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Featured

• A Trial Comparing Emergency Front of Neck Airway Performance in a Novel Obese-synthetic Neck, Meat-modified Obese Neck and Conventional Slim Manikin.
• Illustration of Measurement Error Models for Reducing Biases in Nutrition and Obesity Research Using 2D Body Composition Data.
• Metformin Prolongs Lifespan Through Remodeling the Energy Distribution Strategy in Silkworm, Bombyx Mori.
• Meta-Analysis: “This Study Suggests that the Addition of Breakfast Might Not Be a Good Strategy for Weight Loss, Regardless of Established Breakfast Habit”.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Here's the Simple Way to Lose Weight and Keep It Off, According to Science.
• Study: Multiple Studies Cited, None Demonstrating Simplicity, None Establishing Weight Kept Off. Interesting Mechanistic Results Like This Study.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: A School-Based Comprehensive Intervention for Childhood Obesity in China did not mitigate excess weight gain.
• RCT: “An education and nutritional counseling program for overweight women, starting after 3 months of gestation, did not significantly change post-natal excessive weight gain of infants or prevent overweight in mothers and children 2 years after delivery”.
• No Strong Evidence Supporting Effectiveness of Diabetes Self-Management Education Programs for US Latinos at Improving Emotional Distress: A Systematic Review.
• Rate of Weight Loss Not Associated with Health Outcomes After Controlling for Total Weight Loss.
• RCT: "There is no benefit of maintaining serum 25(OH)D above 30 ng/mL compared with the Institute of Medicine recommendation (20 ng/mL) in preventing falls in healthy older black American women."
• RCT: No Significant Effects on Mood and Quality of Life Changes in Pregnancy and Postpartum of a Behavioral Intervention Targeting Excess Gestational Weight Gain in Women with Overweight and Obesity.
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Donor Milk Supplementation on Breastfeeding Outcomes in Term Newborns.
• RCT: Protein Timing Has No Effect on Lean Mass, Strength and Functional Capacity Gains Induced By Resistance Exercise in Postmenopausal Women.

Basic

• Improving Post-Operative Outcomes in Aged and Diabetic Obese Mice.
• Identification of Metabolic Pathways Related to the Bisphenol A-induced Adipogenesis in Differentiated Murine Adipocytes By Using RNA-sequencing.
• Omega 3 Rich Diet Modulates Energy Metabolism Via GPR120-Nrf2 Crosstalk in a Novel Antioxidant Mouse Model.
• Inflammation and ER Stress Differentially Regulate STAMP2 Expression and Localization in Adipocytes.
• Hyperoxia Improves Carbohydrate Metabolism By Browning of White Adipocytes in Obese Type 2 Diabetic Rats.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• The Cluster Fuss Continues with Two New Studies.
• Food Packaging Journal to Retract Paper By Researchers in Thailand.
• Total Recall: Brazilian Journal Issues “total Retraction” of Plagiarized Paper.
• ”EAT-Lancet Report is One-sided, Not Backed By Rigorous Science”.

Clinical

• Effect of Class III and Class IV Obesity on Oocyte Retrieval Complications and Outcomes.
• Patients' Autonomy as a Negotiated Order: An Ethnographic Perspective on the Clinical Management of Childhood Obesity.
• Emerging Cancer Trends Among Young Adults in the USA: Analysis of a Population-based Cancer Registry.

Children and Adolescents

• Food Insecurity and Maternal Morbidity During Pregnancy in the National Children's Study.
• Clinical Considerations Regarding the Use of Obesity Pharmacotherapy in Adolescents with Obesity.
• Patterns of BMI Milestones in Early Life and Cardiometabolic Risk in Early Adolescence.
• Where Children Live: Examining Whether Neighborhood Crime and Poverty is Associated with Overweight and Obesity Among Low-Income Preschool-Aged Primary Care Patients.

Surgery

• The Influence of Sleep Apnea Syndrome and Intermittent Hypoxia in Carotid Adventitial Vasa Vasorum.
• Diabetic Ketoacidosis Post Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• Psychiatric Adverse Events and Effects on Mood with Prolonged-release Naltrexone/bupropion Combination Therapy: A Pooled Analysis.
• RCT: Liraglutide Effects in a Paediatric (7‐11 Y) Population with Obesity.
• Linifanib Exerts Dual Anti-obesity Effect By Regulating Adipocyte Browning and Formation.
• Emerging Role of SGLT-2 Inhibitors for the Treatment of Obesity.

Food & Diet

• RCT: "liver and muscle fat deposition is enhanced when sucrose overfeeding is associated with a low protein, high fat diet compared to a high protein, low fat diet."
• The Ketogenic Diet Influences Taxonomic and Functional Composition of the Gut Microbiota in Children with Severe Epilepsy.
• Anticatabolic Effects of Ketone Bodies in Skeletal Muscle.

Caloric Restriction

• Effect of Caloric Restriction and Weight Loss on Energy Expenditure.
• Diverse Metabolic Reactions Activated During 58-hr Fasting are Revealed By Non-targeted Metabolomic Analysis of Human Blood.
• Impact of Intermittent Fasting (5:2) on Ketone Body Production in Healthy Female Subjects.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Accelerometer Compared with Questionnaire Measures of Physical Activity in Relation to Body Size and Composition.
• Improving Dietary Protein Quality Reduces the Negative Effects of Physical Inactivity on Body Composition and Muscle Function.
• Exercise and the Timing of Snack Choice: Healthy Snack Choice is Reduced in the Post-Exercise State.
• Moderate Intensity Aerobic Exercise Improves Skeletal Muscle Quality in Older Adults.
• Effect of Combining Pre‐exercise Carbohydrate Intake and Repeated Short Sprints on the Blood Glucose Response to Moderate‐intensity Exercise in Young Individuals with Type 1 Diabetes.

Economics & Sociology

• Social Determinants and Non-communicable Diseases [including Obesity]: Time for Integrated Action.
• Macroeconomic Fluctuations, Changes in Lifestyles and Mortality From Diabetes: A Quasiexperimental Study.
• Effect of Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Status on Overweight and Obesity in Children 2–15 Years of Different Ethnic Groups.

