Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Special Issue Dedicated to Dr. Timothy J Bartness.
• How Much Variation in Outcomes is Too Much in a Center of Excellence for Bariatric Surgery?
• Fish Reproductive-energy Output Increases Disproportionately with Body Size.

Headline vs Study

• Headline, No Study: Heating Food in Microwave Can Cause Diabetes, Obesity, Cancer, Infertility.
• Headline: Low-energy Diets ‘Beat Calorie Counting and Small Portions’ for Weight Loss.
• Study: Non-randomized, Self-selected Intervention of Structured Commercial Weight-loss Plan Versus Self-led Standard Care Plan.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "The addition of three behavior change tools to an informational placebo control did not result in a difference in the proportion of women with excessive total GWG compared to the placebo control in this effectiveness trial of an online, self-directed intervention."
• Degree of Obesity is Not Associated with More than One Intubation Attempt: A Large Centre Experience.
• Dietary Yeast-derived Mannan Oligosaccharides Have Immune-modulatory Properties but do Not Improve High Fat Diet-induced Obesity and Glucose Intolerance in Mice.
• "Contrary to this hypothesis, male and female Malat1-deficient mice gained as much weight, and developed insulin resistance to a similar extent as their Malat1+/+ littermates..."
• Contrary to Predictions of POLS Hypothesis, Fish Weaning Earlier and Thus Growing Faster Were Less Bold and Had Higher HPI Axis Responsiveness than Fish Accepting the Pellets Later or Never.
• "Contrary to hypotheses, chronic stress was not associated with physical activity with the exception of financial stress, which predicted greater likelihood of being highly physically active."
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, adults with high BP displayed greater muscle strength than adults with normal BP."
• RCT: No Significant Differences in Weight Change Among Adolescents Consuming Low Added Sugar Adequate Fiber Diet vs Isocaloric and Eucaloric High Added Sugar Low Fiber Diet Short-term Feeding Pilot Trial.

Basic

• An Exclusive Metabolic Niche Enables Strain Engraftment in the Gut Microbiota.
• Effect of Metabolic Syndrome and Aging on Ca2+ Dysfunction in Coronary Smooth Muscle and Coronary Artery Disease Severity in Ossabaw Miniature Swine.
• Comparison Between Male and Female Rats in a Model of Self-administration of a Chocolate-flavored Beverage: Behavioral and Neurochemical Studies.
• Inflammatory Response in Fatty Liver Disease is Reduced By Two Tryptophan Metabolites From Gut Bacteria.
• Nighttime Exposure to Artificial Light Enhances Rev-erbα-Targeting MicroRNAs and Contributes to Hepatic Steatosis in C3H/HePas Mice.
• In Mice, Time-Controlled Fasting Prevents Aging-Like Mitochondrial Changes Induced By Persistent Dietary Fat Overload in Skeletal Muscle.
• The Autism-Related Protein CHD8 Cooperates with C/EBPβ to Regulate Adipogenesis.
• Resistin Regulates Fatty Acid Β Oxidation By Suppressing Expression of Peroxisome Proliferator Activator Receptor Gamma-Coactivator 1α (PGC-1α).

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter: Unaccounted for Regression to the Mean Renders Conclusion of Article Titled “Uric Acid Lowering in Relation to HbA1c Reductions with the SGLT2 Inhibitor Tofogliflozin” Unsubstantiated.
• This is in Reply to Letter By Dr. Chanaka N. Kahathuduwa, Et Al. Titled: Unaccounted for Regression to the Mean Renders Conclusion of Article Titled “Uric Acid Lowering in Relation to HbA1c Reductions with the SGLT2 Inhibitor Tofogliflozin” Unsubstantiated.
• Expression of Concern: Wansink B, Cheney MM. Super Bowls: Serving Bowl Size and Food Consumption.
• Is Ad Hominem Logic Creeping Into Scholarly Discourse?
• When Authors Lie, Readers Cry and Editors Sigh.
• Commentary: Almost 40% of Peer-reviewed Dietary Research Turns Out to Be Wrong. Here’s Why.
• Commentary: Academic's Meat-only Diet Ruffles Feathers.

Clinical

• Health Care Provider Counseling for Weight Loss Among Adults with Arthritis and Overweight or Obesity — United States, 2002–2014.
• A Taboo Topic? How General Practitioners Talk About Overweight and Obesity in New Zealand.
• Effect of Carbohydrate Restriction-induced Weight Loss on Aortic Pulse Wave Velocity in Overweight Men and Women.

Children and Adolescents

• Child Mortality in England Compared with Sweden: A Birth Cohort Study.
• Associations of Prenatal and Early Life Dietary Inflammatory Potential with Childhood Adiposity and Cardiometabolic Risk in Project Viva.
• How Food Rules at Home Influence Independent Adolescent Food Choices.

Surgery

• Obesity Management Task Force of the European Association for the Study of Obesity Released “Practical Recommendations for the Post-Bariatric Surgery Medical Management.” (PDF)
• Impact of Weight Regain on the Evolution of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.
• 12-year Trajectory of Health-Related Quality of Life in Gastric Bypass Patients Vs. Comparison Groups.

Drugs

• RCT: Effect of Glyburide vs Subcutaneous Insulin on Perinatal Complications Among Women with Gestational Diabetes.
• More Progress with a Super Targeted Obesity Drug.
• MC4R Agonism Promotes Durable Weight Loss in Patients with Leptin Receptor Deficiency.

Food & Diet

• Management of Type 1 Diabetes with a Very Low-Carbohydrate Diet.
• RCT: Effect of a High-egg Diet on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in People with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Early Time-Restricted Feeding Improves Insulin Sensitivity, Blood Pressure, and Oxidative Stress Even Without Weight Loss in Men with Prediabetes.
• Effectiveness of a Carbohydrate Restricted Diet to Treat Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Adolescents with Obesity: Trial Design and Methodology.
• The Mediterranean Diet’s Fight Against Frailty.
• WHO Calls for Elimination of Trans Fat in Foods By 2023.
• When Fed Foods with Similar Palatability, Healthy Adult Dogs and Cats Choose Different Macronutrient Compositions.

