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Featured

• Arctic Inuit, Native American Adaptations to Cold and Body Fat Distribution May Originate From Extinct Ancient Hominid Interbreeding.
• Ciliary Hedgehog Signaling Restricts Injury-Induced Adipogenesis.
• Walking in the Shoes of Caregivers of Children with Obesity: Supporting Caregivers in Paediatric Weight Management.
• Social Status and Energy Intake: A Randomized Controlled Experiment.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Meet the Space Age Anti-gravity Treadmill Getting Athletes Back on Track After Knee Surgery.
• Press release: Anti-gravity Treadmills Get Patients Running Again After Knee Surgery.
• Study: Returning to Running Following Knee Osteochondral Repair... In a Single Case Report Using an Augmented Treadmill (unfortunately Not Actual Anti-gravity).
• Commentary: University Makes Claim on Anti-gravity Treadmill, Then Runs Away From Evidence.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction Did Not Reduce Weight in Women with Overweight or Obesity.
• RCT: Long-term Supplementation of Decaffeinated Green Tea Extract Does Not Modify Body Weight or Abdominal Obesity Among Men at High Risk for Prostate Cancer.
• RCT: "It seems that resistance training alone can have more positive effect compared to resistance training plus ginger supplements capsule."
• Obesity Appeared to Have Little Impact [association] on Years Lived with or Without Dementia.
• Obesity Does Not Affect Outcomes in Hybrid Versus Cemented Total Knee Arthroplasty in Asians.
• Living in Unsafe Neighbourhoods Predicted a Trivial (but Statistically Significant) Gain in BMI but No Change in Childhood Overweight/obesity Risk.
• Formula-fed Infants Gained More Lean Mass (difference: 303 G; 95% CI: 137, 469 G) than Breastfed Infants, but Not Fat Mass (difference: -42 G; 95% CI: -299, 215 G).
• BMI Z-score Trajectory Groups Did Not Differ By Infant Feeding Practices, After Controlling for LGA at Birth.
• Baby-Led Weaning—Safe and Effective but Not Preventive of Obesity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Statistical Interpretation Error in Metformin Trial Paper.
• Saturated Fats and CVD: AHA Convicts, We Say Acquit.
• Editorial: The March of Science — the True Story.

Ancient Feeding

• The Dormouse-Fattening Jars of Ancient Rome - Atlas Obscura.
• 10,000 Years Ago, North Americans Were Chowing Down on Potatoes—some Things Never Change.
• Food Web From the Ancestral Puebloans.

Basic

• Characterization of Adipogenic Activity of House Dust Extracts and Semi-Volatile Indoor Contaminants in 3T3-L1 Cells.
• Directing visceral white adipocyte precursors to a thermogenic adipocyte fate improves insulin sensitivity in obese mice.

Clinical

• Acupuncture for the Treatment of Obesity in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Obesity Burden in US Challenges SNFs.
• RCT: Innovative Approaches to Weight Loss in a High-risk Population: The Small Changes and Lasting Effects (SCALE) Trial.
• A Systematic Review of Reviews: Exploring the Relationship Between Obesity, Weight Loss and Health-related Quality of Life.
• RCT: Effects of a Physical Activity and Nutrition Program in Retirement Villages.

Surgery

• Morphofunctional Changes After Sleeve Gastrectomy and Very Low Calorie Diet in an Animal Model of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• Intraoperative Ventilation of Morbidly Obese Patients Guided By Transpulmonary Pressure.
• Surgery, Suffering, and Money in Obesity and Diabetes.

Drugs

• Total Control of Fat Cells From Adipogenesis to Apoptosis Using a Xanthene Analog.
• Thyroid Hormone Receptor Beta in the Ventromedial Hypothalamus is Essential for the Physiological Regulation of Food Intake and Body Weight.
• Novo Nordisk to Launch Anti-obesity Drug in India.

Food & Diet

• First Kids Breath-tested in Obesity Study.
• RCT: Equivalent Reductions in Body Weight During the Beef WISE Study: Beef's Role in Weight Improvement, Satisfaction and Energy.
• Influence of Energy Drinks on Obesity [in Rats]: A Preliminary Experimental Study.
• RCT: Effect of Aerobic Exercise and Corn Peptide on Fat Metabolism of Overweighed and Obese Female College Students.
• Coffee Drinking and Mortality in 10 European Countries: A Multinational Cohort Study.
• RCT: Consumption of a Cranberry Juice Beverage Lowered the Number of Clinical Urinary Tract Infection Episodes in Women with a Recent History of Urinary Tract Infection.
• Western Diet–Induced Dysbiosis in Farnesoid X Receptor Knockout Mice Causes Persistent Hepatic Inflammation After Antibiotic Treatment.
• Fact Check: Is Boxed Macaroni and Cheese Actually Toxic?
• RCT: (No) Effect of High-Dose vs Standard-Dose Wintertime Vitamin D Supplementation on Viral Upper Respiratory Tract Infections in Young Healthy Children.

Caloric Restriction

• The Effect of Calorie Restriction on Mouse Skeletal Muscle is Sex, Strain and Time-dependent.
• Pre-pubertal diet restriction reduces reactive oxygen species and restores fertility in male WNIN/Obese rat.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Large-scale Physical Activity Data Reveal Worldwide Activity Inequality.
• Effect of Child Gender and Psychosocial Factors on Physical Activity From 5th-6th Grade.
• A System Model of the Effects of Exercise on Plasma Interleukin-6 Dynamics in Healthy Individuals: Role of Skeletal Muscle and Adipose Tissue.
• Skeletal Muscle Microvascular-Linked Improvements in Glycemic Control From Resistance Training in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes.

