Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Urbanization and Elevated Cholesterol in American Crows.
• SREBP-regulated Adipocyte Lipogenesis is Dependent on Substrate Availability and Redox Modulation of MTORC1.
• Evidence-based Recommendations for Energy Intake in Pregnant Women with Obesity.
• 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.

Headline vs Study

• Press release: Ponce De Leon Health Launches Dietary Supplement with At-Home DNA Epigenetic Test, Containing Ingredient Shown to Increase Healthspan and Lifespan.
• Conference presentation: Dietary Supplement Increases Lifespan and Healthspan of Unspecified Mammalian Models. Maybe. Only the Conference, Not a Specific Study, Referenced in Press Release. (pdf)

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "No changes were observed in adult body mass index (BMI), child BMI z-score,..." in trial of a healthy lifestyle promotion/obesity prevention intervention for AI [American Indian] families.
• Universal School-Based Intervention Does Not Reduce Socioeconomic Inequalities in Weight Status Among Adolescents.
• "The most robust study to date of plate size and consumption suggests that previous meta-analyses of a low-quality body of evidence may have considerably overestimated effects."
• RCT: BMI, weight, and WC changes "did not differ significantly between study groups" in trial of "the effectiveness of a computerised decision-support tool (DST), designed for paediatric healthcare professionals, as a means to tackle childhood obesity."
• RCT: "Unhealthy and healthy comfort eating did not dampen reactivity or enhance recovery of psychophysiological stress compared to control, and no differences in reactivity or recovery were found by comfort food type."
• RCT: No Significant Effect on BMI of Behavior Interventions Addressing Obesity in Rural Settings: The E-FLIP for Kids Trial.
• "Contrary to expectations, both lineages responded similarly to nutrient enrichment and were similarly plastic in their traits."
• Physical exercise "is detrimental at a young age for both affective-like behaviors and spatial learning and memory but showed no effects at middle and late middle age despite hippocampal gene expression alterations" in mice.
• "These findings show that an environment with a high prevalence of overweight does not necessarily shift adolescent "norms," contrary to visual normalization theory."

Basic

• MondoA Drives Muscle Lipid Accumulation and Insulin Resistance.
• Role of Adipose Tissue Inflammation in Fat Pad Loss Induced By Fasting in Lean and Mildly Obese Mice.
• Perivascular Adipose Tissue–Derived Extracellular Vesicle MiR-221-3p Mediates Vascular Remodeling.
• SBP2 Deficiency in Adipose Tissue Macrophages Drives Insulin Resistance in Mice with Diet-Induced Obesity.
• Physiological Roles of the GIP Receptor in Murine Brown Adipose Tissue.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter: Links Between Childhood Obesity, Gestational Diabetes, and Infant Temperament.
• Reply: Links Between Childhood Obesity, Gestational Diabetes, and Infant Temperament.
• Smaller Dishware to Reduce Energy Intake: Fact or Fiction?

Clinical

• Case study: Alopecia Following Deoxycholic Acid Treatment for Submental Adiposity.
• Eating Disorder Pathology Among Individuals Living with Food Insecurity: A Replication Study.
• RCT: Modified Alternate-Day Fasting Vs. Calorie Restriction in the Treatment of Patients with Metabolic Syndrome.
• RCT: Medium-chain Triglycerides (8:0 and 10:0) are Promising Nutrients for Sarcopenia.

Children and Adolescents

• What Change in BMI is Associated with Improvement in Percentage Body Fat in Childhood Obesity? A Meta-regression.
• Duration of Breastfeeding is Associated with Leptin (LEP) DNA Methylation Profiles and BMI in 10-year-old Children.
• The Association of the Executive Functions with Overweight and Obesity Indicators in Children and Adolescents: A Literature Review.
• Distinct Methods for Assessing Compliance with a Physical Activity Guideline for Children in Preschools.

Surgery

• Association of Metabolic Surgery with Major Adverse Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity.
• Metabolic Features of Individuals with Obesity Referred for Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery.
• Commentary: The Muses Seeking Perfect Knowledge of Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• Effectiveness of a Community-Based Weight Management Program for Patients Taking Antidepressants And/or Antipsychotics.
• Antipsychotics and Schizophrenia, and Their Relationship to Diabetes.

Food & Diet

• Changes in Dairy Product Consumption and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: Results From 3 Large Prospective Cohorts of US Men and Women.
• RCT: Effects of Citrulline Malate and Beetroot Juice Supplementation on Energy Metabolism and Blood Flow During Submaximal Resistance Exercise.
• Perspective: Guiding Principles for the Implementation of Personalized Nutrition Approaches that Benefit Health and Function.
• Commentary: Will 2020 Guidelines Skip Tough Questions?

Caloric Restriction

• Short-term Dietary Restriction in Old Mice Rejuvenates the Aging-induced Structural Imbalance of Gut Microbiota.
• Methionine Metabolism and Methyltransferases in the Regulation of Aging and Lifespan Extension Across Species.
• RCT: Weight Loss in Primary Breast Cancer: Impact on Body Composition, Circulating Biomarkers and Tumor Characteristics.
• Commentary: Thinsplaining the Ease of Calorie Restriction.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• The Association of School-related Active Travel and Active After-school Clubs with Children’s Physical Activity: A Cross-sectional Study in 11-year-old UK Children.
• Systematic Review: Physical Activity Interventions Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations.
• Understanding Levels and Motivation of Physical Activity for Health Promotion Among Chinese Middle-Aged and Older Adults: A Cross-Sectional Investigation.
• Can You Preserve Lean Body Mass During “semi-starvation?”
• Physical Activity During Pregnancy and Intelligence in Sons: A Cohort Study.

