Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Caloric Restriction Increases Lifespan but Affects Brain Integrity in Grey Mouse Lemur Primates.
• Free-Living Responses in Energy Balance to Short-Term Overfeeding in Adults Differing in Propensity for Obesity.
• The Computational Form of Craving is a Selective Multiplication of Economic Value.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Urban Design Responsible for Promoting Childhood Obesity?
• Study: Convenience Stores and Pedestrian Aids Negatively Correlated with Some Obesity Measurements in Children; No Association with Traffic-calming Features, Disorder, Physical Activity Facilities, or Fast-food Restaurants.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Aspartame Consumption for 12 Weeks Does Not Affect Glycemia, Appetite, or Body Weight of Healthy, Lean Adults.
• RCT: "A 12-week resistance training intervention effectively improved sarcopenia, body fat %, strength and quality of life in hypogonadal prostate cancer patients, but did not change MetS or physical function. PRO [protein supplementation] did not offer additional benefit in improving body composition."
• RCT: "Protein intake exceeding the RDA did not increase LBM, muscle performance, physical function, or well-being measures or augment anabolic response to testosterone in older men with physical function limitations whose usual protein intakes were within the RDA."
• RCT: "In class III obese women undergoing cesarean delivery, there was no difference in composite wound outcome up to 6 weeks postpartum between those who had staples and those who had subcuticular suture skin closure."
• RCT: "…immunonutritional therapy using a nutritional supplement with a high blend ratio of ω-3 fatty acids from 2 weeks before surgery until 2 weeks after surgery was not effective for maintaining the nutritional status of head and neck carcinoma patients."
• RCT: "Among patients with knee osteoarthritis who are overweight, telephone-based weight loss support, provided using an existing 6-month weight management and healthy lifestyle service did not reduce knee pain intensity or weight, compared with usual care."
• "Contrary to this hypothesis, there were no differences in body weight, adiposity, energy intake, or energy expenditure between HF-fed [NLRX1] KO and WT mice, but instead HF KO mice were partially protected from the development of diet-induced hyperglycemia."
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, transplantation of NUP98-HOXD13 bone marrow into obese recipient mice significantly increased survival time compared with lean recipient controls."
• "Contrary to our prediction, the addition of TAU [taurine] enhanced the deleterious effects of the HFD [high fat diet]."
• ABO Genotype Does Not Modify the Association Between the “Blood-Type” Diet and Biomarkers of Cardiometabolic Disease in Overweight Adults.

Basic

• A Carbon Monoxide-releasing Molecule (CORM-401) Induces a Metabolic Switch in Adipocytes and Improves Insulin-sensitivity on High Fat Diet-induced Obesity in Mice.
• Mitochondria Bound to Lipid Droplets Have Unique Bioenergetics, Composition, and Dynamics that Support Lipid Droplet Expansion.
• Brown Adipose Tissue Whitening Leads to Brown Adipocyte Death and Adipose Tissue Inflammation.
• Effects of Knee Loading on Obesity-related Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in an Ovariectomized Mouse Model with High Fat Diet.
• Time‐course and Dynamics of Obesity‐related Behavioral Changes Induced By Energy‐dense Foods in Mice.
• Sex-based Differences in Phagocyte Metabolic Profile in Rats with Monosodium Glutamate-induced Obesity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• The Need for Increased Rigor in Obesity and Nutrition Research: A Q&A with Dr. David Allison.
• Commentary: Food for Mood: A Wall Street Journal Article Makes Bold Claims with Little Evidence.

Clinical

• Exposure to Liquid Sweetness in Early Childhood: Artificially-sweetened and Sugar-sweetened Beverage Consumption at 4-5 Years and Risk of Overweight and Obesity at 7-8 Years.
• RCT: Two‐year Follow‐up of a Postpartum Weight Loss Intervention.
• Non-invasive, Transdermal, Path-selective and Specific Glucose Monitoring Via a Graphene-based Platform.

Children and Adolescents

• Impact of Psychosocial Risk on Outcomes Among Families Seeking Treatment for Obesity.
• Modified Healthy Eating Index and Incidence of Metabolic Syndrome in Children and Adolescents.
• Associations of Early to Mid-Childhood Adiposity with Elevated Mid-Childhood Alanine Aminotransferase Levels.
• Change in Overweight From Childhood to Early Adulthood and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes.

