Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• RCT: Effect of Weight Loss Via Severe vs Moderate Energy Restriction on Lean Mass and Body Composition Among Postmenopausal Women with Obesity.
• Associations of Weight Bias with Disordered Eating Among Latino and White Men.
• Glucagon-Receptor Signaling Reverses Hepatic Steatosis Independent of Leptin Receptor Expression.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Mother-infant Free-play Interactions Have Positive Effect on Child's Obesity Risk Trajectories.
• Study: Caregiver's (including Mother's) Warmth and Sensitivity During Active Play, Non-feeding Interactions, Was Associated (not Necessarily Causally Related) with Reduced Obesity Risk From Infancy to Second Grade.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Significant Effect of a Gluten-Free Diet in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Cinnamon on the Plasma Levels of Soluble Forms of Vascular Adhesion Molecules in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• RCT: "An intervention focused on reducing [eating rate], energy density and increasing steps was effective for weight loss, although the wearable device provided no additional benefit."
• Plant Protein Intake is Not Associated with Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Diabetic Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease.
• "Contrary to theoretical expectations from Bergmann's rule (i.e. increasing body size in colder climates), temperature does not seem to be the main driver of bumblebee body size during the last century as we observed the opposite body size trend."
• "Contrary to some previous studies, our results indicate that the absence-claim label (Not-GM) does not have a negative impact on the demand for related conventional products."
• Systematic Review: "Contrary to the findings from observational studies, evidence from randomised trials suggests that early macronutrient supplementation for infants born small improves some metabolic outcomes in childhood."
• "contrary to expectation, hypoxia had no effect on heat tolerance across all stages and sizes" in grasshoppers.
• Standard Medical Nutrition Therapy of 25kcal/kg Ideal Body Weight/day Often Does Not Reach Even Resting Energy Expenditure in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: Coenzyme Q10 Does Not Improve Peripheral Insulin Sensitivity in Statin-treated Men and Women.

Basic

• Tainting and Weight Changes in Tilapia Guineensis Exposed to Sublethal Doses of Crude Oil.
• The Rho GTPase RND3 Regulates Adipocyte Lipolysis.
• Collaborative Effects of Chlorogenic Acid and Caffeine on Lipid Metabolism Via the AMPKα-LXRα/SREBP-1c Pathway in High-Fat Diet-Induced Obese Mice.
• Adipocyte Browning and Resistance to Obesity in Mice is Induced By Expression of ATF3.
• Sphk2−/− Mice are Protected From Obesity and Insulin Resistance.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Jumping Rope, Cognition, Height, BMI, and Scientific Rigor.
• Methodological Error in Measurement of Energy Expenditure By the Doubly Labeled Water Method: Much Ado About Nothing?
• Reply to DS Ludwig et al.
• Updated Critical Analysis: Is Ditching Meat a “game-changer” for Your Health?
• A Sacred Cow? Controversial Recommendations About Red Meat.

Clinical

• Skin Changes and Manifestations Associated with the Treatment of Obesity.
• Systematic Review: Risk of Poor Outcomes in Patients Who are Obese Following Total Shoulder Arthroplasty and Reverse Total Shoulder Arthroplasty.
• The Challenge of Keeping It Off, a Descriptive Systematic Review of High‐quality, Follow‐up Studies of Obesity Treatments.

Children and Adolescents

• Changes in Ambulatory Blood Pressure Phenotype Over Time in Children and Adolescents with Elevated Blood Pressures.
• Can the Healthy Primary School of the Future Offer Perspective in the Ongoing Obesity Epidemic in Young Children? A Dutch Quasi-experimental Study.
• Effects of High-intensity Interval Training on Endothelial Function, Lipid Profile, Body Composition and Physical Fitness in Adolescents.
• Children and Adolescents’ Anthropometrics Body Composition From 3‐D Optical Surface Scans.
• Perspective: Recruitment, Engagement, and Retention of Fathers in Nutrition Education and Obesity Research.
• Nutritional Status Assessment in Children and Adolescents with Various Levels of Physical Activity in Aspect of Obesity.
• RCT: Influence of Physical Activity on Blood Pressure in Obese Children.
• Systematic Review: Overall Effects of School-based Obesity Prevention Interventions and Effect Differences By Intervention Components.

Surgery

• RCT: Gastric Bypass Versus Sleeve Gastrectomy in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Enhances Insulin Secretion in Type 2 Diabetes Via FXR-Mediated TRPA1 Expression.
• Functional Neurological Symptoms Masquerading as Wernicke Encephalopathy Following Bariatric Surgery.
• Effect of Surgical Versus Medical Therapy on Diabetic Kidney Disease Over 5 Years in Severely Obese Adolescents with Type 2 Diabetes.

Drugs

• Preventive Antibiotic Treatment of Calves: Emergence of Dysbiosis Causing Propagation of Obese State-associated and Mobile Multidrug Resistance-carrying Bacteria.
• Review: Drug-Induced Liver Injury in Obesity and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• Review: Advances in Anti-Obesity Pharmacotherapy: Implications for a Multimodal Treatment Approach with Metabolic Surgery.
• Chapter: Pharmacotherapy of Children and Adolescents with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• RCT: GLP-1 Analog Modulates Appetite, Taste Preference, Gut Hormones and Regional Body Fat Stores in Adults with Obesity.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Daily Consumption of Fruit-flavored Yoghurt Enriched with Vitamins B Contributes to Lower Energy Intake and Body Weight Reduction, in Type 2 Diabetic Patients.
• Association Between Serum Ferritin and Cognitive Function in Early Childhood.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• The Role of Ames Dwarfism and Calorie Restriction on Gut Microbiota.
• Acyl-CoA-binding Protein (ACBP): The Elusive ‘hunger Factor' Linking Autophagy to Food Intake.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Free Time and Physical Activity Among Americans 15 Years or Older: Cross-Sectional Analysis of the American Time Use Survey.
• Which Specific Modes of Exercise Training are Most Effective for Treating Low Back Pain? Network Meta-analysis.
• Association Between Neighborhood Walkability and Predicted 10‐Year Cardiovascular Disease Risk.
• RCT: Effects of Acute Exercise on Appetite, Circulating Ghrelin Concentrations, and Butyrylcholinesterase Activity in Normal-weight Males with Variants of the Obesity-linked FTO Rs9939609 Polymorphism.

