Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• RCT: The Psychological and Physiological Effects of Interacting with an Anti-fat Peer.
• Low Protein High Carbohydrate Diets Recapitulate Some of the Benefits of Caloric Restriction on Brain Aging.
• Association of Community Food Environment and Obesity Among US Adults: A Geographical Information System Analysis. (pdf)
• RCT: Acute Modulation in Dietary Behavior Following Glycogen Depletion and Post-exercise Supplementation in Trained Cyclists.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Primary Care Can Succeed in Treating Childhood Obesity, Study Finds.
• Study: RCT comparing two treatments - "After four years, there was no difference in outcome between the treatment options" - so treatments may be either equally effective or equally ineffective.
• Critique: Can Primary Care Take Care of Childhood Obesity?

Contrary or Null Findings

• Backfire Effects of Calories-per-Serving Information on Snack Consumption.
• Genetic Susceptibility for Childhood BMI Has No Impact on Weight Loss Following Lifestyle Intervention in Danish Children.
• “Unexpectedly, There Was a Different Pattern of Results Across Male (n = 72) and Female (n = 144) Dieters…The Findings Suggest that for Males, Thoughts About Dieting May Actually Be Associated with Greater State Self-esteem…”.
• "In this pilot study of depressed outpatients, an unsupervised fitness centre based program was not feasible for promoting exercise adherence and adding physical activity counselling was not useful for increasing physical activity levels or reducing depression."
• RCT: "Our findings suggest that acute HIIE [high intensity interval exercise] did not improve glycaemic response when compared with CME [continuous moderate-intensity exercise]."
• Meta-Analysis: No Effect of Chlorella Supplementation on BMI.
• RCT: "DHA supplementation in the second half of pregnancy has no effect on childhood growth or fat mass at 7 years of age..."
• "Considerable changes in compositional time use occur from 1 to 5 years of age, but there is little association with adiposity."
• Umbrella Review: "...there is no high-quality evidence to recommend treating obesity with a specific nonpharmacological and nonsurgical intervention among many available, and whatever benefits in terms of magnitude of weight loss appear small."

Basic

• Genetically Inherited - and High Fat Diet Induced – Obesity Differentially Alters Spermatogenesis in Adult Male Rats.
• Targeting Macrophage Scavenger Receptor 1 Promotes Insulin Resistance in Obese Male Mice.
• Hydrodynamic Delivery of IL-38 Gene Alleviates Obesity-Induced Inflammation and Insulin Resistance.
• Inhibition of Cannabinoid Receptor 1 Can Influence Lipid Metabolism in Mice with Diet-Induced Obesity.
• Preadipocytes of Obese Humans Display Gender-Specific Bioenergetic Responses to Glucose and Insulin.
• The Aromatic Amino Acid Sensor GPR142 Controls Metabolism Through Balanced Regulation of Pancreatic and Gut Hormones.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• No Significant Effect of Dietary Carbohydrate Versus Fat on the Reduction in Total Energy Expenditure During Maintenance of Lost Weight.
• Unresolved Questions that Need to Be Addressed in Order to Maximize the Efficacy of Inspiratory Muscle Training.
• The Association Between BMI and Mortality: Implications for Obesity Prevention.
• Protocol Deviations, Reanalyses, and Corrections to PREDIMED Trial Derivative Study on Peripheral Artery Disease.
• Obesity and Other Diseases Too Dangerous to Normalize.

Clinical

• RCT: Eat, Pray, Move: A Multilevel Church-Based Intervention to Address Obesity Among African Americans and Latinos.
• Oral Nutritional Support with or Without Exercise in the Management of Malnutrition in Nutritionally Vulnerable Older People.

Children and Adolescents

• Overweight and Obesity and the Development of Asthma.
• Too Late and Not Enough: School Year Sleep Duration, Timing, and Circadian Misalignment are Associated with Reduced Insulin Sensitivity in Adolescents with Overweight/Obesity.
• RCT: "Children randomized to the foster care group showed greater rates of growth in height, weight, and body mass index (BMI) through age 12 years than institutionalized group."
• RCT: A 12-week Study of Dance Exergaming in a Group: Influence on Psychosocial Factors in Adolescent Girls.

Surgery

• In-and-Out Molecular Changes Linked to the Type 2 Diabetes Remission After Bariatric Surgery: An Influence of Gut Microbes on Mitochondria Metabolism.
• Prediction of Long-Term Diabetes Remission After RYGB, Sleeve Gastrectomy, and Adjustable Gastric Banding Using DiaRem and Advanced-DiaRem Scores.
• Metabolic Surgery Ameliorates Cardiovascular Risk in Obese Diabetic Patients: Influence of Different Surgical Procedures.

Drugs

• Compound D159687, a Phosphodiesterase 4D Inhibitor, Induces Weight and Fat Mass Loss in Aged Mice Without Changing Lean Mass, Physical and Cognitive Function.
• RCT: Liraglutide Decreases Hepatic Inflammation and Injury in Advanced Lean Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis.
• Finding the Balance Between Benefits and Harms When Using Statins for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease.
• Effect of Liraglutide on Cardiovascular Outcomes in Elderly Patients.

Food & Diet

• Effects of Daily Consumption of Psyllium, Oat Bran and PolyGlycopleX on Obesity-related Disease Risk Factors.
• Rationale for Novel Intermittent Dieting Strategies to Attenuate Adaptive Responses to Energy Restriction.
• Importance of Gut Microbiota in Obesity.
• Obesity‐Induced Reduction of Adipose Eosinophils is Reversed with Low‐Calorie Dietary Intervention.
• Circadian Clock Genes’ Overexpression in Drosophila Alters Diet Impact on Lifespan.

