Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Bias in Hazard Ratios Arising From Misclassification By Self-reported Weight and Height in Observational Studies of BMI and Mortality.
• A Classification System for Zebrafish Adipose Tissues.
• High-Intensity Interval Training and Calorie Restriction Promote Remodeling of Glucose and Lipid Metabolism in Diet-Induced Obesity.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: French Fries Will Kill You: New Study Indicates Health Risk.
• Study: Fried Potatoes, in Sub-group Analysis of Baseline Self-reported Potato Consumption, Associated with 8 Year Mortality.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "Our results generally suggest, contrary to normative views, that food-away-from-home expenditure is negatively related to body mass index (BMI)."
• "Neighbourhood convenience stores and fast-food restaurants were not associated with BMI in any model."
• "in Texas, the perceived presence of a fast food restaurant was negatively associated with BMI."
• "Longitudinally, higher intersection density and food store density, and lower greenspace were associated with smaller increases in abdominal VAT."
• The Fast Food Obesity Villain is Fading.
• RCT: No Effect in "Two-year follow-up of a primary care-based intervention to prevent and manage childhood obesity: the High Five for Kids study."
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, ..there was no effect [of testosterone] on BW, fat mass, total water content, or lean mass after 6 weeks of T supplementation" in male rats.
• Systematic Review: "at present there is insufficient evidence to support a direct link between obesity and poor academic performance in school age children."
• RCT: "Closure of midline vertical skin incisions with subcuticular suture does not reduce surgical site wound complications compared with staples in obese gynecology patients."
• RCT: The effect of a prenatal lifestyle intervention on glucose metabolism: "For overweight/obese women (n = 158), intervention was associated with increased risk of at least one glucose measurement exceeding International Association of Pregnancy and Diabetes Study Group thresholds (33.7% vs. 13.9%, adj. OR 3.89, p = 0.004)."
• "Contrary to conventional wisdom, weight underperception is associated with improved health markers in young women."
• "contrary to previous claims, there was no evidence that routine weighing during antenatal care caused anxiety."
• RCT: Zinc Supplementation Does Not Alter Indicators of Insulin Secretion and Sensitivity in Black and White Female Adolescents.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Ohio State Exercise Researcher Resigns After Retraction of CrossFit Study.
• Letter: Why Intensity is Not a Bad Word – Benefits and Practical Aspects of High Effort Resistance Training to the Older.
• Reply: Why Intensity is Not a Bad Word.
• Is Obesity Related to Postexercise Cardiac Autonomic Recovery?
• Reply To: Is Obesity Related to Postexercise Cardiac Autonomic Recovery?

Basic

• Four Nature Papers Describing the Receptor Structures Involved in Glucose Metabolism Hold Great Promise for Finding New Ways to Treat Diabetes.
• Various Ketogenic Diets Can Differently Support Brain Resistance Against Experimentally Evoked Seizures and Seizure-induced Elemental Anomalies of Hippocampal Formation.
• Hepatic Gene Therapy Rescues High-fat Diet Responses in Circadian Clock Mutant Mice.
• Age-dependent Regulation of Obesity and Alzheimer-related Outcomes By Hormone Therapy in Female 3xTg-AD Mice.
• Beta-adrenergic Receptors are Critical for Weight Loss but Not for Other Metabolic Adaptations to the Consumption of a Ketogenic Diet in Male Mice.
• Beyond Obesity – Thermogenic Adipocytes and Cardiometabolic Health.
• SGLT2 Inhibition By Empagliflozin Promotes Fat Utilization and Browning and Attenuates Inflammation and Insulin Resistance By Polarizing M2 Macrophages in Diet-induced Obese Mice.

Clinical

• Meta-analysis: Training at High Intensity is Superior to Improve Cardiopulmonary Fitness and to Reduce Percent Body Fat in Adults with Obesity Compared to Traditional Exercise.
• Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: Bariatric Surgery is Associated with Low Short-term Mortality and May Be Associated with Long-term Reductions in All-cause, Cardiovascular and Cancer-related Mortality.
• Review: The Impact of Obesity on Neurodegenerative Diseases.
• Obesity Does Not Exacerbate the Protumorigenic Systemic Environment in Sarcoma Subjects.

Children and Adolescents

• Improving Universal Pediatric Lipid Screening.
• Rethinking the Use of BMI Z-Score in Children and Adolescents with Severe Obesity: Time to Kick It to the Curb?
• Prebiotic Reduces Body Fat and Alters Intestinal Microbiota in Children with Overweight or Obesity.

Surgery

• Long-Term Outcome of Bariatric Surgery in Morbidly Obese Adolescents: A Systematic Review.
• Effects of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy on Parathyroid Hormone, Vitamin D, Calcium, Phosphorus, and Albumin Levels.
• Multi-modality Surgical Treatment for an Increasingly Common Patient with Morbid Obesity and Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma.

Drugs

• Risk of Diabetic Ketoacidosis After Initiation of an SGLT2 Inhibitor.
• The Burden of Obesity in the Current World and the New Treatments Available: Focus on Liraglutide 3.0 Mg.
• Oxytocin and Potential Benefits for Obesity Treatment.
• Reversal of Obesity-driven Aggressiveness of Endometrial Cancer By Metformin.
• Low-Dose Aspirin Reduces Breast Cancer Risk in Women with Diabetes: A Nationwide Retrospective Cohort Study in Taiwan.

Food & Diet

• Substitution or Addition? How Overweight and Obese Adults Incorporate Vegetables Into Their Diet During a Randomized Controlled Vegetable Feeding Trial.
• Bigger Homes & Recipes: How Recipe Calories Have Increased Over the Years.
• Association Between Indulgent Descriptions and Vegetable Consumption: Twisted Carrots and Dynamite Beets.
• RCT: The Effect of Dietary Supplements Containing Green Tea, Capsaicin and Ginger Extracts on Weight Loss and Metabolic Profiles in Overweight Women.
• RCT: The Effect of a Vegetarian vs Conventional Hypocaloric Diabetic Diet on Thigh Adipose Tissue Distribution in Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes.