Economics & Sociology

• A Genetic Sum Score of Risk Alleles Associated with BMI Interacts with Socioeconomic Position in the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study.
• Paternal Impact on the Life Course Development of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in the Offspring.
• Social Network Influences and the Adoption of Obesity-related Behaviours in Adults: A Critical Interpretative Synthesis Review.
• The Problem of Obesity in Times of Late Capitalism: From Neoliberal Economics to Collaborative Public Policies Based on “good Living”.
• Does Parental Concern About Their Child’s Future Risk of Overweight Vary By Their Ethnic Background? Cross-sectional Analysis of a National Cohort Study.

Epidemiology

• Eating Behaviors in Healthy Young Adult Twin Pairs Discordant for BMI.
• Associations of Chronic Inflammation, Insulin Resistance, and Severe Obesity with Mortality, Myocardial Infarction, Cancer, and Chronic Pulmonary Disease.
• Association Between Maternal Pre-pregnancy Obesity and Preterm Birth According to Maternal Age and Race or Ethnicity: A Population-based Study.
• Owner and Cat-Related Risk Factors for Feline Overweight or Obesity.
• Cadmium, Obesity, and Education, and the 10-year Incidence of Hearing Impairment: The Beaver Dam Offspring Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Evaluating Potential Behavioral Mediators for Increasing Similarity in Friends’ Body Size Among College Students.
• Early Attachment and Parental Stress as Predictors of Obesity Risk in Middle Adolescence: The Role of Self-regulation and Food Consumption.
• The Effects of Psychological and Environmental Stress on Micronutrient Concentrations in the Body: A Review of the Evidence.
• What do Young Women with Obesity Want From a Weight Management Program?
• Collaboration in Complex Systems: Multilevel Network Analysis for Community-Based Obesity Prevention Interventions.

Equity and Disparities

• Racial Disparities in Breastfeeding Initiation and Duration Among U.S. Infants Born in 2015.
• Commentary: Delayed Versus Early Treatment for Obesity.

Stigma

• Weight Stigma Among Pregnant and Postpartum Women.
• Perceived Overweight/obesity, Low Resilience, and Body Size Dissatisfaction Among Adolescents.

Policy Related

• The Association Between Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Child Obesity: Implications for US Policy.
• Designing Better Sugary Drink Taxes.

Intergenerational Effects

• Gestational High Fat Diet Protects 3xTg Offspring From Memory Impairments, Synaptic Dysfunction, and Brain Pathology.
• Are Observed Associations Between a High Maternal Prepregnancy BMI and Offspring IQ Likely to Be Causal?

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Remnants of Ancient Bread Give Clues to Natufian Diet.
• Adjustments in Control of Mitochondrial Respiratory Capacity While Facing Temperature Fluctuations.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Multicollinear Physical Activity Accelerometry Data and Associations to Cardiometabolic Health: Challenges, Pitfalls, and Potential Solutions.
• Predictive Mathematical Models of Weight Loss.

Methods

• Obesity level estimation software based on decision trees.
• Scale Development Study: Hedonistic Eating Scale.

Commentary

• Can Plant-Based Meat Alternatives Be Part of a Healthy and Sustainable Diet?
• City Crows May Have High Cholesterol Because They Eat Fast Food.
• How the Trump Administration Limited the Scope of the USDA’s 2020 Dietary Guidelines.
• Study: Do Daily Weigh-ins Help You Lose Weight?
• Diet, Dots, and Doom.
• Moralizing Obesity Builds Stigma Three Ways.
• Junk Food Kills, Protective Food Saves, Hallelujah!
• DEEP Talk: Powerful Personal Insights Into Obesity.

General

• Fetal Cell Microchimerism; Normal and Immunocompromised Gestations in Mice.
• Association Between Educational Attainment and Causes of Death Among White and Black US Adults, 2010-2017.
• A Standardized Citation Metrics Author Database Annotated for Scientific Field.
• Building Prediction Models for Dementia: The Need to Account for Interval Censoring and the Competing Risk of Death.
• Kin Recognition and Co‐operative Foraging in Drosophila Melanogaster Larvae.
• Large-scale GWAS Reveals Insights Into the Genetic Architecture of Same-sex Sexual Behavior.
• Epigallocatechin-3-gallate Suppresses Neutrophil Migration Speed in a Transgenic Zebrafish Model Accompanied By Reduced Inflammatory Mediators.
• Alirocumab, Decreased Mortality, Nominal Significance, P Values, Bayesian Statistics, and the Duplicity of Multiplicity.
• Association of Sleep Problems and Melatonin Use in School-aged Children.
• Trends and Predictors of Biomedical Research Quality, 1990–2015: A Meta-research Study.

Video & Audio

• Nutrition2019 Webcast: Processed Foods: Nutrition, Definitions and Policy Issues.
• How to Live Longer, Without Losing Quality of Life.

Announcements

• New Gender Affirming Care Team at IU Health Center Supports Transgender, Nonbinary Students.
• Jeffrey M. Friedman to receive 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
• Sept 19: WEBINAR: Who’s Leading the Leading Health Indicators? Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity.
• Malnutrition Awareness Week.
• Training Program: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Training Program: AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.

Obituary

• An Esteemed and Much-Loved Leader of the Nutrition Science Community Passes: Dr. Gilbert A. Leveille (1934-2019).

Featured

• Free Trade Agreements and World Obesity.
• Meta-analysis: Effect of Calorie Restriction or Protein Intake on Circulating Levels of Insulin Like Growth Factor I in Humans.
• Adenovirus 36 Improves Glycemic Control and Markers of Alzheimer's Disease Pathogenesis.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Outdoor Exercise Better at Reducing Stress, New Study Suggests.
• Study: "Engagement in outdoor exercise did not per se lead to more beneficial changes than engagement in exercise sessions indoors."