Caloric Restriction

• Preoperative Protein or Methionine Restriction Preserves Wound Healing and Reduces Hyperglycemia.
• Glycolytic Inhibitor 2-deoxy-D-glucose at Chronic Low Dose Mimics Calorie Restriction in Rats Through Mitohormetic Induction of ROS.
• The Effect of a Very Low Calorie Diet on Subjective Depressive Symptoms and Anxiety: Meta-analysis and Systematic Review.
• Review: Intermittent Calorie Restriction—a More Effective Approach to Weight Loss?
• Effect of Intermittent Compared to Continuous Energy Restriction on Weight Loss and Weight Maintenance After 12 Months in Healthy Overweight or Obese Adults.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Acute Modulation in Dietary Behavior Following Glycogen Depletion and Postexercise Supplementation in Trained Cyclists.
• Fear Avoidance Beliefs as a Predictor for Long-term Sick Leave, Disability and Pain in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain.
• Sedentary Time, Physical Activity, and Adiposity in a Longitudinal Cohort of Nonobese Young Adults.
• Higher Circulating Androgens and Higher Physical Activity Levels are Associated with Less Central Adiposity and Lower Risk of Cardiovascular Death in Older Men.
• Physical Activity in Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Parental Perceptions of Barriers and Facilitators.

Economics & Sociology

• Changes in Socio-economic Status and Lipoproteins in Chilean Adolescents.
• Sociocultural Variation in Undiagnosed Diabetes Among Older Hispanics in the Health and Retirement Study.
• Social Status and Adolescent Physical Activity: Expanding the Insurance Hypothesis to Incorporate Energy Expenditure.
• SES-of-Origin and BMI in Youth: Comparing Germany and Minnesota.

Epidemiology

• Maternal Obesity is an Independent Risk Factor for Intensive Care Unit Admission During Delivery Hospitalization.
• Genetics of Obesity in Diverse Populations.
• Predictors of the Transition From Metabolically Healthy Obesity to Unhealthy Obesity.
• Obesity, Overweightness, and Depressive Symptomology Among American Indian Youth.
• The Association Between BMI and Mortality: Implications for Obesity Prevention.
• Global Risk Assessment of 84 Behavioural, Environmental and Occupational, and Metabolic Risks or Clusters of Risks for 195 Countries and Territories, 1990–2017.
• Sex Differences and Risk Factors for Diabetes Mellitus - an International Study From 193 Countries.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Weight Loss Intervention for People with Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder and Psychosis.
• Relationship Between Family Functioning and Energy Intake in Adolescent Girls with Loss of Control Eating.
• Relationship Status, Sexual Orientation, Dining Partner Sex, and Attractiveness Impact Nutritional Choices in Social Dining Scenarios.
• BMI in Midlife and Risk of Attempted Suicide and Suicide.

Equity and Disparities

• A Sweeping Highlight of the Literature Examining Social Status, Eating Behavior, and Obesity.
• Is less more? Examining the relationship between food assistance generosity and childhood obesity.

Stigma

• Parenting with a Substance Abuse History: The Moderating Role of Parenting Behaviors on Obesity and Internalizing Symptoms in Adolescence.
• Improving Care of Our Obese Patients.
• Obesity Matters but is Not Perceived: A Cross-sectional Study on Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Among a Population-based Probability Sample in Rural Zambia.
• Attention to Fat- and Thin-related Words in Body-satisfied and Body-dissatisfied Women Before and After Thin Model Priming.

Policy Related

• Can the Target Set for Reducing Childhood Overweight and Obesity Be Met? A System Dynamics Modelling Study in New South Wales, Australia.
• Understanding Health Promotion Policy Processes: A Study of the Government Adoption of the Achievement Program in Victoria, Australia.

Intergenerational Effects

• Association of Long-term Child Growth and Developmental Outcomes with Metformin vs Insulin Treatment for Gestational Diabetes.
• Maternal Lipid Levels During Pregnancy and Child Weight Status at 3 Years of Age.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Hungry Ticks Work Harder to Find You.
• Prolonged Milk Provisioning in a Jumping Spider.
• Why Some Bats Hunt During the Day.
• Does Adaptation to Different Diets Result in Assortative Mating? Ambiguous Results From Experiments on Drosophila.
• Body-weight Fluctuation and Incident Diabetes Mellitus, Cardiovascular Disease, and Mortality.
• Is Abdominal Obesity at Baseline Influencing Weight Changes in Observational Studies and During Weight Loss Interventions?

Methods

• Evaluating an Abbreviated Three-factor Version of the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire in Three Samples.
• Comparison of Segmental Body Composition Estimated By Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis and Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry.
• Data Mapping From Food Diaries to Augment the Amount and Frequency of Foods Measured Using Short Food Questionnaires.
• Body Fat Percentage Assessment By Ultrasound Subcutaneous Fat Thickness Measurements in Middle-aged and Older Adults.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Proximity Effects in Obesity Rates in the US: A Spatial Markov Chains Approach.
• Modeling a Bivariate Residential‐workplace Neighborhood Effect When Estimating the Effect of Proximity to Fast‐food Establishments on BMI.

Commentary

• Maternal Smoking Linked to Offspring Obesity By Epigenetic Control of Adipokine.
• Plus Fashion Statement: Let Us Be.
• Researchers Find Simple Way to Massively Improve Crop Loss Simulations.
• The Truth About Supplements: Do They Work and Should You Take Them?
• A Single Energy Drink Might Harm Blood Vessels: Study.

General

• Rapamycin Improves Healthspan but Not Inflammaging in Nfκb1−/− Mice.
• Biparental Inheritance of Mitochondrial DNA in Humans.
• Traffic Noise Stresses Out Frogs, but Some Have Adapted.
• Companion Guidelines on Replication and Reproducibility in Education Research.
• Statistical Pitfalls of Personalized Medicine.
• Industry is More Alarmed About Reproducibility than Academia.
• Oxidative Stress as Cause, Consequence, or Biomarker of Altered Female Reproduction and Development in the Space Environment.

Video & Audio

• N =1: Science of Keto.
• PODCAST: Metabolism, mitochondria, and metformin in health and disease (EP.31).