Caloric Restriction

• An Integrative Analysis of Tissue-specific Transcriptomic and Metabolomic Responses to Short-term Dietary Methionine Restriction in Mice.
• Dietary Methionine Restriction Regulates Liver Protein Synthesis and Gene Expression Independently of Eukaryotic Initiation Factor 2 Phosphorylation in Mice.
• MYCN Amplified Neuroblastoma Requires the MRNA Translation Regulator EEF2 Kinase to Adapt to Nutrient Deprivation.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Caffeine and Short-Term Exercise, Independently and Combined, Modestly Alter Eating Behavior.
• Role of Personal Networks on Physical Activity Among Residents of Low-Income Communities.
• The Influence [association] of Dog Ownership on Objective Measures of Free-living Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour in Community-dwelling Older Adults: A Longitudinal Case-controlled Study.
• Commentary: The Fat but Fit Paradox: What We Know and Don't Know About It.
• RCT: Effects of Elastic Resistance Exercise on Body Composition and Physical Capacity in Older Women with Sarcopenic Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Causal Effect of Parental Schooling on Early Childhood Undernutrition—Quasi-experimental Evidence From Zimbabwe.
• Promoting Physical Activity in High-poverty Neighborhood Parks.
• RCT: Social Status and Energy Intake.

Epidemiology

• Non-linear Relationship Between Maternal Work Hours and Child Body Weight: Evidence From the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study.
• Creating Obesity Networks Using Public Health Data Network Analysis System.
• Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity in 195 Countries Over 25 Years.
• Trends in Obesity and Diabetes Across Africa From 1980 to 2014: An Analysis of Pooled Population-based Studies.
• Associations of Abdominal Obesity and New-Onset Atrial Fibrillation in the General Population.
• Obesity, Cardiomyopathy and Anabolic Hormones.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Dual Role of Friendship and Antipathy Relations in the Marginalization of Overweight Children.
• Executive Function and Dysregulated Eating Behaviors in Pediatric Obesity.
• Directionality in the Relationship of Self-regulation, Self-efficacy, and Mood Changes in Facilitating Improved Physical Activity and Nutrition Behaviors: Extending Behavioral Theory to Improve Weight-Loss Treatment Effects.
• RCT: Can Psychobiotics Intake Modulate Psychological Profile and Body Composition of Women Affected By Normal Weight Obese Syndrome and Obesity?
• Functional Capacity and Obesity Reflect the Cognitive Performance of Older Adults Living in Long-term Care Facilities.

Equity and Disparities

• Commentary: Franchising Inequality.
• The United States Leads Other Nations in Differences By Income in Perceptions of Health and Health Care.
• Racial Differences in the Relationship of Glucose Concentrations and Hemoglobin A1c Levels.
• Obesity-driven Metabolic Effects Differ in Ovarian vs Endometrial Cancer.
• How Prejudice Can Harm Your Health.

Stigma

• Review: Interpersonal Discrimination and Markers of Adiposity in Longitudinal Studies.
• Maternal Perception of Child Overweight Status and Its Association with Weight-related Parenting Practices, Their Children’s Health Behaviours and Weight Change in China.
• Body Weight Misperception and Psychological Distress Among Young South Korean Adults.
• Commentary: 3 Ways to Mitigate Implicit Bias in the Exam Room.

Policy Related

• Sugary Beverage Taxation in South Africa: Household Expenditure, Demand System Elasticities, and Policy Implications.
• Policy and Social Factors Influencing Diabetes Among Pima Indians in Arizona, USA. (pdf)
• Equipping Healthcare Providers for Obesity Care.
• The Development and Application of a Sustainable Diets Framework for Policy Analysis: A Case Study of Nepal.
• Word ‘Milk’ Banned for Use in Branding of Plant-based Products.

Intergenerational Effects

• Association of Gestational Weight Gain with Maternal and Infant Outcomes.
• Maternal Night-Fasting Interval During Pregnancy is Directly Associated with Neonatal Head Circumference and Adiposity in Girls but Not Boys.
• Chronic Maternal Inflammation or High Fat Feeding Programs Offspring Obesity in a Sex Dependent Manner.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Primate Energy Input and the Evolutionary Transition to Energy-dense Diets in Humans.
• Nutritional Imbalance Suppresses Migratory Phenotypes of the Mongolian Locust (Oedaleus Asiaticus).

Methods

• RCT: Smartphone Technology and Text Messaging for Weight Loss in Young Adults.
• Technology-based Interventions for Weight Management: Current RCT Evidence and Future Directions.
• Noninvasive Deep Brain Stimulation Via Temporally Interfering Electric Fields.

Commentary

• Should We Officially Recognise Obesity as a Disease?
• The Five Fatal Flaws of Dieting.
• Do We Dare to Eat Lectins?
• Dr. W. Timothy Garvey Talks with Diabetes in Control ...about Definition, Treatment, and Impact of Obesity.
• The Scarlet F Why Fat Shaming Harms Health, and How We Can Change the Conversation.
• Commentary: The ‘obesity Paradox’ May Not Be a Paradox at All.
• Global Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity.

General

• Reproducibility of Research: Issues and Proposed Remedies: Issues of Analysis.
• Reproducibility of Research: Issues and Proposed Remedies: Improving Reproducibility.
• Sex Differences in Aging: Genomic Instability.
• Two in 100 Clinical Trials in Eight Major Journals Likely Contain Inaccurate Data: Study.
• READING: From Elizabeth Kolbert, "When Facts Don't Change Our Minds" in the New Yorker magazine, February 27, 2017.
• Why Men Don’t Live as Long as Women.
• NIH Scraps Plans for Cap on Research Grants.
• Commentary: Mapping the Dimensions of Health Policy and Technology.
• Policy Solutions to Recruiting and Retaining Minority Children in Research.
• National Council Against Health Fraud: Enhancing Freedom of Choice Through Reliable Health Information.

Video & Audio

• Video: UA Research on Snakes Could Help Treat Diabetes.

Announcements

• UAB's Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) invites you to join us at our NIH-funded short course on “The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity".
• UAB Invites You to Join Us at Our NIH-funded Short Course on “Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research”.
• UAB’s NORC seeks post-doctoral fellows in obesity research.
• 10th Annual Course on Isotope Tracers in Metabolic Research: Principles and Practice of Kinetic Analysis.