Epidemiology

• The Obesity Transition: Stages of the Global Epidemic.
• Ambient Air Pollution and Overweight and Obesity in School-aged Children in Barcelona, Spain.
• Breast Cancer Risk After Caloric Restriction During the 1944–1945 Dutch Famine.
• Metabolic Health is More Closely Associated with Decrease in Lung Function than Obesity.
• Mendelian Randomization Provides Support for Obesity as a Risk Factor for Meningioma.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Effects of Majority and Minority Peer Cues Shown Within an Audiovisual Cartoon on Children's Healthy Food Choice.
• Change in Domain-specific but Not General Psychological Flexibility Relates to Greater Weight Loss in Acceptance-Based Behavioral Treatment for Obesity.
• Food Insecurity Among Hispanic/Latino Youth: Who is at Risk and What are the Health Correlates?
• Stress and Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• Increasing Disparities in Unhealthy Food Advertising Targeted to Hispanic and Black Youth. (pdf)
• Health Inequalities: Embodied Evidence Across Biological Layers.
• Education Attainment and Obesity: Differential Returns Based on Sexual Orientation.
• Health Behaviors and Related Disparities of Insured Adults with a Health Care Provider in the United States, 2015–2016.
• Association of Community Food Environment and Obesity Among US Adults: A Geographical Information System Analysis.
• Determinants of Severe Maternal Morbidity and Its Racial/Ethnic Disparities in New York City, 2008–2012.
• Prevalence and Factors Affecting Underweight, Overweight and Obesity Using Asian and World Health Organization Cutoffs Among Adults in Nepal: Analysis of the Demographic and Health Survey 2016.

Ethics

• Ethical considerations in the prevention of childhood obesity. (pdf)
• "I advocate for socially just change processes and for weightism to be considered an identity worthy of consideration as a social justice issue."

Stigma

• Mediated Effects of Eating Disturbances in the Association of Perceived Weight Stigma and Emotional Distress.
• Wage and Obesity: A New Look Into Generation Y.
• Intergenerational Association of Maternal Obesity and Child Peer Victimization in the United States.
• Association Between Body Weight Status and Suicidal Ideation Among Chinese Adolescents.

Policy Related

• Modelling the Impact of a Tax on Sweetened Beverages in the Philippines: An Extended Cost–effectiveness Analysis.
• Urban Food Environments in Africa: Implications for Policy and Research.
• Driving Policy Change to Improve Micronutrient Status in Women of Reproductive Age and Children in Southeast Asia: The SMILING Project.

Intergenerational Effects

• Lean Maternal Hyperglycemia Alters Offspring Lipid Metabolism and Susceptibility to Diet-Induced Obesity in Mice.
• Maternal Metabolic Factors During Pregnancy Predict Early Childhood Growth Trajectories and Obesity Risk.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Giant Pandas May Have Only Recently Switched to Eating Mostly Bamboo.
• Persistent Metabolic Youth in the Aging Female Brain.
• Transitions Between Foot Postures are Associated with Elevated Rates of Body Size Evolution in Mammals.

Methods

• Are Dietary Restraint Scales Valid Measures of Acute Dietary Restriction? Unobtrusive Observational Data Suggest Not.
• Accuracy of Self-Report Versus Objective Smart-Scale Weights During 12-Week Weight Management Intervention.
• Validation of an Equation for Energy Expenditure that Does Not Require the Respiratory Quotient.
• The Water-Fat Separation Method for Determining the Fat-free Component of Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue in Humans: A Brief Review.
• Body Fat Loss Automatically Reduces Lean Mass By Changing the Fat‐Free Component of Adipose Tissue.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Stability Analysis of Mathematical Model on the Effect of Modern Lifestyles Towards the Immune System. (pdf)
• Dynamic Energy Balance and Obesity Prevention.
• Predictive Modeling of Obesity Prevalence for the U.S. Population.

Commentary

• Positive Thinking Shows Power in Preventing Diabetes.
• How Weight Bias is Harming Us All.
• Study Review Questions Link Between Breakfast and Weight.
• Eating Breakfast is Not a Good Weight Loss Strategy, Scientists Confirm.
• Sad State of American Hearts.

General

• Including Phenotypic Causal Networks in Genome-Wide Association Studies Using Mixed Effects Structural Equation Models.
• Insights From Genomes Into the Evolutionary Importance and Prevalence of Hybridization in Nature.
• Freedom, Civility, Commerce: Contemporary Media and the Public.
• “Colors and Kindness”: Nature Photography as a Means to Support Academic Skill Development of Elementary Students at Risk.
• Inclusion of Older Adults in Research: Ensuring Relevance, Feasibility, and Rigor.
• The Evidence Project Risk of Bias Tool: Assessing Study Rigor for Both Randomized and Non-randomized Intervention Studies.
• AALAS Seminar Series: The Laboratory Animal Medical Professional’s Guide to How the 3R’s Enhance Rigor and Reproducibility.
• Some Journals, and Some Reviewers, Request a Calculation of Statistical Power Based on the Observed Effect Size After a Study Has Been Carried Out. This is Fundamentally Flawed.
• The Arrogance of Public Health Advocacy.

Announcements

• Final Call for Abstracts: Nutrition 2019 Due February 15.
• IU Bloomington: Researcher Contributes to Prominent Journal’s First Special Section on Bisexual Health.
• NORC of UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Research Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• IU School of Public Health-Bloomington Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track Positions Available in Every Department and Two Department Chairs Open: See Multiple Listings Posted Here.

