Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• The Potential of a Year-Round School Calendar for Maintaining Children's Weight Status and Fitness: Preliminary Outcomes From a Natural Experiment.
• Nanoparticle-mediated in Vitro Delivery of E4orf1 to Preadipocytes Is a Clinically Relevant Delivery System to Improve Glucose Uptake.
• Physiological Significance of Discrimination on Stress Markers, Obesity, and LDL Oxidation Among a European American and African American Cohort of Females.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Having a Positive Outlook Can Help You Maintain Weight Loss.
• Study: Some Behavioral and Psychological Characteristics Were Different between People with Obesity Who Were Weight Stable and People Who Maintained Weight Loss.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Systematic Review: "There is currently insufficient evidence to recommend any of these herbal medicines for weight loss."
• "Fructose treatment decreased food intake and body weight and produced no effect on calorie intake" [in rats]. (pdf)
• "We provide evidence of potential anti‐fat discrimination in China and pro‐fat‐discrimination in India and Mexico."
• Voluntary Running Does Not Reduce Neuroinflammation or Improve Non-cognitive Behavior in the 5xFAD Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease.
• Pectin-Alginate Does Not Further Enhance Exogenous Carbohydrate Oxidation in Running.
• An Intense, but Ecologically Valid, Resistance Exercise Session Does Not Alter Growth Factors Associated with Cognitive Health.
• RCT: No Significant Effect on BMI of the Daily Mile Intervention in Children in Primary Analysis.
• Hypoenergetic Feeding Does Not Improve Outcomes in Critically Ill Patients with Premorbid Obesity.
• RCT: In a Virtual Fast-food Environment, Energy Labelling Was Ineffective in Reducing Total Energy Ordered for Both Higher and Lower SEP Participants.
• RCT: A Decaffeinated Energy Drink Shows No Significant Acute Effect on Mental Energy.

Basic

• Review: NAD+ Homeostasis in Health and Disease.
• Human Bone Marrow Is Comprised of Adipocytes with Specific Lipid Metabolism.
• Endogenous FGF21-signaling Controls Paradoxical Obesity Resistance of UCP1-deficient Mice.
• Impact of Caloric Restriction on AMPK and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Peripheral Tissues and Circulating Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells From Zucker Rats.
• Mice Deficient in the IL-1β Activation Genes Prtn3, Elane, and Casp1 are Protected Against the Development of Obesity-Induced NAFLD.
• Autophagy Inhibition Blunts PDGFRA Adipose Progenitors’ Cell-Autonomous Fibrogenic Response to High-Fat Diet.
• Nuclear Factor-kB and Nitric Oxide Synthases in Red Blood Cells: Good or Bad in Obesity? A Preliminary Study.
• Preclinical Efficacy of the GPER-selective Agonist G-1 in Mouse Models of Obesity and Diabetes.
• Genetically Engineered Escherichia Coli Nissle 1917 Secreting GLP‐1 Analog Exhibits Potential Antiobesity Effect in High‐Fat Diet‐Induced Obesity Mice.
• Combined Exposure of Fine Particulate Matter and High-fat Diet Aggravate the Cardiac Fibrosis in C57BL/6J Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Dietary Assessment and Opportunities to Enhance Nutritional Epidemiology Evidence.
• Associations of Processed Meat, Unprocessed Red Meat, Poultry, or Fish Intake with Incident Cardiovascular Disease and All-Cause Mortality.
• Letter: Time to Seek a More Personalized Approach to Bariatric Surgery.
• Reply: Response to “Time to Seek a More Personalized Approach to Bariatric Surgery”.
• Commentary: The Underappreciated Synergy of Strength Training.
• Position statement: Position of the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior: The Importance of Including Environmental Sustainability in Dietary Guidance.
• Letter: The Importance of a Holistic Approach to Sustainability in Dietary Guidance.
• Reply: Reply to Miller et al, Letter to the Editor, Authors.
• Reply: Reply to Miller et al, Letter to the Editor, SNEB.

Clinical

• Barriers to Weight Management Among Overweight and Obese Firefighters.
• RCT: Low-energy Total Diet Replacement Intervention in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Obesity Treated with Insulin.
• Low Priority of Obesity Education Leads to Lack of Medical Students’ Preparedness to Effectively Treat Patients with Obesity.
• Waist Circumference as a Vital Sign in Clinical Practice: A Consensus Statement From the IAS and ICCR Working Group on Visceral Obesity.

Children and Adolescents

• Resistin/Uric Acid Index as a Prognostic Factor in Adolescents with Obesity After Lifestyle Intervention.
• Exploring the Relationship between MyPlate Knowledge, Perceived Diet Quality, and Healthy Eating Behaviors Among Adolescents.
• Fast Food Intake and Excess Weight Gain over a 1‐year Period Among Preschool‐age Children.
• Updates on Assessment and Monitoring of the Postnatal Growth of Preterm Infants.
• Infant Formula and Toddler Milk Marketing: Opportunities to Address Harmful Practices and Improve Young Children’s Diets.
• Barriers and Facilitators to Obesity Prevention Dissemination and Implementation Efforts in the Childcare Centre Setting From the Provider Perspective.
• Socioeconomic Disparities in Obesity Among Children and Future Actions to Fight Obesity in China.
• Obese Adolescents with PCOS Have Altered Biodiversity and Relative Abundance in Gastrointestinal Microbiota.
• Changes in Weight Status and the Intestinal Microbiota Among Adolescent College Freshman.
• Meta-analysis: The ADRB3 Rs4994 Polymorphism Increases Risk of Childhood and Adolescent Overweight/obesity for East Asia’s Population.

Surgery

• 3D Optical Imaging as a New Tool for the Objective Evaluation of Body Shape Changes After Bariatric Surgery.
• Meta-analysis: Effects of Surgical and Non-surgical Weight Loss on Migraine Headache.
• Review: Bariatric Surgery and Low Back Pain.
• Higher HOMA-IR Index Is Associated with Increased Excess Weight Loss in Patients with BMI≥35kg/m2 After Vertical Gastrectomy.

Drugs

• Patient Characteristics Associated with Receipt of Prescription Weight- Management Medications Among Veterans Participating in MOVE!
• Lorcaserin Maintenance Fails to Attenuate Heroin Vs. Food Choice in Rhesus Monkeys.
• Liraglutide Therapy in a Prediabetic State: Rethinking the Evidence.