Featured

• Rapid Binge-like Eating and Body Weight Gain Driven By Zona Incerta GABA Neuron Activation.
• Extended Calorie Restriction Suppresses Overall and Specific Food Cravings: A Systematic Review and a Meta-analysis.
• The Critical Role of Cognitive-based Trait Differences in Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) Suppression of Food Craving and Eating in Frank Obesity.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Is Trendy Almond Milk Stunting Your Child's Growth? Three-year-olds Given Non-cow Alternatives are Up to 1.5cm Shorter as They Lack the Protein and Fat Needed for Development.
• Study: Cross-sectional Correlation of Parent-reported Non-cow Milk Consumption and Child Height.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "Contrary to expectations, obesity prevalence was highly significantly negatively related to the densities of both FFRs [Fast Food Restaurants] and FSRs [Full Service Restaurants]."
• RCT: "The Healthy Lifestyles Programme is not effective or cost effective in preventing overweight or obesity in 9-10 year olds."
• Our Study Does Not Support the Hypothesis that CD [Cesarean Delivery] Leads to Later Overweight.
• RCT: No Effect of DHA Supplementation During Pregnancy on Child Adiposity Outcomes.
• RCT: No Effect of a Social Media Peer Group for Mothers to Prevent Obesity on Offspring Obesity Indicators.
• RCT: Vitamin D Supplementation Has No Effect on Insulin Sensitivity or Secretion in Vitamin D-deficient, Overweight or Obese Adults.
• "There was no correlation between body composition and low back pain severity in this sample of veterans."
• "These data suggest that low BMI is not a causal risk factor for Alzheimer disease, and that the corresponding observational association likely is explained by reverse causation or confounding."
• RCT: We find "no evidence that UFM [Universal Free Meals] increases probability of obesity or overweight, or BMI."

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Freakonomics Audio: There’s a War on Sugar. Is It Justified?
• Waging War for Better Health?
• Journal Retracts Ohio State CrossFit Study at Center of Lawsuits.
• Retraction notice to "Acarbose on insulin resistance after an oral fat load: a double-blind, placebo controlled study."
• Asking Too Much of Epidemiologic Studies: The Problem of Collider Bias and the Obesity Paradox.
• Response To: Can Collider Bias Fully Explain the Obesity Paradox?
• Re: Collider Bias is Only a Partial Explanation for the Obesity Paradox.

Basic

• Ketogenic Diet Leads to O-GlcNAc Modification in the BTBRT + Tf/j Mouse Model of Autism.
• Intramuscular Triglyceride Content Precedes Impaired Glucose Metabolism, Without Evidence for Mitochondrial Dysfunction During Early Development of a Diabetic Phenotype.
• Hormone Released By Bone Suppresses Appetite.
• Consumption of a Mango Fruit Powder Protects Mice From High-Fat Induced Insulin Resistance and Hepatic Fat Accumulation.
• Abnormal Growth and Feeding Behavior Persist After Removal of Upper Airway Obstruction in Juvenile Rats.
• Neuromotor Activity, Anxiety, and Cognitive Function are Significantly Affected By Dietary Factors Contributing to Dysylipidemia Development in Rats and Mice.
• A Low-Protein, High-Carbohydrate Diet Increases Browning in Perirenal Adipose Tissue but Not in Inguinal Adipose Tissue.

Special Section: Food Insecurity and Obesity: The Insurance Hypothesis

• Article: Food Insecurity as a Driver of Obesity in Humans: The Insurance Hypothesis.
• Commentary: Eating and Body Image: Does Food Insecurity Make Us Feel Thinner?
• Commentary: Mapping Multiple Drivers of Human Obesity.
• Commentary: Expanding the Insurance Hypothesis of Obesity with Physiological Cues.
• Commentary: Epidemiological Foundations for the Insurance Hypothesis: Methodological Considerations.
• Commentary: Future Research Directions for the Insurance Hypothesis Regarding Food Insecurity and Obesity.
• Commentary: The Life History Model of the Insurance Hypothesis.
• Commentary: Appraising Food Insecurity.
• Commentary: Episodic Memory as an Explanation for the Insurance Hypothesis in Obesity.
• Commentary: Implicit Attitudes, Eating Behavior, and the Development of Obesity.
• Commentary: A Life-history Theory Perspective on Obesity.
• Commentary: Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of the Impact of Food Insecurity on Obesity.
• Commentary: Potential Psychological Accounts for the Relation Between Food Insecurity and Body Overweight.
• Commentary: Towards a Behavioural Ecology of Obesity.
• Commentary: Predicting Human Adiposity – Sometimes – with Food Insecurity: Broaden the Model for Better Accuracy.
• Commentary: Anti-fat Discrimination in Marriage More Clearly Explains the Poverty–obesity Paradox.
• Commentary: Committed to the Insurance Hypothesis of Obesity.
• Commentary: Social Nature of Eating Could Explain Missing Link Between Food Insecurity and Childhood Obesity.
• Commentary: A Game Theory Appraisal of the Insurance Hypothesis: Specific Polymorphisms in the Energy Homeostasis Network as Imprints of a Successful Minimax Strategy.
• Commentary: “It’s a Bit More Complicated than That”: A Broader Perspective on Determinants of Obesity.
• Commentary: Anorexia: A Perverse Effect of Attempting to Control the Starvation Response.
• Commentary: Using Food Insecurity in Health Prevention to Promote Consumer’s Embodied Self-regulation.
• Commentary: Obesity as Self-regulation Failure: A “disease of Affluence” that Selectively Hits the Less Affluent?
• Commentary: Household-level Financial Uncertainty Could Be the Primary Driver of the Global Obesity Epidemic.
• Commentary: Children Respond to Food Restriction By Increasing Food Consumption.
• Commentary: Obesity is Not Just Elevated Adiposity, It is Also a State of Metabolic Perturbation.
• Author's Response: Adaptive Principles of Weight Regulation: Insufficient, but Perhaps Necessary, for Understanding Obesity.

Clinical

• A Social Media Peer-group Intervention Significantly Impacted Certain Feeding Behaviors in Families with Infants at High Risk of Obesity.
• High- and Moderate-intensity Training Offer Similar Cardiometabolic Protection Against Single Metabolic Syndrome Risk Factors.

Children and Adolescents

• Parental BMI and Behavioral Problems in Their Offspring.
• Cesarean Delivery and BMI at 6 Months and Into Childhood.
• RCT: Comparative Effectiveness of Clinical-Community Childhood Obesity Interventions.