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Kindergarten-based health promotion programme "...shows a significant positive intervention effect [on BMI] (p ≤ 0.04), however, once controlled for migration background, this effect was lost..."
• RCT: "These results do not confirm our previous conclusions that recommended not performing VS [viscosupplementation] in obese patients with severe knee OA."
• "The study also explored gender effects and hypothesised that gender would moderate the relationship between academic burnout and disordered [eating] behaviour. However, this hypothesis was not supported."
• "We found no associations of FM and FFM growth [in infancy] with any of the other studied cardiometabolic markers including glucose, HbA1c, insulin, C-peptide, HOMA-IR, triglycerides, and blood pressure" at 5-year follow up.
• RCT: "Comparing food waste data in the treatment and control groups, we found no statistically significant evidence of either increased selection or consumption of fruits and vegetables in the treatment group."
• RCT: No Significant Effects of Motivational Interviewing as a Supplement to Incentives for Increasing and Maintaining Physical Activity in an Undergraduate Course.
• "Findings did not support the reciprocal effects model of physical self-concept and PA enjoyment as hypothesized."
• "Contrary to the normalization hypothesis, findings indicate that a comparatively high prevalence of obesity like in the US is associated with a higher level of obesity stigma."
• "Evidence suggests that increasing omega-3, omega-6, or total PUFA has little or no effect on prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus."
• RCT: Gluten Does Not Induce Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Healthy Volunteers.
• No Evidence for Association of BMI with Salivary Amylase Gene Copy Number in the UK 1958 Birth Cohort.

Basic

• Response of the Bacterial Community of Propylea Japonica (Thunberg) to Cry2Ab Protein.
• Energy Metabolism and Mitochondrial Superoxide Anion Production in Pre-symptomatic Striatal Neurons Derived From Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Expressing Mutant Huntingtin.
• Human Brown Adipose Tissue is Phenocopied By Classical Brown Adipose Tissue in Physiologically Humanized Mice.
• Dietary Intake Regulates the Circulating Inflammatory Monocyte Pool.
• Myocardial Dysfunction After Severe Food Restriction is Linked to Changes in the Calcium-Handling Properties in Rats.
• Glucose-Dependent Insulinotropic Polypeptide Receptor-Expressing Cells in the Hypothalamus Regulate Food Intake.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• "Incorrect use of 'the 3500-kcal rule' to predict a 1.3 kg/year weight loss if gum is chewed while walking ~62 minutes per day."
• Personalized Nutrition Companies’ Claims Overhyped: Scientists.

Clinical

• Guideline No. 386-Gynaecologic Surgery in the Obese Patient.
• Infant and Young Child Feeding Interventions Targeting Overweight and Obesity: A Narrative Review.
• RCT: Development of a Delayed-release Nutrient for Appetite Control in Adults with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes and Initial Clinical Testing in a Single Dose RCT.
• RCT: Amount and Type of Dietary Fat, Postprandial Glycemia, and Insulin Requirements in Type 1 Diabetes.
• Alternate Day Fasting Improves Physiological and Molecular Markers of Aging in Healthy, Non-obese Humans.

Children and Adolescents

• Mother and Father Controlling Feeding Behaviors and Associations with Observed Mealtime Family Functioning.
• Meta-analysis: A Trans-ancestral Meta-Analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies Reveals Loci Associated with Childhood Obesity.
• BMI Trajectories in Early Childhood in Relation to Cardiometabolic Risk Profile and Body Composition at 5 Years of Age.
• Leveraging Omics Profiling to Advance the Treatment of Pediatric Obesity.

Surgery

• Short-Term Diabetes Remission Outcomes in Patients with BMI ≤ 30 Kg/m2 Following Sleeve Gastrectomy.
• Changes in Bone Mineral Density in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes After Different Bariatric Surgery Procedures and the Role of Gastrointestinal Hormones.

Drugs

• RCT: "The current study provides the first evidence that acute aerobic exercise can increase reward for high fat savoury foods and stimulate appetite in MA [meth-amphetamine]-dependent individuals."
• Resveratrol and Metformin Recover Prefrontal Cortex AMPK Activation in Diet-Induced Obese Mice but Reduce BDNF and Synaptophysin Protein Content.

Food & Diet

• How Low do You Need to Go? Exploring the Variability in the Effects of Keto‐induction and Individual Outcomes From Low‐carbohydrate Diets.
• Food Craving in Daily Life: Comparison of Overweight and Normal‐weight Participants with Ecological Momentary Assessment.
• Meta-analysis: Social Facilitation of Eating.
• Fermented Foods: Definitions and Characteristics, Impact on the Gut Microbiota and Effects on Gastrointestinal Health and Disease.
• Meta-analysis: Zinc Supplementation and Body Weight.

Caloric Restriction

• Low 24-hour Core Body Temperature as a Thrifty Metabolic Trait Driving Catch-up Fat During Weight Regain After Caloric Restriction.
• Effects of Long‐term Intermittent Versus Chronic Calorie Restriction on Oxidative Stress in a Mouse Cancer Model.
• Modest Calorie Reduction Can Improve Cardiometabolic Health.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Readiness to Perform Aerobic Activity in Adults with Obesity: A Thematic Analysis of Online Surveys.
• Understanding Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Physical Performance in Mid-Life Women: Findings From SWAN (Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation).
• Interrupting Sitting Time with Simple Resistance Activities Lowers Postprandial Insulinemia in Adults with Overweight or Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Diabetes and Obesity Associated with Poor Food Environments in American Indian Communities.
• Untreated Obesity Means More Cancer Costs.
• The Effects of Student, School and Neighborhood Poverty on the Association Between Fitness and Absenteeism in New York City Middle School Youth.

Epidemiology

• Cadmium, Obesity, and Education, and the 10‐year Incidence of Hearing Impairment: The Beaver Dam Offspring Study.
• Variation of All-cause and Cause-specific Mortality with BMI in One Million Swedish Parent-son Pairs: An Instrumental Variable Analysis.
• Associations of Dairy Product Consumption with Mortality in the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)–Italy Cohort.
• Nutrient Patterns, Cognitive Function, and Decline in Older Persons: Results From the Three-City and NuAge Studies.
• Predicting Overweight and Obesity in Young Adulthood From Childhood BMI: Comparison of Cutoffs Derived From Longitudinal and Cross-sectional Data.
• Self-weighing Frequency and Its Relationship with Health Measures.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Exposure to Nature May Induce Lower Discounting and Lead to Healthier Dietary Choices.
• Effectiveness of a Community‐Based Weight Management Program for Patients Taking Antidepressants And/or Antipsychotics.
• Effects of Overweight or Obesity on Brain Resting State Functional Connectivity of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Equity and Disparities

• Decolonizing Nutrition Science.
• Associations Between Food Consumption Patterns and Chronic Diseases and Self-Reported Morbidities in 6 American Indian Communities.
• Genome-wide Association Study on Antipsychotic-induced Weight Gain in Europeans and African-Americans.