Announcements

• Eight Indiana University Faculty Members Named AAAS Fellows.
• IU Researchers Brew Science Into Sweetness to Create New Product for Cardinal Spirits.
• IU Researcher-entrepreneur Receives $245,000 STTR Grant for Startup.
• New FDA Online Education and Training Module on Menu Labeling.
• Draft Strategic Plan for NIH Nutrition Research.
• Jim Hill Named Chair of Nutrition Sciences, Director of Nutrition Obesity Research Center.
• UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• UAB’s NORC Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track Positions Available in Every Department and Two Department Chairs Open: See Multiple Listings Posted Here.

Featured

• Neonatal Mice Exposed to a High-fat Diet in Utero Influence the Behaviour of Their Nursing Dam.
• Additive Associations of Obesity and Loneliness with C-reactive Protein.
• Subjective Social Status is Associated with Compensation for Large Meals – a Prospective Pilot Study.
• Food Sources of Fructose-containing Sugars and Glycaemic Control: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Controlled Intervention Studies.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Childhood Exercise Can Combat Diabetes Caused By Father's Obesity.
• Press release: Childhood Exercise Can Reverse Negative Health Effects Caused By Father's Obesity.
• Study: Four Weeks of Exercise Early in Life Reprograms Adult Skeletal Muscle Insulin Resistance Caused By a Paternal High‐fat Diet... In Rats.
• Headline: Research Brief: Poor Nutrition Ruled Out as Cause for Obesity in Adults Abused as Children.
• Study: Associations Between Childhood Maltreatment and Adult BMI with and Without Adjustment for Food Environment Were Not Appreciably Different. Causation (or Lack Thereof) Not Determined.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Significant Effect in Total Sample in "A Group Randomized Trial to Reduce Obesity among Appalachian Church Members: The Walk by Faith Study."
• Meta-Analysis of Cluster RCTs: “provides strong evidence that current school-based efforts do not increase young people's daily physical activity, with no difference in effect across sex and socioeconomic status.”
• RCT: No Significant Effect on BMI, the Primary Endpoint, in Trial to Prevent Obesity Among Latino Paediatric Patients.
• RCT: "The BMI-Z growth rate of the active intervention group did not differ from the attention control group at short-term follow-up (median 6 months; 168 families, 206 children) or long-term follow-up (median 16 months; 142 families, 169 children)."
• RCT: "There were no differences in post-intervention calories consumed between groups", the primary outcome, in trial promoting child self-regulation around energy-dense food.
• RCT: "In conclusion, 28 days of a dietary supplement containing satiereal, naringin, and vitamin D3 did not have any detectable beneficial effects on body-weight management."
• RCT: "There were no differences between the intervention and usual care groups in change over time in child BMI percentile and z-scores"...in "a Healthy Weight Intervention Embedded in a Home-Visiting Program."
• "There were no significant effects of the two-year, empowerment-based health-promotion school intervention on changes in the accelerometer-measured MVPA and SED, or the self-reported ET frequency and duration, among the adolescents."
• "Based on the existing evidence, considering actual crime as a primary target in obesity prevention would be premature especially in racial/ethnicity minority children living in urban areas."
• "Youth SSS [subjective social status] was not predictive of weight loss in this intervention."
• "This review provides strong evidence that current school-based efforts do not increase young people's daily physical activity, with no difference in effect across sex and socioeconomic status."
• RCT: "ICR may be equivalent but not superior to CCR for weight reduction and prevention of metabolic diseases."

Basic

• Effect of Dietary Phosphorus Intake and Age on Intestinal Phosphorus Absorption Efficiency and Phosphorus Balance in Male Rats.
• Intermittent Fasting Improves Glucose Tolerance and Promotes Adipose Tissue Remodeling in Male Mice Fed a High Fat Diet.
• Role of Adiponectin as a Modulator of Testicular Function During Aging in Mice.
• Adipocyte Glucocorticoid Receptor Deficiency Promotes Adipose Tissue Expandability and Improves the Metabolic Profile Under Corticosterone Exposure.
• Carbon Monoxide-Induced Metabolic Switch in Adipocytes Improves Insulin Resistance in Obese Mice.
• Metabolic programming a lean phenotype by deregulation of RNA polymerase III.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Comment: The Claim that Effectiveness Has Been Demonstrated in the Parenting, Eating and Activity for Child Health (PEACH) Childhood Obesity Intervention is Unsubstantiated By the Data.
• Response: Don’t Lose Sight of the Forest for the Trees: Recognising the Benefits as Well as the Limitations of Implementation Research.
• Sifting Data to Find Desired Results.
• Response to comments on "Effects of a low carbohydrate diet on energy expenditure during weight loss maintenance: randomized trial."
• Retracted: Selective Modulation of the CAP/Cbl Pathway in the Adipose Tissue of High Fat Diet Treated Rats.
• Resolving the Conflict Between Science and Ethics in Nutrition Research.

Clinical

• Obesity-Related Foot Pain: Diagnosis and Surgical Planning.
• Obesity's Impact on Intrapartum Electronic Fetal Monitoring.
• Genetic Predictors of Behavioral Weight Loss: Current Status and Future Directions.

Children and Adolescents

• Motivations for Weight Loss in Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity: A Systematic Review.
• Quality-of-Life Outcomes of a Weight Management Program for Adolescents Based on Motivational Interviewing.

Surgery

• Is Body Mass Index ≥50 Kg/m2 a Predictor of Higher Morbidity for Patients Who Have Undergone Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy?
• Current and Future Impact of Clinical Gastrointestinal Research on Patient Care in Diabetes Mellitus.
• Association of Obesity Subtypes in the Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery Study and 3‐Year Postoperative Weight Change.
• The Malnourished Patient with Obesity: A Unique Paradox in Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• Brown Fat Makes an Attractive Target for New Approaches to Treating Obesity.
• The Effects of Metformin on Simple Obesity: A Meta-analysis.