Economics & Sociology

• Socioeconomic Differences in Access to Neighborhood and Network Social Capital and Associations with BMI Among Black Americans.
• Social Work and Toddler Overweight Risk: Identifying Modifiable Child and Parent Factors Across the Socioeconomic Gradient.
• Association Between Bariatric Surgery and Long-term Health Care Expenditures Among Veterans with Severe Obesity.

Epidemiology

• Frequency of Consumption of Whole Fruit, Not Fruit Juice, is Associated with Reduced Prevalence of Obesity in Korean Adults.
• Obesity and Weight Gain Since Early Adulthood are Associated with a Lower Risk of Microscopic Colitis.
• Obesity is Associated with Significantly Increased Risk for Diarrhoea After Controlling for Demographic, Dietary and Medical Factors.
• Diabetes Mellitus is Associated with Increased Risk of Ischemic Stroke in Patients with and Without Coronary Artery Disease.
• Excessive Weight Gain Before and During Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Management: What is the Impact?

Psychology & Neuroscience

• FNIRS Correlates of the Development of Inhibitory Control in Young Obese Subjects.
• Reward Sensitivity Deficits in a Rat Model of Compulsive Eating Behavior.
• The Role of Production Method and Country-of-origin Labelling in Consumers' Food Choice.
• A Brief Neuropsychological Battery for Measuring Cognitive Functions Associated with Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• Neighborhoods to Nucleotides—Advances and Gaps for an Obesity Disparities Systems Epidemiology Model.
• Using Latent Class Growth Modeling to Examine Longitudinal Patterns of BMI Change From Adolescence to Adulthood.
• The Explanatory Role of Maternal Feeding Practices: Do They Explain Ethnic differences in Body Weight of Preadolescents?

Ethics

• Which Ethical Considerations Should Inform Hospice Decisions About Caring for Patients with Obesity?
• Fat Shame and Blame in Reproductive Care: Implications for Ethical Health Care Interactions.

Stigma

• Weight Bias and Grading Among Middle and High School Teachers.
• Systematic Review: Weight-related Stigma and Psychological Distress.
• Psychological Distress and Quality of Life in Iranian Adolescents with Overweight/obesity: Mediating Roles of Weight Bias Internalization and Insomnia.
• Weight Stigma Among Sexual Minority Adults: Findings from a Matched Sample of Adults Engaged in Weight Management.

Policy Related

• Food Stamps, Food Insecurity, and Health Outcomes Among Elderly Americans.
• Childhood Obesity and the Food Environment: A Population‐Based Sample of Public School Children in New York City.

Intergenerational Effects

• Systematic Review: Effect of Interpregnancy Weight Change on Perinatal Outcomes.
• Association of Cord Plasma Biomarkers of in Utero Acetaminophen Exposure with Risk of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder in Childhood.
• Maternal Lipid Metabolism Directs Fetal Liver Programming Following Nutrient Stress.
• Breast Milk Supply of MicroRNA Associated with Leptin and Adiponectin is Affected By Maternal Overweight/Obesity and Influences Infancy BMI.

Methods

• Inequality, Validity of Self-reported Height, and Its Implications for BMI Estimates: An Analysis of Randomly Selected Primary Sampling Units' Data.
• Can We Improve the Gestation-adjusted Projection (GAP) Method for Prediction of Birth Weight in Morbidly Obese Women?
• Does Exclusion of Extreme Reporters of Energy Intake (the “Goldberg Cutoffs”) Reliably Reduce or Eliminate Bias in Nutrition Studies? Analysis with Illustrative Associations of Energy Intake with Health Outcomes.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Quantification of Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Children with Obesity.
• Obesity Prediction By Modeling BMI Distributions: Application to National Survey Data From Mexico, Colombia and Peru, 1988–2014.
• Gestational Growth Trajectories Derived From a Dynamic Fetal–placental Scaling Law.
• Measuring Sleep in Young Children and Their Mothers: Identifying Actigraphic Sleep Composites.

Commentary

• What We Really Know About Eating Red Meat – and What We Want to Believe.
• Becoming Obese From Age 25 to Midlife Knocks Years Off Life.
• Seeing What We Want to See in Soda Policy.
• Are So Many Americans Fat Because They’re Getting Terrible Nutrition Advice From ‘The Experts’?
• "The overwhelming majority of policies enacted at all levels of government lack any evidence of effects on behaviors or outcomes. We need more evidence-based policy."
• Obesity is in the Genes.
• Nutrition Education in Medical School, Residency Training, and Practice.
• Stephen Devries, MD: Training Physicians About Nutrition.
• How Washington Keeps America Sick and Fat.

General

• Long-awaited Cystic Fibrosis Drug Could Turn Deadly Disease Into a Manageable Condition.
• Altered Temporal Sensitivity in Obesity is Linked to Pro-inflammatory State.
• Public Concern About Monitoring Twitter Users and Their Conversations to Recruit for Clinical Trials: Survey Study.
• The Misperception of Racial Economic Inequality.
• How do Researchers Acquire and Develop Notions of Research Integrity? A Qualitative Study Among Biomedical Researchers in Switzerland.
• We’re Incentivizing Bad Science.
• Diabetes Prevalence and Incidence Among Medicare Beneficiaries — United States, 2001–2015.
• Time From Submission of Johns Hopkins University Trial Results to Posting on ClinicalTrials.gov.
• This Science Vigilante Calls Out Bogus Results in Prestigious Journals.
• In Memoriam: John G. Kral, MD, PhD.
• I’m an Academic Doctor. But Research From For-profit Companies May Be the Best Way to Help Patients and Science in the Future.

Video & Audio

• Video: Is Fasting Beneficial for Weight Loss?

Obesity Journal Symposium 2019 Winners

• Moriah P. Bellissimo: Plasma High-Resolution Metabolomics Differentiates Adults with Normal Weight Obesity From Lean Individuals.
• Michael C. Wong: Children and Adolescent’s Anthropometrics Body Composition From 3D Optical Surface Scans.
• Evan P. Nadler: Pattern of Biliary Disease Following Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in Adolescents.
• Kai Ling Kong: Early Nonfood Parent‐Infant Interactions and Development of Obesity in a High‐Risk, Diverse Sample.
• Tera L. Fazzino: Hyper‐Palatable Foods: Development of a Quantitative Definition and Application to the US Food System Database.