Food & Diet

• Systematic Review: Retail Food Environment around Schools and Overweight.
• Young Apple Polyphenols as Natural α-Glucosidase Inhibitors: In Vitro and in Silico Studies.
• RCT: Acute Effect of Moderate Dose Fructose in Solid Foods on Triglyceride, Glucose and Uric Acid Before and After a One-Month Moderate Sugar Feeding Period.
• Trends in Tap and Bottled Water Consumption Among Children and Adults in the United States.
• RCT: Appetite‐Related Responses to Overfeeding and Longitudinal Weight Change in Obesity‐Prone and Obesity‐Resistant Adults.
• A Consumer Survey on Plant Alternatives to Animal Meat. (pdf)

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Context-Dependent Roles for SIRT2 and SIRT3 in Tumor Development upon Calorie Restriction or High Fat Diet.
• Short-term Time-restricted Feeding Is Safe and Feasible in Non-obese Healthy Midlife and Older Adults.
• Food with Calorie Restriction Reduces the Development of Atherosclerosis in ApoE-deficient Mice.
• The Alternate-day Fasting Diet Is a More Effective Approach Than a Calorie Restriction Diet on Weight Loss and Hs-CRP Levels.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• BEET-HF: The Effects of Dietary Inorganic Nitrate Supplementation on Aerobic Exercise Performance, Vascular Function, Cardiac Performance and Mitochondrial Respiration in Patients with Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction.
• Exercise Promotes Recovery After Motoneuron Injury Via Hormonal Mechanisms.
• Association of Blood Biomarkers with Acute Sport-Related Concussion in Collegiate Athletes.
• Obesity and Falls in Older Women: Mediating Effects of Muscle Quality, Foot Loads and Postural Control.
• Mechanical Regulation Underlies Effects of Exercise on Serotonin-Induced Signaling in the Prefrontal Cortex Neurons.
• Acute Effects of Resistance and Functional-task Exercises on Executive Function of Obese Older Adults.
• Meta-analysis: A Comparative Meta-analysis of the Prevalence of Exercise Addiction in Adults with and Without Indicated Eating Disorders.
• RCT: Brain Glucose Metabolism, Cognition, and Cardiorespiratory Fitness Following Exercise Training in Adults at Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease.

Economics & Sociology

• RCT: Socioeconomic Position and the Impact of Increasing Availability of Lower Energy Meals Vs. Menu Energy Labelling on Food Choice.
• Contributions of Multiple Built Environment Features to 10-Year Change in BMI and Waist Circumference in a South Australian Middle-Aged Cohort.
• Altruistic Food Sharing Behavior By Human Infants After a Hunger Manipulation.

Epidemiology

• Annual Transition Probabilities of Overweight and Obesity in Older Adults: Evidence From World Health Organization Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health.
• Segregation of Familial Risk of Obesity in NHANES Cohort Supports a Major Role for Large Genetic Effects in the Current Obesity Epidemic.
• Life-Course Cumulative Burden of BMI and Blood Pressure on Progression of Left Ventricular Mass and Geometry in Midlife.
• Interaction between Early Environment and Genetic Predisposition Instigates the Metabolically Obese, Normal Weight Phenotype in Children.
• Obesity Is Less Frequently Associated with Cognitive Impairment in Elderly Individuals.
• Metabolic Syndrome in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Association with Genetic Markers of Obesity and Inflammation.
• Association between Life‐Course Obesity and Frailty in Older Adults.
• Adolescent Obesity and Midlife Cancer Risk: A Population-based Cohort Study of 2·3 Million Adolescents in Israel.
• Impact of Using Different Biomarkers of Liver Fibrosis on Hepatologic Referral of Individuals with Severe Obesity and NAFLD.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Effects of Suggested Sugar Content on Food Cue Reactivity in Healthy Young Women.
• Meta-analysis: Obesity Increases the Risk of Depression in Children and Adolescents.
• Acceptance-based Therapy: The Potential to Augment Behavioral Interventions in the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes.
• Social Influences on Obesity: Current Knowledge, Emerging Methods, and Directions for Future Research and Practice.
• Excess Body Weight as a Predictor of Response to Treatment with Antidepressants in Patients with Depressive Disorder.

Equity and Disparities

• Opinion: The Obesity Pandemic—Whose Responsibility? No Blame, No Shame, Not More of the Same.
• Review: Impact of the 2017 Child and Adult Care Food Program Meal Pattern Requirement Change on Menu Quality in Tribal Early Care Environments: The Food Resource Equity and Sustainability for Health Study.
• Bridging the Gap in Potentially Excess Deaths between Rural and Urban Counties in the United States.
• The Association between Fitness and Obesity in Diverse Multi-ethnic College Students.

Stigma

• RCT: Effects of a Cognitive-behavioral Intervention Targeting Weight Stigma.
• Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Obesity and Bariatric Surgery in Chinese Nurses.
• The Effect of a Food Addiction Explanation Model for Weight Control and Obesity on Weight Stigma.
• Three Positions on the Fat Body: Evaluating the Ethical Shortcomings of the Obesity Discourse.

Policy Related

• A Sales Tax Is Better at Promoting Healthy Diets Than the Fat Tax and the Thin Subsidy.
• Distribution of Sugar‑sweetened Beverage Sales Volume By Sugar Content in the United States: Implications for Tiered Taxation and Tax Revenue.

Intergenerational Effects

• Longitudinal Metabolic and Gut Bacterial Profiling of Pregnant Women with Previous Bariatric Surgery.
• Fetal Growth and Feto‐placental Circulation in Pregnancies Following Bariatric Surgery: A Prospective Study.
• Maternal Factors Related to Infant Motor Development at 4 Months of Age.
• Transgenerational Effect of Grandmaternal BMI on Grandchild's Birth Weight.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Food Density and Preferred Quantity: Discrimination of Small and Large Numbers in Angelfish (Pterophyllum Scalare).

Methods

• In Vitro, in Vivo, and in Silico Methods for Assessment of Muscle Size and Muscle Growth Regulation.
• Body Composition During Pregnancy: Longitudinal Changes and Method Comparisons.
• Tracking Physical Activity Using Smart Phone Apps: Assessing the Ability of a Current App and Systematically Collecting Patient Recommendations for Future Development.

Commentary

• At the Barbershop, a Trim -- and a Diabetes Screening.
• Solving the Obesity Epidemic: Is Artificial Intelligence the Answer?
• High-weight Individuals Still Face Workplace Discrimination.
• Is Technical-grade Chlordane an Obesogen?
• The Neuroscience of Sugars in Taste, Gut-Reward, Feeding Circuits, and Obesity.
• Integrating Epidemiological and Economic Models to Identify the Cost of Foodborne Diseases.
• Foods of Animal Origin: A Prescription for Global Health.
• State Lawmaker's Views on Childhood Obesity and Related School Wellness Legislation.
• EOSS Assesses More Than Just Cardiometablic Risk.
• The Intricate Choreography of Aging Gracefully.
• Weight Loss Is Harder Than Rocket Science.
• Permanent Weight Loss Puffery.
• Warning People About What Not to Eat in Mexico.
• Obesity Care Education? Low Priority for Many Medical Schools.
• New Concerns About Military Recruits with Metabolic Obesity but Normal Weight (“Skinny Fat”).

General

• The Replication Crisis and the Workflow of Data Analysis.
• Swiss Chocolate and Free Beverages to Increase the Motivation for Scientific Work Amongst Residents: A Prospective Interventional Study in a Non-academic Teaching Hospital in Switzerland.
• How Much Longer Can Humans Live?
• A Disclosure Form for Work Submitted to Medical Journals - a Proposal From the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.
• Claims of ‘No Difference’ or ‘No Effect’ in Cochrane and Other Systematic Reviews.
• Consequences of Combining Life-history Traits 2 with Sex-specific Differences.
• Rigor and Reproducibility for Data Analysis and Design in the Behavioral Sciences.
• Thermal Exposure and Transgenerational Plasticity Influence Embryonic Success in a Bivoltine Estuarine Sea Hare.
• Opinion: A Nobel Laureate Retracted Her High-Profile Paper. Bravo!
• The Renewed Debate About Blinding in Clinical Trials.
• Journal Transparency Index Will Be ‘alternative’ to Impact Scores.
• Social Status Perception and Individual Social Capital: Evidence From the US.
• Quantification of Neighborhood-Level Social Determinants of Health in the Continental United States.
• Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2020 Update.