Economics & Sociology

• Trends in Smoking and Obesity Among US Adults Before, During, and After the Great Recession and Affordable Care Act Roll-out.
• The New Face of Food Insecurity.
• Influence of Neighbourhood Safety on Childhood Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Longitudinal Studies.

Epidemiology

• Abdominal Obesity and Risk of Hip Fracture: A Meta-analysis of Prospective Studies.
• Pathophysiology of Fecal Incontinence in Obese Patients: A Prospective Case-matched Study of 201 Patients.
• Impact of Obesity on Mortality in Patients with Diabetes: Meta-analysis of 20 Studies Including 250,016 Patients.
• Sarcopenic Obesity, Weight Loss, and Mortality: The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.
• Associations of Weight Gain From Early to Middle Adulthood with Major Health Outcomes Later in Life.
• Hurtling Toward 100 Million Americans with Diabetes.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Daily Self-Weighing for Weight Gain Prevention.
• RCT: Comparison of Community-based Versus Primary Care Programs for Childhood Obesity.
• RCT: (No) Effect of Different Types of Monitoring Strategies on Weight Loss.

Equity and Disparities

• Rich and Poor in Opportunities to Walk.
• Health-equity issues related to childhood obesity: a scoping review.

Stigma

• Professional Stigma on Weight in the Pediatric Care in Italy and Andalusia.
• Supporting Caregivers of Children with Obesity in Pediatric Weight Management.
• The Effects of Messages About the Causes of Obesity on Disciplinary Action Decisions for Overweight Employees.

Policy Related

• Research Progress of Analysis of Illegal Additives in Weight-reducing Dietary Supplements.
• Policies to Promote Active Travel: Evidence From Reviews of the Literature.
• Corporate Leanwashing and Consumer Beliefs About Obesity.
• New Tax Doubles Price of Cigarettes, Energy Drinks in Saudi Arabia.
• Chocolate Milk Booted Off the Menu at SF School Cafeterias.
• Effects of a 2014 Statewide Policy Change on Cash-Value Voucher Redemptions for Fruits/Vegetables Among Participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The Roles of Metabolic Thermogenesis in Body Fat Regulation in Striped Hamsters Fed High-fat Diet at Different Temperatures.
• Evolutionary Changes of Hox Genes and Relevant Regulatory Factors Provide Novel Insights Into Mammalian Morphological Modifications.
• Short Photoperiod Reverses Obesity in Siberian Hamsters Via Sympathetically Induced Lipolysis and Browning in Adipose Tissue.
• Individual Variation in Metabolic Reaction Norms Over Ambient Temperature Causes Low Correlation Between Basal and Standard Metabolic Rate.

Methods

• Development of a Dynamic Meal-Equivalent Menu Method for Personalized Nutrition Intervention Programs in Obese Population.
• Validity of a Digital Diet Estimation Method for Use with Preschool Children.
• Fitness Trackers are Dead, Long Live Digital Health.
• Microbiota Manipulations.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Modelling Hand Skin Temperature in Relation to Body Composition.
• An Intelligent Noninvasive Model for Coronary Artery Disease Detection.

Commentary

• The Case Against Sugar: Do You Agree?
• The Humble Spud Would Go on to Save Sweden From Hunger, Encourage Alcoholism and Power the Industrial Revolution.

General

• Why We Age – a New Evolutionary View.
• Why It Took Scientists So Long to Figure Out Where Babies Come From.
• How Fake News Goes Viral—Here’s the Math.
• Audio: Artificial Dye Safety.
• The March of Science — the True Story.
• Aging as a Defense Strategy Against Parasites.
• Dietary Protein Intake Above the Current RDA and Bone Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
• Aging Across the Tree of Life: The Importance of a Comparative Perspective for the Use of Animal Models in Aging.
• Taking on the Obesity Epidemic: Researchers Wage a Big Fat Fight in Efforts to Combat This Global Health Issue.

Announcements

• Request for Information: Rigor, Reproducibility and Statistical Power in Mental Health Research.
• UAB’s NORC seeks post-doctoral fellows in obesity research.
• TOS Call for Late-Breaking Abstracts.
• Global Harmonization of Methodological Approaches to Nutrient Intake Recommendations: A Workshop.

Featured

• "Socially housed females weighed more than did any other group, and socially housed females and males had more fat than did socially isolated hamsters."
• Maternal Exposure to Western Diet Affects Adult Body Composition and Voluntary Wheel Running in a Genotype-specific Manner in Mice.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Household Dust Makes People Fat, Groundbreaking Research Indicates.
• Study: Characterization of Adipogenic Activity of House Dust Extracts and Semi-Volatile Indoor Contaminants... In 3T3-L1 Cells.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Effect of Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction on Weight in Women with Overweight or Obesity.
• RCT: While 12 Weeks of Resistance Exercise in PCS on ADT Improved Skeletal Muscle Mass, No Changes in Adiposity and MetS Variables Were Observed.
• RCT: No Effects of Consumption of ‘Yabukita’ or ‘Benifuuki’ Encapsulated Tea-powder on ...body Weight.
• RCT: "The prevention from weight gain by metformin cannot be explained by reduced energy intake."
• RCT: Protein Supplements After Weight Loss do Not Improve Weight Maintenance Compared with Recommended Dietary Protein Intake Despite Beneficial Effects on Appetite Sensation and Energy Expenditure.
• We Found No Association Between Preeclampsia or Preterm Delivery and Increasing Weight Gain in Triplet Pregnancies.
• RCT: No Effect of an Obesity Best Practice Alert on Physician Referral Practices.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Questions About a Famous Study on Judges Handing Out Harsher Sentences Before Lunch than After Lunch.
• Spinning for a Noble Purpose Defeats the Purpose.
• Letter: Meta-Analysis on Dietary Patterns and Pancreatic Cancer Risk: Methodological Limitations.
• Editorial: Obesity Paradox in Contemporary Cardiology Practice.
• Editorial: Global Health Effects of Overweight and Obesity.