Featured

• The Impact of Early-life Sub-therapeutic Antibiotic Treatment (STAT) on Excessive Weight is Robust Despite Transfer of Intestinal Microbes.
• Human Semaphorin 3 Variants Link Melanocortin Circuit Development and Energy Balance.
• Processed Foods and Food Reward.
• A Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis of the Effectiveness of Meal Replacements for Weight Loss.
• Flexibility, Variability and Constraint in Energy Management Patterns Across Vertebrate Taxa Revealed By Long‐term Heart Rate Measurements.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: TV Cereal Ads Increase Young Kids' Risk of Obesity, Cancer: Study.
• Study: Associations Between Exposure to Child-Directed TV Advertising and Preschoolers’ Intake of Advertised Cereals. No Obesity or Cancer Measured.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "We found no evidence for effectiveness of a 6‐months preschool‐based exercise program on hemodynamics, anthropometrics, activity or motor skills, but lack of process evaluations and poor fidelity preclude interpretation of the causal relation."
• RCT: "After three months of intervention, LFHC–AC, LFHC–C and LCHF diets, designed to be isocaloric, isoproteinic and normo–caloric, resulted in overall similar changes in markers of atherogenic dyslipidaemia and other lipid–related cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk markers, and similar reductions in body weight, BMI, WC and WHtR..."
• RCT: The Probiotics Used in This Study Did Not Prevent GDM in Overweight and Obese Pregnant Women.
• RCT: "Moderate to vigorous physical activity improved in intervention participants relative to usual care, but the difference was not statistically significant."
• "contrary to expectations, the three [REDDIT] communities present the same behavior pattern in a general point of view, which facilitates the development of non-directed online weight loss intervention strategies."
• "Contrary to previous work, we found no significant effect of resource availability, diet, flight type, migratory status or body mass on the non‐migratory movements of birds."
• "Beginning with 762 girls at age 11, the MEBS’ Body Dissatisfaction (BD) and Weight Preoccupation (WP) scales ...predicted significantly reduced growth in all MEBS scales and also predicted significantly reduced growth in BMI... [and] did not predict development of an ED."
• Dietary Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Influence Flight Muscle Oxidative Capacity, but Not Endurance Flight Performance in a Migratory Songbird.
• "This joint population PK analysis demonstrated reduced systemic COC [combined oral contraceptive] exposure in obese subjects (Cmax and AUCτ), but no difference in trough LNG [levonorgestrel] and EE [ethinyl estradiol] concentrations"

Basic

• Energy Oversupply to Tissues: A Single Mechanism Possibly Underlying Multiple Cancer Risk Factors.
• Zfp238 Regulates the Thermogenic Program in Cooperation with Foxo1.
• Gut Microbial Metabolites in Obesity, NAFLD and T2DM.
• SOCS3 in POMC Neurons Influences Metabolic and Cardiovascular Regulation in Mice.
• Elevated Leptin Disrupts Epithelial Polarity and Promotes Premalignant Alterations in the Mammary Gland.
• Cellular Repressor of E1A-Stimulated Genes 1 (CREG1) Promotes Uncoupling Protein 1 Expression and Brown Adipogenesis in Vitro.
• Effect of Adipocyte-Derived IGF-I on Adipose Tissue Mass and Glucose Metabolism in the Berlin Fat Mouse.
• Liver Derived FGF21 Maintains Core Body Temperature During Acute Cold Exposure.
• Deficiency of the Mitochondrial Glycerol 3‐Phosphate Dehydrogenase Contributes to Hepatic Steatosis.
• The Translational Regulator FMRP Controls Lipid and Glucose Metabolism in Mice and Humans.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• A Cluster Fuss in Obesity Studies.
• After University Goes Silent, Diabetes Journal Retracts Three Papers.
• Cutting Sugar Clears Up Liver Disease in Children?
• A Look at the EAT-Lancet Report: Can a Near-Vegan Diet Save the Planet and Feed the World?
• When an Impact Does Not Cause an Effect.
• Ensuring Trust in Nutrition Science: Request for Stakeholder Input.
• Best Practices in Nutrition Science to Earn and Keep the Public's Trust.
• Retraction: Food Security in Indigenous and Peasant Populations - a Systematic Review.

Clinical

• The Increasing Prevalence of Obesity in Residents of U.S. Nursing Homes: 2005–2015.
• How Should We Approach and Discuss Children’s Weight with Parents? A Qualitative Analysis of Recommendations From Parents of Preschool-Aged Children to Physicians.
• The ‘obesity Paradox’ in Action with Cancer Immunotherapy.

Children and Adolescents

• Long and Short of It: Early Response Predicts Longer‐Term Outcomes in Pediatric Weight Management.
• Home and Family Environment Related to Development of Obesity: A 21-Year Longitudinal Study.
• Diet Quality on Days Without Breakfast or Lunch – Identifying Targets to Improve Adolescents’ Diet.
• Are Children with Clinical Obesity at Increased Risk of Inpatient Hospital Admissions? An Analysis Using Linked Electronic Health Records in the UK Millennium Cohort Study.

Surgery

• Recent Trends in Intensive Treatments of Obesity: Is Academic Research Matching Public Interest?
• Virtual Reality Single-Port Sleeve Gastrectomy Training Decreases Physical and Mental Workload in Novice Surgeons.
• Ongoing Inconsistencies in Weight Loss Reporting Following Bariatric Surgery: A Systematic Review.

Drugs

• RCT: Efficacy and Safety of Oral Basal Insulin Versus Subcutaneous Insulin Glargine in Type 2 Diabetes.
• Clinical Considerations Regarding the Use of Obesity Pharmacotherapy in Adolescents with Obesity.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Effect of a Low Free Sugar Diet vs Usual Diet on Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Adolescent Boys.
• "Nearly a quarter (23.4%) of working adults obtained foods at work during the week, and the foods they obtained averaged 1,292 kcal per person per week."
• Canada’s New Food Guide.
• Carbon Footprint of Self-selected US Diets: Nutritional, Demographic, and Behavioral Correlates.
• Food Portion Size Influences Accompanying Beverage Selection in Adults.

Caloric Restriction

• REVIEW: Dietary Restriction and Neuroinflammation: A Potential Mechanistic Link.
• Caloric Restriction Prevents the Development of Airway Hyperresponsiveness in Mice on a High Fat Diet.
• Dietary Restriction and Gonadal Signaling Differentially Regulate Post‐development Quality Control Functions in Caenorhabditis Elegans.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Prevalence of Low Back Pain Among Adolescents in Relation to the Weight of School Bags.
• We found no evidence for effectiveness of a 6‐months preschool‐based exercise program on hemodynamics, anthropometrics, activity or motor skills."
• Correlates of Light Physical Activity Among Cancer Survivors.
• Measuring Change in Trials of Physical Activity Interventions: A Comparison of Self-report Questionnaire and Accelerometry Within the PACE-UP Trial.
• Effects of Exergaming on Motor Skill Competence, Perceived Competence, and Physical Activity in Preschool Children.