Food & Diet

• Food Addiction: A Valid Concept?
• RCT: Effects of a Diet with or Without Physical Activity on Angiopoietin-like Protein 8 Concentrations in Overweight/obese Patients with Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes.
• Early Exposure to a High-Fat Diet Impacts on Hippocampal Plasticity: Implication of Microglia-Derived Exosome-like Extracellular Vesicles.
• Choline- the Underconsumed and Underappreciated Essential Nutrient.
• RCT: Type of Infant Formula Increases Early Weight Gain and Impacts Energy Balance.
• RCT: The Effect of Aerobic Training and Green Tea Supplementation on Cardio Metabolic Risk Factors in Overweight and Obese Females.

Caloric Restriction

• Review: Calorie Restriction and Its Impact on Gut Microbial Composition and Global Metabolism.
• Review: A Time to Fast.
• Lipoprotein Subclass Profile After Progressive Energy Deficits Induced By Calorie Restriction or Exercise.
• Intermittent Administration of a Fasting-mimicking Diet Intervenes in Diabetes Progression, Restores β Cells and Reconstructs Gut Microbiota in Mice.
• RCT: Effects of Intermittent and Continuous Calorie Restriction on Body Weight and Metabolism Over 50 Wk.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• The Influence of Exercise Training Dose on Fasting Acylated Ghrelin Concentration in Older Women.
• Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: The Effectiveness of Cluster Randomized Controlled Physical Activity Interventions at Schools.
• Joint Prevalence of Sitting Time and Leisure-time Physical Activity Among US Adults, 2015-2016.
• HHS Releases Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, 2nd Edition.

Economics & Sociology

• Socioeconomic Status and Central Adiposity as Determinants of Stress-related Biological Responses Relevant to Cardiovascular Disease Risk.
• Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Adherence to Dietary Recommendations Among Finnish Adults.
• Association of Community Food Environment and Obesity Among US Adults.
• Social Status and Eating Behaviors (Special Issue of Appetite).
• The Relationship Between Obesity and Tertiary Education Outcomes: A Systematic Review.

Epidemiology

• Evaluation of the Effects of FTO and Environment on BMI in a Multi-ethnic Cohort of Older Adults.
• Prevalence of Eating Disorders Among US Children Aged 9 to 10 Years: Data From the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study.
• Change in Weight and Central Obesity By Positive Airway Pressure Treatment in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Patients: Longitudinal Data From the ESADA Cohort.
• Overweight and Obesity as Major, Modifiable Risk Factors for Urinary Incontinence in Young to Mid‐aged Women: A Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis.
• Independent Associations of TOMM40 and APOE Variants with BMI.
• The Longitudinal Trajectory of BMI in the Chinese Population: A Latent Growth Curve Analysis.
• Weight Change in Relation to Mortality in Middle-aged and Elderly Chinese: The Singapore Chinese Health Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Why Some Obese People Become Depressed Whilst Others do Not: Exploring Links Between Cognitive Reactivity, Depression and Obesity.
• Adolescent Emotions Toward Sweet Food Cues as a Function of Obesity and Risky Dieting Practices.

Equity and Disparities

• Prevalence of Childhood Overweight and Obesity in Liverpool Between 2006 and 2012: Evidence of Widening Socioeconomic Inequalities.
• Effects of Health at Every Size® Interventions on Health‐related Outcomes of People with Overweight and Obesity: A Systematic Review.
• Understanding Family-level Impacts of Adult Chronic Disease Management Programs: Perceived Impacts of Behavior Change on Adolescent Family Members’ Health Behaviors Among Low-income African Americans with Uncontrolled Hypertension.
• A Mixed Methods Study of Childhood Overweight Across Ethnic Groups in Coventry: Marie Murphy.

Ethics

• Obesity as Disease: Metaphysical and Ethical Considerations.
• The Evidence-and Acceptability-of Taxes on Unhealthy Foods.

Stigma

• Global Health Law and Obesity: Towards a Complementary Approach of Public Health and Human Rights Law.
• The Relationship Between Weight Stigma, Weight Bias Internalization, and Physical Health in Military Personnel with or at High-risk of Overweight/obesity.

Policy Related

• The Health Benefits of the Great Outdoors: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Greenspace Exposure and Health Outcomes.
• The Role of Public Health Organizations in Addressing Public Health Problems in Europe – Key Policy Lessons.
• Corporate Political Activity of Major Food Companies in Thailand: An Assessment and Policy Recommendations.
• Emerging Actions, Relations and Interference of Non-state Actors After the 2014 Mexican Soda Tax Implementation.
• Selection and Consumption of Lunches By National School Lunch Program Participants.
• Reductionist Nutrition Research Has Meaning Only Within the Framework of Holistic and Ethical Thinking.
• Consideration of Values When Setting Priorities in Nutrition Research: Guidance for Transparency.

Intergenerational Effects

• Smoking During Pregnancy Increases Chemerin Expression in Neonatal Tissue.
• Association of Elective and Emergency Cesarean Delivery with Early Childhood Overweight at 12 Months of Age.
• Maternal Obesity is Sufficient to Induce Transgenerational Cardiac Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Mice.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Thyroid Hormones Mediate Metabolic Rate and Oxidative, Anti-oxidative Balance at Different Temperatures in Mongolian Gerbils (Meriones Unguiculatus).
• Energy Metabolism and Personality in Wild-caught Fall Field Crickets.
• Sugar Addiction: From Evolution to Revolution.
• Circadian Clock Genes’ Overexpression in Drosophila Alters Diet Impact on Lifespan.

Methods

• Patient-Reported Outcome Measures: BODY-Q.
• Compositional Data Analysis for Physical Activity, Sedentary Time and Sleep Research.
• Obese Zebrafish: A Small Fish for a Major Human Health Condition.
• Comparison of Correlations of Equation-derived Body Fat Percentage and BMI with Carotid Intima-media Thickness.
• Accuracy of Self-reported Weight in the Women’s Health Initiative.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• "We describe here a process of reconstructing a functional oligocellular assembly that is responsible for energy supply management in the brain and creating a computational model of the associated biochemical and biophysical processes."
• Mathematical Model for Predicting the Increase in Office Visits Realized After Bariatric Surgery When 100% Compliance with ASMBS Post-Operative Follow-Up Guidelines is Achieved.
• Modeling a Bivariate Residential‐workplace Neighborhood Effect When Estimating the Effect of Proximity to Fast‐food Establishments on BMI.