Announcements

• AHA's Strategically-Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• UAB's Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Executive Director of Development: The Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington is Searching for an Energetic and Successful Development Professional to Join Our Team.
• New Book: Nutrition Research Methodologies.
• Annual Report: The CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics has released "Health, United States, 2018."
• The Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for Multiple Tenured, Tenure-Track Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Positions.
• The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Indiana University School of Public Health‐Bloomington Invites Applications for the Position of Chair and Tenured Full Professor.

Featured

• The Influence of Defendant Body Size and Defendant Gender on Mock Juror Decision-making.
• On the Definition of Sarcopenia in the Presence of Aging and Obesity—Initial Results From UK Biobank.
• RCT: Effect of Weight Loss Via Severe vs Moderate Energy Restriction on Lean Mass and Body Composition Among Postmenopausal Women with Obesity.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Avocados May Help Manage Obesity, Prevent Diabetes.
• Study: An Avocado-derived Fatty Acid Oxidation Inhibitor Reduced Body Weight and Improved Insulin Sensitivity in Mice, No Statistical Differences in Human Pilot Study.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "There was no evidence that other variables, including gender and BMI, were associated with healing" of chronic venous leg ulcers.
• RCT: No Significant Evidence of Effectiveness of a Behavioural Incentive Scheme for Weight Control in Children.
• RCT: No Differential Metabolic and Hepatic Impact of Two Personalized Dietary Strategies in Subjects with Obesity and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Home-Based Exergaming on Preschoolers’ BMI.
• RCT: "However, in this small pilot study, the addition of a telehealth behavioral skills component to a face-to-face counseling visit to deliver the intervention did not significantly improve dietary, anthropometric or blood pressure outcomes when compared to the one-time face-to-face delivery approach alone."
• RCT: Daily Red Wine Vinegar Ingestion for Eight Weeks Improves Glucose Homeostasis and Affects the Metabolome but Does Not Reduce Adiposity in Adults.
• RCT: No Significant Effect on BMI of a Consumer-direct Digital Health Intervention for Cardiovascular Risk Management in Primary Care.
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Adding a Self‐monitoring Wearable Device to a Multifaceted 8‐week Weight Loss Intervention for Weight Loss.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter: “We believe this inappropriate study design to be the cause of the increased malnutrition recorded in the OAGB group”.
• Letter: “The authors must provide a per-protocol analysis without imputation and state whether the imputed and sensitivity analyses were prespecified in the first version of the protocol, or not.”
• Reply: The YOMEGA non-inferiority trial – Authors' reply.

Basic

• ACE2 Exerts Anti-obesity Effect Via Stimulating Brown Adipose Tissue and Induction of Browning in White Adipose Tissue.
• Regulation of Adipocyte Differentiation and Metabolism By Lansoprazole.
• Norepinephrine Transporter Availability in Brown Fat is Reduced in Obesity: A Human PET Study with [11C] MRB.
• Adiponectin and PPAR: A Setup for Intricate Crosstalk Between Obesity and Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• Empagliflozin Reverses Obesity and Insulin Resistance Through Fat Browning and Alternative Macrophage Activation in Mice Fed a High-fat Diet.

Clinical

• RCT: Clinical and Psychological Responses to Synbiotic Supplementation in Obese or Overweight Adults.
• RCT: Rhus Coriaria L. (Sumac) in Patients Who are Overweight or Have Obesity.
• Association Between Different Animal Protein Sources and Liver Status in Obese Subjects with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Fatty Liver in Obesity (FLiO) Study.
• Oral Semaglutide Versus Empagliflozin in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Uncontrolled on Metformin: The PIONEER 2 Trial.
• The Association Between Sleep Efficiency and Diabetes Mellitus in Community‐dwelling Individuals with or Without Sleep‐disordered Breathing.

Children and Adolescents

• Physical Activity Mediates the Relationship Between Outdoor Time and Mental Health.
• Understanding Childhood Obesity in the US: The NIH Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program.
• State of Childhood Obesity.
• Systematic Review: Impact of Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness on Diet and Exercise in Adolescents.
• Meta-analysis: Grocery Store Access and Childhood Obesity.

Surgery

• Obesity in the Liver Transplant Setting.
• Pediatric Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery: Evidence, Barriers, and Best Practices.
• Conversions of Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass to Duodenal Switch (SADI-S and BPD-DS) for Weight Regain.
• Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery for Pediatric Patients with Severe Obesity.

Drugs

• Current Options for the Pharmacotherapy of Obesity.
• Neuromodulatory Effect of Microbiome on Gut-Brain Axis; New Target for Obesity Drugs.
• Understanding the Mechanism of Action and Clinical Implications of Anti-Obesity Drugs Recently Approved in Korea.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Fiber Enrichment of Pasta: Metabolic Effects and Diet Adherence in Obese Subjects.
• RCT: Effects of Interventions Based on the Theory of Planned Behavior on Sugar-sweetened Beverage Consumption Intentions and Behavior.
• Effectiveness of Intermittent Fasting and Time-Restricted Feeding Compared to Continuous Energy Restriction for Weight Loss.
• Ketogenic Diet: A New Light Shining on Old but Gold Biochemistry.
• Safety and Tolerability of Sustained Exogenous Ketosis Using Ketone Monoester Drinks for 28 Days in Healthy Adults.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• A Synergistic Triad of Chemotherapy, Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors, and Caloric Restriction Mimetics Eradicates Tumors in Mice.
• Myostatin Dysfunction is Associated with Lower Physical Activity and Reduced Improvements in Glucose Tolerance in Response to Caloric Restriction in Berlin High Mice.
• Increasing Energy Flux to Maintain Diet-Induced Weight Loss.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Active Commuting in Swedish Workers Between 1998 and 2015 ‐ Trends, Characteristics and Cardiovascular Disease Risk.
• Meta-analysis: What is the Effect of Aerobic Exercise Intensity on Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Those Undergoing Cardiac Rehabilitation?
• Will the Smartphone Become a Useful Tool to Promote Physical Activity?