Economics & Sociology

• Neighborhood Racial/ethnic Segregation and BMI: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Multi-ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
• The Association Between Baseline Acculturation Level and 5-year Change in Adiposity Among Puerto Ricans Living on the Mainland United States.
• Overweight/obesity Among Social Network Members Has an Inverse Relationship with Baltimore Public Housing Residents' BMI.

Epidemiology

• Long-term Metabolic Effects of a High Birth Weight.
• Housing and Health: New Evidence Using Biomarker Data.
• "The frequency and prevalence of key cardiovascular risk factors, particularly diabetes and obesity, continue to increase in US adults..."
• Estimating Effect of Obesity on Stroke Using G-Estimation.
• Residential Relocation and Obesity After a Natural Disaster: A Natural Experiment From the 2011 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.
• Progressive Increases in Fat Mass Occur in Adults Living with HIV on Antiretroviral Therapy, but Patterns Differ By Sex and Anatomic Depot.
• Genetic Architecture of Human Thinness Compared to Severe Obesity.
• Repurposing Large Health Insurance Claims Data to Estimate Genetic and Environmental Contributions in 560 Phenotypes.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Metabolically Healthy Status and BMI in Relation to Depression: A Systematic Review of Observational Studies.
• Assessment of Bidirectional Relationships Between Physical Activity and Depression Among Adults - a 2-Sample Mendelian Randomization Study.
• Personality Traits and Diabetes Incidence Among Postmenopausal Women.
• Test-retest Reliability of Attention Bias for Food: Robust Eye-tracking and Reaction Time Indices.
• Alterations in BMI and Waist-to-hip Ratio in Never and Minimally Treated Patients with Psychosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Insulin Action in the Brain Regulates Mitochondrial Stress Responses and Reduces Diet-induced Weight Gain.

Equity and Disparities

• Heterogeneity in Response to Treatment of Adolescents with Severe Obesity: The Need for Precision Obesity Medicine.
• Parental Perceptions of Child’s Medical Care and Neighborhood and Child’s Behavioral Risk Factors for Obesity in U.S. Children By BMI Classification.
• Is the Impact of Conventional Risk Factors the Same in Men and Women? Plea for a More Gender-specific Approach.

Ethics

• Viewpoint: Navigating the Ethical Boundaries of Grateful Patient Fundraising.
• Comment: Ethical Issues Involved in Grateful Patient Fundraising.
• Reply: Ethical Issues Involved in Grateful Patient Fundraising.

Policy Related

• Perceived Causes of Obesity, Emotions, and Attitudes About Discrimination Policy.
• Translating Research Findings Into Useful Policy for Noncommunicable Disease Control in the Caribbean.
• Effects of Health Star Labelling on the Healthiness of Adults' Fast Food Meal Selections: An Experimental Study.
• Interventional Effects of Weight-Loss Policy in a Healthy City Among Participants with Metabolic Syndrome.
• Cost-Effectiveness of a US National Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax with a Multistakeholder Approach: Who Pays and Who Benefits.

Intergenerational Effects

• Role of Gestational Weight Gain, Gestational Diabetes, Breastfeeding, and Hypertension in Mother-to-child Obesity Transmission.
• Dietary and Non-dietary Determinants of Linear Growth Status of Infants and Young Children in Ethiopia.
• Increased Maternal Pregnancy Complications in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Appear to Be Independent of Obesity.
• In Utero Dioxin Exposure and Cardiometabolic Risk in the Seveso Second Generation Study.
• The Impact of Maternal Obesity in Pregnancy on Placental Glucocorticoid and Macronutrient Transport and Metabolism.
• Maternal Antibiotic Use During Pregnancy and Childhood Obesity at Age 5 Years.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Drosophila Female Fertility and Juvenile Hormone Metabolism Depends on the Type of Wolbachia Infection.
• Effects of the Maternal and Current Social Environment on Female Body Mass and Reproductive Traits in Japanese Quail (Coturnix Japonica).

Methods

• Examining Validity of BMI Calculated Using Height and Weight Data From the US Driver License.
• Mediation Analysis.
• An Introduction to Economic Analysis of Food Security and Nutrition Interventions.
• Complexities in Conceptualizing and Measuring Food Literacy.
• Modeling Gene-environment Interactions in Longitudinal Family Studies: A Comparison of Methods and Their Application to the Association Between the IGF Pathway and Childhood Obesity.
• Recommendations for Methodology of Virtual Reality Clinical Trials in Health Care By an International Working Group: Iterative Study.
• Bioelectrical Impedance Vector Analysis in Obese and Overweight Children.

Commentary

• Dietary Harmony in Canada – Naturally.
• "However, most trials to date have been too small and many have used modest doses of vitamin D, yielding inconsistent results for fracture risk and no conclusive results as yet for other outcomes."
• #Diet: If We Can't Be Right, is There a Best Way to Be Wrong??
• Why Doing More Exercise Won’t Help You Burn More Calories.
• Thin Privilege From Skinny Genes.
• For Real Weight Control, Try Portion Control.

General

• The Obliterative, Dislocating Effects of Stress.
• Survey Experiments: Testing Causality in Diverse Samples.
• The Super-Donor Phenomenon in Fecal Microbiota Transplantation.
• High Self-efficacy Regarding Smoking Cessation May Weaken the Intention to Quit Smoking.
• Scientific Publishing: Progress and Promise.
• Please Stop Using This Graph to Argue Your Topic is Popular.
• On the Road to a Gene Drive in Mammals.
• Reframing Evidence-Based Policy to Align with the Evidence.
• Analysis to Improve the Strength of Beds Due to the Excess Weight of Users in Slovakia.
• When the Muses Strike: Creative Ideas of Physicists and Writers Routinely Occur During Mind Wandering.