Surgery

• Incidence and Risk Factors for Mortality Following Bariatric Surgery: A Nationwide Registry Study.
• Tissue-Specific Phenotype and Activation of INKT Cells in Morbidly Obese Subjects: Interaction with Adipocytes and Effect of Bariatric Surgery.
• Appetite, Glycemia, and Entero-Insular Hormone Responses Differ Between Oral, Gastric-Remnant, and Duodenal Administration of a Mixed-Meal Test After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.

Drugs

• Can a Diabetes Drug Help Obese People Lose Weight?
• RCT: Antisense Inhibition of Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase 1B with IONIS-PTP-1BRx Improves Insulin Sensitivity and Reduces Weight in Overweight Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Effects of Weight-Loss Medications on Cardiometabolic Risk Profiles: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis.

Food & Diet

• RCT: "Short-term low-carbohydrate, ketogenic diets reduce exercise performance in activities that are heavily dependent on anaerobic energy systems."
• High Salt Intake as a Driver of Obesity.
• RCT: Effects of Lipid Emulsion Particle Size on Satiety and Energy Intake.
• Metabolic Response to Amylose-rich Wheat-based Rusks in Overweight Individuals.
• Dietary Carbohydrates: A Review of International Recommendations and the Methods Used to Derive Them.
• The Role of Inorganic Nitrate and Nitrite in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Human Evidence.

Caloric Restriction

• RCT: Effect of Intermittent Versus Continuous Energy Restriction on Weight Loss, Maintenance and Cardiometabolic Risk.
• Calorie Restriction Leads to Longer Life but Less Grey Matter.
• Calorie Restriction is the Most Reasonable Anti-ageing Intervention: A Meta-analysis of Survival Curves.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Assessing Outcomes in People Having Chronic Ankle Instability: The Ability of Functional Performance Tests to Measure Deficits in Physical Function and Perceived Instability.
• Exercise Alone or Combined with Dietary Supplements for Sarcopenic Obesity in Community-dwelling Older People: A Systematic Review of RCTs.

Economics & Sociology

• The Dominant Obesity Discourse Versus Children’s Conceptualizations of Health: A Comparison Through Dialogue and Drawings.
• Influence of Early-life Risk Factors on Socioeconomic Inequalities in Weight Gain.
• The Association Between Long Work Hours and Leisure-time Physical Activity and Obesity.

Epidemiology

• Longitudinal Associations of Lifetime Adiposity with Leukocyte Telomere Length and Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number.
• Association of Muscle and Adiposity Measured By Computed Tomography with Survival in Patients with Nonmetastatic Breast Cancer.
• Diabetes Mellitus and Obesity as Risk Factors for Pancreatic Cancer.
• Higher Dietary Diversity Score is Associated with Obesity: A Case–control Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Discrepancies Between Subjective Perception and Waist-to-height Ratio Measurement of Obesity, and Their Policy Implications.
• Examining Neighborhood and Interpersonal Norms and Social Support on Fruit and Vegetable Intake in Low-income Communities.
• Do Local Employment Centers Modify the Association Between Neighborhood Urban Form and Individual Obesity?
• The Effects of Caloric Education, Trial-by-Trial Feedback, and Their Interaction on College-Aged Women’s Abilities to Estimate Caloric Content.
• The Role of Working Memory Sub-components in Food Choice and Dieting Success.
• Deficits in Episodic Memory are Related to Uncontrolled Eating in a Sample of Healthy Adults.
• Group Influences on Engaging Self-Control: Children Delay Gratification and Value It More When Their In-Group Delays and Their Out-Group Doesn’t.

Equity and Disparities

• Obesity and Overweight Among Brazilian Early Adolescents: Variability Across Region, Socioeconomic Status, and Gender.
• Food Patterns, Diabetes and Overweight/Obesity and Some Socio-Economic Indicators in the Italy Regions. (pdf)
• Variability in Weight Concern and Physical Activity Engagement Among African American Adolescent Girls.
• Racial Disparities in Obesity Treatment.
• Law School Collaborative Proposes Initiatives to Fight Food Insecurity. 

Stigma

• American Academy of Pediatrics Collection - Obesity: Stigma, Trends, and Interventions.
• Types and Nature of Parental Support for Overweight Students to Cope with Weight‐Related Teasing.
• Media and Its Influence on Obesity.