Caloric Restriction

• Tissue-specific Transcriptome Profiling of Drosophila Reveals Roles for GATA Transcription Factors in Longevity By Dietary Restriction.
• Necroptosis Increases with Age and is Reduced By Dietary Restriction.
• Overexpression of CYB5R3 and NQO1, Two NAD+‐producing Enzymes, Mimics Aspects of Caloric Restriction.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Meta-Analysis: "The available empirical evidence supports resistance exercise training as an alternative and/or adjuvant therapy for depressive symptoms."
• RCT: Single- and Dual-Hormone Closed-Loop Systems that Adapt to Exercise Using Wearable Sensors.
• Do Highly Physically Active Workers Die Early? A Systematic Review with Meta-analysis of Data From 193 696 Participants.
• RCT: Effect of Aerobic Exercise Training and Essential Amino Acid Supplementation for 24 Weeks on Physical Function, Body Composition and Muscle Metabolism in Healthy, Independent Older Adults.

Economics & Sociology

• Laugh and Grow Fat: Happiness Affects BMI Among Urban Chinese Adults.
• The Nutrition Transition in Mexico 1988–2016: The Role of Wealth in the Social Patterning of Obesity By Education.

Epidemiology

• Famine Exposure in Early Life is Associated with Visceral Adipose Dysfunction in Adult Females.
• Alexithymic Traits, Independent of Depression and Anxiety, are Associated with Reduced Sleep Quality.
• Persistence of Elevated Blood Pressure During Childhood and Adolescence: A School-based Multiple Cohorts Study.
• Is Overweight/obesity a Risk Factor for Periodontitis in Young Adults and Adolescents?: A Systematic Review.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• A Multisite 2-Year Follow Up of Psychopathology Prevalence, Predictors, and Correlates Among Adolescents Who Did or Did Not Undergo Weight Loss Surgery.
• Weight Bias as a Social Justice Issue: A Call for Dialogue.

Equity and Disparities

• Trends in Socioeconomic Disparities in Obesity Prevalence Among Low-Income Children Aged 2-4 Years in Los Angeles County, 2003-2014.
• Targeting Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes in American Indian Youth: The Tribal Turning Point Pilot Study.

Stigma

• Weight Shame, Social Connection, and Depressive Symptoms in Late Adolescence.
• A Qualitative Exploration of Weight Bias and Quality of Health Care Among Health Care Professionals Using Hypothetical Patient Scenarios.
• Weight Stigma Affects Men Too.

Policy Related

• Reps. Young, Pingree Launch Bipartisan Food Waste Caucus.
• Will Posting Nutritional Information on Menus Prod Diners to Make Healthier Choices?

Intergenerational Effects

• Elevated Prenatal Anti-Müllerian Hormone Reprograms the Fetus and Induces Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Adulthood.
• Childhood Central Adiposity at Ages 5 and 9 Shows Consistent Relationship with that of the Maternal Grandmother but Not Other Grandparents.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Review: Multifaceted Roles of Beige Fat in Energy Homeostasis Beyond UCP1.
• Review: Potential Effects of Fat Mass and Fat-free Mass on Energy Intake in Different States of Energy Balance.
• Nutrients Excretion By Zooplankton in Two Brackish Water Bodies.
• High Resting Metabolic Rates with Low Thermal Dependence Induce Active Dives in Overwintering Pacific Juvenile Loggerhead Turtles.

Methods

• Automated Assessment of Steatosis in Murine Fatty Liver.
• Modeling the Natural History of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Impact of Reduction in BMI And/or Cholesterol on the Prevalence of NAFLD. (PDF)

Commentary

• Fasting During Ramzan Doesn’t Lead to Eating Disorders.
• Bariatric Surgery is Out of Reach Where People Need It the Most.
• Breast-Feeding Has No Impact on I.Q. By Age 16.
• Ode to Olive Oil.
• A Thousand Little Cuts From Weight Bias and Discrimination.
• From NPR: From Collards to Maple Syrup, How Your Identity Impacts the Food You Like.
• Eating Dinner in the Mid-Afternoon and Fasting for the Rest of the Day Improves Blood Sugar Control and Blood Pressure, Pilot Study Says.
• The Science Against Sugar, Alone, is Insufficient in Tackling the Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Crises – We Must Also Overcome Opposition From Vested Interests.

General

• How Will Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Change Science?
• Accumulating Evidence Suggests that Men do Not Find Body Odours of Human Leucocyte Antigen-dissimilar Women More Attractive.
• Whose Values? Whose Risk? Exploring Decision Making About Trial of Labor After Cesarean.
• Revealing the Microbiota of Marketed Edible Insects Through PCR-DGGE, Metagenomic Sequencing and Real-time PCR.
• The Influence of Climatic Variability on Morphological Integration, Evolutionary Rates, and Disparity in the Carnivora.
• Detecting the Contagion Effect in Mass Killings; A Constructive Example of the Statistical Advantages of Unbinned Likelihood Methods.
• Origami-inspired Medical Implants.
• 'Memory Transplant' Achieved in Snails.
• At the Zoo, Harvard Medical Students Get a Different Kind of Training.
• Mini-antibodies Discovered in Sharks and Camels Could Lead to Drugs for Cancer and Other Diseases.
• Lawmaker Introduces KITTEN Act Bill to Bar Use of Kittens, Cats in Painful Experiments.
• Trump Assails High Drug Prices, Avoids Direct Hit on Industry.

Video & Audio

• Video: UAB's Dr. Garvey: In Obesity Management, Patient, Provider Must Set Realistic Goals.