Video & Audio

• Improving Our Nation’s Heart Health: A Conversation with NHLBI Director, Gary Gibbons.
• Shiriki Kumanyika on the Disparities in Our Food.
• Thomas Farley on the Real Returns of the Philadelphia Soda Tax.

Announcements

• Patrick Quinn Named APS Rising Star.
• NEW BOOK: Of Epidemic Proportions, Expanded Edition, 2019.
• Final Call for Abstracts: Nutrition 2019 Due February 15.
• NORC of UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Research Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• IU School of Public Health-Bloomington Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track Positions Available in Every Department and Two Department Chairs Open: See Multiple Listings Posted Here.

Featured

• Statistical Models for Meal-level Estimation of Mass and Energy Intake Using Features Derived From Video Observation and a Chewing Sensor.
• Central Injection of Oxytocin Reduces Food Intake and Affects Hypothalamic and Adipose Tissue Gene Expression in Chickens.
• Introns are Mediators of Cell Response to Starvation.
• Multi-Etiological Perspective on Child Obesity Prevention.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: High-fat Diet Increases Vulnerability to Infection and Bugs.
• Study: Short-term Consumption of a High-fat Diet Increases Host Susceptibility to Listeria Monocytogenes Infection... In Mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• No Significant Effect of 1,3-Butanediol on Cycling Time-Trial Performance.
• "Contrary to study hypotheses, individuals in the neutral mood condition, but not those in the negative mood condition, responded in a manner indicative of bias toward food."
• "This study provides further evidence for an association between BMI and arsenic metabolism. However, contrary to previous hypotheses, these results suggest that this association is not confounded by the intake of micronutrients involved in one-carbon metabolism."
• RCT: "Treatment with vitamin D showed beneficial effects on appendicular muscle mass in pre-sarcopenic older Lebanese men and women. However, it had no effect on muscle strength relative to placebo."
• RCT: "Unlike previous experiments in children observing increase in unhealthy food consumption subsequent to its promotion, we found no effect on immediate vegetable intake of priming children with images of vegetables."
• The Healthy Nordic Dietary Pattern Has No Effect on Inflammatory Markers: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of RCTs.
• RCT: No Significant Effects of Sprint Interval or Combined Aerobic and Resistance Training on Myokines in Overweight Women with Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: Vitamin D Supplementation Has No Effect on Cognitive Performance After Four Months in Mid-aged and Older Subjects.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Flawed Methods and Inappropriate Conclusions for Health Policy on Overweight and Obesity: The Global BMI Mortality Collaboration Meta‐analysis.
• Retraction of "The Effect of Vitamin D Supplementation on Inflammatory and Hemostatic Markers and Disease Activity in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Randomized Placebo-controlled Trial" due to statistical and reporting errors.
• Surgical Decision-Making: The Province of the Patient or the Surgeon?: Commentary on an Article By Nicholas J. Giori, MD, PhD, Et Al.: “Risk Reduction Compared with Access to Care: Quantifying the Trade-Off of Enforcing a Body Mass Index Eligibility Criterion for Joint Replacement”.
• EAT-Lancet's Plant-based Planet: 10 Things You Need to Know.
• Testing Causal Assumptions in Obesity Research.
• Author Response To: Testing Causal Assumptions in Obesity Research.

Basic

• Chronic High Corticosterone with Voluntary Corn Oil Ingestion Induces Significant Body Weight Gain in Mice.
• Lactobacillus Sakei Alleviates High‐fat Diet‐induced Obesity and Anxiety in Mice By Inducing AMPK Activation and SIRT1 Expression and Inhibiting Gut Microbiota‐mediated NF‐κB Activation.
• The Metabolic Response to a Low Amino Acid Diet is Independent of Diet-Induced Shifts in the Composition of the Gut Microbiome.
• Brain Region-specific Effects of Long-term Caloric Restriction on Redox Balance of the Aging Rat.

Clinical

• The Effects of Obesity on Asthma Control and Management.
• Two Views of Treating Obesity in Childhood.
• Team Planning in Obstetrical Care for Women with Obesity.
• Treatment of Obesity in Older Persons—A Systematic Review.
• RCT: An Addiction-based Mobile Health Weight Loss Intervention: Protocol.
• BMI and the Risk of Acute Pancreatitis By Etiology.
• Classification of Obesity, Cardiometabolic Risk, and Metabolic Syndrome in Adults with Spinal Cord Injury.

Children and Adolescents

• ADHD Symptoms and Body Composition Changes in Childhood.
• Difference in Objectively Measured Physical Activity and Obesity in Children with and Without Siblings.
• Change in Eating Disorder Symptoms Following Pediatric Obesity Treatment.
• RCT: Effect of a Low Free Sugar Diet vs Usual Diet on Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Adolescent Boys.
• Dyslipidemia, Subclinical Inflammation, Hepatic Cholestasis and Endothelial Dysfunction in Schoolchildren with Excess Fat.
• Adipose Tissue Insulin Resistance in Youth on the Spectrum From Normal Weight to Obese and From Normal Glucose Tolerance to Impaired Glucose Tolerance to Type 2 Diabetes.
• School Nutrition Association, 2019 Position Paper. (pdf)

Surgery

• Pros and Cons of Gastric Bypass Surgery in Individuals with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes: Nationwide, Matched, Observational Cohort Study.
• Prevalence of Dumping Syndrome After Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy and Comparison with Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.

Drugs

• Oral Levothyroxine Therapy Postbariatric Surgery: Biopharmaceutical Aspects and Clinical Effects.
• RCT: The Effect of Methylphenidate (MPH) on Appetite, Energy Intake, and Body Composition in Individuals Living with Obesity.

Food & Diet

• Purified Egg Protein Supplementation Has Beneficial Effects on Body Composition, Metabolism and Eating Behavior and Results in a More Sustained Weight Loss Than low Fat Diet.
• Potatoes, Nutrition and Health.
• Commentary: This is What’s Replacing Soda?
• Food in the Anthropocene: The EAT–Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets From Sustainable Food Systems.