Policy Related

• Reward Food Companies for Improving Nutrition.
• The Role of Government Policy in Promoting Physical Activity.
• Original Public Health Practice Research Community Engagement Approach: Developing an Active Living Plan in Rural Texas.
• Physical Environments that Promote Physical Activity Among Older People.
• Examining Consumer Responses to Calorie Information on Restaurant Menus in a Discrete Choice Experiment.

Intergenerational Effects

• Association of Parental Obesity with Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Their Children.
• Protein-restriction Diet During the Suckling Phase Programs Rat Metabolism Against Obesity and Insulin Resistance Exacerbation Induced By a High-fat Diet in Adulthood.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Digestive and Locomotor Capacity Show Opposing Responses to Changing Food Availability in an Ambush Predatory Fish.
• Energetic Tradeoffs Control the Size Distribution of Aquatic Mammals.
• Water Contamination By Endocrine Disruptors: Impacts, Microbiological Aspects and Trends for Environmental Protection.

Methods

• Designing Difference in Difference Studies: Best Practices for Public Health Policy Research.
• The Accuracy of Bioelectrical Impedance to Track Body Composition Changes Depends on the Degree of Obesity in Adolescents with Obesity.
• Disparity of Imputed Data From Small Area Estimate Approaches – a Case Study on Diabetes Prevalence at the County Level in the U.S.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Differential Models of Twin Correlations in Skew for Body-mass Index (BMI).
• Presenting Models to Policymakers: Intention and Perception.
• Modeling How Obesity Moves Through the Population.

Commentary

• Really? Germs Love Diet Soda?
• Contrary to Popular Belief, Did You Know that Pasta Too Can Help You Lose Weight?
• Flaws in Pushing the Idea of Harmless Obesity.
• Eating By the Clock: More Study Needed.
• The Search for Elusive Progress Against the Epidemic of Childhood Obesity.
• Does the Netherlands Have Obesity Under Control?
• Are Sports Organizations Playing a Role in America’s Obesity Problem?
• Ignorance About Obesity is Common and Reversible.

General

• Intakes of Magnesium, Calcium and Risk of Fatty Liver Disease and Prediabetes.
• USDA Expands Focus on Program Integrity Across All Nutrition Programs.
• A Checklist to Elevate the Science of Surgical Database Research.
• Tips for Analyzing Large Data Sets From the JAMA Surgery Statistical Editors.
• Creationist Bill Dies in Alabama.
• The Problem with Mindfulness.
• General: Squeaky Clean Mice Could Be Ruining Research.

Announcements

• IU School of Public Health Students to Conduct Underwater Research on Shipwrecks.
• Upcoming Event: Food for Thought: The Science and Politics of Nutrition.
• Upcoming Webinar: Beyond the Melting Pot and Salad Bowl Views of Cultural Diversity: Advancing Cultural Diversity Education of Nutrition Educators.
• Upcoming Webinar: Making Data Machine-Readable.
• Upcoming Event: IFPRI 2018 Global Report of Food Crises Release.
• Michael Hendryx at IU School of Public Health-Bloomington Named a Fulbright Distinguished Chair.
• UAB’s NORC Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.

Featured

• 'Look Mommy, I'm Eating the Plate Model!' Biopedagogies and Coping with Obesity Through Objectification.
• The "adipose tissue expandability" hypothesis: a potential mechanism for insulin resistance in obese youth.
• Energetic Tradeoffs Control Size Distribution of Aquatic Mammals.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Ditch the Diet Says New Study, Regular Meals are the Key to Preventing Weight Gain.
• Headline: It's Scientifically Proven that Diets Make People Gain Weight.
• Study: Associations Between Lifestyle Factors and Ten Year Weight Trajectories of Adults Starting in Their Twenties. No Causation.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "…the evidence for the magic of smaller plates was very unconvincing."
• RCT: School-based Physical Activity Program, Learning “Math on the Move”, Did Not Decrease BMI.
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, women lost more weight in the standard vs the enhanced group, though not significantly more."
• RCT: A One-year Resistance Training Program Following Weight Loss Has No Significant Impact on Body Composition and Energy Expenditure in Postmenopausal Women Living with Overweight and Obesity.
• RCT: "Effects on body mass, waist circumference, and blood pressure were either trivial or unclear" in an Exergame to Deliver a Sustained Dose of High-Intensity Training Pilot Study.
• RCT: "consumption of whole grain instead of refined wheat pasta contributed to appetite control but did not seem to influence acute energy balance."
• Meta-Analysis: "exercise intervention could significantly decrease the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus, but showed no impact on gestational age at birth, preterm birth, glucose 2-h post-OGTT, birth weight, and Apgar score less than 7."
• "This large cross-sectional population-based study in U.S. Hispanic/Latina women showed null associations between NFD [nightly fasting duration] and glycemic control and inflammation, contrary to previous findings in Caucasian women..."