Economics & Sociology

• "Discover Korea's Delicious Secret": The Politics of Gastro-national Branding.
• Socioeconomic Gradient in Physical Activity: Findings From the PERSIAN Cohort Study.

Epidemiology

• Effects of BMI on the Life–course of Fatty Liver.
• Sick Individuals and Sick (Microbial) Populations: Challenges in Epidemiology and the Microbiome.
• Next Generation Sequencing Analysis of Patients with Mendelian Obesity.
• Weight Trends in a Multiethnic Cohort of Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Survivors: A Longitudinal Analysis.
• Overweight and Obesity do Not Determine Worst Prognosis in Endometrioid Endometrial Carcinoma.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Article Open Access Published: 22 October 2019 Eating Style and the Frequency, Size and Timing of Eating Occasions: A Cross-sectional Analysis Using 7-day Weighed Dietary Records.
• Interactive Effects of Impulsivity and Dietary Restraint Over Snack Intake.
• Fat Intake and Stress Modify Sleep Duration Effects on Abdominal Obesity.
• Saturated Fatty Acid is a Principal Cause of Anxiety-like Behavior in Diet-induced Obese Rats in Relation to Serum Lysophosphatidyl Choline Level.

Equity and Disparities

• College Climate and Sexual Orientation Differences in Weight Status.
• Qualitative Analysis of COACH: A Community-based Behavioral Intervention to Reduce Obesity Health Disparities Within a Marginalized Community.
• Association of Social Adversity with Comorbid Diabetes and Depression Symptoms in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos Sociocultural Ancillary Study: A Syndemic Framework.
• Black-White Differences in 20-year Trends in Cardiovascular Risk in the United States, 1990-2010.

Stigma

• Nursing Students' Attitudes Towards Obese People, Knowledge of Obesity Risk, and Self-disclosure of Own Health Behaviours.
• Why We Should Never do It: Stigma as a Behaviour Change Tool in Global Health.
• Internalized Weight Bias and Cortisol Reactivity to Social Stress.
• Systematic Review: What is the Current Stance Towards Weight Stigmatization in Social Media Platforms?

Policy Related

• Does Japan’s National Nutrient-based Dietary Guideline Improve Lifestyle-related Disease Outcomes? A Retrospective Observational Cross-sectional Study.
• Challenges to Regulate Products Containing Bisphenol A: Implications for Policy.

Intergenerational Effects

• Systematic review: Associations Between Maternal Stress During Pregnancy and Offspring Obesity Risk Later in Life.
• Associations Between Prenatal Physical Activity and Neonatal and Obstetric Outcomes.
• Intergenerational Transmission of Diet‐induced Obesity, Metabolic Imbalance, and Osteoarthritis in Mice.
• Adipokines Underlie the Early Origins of Obesity and Associated Metabolic Comorbidities in the Offspring of Women with Pregestational Obesity.
• Racial Differences of Incident Diabetes Postpartum in Women with a History of Gestational Diabetes.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Crows and Common Ravens do Not Reciprocally Exchange Tokens with a Conspecific to Gain Food Rewards.
• The Evolution of Human Endurance.
• Slowing Down the Metabolic Engine: Impact of Early-life Corticosterone Exposure on Adult Metabolism in House Sparrows (Passer Domesticus).
• Cardiac Mitochondrial Function, Nitric Oxide Sensitivity and Lipid Composition Following Hypoxia Acclimation in Sablefish.

Methods

• Cross-cultural Validation of the Short Version of the Food Disgust Scale in Ten Countries.
• Assessing Dinner Meals Offered at Home Among Preschoolers From Low-income Families with the Remote Food Photography Method.
• Advances in Nutrition Science and Integrative Physiology: Insights From Controlled Feeding Studies.

Commentary

• Is Ditching Meat a “game-changer” for Your Health?
• Is Diet Soda More Dangerous than Sugar-sweetened Beverages?
• The Pain of Weight Gain: Self-experimentation with Overfeeding.
• How Certain Foods Affect Cognition, Seizures, and Cardiometabolic Disease.
• Choline: The Forgotten Vital Nutrient We’re Not Getting Enough Of.
• Disrupting Food Insecurity.
• Prescribing and Delivering Better Nutrition.
• Why Isn’t There a Diet that Works for Everyone?
• The ‘fundamental Questions of Obesity’: Asked and Answered.
• Overweight and Obesity in Women: Health Risks and Consequences.

General

• The Distinct Effects of Gratitude and Pride on Donation Choice and Amount.
• Sex Differences in Humor Production Ability: A Meta-analysis.
• Post-copulatory Sexual Selection Allows Females to Alleviate the Fitness Costs Incurred When Mating with Senescing Males.
• The Handicap Principle: How an Erroneous Hypothesis Became a Scientific Principle.
• Arrangement and Size Variation of Intra-gonadal Offspring in a Viviparous Asterinid Sea Star.
• Blind Spots in the ‘Blind Audition’ Study.
• Dietary Salt Promotes Cognitive Impairment Through Tau Phosphorylation.
• Knowledge and Debate in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition: New Sections, New Science, and Looking Forward and Outward.

Video & Audio

• Understanding Lipids and Cardiovascular Risk Through Mendelian Randomization.
• Audio: Discussion of a Classic Paper By the Sociologist Robert Merton on 4 Norms that Govern Scientific Work.
• Health Equity: Watch the Video of Robert F. Smith's Exclusive Conversation with NYAM President Dr. Judith A. Salerno on His Life, His Beliefs and His Philanthropic Vision.

Announcements

• OBSSR R25 Short Courses on Innovative Methodologies and Approaches in the Behavioral and Social Sciences Awarded.
• Course Registration: Advanced Gene Mapping Course (The Rockefeller University, New York) - January 27-31, 2020.
• Fellowship: AHA's Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• Fellowship: UAB Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Seeking Executive Director of Development: The Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington is Searching for an Energetic and Successful Development Professional to Join Our Team.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for Multiple Tenured/tenure-track Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Positions.
• The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Indiana University School of Public Health‐Bloomington (SPH‐B) Invites Applications for the Position of Chair and Tenured Full Professor.