Cancer

• Obesity and Cancer Risk: Emerging Biological Mechanisms and Perspectives.
• Review: The Obese Adipose Tissue Microenvironment in Cancer Development and Progression.

Commentary

• Minneapolis' Healthy Foods Mandate Disadvantages Ethnic Grocers and Mandates that Stores Carry Products Customers Don't Want.
• ”Why are We Still So Fat?”
• Anthropometric Risk Factors for Diabetes Differ By Ethnicity.

General

• Mosquito-borne Infectious Disease, Risk-perceptions, and Personal Protective Behavior Among U.S. International Travelers.
• Transparency and Reproducibility of Biomedical Research is Improving.
• LEDs for Photons, Physiology and Food.
• Effect of Yolk Hormones and Egg Weight on the Sex of Hatch Chicks, Hatchability and Embryonic Mortality of Japanese Quail. (pdf)
• Essay: The Experiments are Fascinating. But Nobody Can Repeat Them.
• Giant Mammal Cousin Rivaled Early Dinosaurs.
• Working Life: Finding My Inner Wonder Woman.
• Quiet Kindness in School: Socially and Emotionally Sophisticated Kindness Flying Beneath the Radar of Parents and Educators.
• NIH Primary and Secondary Prevention Research in Humans During 2012–2017.

Announcements

• York Wins 2018 National Accessibility Leadership Achievement Award.
• The American Society for Nutrition (ASN) is Now Accepting Abstracts for Nutrition 2019 Being Held June 8-11, 2019 at the Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, Maryland.
• NIH Seeks Input on Draft Strategic Plan for NIH Nutrition Research.
• ASN 2019 Science Policy Fellowships.
• UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• UAB’s NORC Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track Positions Available in Every Department and Two Department Chairs Open: See Multiple Listings Posted Here.

Featured

• RCT: Effects of a Low Carbohydrate Diet on Energy Expenditure During Weight Loss Maintenance.
• Effect of Carbohydrate Ingestion on Central Fatigue During Prolonged Running Exercise in Moderate Hypoxia.
• Web-Based Educational Seminars Compare Favorably with In-House Seminars for Bariatric Surgery Patients.
• The Evolution of Lactase Persistence: Milk Consumption, Insulin-Like Growth Factor I, and Human Life-History Parameters.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Skipping Breakfast May Lead to Obesity, Study Finds.
• Study: Delayed Feeding Protocol Increased Body Weight, Affected Metabolism, and Altered Circadian Oscillation... In Rats.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "In conclusion, the ASK school-based physical activity intervention showed no significant effect on HRQoL."
• RCT: "Even a very intense exposure to TV advertising promoting fruit consumption is not enough to make children eat more fruit."
• RCT: "...there were no intervention effects in the overall group..." in trial promoting child self-regulation around energy-dense food.
• RCT: "Main and intervention effects were not found for any of the children’s PA levels" in a Parental Modeling Intervention.
• RCT: "honey does not have an effect on stimulated plasma glucose and serum insulin concentrations compared with the standard glucose solution in obese prepubertal girls."
• RCT: "a community-based, multisetting, multistrategy intervention program for healthy weight development and lifestyle choices...[in] 2250 children aged 8 to 10 years ...had no significant effect on the BMI z-score, incidence of general and abdominal obesity…."
• RCT: "In conclusion, the results of this study do not indicate that the GI of potatoes is important for satiety in normal-weight men."
• RCT: "Compared with usual care, the NET-Works intervention showed no significant difference in BMI change at 24 (–0.12 kg/m2; 95% confidence interval [CI] = −0.44, 0.19) or 36 months (–0.19 kg/m2; 95% CI = −0.64, 0.26)," the primary outcomes.
• Consumption of 1-5 Whole Eggs [per 2000 Kcal] Dose-dependently Increases Liver Cholesterol but Not Plasma Cholesterol and Egg White Has No Effect on Liver and Plasma Cholesterol in Hamsters.
• No Association of Either Fruits or Vegetables with Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Middle-aged Men and Women.
• Eating Frequency is Not Associated with Obesity in Chinese Adults.

Basic

• Reduced Oxygen Consumption By Fat Cells Improves Metabolic Defects.
• Metabolic Reprogramming of Natural Killer Cells in Obesity Limits Antitumor Responses.
• Acyl-ghrelin Mediated Lipid Retention and Inflammation in Obesity-related Type 2 Diabetes.
• Obesity-associated Exosomal MiRNAs Modulate Glucose and Lipid Metabolism in Mice.
• Anti-Obesity Potential of Rare Sugar D-psicose By Regulating Lipid Metabolism in Rats.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Recent Headlines About Low-Carb Diets are Misleading.
• Letter to the Editor: Risk Thresholds for Alcohol Consumption.

Clinical

• Men and Women Respond Differently to Rapid Weight Loss: Metabolic Outcomes of a Multi-centre Intervention Study After a Low-energy Diet.
• Safety of Obese Persons in Nursing Homes.
• Pilot RCT: Effects of Indoor Thermal Environment on Human Food Intake, Productivity, and Comfort.
• RCT: A High Weekly Dose of Cholecalciferol and Calcium Supplement Enhances Weight Loss and Improves Health Biomarkers in Obese Women.

Children and Adolescents

• RCT: Smartphone-Based Healthy Weight Management Intervention for Chinese American Adolescents: Short-Term Efficacy and Factors Associated with Decreased Weight.
• RCT: Effects of a Community‐Based Diabetes Prevention Program for Latino Youth with Obesity.
• School Start Time Changes in the COMPASS Study: Associations with Youth Sleep Duration, Physical Activity, and Screen Time.