Surgery

• Bariatric Surgery-Induced Resolution of Hypertension and Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Impact of Modulation of Body Fat, Ectopic Fat, Autonomic Nervous Activity, Inflammatory and Adipokine Profiles.
• Contribution of Malabsorption to Weight Loss After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass: A Systematic Review.

Food & Diet

• Satisfying American's Fruit Gap: Summary of an Expert Roundtable on the Role of 100% Fruit Juice.
• Ingesting a Combined Carbohydrate and Essential Amino Acid Supplement Versus a Non-nutritive Placebo Blunts Mitochondrial Biogenesis-related Gene Expression After Aerobic Exercise.
• RCT: Impact of Breakfast Skipping Compared with Dinner Skipping on Regulation of Energy Balance and Metabolic Risk.
• RCT: Eggs in Early Complementary Feeding and Child Growth.
• Combined Vitamin B-12 and Balanced Protein-Energy Supplementation Affect Homocysteine Remethylation in the Methionine Cycle in Pregnant South Indian Women of Low Vitamin B-12 Status.
• Texture-Based Differences in Eating Rate Reduce the Impact of Increased Energy Density and Large Portions on Meal Size in Adults.

Caloric Restriction

• The Effects of Graded Levels of Calorie Restriction: X. Transcriptomic Responses of Epididymal Adipose Tissue.
• When Less May Be More: Calorie Restriction and Response to Cancer Therapy.
• Extended Calorie Restriction Suppresses Overall and Specific Food Cravings: A Systematic Review and a Meta-analysis.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Effects of After-School Physical Activity Club on the Math Achievement and Executive Functioning of Girls.
• RCT: Sedentary Behavior and Compensatory Mechanisms in Response to Different Doses of Exercise.
• The Effect of Exercise Intensity and Excess Post-exercise Oxygen Consumption on Postprandial Blood Lipids in Physically-inactive Men.
• RCT: Physical Activity and Energy Expenditure are Associated with Weight and Body Composition After RYGB.

Economics & Sociology

• A Marginal Structural Modeling Strategy Investigating Short and Long-term Exposure to Neighborhood Poverty on BMI Among U.S. Black and White Adults.
• Addressing the Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status and Childhood Obesity: An Inter-Professional Approach.

Epidemiology

• Self-regulation and Household Routines at Age Three and Obesity at Age Eleven: Longitudinal Analysis of the UK Millennium Cohort Study.
• Experiences in Affective-sexual Obesity Contexts.
• Improving Risk Estimates for Metabolically Healthy Obesity and Mortality Using a Refined Healthy Reference Group.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Executive Function in Childhood Obesity: Review.
• Role of Working Memory Sub-Components in Food Choice and Dieting Success.
• Hunger, Taste, and Normative Cues in Predictions About Food Intake.
• Watching Easy Sports Makes Me Eat More.

Equity and Disparities

• “Health disparities between black and white female prisoners are similar to disparities in the general population for obesity but significantly reduced for hypertension, diabetes, heart problems, kidney problems, and stroke.”
• Racial and ethnic minority enrollment in RCTs of behavioural weight loss utilizing technology: a systematic review.

Stigma

• Intersectionality: An Understudied Framework for Addressing Weight Stigma.
• Interpersonal Discrimination and Markers of Adiposity in Longitudinal Studies: A Systematic Review.
• A Multilevel Analysis of Psychological, Emotional, and Social Well-being in Obesity.

Policy Related

• Evaluation of Community-Based Policy, Systems, and Environment Interventions Targeting the Vending Machines.
• Do School Junk Food Bans Improve Student Health? Evidence From Canada.
• CDC Infographic: "Unfit to Serve: Obesity is Impacting National Security."
• Driving Action and Progress on Obesity Prevention and Treatment: Proceedings of a NAS Workshop.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Exercise Improves Glucose Tolerance in Female Offspring.
• Effects of Early Postnatal Environment on Hypothalamic Gene Expression in OLETF Rats.
• Breast Milk Intake and Mother to Infant Pesticide Transfer Measured By Deuterium Oxide Dilution in Agricultural and Urban Areas of Mexico.
• Maternal Consumption of Artificially Sweetened Beverages During Pregnancy, and Offspring Growth Through 7 Years of Age.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Social Bet-hedging and Food Sharing in Vampire Bats.
• The Role of Energy Intake and Energy Misreporting in the Associations Between Eating Patterns and Adiposity.
• Heart Rate Dynamics in a Marsupial Hibernator.
• Do Invasive Species Live Faster? Mass-specific Metabolic Rate Depends on Growth Form and Invasion Status.
• Coral-reef Fish Suck Up Meals with Slime-covered Lips.

Methods

• The Mouse Thermoregulatory System: Its Impact on Translating Biomedical.
• Validity of a Dietary Questionnaire Assessed By Comparison with Multiple Weighed Dietary Records or 24-Hour Recalls.
• Development and Evaluation of the National Cancer Institute’s Dietary Screener Questionnaire Scoring Algorithms.

Commentary

• Misremembering What Makes Us Fat.
• Audio: Flightless Genes.
• Cesarean Birth: Another Myth of Obesity Falls.
• Virtue at Every Size.
• Are There Any Harms of Redefining Obesity?
• Balancing Benefits and Harms From Redefining Obesity.

General

• Attractive Scientists Viewed as Less Competent By Public.
• Data Fabrication and Other Reasons for Non-random Sampling in 5087 RCTs in Anaesthetic and General Medical Journals.
• Influence of Type II Diabetes and High Depressive Symptoms on the Likelihood for Developing Activities of Daily Living (ADL) Disability and Mortality in Older Puerto Ricans.
• High-Density Lipoprotein Regulation of Mitochondrial Function.
• The Effect of Omega-3 Supplementation on Pregnancy Outcomes By Smoking Status.
• Reproducibility of Research: Issues and Proposed Remedies: Rigorous Assessment of Whether a Result Can Be Said to Have Been Replicated.
• Reproducibility of Research: Issues and Proposed Remedies: PANEL DISCUSSION – Taxonomy of Issues and Challenges to Improving Research Reproducibility.
• No Shortcuts on the Long Road to Evidence-Based Genomic Medicine.
• President Trump's USDA/DHHS Budget 2018.

Video & Audio

• Audio: Food + Science = Victory!