Basic

• Nutrient Sensing Modulates Malaria Parasite Virulence.
• Acylated and Unacylated Ghrelin do Not Directly Stimulate Glucose Transport in Isolated Rodent Skeletal Muscle.
• Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Restoration Rescues the Fatty Liver Regeneration in Mice.
• The TMAO-Producing Enzyme Flavin-Containing Monooxygenase 3 Regulates Obesity and the Beiging of White Adipose Tissue.
• Acupuncture Attenuates Hyperglycemia and Improves Ovarian Function in Female Rats Subjected to Continuous Light Exposure.
• RCT: Induction of Thermogenic Adipocytes: Molecular Targets and Thermogenic Small Molecules.

Clinical

• Expression of Metabolic Syndrome in Women with Severe Obesity.
• RCT: Pretreatment Fasting Plasma Glucose and Insulin Modify Dietary Weight Loss Success: Results From 3 RCTs.
• Lipid Changes 8 Years Post Gastric Bypass in Adolescents with Severe Obesity (FABS-5+ Study).
• Body Fat Distribution is More Predictive of All-cause Mortality than Overall Adiposity.

Children and Adolescents

• RCT: Effect of Attendance of the Child on Body Weight, Energy Intake, and Physical Activity in Childhood Obesity Treatment.
• Implementation of a School Nurse-led Intervention for Children with Severe Obesity in New York City Schools.
• Community Policies and Programs to Prevent Obesity and Child Adiposity.
• RCT: A Community-based Motivational Personalised Lifestyle Intervention to Reduce BMI in Obese Adolescents: Results From the Healthy Eating and Lifestyle Programme (HELP).

Surgery

• Is Routine Preoperative Esophagogastroduodenscopy Screening Necessary Prior to Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy?
• What is Known About the Correlates and Impact of Excess Skin After Bariatric Surgery?
• The Role of Attachment in Body Weight and Weight Loss in Bariatric Patients.
• Bariatric Surgery: The Future of Obesity Management in Adolescents.

Drugs

• Human Insulin for Type 2 Diabetes: An Effective, Less-Expensive Option.
• Access to Nicotine in Drinking Water Reduces Weight Gain Without Changing Caloric Intake on High Fat Diet in Male C57BL/6J Mice.
• Sodium-Glucose Cotransport-2 Inhibitors May Improve Body Weight and Cardiometabolic Factors Among People with Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
• Effects of Canagliflozin on Weight Loss in High-fat Diet-induced Obese Mice.

Food & Diet

• The Effects of an Increased Calorie Breakfast Consumed Prior to Simulated Match-play in Academy Soccer Players.
• RCT: Effects of Nut-based Snack Bars (NBSB) Vs. Prepackaged 200-kcal Portions of Typical Conventional Snack Foods, When Consumed Over a 12-week Period By a Group of Overweight Adults.
• Should We Recommend Reductions in Saturated Fat Intake or in Red/processed Meat Consumption? The SUN Prospective Cohort Study.

Caloric Restriction

• Mice Under Caloric Restriction Self-Impose a Temporal Restriction of Food Intake as Revealed By an Automated Feeder System.
• Sex-dependent Differences in Liver and Gut Metabolomic Profiles with Acarbose and Calorie Restriction in C57BL/6 Mice.
• Anti-aging Pharmacology in Cutaneous Wound Healing: Effects of Metformin, Resveratrol, and Rapamycin By Local Application.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Smartphone-based Game Like Pokémon GO May Promote Exercise.
• Active Gaming as a Form of Exercise to Induce Hypoalgesia.
• Normobaric Hypoxic Conditioning to Maximise Weight-loss and Ameliorate Cardio-metabolic Health in Obese Populations: A Systematic Review.
• High-intensity Interval Training, but Not Continuous Training, Reverses Right Ventricular Hypertrophy and Dysfunction in a Rat Model of Pulmonary Hypertension.
• Attenuating the Biologic Drive for Weight Regain Following Weight Loss: Must What Goes Down Always Go Back Up?
• Exercise Before Breakfast Increases 24-h Fat Oxidation in Female Subjects.
• Large-scale Physical Activity Data Reveal Worldwide Activity Inequality.
• Leptin, Adiponectin, and Ghrelin Responses to Endurance Exercise in Different Ambient Conditions.

Economics & Sociology

• Subjective Social Status, Life Course SES, and BMI in Young Adulthood.
• Examining How Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status, Geographic Accessibility, and Informational Accessibility Influence the Uptake of a Free Population-Level Physical Activity Intervention for Children.
• Nutrition Transition and Biocultural Determinants of Obesity Among Cameroonian Migrants in Urban Cameroon and France.
• Exploring the Mediating Role of Energy Balance-related Behaviours in the Association Between Sleep Duration and Obesity in European Adults. The SPOTLIGHT Project.

Epidemiology

• A Global Evolutionary and Metabolic Analysis of Human Obesity Gene Risk Variants.
• The Association Between Childcare Arrangements and Risk of Overweight and Obesity in Childhood: A Systematic Review.
• Anthropometric and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Parents and Child Obesity in Segamat, Malaysia.
• Association of BMI with Cardiometabolic Disease in the UK Biobank: A Mendelian Randomization Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• The Sense of Smell Impacts Metabolic Health and Obesity in Mice.
• Visual Food Cues Decrease Postprandial Glucose Concentrations in Lean and Obese Men Without Affecting Food Intake and Related Endocrine Parameters.
• Moderating Role of Food Cue Sensitivity in the Behavioral Response of Children to Their Neighborhood Food Environment: Cross-Sectional Study.
• Differences in Genetic and Environmental Variation in Adult BMI By Sex, Age, Time Period, and Region: Individual-Based Pooled Analysis of 40 Twin Cohorts.
• Somatostatin Neurons in the Basal Forebrain Promote High-Calorie Food Intake.