Announcements

• New WTIU Documentary Explores the Beauty of IU's Campus.
• The Current Understanding of Pre-Pregnancy Weight, Gestational Weight Gain, and the Impacts on Maternal and Child Health Among Women with Obesity: A Virtual Workshop (Webinar), June 13.
• Sustainable Diets, Food, and Nutrition: A Workshop By NASEM Health and Medicine, August 1-2.
• Eli Lilly and IUPUI Launch Diabetes Impact Project Targeting Three Indianapolis Neighborhoods.
• Call for Nominations for the Seventeenth Annual Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement By a Woman in the Statistical Sciences.
• Crawfordsville Startup CorVus Fattens Pigs for Science.
• Nominations Call: AAAS Award for Public Engagement with Science.
• UAB’s NORC Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.

Featured

• Exploring Student Nurses' Attitudes Towards Those Who are Obese and Whether These Attitudes Change Following a Simulated Activity.
• Restructuring of the Gut Microbiome By Intermittent Fasting Prevents Retinopathy and Prolongs Survival in Db/db Mice.
• Epigenome-wide Association Study of Adiposity and Future Risk of Obesity-related Diseases.
• Cold Adaptation Does Not Alter ATP Homeostasis During Cold Exposure in Drosophila Melanogaster.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Physical and Psychological Benefits of Tai Chi.
• Press-release: Tai Chi Improves Brain Metabolism and Muscle Energetics in Older Adults.
• Study: Pre-post Analysis of 6 People and No Control Group. Same Title as Press Release.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: HDL Cholesterol Efflux Capacity and Cholesteryl Ester Transfer are Associated with Body Mass, but are Not Changed By Diet-induced Weight Loss Abdominally Obese Men.
• Low Handgrip Strength is Not Associated with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Hyperglycemia: A Population-Based Study.
• Vitamin D Deficiency is Not Associated with Fatty Liver in a Mexican Population. (pdf)
• RCT: Beverages Containing Low Energy Sweeteners do Not Differ From Water in Their Effects on Appetite, Energy Intake and Food Choices in Healthy, Non-obese French Adults.
• Contrary to Expectations, However, the Flexible Restraint-binge Eating Relationship Was Largest for Those with Moderate to Strong Self-efficacy, and Was Non-significant for Those with Poor Self-efficacy.
• RCT: "Our data do not support an effect of dapagliflozin on energy intake or appetite measures in young, healthy subjects."
• "There is no evidence of correlation between obesity and worse oncological outcomes after RC [Radical Cystectomy]."
• RCT: "vitamin D3 supplementation did not proffer any additional positive effects on the measured indices of metabolic health" when combined with high-intensity intermittent training in overweight and obese adults.

Basic

• Disruption of Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha Receptor 1 Signaling Accelerates NAFLD Progression in Mice Fed an Obesogenic Diet.
• A High-Sugar Diet Negatively Impacts Cellular and Humoral Immune Responses in Drosophilia.
• Alpha-Linolenic Acid and Linoleic Acid Differentially Regulate the Skeletal Muscle Secretome of Obese Zucker Rats.
• NAMPT-mediated NAD+ Biosynthesis is Indispensable for Adipose Tissue Plasticity and Development of Obesity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Policy Forum: Was There Ever Really a “Sugar Conspiracy”?
• Letter: The Sugar Industry's Influence on Policy.
• Response: The Sugar Industry's Influence on Policy.
• Original Study: Association of Body-mass Index and Outcomes in Patients with Metastatic Melanoma Treated with Targeted Therapy, Immunotherapy, or Chemotherapy: A Retrospective, Multicohort Analysis.
• Letter 1: Body-mass Index and Metastatic Melanoma Outcomes.
• Letter 2: Body-mass Index and Metastatic Melanoma Outcomes.
• Letter 3: Body-mass Index and Metastatic Melanoma Outcomes.
• Author's Response: Body-mass Index and Metastatic Melanoma Outcomes.
• Commentary: University of Twitter? Scientists Give Impromptu Lecture Critiquing Nutrition Research.

Clinical

• RCT: Therapeutic Effect of Acupoint Catgut Embedding in Abdominally Obese Women.
• RCT: Intermittent Fasting in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and the Risk of Hypoglycaemia.
• RCT: Compensatory Mechanisms Activated with Intermittent Energy Restriction.
• The Science of Obesity Management: An Endocrine Society Scientific Statement.
• Health Belief Model Offers Opportunities for Designing Weight Management Interventions for College Students.
• Access to US Primary Care Physicians for New Patients Concerned About Smoking or Weight.
• RCT: A Targeted and Tailored EHealth Weight Loss Program for Young Women: The Be Positive Be Healthe.

Children and Adolescents

• Identifying Technology Associated with Weight Status and Health Problems in Children Referred for Weight Management. (pdf)
• Prevalence and Stabilizing Trends in Overweight and Obesity Among Children and Adolescents in China, 2011-2015.
• Treatment Options for Severe Obesity in the Pediatric Population: Current Limitations and Future Opportunities.
• Identification of Children's BMI Trajectories and Prediction From Weight Gain in Infancy.
• RCT: A Meat- or Dairy-based Complementary Diet Leads to Distinct Growth Patterns in Formula-fed Infants.

Surgery

• RCT: Probiotic Supplementation in Morbid Obese Patients Undergoing One Anastomosis Gastric Bypass-Mini Gastric Bypass Surgery.
• Time Course of Blood Pressure Decrease After Bariatric Surgery in Normotensive and Hypertensive Patients.