Announcements

• "How Public Health Guidance Often HARMS the American Public" - Thursday, June 29th.
• Webinar: Addressing Global Challenges Through Partnership: the Mars, Inc. And UC Davis Relationship, Thursday, June 15, 2017; 1:00-2:00 P.m. ET.
• Advanced Therapies for Pediatric Obesity: Workshop, Friday, October 13, 2017.
• UAB's Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) invites you to join us at our NIH-funded short course on “The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity".
• UAB Invites You to Join Us at Our NIH-funded Short Course on “Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research”.
• UAB’s NORC seeks post-doctoral fellows in obesity research.

Featured

• Selective Outcome Reporting in Obesity Clinical Trials: A Cross-sectional Review.
• Lack of Negative Autocorrelations of Daily Food Intake on Successive Days Challenges the Concept of the Regulation of Body Weight in Humans.
• Non-shivering Thermogenesis as a Mechanism to Facilitate Sustainable Weight Loss.
• RCT: "A lack of choice in exercise is associated with greater energy intake from 'unhealthy' foods in recovery."

Headline vs Study

• Headline: More Fruits and Veggies Can Slash Obesity Odds.
• Meeting poster title: Baseline Self-reported Provegetarian Dietary Pattern (Not Fruits and Vegetables, Per Se) Associated with Incidence of Obesity (Note: No Study or Abstract Available, So Details are From News Article; This Link is to Meeting Schedule).

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Differential "Effects of whey protein and its two major protein components [compared to other protein sources] on satiety and food intake in normal-weight women."
• "We did not find a relationship between pre-adolescent child abuse and adolescent obesity in this cohort."
• RCT: "Participants receiving an activity tracking device did not achieve greater weight loss or physical activity increases than those in a Control condition."
• "Contrary to predictions, we did not find evidence for early-late life trade-offs...Early Reproductive Success on Longevity and Late Reproductive Success in an Alpine Ungulate."
• "Our study does not support a causal effect of circulating adiponectin on colorectal cancer risk."
• RCT: "Unconditional Cash Transfers Do Not Prevent Children's Undernutrition in the Moderate Acute Malnutrition Out ...Trial."
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Early Prophylactic Feeding vs Standard Care in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer.
• RCT: "Nutrition counselling intervention in early childhood had no effect on intelligence measured during adolescence."

Basic

• Exome Sequencing Reveals Novel Genetic Loci Influencing Obesity-related Traits in Hispanic Children.
• Genetic Determination of Body Fat Distribution and the Attributive Influence on Metabolism.
• Environmental Structure and Energetic Consequences in Groups of Young Mice.
• Ephedra-Treated Donor-Derived Gut Microbiota Transplantation Ameliorates High Fat Diet-Induced Obesity in Rats.
• Sex-Specific Differences in the Development of Diet-Induced Obesity in a Zebrafish Model.
• Why Burmese Pythons May Be the Best Way to Study Diabetes, Heart Disease and the Protective Effects of Gastric-bypass Surgery in Humans.
• Prior Weight Loss Exacerbates the Biological Drive to Gain Weight After the Loss of Ovarian Function in Female Wistar Rats.
• Stocking Density Affects Fatty Acid Composition of Muscle and MRNA Levels of Hepatic Enzymes in Genetically Improved Farmed Tilapia.
• Identification of Tissue-Specific Transcriptional Markers of Caloric Restriction in Mice and Their Ability to Evaluate Caloric Restriction Mimetics.
• High-salt Intake Negatively Regulates Fat Deposition in Mouse.
• NAFLD and Atherosclerosis are Prevented By a Natural Dietary Supplement Containing Curcumin, Silymarin, Guggul, Chlorogenic Acid and Inulin in Mice Fed a High-Fat Diet.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Viewpoint: Conflict of Interest and the Role of the Food Industry in Nutrition Research.
• Cortisol in Human Milk: The Good, the Bad, or the Ugly?
• Response to “Cortisol in Human Milk: The Good, the Bad, or the Ugly?”

Clinical

• Current and Cutting-edge Interventions for the Treatment of Obese Patients.
• Maternal BMI and Oxytocin Exposure in Nulliparous Women: Is There an Interaction Associated with Maternal and Neonatal Morbidities?
• Assessing the Effects of Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Behavior Change Strategies on Physical Activity in Older Adults: A Factorial Experiment.
• A Novel Stepped-care Approach to Weight Loss: The Role of Self-monitoring and Health Literacy in Treatment Outcomes.

Children and Adolescents

• RCT: Effect of Attendance of the Child on Body Weight, Energy Intake, and Physical Activity in Childhood Obesity Treatment.
• Joint Association of Birth Weight and Physical Activity/sedentary Behavior with Obesity in Children Ages 9-11 Years From 12 Countries.
• 37 Year Snacking Trends for US Children 1977–2014.
• Longitudinal Patterns in Objective Physical Activity and Sedentary Time in a Multi-ethnic Sample of Children From the UK.
• Caring for Infants and Children Following Alternative Dietary Patterns.

Surgery

• What are the Real Procedural Costs of Bariatric Surgery?
• Hyperoxaluria in a Model of Mini-Gastric Bypass Surgery in Rats.
• Distinctive Microbiomes and Metabolites Linked with Weight Loss After Gastric Bypass, but Not Gastric Banding.

Drugs

• RCT: Coadministration of Lorcaserin & Phentermine for Weight Management.
• Study of the Effects of Nesfatin-1 on Gastric Function in Obese Rats.
• Estradiol Effects on Hypothalamic AMPK and BAT Thermogenesis: A Gateway for Obesity Treatment?
• Cardiovascular and Metabolic Effects of ANGPTL3 Antisense Oligonucleotides.
• Medicinal Plants for the Treatment of Obesity: Ethnopharmacological Approach and Chemical and Biological Studies. (pdf)

Food & Diet

• Nutrition Across the Lifespan for Healthy Aging: Proceedings of a Workshop.
• Consumers of Frozen Fruits and Vegetables Eat More Fruits and Vegetables Overall.
• Ketogenic Diet Compromises Both Cancellous and Cortical Bone Mass in Mice.