Caloric Restriction

• Benefits of Caloric Restriction in Longevity and Chemical-Induced Tumorigenesis are Transmitted Independent of NQO1.
• Review: Calorie Restriction for Long-term Remission of Type 2 Diabetes.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Inscribing Gender: A Duoethnographic Examination of Gendered Values and Practices in Fitness Tracker Design. (pdf)
• Trajectories of Engagement with a Digital Physical Activity Coach: Secondary Analysis of a Micro-Randomized Trial. (pdf)
• Physical Activity Associates with Muscle Insulin Sensitivity Post-bariatric Surgery.

Economics & Sociology

• Long-term Trends (1973–14) for Obesity and Educational Inequalities Among Austrian Adults: Men in the Fast Lane.
• Income, Race and Its Association with Obesogenic Behaviors of U.S. Children and Adolescents, NHANES 2003–2006.
• Relations Between Sleep Duration with Overweight and Academic Stress—just a Matter of the Socioeconomic Status?

Epidemiology

• Visit-to-Visit Glycemic Variability and Risks of Cardiovascular Events and All-Cause Mortality.
• Trends in Low-calorie Sweetener Consumption Among Pregnant Women in the United States.
• Baseline Body Mass Predicts Average Depressive Symptoms Over the Next Two Decades for White but Not Black Older Adults.
• Weight Change Since Age 20 and Incident Risk of Obesity‐related Cancer in Japan: A Pooled Analysis of the Miyagi Cohort Study and the Ohsaki Cohort Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Indulgent Foods Can Paradoxically Promote Disciplined Dietary Choices.
• Functional and Structural Neuroimaging Studies of Delayed Reward Discounting in Addiction: A Systematic Review.
• Do Adults Draw Differently-Sized Meals on Larger or Smaller Plates? Examining Plate Size in a Community Sample.
• Portion Size Does Not Influence Food Consumption in Rats.

Equity and Disparities

• Disparities in Healthcare Utilization Among Adults with Obesity in the United States, Findings From the NHIS: 2006–2015.
• Religiosity and Excess Weight Among African-American Adolescents: The Jackson Heart KIDS Study.
• Home Food Availability and Child Intake Among Rural Families Identified to Be At-risk for Health Disparities.
• Correlates of and Body Composition Measures Associated with Metabolically Healthy Obesity Phenotype in Hispanic/Latino Women and Men.

Stigma

• Personality and the Social Experience of Body Weight.
• Self-perceptions of Body Weight Status According to Age-groups Among Korean Women.
• Patterns of Implicit and Explicit Attitudes: Long-Term Change and Stability From 2007 to 2016.

Policy Related

• An 11‐country Study to Benchmark the Implementation of Recommended Nutrition Policies By National Governments Using the Healthy Food Environment Policy Index, 2015‐2018.
• Flawed Methods and Inappropriate Conclusions for Health Policy on Overweight and Obesity: The Global BMI Mortality Collaboration Meta-analysis.

Intergenerational Effects

• Developmental Trajectories of BMI From Childhood Into Late Adolescence and Subsequent Late Adolescence–young Adulthood Cardiometabolic Risk Markers.
• Effects of Infant Feeding Practices and Maternal Characteristics on Early Childhood Obesity.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• An Evolutionary Perspective on Why Food Overconsumption Impairs Cognition.
• Threshold Effect in the H2O2 Production of Skeletal Muscle Mitochondria During Fasting and Refeeding.
• Genome-wide Association Study of Body Fat Distribution Identifies Adiposity Loci and Sex-specific Genetic Effects.

Methods

• Evaluation of Reliability of the Recomputed Nutrient Intake Data in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Twin Study.
• A Delphi Study to Build Consensus on the Definition and Use of Big Data in Obesity Research.
• The Eyes Have It: Infant Gaze as an Indicator of Hunger and Satiation.
• Continuous Noninvasive Arterial Pressure Monitoring in Obese Patients During Bariatric Surgery: An Evaluation of the Vascular Unloading Technique (Clearsight System).
• Using the E-Value to Assess the Potential Effect of Unmeasured Confounding in Observational Studies.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Projected Number of People with Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes in Germany in 2040.
• Objective Versus Self‐Reported Energy Intake Changes During Low‐Carbohydrate and Low‐Fat Diets.

Commentary

• Can Food Formulation and Labeling Affect Health?
• Describing NFL Obesity in Terms of Crushing Stigma.
• New Data: Obesity Takes Years of Life From Our Dogs.
• Toward a One-Diet World.
• Context Shapes Choice of Healthy Foods.
• Overweight Horses are the 'new Normal', Vets Warn.
• "Eat-Lancet is just wrong…"

General

• Mitochondrial DNA Can Be Inherited From Fathers, Not Just Mothers.
• 15 Studies that Challenged Medical Dogma in 2018.
• Manipulating the Microbiome with Fecal Transplantation to Treat Ulcerative Colitis.
• The Behavioral Origins of Novelty: Did Increased Aggression Lead to Scale-eating in Pupfishes?
• Ants Stick to Cliques to Dodge Disease.
• RCT: Canine Therapy Versus Usual Care to Reduce Patient Anxiety in the Emergency Department.
• Review: IL-33 in Obesity: Where do We Go From Here?
• Big Data and the Transformation of Food and Beverage Marketing: Undermining Efforts to Reduce Obesity?

Announcements

• UAB Obesity Researcher Fobian Receives Honor for Innovative Research in Pediatric Health.
• Network of Minority Health Research Investigators (NMRI) Opportunities.
• AAAS and Subaru of America Announce Winners of Children's Book Awards.
• City of Bloomington Launches "Year of Food" to Address Hunger and Activate Local Food Network.
• "The Wolf Prize for Medicine went to Jeffrey Friedman, 64, of the Rockefeller University, who researches the molecular mechanisms in food intake and weight."
• NORC of UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• IU School of Public Health Bloomington Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track Positions Available in Every Department and Two Department Chairs Open: See Multiple Listings Posted Here.