Equity and Disparities

• Exploring the Potential for Technology-based Nutrition Education Among WIC Recipients in Remote Alaska Native Communities.
• RCT: Recruitment Challenges and Enrollment Observations From a Community Based Intervention (Mothers in Motion) for Low-Income Overweight and Obese Women.
• Daily Self-weighing and Weight Gain Prevention: A Longitudinal Study of College-aged Women.
• Does Physical Activity Mediate the Association Between Perceived Neighborhood Aesthetics and Overweight/Obesity Among South African Adults Living in Selected Urban and Rural Communities?

Stigma

• Confronting Obesity, Stigma and Weight Bias in Healthcare with a Person Centred Care Approach: A Case Study.
• Weight Bias Education for Medical School Faculty: Workshop and Assessment.

Policy Related

• Food and Microbiota in the FDA Regulatory Framework.
• Evaluation of Compliance with the Spanish Code of Self-regulation of Food and Drinks Advertising Directed at Children Under the Age of 12 Years in Spain, 2012.
• Effectiveness and Equity of Sugar-sweetened Beverage Taxation.

Intergenerational Effects

• MRNA Levels of Placental Iron and Zinc Transporter Genes are Upregulated in Gambian Women with Low Iron and Zinc Status.
• Beverage Intake During Pregnancy and Childhood Adiposity.
• Exposure to a High-fat Diet During Early Development Programs Behavior and Impairs the Central Serotonergic System in Juvenile Nonhuman Primates.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Daily Energy Expenditure in the Face of Predation: Hedgehog Energetics in Rural Landscapes.
• Light Oiling of Feathers Increases Flight Energy Expenditure in a Migratory Shorebird.
• A Review of the Physiology of a Survival Expert of Big Freeze, Deep Snow, and an Empty Stomach: The Boreal Raccoon Dog (Nyctereutes Procyonoides).
• Costs and Benefits of Group Living in Primates: An Energetic Perspective.
• Induced Defenses in Plants Reduce Herbivory By Increasing Cannibalism.

Methods

• New Design Improves Performance of Flexible Wearable Electronics.
• To Help Researchers Choose the Most Appropriate Measures for Their Work in Childhood Obesity, NCCOR Has Developed Four Measure Registry User Guides.
• Validity and Reliability of Total Body Volume and Relative Body Fat Mass From a 3-dimensional Photonic Body Surface Scanner.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Determining the Accuracy of Predictive Energy Expenditure (PREE) Equations in Severely Obese Adolescents.
• Best (but Oft-forgotten) Practices: Mediation Analysis.
• Does Fetal Growth Restriction Cause Later Obesity? Pitfalls in Analyzing Causal Mediators as Confounders.
• Posing Causal Questions When Analyzing Observational Data.

Commentary

• The Vegan Argument.
• Just How Bad are Those TV Dinners?
• Why Diabetes is More Common in Rural Areas.
• Leptin and the OB Gene: A Toehold for Obesity Science.
• Conflicted Feelings About a New CDC Director.

General

• Instructional videos: Healthcare Triage - Analysis and Reporting.
• Sea Sponges Stay Put with Anchors that Bend but Don’t Break.
• Panda Love Spreads to Benefit the Planet.
• Audio: Neonics and Bees.
• Longevity is Impacted By Growth Hormone Action During Early Postnatal Period.
• Snake Sex Determination Dogma Overturned.
• Computational Analysis of Lifespan Experiment Reproducibility.
• Metabolic and Genetic Markers of Biological Age.
• Resveratrol Protects From Lipopolysaccharide-induced Inflammation in the Uterus and Prevents Experimental Preterm Birth.
• Video: Disaster Management & Public Health.
• Audio: The Truth About Chimpanzee Super-strength.
• Deepest Dive Ever Under Antarctica Reveals a Shockingly Vibrant World.
• High Performance Computing Enabled Simulation of the Food-Water-Energy System: Simulation of Intensively Managed Landscapes.

Video & Audio

• Audio: Season Your Meal with All Five Senses.
• Food Failures: Too Hot In The Kitchen? Try No-Heat Cooking.

Announcements

• Dr. Donna Arnett, University of Kentucky College of Public Health, Received the “Gold Heart Award,” the Top Volunteer Award From the American Heart Association, in June 2017.
• Diabetes and Obesity Researcher Charles Burant, M.D., Ph.D., Has Been Named the New Director of the A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute at Michigan Medicine.
• EUFIC 2017 Annual Conference - Trust in science in the post-fact era.
• UAB Invites You to Join Us at Our NIH-funded Short Course on “Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research”.
• UAB’s NORC seeks post-doctoral fellows in obesity research.

Featured

• Effects of Exogenous Leptin on Seasonal Reproductive Responses to Interacting Environmental Cues in Female Siberian Hamsters.
• "Growing evidence suggests that obesity is a disorder of the energy homeostasis system, rather than simply arising from the passive accumulation of excess weight."
• Establishing Energy Requirements for Body Weight Maintenance: Validation of an Intake-balance Method.