Caloric Restriction

• Differential Effects of Early-life Nutrient Restriction in Long-lived GHR-KO and Normal Mice.
• Identification of Tissue-specific Transcriptional Markers of Caloric Restriction in the Mouse and Their Use to Evaluate Caloric Restriction Mimetics.
• Long-lasting Effect of Obesity on Skeletal Muscle Transcriptome.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Energy Requirement Assessment in Japanese Table Tennis Players Using the Doubly Labeled Water Method.
• Effect of a Single Bout of Aerobic Exercise on High-fat Meal-induced Inflammation.
• Reliability of Low-power Cycling Efficiency in Energy Expenditure Phenotyping of Inactive Men and Women.
• Maintaining Healthy Behavior: A Prospective Study of Psychological Well-Being and Physical Activity.
• Individual Differences in Diurnal Preference and Time-of-Exercise Interact to Predict Exercise Frequency.
• Dose-Response Effects of Aerobic Exercise on Quality of Life in Postmenopausal Women.
• CDC Early Report: U.S. Adults Meeting Federal Physical Activity Guidelines for Aerobic Activity Increases From 49.0% in 2015 to 51.7% in 2016. (pdf)

Economics & Sociology

• Associations of Neighborhood Social Environment Attributes and Physical Activity Among 9–11 Year Old Children From 12 Countries.
• Genetic Moderation of Multiple Pathways Linking Early Cumulative Socioeconomic Adversity and Young Adults' Cardiometabolic Disease Risk.
• Predictors of Physical Activity Levels in Community Dwelling Older Adults: A Multivariate Approach Based on a Socio-Ecological Framework.
• Insurance Coverage (vs. Self-pay) Associations with Medical Weight Loss Program Engagement and Weight Loss Outcomes.

Epidemiology

• Brown Adipose Tissue Detected By PET/CT Imaging is Associated with Less Central Obesity.
• Excess Weight and Multimorbidity: Putting People's Health Experience in Risk Factor Epidemiology.
• Explaining the Obesity Paradox: The Association Between Body Composition and Colorectal Cancer Survival (C-SCANS Study).

Psychology & Neuroscience

• BMI Reduction is Associated with Positive Changes in Emotion Regulation, Depressive Symptoms, Disgust and Shame in Weight-Loss Intervention.
• Social Facilitation of Eating in Absence of Other Individuals.
• Childhood Obesity Increases Emotional Problems and Peer Problems.
• Family Dinner Frequency is Associated with Lower Child BMI.
• Food Addiction Beliefs Amongst the Lay Public: What are the Consequences for Eating Behaviour?
• A Brief Screening Measure for Binge Eating in Primary Care.

Equity and Disparities

• Urban–Rural Disparities in Energy Intake and Contribution of Fat and Animal Source Foods in Chinese Children Aged 4–17 Years.
• Socio-Economic Disparities in the Prevalence of Cardio-Metabolic Risk Factors in Ghanaian Women. (pdf)

Stigma

• Reducing Obesity Stigma Via a Brief Documentary Film.
• The Indirect and Divergent Effects of Blame and Changeability Beliefs on Antifat Prejudice.
• Destigmatization By Association: Improving Children's Reactions to an Obese Storybook Character.

Policy Related

• Should High BMI Be a Reason for IVF Treatment Denial?
• Justification for a Penny-Per-Ounce Excise Tax on Sugar Sweetened Beverages Under Two Ethical Frameworks.
• Food Addiction and Obesity: Unnecessary Medicalization of Hedonic Overeating.
• The Relationship of Lack of Access to Affordable and Healthy Foods and Obesity Rates in Tennessee Adults and Children.

Intergenerational Effects

• Proatherogenic Lipid Profile in Early Childhood: Association with Weight Status at 4 Years and Parental Obesity.
• Maternal Nutrition and Child Neurodevelopment: Actions Across Generations.
• Maternal Obesity, 25-Hydroxy Vitamin D Concentration, and Bone Density in Breastfeeding Dyads.
• Maternal Dietary Patterns During Pregnancy are Associated with Newborn Body Composition.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Study Provides Detailed Glimpse of Predators' Effects on Complex, Subtidal Food Web.
• Temporal and Spatial Activity-associated Energy Partitioning in Free-swimming Sea Snakes.
• Review: Regulation of Longevity By FGF21: Interaction Between Energy Metabolism and Stress Responses.
• Evolution: Differences Can Hold Populations Together.

Methods

• Obesity as a Risk Factor for Developing Functional Limitation Among Older Adults: A Conditional Inference Tree Analysis.
• Accuracy in Wrist-Worn, Sensor-Based Measurements of Heart Rate and Energy Expenditure in a Diverse Cohort.
• The Bogus Taste Test: Validity as a Measure of Laboratory Food Intake.
• Assessing the Accuracy of a Wrist Motion Tracking Method for Counting Bites Across Demographic and Food Variables.
• Hemoglobin Glycation Index is Associated with Cardiovascular Diseases in People with Impaired Glucose Metabolism.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Computer Vision-based Food Calorie Estimation: Dataset, Method, and Experiment.
• Honey Bee Dance Modeling in Real-time Using Machine Learning.
• Visualization of Wearable Data & Biometrics for Analysis and Recommendations in Childhood Obesity.
• Taking Dietary Habits Into Account: A Computational Method for Modeling Food Choices that Goes Beyond Price.

Commentary

• Can Fitness Trackers Really Track Your Fitness?
• Squabbling, Ignorance, and Obesity Policy.
• Does It Matter If People Believe in Food Addiction?
• Precision and Accuracy of Defining Obesity.
• Obesity Prognosis.
• Chocolate and Prevention of Atrial Fibrillation: What is Bad for the Pancreas Might Be Good for the Atria?
• Can You Be Healthy and Have Obesity?

General

• How to Think Scientifically About Scientists’ Proposals for Fixing Science.
• Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Starts in Childhood.
• The Hidden Sexism of How We Think About Risk.
• Life in the Precambrian May Have Been Much Livelier than Previously Thought.
• Insects Resist Genetic Methods to Control Disease Spread.
• 3-D Printed Ovaries Produce Healthy Offspring.
• The Association Between Cognitive Decline and Incident Depressive Symptoms in a Sample of Older Puerto Rican Adults with Diabetes.
• There’s Less Science in Forensic Science than You Think.
• "Although the χ2 analysis found a statistically significant relationship between COI and study outcomes [in joint surgery studies], the study outcomes were more often positive in articles without COI. This is contrary to previously published analyses that found outcomes to be more positive in articles with COI."
• It’s Not Just Whistleblowers Who Deserve Protection During Misconduct Investigations, Say Researchers.
• Debates About Conflict of Interest in Medicine: Deconstructing a Divided Discourse.
• A Strong Federal Investment in Science, Engineering, and Technology is Just Good Sense.
• Physical Resilience: Opportunities and Challenges in Translation.