Featured

• Effect of Phthalates on Development, Reproduction, Fat Metabolism and Lifespan in Daphnia Magna.
• Obesity-Induced Cellular Senescence Drives Anxiety and Impairs Neurogenesis.
• Thermal Stress Induces Glycolytic Beige Fat Formation Via a Myogenic State.
• Making Space for Every Body: Ending Sizeism in Psychotherapy and Training.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Study: Traumatic Childhood Experiences Lead to Obesity.
• Study: Associations Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Weight Status among Adolescents. "The directionality of this relationship needs to be understood."

Contrary or Null Findings

• "There were no statistically significant relationships between maternal mental health characteristics and odds of child overweight/obesity."
• "Among this clinic-based sample of preschoolers, living in high crime or high poverty neighborhoods was not associated with a clinically significant increased odds of overweight or obesity."
• RCT: "Two weeks of exercise training intensity does not modulate appetite regulatory hormones in obese adults with prediabetes."
• Lower BMI is of Not More Benefit to Diabetic Complications.
• "The stronger inverse associations of deaths from dementia with BMI in old age, compared with middle age, together with strong positive associations of loss of BMI or body weight between middle and old age casts doubt on previous suggestions that obesity protects against death from dementia."
• RCT: No Statistically Significant Effect on BMI, Despite Lowering Self-reported Energy Intake, in Preconception Lifestyle Intervention.
• RCT: Intraduodenal Administration of L-Valine Has No Effect on Antropyloroduodenal Pressures, Plasma Cholecystokinin Concentrations or Energy Intake in Healthy, Lean Men.
• No Significant Association Between BMI and Hiatal Hernia Recurrence After Laparoscopic Anti-reflux Surgery with Hiatal Hernia Repair.
• Meta-Analysis of cRCTs: "The pooled main effect for daily minutes of MVPA was nonexistent and nonsignificant."

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Comment on: Association of obesity and age-related macular degeneration in Indian population.
• Response to comment on: Association of obesity and age-related macular degeneration in Indian population.

Basic

• Genetic Liver-Specific AMPK Activation Protects Against Diet-Induced Obesity and NAFLD.
• A PDE1 Inhibitor Reduces Adipogenesis in Mice Via Regulation of Lipolysis and Adipogenic Cell Signaling.
• Secreted Protein Acidic and Rich in Cysteine (SPARC) is Required for the Maintenance of Glucose Homeostasis and Insulin Secretion in Mice.
• Regulation of Chemerin and CMKLR1 Expression By Nutritional Status, Postnatal Development, and Gender.
• The Effects of the Ketone Body β-hydroxybutyrate on Isolated Rat Ventricular Myocyte Excitation-contraction Coupling.
• Obesity-induced MBD2_v2 Expression Promotes Tumor-initiating Triple Negative Breast Cancer Stem Cells.
• Interacting Neural Ensembles in Orbitofrontal Cortex for Social and Feeding Behaviour.
• Crocin Ameliorates Hepatic Steatosis Through Activation of AMPK Signaling in Db/db Mice.
• Loss of Glucagon Signaling Alters White Adipose Tissue Browning.
• Obesity Alters Adrenergic and Chemosensory Signaling Pathways that Regulate Ghrelin Secretion in the Human Gut.

Clinical

• Meta-analysis: Web-Based Digital Health Interventions for Weight Loss and Lifestyle Habit Changes in Overweight and Obese Adults.
• RCT: High‐intensity Breastfeeding Improves Insulin Sensitivity During Early Postpartum Period in Obese Women with Gestational Diabetes.
• Physical Education and Leisure-time Sport Reduce Overweight and Obesity: A Number Needed to Treat Analysis.
• Narrative Review: Mechanisms of Weight Regain After Weight Loss — the Role of Adipose Tissue.

Children and Adolescents

• RCT: The Effect of a Multidisciplinary Lifestyle Intervention on Obesity Status, Body Composition, Physical Fitness, and Cardiometabolic Risk Markers in Children and Adolescents with Obesity.
• Patterns of BMI Milestones in Early Life and Cardiometabolic Risk in Early Adolescence.
• Associations of Prenatal Exposure to Impaired Glucose Tolerance with Eating in the Absence of Hunger in Early Adolescence.
• Engaging Intergenerational Hispanics/Latinos to Examine Factors Influencing Childhood Obesity Using the PRECEDE–PROCEED Model.
• Parental Concern Regarding Obesity in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in the United States: National Survey of Children's Health 2016.
• Antibiotic Use in Early Childhood and Risk of Obesity.

Surgery

• Operating on the Edge? Body Contouring Procedures in Patients with BMI Greater 35.
• Bariatric Surgery for Prospective Living Kidney Donors with Obesity?
• Weight Loss After Bariatric Surgery Predicts an Improvement in the Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) Fibrosis Score.
• Mechanisms of Action of a Carbohydrate-reduced, High-protein Diet in Reducing the Risk of Postprandial Hypoglycemia After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery.

Drugs

• RCT: Efficacy and Safety of Early Initiation of Sitagliptin During Metformin Up‐titration in Treatment of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Improvement of Glycemic Control By Treatment for Insomnia with Suvorexant in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Postprandial Triacylglycerols After Diets Varying in Carbohydrate Type and Amount.
• RCT: Influence of Enhanced Bioavailable Curcumin on Obesity-associated Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors and Arterial Function.
• RCT: Increased Salt Intake Decreases Postprandial Energy Expenditure in Healthy Volunteers.
• Food Intake Recruits Orosensory and Post-ingestive Dopaminergic Circuits to Affect Eating Desire in Humans.
• High Rate of Calories From Protein is Associated with Higher Prevalence of Hypertension.
• Food Safety: Food Inspections During Government Shut Down.
• Narrative Review and Critique: Dietary Modifications for Weight Loss and Weight Loss Maintenance.

Caloric Restriction

• RCT: Effect of a Hypocaloric, Nutritionally Complete, Higher-protein Meal Plan on Bone Density and Quality in Older Adults with Obesity.
• Narrative Review: The Signaling Pathways that Mediate the Anti-cancer Effects of Calorie Restriction.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Meta-analysis: Exercise for the Prevention and Treatment of Low Back, Pelvic Girdle and Lumbopelvic Pain During Pregnancy.
• Meta-Analysis of cRCTs: Are School‐based Physical Activity Interventions Effective and Equitable?
• RCT: Effect of Frequent Interruptions of Sedentary Time on Nutrient Metabolism in Sedentary Overweight Male and Female Adults.
• Prevalence of Potentially Clinically Significant MRI Findings in Athletes with and Without Sport-related Concussion.
• Self-Reported Physical Activity and Relations to Growth and Neurotrophic Factors in Diabetes Mellitus: The Framingham Offspring Study.