Headline vs Study

• Press Release: "A large-scale effort to reduce childhood obesity in two low-income Massachusetts communities resulted in some modest improvements among schoolchildren over a relatively short period of time..."
• Study: “Overall, we did not observe a significant decrease in the percent of students with obesity from baseline to post intervention in either community in comparison with controls..."
• Headline: Science: Regular Consumption of Marijuana Keeps You Thin, Fit, and Active.
• Study: Baseline Data Table for NHANES Study of Bone Mineral Density Shows Nominal Differences (No Formal Comparisons) in BMI and Activity Among Categories of Cannabis Users.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Red Wine Polyphenols do Not Improve Obesity Associated Insulin-resistance.
• RCT: No Effect of Prescribed Low Advanced Glycation End Product Diet on Inflammation and Cardiovascular Risks in Healthy Overweight Adults.
• "Branding and obesogenic messaging in children's movies influenced some choices that children made about snack foods immediately following viewing, especially food with greatest exposure time in the film, but did not affect total calories consumed."
• Palatable Food Self-administration and Reinstatement are Not Affected By Dual Orexin Receptor Antagonism.
• RCT: No Cognitive-enhancing Effect of GLP-1 Receptor Agonism in Antipsychotic-treated, Obese Patients with Schizophrenia.
• RCT: "Twelve-week supplementation of GOS selectively increased fecal Bifidobacterium species abundance, but this did not produce significant changes in insulin sensitivity or related substrate and energy metabolism in overweight or obese prediabetic men and women."
• In beetles, "contrary to our expectations..., rather than increasing the male’s parental effort, females appeared to suppress the male’s food consumption, thereby leaving more food for their brood."
• "... the higher prevalence estimates for inadequate [folate] intakes compared with biomarkers suggest, among other factors, a systematic underestimation bias in intake data."

Basic

• Social Jet-lag Potentiates Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome When Combined with Cafeteria Diet in Rats.
• Tributyltin and Triphenyltin Exposure Promotes in Vitro Adipogenic Differentiation but Alters the Adipocyte Phenotype in Rainbow Trout.
• Maternal Western Diet Increases Adiposity Even in Male Offspring of Obesity-resistant Rat Dams: Early Endocrine Risk Markers.
• Deficiency in Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells and Type I Interferon Signalling Prevents Diet-induced Obesity and Insulin Resistance in Mice.
• Ablation of Neuropilin 1 in Myeloid Cells Exacerbates High-Fat Diet-Induced Insulin Resistance Through Nlrp3 Inflammasome in Vivo.
• Muscle Directs Diurnal Energy Homeostasis Through a Myokine-Dependent Hormone Module in Drosophila.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Researcher Who Tangled with CrossFit Loses Two More Papers.
• In Reply I—Prescribing More Stringent Design of RCTs of Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids.

Clinical

• Effects on Diabetes Medications, Weight and A1C Among Patients with Obesity and Diabetes: 6-month Observations From a Full Meal Replacement, Low-Calorie Diet Weight Management Program.
• Google Spin-off Deploys Wearable Electronics for Huge Health Study.

Children and Adolescents

• Changes in Eating Behaviors of Children with Obesity in Response to Carbohydrate-Modified and Portion-Controlled Diets.
• Socioenvironmental, Personal, and Behavioral Correlates of Severe Obesity Among an Ethnically/Racially Diverse Sample of US Adolescents.
• Infant Feeding and Growth Trajectory Patterns in Childhood and Body Composition in Young Adulthood.

Surgery

• The Inequity of Bariatric Surgery: Publicly Insured Patients Undergo Lower Rates of Bariatric Surgery with Worse Outcomes.
• The Role of Aprepitant in Prevention of Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting After Bariatric Surgery.
• Body Composition and Bone Health in Adolescents After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass for Severe Obesity.

Drugs

• RCT: The Effects of Testosterone on Body Composition in Obese Men are Not Sustained After Cessation of Testosterone Treatment.
• Self-administered Nicotine Differentially Impacts Body Weight Gain in Obesity-prone and Obesity-resistant Rats.
• Epidemiology of Obesity and Pharmacologic Treatment Options.
• Thyroid Hormone Receptor Beta in the Ventromedial Hypothalamus is Essential for the Physiological Regulation of Food Intake and Body Weight in Mice.

Food & Diet

• Wasted Food, Wasted Nutrients: Nutrient Loss From Wasted Food in the United States and Comparison to Gaps in Dietary Intake.
• Energy Density of Foods and Diets in Mexico and Their Monetary Cost By Socioeconomic Strata: Analyses of ENSANUT Data 2012.
• Video-Based Grocery Shopping Intervention Effect on Purchasing Behaviors Among Latina Shoppers.
• Science Plays a Starring Role in Documentary Film, Food Evolution.
• Should 1000 IU Be the New RDA for Vitamin D?
• High-fat Diet and Aging Interact to Produce Neuroinflammation and Impair Hippocampal- and Amygdalar-dependent Memory.
• Diet-induced Impulsivity: Effects of a High-fat and a High-sugar Diet on Impulsive Choice in Rats.

Caloric Restriction

• Aging and Caloric Restriction Research: A Biological Perspective with Translational Potential.
• High-Intensity Interval Training and Calorie Restriction Promote Remodeling of Glucose and Lipid Metabolism in Diet-Induced Obesity.
• Chemical Activation of a Food Deprivation Signal Extends Lifespan.
• Reducing Calorie Intake May Not Help You Lose Body Weight.
• Obesity and Malnutrition Similarly Alters the Renin-angiotensin System and Inflammation in Mice and Human Adipose.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Increasing Walking in the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport: The Walk to Fly Study.
• A Novel Smartphone Accelerometer Application for Low-Intensity Activity and Energy Expenditure Estimations in Overweight and Obese Adults.
• Exercise Training Improves Fat Metabolism Independent of Total Energy Expenditure in Sedentary Overweight Men, but Does Not Restore Lean Metabolic Phenotype.
• Do Placebo Expectations Influence Perceived Exertion During Physical Exercise?