Reproducibility of Research: Issues and Proposed Remedies

• Video: Biomedical Replication Studies.
• Video: Training the Current and the Next Generations in Statistics.

Video & Audio

• Audio: Binge-Eating Brain Cells.
• Audio: Bat-hunting Snakes in a Cave.
• Audio: Hospital Microbiome Project.

Announcements

• UAB Seeks Obesity Medicine Physician to Be Employed By UAB’s Department of Nutrition Sciences.
• 2nd Annual World Eating Disorders Action Day (#WeDoActTogether) is Today: June 2nd, 2017.
• UAB's Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) invites you to join us at our NIH-funded short course on “The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity".
• UAB Invites You to Join Us at Our NIH-funded Short Course on “Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research”.
• UAB’s NORC seeks post-doctoral fellows in obesity research.

Featured

• Effects of Dietary Carbohydrate on Weight Gain and Gonad Production in Small Sea Urchins, Lytechinus Variegatus.
• Genome-wide Meta-analysis of 241,258 Adults Accounting for Smoking Behaviour Identifies Novel Loci for Obesity Traits.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Want a Healthy Heart? Eat Chocolate, New Study Says.
• Study: Self-reported Chocolate Intake at Baseline Was Associated with Lower Atrial Fibrillation or Flutter Incidence.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Sit-stand desks were effective in reducing workplace sedentary behaviour ...However, these changes were not sufficient to improve markers of cardiometabolic risk."
• Non-consistent Evidence that Parity is a Risk Factor for Excessive Postpartum Weight Retention.
• "Living close to play areas is not associated with healthy weight status of children aged 4–5 years old."
• No Significant Difference in the Effectiveness and Safety of an Intermittent Fasting Diet (two Day Per Week) as an Alternative to Standard Dietary Advice (portion Control Diet) for Weight Reduction in Obese Adults with Insulin Dependent T2DM Attending a 12-week Group Based Intervention.
• "This is the first study to investigate how parent distraction by technology at mealtimes is related to food parenting practices and child food neophobia; however, no significant relationships were found."
• RCT: "Our composite antenatal lifestyle intervention did not significantly reduce the risk of obesity in offspring up until age five."
• "Regardless of age, sweet preference did not differ between obese and nonobese participants and showed no association with motives for eating palatable foods."
• No "Effectiveness of a school-based intervention to reduce the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children aged 7-11 years from Poznan (Poland)."
• "Our findings suggest long-term exposure of female mice to environmentally relevant NP concentrations, outside of the developmental period, does not affect glucose homeostasis or adiposity."
• "Educational Messaging at Breakfast, Not Protein Source, Influences Appetite Response, Food Preferences, and Food Intake in Men and Women."
• "There was no significant association between rs9939609 and resistin serum level in type 2 obese diabetic women..."
• Alternatively Activated Macrophages do Not Synthesize Catecholamines or Contribute to Adipose Tissue Adaptive Thermogenesis.
• Advising Consumption of Green Vegetables, Beef, and Full-Fat Dairy Products Has No Adverse Effects on the Lipid Profiles or BMI in Children.

Basic

• Tissue-Specific Macronutrient Allocation is Directly Affected By Macronutrient Intake in the Cultured Sea Urchin, Lytechinus Variegatus, Nutrition Model.
• Nutrimiraging: Micromanaging Nutrient Sensing Pathways Through Nutrition to Promote Healthy Aging.
• The Genetics of Pooched-Out Pooches.
• The Importance of Hormonal Circadian Rhythms in Daily Feeding Patterns: An Illustration with Simulated Pigs.
• Diabetes-Induced Dysfunction of Brain Cortical Mitochondria is Partly Attenuated By Fish Oil Administration in Adult Male Wistar Rats.
• Leptin Release in Horse Adipose Tissue is Age- and Glucocorticoid Dependent.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• “Fat but Fit”? Studies Confuse, While Advocates & Journalists do Little to Clarify.
• Letter: Bariatric/Metabolic Surgery to Treat Type 2 Diabetes in Patients with a BMI < 35.
• Reply: Bariatric/Metabolic Surgery to Treat Type 2 Diabetes in Patients with a BMI < 35.
• Letter: Strengths and Limitations of Healthcare Databases in the Evaluation of Hypoglycaemia.
• Reply: Strengths and Limitations of Healthcare Databases in the Evaluation of Hypoglycaemia.
• Letter: Bariatric Surgery or Intensive Medical Therapy for Diabetes After 5 Years.

Clinical

• A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis of Interventions for Uncomplicated Obesity: Weight Loss, Well-being and Impact on Eating Disorders. (pdf)
• RCT: "Applying economic incentives to increase effectiveness of an outpatient weight loss program."
• The American Board of Obesity Medicine: Five-year Report.

Children and Adolescents

• Weight Trajectories of Israeli Pediatric Cancer Survivors.
• Peer Support and Adolescents’ Physical Activity: The Mediating Roles of Self-Efficacy and Enjoyment.
• From Cookies to Carrots; The Effect of Inhibitory Control Training on Children's Snack Selections.
• The Impact of Childhood Overweight and Obesity on Healthcare Utilisation.

Surgery

• Hypoglycemia Following Bariatric Surgery: Our 31-Year Experience.
• Laparoscopic Gastric Banding: Game Over?

Drugs

• Practical Use of Pharmacotherapy for Obesity.
• Liraglutide Promotes Browning of White Adipose Tissue in Mice with Diet Induced Obesity.
• Indomethacin, a Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drug, Enhanced Brown Fat Activity in Vitro and in Vivo.
• Novo Nordisk Bets on New Obesity Drug Recipes.
• The Obesity Epidemic: Are Roche and Bristol-Myers Sitting on a Mighty Prospect?
• FGF21-receptor Agonists: An Emerging Therapeutic Class for Obesity-related Diseases.