Economics & Sociology

• Systematic review: Geographic and Area-level Socioeconomic Variation in Cardiometabolic Risk Factor Distribution.
• Systematic review: Variation in the Physical Activity Environment According to Area‐level Socio‐economic Position.

Epidemiology

• Overweight Among Seafarers Working on Board Merchant Ships.
• Adults with Diabetes Residing in “food Swamps” Have Higher Hospitalization Rates.
• Child and Adolescent Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intakes are Longitudinally Associated with Higher BMI Z Scores in a Birth Cohort Followed 17 Years.
• Association of Personal Vehicle Access with Lifestyle Habits and Food Insecurity Among Public Housing Residents.
• Clustering of Sociodemographic and Lifestyle Factors Among Adults with Excess Weight in a Multilingual Country.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Glucoregulatory Responses to Hypothalamic Preoptic Area Cooling.
• Dietary Sugars and Non-caloric Sweeteners Elicit Different Homeostatic and Hedonic Responses in the Brain.
• Food vs Money? Effects of Hunger on Mood and Behavioral Reactivity to Reward in Anorexia Nervosa.
• "There was significantly more obesity... among pessimists than among optimists (17.50% vs. 12.50%, p = .012).
• Indulgent Foods Can Paradoxically Promote Disciplined Dietary Choices.

Equity and Disparities

• The Role of Intergenerational Educational Mobility and Household Wealth in Adult Obesity: Evidence From Wave 2 of the World Health Organization's Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health.
• Positive Outliers Among African American Women and the Factors Associated with Long-Term Physical Activity Maintenance.
• Comparison of US County-Level Public Health Performance Rankings with County Cluster and National Rankings.
• Socioeconomic Status, Race/Ethnicity, and Health Disparities in Children and Adolescents in a Mixed Rural-Urban Community—Olmsted County, Minnesota.

Stigma

• On the Distributional and Evolutionary Nature of the Obesity Wage Penalty.
• One Size Does Not Fit All: Accommodating Obesity-Related Disabilities in the Workplace.
• Impact of Obesity on Employment and Wages Among Young Adults: Observational Study with Panel Data.
• Implicit Weight Bias Grows, Despite Polite Appearances.
• DNA, Racism, and Weight Bias.

Policy Related

• The Impact of Food Reformulation on Nutrient Intakes and Health, a Systematic Review of Modelling Studies.
• The INFORMAS Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food‐EPI) in Mexico: An Assessment of Implementation Gaps and Priority Recommendations.
• Leveraging Public Health Research to Inform State Legislative Policy that Promotes Health for Children and Families.
• Policy Review: Implication of Tax on Sugar-sweetened Beverages for Reducing Obesity and Improving Heart Health.
• The Importance of the World Health Organization Sugar Guidelines for Dental Health and Obesity Prevention.
• Soda Industry Influence on Obesity Science and Policy in China.
• Grappling with Complex Food Systems to Reduce Obesity: A US Public Health Challenge.

Intergenerational Effects

• Effect of Maternal BMI in Relation to Embryo Quality and Clinical Outcomes in Couples Underlying ICSI. (pdf)
• Measured Maternal Prepregnancy Anthropometry and Newborn DNA Methylation.
• Maternal High-fat Diet During Suckling Programs Visceral Adiposity and Epigenetic Regulation of Adipose Tissue Stearoyl-CoA Desaturase-1 in Offspring.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Ancient, 50-Foot-Long Whale Crushed Baby Whale Skulls for Dinner.
• Caffeine Enhances Activity Thermogenesis and Energy Expenditure in Rats.
• Elephant Body Mass Cyclicity Suggests Effect of Molar Progression on Chewing Efficiency.

Methods

• A Computer-based Incentivized Food Basket Choice Tool: Presentation and Evaluation.
• Multiple Imputation Methods for Handling Missing Values in a Longitudinal Categorical Variable with Restrictions on Transitions Over Time: Illustration with Smoking and Obesity.
• How Well do Seniors Estimate Distance to Food? The Accuracy of Older Adults’ Reported Proximity to Local Grocery Stores.
• Body Composition Evaluation with Computed Tomography: Contrast Media and Slice Thickness Cause Methodological Errors.
• The Zero-Sum Fallacy in Evidence Evaluation.

Commentary

• Obesity-Driven Anxiety Lessens When Old Brain Cells are Eliminated.
• What Accounts for the Prevalence of Food Allergy?
• A New Year Signals a Shift in Priority.
• Assessing Long-term Impact of Dietary Interventions: Important but Challenging.
• U.S. Fast Food Chains Offering More Healthy Options for Kids.
• Current Status and Response to the Global Obesity Pandemic: Proceedings of a Workshop–in Brief.
• Missing the Mark in Gestational Diabetes?
• Fat Cells with a Sweet Tooth.
• An Angry Chef and a Vocal Neuroscientist.

General

• Conserved Transcriptomic Profiles Underpin Monogamy Across Vertebrates.
• Systemic and Metabolic Signature of Sarcopenia in Community-Dwelling Older Adults.
• Anti-ageing Drug Could Be on the Horizon After Successful Mouse Trial.
• Go Underwater Into the Overlooked World of Freshwater Animals.
• Assays to Monitor Mitophagy in Drosophila.
• Patterns in the Long‐term Viability of North American Zoo Populations.

Video & Audio

• Billy Shore on Politics, Food & Our Children's Future.
• Kevin Concannon on the Role of Federal & State Food Assistance Programs.

Announcements

• GAO Report Tackles Issues of Food Insecurity Among College Students.
• Nutrition 2019 Registration Open.
• NORC of UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• IU School of Public Health Bloomington Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track Positions Available in Every Department and Two Department Chairs Open: See Multiple Listings Posted Here.