Economics & Sociology

• Changes in the Food Environment Over Time: Examining 40 Years of Data in the Framingham Heart Study.
• Gender and Social Mobility Modify the Effect of Birth Weight on Total and Central Obesity.
• Socioeconomic Status: The Missing Link Between Obesity and Diabetes Mellitus?
• Motherhood, Fatherhood and Midlife Weight Gain in a US Cohort: Associations Differ By Race/ethnicity and Socioeconomic Position.

Epidemiology

• Prevalence of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Complications Following Trauma in Patients with Obesity.
• Geographic Variability in Gestational Weight Gain: A Multilevel Population-based Study of Women Having Term Births in Florida (2005-2012).
• Walking for Transportation or Leisure Among U.S. Women and Men — National Health Interview Survey, 2005–2015.
• Review: How Much Variance in Insulin Resistance is Explained By Obesity?
• Childhood Obesity Prevention in the Women, Infants, and Children Program: Outcomes of the MA-CORD Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Effect of Television Watching and Portion Size on Intake During a Meal.
• Correlates of Severe Obesity Among Ethnically/Racially Diverse Adolescents.
• Change in Use of Sleep Medications After Gastric Bypass Surgery or Intensive Lifestyle Treatment in Adults with Obesity.
• Is It Me or My Hormones? Neuroendocrine Activation Profiles to Visual Food Stimuli Across the Menstrual Cycle.

Equity and Disparities

• Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Hispanic Youth with Dysglycemia: Risk for Subclinical Atherosclerosis?
• A Systematic Review: Racial and Ethnic Minority Enrollment in RCTs of Behavioural Weight Loss Utilizing Technology.
• Missed Opportunity? Leveraging Mobile Technology to Reduce Racial Health Disparities.
• Framing Health Equity: US Health Disparities in Comparative Perspective.

Stigma

• Does Psychological Functioning Mediate the Relationship Between Bullying Involvement and Weight Loss Preoccupation in Adolescents? A Two-stage Cross-sectional Study.
• Perceived Weight Discrimination and High-risk Health-related Behaviors.

Policy Related

• Food Labeling; Nutrition Labeling of Standard Menu Items in Restaurants and Similar Retail Food Establishments; Extension of Compliance Date; Request for Comments.
• Autonomous Vehicles: Good or Bad for Our Health?
• Final Recommendation Statement Obesity in Children and Adolescents: Screening.

Intergenerational Effects

• The Effect of Mare Obesity and Endocrine Function on Foal Birthweight in Thoroughbreds.
• Gender Differences Between Parental Pregnancy Characteristics and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Adolescents.
• Maternal Gestational Weight Gain and Objectively Measured Physical Activity Among Offspring.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Scientists are Studying Chimpanzee Food as a Way to Treat Human Diseases, Including Cancer.
• Pharyngeal Stimulation with Sugar Triggers Local Searching Behavior in Drosophila.
• Monoaminergic Integration of Diet and Social Signals in the Brains of Juvenile Spadefoot Toads.
• Mice Shed Weight When They Can’t Smell—but Not Because They Stop Eating.

Methods

• Accuracy of Food Photographs for Quantifying Food Servings in a Lunch Meal Setting Among Danish Children and Adults.
• Developing a Digital Photography-based Method for Dietary Analysis in Self-serve Dining Settings.
• Best (but Oft-forgotten) Practices: Mediation Analysis.
• Challenges in Conducting Clinical Nutrition Research.
• A New Tool to Assess Human Fat Grafts Transplanted Into Nude Mice Using a NMR Device.

Commentary

• Offensive Words to Grab Attention and Block Progress.
• In Defense of Fat.
• Commentary on Failure of Food Desert Removal as Strategy.
• What Cookies and Meth Have in Common.
• Leptin's Physiologic Role: Does the Emperor of Energy Balance Have No Clothes?

General

• Instructional videos: Healthcare Triage - Experimental Design.
• Will Pruning the Biomedical Field Keep It Alive?
• Feeding During Dialysis-risks and Uncertainties.
• Racial Bias in Judgments of Physical Size and Formidability: From Size to Threat. (PDF)
• Effects of Cola-Flavored Beverages and Caffeine on Streptococcus Mutans Biofilm Formation and Metabolic Activity.
• Video: Women in Science.
• Video: Making Faces: The Evolutionary Origins of the Human Face.
• How Pythons Regenerate Their Organs and Other Secrets of the Snake Genome.
• Video: Biologist Sean B. Carroll on Ecosystem Resilience.
• Field Tests Show How Pesticides Can Wreak Havoc on Honeybees.
• Chilean Scientists Produce Biodiesel From Microalgae.

Video & Audio

• “Obesity, Energetics, & Longevity: Social, Experimental, Evolutionary, & Epidemiologic Perspectives.”
• “Secondhand Sugars: Role of Dietary Sugars in the Early Development of Obesity and Metabolic Risk.”
• “A Longitudinal Study of Obesity & Type II Diabetes: Lessons Regarding the New Dietary & Obesity Guidelines.”
• “Attempts to Address the Fundamental Flaw in Obesity Research with New (and Old) Technology.”
• “Effects of Obesogenic Dietary Environment & Adverse Psychosocial Experience on Food Intake & the Brain in Non-Human Primates.”
• Audio: Taste Cell Regeneration.

Announcements

• Grocery Manufacturers Association and the Food Marketing Institute Set a Goal of Enrolling 34,000 Products in Its SmartLabel Program.
• World Obesity: Obesity and Reproduction – Call for Abstracts. (PDF).
• UAB Invites You to Join Us at Our NIH-funded Short Course on “Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research”.

• UAB’s NORC seeks post-doctoral fellows in obesity research.