Announcements

• The Place of Nutrition in Medical Education - June 1.
• IU School of Medicine Continues Record-setting Research Trend; Up 5 Spots in National Institutes of Health Rankings.
• Carnegie Classification Recognizes IU's Outstanding Community Engagement Efforts.
• IU Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow with Strong Statistical and Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency And/or Statistical and Data Analytic Research in the Obesity and Nutrition Research Domain.
• AHA's Strategically-Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• UAB's Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Applications Still Being Accepted:  Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for Multiple Tenured, Tenure-Track Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Positions.

Featured

• Adaptive Thermogenesis in Mice Is Enhanced By Opsin 3-Dependent Adipocyte Light Sensing.
• RCT: An Ecological Momentary Episodic Future Thinking Intervention on Mother's Weekly Food Purchases.
• Identification of Obesity Intervention Candidate Schools Using Diverse Datasets and Discriminant Function Analysis in the Absence of Student Anthropometric Data.
• Commentary: Is Early-Life Antibiotic Exposure Associated with Obesity in Children?

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Study Reveals the Best Diet for Actually Losing Weight and Keeping It Off.
• Study: Exploratory, observational analysis: "Small differences in metabolic outcomes were apparent in participants following self-selected diets... However, results should be interpreted with caution given the exploratory nature of analyses."

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Significant Effect of a Behavioral Intervention to Increase Vegetable Consumption on Cancer Progression Among Men with Early-Stage Prostate Cancer.
• "Contrary to literature suggesting that advertising literacy would mitigate the effects of exposure to idealized [body] images, findings indicated that advertising literacy did not have any such effect among the sample studied."
• "Contrary to expectations, courtship feeding and social interactions were less frequent in the region with high nest density."
• RCT: No Differential Effects of 8 Weeks Resistance and Concurrent Training on Irisin, Some Glycemic Indexes and the Visceral Fat to Muscle Mass Ratio on Sedentary Obese Women. (pdf)
• RCT: Daily Intake of Non-fried Potato Does Not Affect Markers of Glycemia and Is Associated with Better Diet Quality Compared to Refined Grains.
• Routine Exercise-based Cardiac Rehabilitation Does Not Increase Aerobic Fitness: A CARE CR Study.
• Obesity Surgery Does Not Lead to Long Term Alleviation of Mental Health Problems in Teens, Study Finds.
• Mild Dehydration Following Voluntary Water Intake Reduction Does Not Affect Anaerobic Power Performance.
• Although Covariate-adjusted Analyses Demonstrated an Association between Antibiotic Exposure and Odds of Obesity, Further Analyses of Siblings and Twins with Discordant Outcomes Showed No Associations. Thus, These Discordant Results Likely Reflect Unmeasured Confounding Factors.

Basic

• Absence of Glucose-Dependent Insulintropic Polypeptide (GIP) Secretion Alleviates Age-Related Obesity and Insulin Resistance in Mice.
• Mitochondrial Pyruvate Carriers are Not Required for Adipogenesis but are Regulated By High‐Fat Feeding in Brown Adipose Tissue.
• WWP1 Knockout in Mice Exacerbates Obesity‐Related Phenotypes in White Adipose Tissue but Improves Whole Body Glucose Metabolism.
• Inhibition of the Mitochondrial Citrate Carrier, Slc25a1, Reverts Steatosis, Glucose Intolerance, and Inflammation in Preclinical Models of NAFLD/NASH.
• Ketogenesis Activates Metabolically Protective γδ T Cells in Visceral Adipose Tissue.
• Genetic Susceptibility Determines β-Cell Function and Fasting Glycemia Trajectories Throughout Childhood: A 12-Year Cohort Study (EarlyBird 76).
• Dysregulation of Amyloid Precursor Protein Impairs Adipose Tissue Mitochondrial Function and Promotes Obesity.
• Effects of Acute Exercise Combined with Calorie Restriction Initiated Late-in-Life on Insulin Signaling, Lipids, and Glucose Uptake in Skeletal Muscle From Old Rats.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Video: Is Breakfast the Most Important Meal for Weight Loss?
• Article: The Effectiveness of Home Versus Community-based Weight Control Programmes Initiated Soon After Breast Cancer Diagnosis: A Randomised Controlled Trial.
• Letter: Comment on “The Effectiveness of Home Versus Community-based Weight Control Programmes Initiated Soon After Breast Cancer Diagnosis: A Randomised Controlled Trial”.
• Response: Reply to Comment on “The Effectiveness of Home Versus Community-based Weight Control Programmes Initiated Soon After Breast Cancer Diagnosis: A Randomised Controlled Trial”.
• Corrigendum to ‘Senolytics Decrease Senescent Cells in Humans: Preliminary Report From a Clinical Trial of Dasatinib Plus Quercetin in Individuals with Diabetic Kidney Disease’ EBioMedicine 47 (2019) 446–456.
• "…collider bias could explain the apparent protective effect of obesity on mortality among individuals with chronic conditions such as cardiovascular disease."

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue: Red Meat

• Article: Unprocessed Red Meat and Processed Meat Consumption: Dietary Guideline Recommendations From the Nutritional Recommendations (NutriRECS) Consortium.
• Perspective: Backlash over Meat Dietary Recommendations Raises Questions About Corporate Ties to Nutrition Scientists.
• Texas A&M Chancellor Calls on Harvard to Investigate Its Faculty Members.
• Texas A&M’s Chancellor Calls on Harvard to Look Into Faculty’s Beef-science Ethics.
• Beef with Harvard.
• From Beef to Bots? Harvard Professors Mired in Debate over Spam Emails, Industry-Funded Research.
• Conflict of Interest in the Post-Truth Era: What Is It, Now?
• Processed Meat “Guidelines:” Why the Exceptional Reaction?
• Tobacco, Soda, and the Beef with Truth.
• Massive Meat Mayhem, Part 3.
• So Is It Okay to Eat More Red and Processed Meat?
• Perspective: Red and Processed Meats and Health Risks: How Strong Is the Evidence?
• Symposium: Red Meat, Meat Alternatives, and Beyond: Health, Environment, Policy, and the Media.

EPA's Proposed Transparency Rule

• EPA’s Proposed Transparency Rule: Factors to Consider, Many; Planets to Live On, One.
• The Use and Misuse of Transparency in Research Science and Rulemaking at the Environmental Protection Agency.

Clinical

• Exploring the Effectiveness of an 18‐month Weight Management Intervention in Adults with Down Syndrome Using Propensity Score Matching.
• Systematic Review: The Effectiveness of Patient Activation Intervention on Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Glycemic Control and Self-management Behaviors.
• Product Labeling of Drugs Commonly Administered to Children and Adults with Obesity. (pdf)
• RCT: Bariatric Surgery Vs. Lifestyle Intervention for Diabetes Treatment: Five Year Outcomes.

