Brown and Beige Adipose Tissue (BAT): Implications for Obesity, Insulin Resistance, and Type 2 Diabetes.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Erratum. Reduction in the Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes with the Mediterranean Diet: Results of the PREDIMED-Reus Nutrition Intervention Randomized Trial.
• Erratum. Mediterranean Diet, Retinopathy, Nephropathy, and Microvascular Diabetes Complications: A Post Hoc Analysis of a Randomized Trial.
• Trade-offs in Rigor and Generalizability in a Diet Trial of Glycemic Control in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Using Whole Foods and Dietary Supplements.
• Letter. Effects of Probiotics on Body Weight, BMI, Fat Mass and Fat Percentage in Subjects with Overweight or Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of RCTs.
• Why is So Much Nutrition Research Kept Confidential Before Publication?

Clinical

• Effect of Obesity on Labor Duration Among Nulliparous Women with Epidural Analgesia.
• RCT: "Short-medium-long-term efficacy of interdisciplinary intervention against overweight and obesity."

Children and Adolescents

• Infant Breastfeeding and Childhood General, Visceral, Liver, and Pericardial Fat Measures Assessed By Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
• Relationship of BMI Z Score to Fat Percent and Fat Mass in Multiethnic Prepubertal Children.
• The Association Between Household Food Insecurity and BMI: A Prospective Growth Curve Analysis.

Surgery

• IFSO Worldwide Survey 2016: Primary, Endoluminal, and Revisional Procedures.
• Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy Resolves NAFLD: Another Formal Indication for Bariatric Surgery?

Drugs

• RCT: The Benefits of Adding Metformin to Tamoxifen to Protect the Endometrium.
• A Good Look at Semaglutide for Obesity.
• Pharmacological Action of a Pregnane Glycoside, Russelioside B, in Dietary Obese Rats: Impact on Weight Gain and Energy Expenditure.

Food & Diet

• Phytoestrogen Supplementation and Body Composition in Postmenopausal Women: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of RCTs.
• Dietary Carbohydrate Intake and Mortality: A Prospective Cohort Study and Meta-analysis.
• Ketogenic Ratio Determines Metabolic Effects of Macronutrients and Prevents Interpretive Bias.
• Metabolites as Regulators of Insulin Sensitivity and Metabolism.

Caloric Restriction

• Moderate Calorie Restriction Attenuates Age‑associated Alterations and Improves Cardiac Function By Increasing SIRT1 and SIRT3 Expression.
• Caloric Restriction Counteracts Chemotherapy-induced Inflammation and Increases Response to Therapy in a Triple Negative Breast Cancer Model.
• Time-restricted Feeding Suppresses Excess Sucrose-induced Plasma and Liver Lipid Accumulation in Rats.
• Overfed Mice Got Rhythm.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Effects of Aerobic Exercise and Vitamin C Supplementation on Rhinitis Symptoms in Allergic Rhinitis Patients.
• Consensus Statement on Placebo Effects in Sports and Exercise: The Need for Conceptual Clarity, Methodological Rigour, and the Elucidation of Neurobiological Mechanisms.
• Replacing Sedentary Time: Meta-analysis of Objective-Assessment Studies.
• RCT: Pre-Exercise Breakfast Ingestion Versus Extended Overnight Fasting Increases Postprandial Glucose Flux After Exercise in Healthy Men.
• The Multivariate Physical Activity Signature Associated with Metabolic Health in Children.

Economics & Sociology

• Neighborhood Food Environment, Dietary Fatty Acid Biomarkers, and Cardiac Arrest Risk.
• The Impact of Rising Food Prices on Obesity in Women: A Longitudinal Analysis of 31 Low-income and Middle-income Countries From 2000 to 2014.

Epidemiology

• Working Times and Overweight: Tight Schedules, Weaker Fitness? (pdf)
• Morning Preference and Better Sleep Linked to Reduced Type 2 Diabetes Risk.
• Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction: A Preferred Risk Marker in Obesity?
• Adolescent Weight and Electronic Vapor Product Use: Comparing BMI-Based with Perceived Weight Status.
• Analysis of Changes in Adiponectin Levels and Abdominal Obesity After Smoking Cessation.
• Risk Factors, Mortality, and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• The All-Cause Mortality and a Screening Tool to Determine High-Risk Patients Among Prevalent Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Framing Obesity: Effects of Obesity Labeling and Prevalence Statistics on Public Perceptions.
• Sociocentric Social Networks and Overweight/obesity in the Classroom.
• Ripple Effects of Communities Childhood Obesity Prevention.

Equity and Disparities

• Public Health Interventions in the Era of Childhood Obesity and Other Racial Health Disparities.
• Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Effectiveness of a Multisector Childhood Obesity Prevention Intervention.
• Socioeconomic Inequalities in Weight, Height and BMI From Birth to 5 Years.

Stigma

• How and Why Weight Stigma Drives the Obesity ‘epidemic’ and Harms Health.
• Preferred Weight‐related Terminology By Parents of Children with Obesity.
• Weight Bias and Stigma in Children.
• Framing Obesity: Effects of Obesity Labeling and Prevalence Statistics on Public Perceptions.

Policy Related

• A Toolkit for Data Transparency Takes Shape.
• Understanding and Overcoming the Challenge of Obesity and Overweight in the Armed Forces.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Impacts of Forests on Children’s Diet in Rural Areas Across 27 Developing Countries.
• Metabolic Rates, Climate and Macroevolution: A Case Study Using Neogene Molluscs.
• Terrestrial Locomotion of the Northern Elephant Seal (Mirounga Angustirostris): Limitation of Large Aquatically Adapted Seals on Land?
• Role of the Circadian Clock in the Metabolic Syndrome and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.

Methods

• Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Children: Evidence for Criterion-referenced Cut-points.
• Comparison of Logistic Regression with Machine Learning Methods for the Prediction of Fetal Growth Abnormalities: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
• Estimating Energy Expenditure From Wrist and Thigh Accelerometry in Free-living Adults: A Doubly Labelled Water Study.
• Narrative Review of New Methods for Assessing Food and Energy Intake.

Commentary

• Genetic Susceptibility to the “obesogenic” Environment: The Role of Eating Behavior in Obesity and an Appetite for Change.
• Get Up and Move Around, Children!
• Ketogenic Leftovers, Reheated- Just for You!
• Loose Connections Between Dietary Guidelines and Reality.
• Looking for a Sweet Spot for Carbs.
• Why do Some Microbes Live in Your Gut While Others Don’t?
• The Toll of America’s Obesity.

General

• RP: CB Study Decides to Scale Down Studies to Replicate.
• Open Science By Design: Realizing a Vision for the 21st Century.
• Biological Embedding of Neighborhood Disadvantage and Collective Efficacy: Influences on Chronic Illness Via Accelerated Cardiometabolic Age.
• Important Factor May Be Missing in Models Used to Predict Spread of Epidemics From Climate Change.
• Hormonal Correlates of Exploratory and Play-related Behavior in Domestic Dogs.
• Populating the Data Ark: An Attempt to Retrieve, Preserve, and Liberate Data From the Most Highly-cited Psychology and Psychiatry Articles.
• Scalable and Accurate Deep Learning with Electronic Health Records.

Video & Audio

• David Sabatini, M.D., Ph.D.: Rapamycin and the Discovery of MTOR — the Nexus of Aging and Longevity?
• Audio: Rapamycin and Dogs — Man’s Best Friends? — Living Longer, Healthier Lives and Turning Back the Clock on Aging and Age-related Diseases.

Announcements

• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track positions available in every department and two department chairs open – see multiple listings posted here.
• UAB’s NORC Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.