Featured

• Do Dynamic Fat and Fat-free Mass Changes Follow Theoretical Driven Rules in Athletes?
• Adiposity-Based Chronic Disease as a New Diagnostic Term: The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and American College of Endocrinology Position Statement.
• Health Policies for Obesity: How to Get There!

Headline vs Study

• Headline: If You Want to Avoid Heart Disease, Don’t Even Think of Going Gluten-Free.
• Study: Quintile-defined Categories of Self-reported Gluten Consumption in Multivariable Adjusted Models Not Associated with Coronary Heart Disease Incidence in Adults Without Celiac Disease Unless Controlling for Refined Grain Intake.
• Commentary: Want a Verdict on Gluten-free Diets? You Won’t Find It in a Study.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "Contrary to expectation, the introduction of a supermarket did not result in healthy food availability more than is likely to have happened naturally."
• "Family meal frequency was not associated with odds of obesity."
• RCT: No Effects of Macro- and Micro- Nutrients on Exercise Induced Hepcidin Response in Highly-Trained Endurance Athletes.
• Explorative Placebo-Controlled Double-Blind Intervention Study with Low Doses of Inhaled Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol and Cannabidiol Reveals No Effect on Sweet Taste Intensity Perception and Liking in Humans.
• Chronic Fructose Substitution for Glucose or Sucrose in Food or Beverages Has Little Effect on Fasting Blood Glucose, Insulin, or Triglycerides: A Systematic Review & Meta-analysis.
• Meta-Analysis: "Current evidence does not allow us to conclude that fructose-containing sugars independent of food form are associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes."
• "there was no significant difference in birth weight between infants born to Muslim mothers who were conceived during Ramadan (n=479) and those who were not (n=4677)."
• RCT: "Red wine polyphenols do not improve obesity associated insulin-resistance."
• "the empirical results indicate that changes in dietary knowledge among adults has no significant influence [association] on adult overweight and obesity..."
• "selection for high growth had no significant effect on survival in the present population of M. rosenbergii."
• "A CHO [carbohydrate] mouth rinse does not improve upper-body muscular strength or endurance."

Basic

• Catalase Overexpression Modulates Metabolic Parameters in a New "Stress-Less" Leptin-Deficient Mouse Model.
• Synthesis of Cytochrome C Oxidase 1 (SCO1) Inhibits Insulin Sensitivity By Decreasing Copper Levels in Adipocytes.
• Chronic High Fat Feeding Restricts Islet MRNA Translation Initiation Independently of ER Stress Via DNA Damage and P53 Activation.
• CD4+ T Cells Memorize Obesity and Promote Weight Regain.
• Social Jet-lag Potentiates Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome When Combined with Cafeteria Diet in Rats.
• Effects of Mild Calorie Restriction on Lipid Metabolism and Inflammation in Liver and Adipose Tissue.
• An Increased Dietary Supply of Medium-Chain Fatty Acids During Early Weaning in Rodents Prevents Excessive Fat Accumulation in Adulthood.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• 12 Years After Researcher Found Guilty of Misconduct, Journal Retracts Paper.
• Data Sharing Statements for Clinical Trials.

Clinical

• A Single Supplement Intervention with 3 G Cinnamon for 16 Weeks Resulted in Significant Improvements in All Components of Metabolic Syndrome in a Sample of Asian Indians in North India.
• RCT: A Combined Lifestyle Intervention Targeting Diet and Physical Activity Mediated Fasting Insulin and Body Weight.
• RCT: Effect of an Internet-Based Program on Weight Loss for Low-Income Postpartum Women.
• Recovery of Insulin Sensitivity and Optimal Body Composition After Rapid Weight Loss in Obese Dogs Fed a High-protein Medium-carbohydrate Diet.
• RCT: L-arginine Supplementation and Risk Factors of Cardiovascular Diseases in Healthy Men.
• Oral Insulin May Delay Type 1 Diabetes Onset in 'Responders'.

Children and Adolescents

• The Longitudinal Association Between Early Childhood Obesity and Fathers' Involvement in Caregiving and Decision-making.
• Intake of Energy and Protein is Associated with Overweight Risk at Age 5.5 Years.
• Cycling to School and Body Composition, Physical Fitness, and Metabolic Syndrome in Children and Adolescents.

Surgery

• Gut Microbiome and Serum Metabolome Alterations in Obesity and After Weight-loss Intervention.
• Biliopancreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch Leads to Better Postprandial Glucose Level and Beta Cell Function than Sleeve Gastrectomy in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes Very Early After Surgery.
• Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy for the Management of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus.
• Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty - a New Tool to Manage Obesity.

Drugs

• More Steady Progress on Obesity Drugs.
• Pharmacokinetic Drug Evaluation of Extended Release Lorcaserin for the Treatment of Obesity.
• GLP-1 Analogue Semaglutide Appears Promising in Phase 2 Study.

Food & Diet

• RCT: The Effect of a Vegetarian vs Conventional Hypocaloric Diabetic Diet on Thigh Adipose Tissue Distribution in Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Dietary Fats and Cardiovascular Disease: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association.
• How Coconut Oil Got a Reputation for Being Healthy in the First Place.
• Dietary Protein Intake and Early Menopause in the Nurses’ Health Study II.

Caloric Restriction

• Caloric Restriction Protects Livers From Ischemia/reperfusion Damage By Preventing Ca2+-induced Mitochondrial Permeability Transition.
• Calorie Restriction in Rodents: Caveats to Consider.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Differential in Maximal Aerobic Capacity By Sex in Collegiate Endurance Athletes Consuming a Marginally Low Carbohydrate Diet.
• RCT: Exercise's Effect on Mobility Disability in Older Adults with and Without Obesity.
• Exercise with Weight Loss Improves Adipose Tissue and Skeletal Muscle Markers of Fatty Acid Metabolism in Postmenopausal Women.