Featured

• Meta-Analysis: The Risk of Overweight and Obesity in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
• Does Body Size Influence Male Care? Investigating an Alternative Reproductive Tactic in Manogea Porracea (Araneae: Araneidae), a Spider with Amphisexual Care.
• Resting Energy Expenditure and Organ-Tissue Body Composition 5 Years After Bariatric Surgery.
• Improving the Quality of Dietary Research.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Alcohol May Interfere with Weight Loss.
• Study: Associations (not Necessarily Causation) Among Weight Status, Reported Weight Loss Attempts, and Recalled Alcohol Consumption.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Significantly Differential Effect of Two Incremental Milk-Feeding Rates in Preterm Infants.
• RCT: No Significant Effects of Resistant Starch Ingestion on Energy Intake or Postprandial Lipemia in Overweight or Obese Subjects.
• "Contrary to the initial hypothesis, the presence of an exercise companion while exercising was neither a positive or negative psychological distraction, as there was no overall significant change in exercise performance...".
• "Contrary to hypotheses, individuals with comorbid SUD [substance use disorder] and ED [eating disorder] evidenced slightly larger improvements in certain areas of eating pathology and affect dysregulation throughout treatment than those with ED diagnosis only."
• "Contrary to hypotheses, body dissatisfaction did not vary based on racial identity, and no significant relationships existed between body dissatisfaction, and strength of endorsement of ethnic identity or adherence to Asian cultural values."
• “Results Suggest That, Contrary to Earlier Work, Overall Social Media Use May Not Negatively Impact BD [body Dissatisfaction] as Previously Thought”.
• "...contrary to expectation, those with suboptimal biochemical control (with higher TSH) showed increased BAT activation."
• A Diet Containing High- Versus Low-daidzein Does Not Affect Bone Density and Osteogenic Gene Expression in the Obese Zucker Rat Model.
• "Low-volume HIIT [high intensity interval training], therefore, appears to be a time-efficient treatment for increasing fitness, but not for the improvement of body composition."

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Exceptional Reported Effects and Data Anomalies Merit Explanation From “A Randomized Controlled Trial of Coordination Exercise on Cognitive Function in Obese Adolescents” By Liu et al. (2018).
• Conducting Exercise Trials for Obese Adolescents Within the Effectiveness Setting: A Response with Commentary to Ejima et al. (2019).
• Investigation of Risk of Bias Due to Unreported and SelecTively Included Results in Meta-analyses of Nutrition Research: The ROBUST Study Protocol.
• Agreement Between the Cochrane Risk of Bias Tool and Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) Scale: A Meta-epidemiological Study of RCTs of Physical Therapy Interventions.

Basic

• Five Months of Voluntary Wheel Running Downregulates Skeletal Muscle LINE-1 Gene Expression in Rats.
• Activation of Peroxisome Proliferator-activated Receptor Gamma/small Heterodimer Partner Pathway Prevents High Fat Diet-induced Obesity and Hepatic Steatosis in Sprague–Dawley Rats Fed Soybean Meal.
• The Clinical Potential of Circulating MicroRNAs in Obesity.

Clinical

• Does HealthAtEvery Size® Fit All? A Group-based Trajectory Modeling of a Non-diet Intervention.
• RCT: OnTrack, a Just-in-time Adaptive Intervention Designed to Enhance Weight Loss.
• Meta-Analysis: The Effectiveness of Intermittent Fasting to Reduce BMI and Glucose Metabolism.

Children and Adolescents

• Metabolic Response to Exercise in Childhood Brain Tumor Survivors: A Pilot Controlled Study.
• Emotion Identification in Preschool and Early Adolescent BMI: Exploring the Roles of Depressive Symptoms and Peer Relations.
• Urinary Biomarkers of Inflammation and Oxidative Stress are Elevated in Obese Children and Correlate with a Marker of Endothelial Dysfunction.
• Chronotype, Social Jet Lag, and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Early Adolescence.

Surgery

• Visceral Obesity is a Preoperative Risk Factor for Postoperative Ileus After Surgery for Colorectal Cancer: Single‐institution Retrospective Analysis.
• Simulation of Gastric Bypass Effects on Glucose Metabolism and Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease with the Sleeveballoon Device.

Drugs

• Therapeutic Treatment for Controlling Childhood Obesity.
• The Benefit of Short-Term Weight Loss with Anti-Obesity Medications in Real-World Clinical Practice.
• Benefit-Risk Assessment of Obesity Drugs: Focus on Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists.
• Antiobesity Medication Use in 2.2 Million Adults Across Eight Large Health Care Organizations: 2009‐2015.

Food & Diet

• Meta-Analysis: Processed Meat Intake and Chronic Disease Morbidity and Mortality.
• RCT: A Moderate-Fat Diet with One Avocado Per Day Increases Plasma Antioxidants and Decreases the Oxidation of Small, Dense LDL in Adults with Overweight and Obesity.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Impact of Caloric Restriction on Peripheral Nerve Injury‐induced Neuropathic Pain During Aging in Mice.
• Gestational Caloric Restriction with Micronutrients Supplementation Does Not Delay Development and Promotes Feeding Behavior Benefits.
• A Nutritional Memory Effect Counteracts the Benefits of Dietary Restriction in Old Mice.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Systematic Review: Effectiveness of Prison-Based Exercise Training Programs.
• RCT: Couples-Based Approach for Increasing Physical Activity Among Adults with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Consensus Statement: Exercise Guidelines for Cancer Survivors.
• Meta-Analysis: The Effect of Yoga Practice on Glycemic Control and Other Health Parameters in the Prediabetic State.
• Lipid Metabolism Links Nutrient-exercise Timing to Insulin Sensitivity in Men Classified as Overweight or Obese.

Economics & Sociology

• Road Network Intersection Density and Childhood Obesity Risk in the US: A National Longitudinal Study.
• Meta-Analysis: Socioeconomic Status Throughout Life and BMI.
• Neighborhood-Level Analysis on the Impact of Accessibility to Fast Food and Open Green Spaces on the Prevalence of Obesity.
• The Call of the Wild: Rethinking Food Production in Ancient Amazonia.
• The Heavy Burden of Obesity.