Children and Adolescents

• Identification of Obesity Intervention Candidate Schools Using Diverse Datasets and Discriminant Function Analysis in the Absence of Student Anthropometric Data.
• Obesity in Adolescence.
• Early Infant Feeding and BMI Trajectories in the First 5 Years of Life.
• Association of Visceral Adiposity and Systemic Inflammation with Sleep Disordered Breathing in Normal Weight, Never Obese Adolescents.
• Can Active Video Games Improve Physical Activity in Adolescents? A Review of RCT.
• To What Extent Do Unhealthy Behaviour Indicators Explain the Neighbourhood Deprivation Gradient in Overweight Among 11-year-old English Children?
• Lean Mass Accretion in Children Born Very Low Birth Weight Is Significantly Associated with Estimated Changes From Sedentary Time to Light Physical Activity.
• Parental Misperception of Their Child's Weight Status and How Weight Underestimation Is Associated with Childhood Obesity.
• Strategies Used By the Canadian Food and Beverage Industry to Influence Food and Nutrition Policies.

Surgery

• Comparison of Comorbidity Treatment and Costs Associated with Bariatric Surgery Among Adults with Obesity in Canada.
• Understanding the Bariatric Patient Perspective in the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network (PCORnet) Bariatric Study.
• Late Relapse of Diabetes After Bariatric Surgery: Not Rare, but Not a Failure.
• Effects of Bariatric Surgery in Early- and Adult-Onset Obesity in the Prospective Controlled Swedish Obese Subjects Study.
• 5-year Mental Health and Eating Pattern Outcomes Following Bariatric Surgery in Adolescents: A Prospective Cohort Study.
• Bariatric Surgery for Treatment of Hypothalamic Obesity After Craniopharyngioma Therapy: A Matched Case–Control Study.

Drugs

• Implications for IV Posaconzole in the Era of Obesity.
• Sleep Apnea, Obesity, and Disturbed Glucose Homeostasis: Epidemiologic Evidence, Biologic Insights, and Therapeutic Strategies.
• Pharmacological Treatment for Obesity in Adults: An Umbrella Review.
• Press Release: KTX-0200, a Novel Oral Anti-obesity Agent.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Effectiveness of a Diet and Resistance Exercise Intervention on Muscle Health in Older Adults: ProMuscle in Practice.
• Effect of Probiotic and Synbiotic Formulations on Anthropometrics and Adiponectin in Overweight and Obese Participants: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of RCTs.
• Association of Hot Tea Consumption with Regional Adiposity Measured By Dual‐Energy X‐Ray Absorptiometry.
• Glucosamine Use, Inflammation, and Genetic Susceptibility, and Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes: A Prospective Study in UK Biobank.
• Beyond the Calories—Is the Problem in the Processing?
• Yogurt Consumption in Relation to Mortality From Cardiovascular Disease, Cancer, and All Causes: A Prospective Investigation in 2 Cohorts of US Women and Men.
• Association of Soy and Fermented Soy Product Intake with Total and Cause Specific Mortality: Prospective Cohort Study.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Dietary Interventions in C57BL/6 Mice and Their Interplay with Selected Metabolic and Genetic Parameters. (pdf)
• "Our results demonstrate empirically that any conclusion on the absence of DR is only justified when a range of diets is considered in a reaction norm framework."
• Molecular and Functional Networks Linked to Sarcopenia Prevention By Caloric Restriction in Rhesus Monkeys.
• The Putative Caloric Restriction Mimetic Resveratrol Has Moderate Impact on Insulin Sensitivity, Body Composition and the Metabolome in Mice.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Time Spent Exercising and Obesity: An Application of Lewbel's Instrumental Variables Method.
• The Use and Effects of an App-Based Physical Activity Intervention “Active2Gether” in Young Adults: Quasi-Experimental Trial.
• Effect of Exercise on Key Pharmacokinetic Parameters Related to Metformin Absorption in Healthy Humans: A Pilot Study.
• CDC Maps America’s High Levels of Inactivity.

Economics & Sociology

• Intake of Sugar Sweetened Soft Drinks Among Adolescents: Trends and Social Inequality in Denmark 2002-2018.
• Predicted Lifetime Third‐Party Costs of Obesity for Black and White Adolescents with Race‐Specific Age‐Related Weight Gain.

Epidemiology

• Obesity, Smoking Habits, and Serum Phosphate Levels Predicts Mortality After Life-style Intervention.
• Systematic Review: Metabolomic and Lipidomic Signatures of Metabolic Syndrome and Its Physiological Components in Adults.
• Fast Food Consumption and Suicide Attempts Among Adolescents Aged 12-15 Years From 32 Countries.
• Physical Health Composite and Risk of Cancer Mortality in the REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke Study.
• Are Obesity Indices Useful for Detecting Subclinical Atheromatosis in a Middle-Aged Population?
• BMI and Mental Health in Young People - Predictors of Early Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy.
• Maternal Obesity and Dyslipidemia Associated with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM).
• Longitudinal Study of Maternal BMI in Successive Pregnancies.
• Maternal Weight Trajectories in Successive Pregnancies and Their Association with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.
• Anthropometric Measures of Body Fat and Obesity-related Cancer Risk: Sex-specific Differences in Framingham Offspring Study Adults.
• Obesity Moderates the Benefit of Retirement on Health.
• Association of Low-Carbohydrate and Low-Fat Diets with Mortality Among US Adults.
• Abdominal Obesity and the Risk of Recurrent Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease After Myocardial Infarction.
• Association between BMI and Overall Survival with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy for Advanced Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer.
• Association of BMI and Cardiotoxicity Related to Anthracyclines and Trastuzumab in Early Breast Cancer: French CANTO Cohort Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Optimism Is Associated with Diet Quality, Food Group Consumption and Snacking Behavior in a General Population.
• Effects of Social Exclusion and Maternal Rejection on Children's High-caloric Food Consumption.
• Behavioral and Psychological Strategies of Long‐Term Weight Loss Maintainers in a Widely Available Weight Management Program.

Equity and Disparities

• Spatial Inequality and Its Relationship with Local Food Environments: The Case of Barcelona.
• Prevalence, Consequences, Causes and Management of Obesity.
• Promoting Hispanic Immigrant Health Via Community Health Workers and Motivational Interviewing.
• Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Stis/HIV and Inter-Partner Violence: A Consideration of Girl’s Obesity, Self-Weight Perception, Parent-Child Relationship and Peer Climate in Transition From Adolescence to Young Adulthood.

Stigma

• Designing, Implementing and Evaluating an Educational Intervention Targeting Weight Bias and Fat Stereotyping.
• Living with Obesity: Expressions of Longing.
• Puberty and Body Image.
• Childhood Overweight and Obesity and the Risk of Depression Across the Lifespan.
• The Effect of a Food Addiction Explanation Model for Weight Control and Obesity on Weight Stigma.
• Between Blame and Care: Women's ‘needs Talk’ About Obesity Interventions in Prenatal Care.

Policy Related

• Integrating Fisheries, Food and Nutrition – Insights From People and Policies in Timor-Leste.
• The Politics of Food in the Pacific: Coherence and Tension in Regional Policies on Nutrition, the Food Environment and Non-communicable Diseases.