Drugs

• RCT: Leucine-metformin-sildenafil Combination (NS-0200) vs Placebo in Patients with Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• Analogs of glucagon exhibiting GIP receptor activity.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Effects of Providing High-Fat Versus High-Carbohydrate Meals on Daily and Postprandial Physical Activity and Glucose Patterns.
• RCT: The Effect of Aged Garlic Extract with Supplements Versus Placebo on Adipose Tissue Surrogates for Coronary Atherosclerosis Progression.
• Characterization and Identification of Novel Antidiabetic and Anti-obesity Peptides From Camel Milk Protein Hydrolysates.
• Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factor Responses to a Type 2 Diabetes Care Model Including Nutritional Ketosis Induced By Sustained Carbohydrate Restriction at 1 Year: An Open Label, Non-randomized, Controlled Study.
• Effect of Dietary Fat Intake and Genetics on Fat Taste Sensitivity: A Co-twin Randomized Controlled Trial.
• RCT: DHA-rich Fish Oil to Prevent Age-related Cognitive Decline in Cognitively Normal Older Adults.
• Abundant Fish Protein Inhibits α-synuclein Amyloid Formation.
• RCT: Aspartame Consumption for 12 Weeks Does Not Affect Glycemia, Appetite, or Body Weight of Healthy, Lean Adults.
• Walnut Consumption Alters the Gastrointestinal Microbiota, Microbially Derived Secondary Bile Acids, and Health Markers in Healthy Adults.
• Yerba Mate (Ilex Paraguariensis) Beverage: Nutraceutical Ingredient or Conveyor for the Intake of Medicinal Plants? Evidence From Paraguayan Folk Medicine.
• RCT: Probiotic Supplementation in Morbid Obese Patients Undergoing One Anastomosis Gastric Bypass-Mini Gastric Bypass (OAGB-MGB) Surgery.
• RCT: The Effect of Daily Fortified Yogurt Consumption on Weight Loss in Adults with Metabolic Syndrome.

Caloric Restriction

• The Effects of Graded Levels of Calorie Restriction: XIII. Global Metabolomics Screen Reveals Graded Changes in Circulating Amino Acids, Vitamins, and Bile Acids in the Plasma of C57BL/6 Mice.
• Protein-restriction diet during the suckling phase programs rat metabolism against obesity and insulin resistance exacerbation induced by a high-fat diet in adulthood.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Physical Activity and Sociodemographic Correlates of Adolescent Exergamers: Cross-sectional Study.
• Disentangling Efficacy and Expectations: A Prospective, Cross-lagged Panel Study of Cancer Survivors’ Physical Activity.
• Moderating Effects of Weather-Related Factors on a Physical Activity Intervention.
• Brown Fat Helps Exercisers Feel the Burn.
• Cross-sectional Associations of Active Transport, Employment Status and Objectively Measured Physical Activity.
• May the Force Be with You: Why Resistance Training is Essential for Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Without Complications.

Economics & Sociology

• The Distribution of Weight Status According to Familial Socioeconomic Status in Korean Adolescents: The Twelfth Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey, 2016.
• Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Changes in Body Size and Physical Activity in Ageing Black South African Women.
• Evidence of Acculturation's Impact on Dietary Quality Among Non-Hispanic Blacks.
• Implementing a Regression Discontinuity Design to Explore the Heterogeneous Effects of Obesity on Labour Income: The Case of Mexico.
• Diet Quality Among US-born and Foreign-born Non-Hispanic Blacks: NHANES 2003–2012 Data.

Epidemiology

• Temporal Relationship Between Hyperuricemia and Obesity, and Its Association with Future Risk of Type 2 Diabetes.
• Obesity, Weight Change, and Mortality in Older Adults with Metabolic Abnormalities.
• Kilocalorie Expenditure and All-Cause Mortality in Older Male Veterans and Non-Veterans.
• Low Grip Strength Predicts Incident Diabetes Among Mid-life Women: The Michigan Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation.
• Dietary Inflammatory Potential and Risk of Mortality in Metabolically Healthy and Unhealthy Phenotypes Among Overweight and Obese Adults.
• Statistical Analysis of Multiple Phenotypes in Genetic Epidemiologic Studies: From Cross-Phenotype Associations to Pleiotropy.
• Personal, Behavioral, and Environmental Predictors of Healthy Weight Maintenance During the Transition to Adulthood.
• Metabolic and Inflammatory Biomarkers are Associated with Epigenetic Aging Acceleration Estimates in the GOLDN Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• A Mouse Model of Pre-pregnancy Maternal Obesity Combined with Offspring Exposure to a High-fat Diet Resulted in Cognitive Impairment in Male Offspring.
• BMI and Its Relation to Neuropsychological Functioning and Brain Volume in Healthy Older Adults.
• Association Between Hedonic Hunger and Body-mass Index Versus Obesity Status.
• Smoking and Weight Loss Among Smokers with Overweight and Obesity.
• Association Between Obesity and Depressive Symptoms in Mexican Population.
• Neural, Hormonal, and Cognitive Correlates of Metabolic Dysfunction and Emotional Reactivity.

Ethics

• The Problem of Obesity and Dietary Nudges.

Stigma

• Weight Labeling and Disordered Eating Among Adolescent Girls: Evidence From the Growth and Health Study.
• Qualitative: Shame and Avoidance as Barriers in Midwives’ Communication About Body Weight with Pregnant Women.
• Parents Have Both Implicit and Explicit Biases Against Children with Obesity.
• Weight Labeling and Disordered Eating Among Adolescent Girls.
• Targeting Body Dissatisfaction Among Women with Overweight or Obesity: A Proof‐of‐concept Pilot Study.

Policy Related

• ‘It’s Just the Right Thing to Do’: Conceptualizing a Theory of Change for a School Food and Beverage Sales Environment Intervention and Implications for Implementation Evaluation.
• Food Security Expected to Improve Over the Next 10 Years.
• FDA Guidance for Industry: Menu Labeling Supplemental Guidance.
• Are Sweet Snacks More Sensitive to Price Increases than Sugar-sweetened Beverages: Analysis of British Food Purchase Data.