Ethics

• Building Consensus on Interactions Between Population Health Researchers and the Food Industry: Two-stage, Online, International Delphi Study and Stakeholder Survey.

Stigma

• Attitudinal and Perceptual Body Image are Independent of One Another.
• Evaluative Implications of Intersecting Body Weight and Other Social Categories.
• Weight Stigma and Discrimination: Time for Change!

Policy Related

• The Distributional Impact of Taxing Sugar-sweetened Beverages: Findings From an Extended Cost-effectiveness Analysis in South Africa.
• Evidence Collection and Evaluation for the Development of Dietary Guidelines and Public Policy on Nutrition.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Overfeeding During Lactation, Rather than Overweight Per Se, Impairs the Metabolic Response to Fed/Fasting Changing Conditions in the Post-Weaning Offspring.
• An Association Between Maternal Weight Change in the Year Before Pregnancy and Infant Birth Weight: ELFE, a French National Birth Cohort Study.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Ecophysiological Determinants of Sexual Size Dimorphism: Integrating Growth Trajectories, Environmental Conditions, and Metabolic Rates.
• Low Ambient Temperature Reduces the Time for Fuel Switching in the Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus Colubris).

Methods

• Effects of Physical Activity on the Performance of 24-h Urinary Sucrose and Fructose as a Biomarker of Total Sugars Intake.
• Maximizing Precision and Accuracy of the Doubly Labeled Water Method Via Optimal Sampling Protocol, Calculation Choices, and Incorporation of 17O Measurements.
• Assess Accurate Quantitative Biomarkers of Added Sugar Intake in Adults.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Dynamic Empirically Based Model for Understanding Future Trends in US Obesity Prevalence in the Context of Social Influences.
• The Future Burden of Obesity in Canada: A Modelling Study.
• Errors in Estimating Usual Sodium Intake By the Kawasaki Formula Alter Its Relationship with Mortality: Implications for Public Health.
• Activating a Community: An Agent‐Based Model of Romp & Chomp, a Whole‐of‐Community Childhood Obesity Intervention.

Commentary

• Eating Under the Microscope.
• Keto, Balance, and the Weight of the World.
• Good News! No Need to Eat Your Placenta.
• Young Innovators: Dietary Restrictions May Benefit Children with Premature Aging Disease.
• The (mild) Health Risks of Energy Drinks.
• Church Feeds the Soul, but What About the Waist?
• Helping Children Learn to Eat Well.
• Let's Not Just Dismiss the Weight Watchers Kurbo App.
• Our Food is Killing Too Many of Us.
• How Your Body’s Heater – Brown Fat – Works.
• Nutrition Education in Medical Training.

General

• Meta-analysis: Dropout Rates of In‐person Psychosocial Treatment Programs for Substance Use Disorders.
• Renal and Segmental Artery Hemodynamics During Whole-Body Passive Heating and Cooling Recovery.
• Stats Experts Plead: Just Say No to P-Hacking.
• How Research on Female Vertebrates Contributes to an Expanded Challenge Hypothesis.
• Sharing Data.
• Smiling Enemies: Young Children Better Recall Mean Individuals Who Smile.
• Survival of the Friendliest.
• When It Comes to Data and Resources, to Share is Divine (and Now Required).
• America's Colleges and Universities are Aggressively Addressing Foreign Threats.
• No Crisis but No Time for Complacency: Coming to Consensus on Reproducibility.
• RCT: Gluten Does Not Induce Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Healthy Volunteers.
• Editorial: Will Science Sway Beliefs About Gluten? (pdf)
• 7 Easy Steps to Open Science: An Annotated Reading List.

Announcements

• The British Academy's President Honours Academics Who Stand Up to Falsehood and Fake News.
• Video: Promises Fulfilled: Five Indiana University Graduates. Five Paths to Success.
• Exciting Opportunity at FTC: Scientific Review Analyst.
• Advancing Effective Obesity Communications: A Workshop @ Washington, DC (Sep 16).
• Big Data, Data Science and Deep Learning for Statisticians @ Indianapolis, IN (Sep 14).
• Training Program: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Training Program: AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity. 

Featured

• Childhood Obesity Intervention Studies: A Narrative Review and Guide for Investigators, Authors, Editors, Reviewers, Journalists, and Readers to Guard against Exaggerated Effectiveness Claims.
• Developmental Exposure to a Human Relevant Mixture of Endocrine Disruptors Alters Metabolism and Adipogenesis in Zebrafish (Danio Rerio).
• Fat Mass Compared to Four Body Condition Scoring Systems in the Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus) in Zoo Biology.
• Associations Between Parity, Breastfeeding, and Risk of Maternal Type 2 Diabetes Among Postmenopausal Women.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: New Discovery Explains How Fatty Food Disrupts Appetite Control, Causing Obesity.
• Study: Gut-derived GIP Activates Central Rap1 to Impair Neural Leptin Sensitivity... In Mice Fed a Lard-based High Fat Diet.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Against our hypothesis, BMI increased more in the intervention group than in the control group (Δ=0.3kg/m2; p=0.05) with a greater decrease in %body fat among boys (Δ=-0.6%; p=0.03) in the control group" in a school-home intervention for adolescent obesity prevention.
• RCT: "in obese adolescents, vitamin E supplementation of 400 IU/day for 2 months does not significantly affect lipid profiles and adiponectin levels." (pdf)
• RCT: "A simple, individualised, Mediterranean-style diet in pregnancy did not reduce the overall risk of adverse maternal and offspring complications but has the potential to ...."
• Temporal Discounting Does Not Influence BMI.
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Home-Based Exercise and Weight Loss Programs on Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema Outcomes Among Overweight Breast Cancer Survivors.
• Meta-analysis: "Zinc supplementation did not significantly improve leptin concentrations."
• Meta-analysis: "No effects of testosterone were reported for body composition..." in women.
• "The present study does not provide evidence to support that dietary supplementation with the NAD+ precursor NR serves to impact glucose tolerance, β-cell secretory capacity, α-cell function, and incretin hormone secretion in obese, non-diabetic males."
• Dietary Macronutrients do Not Differentially Affect in Healthy Overweight and Slightly Obese Men Vascular Endothelial Function During the Postprandial Phase.
• RCT: Hedonic Properties and Palatability do Not Affect Gut Hormones, Mainly Ghrelin and GLP‐1.