Economics & Sociology

• Is There a ‘National Body’? How National Cultures Shape the ‘Fat’ Body and the Food Practices.
• Healthy and Unhealthy Food Prices Across Neighborhoods and Their Association with Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Proportion Black/Hispanic.
• Association Between Modifiable Risk Factors and Pharmaceutical Expenditures Among Adults with Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in the United States: 2012–2013 Medical Expenditures Panel Survey.

Epidemiology

• Differences in Dietary Glycemic Load and Hormones in New York City Adults with No and Moderate/Severe Acne.
• Estimating How Extra Calories From Alcohol Consumption are Likely an Overlooked Contributor to Youth Obesity.
• "The findings reveal that having an anxious attachment to God is associated with a greater risk of being obese..."
• The Relation Between Birthweight, Childhood BMI, and Overweight and Obesity in Late Adolescence.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Associations Between Maternal-Infant Interaction and Infant Adiposity.
• Longitudinal Association Between Fathers' Involvement in Caregiving and Early Childhood Obesity.
• Implicit Weight Bias in Children Age 9 to 11 Years.
• Perceived Weight Discrimination is Associated with High-Risk Health Behaviors.

Equity and Disparities

• Skin Deep: Enhanced Variable May Help Explain Racial Disparities in Type 2 Diabetes and Prediabetes.
• The Health Equity Leadership Institute (HELI): Developing Workforce Capacity for Health Disparities Research. (pdf)
• Commentary: Healthy Eating and Activity Across the Lifespan (HEAL): A Call to Action to Integrate Research, Clinical Practice, Policy, and Community Resources to Address Weight-related Health Disparities.

• Prevalence and Ethnic Pattern of Diabetes and Prediabetes in China in 2013.

Stigma

• Bullying Involvement During Adolescence is Associated with Weight Loss Preoccupation.
• The Impact of Weight Misperception on Health-related Quality of Life in Korean Adults (KNHANES 2007–2014).

Policy Related

• Urban-rural Disparities in Child Nutrition-related Health Outcomes in China: The Role of Hukou Policy.
• Underestimating the Size of the Problem? UK Anaesthesia for Patients with Obesity.
• Putting the US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation for Childhood Obesity Screening in Context.
• Delaying, Not Dropping, the Nutrition Facts Label Update.
• Targeted Calorie Message Promotes Healthy Beverage Consumption Better than Charity Incentive.
• The $5.7 Billion 'Pink Slime' Lawsuit Against ABC Was Settled, Leaving the Beef Company Feeling 'vindicated.'.
• Ban on Junk Food Sales in Canadian Schools Having Positive Effect.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal BMI and Glycemia Impact the Fetal Metabolome.
• The Fetal Cardiac Response to Maternal Nutrient Restriction is Sexually Dimorphic in Baboons.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Feeding on Ripening and Over-ripening Fruit: Interactions Between Sugar, Ethanol and Polyphenol Contents in a Tropical Butterfly.
• Energetics-informed Behavioral States Reveal the Drive to Kill in African Leopards.

Methods

• Spectral Analysis Assisted Photoacoustic Imaging for Lipid Composition Differentiation.
• Development of a Bioenergetic Model for Estimating Energy Requirements and Prey Biomass Consumption of the Bottlenose Dolphin Tursiops Truncatus.
• Heart Rate Measurements to Study Associations Among Energy Expenditure, Energy Intake, and Adiposity in Lean and Obese Horses.
• A New Paradigm in Sweat Based Wearable Diagnostics Biosensors Using Room Temperature Ionic Liquids (RTILs).

Commentary

• Saturated Fat: Weighed, Measured, and Found Wanting.
• ConscienHealth: "David Allison Appointed to Lead the IU School of Public Health."
• CardioBrief: My Beef with AHA's Saturated Fat Recommendations - Don't Forget the Unintended Consequences of Dietary Advice.
• Op-Ed: Vegetable Oils, (Francis) Bacon, Bing Crosby, and the AHA —Gary Taubes Responds to the AHA Presidential Advisory on Dietary Fats.
• Can a Diet that Mimics Fasting Turn Back the Clock?

General

• Reproducibility of Research: Issues and Proposed Remedies: Minimizing Inadvertent Distortion of Science By Scientists and Media.
• Reproducibility of Research: Issues and Proposed Remedies: Systems Matter: Research Environments and Institutional Integrity.
• Insufficient Antibody Validation Challenges Oestrogen Receptor Beta Research.
• Scientist Screwed Up? Send 'Em to Researcher Rehab.
• Bionic Fertilizer.
• Health, Truth, and the Bell Curve.
• Decomposing Leaves are Surprising Source of Greenhouse Gases.
• Magellanic Penguin Telomeres do Not Shorten with Age with Increased Reproductive Effort, Investment, and Basal Corticosterone.
• The Gambler's Fallacy in Research - Down the "statistical garden path" for those participating in clinical studies.
• Type 2 Immunity is Protective in Metabolic Disease but Exacerbates NAFLD Collaboratively with TGF-ß.
• Provider Competencies for the Prevention and Management of Obesity. (pdf)
• Prevalence of Sexual Dimorphism in Mammalian Phenotypic Traits.

Announcements

• Call for Nominations - AAAS Award for Public Engagement with Science.
• A Conference Titled, “The Pace of Life and Feeding: Health Implications” Will Be Held at Purdue University on Oct 2-4, 2017 to Explore the Historic, Current and Future Consequences of Changing Lifestyles on Diet Quality and Health.
• UAB Invites You to Join Us at Our NIH-funded Short Course on “Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research”.
• UAB’s NORC seeks post-doctoral fellows in obesity research.