Surgery

• Meta analysis: Evaluation of All Types of Metabolic Bariatric Surgery and Its Consequences.
• Influence of Gastric Bypass Surgery on Resting Energy Expenditure, Body Composition, Physical Activity, and Thyroid Hormones in Morbidly Obese Patients.
• Issue: Plastic Surgery After Weight Loss.

Drugs

• RCT: Gelesis100: A Novel Nonsystemic Oral Hydrogel for Weight Loss.
• Review: Weight Loss Associated with Sodium-glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibition.

Food & Diet

• Meta-analysis: "Compared with omnivores, vegetarians and vegans had lower BMD at the femoral neck and lumbar spine and vegans also had higher fracture rates."
• Science Special Issue: Diet and Health.
• Alcohol Intake and Weight Loss During Intensive Lifestyle Intervention for Adults with Overweight or Obesity and Diabetes.
• Short-Term Effects of Healthy Eating Pattern Cycling on Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: Pooled Results From Two RCTs.

Caloric Restriction

• Selenocysteine Mimics the Effect of Dietary Restriction on Lifespan Via SKN‑1 and Retards Age‑associated Pathophysiological Changes in Caenorhabditis Elegans.
• Mechanisms Through Which Lithocholic Acid Delays Yeast Chronological Aging Under Caloric Restriction Conditions.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Systematic Review: Exercise Timing in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• Association of Sickle Cell Trait and Hemoglobin S Percentage with Physical Fitness.

Economics & Sociology

• Integrating Sociological Perspectives Into Obesogenic Research: Associations Between Air Pollution Exposure and Obesity Prevalence Across U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Areas.
• The Usefulness of Small-area-based Socioeconomic Characteristics in Assessing the Treatment Outcomes of Type 2 Diabetes Patients: A Register-based Mixed-effect Study.

Epidemiology

• Obesity and Diabetes Rates are Up in Every State.
• Association of Obesity with Mortality Over 24 Years of Weight History.
• High Waist-to-hip Ratio Levels are Associated with Insulin Resistance Markers in Normal-weight Women.
• Food Insecurity is Associated with Maladaptive Eating Behaviors and Objectively Measured Overeating.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Melanocortin-3 Receptors Expressed on Agouti-Related Peptide Neurons Inhibit Feeding Behavior in Female Mice.
• Homeostatic and neurocognitive control of energy intake in response to exercise in pediatric obesity: a psychobiological framework.

Stigma

• Social Stigma and Self-esteem as Mediators of the Relationship Between BMI and Internet Addiction Disorder.
• Mindfulness Capability Mediates the Association Between Weight-Based Stigma and Negative Emotion Symptoms.
• Time Course of Attentional Biases Toward Body Shapes in Women Who are Overweight or Obese.

Policy Related

• Use of Dairy Terms in the Labeling of Plant-Based Products.
• The Bitter Truth: Why Don't Sugar Taxes Work?
• Supporting a Sugar Tax in New Zealand: Sugar Sweetened Beverage (‘Fizzy Drink’) Consumption as a Normal Behaviour Within the Obesogenic Environment.
• Obesity, Political Responsibility, and the Politics of Needs.
• Commentary: Searching for Obesity Prevention Strategies that Work.
• Grappling with Complex Food Systems to Reduce Obesity: A US Public Health Challenge.
• FDA Statement: New Qualified Health Claim for Consuming Oils with High Levels of Oleic Acid to Reduce Coronary Heart Disease Risk.

Intergenerational Effects

• High-Fat Diet During the Perinatal Period Induces Loss of Myenteric Nitrergic Neurons and Increases Enteric Glial Density, Prior to the Development of Obesity.
• Prenatal Metformin Treatment Improves Ovarian Function in Offspring of Obese Rats.
• Identification of Novel LEPR Mutations in Pakistani Families with Morbid Childhood Obesity.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The AmP Project: Comparing Species on the Basis of Dynamic Energy Budget Parameters.
• Wing Morphology, Flight Type and Migration Distance Predict Accumulated Fuel Load in Birds.

Methods

• Image Warping Using WebGL for a Smart Avatar Animating Body Weight Evolution.
• Evaluation of a Patient Experience Tool in Dietetic Practice: Validation and Clinical Usage of the Assessment of Registered Dietitian Care Survey (ARCS).
• Fat Mass Estimation in Neonates: Anthropometric Models Compared with Air Displacement Plethysmography.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Echoes of Early Life: Recent Insights From Mathematical Modeling.
• Diet Has Independent Effects on the Pace and Shape of Aging in Drosophila Melanogaster.
• Proximity Effects in Obesity Rates in the US: A Spatial Markov Chains Approach.
• Mathematical Model for Body Fat Percentage in Military Using Thermal Imaging and Circumferences.

Commentary

• Food Color Does More than Guide Us—it Changes the Experience of Taste.
• Food Study Finds Benefits to Low-carb Diets.
• Poverty, Stress, and Access to Obesity Care.
• Research Center Finds New Links Between Obesity, Kidney Stones.
• How a Low-Carb Diet Might Help You Maintain a Healthy Weight.
• Does Cutting Carbs Really Help Keep Weight Off? The Big New Diet Study, Explained.
• How the Western Diet Has Derailed Our Evolution - Burgers and Fries Have Nearly Killed Our Ancestral Microbiome.
• Guests From Africa Learn Youth Sports, Public Health.
• Health Plans Punishing Members for Weight Loss.

General

• Is Smart Sexy? Examining the Role of Relative Intelligence in Mate Preferences.
• When Rats Rescue Robots.
• FDA Reminds Parents Not to Feed Honey to Children Younger than 1 Year: Honey Pacifiers Suspected in Texas Infant Botulism Cases.
• CBD: Weed Wonder Drug?
• Open is Not Enough.
• Early-life Exposure to Weather Shocks and Child Height: Evidence From Industrializing Japan.
• Symposium: Strengthening Aging Research: Experiences with Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency (Slides Available on Request).
• Protecting the Value of Medical Science in the Age of Social Media and “Fake News”.