Ergonomics

• Mimicking Obesity and Pregnancy By Adding Load Mass Elicits Minor Postural Oscillations Compared to Backpack Weight Carrying.
• Sedentariness, Productivity, Perception and Long Term Health Effects of Sit-stand Workstation at Work: A Literature Review.

Basic

• Mitochondrial DNA Alterations in Aged Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor-knockout Mice.
• Models Integrating Genetic and Lifestyle Interactions on Two Adiposity Phenotypes for Personalized Prescription of Energy-Restricted Diets with Different Macronutrient Distribution.
• Gut-associated IgA+ Immune Cells Regulate Obesity-related Insulin Resistance.
• Sex-Specific Differences in Fat Storage, Development of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Brain Structure in Juvenile HFD-Induced Obese Ldlr-/-.Leiden Mice.
• Fatty Acid and Lipopolysaccharide Effect on Beta Cells Proteostasis and Its Impact on Insulin Secretion.
• Obesity and Muscle‐macrophage Crosstalk in Humans and Mice: A Systematic Review.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Dietary Meat Categories and Descriptions in Chronic Disease Research are Substantively Different Within and Between Experimental and Observational Studies: A Systematic Review and Landscape Analysis.
• Article: Does Obesity Protect Against Death in Sepsis? A Retrospective Cohort Study of 55,038 Adult Patients*.
• Comment on: “Does Obesity Protect Against Death in Sepsis? A Retrospective Cohort Study of 55,038 Adult Patients”.
• Commentary: Rethinking Behavioral Approaches to Compliment Biological Advances to Understand the Etiology, Prevention, and Treatment of Childhood Obesity.
• Commentary: Public Health Procedures, Alone, Will Not Prevent Child Obesity.
• Ten Tools for Exaggeration in Pediatric Obesity Studies.

Clinical

• This Analysis Suggests that Expanding Coverage of Anti-obesity Interventions to Eligible Individuals Could Generate $20 to $23 Billion Budgetary Savings to Medicare Over 10 Years.
• Adapting Family‐based Treatment for Paediatric Obesity.
• Heterogeneity of Treatment Effects From an Intensive Lifestyle Weight Loss Intervention on Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: Data From the Look AHEAD Trial.
• Liraglutide Improves Insulin Sensitivity in High Fat Diet Induced Diabetic Mice Through Multiple Pathways.
• Case of Resected Multiple Hepatocellular Adenomas in a Young Man with Severe Obesity.
• Obesity and Pancreatic Cancer: An Update of Epidemiological Evidence and Molecular Mechanisms.
• Choosing an Adequate Test to Determine Fitness for Air Travel in Obese Individuals. (pdf)
• Meta-analysis: Acupuncture and Weight Loss in Asians.
• RCT: Intermittent Energy Restriction is Comparable to Continuous Energy Restriction for Cardiometabolic Health in Adults with Central Obesity.

Children and Adolescents

• The Home and Child-care: Are Preschool-aged Children Getting Mixed Food-related Messages?
• Physical Activity Interventions Improve Quality of Life of Children with Obesity: Should We Expect Them to Also Decrease BMI?
• Understanding Rapid Infant Weight Gain Prevention.

Surgery

• Use of Phentermine-topiramate Extended Release in Combination with Sleeve Gastrectomy in Patients with BMI 50 Kg/m2 or More.
• Gut-Associated IgA+ Immune Cells Regulate Obesity-Related Insulin Resistance.

Drugs

• New Hormone Injection Aids Weight Loss in Obese Patients.
• Anti-Obesity Drugs Market Projected to Witness Vigorous Expansion By 2024.
• Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Insulin Tregopil in Relation to Premeal Dosing Time, Between Meal Interval, and Meal Composition in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• Effects of Combined Glucocorticoid/mineralocorticoid Receptor Modulation (CORT118335) on Energy Balance, Adiposity, and Lipid Metabolism in Male Rats.

Food & Diet

• Changes in Plant-Based Diet Quality and Total and Cause-Specific Mortality.
• RCT: “consumption of approximately three servings of fat-free milk and 1200 mg of dietary Ca/d enhanced weight loss, improved body composition and promoted glycaemic control in subjects with type 2 diabetes and low habitual Ca consumption.”

Caloric Restriction

• Dietary Restriction During the Treatment of Cancer: Results of a Systematic Scoping Review.
• Early Time‐Restricted Feeding Reduces Appetite and Increases Fat Oxidation but Does Not Affect Energy Expenditure in Humans.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Cardiopulmonary Profile of Individuals with Intellectual Disability.
• Comparison of Female Athlete Triad Coalition and RED-S Risk Assessment Tools.
• Thermal Behavior Alleviates Thermal Discomfort During Steady-state Exercise Without Affecting Whole-body Heat Loss.
• Meta-analysis: Behavior Change Techniques Associated with Changes in Postintervention and Maintained Changes in Self-Efficacy for Physical Activity.