Intergenerational Effects

• Intergenerational Pathways Linking Maternal Early Life Adversity to Offspring Birthweight.
• Neonatal Overfeeding Induced Glucocorticoid Overexposure Accelerates Hepatic Lipogenesis in Male Rats.
• Content Fat and Calorie of Human Milk is Affected By Interactions Between Maternal Age and BMI.
• The Influence of Palatable High-energy Diet in Diet-induced Obesity Pregnant Rats on Offspring Oxidative Stress in Liver.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Dietary Choices are Influenced By Genotype, Mating Status, and Sex in Drosophila Melanogaster.
• Metabolic Cost of Acute Phase Response in the Frugivorous Bat, Artibeus Lituratus.

Methods

• Methods for Evaluating Natural Experiments in Obesity: A Systematic Review.
• Global Harmonization of Methodological Approaches to Nutrient Intake Recommendation: Proceedings of a Workshop.
• 2017 NIH Pathways to Prevention Workshop: Method for Evaluating Natural Experiments in Obesity.
• A Cross-Sectional Study Assessing the Contributions of Body Fat Mass and Fat-Free Mass to BMI Scores in Male Youth Rugby Players.

Commentary

• Poverty and Obesity: Where Does the Problem Start?
• Small Bits of Exercise for a Boost in Health and Happiness.
• All Science Should Inform Policy and Regulation.

General

• Sex Roles and Sexual Selection: Lessons From a Dynamic Model System.
• Whole Egg Consumption and Cortical Bone in Healthy Children. (pdf)
• The Benefits of Health Information Exchange: An Updated Systematic Review.
• Public Pension Advocacy Group Accuses Pew and Donor of Bias.
• Fight Childhood Obesity with Multiple Methods, Not Just More Taxes, MPs Hear.

Announcements

• Keystone Symposium: Drivers of Type 2 Diabetes: From Genes to Environment. October 7—11, 2018, Seoul, South Korea.
• IU Senior's Work on Wearable Fitness Device Earns Provost's Award for Undergraduate Research.
• UAB’s NORC Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.

Featured

• Long-term Dietary Macronutrients and Hepatic Gene Expression in Aging Mice.
• Of Mice and Men: Environmental Temperature, Body Temperature, and Treatment of Obesity.
• Seeing More and Eating Less: Effects of Portion Size Granularity on the Perception and Regulation of Food Consumption.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Lack of Sleep Leads to Obesity in Children and Adolescents.
• Study: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Association Between Sleep Duration and Obesity in Infants, Children, and Adolescents.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Whey protein supplementation during diet-induced weight loss does not have clinically important therapeutic effects on muscle mass or strength in middle-aged postmenopausal women with obesity."
• RCT: "A mobile health-supported behavioral intervention did not decrease the incidence of GDM."
• RCT: "replacing daily snacks for 12 weeks with oligofructose-supplemented granola bars does not differentially affect energy intake, body weight and body composition compared with a control bar."
• Hexamoll® DINCH: Lack of in Vivo Evidence for Obesogenic Properties.
• Assessing “chaotic Eating” Using Self-report and the UK Adult National Diet and Nutrition Survey: No Association Between BMI and Variability in Meal or Snack Timings.
• No Association Between Fat Tissue and Height in 5019 Children and Adolescents, Measured Between 1982 and in 2011 in Kolkata/India.
• "Contrary to the expectation that the cost of predator avoidance behaviours may be greater at warmer exposure temperatures because basal metabolic rates are higher, our results indicated that the energetic cost of foraging less was amplified at cool temperatures."
• "We believe that this survey was flawed in that the survey question that was found to be significant is confusing because it requires a ‘no’ response for an affirmative answer. Because of this, as well as there being no correlation in the other two questions, it is plausible that parental meal planning has no effect on children’s BMI."

Basic

• Hunger is a Gatekeeper of Pain in the Brain.
• Effects of Detraining and Retraining on Muscle Energy-Sensing Network and Meteorin-Like Levels in Obese Mice.
• Prebiotic Mannan-Oligosaccharides Amplify the Hypoglycemic Effects of Metformin in Correlation with Modulating Gut Microbiota.
• Arginase Inhibition Prevents the Development of Hypertension and Improves Insulin Resistance in Obese Rats.
• Preemptive Activation of the Integrated Stress Response Protects Mice From Diet‐induced Obesity and Insulin Resistance Via Fibroblast Growth Factor 21 Induction.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter: Bicycle Helmets and the Experimenter Effect.
• Dietary Disclosures: How Important are Non-financial Interests?

Clinical

• RCT: "Subcutaneous Infiltration of Carbon Dioxide (Carboxytherapy) for Abdominal Fat Reduction."
• RCT: Evaluation of a 12-week Lifestyle Education Intervention with or Without Partial Meal Replacement in Thai Adults with Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome.
• Untangling Waist Circumference and Hip Circumference From BMI with a Body Shape Index, Hip Index, and Anthropometric Risk Indicator.
• Why do Practitioners Need to Read the Revised 2017 Scope/Standards Documents From the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics?
• Poor Sleep Quality is Associated with Insulin Resistance in Postmenopausal Women with and Without Metabolic Syndrome.
• Effects of Different Weight Loss Approaches on CVD Risk.
• Energy Deficit Required for Rapid Weight Loss in Elite Collegiate Wrestlers.

Children and Adolescents

• RCT: No Effect of Social Network Intervention on Physical Activity Among Adolescents.
• The Association of Air Pollution with BMI: Evidence From Hong Kong’s “Children of 1997” Birth Cohort.
• Identifying Behavioral Phenotypes for Childhood Obesity.
• BMI Trajectories From Childhood: The Slippery Slope to Adult Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease. (pdf)
• Growth of Children in Greenland Exceeds the World Health Organization Growth Charts.