Food & Diet

• A Comparison of the Effect of Protein Vs. Carbohydrate Consumption on Human Energy Balance in Free-living Conditions.
• Obesity Energetics: Body Weight Regulation and the Effects of Diet Composition.
• Adverse Effects of Consuming High Fat–sugar Diets on Cognition: Implications for Understanding Obesity.
• Effects of Resistant Dextrin for Weight Loss in Overweight Adults.

Caloric Restriction

• Calorically Restricted Diets Decrease PCSK9 in Overweight Adolescents.
• Antinociceptive Effects of Caloric Restriction on Post-incisional Pain in Nonobese Rats.
• Change in the Rate of Biological Aging in Response to Caloric Restriction: CALERIE Biobank Analysis.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Comparison of Periodized and Non-Periodized Resistance Training on Maximal Strength Meta-Analysis.
• Comparison of Two Accelerometers for Measuring Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour.
• Nutrition and Physical Activity in the Management of Pediatric Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• Associations Between Parenting Factors, Motivation, and Physical Activity in Overweight African American Adolescents.
• Exercise and Dietary Program-induced Weight Reduction is Associated with Cognitive Function Among Obese Adolescents.
• A National Effort to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes: Participant-Level Evaluation of CDC’s National Diabetes Prevention Program.

Economics & Sociology

• Long-term Neighborhood Poverty Trajectories and Obesity in a Sample of California Mothers.
• Socio-economic Status Over the Life Course and Obesity: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Early-Life Socioeconomic Status and Adult Physiological Functioning: A Life Course Examination of Biosocial Mechanisms.
• Analyzing the Impact of Public Transit Usage on Obesity.
• A Socioecological Framework for Research on Work and Obesity in Diverse Urban Transit Operators Based on Gender, Race, and Ethnicity. (pdf)

Epidemiology

• Limited Self-control, Obesity, and the Loss of Happiness.
• Participants with Normal Weight or with Obesity Show Different Relationships of 6-n-Propylthiouracil (PROP) Taster Status with BMI and Plasma Endocannabinoids.
• New Pathways from Short Sleep to Obesity? Associations between Short Sleep and "secondary" Eating and Drinking Behavior.
• Overweight, Obesity, and Risk of Cardiometabolic Multimorbidity: Pooled Analysis of Individual-level Data for 120,813 Adults From 16 Cohort Studies From the USA and Europe.
• The Prevalence of Underweight, Overweight and Obesity in Bangladeshi Adults: Data From a National Survey.
• Cardiometabolic Profile of Obese Children in a Sub-Saharan African Setting: A Cross-sectional Study.
• Joint Association of Birth Weight and Physical Activity/sedentary Behavior with Obesity in Children Ages 9-11 Years From 12 Countries.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Association of Snacking Frequency and Weight Among US Toddlers and Preschoolers: Cross-Sectional Study.
• Relationship Between Weight-Related Discrimination, Body Dissatisfaction and Self-Stigma on the Desire to Weigh Less.
• Does Psychosocial Stress Explain Socioeconomic Inequities Weight Gain Among Young Women?
• Physiological and Self-Reported Disgust Reactions to Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• The Impact of the ACA Medicaid Expansions on Health Insurance Coverage Through 2015 and Coverage Disparities By Age, Race/Ethnicity, and Gender.
• RCT: Weight Loss and Improved Metabolic Outcomes Amongst Rural African American Women in the Deep South.

Stigma

• Weight Bias Internalization Scale for Youth.
• Personal Attitudes Toward Weight in Overweight and Obese US Hemodialysis Patients.

Policy Related

• An Evaluation of the Impact of Obesity Related Legislation. (pdf)
• Understanding Perceptions of School Administrators Related to School Breakfast in a Low School Breakfast Participation State.
• Sugar Price Supports and Taxation: A Public Health Policy Paradox.
• Expected Population Weight and Diabetes Impact of the 1-peso-per-litre Tax to Sugar Sweetened Beverages in Mexico.

Intergenerational Effects

• A Systematic Examination of the Association Between Parental and Child Obesity Across Countries.
• Human Milk Insulin is Related to Maternal Plasma Insulin and BMI: But Other Components of Human Milk do Not Differ By BMI.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Comparison of Four Fitbit and Jawbone Activity Monitors with a Research-grade ActiGraph Accelerometer for Estimating Physical Activity and Energy Expenditure.
• The Evolution of Satiety: Studies in the Sea Urchin, Lytechinus Variegatus, Nutritional Model.
• Impacts of UVB Radiation on Food Consumption of Forest Specialist Tadpoles.
• Lowering Metabolic Rate Mitigates Muscle Atrophy in Western Fence Lizards.

Methods

• Availability of Two Self-administered Diet History Questionnaires for Pregnant Japanese Women: A Validation Study Using 24-hour Urinary Markers.
• RCT: Objective Assessment of Dietary Patterns By Use of Metabolic Phenotyping.

Commentary

• Contrasting Views of Obesity in Europe at ECO2017.
• How harmful are processed foods?
• Breakfast Was the Most Important Meal of the Day — Until America Ruined It.
• Ignore Lunatic Lifestyle Gurus. Sugar’s Not the New Heroin.
• What Shall We do with the O Word?
• Comment: Obesity as a Disease – Some Implications for the World Obesity Federation's Advocacy and Public Health Activities.

General

• Toxic Funding? Conflicts of Interest and Their Epistemological Significance.
• Scientific Feuds, Polemics, and Ad Hominem Arguments in Basic and Special-interest Genetics.
• The Ad Hominem Delusion that Infects Our Public Debate.
• Cooling Beaver Dams.
• Rapid, Broad-scale Gene Expression Evolution in Experimentally Harvested Fish Populations.
• Cardiovascular Mortality Differences—Place Matters.
• Does Daily Weighing Help You Lose Weight?

Announcements

• UAB Seeks Obesity Medicine Physician to Be Employed By UAB’s Department of Nutrition Sciences.
• A Workshop on Strategies to Limit Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption in Young Children: Evaluation of Federal, State, and Local Policies and Programs - June 21, 2017 - June 22, 2017. 
• UAB's Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) invites you to join us at our NIH-funded short course on “The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity".
• UAB Invites You to Join Us at Our NIH-funded Short Course on “Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research”.
• UAB’s NORC seeks post-doctoral fellows in obesity research.