Intergenerational Effects

• Social and Economic Factors, Maternal Behaviours in Pregnancy and Neonatal Adiposity in the PANDORA Cohort.
• The Developmental Mechanisms of Obesity By Maternal Obesity.
• Maternal Obesity and Long-term Neuropsychiatric Morbidity of the Offspring.
• Meta-analysis: Influence of Grandparental Child Care on Childhood Obesity.
• Persistently High Levels of Maternal Antenatal Inflammation are Associated with and Mediate the Effect of Prenatal Environmental Adversities on Neurodevelopmental Delay in the Offspring.
• Pre-pregnant Obesity of Mothers in a Multi-Ethnic Cohort Is Associated with Cord Blood Metabolomic Changes in Offspring.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Maternal Expenditure in Plains Bison (Bison Bison): Subtle but Nontrivial Differences between Sons and Daughters in the Demand of Energy.
• Information Transfer Through Food From Parents to Offspring in Wild Javan Gibbons.
• What Can Seasonal Models Teach Us About Energy Balance?

Methods

• Social Influences on Obesity: Current Knowledge, Emerging Methods, and Directions for Future Research and Practice.
• How Do Children Make Food Choices? Using a Think-aloud Method to Explore the Role of Internal and External Factors on Eating Behaviour.
• Towards in Vitro in Vivo Correlation for Modified Release Subcutaneously Administered Insulins.
• Mobile Application Interventions and Weight Loss in Type 2 Diabetes: A Meta‐Analysis.

Commentary

• Inside the Drug That’s Taking on the Opioid Crisis.
• Applying a Life Course Lens: Targeting Gestational Weight Gain to Prevent Future Obesity.
• Relentlessly Chasing Macronutrient Magic.
• Taste, Nutrition, and Health.
• What, When, and Where America Eats.
• Sugar and the American Diet.
• The Significance of Declining Human Body Temperatures.
• From Hospital to Home: Why Nutrition Counts.
• Getting Real About Teen Bariatric Surgery Outcomes.
• Will Smarter Sweeteners Improve the Food Supply?

General

• The Real Cost of Smoking By State.
• "The infernal underside of the restaurant industry": Parisian cooks, kitchen hygiene and collective action in the 1920s.
• For Food Space: Theorizing Alternative Food Networks Beyond Alterity.
• Genetic Factors and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Among Women with a History of Gestational Diabetes: Findings From Two Independent Populations.
• Science Institutions for a Complex, Fast-Paced World.
• The Development of Forgiveness.
• Video: The Circadian Clock and Shift Work in the 21st Century.
• Stress Really Does Make Hair Go Gray Faster.
• A Growing Number of Data Detectives are on the Hunt for Sloppy Science and Dodgy Statistics.
• Analysing N-of-1 Observational Data in Health Psychology and Behavioural Medicine: A 10-step SPSS Tutorial for Beginners.
• Estimating Food Waste as Household Production Inefficiency.
• The Intellectual and Moral Decline in Academic Research.

Books

• Book: Interval Weight Loss for Women.

Announcements

• Addressing Factors That Affect Health Care Costs: Recommendations for Indiana Stakeholders.
• Nutrigenetics, Nutrigenomics and Precision Nutrition Short Course. June 8-11, 2020 @Kannapolis, NC.
• Lecture at UAB Feb 6: "Ancient diets and the evolution of human meat-eating”.
• Last Chance: Nutrition 2020 Abstract Submission Site Closes Today.
• IU Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow with Strong Statistical and Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency And/or Statistical and Data Analytic Research in the Obesity and Nutrition Research Domain.
• AHA's Strategically-Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• UAB's Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Applications Still Being Accepted: Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for Multiple Tenured, Tenure-Track Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Positions.

Featured

• The Energetics of ‘Airtime’: Estimating Swim Power From Breaching Behaviour in Fishes and Cetaceans.
• Mesoporous Silica with Precisely Controlled Pores Reduces Food Efficiency and Suppresses Weight Gain in Mice.
• Decreasing Human Body Temperature in the United States Since the Industrial Revolution.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: New Study Says Low-carb and Low-fat Diets Don't Boost Longevity. Here's What Does.
• Study: Association (Not Necessarily Causation) between Self-reported Low-Carbohydrate and Low-Fat Intake and Mortality Among US Adults.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "Exploiting supermarket entry and household moves to healthier neighborhoods, we reject that neighborhood environments contribute meaningfully to nutritional inequality."
• "…our results do not support the hypothesis that salt increases sugar-sweetened beverage consumption, leading to obesity; however, the simple mouse model used here may not provide a competent test of this hypothesis."
• Systematic Review: "The interventions delivered by wearable devices did not show a benefit over comparator interventions, but overweight and obese participants still lost weight over time."
• RCT: Intermittent Low Dose Carbon Monoxide Inhalation Does Not Influence Glucose Regulation in Overweight Adults.
• RCT: The Combination of Whey Protein and Dietary Fiber Does Not Alter Low-Grade Inflammation or Adipose Tissue Gene Expression in Adults with Abdominal Obesity.
• RCT: No Effect of Classroom Intervention on Student Food Selection and Plate Waste.
• RCT: No Significant Effect of a Literacy-sensitive, Provider-focused, Health Communication Intervention (PRIDE; 5 Clinics) Vs. Standard Diabetes Education.

Basic

• An Adipocyte-Specific Defect in Oxidative Phosphorylation Increases Systemic Energy Expenditure and Protects Against Diet-Induced Obesity in Mouse Models.
• M2 Macrophage Immunotherapy Abolishes Glucose Intolerance By Increasing IL-10 Expression and AKT Activation.
• Deficiency of T Cell CD40L Has Minor Beneficial Effects on Obesity-Induced Metabolic Dysfunction.
• Mechanisms Underlying Reduced Weight Gain in Intestinal Fatty Acid-Binding Protein (IFABP). Null Mice.
• Adaptive Thermogenesis in Mice Is Enhanced By Opsin 3-Dependent Adipocyte Light Sensing.
• Unveiling the Transcriptome Alteration of POMC Neuron in Diet-induced Obesity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Perspective: Standards for Research and Reporting on Low-Energy (“Artificial”) Sweeteners.
• Commentary: Childhood Obesity Is a Major Problem. Research Isn’t Helping.
• PubPeer Comment On: Effect of Nut Consumption on Erectile and Sexual Function in Healthy Males: A Secondary Outcome Analysis of the FERTINUTS Randomized Controlled Trial.

Clinical

• RCT: Effects of Kinesiotaping and Exercise Program on Patients with Obesity-induced Coccydynia.
• Dietary Weight Loss Strategies for Self and Patients: A Cross-sectional Survey of Female Physicians.
• Weight Variability During Self-monitored Weight Loss Predicts Future Weight Loss Outcome.
• Appetite-Related Responses to Overfeeding and Longitudinal Weight Change in Obesity-Prone and Obesity-Resistant Adults.
• Biobehavioural Approaches to Prevention and Treatment: A Call for Implementation Science in Obesity Research.
• Distinct Metabolic Profile in Early Pregnancy of Overweight and Obese Women Developing Gestational Diabetes.

Children and Adolescents

• Overweight and Obesity in Children are Associated with an Abundance of Firmicutes and Reduction of Bifidobacterium in Their Gastrointestinal Microbiota.
• Adolescents’ Depressive Symptom Experience Mediates the Impact of Long-Term Exposure to Maternal Depression Symptoms on Adolescents’ BMI.
• Family Income Gradients in Adolescent Obesity, Overweight and Adiposity Persist in Extremely Deprived and Extremely Affluent Neighborhoods but Not in Middle-Class Neighborhoods: Evidence From the UK Millennium Cohort Study.
• Parental Attitudes Toward Bariatric Surgery in Adolescents with Obesity.
• Editorial: Is Early-Life Antibiotic Exposure Associated with Obesity in Children?
• Associations of Prenatal and Childhood Antibiotic Exposure with Obesity at Age 4 Years.
• Association of Repeated Antibiotic Exposure Up to Age 4 Years with Body Mass at Age 4.5 Years.
• Commentary: What About the Link between Antibiotics and Childhood Obesity?