Economics & Sociology

• Excess Costs and Economic Burden of Obesity-Related Cancers in the United States.
• The Association Between Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in Different Strata of Socioeconomic Position: Evidence From Pooled Norwegian Health Surveys.

Epidemiology

• Intentional Weight Loss and Obesity-related Cancer Risk.
• Associations of Body Composition Trajectories with Bone Mineral Density, Muscle Function, Falls and Fractures in Older Men: The Concord Health and Ageing in Men Project.
• Meal‐Concurrent Media Use is Associated with Increased Dietary Intake with No Evidence of Next Meal Compensation in Free‐Living Adults.
• Nutritional Assessment of Older Adults with Diabetes Mellitus.
• Obesity-induced Inflammation and Insulin Resistance: A Mini-Review on T-cells.
• Changes in Age Distribution of Obesity-Associated Cancers.
• Impact of Obesity on Life Expectancy Among Different European Countries: Secondary Analysis of Population-level Data Over the 1975–2012 Period.
• Aluminium Levels in Hair and Urine are Associated with Overweight and Obesity in a Non-occupationally Exposed Population.
• Prevalence and Predictors of Weight Loss Maintenance: A Retrospective Population‐based Survey of European Adults with Overweight and Obesity.
• Meta-analysis: Epidemiology of Overweight and Obesity in Adults Living in Cameroon.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Effects of Cognitive Strategies on Neural Food Cue Reactivity in Adults with Overweight/Obesity.
• A Gravitational Contribution to Perceived Body Weight.
• RCT: Evaluating a Novel Obesity Treatment Based on Internal and External Cues.
• Vacation Frequency is Associated with Metabolic Syndrome and Symptoms.
• RCT: Effects of Fruit and Vegetable Feeding Messages on Mothers and Fathers: Interactions Between Emotional State and Health Message Framing.

Equity and Disparities

• Disparity in Access to Bariatric Surgery Among African-American Men.
• Acceptability of a Text Message-based Intervention for Obesity Prevention in Infants From Hawai‘i and Puerto Rico WIC.
• Targeting Pregnancy-related Weight Gain to Reduce Disparities in Obesity: Baseline Results From the Healthy Babies Trial. (pdf)
• Wealth and Obesity Among U.S. Adults Entering Midlife.

Ethics

• The Moralization of Obesity.
• Parental Obligation and Medical Neglect in Childhood Obesity.
• A Framework for Increasing Equity Impact in Obesity Prevention.

Stigma

• Parental Perceptions of Obesity in School Children and Subsequent Action.
• Attitudes to and Experiences with Body Weight Control and Changes in Body Weight in Relation to All-cause Mortality in the General Population.

Policy Related

• RCT: Causal Language in Health Warning Labels and US Adults’ Perception.
• Fact Sheet: FDA's Implementation of Menu Labeling Moving Forward.
• Health Insurance for Diabetes Prevention Confers Health Benefits and Breaks Even on Cost Within 2 Years.
• Fiscal Policies for Diet and the Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases.

Intergenerational Effects

• Ancestral Paternal Obesity: Systemic Versus Local Effects on Offspring Mammary Tissue Development and Tumorigenesis.
• Transgenerational Effects of Maternal Obesity and Gestational Diabetes on Offspring Body Composition and Left Ventricle Mass: The Finnish Gestational Diabetes Prevention Study (RADIEL) 6‐year Follow‐up.
• Impact of Carers’ Smoking Status on Childhood Obesity in the Growing Up in Ireland Cohort Study.
• Maternal Overfeeding During Lactation, Rather than Overweight Per Se, Impairs the Metabolic Response to Fed/Fasting Changing Conditions in the Post‐Weaning Offspring.
• Systematic Review: Healthy Life Trajectories Initiative: Summary of the Evidence Base for Pregnancy‐related Interventions to Prevent Overweight and Obesity in Children.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Changing Nutrients, Changing Rivers.
• Breeding Latitude and Annual Cycle Timing in a Songbird.
• The Costs of Keeping Cool: Behavioural Trade-offs Between Foraging and Thermoregulation are Associated with Significant Mass Losses in an Arid-zone Bird.

Methods

• Obesity Perception Survey Among Youth in Turkey: Instrument Development and Test-retest Reliability. (pdf)
• Systematic Review: Effectiveness of Interventions Using Self-monitoring to Reduce Sedentary Behavior in Adults.
• Example of Triangulation: The Cancer Burden of Excessive Body Weight.

Commentary

• Adult Weight Gain Likely Explains Link Between Parity, T2DM Risk.
• Diet is a Noun.
• Comprehensive Approaches to Improving Nutrition: Future Prospects.
• What’s the Harm for Teens in Social Media?
• Employers Connecting the Dots to Obesity Care.
• Appetite for Improved Gut Health Leads to Innovation.
• Body Composition: Made to Measure.
• We Should Establish a National Institute of Nutrition.
• The Keto Diet is Popular, but is It Good for You?
• Money Talks and It Says Obesity Care Saves.
• New Research Shows There's One and Only Way to Combat Obesity. Or Maybe Not. We Probably Need More Research.

General

• Flavonoids and Cancer.
• A Comparative Study of Litter Size and Sex Composition in a Large Dataset of Callitrichine Monkeys.
• The Influence of Ecological and Life History Factors on Ectothermic Temperature–size Responses: Analysis of Three Lycaenidae Butterflies (Lepidoptera).
• Good for Self or Good for Others? The Well-being Benefits of Kindness in Two Cultures Depend on How the Kindness is Framed.
• A Bridge From Monty Hall to the Hot Hand: The Principle of Restricted Choice.
• Adjusting Trial Results for Biases in Meta‐analysis: Combining Data‐based Evidence on Bias with Detailed Trial Assessment.
• Life After Bootstrap: Residual Randomization Inference in Regression Models.
• Food Environment Research Among an Indigenous Community in Namibia – a New Approach to Explore Food Security of Rural People in Developing Countries.
• Preregistration is Hard, and Worthwhile.
• Does the Day of the Week Predict a Cesarean Section? A Statewide Analysis.