Video & Audio

• SciFriday: The Social Power of Smell.
• Audio Abstract: Assessing the impact of nutrition interventions on health and nutrition outcomes of community-dwelling adults: a systematic review.

Announcements

• UAB: Pavela Elected to Lead Ethics Section for APHA.
• IU Bloomington: Faculty Member Elected to Serve as Nutrition Research Chair for ASN.
• FDA Extends Comment Period on Use of the Names of Dairy Foods in Labeling Plant-Based Products.
• UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• UAB’s NORC Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track Positions Available in Every Department and Two Department Chairs Open: See Multiple Listings Posted Here.

Featured

• High-throughput Screening for Selective Appetite Modulators: A Multibehavioral and Translational Drug Discovery Strategy.
• Gold Nanoparticles as Cell Regulators: Beneficial Effects of Gold Nanoparticles on the Metabolic Profile of Mice with Pre-existing Obesity.
• Objectively Measured Pediatric Obesity Prevalence Using the OneFlorida Clinical Research Consortium.

Headline vs Study

• Headlines vs Science on Obesity and Nutrition at OW2018.
• Headline: Air Pollution Can Make You Fat - Researchers.
• Study: Longitudinal Associations (Not Necessarily Causation) of in Utero and Early Life Near-roadway Air Pollution with Trajectories of Childhood BMI.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "However, contrary to our expectations, the more employees perceived their senior managers as supportive of active breaks, the less likely they were to take these breaks."
• No Independent Associations Between Preconception Paternal Dietary Patterns and Embryonic Growth; The Predict Study.
• RCT: "In patients undergoing mechanical ventilation, the rate of survival at 90 days associated with the use of an energy-dense formulation for enteral delivery of nutrition was not higher than that with routine enteral nutrition."
• No Effect of Human Presence at Night on Disease, Body Mass, or Metabolism in Rural and Urban House Finches (Haemorhous Mexicanus).
• No Effects of Explicit Approach-avoidance Training on Immediate Consumption of Soft Drinks.
• No Association Between Dietary Markers and Incident Hypertension in a Population-based Sample.
• Food-variety-focused Labelling Does Not Increase Ideal Portion Size, Expected Fullness or Snack Intake.

Basic

• Diet-Induced Adaptive Thermogenesis Requires Neuropeptide FF Receptor-2 Signalling.
• Protective Effects of Ghrelin on Fasting-induced Muscle Atrophy in Aging Mice.
• Paradoxical Effects of Obesity on T Cell Function During Tumor Progression and PD-1 Checkpoint Blockade.
• Circulating Adipose Fatty Acid Binding Protein is a New Link Underlying Obesity-Associated Breast/Mammary Tumor Development.
• Long-term Dietary Macronutrients and Hepatic Gene Expression in Aging Mice.
• Review: Obesity and Dysregulated Central and Peripheral Macrophage‐neuron Crosstalk.
• Lipid Metabolism in Adipose Tissue and Liver From Diet-induced Obese Rats: A Comparison Between Wistar and Sprague-Dawley Strains.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Retraction of RCT on Diet Composition.
• The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans.
• Viewpoint: Physical Activity Guidelines for Health and Prosperity in the United States.
• Editorial: New Physical Activity Guidelines a Call to Activity for Clinicians and Patients.

Clinical

• RCT: Effects of Indoor Thermal Environment on Human Food Intake, Productivity, and Comfort.
• RCT: Effects of α-Lipoic Acid, Carnosine, and Thiamine Supplementation in Obese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• Personalized Group Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Obesity: A Longitudinal Study in a Real-world Clinical Setting.
• Dietary Branched-chain Amino Acids Intake Exhibited a Different Relationship with Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity Risk: A Meta-analysis.

Children and Adolescents

• Longer Sleep Duration During Infancy and Toddlerhood Predicts Weight Normalization Among High Birth Weight Infants.
• Metabolically Healthy Obesity and High Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in Children and Adolescents: International Childhood Vascular Structure Evaluation Consortium.
• Adolescent Overweight and Obesity and the Risk for Pancreatic Cancer Among Men and Women: A Nationwide Study of 1.79 Million Israeli Adolescents.

Surgery

• Building a Broader Base for Surgery at OW2018.
• Multi-sensor Ecological Momentary Assessment of Behavioral and Psychosocial Predictors of Weight Loss Following Bariatric Surgery: Study Protocol for a Multicenter Prospective Longitudinal Evaluation.

Drugs

• Impact of Gastric Banding Versus Metformin on β-Cell Function in Adults with Impaired Glucose Tolerance or Mild Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: Effect of Switching From Pioglitazone to the SGLT2 Inhibitor Dapagliflozin on Body Weight and Metabolism‐related Factors in Patients with Type‐2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• Lorcaserin and Renal Outcomes in Obese and Overweight Patients in the CAMELLIA-TIMI 61 Trial.

Food & Diet

• Sustainable Diets, Food, and Nutrition: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief.
• RCT: Effects of a Low Carbohydrate Diet on Energy Expenditure During Weight Loss Maintenance.
• Carbohydrates: Not All that Bad?
• RCT: Cranberries Attenuate Animal-based Diet-induced Changes in Microbiota Composition and Functionality.
• RCT: Plant-based Diet in Overweight Individuals in a 16-week Trial: Metabolic Benefits of Plant Protein.

Caloric Restriction

• Caloric Restriction and Cellular Senescence.
• The Safety and Efficacy of Weight Loss Via Intermittent Fasting or Standard Daily Energy Restriction in Adults with Type 1 Diabetes and Overweight or Obesity: A Pilot Study.
• Energy Restriction in Renal Protection.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Physical Activity on Prescription in Accordance with the Swedish Model Increases Physical Activity: A Systematic Review.
• Subclinical Coronary Artery Disease in Veteran Athletes: Is a New Preparticipation Methodology Required?
• Structured, Aerobic Exercise Reduces Fat Mass and is Partially Compensated Through Energy Intake but Not Energy Expenditure in Women.