Surgery

• Ileal Transposition Increases Pancreatic β Cell Mass and Decreases β Cell Senescence in Diet-Induced Obese Rats.
• Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Perioperative Nutrition, Metabolic, and Nonsurgical Support of Patients Undergoing Bariatric Procedures – 2019 Update: Cosponsored By American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists/American College of Endocrinology, the Obesity Society, American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery, Obesity Medicine Association, and American Society of Anesthesiologists.
• Narrative Review: Towards Optimized Care After Bariatric Surgery By Physical Activity and Exercise Intervention.

Drugs

• Assessment of the Preventive Effect Against Diabetic Cardiomyopathy of FGF1-Loaded Nanoliposomes Combined with Microbubble Cavitation By Ultrasound.
• The Therapeutic Potential of Second and Third Generation CB1R Antagonists.
• Effect of Combined Antimicrobial Therapy on Ischemia/Reperfusion Myocardial Injury in Rats with Acute Inflammation of the Large Intestine Against the Background of Alimentary Obesity.
• Antidiabetic Drugs and Statins in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.

Food & Diet

• Meta-analysis: The Effect of Psyllium Consumption on Weight, BMI, Lipid Profile, and Glucose Metabolism in Diabetic Patients.
• The Associations of Longitudinal Changes in Consumption of Total and Types of Dairy Products and Markers of Metabolic Risk and Adiposity: Findings From the European Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)–Norfolk Study, United Kingdom.
• Expert Consensus on Low-calorie Sweeteners: Facts, Research Gaps and Suggested Actions.
• The Unmapped Chemical Complexity of Our Diet.
• Commentary: Do We Value the Food That Sustains Us?
• Commentary: Will Skim Milk Save You From Aging?

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• RCT: Impact of Intermittent Vs. Continuous Energy Restriction on Weight and Cardiometabolic Factors: A 12-month Follow-up.
• Deletion of Nrf2 Shortens Lifespan in C57BL6/J Male Mice but Does Not Alter the Health and Survival Benefits of Caloric Restriction.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Moderate Intensity Exercise Training Combined with Inulin-propionate Ester Supplementation Increases Whole Body Resting Fat Oxidation in Overweight Women.
• Socioeconomic Status and Physical Fitness in Youth: Findings From the NHANES National Youth Fitness Survey.
• The Association of Acculturation with Accelerometer-assessed and Self-reported Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior.
• Association of BMI, Fitness, and Mortality in Patients with Diabetes: Evaluating the Obesity Paradox in the Henry Ford Exercise Testing Project (FIT Project) Cohort.

Economics & Sociology

• Mothers' Food Choices and Consumption of Ultra-processed Foods in the Brazilian Amazon: A Grounded Theory Study.
• Effectiveness of a Socially Adapted Intervention in Reducing Social Inequalities in Adolescence Weight. The PRALIMAP-INÈS School-based Mixed Trial.

Epidemiology

• A Healthy Childhood Environment Helps to Combat Inherited Susceptibility to Obesity.
• Obesity and Eating Behavior From the Perspective of Twin and Genetic Research.
• Association between Obesity and Hidradenitis Suppurativa Among Children and Adolescents.
• Plasma Levels of Ghrelin, Des-acyl Ghrelin and LEAP2 in Children with Obesity: Correlation with Age and Insulin Resistance.
• Risk Factors for Failed Induction of Labor Among Pregnant Women with Class III Obesity.
• Are Long Working Hours Associated with Weight‐related Outcomes? A Meta‐analysis of Observational Studies.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Looking at the Figures: Visual Adaptation as a Mechanism for Body-Size and -Shape Misperception.
• Neural Response to Fast Food Commercials in Adolescents Predicts Intake.
• The Prevalence and Determinants of Cognitive Deficits and Traditional Diabetic Complications in the Severely Obese.

Equity and Disparities

• Socioeconomic and Racial Disparities in Bariatric Surgery.
• Transferring Racial/Ethnic Marketing Strategies From Tobacco to Food Corporations: Philip Morris and Kraft General Foods.
• Association of Diet Quality and Physical Activity on Obesity-Related Cancer Risk and Mortality in Black Women: Results From the Women's Health Initiative.
• Transferring Racial/Ethnic Marketing Strategies From Tobacco to Food Corporations: Philip Morris and Kraft General Foods.

Ethics

• The Role of Ethics Consultation in Decision Making for Bariatric Surgery in Pediatrics.
• Backlash over Meat Dietary Recommendations Raises Questions About Corporate Ties to Nutrition Scientists.
• Commentary: Menu Manifestos Making Massive Meat Mayhem.

Stigma

• Weight Stigma Related to Pregnancy: A Concept Analysis.
• Weight Perception Among US Adults Predicts Cardiovascular Risk When Controlling for Body Fat Percentage.
• An Evidence‐Based Rationale for Adopting Weight‐Inclusive Health Policy.
• Body Appreciation and Health Care Avoidance: A Brief Report.

Policy Related

• Consumer Skepticism of Claims in Food Ads Vs. On Food Labels: An Exploration of Differences and Antecedents.
• Getting the Price Right: How Nutrition and Obesity Prevention Strategies Address Food and Beverage Pricing Within High-Income Countries.

Intergenerational Effects

• Glycemic Load, Dietary Fiber, and Added Sugar and Fecundability in 2 Preconception Cohorts.
• Epigenetic Aging in Newborns: Role of Maternal Diet.
• Maternal Cardiometabolic Factors and Genetic Ancestry Influence Epigenetic Aging of the Placenta.
• Fetal Growth and Feto‐placental Circulation in Pregnancies Following Bariatric Surgery.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Why Naked Mole-Rats Have High Oxidative Damage but Live a Long Life: A Simple Explanation Based on the Oxidative Stress Theory of Aging. (pdf)
• Environmental and Ecological Correlates of Avian Field Metabolic Rate and Water Flux.

Methods

• Using Propensity Score Methods to Create Target Populations in Observational Clinical Research.
• Accelerometry Calibration in People with Class II-III Obesity: Energy Expenditure Prediction and Physical Activity Intensity Identification.
• OBEDIS Core Variables Project: European Expert Guidelines on a Minimal Core Set of Variables to Include in RCTs of Obesity Interventions.

Commentary

• Is It Time to Retire the Term “Food Desert?”.
• The Role of Viscous Fiber for Weight Loss: Food for Thought and Gut Bacteria.
• In the Footsteps of Wilbur Olin Atwater: The Atwater Lecture for 2019.
• New Study Debunks Argument for Weakening Healthy School Lunch Rules.
• Diet and Health, Right and Wrong, and the Dire Ills of the Middle.
• What Happens When Providers Judge Patients?
• Expand SNAP to Reduce Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in the United States.
• Obesity Treatment: A Role for Occupational Therapists?
• EOSS Assesses More Than Just Cardiometablic Risk.
• Healing Dysregulated Eating & Body Shame — Why Self-Compassion Is Key.
• Solving the Problem of Too Many Fruits and Veggies at School.
• Oh Goody! Carbon Footprint Labeling on Food.