Epidemiology

• Cognitive Restraint and History of Dieting are Negatively Associated with Organic Food Consumption in a Large Population-Based Sample of Organic Food Consumers.
• Adiposity and Asthma in Adults: A Bidirectional Mendelian Randomisation Analysis of the HUNT Study.
• Association of Bulimia Nervosa with Long-term Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality Among Women.
• BMI, Triglycerides and Risk of Acute Pancreatitis: A Population-based Study of 118,000 Individuals.
• Weight Change Across Adulthood in Relation to All Cause and Cause Specific Mortality: Prospective Cohort Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Evaluation of the Correlation of the Effects of Obesity in the Quality of Social Life.
• The Effect of Food Anticipation on Cognitive Function: An Eye Tracking Study.
• Differences in Neurocognitive Performance and Metabolic and Inflammatory Indices in Male Adults with Obesity as a Function of Regular Exercise.
• Mediation of Emotional and External Eating Between Dieting and Food Intake or BMI Gain in Women.

Equity and Disparities

• Systematic Review: Sexual Orientation Disparities in Disordered Eating and Weight-Related Behaviors Among Adolescents and Young Adults: Toward a Developmental Model.
• Underpinnings of Entangled Ethnical and Gender Inequalities in Obesity in Cochabamba-Bolivia: An Intersectional Approach.
• Association of Cardiovascular Disease with Premature Mortality in the United States.

Stigma

• Body Weight, Body Weight Perception, and Bullying Among Adolescents in Malaysia.
• Responding Positively to “children Who Like to Eat”: Parents’ Experiences of Skills-based Treatment for Childhood Obesity.
• Perceptions, Relationship, and Management of Morbidly Obese Patients and the Role of Robotic Surgery.
• Weigh More, Pay More? Public Opinion on Varying Health Insurance Contributions Among Divergent Weight Groups.
• Pediatric Weight Bias in Prehealth Profession Undergraduates: An Idiographic Approach.
• Book Chapter: Empathy and Ethics.
• Weight Status or Weight Stigma? Obesity Stereotypes—Not Excess Weight—Reduce Working Memory in School-aged Children.

Policy Related

• Neighborhood-Level Analysis on the Impact of Accessibility to Fast Food and Open Green Spaces on the Prevalence of Obesity.
• Outcomes From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2018 Breastfeeding Report Card: Public Policy Implications.
• Harnessing Knowledge for Improving Access to Fruits and Vegetables at Farmers Markets: Interactive Data Visualization to Inform Food Security Programs and Policy.
• Addressing Health and Well-Being Through State Policy: Understanding Barriers and Opportunities for Policy-Making to Prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in South Carolina.
• The Impact of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes on Purchases: Evidence From Four City-Level Taxes in the U.S.
• Generating Health in New York City.
• Understanding and Use of Food Labeling Systems Among Whites and Latinos in the United States and Among Mexicans: Results From the International Food Policy Study, 2017.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Prenatal Stress Phenotypes Associate with Fetal Neurodevelopment and Birth Outcomes.
• Preconception Lifestyle and Cardiovascular Health in the Offspring of Overweight and Obese Women.
• Maternal Exposure to Environmental Disruptors and Sexually-Dimorphic Changes in Maternal and Neonatal Oxidative Stress.
• Effects of Social Exclusion and Maternal Rejection on Children's High-caloric Food Consumption.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Effects of Temperature and Meal Size on the Postprandial Metabolic Response of Leptodactylus Latrans (Anura, Leptodactylidae).
• Naked Mole Rats Reduce the Expression of ATP-dependent but Not ATP-independent Heat Shock Proteins in Acute Hypoxia.

Methods

• Identifying Athlete Body Fluid Changes During a Competitive Season with Bioelectrical Impedance Vector Analysis.
• Evaluating Steady-state Resting Energy Expenditure Using Indirect Calorimetry in Adults with Overweight and Obesity.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Simple Methods to Obtain Food Listing and Portion Size Distribution Estimates for Use in Semi-quantitative Dietary Assessment Methods.
• Mathematical Model of Diabetes and Lipid Metabolism Linked to Diet, Leptin Sensitivity, Insulin Sensitivity and VLDLTG Clearance Predicts Paths to Health and Type II Diabetes.

Commentary

• Neglecting Major Health Problems and Broadcasting Minor, Uncertain Issues in Lifestyle Science.
• Big Baby Food: Hooked on Sugar, Salt, and Fat.
• Time to Say Goodbye… to the “Household Measure” BMI?
• Fewer Birth Defects After Bypass Surgery.
• Sauropods Get a New Diet and a New Look.
• Pope Francis: Food for Profit at Any Cost.
• Are Women Eating Enough Protein?
• Why You Should Be Skeptical About Diets Tailored for Your DNA.
• Can Happy Rats Tell Us Something About Obesity?
• New PLOS ONE Statistical Reporting Guidelines.

General

• Ketone Administration for Seizure Disorders: History and Rationale for Ketone Esters and Metabolic Alternatives.
• Deconstructing Evolutionary Game Theory: Coevolution of Social Behaviors with Their Evolutionary Setting.
• Effects of Diabetes-related Stimuli on Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase Expression.
• "This year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences honors three researchers who pioneered the use of randomized controlled trials to determine how best to ameliorate global poverty."
• The Nature of Moral Motivation.
• Informational Nudges and Public Goods in Networks.
• Investigating Human Fertility Problems Via the Water Flea.
• Automated Study Challenges the Existence of a Foundational Statistical-Learning Ability in Newborn Chicks.
• RCT: Listening to Recorded Music is a Beneficial Distraction for Children Experiencing Pain During ER Procedures.
• Socially Transmitted Placebo Effects.
• Careless Citations Don't Just Spread Scientific Myths – They Can Make Them Stronger.
• Cooking Shapes the Structure and Function of the Gut Microbiome.
• Mice with Hyper-long Telomeres Show Less Metabolic Aging and Longer Lifespans.

Video & Audio

• Audio: Lifestyle Science and Health News: Neglecting Major Health Problems in Favor of Minor Uncertain Exposures.
• Video: What Happens in Your Brain When You Taste Food.