Surgery

• Revisional Bariatric Surgery for Weight Regain and Refractory Complications.
• Metabolic Surgery and Diabesity: A Systematic Review.
• Predictors of Preoperative Program Non-Completion in Adolescents Referred for Bariatric Surgery.
• Adolescents’ Experiences of Obesity Surgery: A Qualitative Study.

Drugs

• RCT: "Gabapentin before laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy reduces postoperative oxycodone consumption in obese patients."
• Vortioxetine Disposition in Obesity: Potential Implications for Patient Safety.
• Dietary Intake and Eating Behavior in Depot Medroxyprogesterone Acetate Users: A Systematic Review.

Food & Diet

• Why do Mice Overeat High‐Fat Diets? How High‐Fat Diet Alters the Regulation of Daily Caloric Intake in Mice.
• Virta Health Changing Status Quo in Chronic Disease Care with Strong Cardiovascular Outcomes From Type 2 Diabetes Reversal Study.
• Fresh Food Program Makes a Difference in Type 2 Diabetes.
• A Systematic Review of Digital Interventions for Improving the Diet and Physical Activity Behaviors of Adolescents.

Caloric Restriction

• Intermittent Fasting: Is the Wait Worth the Weight?
• RCT: Effects of 2 Years of Caloric Restriction on Oxidative Status Assessed By Urinary F2‐isoprostanes.
• Limited Daily Feeding and Intermittent Feeding Have Different Effects on Regional Brain Energy Homeostasis During Aging.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Commitment Lotteries Promote Physical Activity Among Overweight Adults.
• Me Time, or We Time? Age Differences in Motivation for Exercise.

Economics & Sociology

• Diet and Physical Activity as Possible Mediators of the Association Between Educational Attainment and BMI Gain Among Australian Adult.
• Early Childhood Obesity Risk Factors: Socioeconomic Adversity, Family Dysfunction, Offspring Distress, and Junk Food Self-Medication.
• AHA: Blood Test Could Offer Life-and-Death Clues for Black Diabetics.

Epidemiology

• The Use of Virtual Reality in Patients with Eating Disorders: Systematic Review.
• Identification of an Episignature of Human Colorectal Cancer Associated with Obesity By Genome-wide DNA Methylation Analysis.
• Ectopic Fat Obesity Presents the Greatest Risk for Incident Type 2 Diabetes: A Population-based Longitudinal Study.
• Metabolically Healthy Obesity, Transition to Metabolic Syndrome, and Cardiovascular Risk.
• International Comparison of Abdominal Fat Distribution Among Four Populations: The ERA-JUMP Study.
• Lifestyle Index for Mortality Prediction Using Multiple Ageing Cohorts in the USA, UK and Europe.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Revisiting the Marshmallow Test.
• Mediators of Two Selective Prevention Interventions Targeting Both Obesity and Eating Disorders.
• Portion Size and Later Food Intake: Evidence on the “normalizing” Effect of Reducing Food Portion Sizes.
• RCT: Habit-based Interventions for Weight Loss Maintenance in Adults with Overweight and Obesity.
• Individual and Shared Effects of Social Environment and Polygenic Risk Scores on Adolescent BMI.
• Brief Exposure to Obesogenic Diet Disrupts Brain Dopamine Networks.

Equity and Disparities

• Association of Food Security Status with Overweight and Dietary Intake: Exploration of White British and Pakistani-origin Families in the Born in Bradford Cohort.
• Migration Background and Childhood Overweight in the Hannover Region in 2010-2014: A Population-based Secondary Data Analysis of School Entry Examinations.
• Does Ethnic Identification Moderate The Impact Of Depression On Obesity In Young People? Results Of a Systematic Scoping Review. (pdf)
• Exploring the Mechanisms of the Racial Disparity in Drowsy Driving. (pdf)
• The Weight Wage Penalty: A Mechanism Approach to Discrimination.
• Variations in HbA1c Across Pediatric Populations Point to Disparities in Health Care Access.

Ethics

• Considering Weight Loss Programs and Public Health Partnerships in American Evangelical Protestant Churches.
• Problematising Justice Definitions in Public Food Security Debates: Towards Global and Participative Food Justices. (pdf)

Stigma

• The Weight Wage Penalty: A Mechanism Approach to Discrimination.
• Food Addiction and Its Potential Links with Weight Stigma.
• Clinical Practices to Mitigate Weight Bias.
• Weight Bias Education for Medical School Faculty: Workshop and Assessment.
• It’s Complicated: Embracing or Avoiding Failure in Obesity.

Policy Related

• The Short-Term Impacts of the Philadelphia Beverage Tax on Beverage Consumption.
• Single-Family Housing Value Resilience of Walkable Versus Unwalkable Neighborhoods During a Market Downturn: Causal Evidence and Policy Implications.
• Navigating Complex Systems for Policymaking Using Simple Software Tools.

Intergenerational Effects

• Does Multiple Paternity Explain Phenotypic Variation Among Offspring in Wild Boar?
• Maternal Caffeine Intake During Pregnancy and Childhood Growth and Overweight: Results From a Large Norwegian Prospective Observational Cohort Study.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Temperature-influenced Energetics Model for Migrating Waterfowl.
• Inspection Behaviour and Inter-individual Cooperation in Juvenile Qingbo: The Effects of Prior Predator Exposure and Food Deprivation.

Methods

• Designing Auditory Feedback From Wearable Weightlifting Devices.
• Development of a Survey to Assess Local Health Department Organizational Processes and Infrastructure for Supporting Obesity Prevention.
• Sleep and BMI: Do (Fitbit) Bands Aid?

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Association Study, Risk Assessment, and Prediction of Children’s Growth Trajectories Through Methylation Profiles Using Functional Mixed Models.
• Dynamic functional connectivity analysis reveals improved association between brain networks and eating behaviors compared to static analysis.

Commentary

• Why a Sweaty Workout Dampens Appetite.
• The Shame of Human Nature in Words and Images.
• Childbirth: Coincidence or Cause for Obesity?
• Should You Eat Pasta?
• Making WAVES Against a Tsunami of Childhood Obesity.
• Who Added All that Sugar to Maple Syrup?