Announcements

• IU SPH Gun Violence Symposium Offers Public Health Approach to Growing Crisis.
• 12th Annual Course on Isotope Tracers in Metabolic Research: Principles and Practice of Kinetic Analysis October 21 - 25, 2019.
• Workshop: Advancing Effective Obesity Communications - September 16, Attend in Person or Via Webcast.
• Training Program: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Training Program: AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity. 

Featured

• Lifespan Extension Drug Interventions Affect Adipose Tissue Inflammation in Aging.
• A Systematic Scoping Review of Surgically Manipulated Adipose Tissue and the Regulation of Energetics and Body Fat in Animals in Obesity.
• The Association Between Allostatic Load and Anthropometric Measurements Among a Multiethnic Cohort of Children.
• A Successful Nutritional Therapy for Postprandial Hypoglycemia After Bariatric Surgery.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Researchers Find Jogging May Be the Best Workout to Avoid Weight Gain.
• Study: Different Self-reported Physical Exercises Influence the Associations Between Genetic-risk-scores and Various Obesity Measures.

Contrary or Null Findings

• No Evidence for an Association Between Obesity and Food Liking.
• RCT: Skipping Breakfast Before Exercise Creates a More Negative 24-hour Energy Balance.
• A Short-term Religious “fast” From Animal Products Has a Minimal Impact on Cardiometabolic Health Biomarkers Irrespective of Concurrent Shifts in Distinct Plant-based Food Groups.
• RCT: "no significant difference across labels was observed for food choices..."
• RCT: No Differential Effects of Inspiratory Exercise with Linear and Nonlinear Load on Respiratory Variables Post-Bariatric Surgery.
• RCT: "Fish and rapeseed oil used as (LC-)PUFA sources provided with complementary feeding embedded in a structured infant diet did not affect visual or cognitive development of term infants."
• RCT: Brazilian Cardioprotective Nutritional (BALANCE) Program for improvement on quality of diet and secondary prevention of cardiovascular events..."had no significant effect on the incidence of cardiovascular events or death."
• RCT: "School meals had no effect on [height-for-age and BMI-for-age z scores] in children aged 5–15 y" in Ghana.
• Meta-analysis: Whole-Grain Consumption Does Not Affect Obesity Measures.

Basic

• The Effect of Homocysteine on the Expression of CD36, PPARγ, and C/EBPα in Adipose Tissue of Normal and Obese Mice.
• IL-29 Promotes Obesity-Induced Inflammation and Insulin Resistance.
• Unacylated Ghrelin Stimulates Steroidogenesis in Lean Rats and Reverses Reproductive Dysfunction in High Fat Diet-Fed Rats.
• Leptin Receptor-Expressing Neurons in the Ventromedial Nucleus of the Hypothalamus Contribute to Weight Loss Caused By Fourth Ventricle Leptin Infusions.
• Taste Loss with Obesity in Mice and Men.
• Progress and Challenges in Analyzing Rodent Energy Expenditure.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter: Dietary Cholesterol or Egg Consumption and Cardiovascular Outcomes.
• Reply: Dietary Cholesterol or Egg Consumption and Cardiovascular Outcomes.
• Improving the Quality of Dietary Research.
• "...muscle food categories and descriptions are substantively different within and between experimental and observational studies and do not match regulatory definitions"
• Magnitude‐based Inference is Not Bayesian and is Not a Valid Method of Inference.
• Spin, Pilots, and Sacred Cows of Obesity Care.

Clinical

• Cost-effectiveness of Bariatric Surgery for People with Morbid Obesity in South Korea.
• Effectiveness And Tolerability Of Orlistat And Liraglutide In Patients With Obesity In A Real‐World Setting.

Children and Adolescents

• Decomposing Trends in Child Obesity.
• Systematic Review: Interventions for Preventing Obesity in Children.
• Childhood Obesity Leads to Adult Type 2 Diabetes and Coronary Artery Diseases: A 2-sample Mendelian Randomization Study.
• Meta-analysis: Prevalence and Trends of Overweight and Obesity in European Children From 1999 to 2016.

Surgery

• Meta-analysis: Psychosocial Outcomes Following Adolescent Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.
• Meta-analysis: Pregnancy After Bariatric Surgery and Adverse Perinatal Outcomes.
• Long-term Adverse Events After Sleeve Gastrectomy or Gastric Bypass: A 7-year Nationwide, Observational, Population-based, Cohort Study.

Drugs

• Can Cannabis Turn the Obesity Tide?
• Health Effects of Eating Marijuana is Subject of a New Study [in Mice].
• CNS-targeting Pharmacological Interventions for the Metabolic Syndrome.
• Promise for a New Targeted Obesity Therapy Soon.
• Metformin Use and Clinical Outcomes Among Patients with Diabetes with or Without Heart Failure or Kidney Dysfunction: Observations From the SAVOR-TIMI 53 Trial.

Food & Diet

• InterACTWEL Science Gateway for Adaptation Planning in Food-Energy-Water Sectors of Local Communities.
• New Zealand's Food System is Unsustainable: A Survey of the Divergent Attitudes of Agriculture, Environment, and Health Sector Professionals Towards Eating Guidelines.
• Systematic Review: The Effect of Isolated and Synthetic Dietary Fibers on Markers of Metabolic Diseases in Human Intervention Studies.
• Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Cardiometabolic Health: An Update of the Evidence.

Caloric Restriction

• RCT: "Effectiveness and Adherence of Modified Alternate-day Calorie Restriction in Improving Activity of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease."
• An Overview of Two Decades of Diet Restriction Studies Using Drosophila.
• Gonadal Hormones Influence Core Body Temperature During Calorie Restriction.
• Change in Self-efficacy, Eating Behaviors and Food Cravings During Two Years of Calorie Restriction in Humans Without Obesity.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Effects of High-intensity Interval Training and Nutrition Advice on Cardiometabolic Markers and Aerobic Fitness in Adolescent Girls with Obesity.
• No Consensus on Causality of Spine Postures or Physical Exposure and Low Back Pain: A Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews.
• Meta-analysis: "Interventions Using Activity Trackers Improve Physical Activity Levels and Mobility Among Older People Compared With Control."