Announcements

• Will You Be at APHA in Philadelphia? Please Join Us for Our Reception.
• IU Dining Launches 2 Food Trucks in Bloomington.
• Center for Rural Engagement's Emerging Model for Arts and Cultural Partnerships Earns National Award.
• Public Notification: Skinny Pill Contains Hidden Drug Ingredient.
• European and International Congress on Obesity @ Dublin, Ireland (May 17-20, 2020).
• Symposium on Food Systems, Nutrition & the Microbiome @ Duke University (Nov 12).
• Fellowship: AHA's Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• Fellowship: UAB Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Seeking Executive Director of Development: The Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington is Searching for an Energetic and Successful Development Professional to Join Our Team.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for Multiple Tenured/tenure-track Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Positions.
• The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Indiana University School of Public Health‐Bloomington (SPH‐B) Invites Applications for the Position of Chair and Tenured Full Professor.

Featured

• Impact of Dietary Sucrose on Adiposity and Glucose Homeostasis in C57BL/6J Mice Depends on Mode of Ingestion: Liquid or Solid.
• TOR Inhibition Interrupts the Metabolic Homeostasis By Shifting the Carbon–nitrogen Balance in Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii.
• Foraging Theory and the Propensity to Be Obese: An Alternative to Thrift.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Father’s Nutritional Pattern Affects Child’s Cardiovascular Health.
• Study: Paternal Diet Impairs F1 and F2 Offspring Vascular Function Through Sperm and Seminal Plasma Specific Mechanisms… in Mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Providing Mothers with a Pedometer and Did Not Significantly Effect on the Physical Activity of Their Children.
• RCT: "The two groups using scales also significantly increased their BMI."
• Contrary to Expectations, Bivariate Mixed Model Analysis Revealed that More Active Individuals [fish] Had Lower RMR (r = −.58) After Accounting for Mass Effects and Other Covariates.
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, we observed no difference in the magnitude of hypertrophy between WT and KI [eukaryotic initiation factor 4E (eIF4E) knocked-in] groups in response to 14 days of mechanical overload induced by synergistic ablation."
• "Contrary to our hypotheses, a HFM [high fat meal] did not elicit PPI [inflammation] in YA or OA."
• Metabolic Abnormalities, but Not Obesity Per Se, Associated with Chronic Kidney Disease in a Taiwanese Population.
• Change in Hepatic Fat Content Measured By MRI Does Not Predict Treatment-induced Histological Improvement of Steatohepatitis.
• Abstract: "Caffeine but not sugar or color impact [associates with] beverage preference among elementary students."

Basic

• Postprandial Oxidative Metabolism of Human Brown Fat Indicates Thermogenesis.
• Bisphenol AF Promotes Inflammation in Human White Adipocytes.
• Trimethylamine N-Oxide Binds and Activates PERK to Promote Metabolic Dysfunction.
• A Short-term Feeding of Dietary Casein Increases Abundance of Lactococcus Lactis and Upregulates Gene Expression Involving Obesity Prevention in Cecum of Young Rats Compared with Dietary Chicken Protein.
• Transgenerational Obesity and Healthy Aging in Drosophila. (pdf)

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter: Trends in Type 2 Diabetes.
• Letter: Letter: Trends in Type 2 Diabetes.
• Comment: Sugar Consumption and T2D in the US.
• Errors or Irreproducibility in Effect Size Calculations and Incomplete Reporting of Results in “Systematic Review of the Effects of Blueberry on Cognitive Performance as We Age”.
• There is No Meta-Analytic Evidence of Blueberries Improving Cognitive Performance or Mood.
• In Response to “There is No Meta-Analytic Evidence of Blueberries Improving Cognitive Performance or Mood”.

Clinical

• RCT: Web-based Intervention to Increase Weight Loss Treatment Initiation.
• The Challenge of Stratifying Obesity: Attempts in the Quebec Family Study.

Children and Adolescents

• Associations Between Breastfeeding Duration and Overweight/obese Among Children Aged 5–10: A Focus on Racial/ethnic Disparities in California.
• Circannual Growth in Wisconsin Children and Adolescents: Identifying Optimal Periods of Obesity Prevention.
• Role of Appetitive Phenotype Trajectory Groups on Child Body Weight During a Family-based Treatment for Children with Overweight or Obesity.
• Child and Maternal BMI and Maternal Education Predict Overweight/obesity Onset and Resolution By Adolescence.

Surgery

• A Comparison of the Effects of Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass and Sleeve Gastrectomy on Body Mass Composition as Measured By Air Displacement Plethysmography.
• Sex-Specific Glucose Homeostasis and Anthropometric Responses to Sleeve Gastrectomy.
• Association of Maternal Gastric Bypass Surgery with Offspring Birth Defects.

Drugs

• Glucagon-like Peptide-1-t3 Conjugates.
• Gender-Related Issues in the Pharmacology of New Anti-Obesity Drugs.
• Childhood Obesity: Pharmacokinetics Considerations for Drugs Used in the Intensive Care Unit.

Food & Diet

• Effect of a Nutritional and Behavioral Intervention on Energy-Reduced Mediterranean Diet Adherence Among Patients with Metabolic Syndrome.
• Understanding the Protein Transition: The Rise of Plant-based Meat Substitutes.
• From Agribusiness to Food Democracy: Comparative Study on Agricultural Policy and Organic Farming in France and in Japan.
• Commentary: The Competing Interests Fueling Nutrition Controversy.
• What do the Studies on Red Meat Mean?

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Impact of Energy Turnover on Fat Balance in Healthy Young Men During Energy Balance, Caloric Restriction and Overfeeding.
• Adaptive Effects of Gestational Caloric Restriction in the Mitochondria of Wistar Rats’ Brain: A DOHaD Approach.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Relationship Between Weight Status and Cognition in Children: A Mediation Analysis of Physical Fitness Components.
• Comparison of Cardiorespiratory Fitness Between Preschool Children with Normal and Excess Body Adipose. An Observational Study.
• Maternal Physical Activity Prevents the Overexpression of Hypoxia-inducible Factor 1-α and Cardiorespiratory Dysfunction in Protein Malnourished Rats.