Economics & Sociology

• Social Support and Trajectories of BMI and Waist to Hip Ratio From Mid-adulthood to Old Age.
• Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status and Weight Gain During Infancy: The BeeBOFT Study.
• Inequality in Body Mass Indices Across Countries: Evidence From Convergence Tests.

Epidemiology

• RCT: Metabolic Effects of Breaking Prolonged Sitting with Standing or Light Walking in Older South Asians and White Europeans.
• American Gut: An Open Platform for Citizen Science Microbiome Research.
• Childhood Obesity and Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis.
• Prevalence of Hyperuricemia and the Relationship Between Serum Uric Acid and Obesity: A Study on Bangladeshi Adults.
• Lowering Saturated Fat and Increasing Vegetable and Fruit Intake May Increase Insulin Sensitivity 2 Years Later in Children with a Family History of Obesity.
• Obesity Drives Risk for Heart Disease, Requires Collaboration.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Using Genetics to Understand the Causal Influence of Higher BMI on Depression.
• Diet Quality in Persons with and Without Depressive and Anxiety Disorders.
• Early Weight Gain Predicts Later Metabolic Syndrome in Depressed Patients Treated with Antidepressants: Findings From the METADAP Cohort.

Equity and Disparities

• Socioeconomic Status Associated with BMI, HbA1c in Type 2 Diabetes.
• Weight Trends in Veterans with and Without Diabetes, 2000 to 2014.

Stigma

• The Mediating Role of Internalized Weight Stigma on Weight Perception and Depression Among Emerging Adults: Exploring Moderation By Weight and Race.
• Sex Differences in the Relationships Among Weight Stigma, Depression, and Binge Eating.
• Child BMI Over Time and Parent-Perceived Overweight.

Policy Related

• Health-motivated Taxes on Red and Processed Meat: A Modelling Study on Optimal Tax Levels and Associated Health Impacts.
• Variation in Nutritional Quality of School Lunches with Implementation of National School Lunch Program Guidelines.
• Perceptions of Obesity Prevention Policies: Socioeconomic Assessment in the Turkish Capital.
• Obesity in America: A Market Failure?
• AMA Seeks Warning Labels for Foods with High Added Sugar Content.

Intergenerational Effects

• Long-term Behavioural Effects of Maternal Obesity in C57BL/6J Mice.
• The Impact of Maternal BMI, Gestational Weight Gain, and Breastfeeding on Early Childhood Weight.
• Review of General Suggestions on Physical Activity to Prevent and Treat Gestational and Pre-existing Diabetes During Pregnancy and in Postpartum.
• Maternal High-Fat Diet Programs Offspring Liver Steatosis in a Sexually Dimorphic Manner in Association with Changes in Gut Microbial Ecology in Mice.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Human Resting Energy Expenditure Varies with Circadian Phase.
• Early Mongolians Ate Dairy, but Lacked the Gene to Digest It.
• Global Pattern of Nest Predation is Disrupted By Climate Change in Shorebirds.
• The Role of Feeding Strategy in the Tolerance of a Terrestrial Salamander (Plethodon Cinereus) to Biogeochemical Changes in Northern Hardwood Forests.

Methods

• Statistical Methods to Model and Evaluate Physical Activity Programs, Using Step Counts: A Systematic Review.
• Estimation of Non-shivering Thermogenesis and Cold-induced Nutrient Oxidation Rates: Impact of Method for Data Selection and Analysis.
• Calorie Estimation From Pictures of Food: Crowdsourcing Study.
• Flexible OLED Array Detects Blood Oxygen.
• ‘Invisible’ Mice Reveal Anatomical Secrets.
• Thermoneutral Housing Does Not Influence Fat Mass or Glucose Homeostasis in C57BL/6 Mice.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Model-based in Silico Analysis of the PI3K/Akt Pathway: The Elucidation of Cross-talk Between Diabetes and Breast Cancer.
• Mathematical Model for Body Fat Percentage in Military using Thermal Imaging and Circumferences.

Commentary

• How Often Should You Weigh Yourself?
• Markers of Hypoxia and Oxidative Stress in Aging Volunteers Ingesting Lycosomal Formulation of Dark Chocolate Containing Astaxanthin.
• Diet: Guidance Veers From Variety.
• OW2018: Real Innovation in Obesity Drugs at Last?
• What If the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick?
• On the Margin of the Impossible: Navigating through the flood of information on obesity.

General

• The Evolutionary Exploitation of Vertebrate Peroxisome Proliferator-activated Receptor γ By Organotins.
• You Can Handle the Truth: Mispredicting the Consequences of Honest Communication.
• In Defense of Corporate Sponsorships and a Plea for Civility.
• Data to Assess the Effect of Moral Identity on Green Consumption Tendency.
• Are Biologists Getting the Mathematical Training They Need in College?
• Editorial: Revised Guidelines to Enhance the Rigor and Reproducibility of Research Published in American Physiological Society Journals.
• Fixed, Random, and Mixed Effects: Modern Approaches to Dealing with Nested, Clustered, Panel, and Longitudinal Data.
• Chemo‐preventive and Therapeutic Effect of the Dietary Flavonoid Kaempferol: A Comprehensive Review.
• Can Listening to Bees Help Save Them - and Us?
• Learning From Gorillas to Save Killer Whales a Wild Approach to Personalized Health Care.

Video & Audio

• Podcast: Mark and Chris Bell: Steroids, Powerlifting, Addiction, Diet, Training, Helping Others, Documentaries, and Living Your Best Life (EP.28).
• Audio: Wherever My Microbiome May Roam.
• Audio: Variety is the Spice of Life.

Announcements

• RSM Conference: Optimal Diet and Lifestyle Strategies for the Management of Cardio-metabolic Risk.
• IU-Bloomington's School of Public Health's Online Graduate Certificate in Gerontology and Health Ranked #2 in Nation!
• UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• UAB’s NORC Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track Positions Available in Every Department and Two Department Chairs Open: See Multiple Listings Posted Here.