General

• Tired Walking Among Older Persons.
• Decreases in Beetle Body Size Linked to Climate Change and Warming Temperatures.
• Functional MRI in the Nile Crocodile: A New Avenue for Evolutionary Neurobiology.
• Adding Sodium Information to Casual Dining Restaurant Menus: Beneficial or Detrimental for Consumers?
• Developmental Plasticity in Reptiles: Insights Into Thermal and Maternal Effects on Chameleon Phenotypes.

Announcements

• IU Online Ranked Among Nation’s Best.
• Panel Calls for Improvements in Research on Natural Experiments to Combat the Obesity Epidemic.
• UAB’s NORC Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.

Featured

• Active (Opt-In) Consent Underestimates Mean BMI-z and the Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity Compared to Passive (Opt-Out) Consent.
• Enhanced Longevity and Metabolism By Brown Adipose Tissue with Disruption of the Regulator of G Protein Signaling 14.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Early Breakfast is Important for People with Type II Diabetes.
• Study: Cross-sectional Mediation Analysis of the Association Between Measured BMI, Dichotomized Self-reported Morningness, and Breakfast Time in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "There was no intervention effect on Camp NERF child zBMI."
• RCT: No Significant Effect of a Multidisciplinary Treatment Program on Eating Behavior in Overweight and Obese Preschool Children.
• RCT: An Interactive Web-Based Intervention to Achieve Healthy Weight in Young Children via their parents as "change agents" was unsuccessful.
• RCT: "in this exploratory small-scale study, the beneficial effects of six-month TRT on total testosterone, LBM, and percent body fat were not followed by significant changes in fractions of mitochondria, glycogen, or lipid in skeletal muscle of aging men with lowered testosterone levels."
• "Obesity does not affect severity of sinonasal disease in patients with asthma..."
• "Contrary to dual-process predictions, there was a trend significant interaction between poor inhibitory control and weaker food specific automatic processing in explaining loss of control over eating."
• "Contrary to our expectations, however, bears appeared to continue to hunt caribou as calf availability declined, but switched from a tactic of selecting areas of increased calf vulnerability to a tactic that maximized encounter rates with calves."
• Winter Cholecalciferol Supplementation at 51°N Has No Effect on Markers of Cardiometabolic Risk in Healthy Adolescents Aged 14-18 Years.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Unaccounted for Regression to the Mean Renders Conclusion of Article Titled “Uric Acid Lowering in Relation to HbA1c Reductions with the SGLT2 Inhibitor Tofogliflozin” Unsubstantiated.
• Commentary: That Study Reporting Worrisome Levels of Zinc in Tuna? It’s Being Retracted.
• Commentary: The Concept of Conflict, Run Amok.

Basic

• Can the Light Be Used to Treat Obesity and Diabetes?
• After 60 Years of Mystery, Researchers Have Identified the Pathogen Responsible for White Fat Cell Disease in Daphnia.
• Cholic Acid Supplementation of a High-Fat Obesogenic Diet Suppresses Hepatic Triacylglycerol Accumulation in Mice Via a Fibroblast Growth Factor 21-Dependent Mechanism.
• Long Term Westernized Diet Leads to Region-specific Changes in Brain Signaling Mechanisms.
• Monovalerin and Trivalerin Increase Brain Acetic Acid, Decrease Liver Succinic Acid, and Alter Gut Microbiota in Rats Fed High-fat Diets.
• Amyloid Precursor Protein Deficient Mice Exhibit Resistance to Obesity but Impairment of Glucose Tolerance upon High Fat Feeding.
• In Mice, Exposure to Air Pollution Interacts with Obesogenic Nutrition to Induce Tissue-Specific Response Patterns.
• GSK126 Alleviates the Obesity Phenotype By Promoting the Differentiation of Thermogenic Beige Adipocytes in Diet-induced Obese Mice.
• Histone Demethylase JMJD1A Coordinates Acute and Chronic Adaptation to Cold Stress Via Thermogenic Phospho-switch.
• Changes in Visceral Adipose Tissue Plasma Membrane Lipid Composition in Old Rats are Associated with Adipocyte Hypertrophy with Aging.
• Genetic Identification of Leptin Neural Circuits in Energy and Glucose Homeostases.

Clinical

• RCT: Sustained Impact of Energy-dense TV and Online Food Advertising on Children's Dietary Intake.
• RCT: Postprandial Effects of Breakfast Glycaemic Index on Cognitive Performance Among Young, Healthy Adults.
• Targeting the Gut Microbiome to Treat the Osteoarthritis of Obesity.
• Early Postnatal Soluble FGFR3 Therapy Prevents the Atypical Development of Obesity in Achondroplasia.
• Short‐ and Long‐Term Changes in Health‐Related Quality of Life with Weight Loss.

Children and Adolescents

• Pilot Project to Integrate Community and Clinical Level Systems to Address Health Disparities in the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity Among Ethnic Minority Inner-City Middle School Students: Lessons Learned.
• A Mediation Analysis on the Relationship of Physical Fitness Components, Obesity, and Academic Performance in Children.
• Metabolic Features of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver (NAFL) in Obese Adolescents: Findings From a Multi‐ethnic Cohort.

Surgery

• RCT: LSG vs MGB-OAGB—3 Year Follow-up Data.
• C-Reactive Protein on Postoperative Day 1: A Predictor of Early Intra-abdominal Infections After Bariatric Surgery.
• Demographics and Socioeconomic Status as Predictors of Weight Loss After Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy.
• Bariatric Surgery in Immunocompromised Patients.