Economics & Sociology

• Hotspots of Childhood Obesity in a Large Metropolitan Area: Does Neighbourhood Social and Built Environment Play a Part?
• Stability of Differences in Weight-Related Characteristics of Mothers Across Economic, Cultural, Social, and Environmental-Health Indicators of Socioeconomic Status.

Epidemiology

• Association of BMI with Life Expectancy with and Without Cardiovascular Disease.
• Road Network Intersection Density and Childhood Obesity Risk in the US: A National Longitudinal Study.
• Association of Total Sedentary Behaviour and Television Viewing with Risk of Overweight/obesity, Type 2 Diabetes and Hypertension: A Dose–response Meta‐analysis.
• The Association Between Obesity and Secular Trend of Stature: A Nationwide Study of 2.8 Million Adolescents Over Five Decades.
• Phenotypic and Genetic Analysis of an Adult Cohort with Extreme Obesity.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Preprint: Translation of Laboratory Research Into Behavioral Interventions for Obesity and Problem Drinking: The Experimental Medicine Approach.
• Rethinking Food Reward.
• Effects of Working Memory on Naturally Occurring Cravings.
• Essay: Making Peace with Imperfection.

Equity and Disparities

• Systematic review: Influence of Maternal Prepregnancy Obesity and Excessive Gestational Weight Gain on Maternal and Child Gastrointestinal Microbiome Composition.
• Socio-economic and Ethnic Disparities of Malnutrition in All Its Forms in Guatemala.
• Ethnic Differences in Hepatic, Pancreatic, Muscular and Visceral Fat Deposition in Healthy Men of White European and Black West African Ethnicity.

Stigma

• Psychological Perspectives on Obesity: Addressing Policy, Practice, and Research Priorities.
• Weigh More, Pay More? Public Opinion on Varying Health Insurance Contributions Among Divergent Weight Groups.

Policy Related

• FDA Publishes Food Safety Standard Revisions.
• Aging in Mexico: Obesity.
• The Heavy Burden of Obesity: The Economics of Prevention.

Intergenerational Effects

• The Effect of Maternal High-fat/high-sugar Diet on Offspring Oocytes and Early Embryo Development. (pdf)
• Increased Maternal Prenatal Adiposity, Inflammation, and Lower Omega-3 Fatty Acid Levels Influence Child Negative Affect.
• Maternal Cardiometabolic Markers are Associated with Fetal Growth.
• Influence of Maternal Prepregnancy Obesity and Excessive Gestational Weight Gain on Maternal and Child Gastrointestinal Microbiome Composition.
• Association Between Maternal Exposure to Lead, Maternal Folate Status, and Intergenerational Risk of Childhood Overweight and Obesity.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Maternal Obesity Accelerates Rat Offspring Metabolic Aging in a Sex Dependent Manner.
• Narrative Review: The Impact of Time of Day on Energy Expenditure: Implications for Long-Term Energy Balance. (pdf)

Methods

• Hierarchies of Evidence Applied to Lifestyle Medicine (HEALM): Introduction of a Strength-of-evidence Approach Based on a Methodological Systematic Review.
• Food Craving, Seeking, and Consumption Behaviors: Conceptual Phases and Assessment Methods Used in Animal and Human Studies.
• Air Pollution and Child Obesity: Assessing the Feasibility of Measuring Personal PM2.5 Exposures and Behaviours Related to BMI in Preschool-aged Children in China.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Using Mathematical Models to Understand Causal Mechanisms Underlying Counterintuitive Epidemiological Data.
• Predictive Regression Modeling of Body Segment Parameters Using Individual-based Anthropometric Measurements.

Commentary

• Opinion: The latest flip-flop on red meat uses best science in place of best guesses.
• Nutrition Researchers are Battling Methodologists. What Does It Mean for What You’re Supposed to Eat?
• Government has "moral duty" to act on child obesity, says outgoing chief medical officer.
• The 10 Things Food Advocates Need to Know Before Working with a Supermarket.
• World Obesity Day: Stigma and Neglect at the Crux.
• Deceiving Consumers About What to Eat and Drink.
• It Was Never Really About Meat.
• Report: ACTION on Obesity – It’s About Time!
• On Red Meat Imbroglio: "One may wonder if we should stop nutritional research altogether until we can get it right."
• Why U.S. Cities are Banning New Fast-Food Drive-Throughs.
• Five Reasons the Diet Soda Myth Won’t Die.
• Is This Study Legit? Five Questions to Ask.
• Record High in Severe Childhood Obesity for the UK.

General

• Calcium Intake and Serum Calcium Level in Relation to the Risk of Ischemic Stroke: Findings From the REGARDS Study. (pdf)
• The Value of Failure in Science: The Story of Grandmother Cells in Neuroscience.
• How One NHS Anaesthetist is Fighting International Medical Research Fraud.
• A Code Glitch May Have Caused Errors in More than 100 Published Studies.
• Leisure Behavior and Sense of Coherence in the Context of Depression.
• Women's Sexual Satisfaction, Communication, and Reasons for (No Longer) Faking Orgasm: Findings From a U.S. Probability Sample.
• Inclusion of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems in Indoor Smoke-free Air Policies and Associated Vaping Behavior.
• Former NASA Scientist Says They Found Life on Mars in the 1970s.
• 20-Year Follow-up of Statins in Children with Familial Hypercholesterolemia.
• "Using our model, we find that 99.98% of Americans would be correctly re-identified in any dataset using 15 demographic attributes."
• Ten-Year Outcome of Islet Alone or Islet After Kidney Transplantation in Type 1 Diabetes: A Prospective Parallel-Arm Cohort Study.
• Preprint: Investigating the Reproducibility of Meta-Analyses in Psychology.

Video & Audio

• How Food Effects Your Brain.
• The Leading Voices in Food Podcast Series.

Announcements

• Cellular Oxygen Sensor System Earns Nobel for Trio.
• Fellowship: AHA's Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• Fellowship: UAB Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Seeking Executive Director of Development: The Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington is Searching for an Energetic and Successful Development Professional to Join Our Team.
• The Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington Invites Applications for Multiple Tenured/tenure-track Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Positions.
• The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Indiana University School of Public Health‐Bloomington (SPH‐B) Invites Applications for the Position of Chair and Tenured Full Professor.