General

• Meta-analysis: Indication of Measures of Uncertainty for Statistical Significance in Abstracts of Published Oncology Trials.
• WEBINAR: NISS Academic Affiliate Meet-up: Collaborations between Academia and Industry.
• Aged Virgin Adults Respond to Extreme Heat Events with Phenotypic Plasticity in an Invasive Species, Drosophila Suzukii.
• Children Delay Gratification for Cooperative Ends.
• ‘Optimising’ Breastfeeding: What Can We Learn From Evolutionary, Comparative and Anthropological Aspects of Lactation?
• ‘Not Clinically Effective but Cost-effective’ - Paradoxical Conclusions in Randomised Controlled Trials with ‘Doubly Null’ Results: A Cross-sectional Study.
• What Do We Know About the Impact of Microfinance? The Problems of Statistical Power and Precision.
• Components of Team Science—What Contributes to Success?

Video & Audio

• “Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science”.

Announcements

• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Two-day Workshop on January 29-30, 2020 That Will Explore the Current State of the Science on Nutrients, Dietary Patterns, Nutritional Supplements, and Other Nutrition-based Topics Relevant to Pregnancy and Lactation.
• Obesity Care Competencies: Curricular Case Studies "showcase real-world competency integration strategies ... to prioritize obesity education across the continuum of training."
• Meet the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition Science Board.
• Dietary Guidelines for Americans Committee: Submit a Comment to the Committee.
• American Society for Nutrition: Nutrition 2020 Abstract Submission Is Open.
• IU Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow with Strong Statistical and Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency And/or Statistical and Data Analytic Research in the Obesity and Nutrition Research Domain.
• AHA's Strategically-Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• UAB's Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Applications Still Being Accepted: Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for Multiple Tenured, Tenure-Track Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Positions.

Featured

• "The FDA is alerting the public that results from a clinical trial assessing safety show a possible increased risk of cancer with the weight management medicine Belviq, Belviq XR (lorcaserin)."
• Meta-Analysis of RCTs: Can Dietary Viscous Fiber Affect Body Weight Independently of an Energy-restrictive Diet?
• Weight Status or Weight Stigma? Obesity Stereotypes-Not Excess Weight-Reduce Working Memory in School-aged Children.
• RCT: Cost-Effectiveness of Three Doses of a Behavioral Intervention to Prevent or Delay Type 2 Diabetes in Rural Areas.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Kids Adopt Healthier Eating Habits Watching Cooking Shows Featuring Healthy Food: Study.
• Study: Children Chose Among Pictures of 4 'Healthy' vs 'Unhealthy' Foods After Watching a Show. No Habits or Intake Measured.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Keys to healthy family child care homes - "The intervention did not impact physical activity outcomes in either group."
• RCT: SystemCHANGE™ Weight Management Intervention in Neurological Conditions Was Not Effective in Producing Weight Loss.
• Predictions "that [mouse] fathers would have lower relative body fat and lower performance abilities compared with control groups and that these effects would become more pronounced with increasing parity" were not met.
• No Evidence of Calorie-related Modulation of N2 in Food-related Go/No-Go Training: A Preregistered ERP Study.
• "There was no evidence of association between household type and the likelihood of [feline] obesity..."
• Fetal Growth Does Not Modify the Relationship of Infant Weight Gain with Childhood Adiposity and Blood Pressure in the Southampton Women's Survey.
• "...we found no effect on food expenditure or on anthropometry (BMI) by the Older Person’s Grant, or remittances."
• "No significant between group changes in child nutrition outcomes were identified" in quasi-experimental trial addressing family eating practices using an interactive family-based healthy weights intervention.
• Preprint: "...our results do not support the hypothesis that salt increases sugar-sweetened beverage consumption, leading to obesity; however, the simple mouse model used here may not provide a competent test of this hypothesis."

Basic

• Exposure to Solar UV Radiation Limits Diet-Induced Weight Gain, Increases Liver Triglycerides and Prevents the Early Signs of Cardiovascular Disease in Mice.
• Review: Orexins/Hypocretins: Key Regulators of Energy Homeostasis.
• Protective Effects of α-Linolenic Acid on Non-Alcoholic Hepatic Steatosis and Expression of IL-6 and IL-10 in Male Wistar Rats.
• Direct Effects of Glucagon on Glucose Uptake and Lipolysis in Human Adipocytes.
• Reversal of Obesity and Liver Steatosis in Mice Via Inhibition of Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor and Altered Gene Expression of CYP1B1, PPARα, SCD1, and Osteopontin.
• Gastric Bypass Improves Obesity and Glucose Tolerance Independent of Gastric Pouch Size.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Toward Greater Rigor in Nutrition and Obesity Research - University of Toronto Edna Park Lecture 2019.
• Perspective: Standards for Research and Reporting on Low-Energy (“Artificial”) Sweeteners.
• Letter: Overall Lack of Replication of Associations between Dietary Intake of Folate and Vitamin B-12 and DNA Methylation in Peripheral Blood.
• Response: Reply to P-A Dugué et al.

Clinical

• Comparing the Ability of Two Comprehensive Clinical Staging Systems to Predict Mortality: EOSS and CMDS.
• Obesity and Nutrition in Critical Illness.
• Obesity: Scope, Lifestyle Interventions, and Medical Management.

Children and Adolescents

• Provider Preference for Growth Charts in Tracking Children with Obesity.
• RCT: Assessing the Metabolic Impact of Ground Chia Seed in Overweight and Obese Prepubescent Children.
• Associations between Milk Fat Content and Obesity, 1999 to 2016.

Surgery

• Five‐year Effectiveness of Bariatric Surgery on Disease Remission, Weight Loss, and Changes of Metabolic Parameters in Obese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Population‐based Propensity Score‐matched Cohort Study.
• Socioeconomic and Racial Disparities in Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• Namodenoson Induces Weight Loss in Rodents.
• Is There a Prescription to Treat Pediatric Obesity?
• Lorcaserin Bidirectionally Regulates Dopaminergic Function Site-Independently and Disrupts Dopamine Brain Area Correlations in Rats.
• Long-Term Effectiveness of Liraglutide for Weight Management and Glycemic Control in Type 2 Diabetes.

Food & Diet

• Potential Cardiometabolic Health Benefits of Full-Fat Dairy: The Evidence Base.
• Smaller Servings Vs. Information Provision: Results of Two Interventions to Reduce Plate Waste in Two University Canteens.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Health, Aging, and Disease.
• Severe Food Restriction Activates the Central Renin Angiotensin System.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Increasing the Reinforcing Value of Exercise in Overweight Adults.
• RCT: Effects of a Kinect‐based physical training program on body composition, functional fitness and depression in institutionalized older adults.

Economics & Sociology

• Effect of Socioeconomic Inequality on Overweight and Obesity in Children: A Review of Systematic Reviews. (pdf)
• Family Income Gradients in Adolescent Obesity, Overweight and Adiposity Persist in Extremely Deprived and Extremely Affluent Neighbourhoods but Not in Middle-Class Neighbourhoods: Evidence From the UK Millennium Cohort Study.