Drugs

• Fast and Sensitive HPLC/UV Method for Cefazolin Quantification in Plasma and Subcutaneous Tissue Microdialysate of Humans and Rodents Applied to Pharmacokinetic Studies in Obese Individuals.
• Effects of Intranasal Oxytocin on Satiety Signaling in People with Schizophrenia.
• Association Between Use of Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitors, Glucagon-like Peptide 1 Agonists, and Dipeptidyl Peptidase 4 Inhibitors with All-Cause Mortality in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Oxyntomodulin Analogue Increases Energy Expenditure Via the Glucagon Receptor.

Food & Diet

• RCT: A Meat- or Dairy-based Complementary Diet Leads to Distinct Growth Patterns in Formula-fed Infants.
• RCT: Effects of Caloric and Noncaloric Sweeteners on Antroduodenal Motility, Gastrointestinal Hormone Secretion and Appetite-related Sensations in Healthy Subjects.
• RCT: Effects of 6 vs 3 Eucaloric Meal Patterns on Glycaemic Control and Satiety in People with Impaired Glucose Tolerance or Overt Type 2 Diabetes.
• Similarity of the Dog and Human Gut Microbiomes in Gene Content and Response to Diet.
• Resting Metabolic Rate of Obese Patients Under Very Low Calorie Ketogenic Diet.
• Relationship Between Food Waste, Diet Quality, and Environmental Sustainability.
• Commentary: Fruits and Veggies, Food Waste, and a Healthy Planet.

Caloric Restriction

• Caloric Restriction Delays Yeast Chronological Aging By Remodeling Carbohydrate and Lipid Metabolism, Altering Peroxisomal and Mitochondrial Functionalities, and Postponing the Onsets of Apoptotic and Liponecrotic Modes of Regulated Cell Death.
• Hydrogen Sulfide Mediates the Protection of Dietary Restriction Against Renal Senescence in Aged F344 Rats.
• Dietary Restriction Slightly Affects Glucose Homeostasis and Delays Plasma Cholesterol Removal in Rabbits with Dietary Lipid Lowering.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• The Need to Objectively Measure Physical Activity During Pregnancy: Considerations for Clinical Research and Public Health Impact.
• Obligatory Exercise and Coping in Treatment-seeking Women with Poor Body Image.
• Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Retirement: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
• Impact of Age-Related Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Exercise on Intestinal Microbiota Composition.

Economics & Sociology

• Impact of Physical and Social Environments on the Walking Behaviour of Hong Kong's Older Adults.
• Economic Stress and Low Leisure-time Physical Activity: Two Life Course Hypotheses.
• Patterns of SES Health Disparities [including Obesity] Among Older Adults in Three Upper Middle- and Two High-income Countries.

Epidemiology

• Meta-analysis: Sleep Duration and Incidence of Obesity in Infants, Children, and Adolescents.
• Association of Added Sugar Intake and Caries-related Experiences Among Individuals of Mexican Origin.
• Changes of Glucose Levels Precede Dementia in African-Americans with Diabetes but Not in Caucasians.
• Association of Air Pollution with BMI: Evidence From Hong Kong’s “Children of 1997” Birth Cohort.
• Association of Obesity and Diabetes with Thyroid Nodules.
• Informational Value of Percent Body Fat with BMI for the Risk of Abnormal Blood Glucose.
• Birth Size and Gestational Age in Opposite-sex Twins as Compared to Same-sex Twins.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Do Impulsive Individuals Benefit More From Food Go/no-go Training? Testing the Role of Inhibition Capacity in the No-go Devaluation Effect.
• Breaking Bad Habits By Improving Executive Function in Individuals with Obesity.
• Intermittent, Extended Access to Preferred Food Leads to Escalated Food Reinforcement and Cyclic Whole-body Metabolism in Rats.

Stigma

• Systematic review: Weight Stigma and Health: The Mediating Role of Coping Responses. Impact of Weight Stigma on Physiological and Psychological Health Outcomes for Overweight and Obese Adults.
• Obese Children are Thin in Parents’ Eyes: A Psychologically, Socially, or Culturally Driven Bias.
• Weight Stigma in Men: What, When, and By Whom?
• Commentary: Fat Shaming: Real and Different for Men.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Preprint: Polygenic Adaptation and Convergent Evolution Across Both Growth and Cardiac Genetic Pathways in African and Asian Rainforest Hunter-gatherers.
• Diet-induced Obesity Reduces Core Body Temperature Across the Estrous Cycle and Pregnancy in the Rat.
• Difference in Plasticity of Resting Metabolic Rate – the Proximate Explanation to Different Niche Breadth in Sympatric Ficedula Flycatchers (PDF).

Methods

• New Book: Advanced Data Analytics in Health [with Examples in Obesity].

Mathematical and Quantitative

• A Mathematical Analysis of Adaptations to the Metabolic Fate of Fructose in Essential Fructosuria Subjects.

Commentary

• The Sources of Fat Science.
• Why Fit Fathers Sire Smarter Offspring.
• Journals Should No Longer Accept ‘obesity Paradox’ Articles.
• Should We Shift Our Thinking About Metabolic Adaptation?
• Ketosis – Advantaged or Misunderstood State? (Part I).
• We Need to Change the Public-Health Narrative on Obesity.
• Sugar Consumption, Cognition, Correlation, and Causality.
• Cut the Obesity Guilt Trips for Parents, Please.

General

• "Is Drug Addiction a Brain Disease? This popular claim lacks evidence and leads to poor policy."
• Are Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses Still Useful Research? We are Not Sure.
• Scientists Confirm Prion Disease in Camels Sparking Fears It Could Be Passed to Humans.
• The C-Word: Scientific Euphemisms do Not Improve Causal Inference From Observational Data (First in Series on Causal Inference).

Video & Audio

• Video: Preventing Hospital Re-admissions Through Good Nutrition.
• Shrinking Mammals.

Announcements

• Understanding and Overcoming the Challenge of Obesity and Overweight in the Armed Forces: A Workshop.
• UAB’s NORC Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.