Economics & Sociology

• Differences in Magnitude and Rates of Change in BMI Distributions By Socioeconomic and Geographic Factors in Mexico, Colombia, and Peru, 2005–2010.
• The Association Between Obesity, Socio-Economic Status, and Neighborhood Environment: A Multi-Level Analysis of Spokane Public Schools.
• Peer Status Position Within School-Based Hierarchies and Excessive Fat Accumulation in Adulthood—A 30 Year Follow Up of a Stockholm Cohort.

Epidemiology

• Meta-analysis: Internet Use in Relation to Overweight and Obesity.
• Meta-analysis: Depression, Anxiety, and Sleep Disorders in US Adults with Food Insecurity.
• Greater Social Jetlag Associates with Higher HbA1c in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: A Cross Sectional Study.
• Improving Fruit and Vegetable Intake Attenuates the Genetic Association with Long-term Weight Gain.
• Review of Obesity and Periodontitis: An Epidemiological View.
• Evaluating the Associations Between Obesity and Age-related Cataract: A Mendelian Randomization Study.
• Investigating the Association Between Body Fat and Depression Via Mendelian Randomization.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Negative Affect is Associated with Increased Stress-eating for Women with High Perceived Life Stress.
• Cognitive Training on Eating Behaviour and Weight Loss: A Meta‐analysis and Systematic Review.

Stigma

• Perceived Weight Discrimination and Performance in Five Domains of Cognitive Function.
• Association of Bullying Victimization with Overweight and Obesity Among Adolescents From 41 Low‐ and Middle‐income Countries.
• Effects of Weight-neutral Approaches Compared with Traditional Weight-loss Approaches on Behavioral, Physical, and Psychological Health Outcomes.
• The O-Word Versus the W-Word.

Policy Related

• A Global Review of Food-Based Dietary Guidelines.
• Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and Stakeholder Evaluation of 2 Obesity Prevention Policies in Maine, US.
• Public Health Procedures, Alone, Will Not Prevent Child Obesity.
• Healthy Vending Contracts: Do Localized Policy Approaches Improve the Nutrition Environment in Publicly Funded Recreation and Sport Facilities?

Intergenerational Effects

• Influence of Maternal Obesity on the Long-Term Health of Offspring.
• RCT: Feasibility of Conducting an Early Pregnancy Diet and Lifestyle E-health Intervention: The Pregnancy Lifestyle Activity Nutrition (PLAN) Project.
• Antibiotic Use During Pregnancy and Childhood Overweight: A Population-based Nationwide Cohort Study.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Staring at Seagulls Makes Them Less Likely to Steal Your Food, New Research Shows.
• Social Ecology of Feeding in an Open Ocean.
• Refined Carbohydrates, Phenotypic Plasticity and the Obesity Epidemic.
• Impact of Energy Turnover on the Regulation of Glucose Homeostasis in Healthy Subjects.
• Testosterone Does Not Mediate Variation in Basal Metabolic Rate and Activity in Relation to Reproductive Condition and Photoperiod in White‐footed Mice (Peromyscus Leucopus).

Methods

• An Appraisal of the SDIR as an Estimate of True Individual Differences in Training Responsiveness in Parallel‐arm Exercise RCTs.
• Big Data Against Childhood Obesity, the BigO Project.
• Perspective: Dietary Biomarkers of Intake and Exposure—Exploration with Omics Approaches.
• Associations Between Self-reported Vegetable and Fruit Intake Assessed with a New Web-based 24-h Dietary Recall and Serum Carotenoids in Free-living Adults: A Relative Validation Study.

Commentary

• Nutrition Advice for Babies and Toddlers Has Been Fraught with Errors. That's About to Change.
• Fasting or Keto: Possible Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis.
• Hate and Prejudice do Not Go Quietly.
• A Reason to Put Down the Phone When You Eat.
• Is a Global Decline in Deaths From Heart Disease Ending?
• Location, Location, Location: The Distribution of Fat.
• From Weight Watchers to WW to Healthier Youth?
• WW Just Released a Weight Loss App for Kids. What Could Go Wrong?

General

• The Selection of Comparators for RCTs of Health-related Behavioral Interventions: Recommendations of an NIH Expert Panel.
• Bound Constrained Optimization of Sample Sizes Subject to Monetary Restrictions in Planning Multilevel Randomized Trials and Regression Discontinuity Studies.
• RCT: Three RCTs Evaluating the Impact of “spin” in Health News Stories Reporting Studies of Pharmacologic Treatments on Patients’/caregivers’ Interpretation of Treatment Benefit.
• Faculty Writing Groups.
• The Global Male-bias in Sex Ratio at Birth is Sustained By the Sex Ratio Genotypes of Replacement Offspring.
• Corrigendum: A Word You May Hope Never to Encounter.
• Investigating 'spin' in Scientific Journals.
• Evaluation of Spin in Abstracts of Papers in Psychiatry and Psychology Journals.
• Brain Activity and Connectivity Changes in Response to Nutritive Natural Sugars, Non-nutritive Natural Sugar Replacements and Artificial Sweeteners.
• Obesity in Indiana: Losing Weight No Easy Task.

Video & Audio

• Audio: Diabetes Research Center - Seminar Series.
• COS 2019: Opening Ceremonies and Welcoming Remarks.

Announcements

• Indiana University Students Diving for Shipwrecks with NOAA.
• IU Sets New Record with $680.2 Million in Research Grants and Awards.
• IU Simon Cancer Center Lands $13.8M Grant, Comprehensive Cancer Center Designation.
• Announcing the Launch of ASN’s Statistical Review Board.
• ObesityWeek Early Bird Registration is Open!
• Training Program: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Training Program: AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.