Epidemiology

• Meta-analysis [of Observational Studies]: Skipping Breakfast Is Associated with Overweight and Obesity.
• Sociodemographic and Lifestyle Factors in Relation to Overweight Defined By BMI and “Normal-Weight Obesity”.
• Smoking Cessation and Weight Change in Relation to Cardiovascular Disease Incidence and Mortality in People with Type 2 Diabetes: A Population-based Cohort Study.
• Increased Energy Intake After Pregnancy Determines Postpartum Weight Retention in Women with Obesity.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• High Fat Diet-induced Obesity Causes Sex- Specific Deficits in Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Mice. (pdf)
• Neuropeptide Y Signaling in the Lateral Hypothalamus Modulates Diet Component Selection and Is Dysregulated in a Model of Diet-induced Obesity.
• Food Restriction and the Experience of Social Isolation. (pdf)
• RCT: Online Delivery of Emotional Freedom Techniques in the Treatment of Food Cravings and Weight Management. (pdf)

Equity and Disparities

• Epidemiology and Discrimination in Obesity.
• Operating in a Constricted Space: Policy Actor Perceptions of Targeting to Address U.S. Health Disparities.
• Impact of Race and Ethnicity on Weight-Loss Outcomes in Pediatric Family-Based Obesity Treatment.
• Common Health Disparities in the Transgender Population Using the Kid Database.
• Weight Status and Obesity-related Dietary Behaviours Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Children in Victoria, Australia.

Ethics

• “Can Naughty Be Healthy?”: Healthism and Its Discontents in News Coverage of Orthorexia Nervosa.
• Food Vendor Beware! On Ordinary Morality and Unhealthy Marketing Running Head: Food Vendor Beware!

Stigma

• Testing the Effectiveness of a Weight Bias Educational Intervention Among Clinical Psychology Trainees.
• A Prospective Study on the Link between Weight‐related Self‐stigma and Binge Eating: Role of Food Addiction and Psychological Distress.
• Obesity and Hiring Discrimination.

Policy Related

• Food Insecurity and Weight Status of Socially Vulnerable Child Beneficiaries of a Food Assistance Programme in Maceió, Northeast Brazil.
• Sodium, Calorie, and Sugary Drink Purchasing Patterns in Chain Restaurants: Findings From NYC.
• Development of Conceptual Models to Guide Public Health Research, Practice, and Policy: Synthesizing Traditional and Contemporary Paradigms.
• Evaluation of a Policy, Systems, and Environmental-Focused Faith-Based Health Promotion Program.
• From Policy Statement to Practice: Integrating Social Needs Screening and Referral Assistance with Community Health Workers in an Urban Academic Health Center.
• Apocalyptic Public Health: Exploring Discourses of Fatness in Childhood ‘obesity’ Policy.
• Nutrition Education: Strategies for Improving Nutrition and Healthy Eating in Individuals and Communities.
• The Association between Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Child Obesity: Implications for US Policy.

Intergenerational Effects

• Sex Differences in the Association between Prenatal Exposure to Maternal Obesity and Hippocampal Volume in Children.
• Do Gestational Obesity and Gestational Diabetes Have an Independent Effect on Neonatal Adiposity? Results of Mediation Analysis From a Cohort Study in South India.
• The Relationship of Maternal Glycemia to Childhood Obesity and Metabolic Dysfunction.
• Association of Maternal Prepregnancy Weight and Early Childhood Weight with Obesity in Adolescence.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Metabolic Lateralization in the Hypothalamus of Male Rats Related to Reproductive and Satiety States.
• Changes in DNA Methylation and Histone Modification Gene Expression in Response to Daily Food Times in Zebra Finches: Epigenetic Implications.

Methods

• Quantifications of Lipid Kinetics in Vivo Using Stable Isotope Tracer Methodology. (pdf)
• Detection of Diseases Caused By Obesity Using Certainty Factor Method.
• Defining Cutoffs to Diagnose Obesity Using the Relative Fat Mass (RFM): Association with Mortality in NHANES 1999–2014.

Commentary

• Why We Eat Too Much: The New Science of Appetite (and What It Tells Us About Losing Weight).
• Confusion at the Milk Cooler: Opportunity to Bolster the Evidence Base for Preventive Nutrition. (pdf)
• The Status Quo of Intervention Methodology on Childhood and Adolescent Obesity. (pdf)
• A Steep Price to Pay for Untreated NASH.
• Low Fat, Mediterranean Diets Linked to Low Testosterone in Men.
• Toward a More Definitive Diagnosis of Obesity.
• In Alzheimer Research, Glucose Metabolism Moves to Center Stage.
• New Year, Best Diet? Variants, Theme, and One Timely Truth... For All to Swallow.
• Sleep Apnea: Do We Need Leaner Tongues?
• Heritability, Inevitability, and Risk for Obesity.
• What Explains Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Obesity?
• New Nutrition Facts Labels are Big Win for Consumers, Public Health and Bipartisanship.
• Low Carb or Slow Carbs? Fiber Matters.
• Backlash over Meat Dietary Recommendations Raises Questions About Corporate Ties to Nutrition Scientists.

General

• Bring Back the Rat!
• Farming in the Face of Uncertainty: How Colombian Coffee Farmers Conceptualize and Communicate Their Experiences with Climate Change.
• Avoiding Confirmation Bias When Implementing Evidence-Based Instructional Practices.
• Cases of Mysterious Shrew-transmitted Disease Double.
• Cuttlefish Wearing 3D Glasses Prove They Sense Depth Just Like Us.
• Inference of Historical Population-Size Changes with Allele-Frequency Data.
• UK Group Tackles Reproducibility in Research.
• Lessons for a Young Scientist.
• Shutting Down Coal Plants Spared 26,610 American Lives in Just a Decade.
• Meta-analysis: Vitamin D and Calcium for the Prevention of Fracture.
• Measuring Subjective Social Status in Children of Diverse Societies.
• Regressive Models for Risk Prediction of Repeated Multinomial Outcomes: An Illustration Using Health and Retirement Study Data.
• Barriers to Working with National Health Service England’s Open Data.
• Apidima Cave Fossils Provide Earliest Evidence of Homo Sapiens in Eurasia. (pdf)
• FDA and NIH Let Clinical Trial Sponsors Keep Results Secret and Break the Law.
• Use of E-values for Addressing Confounding in Observational Studies—an Empirical Assessment of the Literature.
• RCT: "Among men with early-stage prostate cancer managed with active surveillance, a behavioral intervention to increase vegetable consumption did not significantly reduce the risk of prostate cancer progression."
• Using Machine Learning to “Nowcast” Precipitation in High Resolution.
• Preprint: Causal Claims About Correlations Reduced in Press Releases Following Academic Study of Health News.
• RCT: Lab-embedded Discourse Intervention to Improve Research Ethics.

Announcements

• If You are Physically Fit, You Will Live a Longer and Healthier Life: An Interview with [IU Bloomington Alum] Dr. Steven N. Blair.
• Short Course: Plant Proteins Functionalities and Applications February 4–5, 2020 • Chicago, IL.
• 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee: Meeting 4 – January 23-24, 2020.
• IU Bloomington Invites Applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow with Strong Statistical and Collaborative Skills to Join a Team of Researchers Focused on Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency And/or Statistical and Data Analytic Research in the Obesity and Nutrition Research Domain.
• AHA's Strategically-Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• UAB's Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Applications Still Being Accepted: Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for Multiple Tenured, Tenure-Track Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Positions.