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Overlooking Regression to the Mean Leads to Unwarranted Interpretations: Letter Concerning, ‘‘Do Obese and Extremely Obese Patients Lose Weight After Lumbar Spine Fusions? Analysis of a Cohort of 7303 Patients From the Kaiser National Spine Registry.’’
• Response to Letter By Kroeger et al.
• Gut Microbiome Paper Retracted Based on Its Limitations.
• Comment On: Effects of Interventions with a Physical Activity Component on Bone Health in Obese Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Letter Regarding: Insulin Degludec: Lower Day-to-day and Within-day Variability in Pharmacodynamic Response Compared to Insulin Glargine U300 in Type 1 Diabetes.

Basic

• Let Them Eat Xylose: Yeast Engineered to Grow Efficiently on Novel Nutrients.
• Prolactin Regulatory Element-binding (PREB) Protein Regulates Hepatic Glucose Homeostasis.
• Low-Fat Diet with Caloric Restriction Reduces White Matter Microglia Activation During Aging.
• Lysine-Specific Demethylase-1 (LSD1) Mediates Metabolic Reprogramming By Glucocorticoids During Myogenic Differentiation.
• Low Protein Diet in Puberty Impairs Testosterone Output and Energy Metabolism in Male Rats.
• A Diurnal Rhythm in Brown Adipose Tissue Causes Rapid Clearance and Combustion of Plasma Lipids at Wakening in Male Mice.

Clinical

• RCT: Retraining of Automatic Action Tendencies in Individuals with Obesity.
• Weight Loss in Men in Late Life and Bone Strength and Microarchitecture: A Prospective Study.
• Association of Endothelial Dysfunction with Cardiovascular Risk Factors and New‐onset Diabetes Mellitus in Patients with Hypertension.
• Feasibility and Safety of Bariatric Surgery in High-Risk Patients: A Single-Center Experience.
• Pre-Pregnancy Fitness and Risk of Gestational Diabetes: A Longitudinal Analysis.

Children and Adolescents

• The Relationship Between Executive Functioning and Weight Loss and Maintenance in Children and Parents Participating in Family-based Treatment for Childhood Obesity.
• Clinical-Community Collaboration: A Strategy to Improve Retention and Outcomes in Low-Income Minority Youth in Family-Based Obesity Treatment.
• Effect of Participation in a Park-based Afterschool Program on Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among Severely Obese Youth.

Surgery

• A Population-Based Study of Early Postoperative Outcomes in Patients with Heart Failure Undergoing Bariatric Surgery.
• Does Bariatric Surgery Affect the Incidence of Endometrial Cancer Development? A Systematic Review.
• Associations of Bariatric Surgery with Changes in Interpersonal Relationship Status.

Drugs

• RCT: Exenatide Has a Pronounced Effect on Energy Intake but Not Energy Expenditure in Non-Diabetic Subjects with Obesity.
• RCT: Single and Multiple Dose Evaluation of a Novel MetAP2 Inhibitor.
• Early Prediction of Olanzapine-induced Weight Gain for Schizophrenia Patients.

Food & Diet

• The Impact of Hot Food Takeaways Near Schools in the UK on Childhood Obesity: A Systematic Review of the Evidence.
• Mushrooms: Coming Soon to a Burger Near You.
• Timing Your Meals May Help with Weight Loss. That’s What It Seems to do in Mice.
• High Glycemic Index Metabolic Damage – a Pivotal Role of GIP and GLP-1.
• Sports Sponsorships of Food and Nonalcoholic Beverages.
• Effect of Pasta in the Context of Low-glycaemic Index Dietary Patterns on Body Weight and Markers of Adiposity: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Caloric Restriction

• Metabolic Slowing and Reduced Oxidative Damage with Sustained Caloric Restriction Support the Rate of Living and Oxidative Damage Theories of Aging.
• Predominant Gut Lactobacillus Murinus Strain Mediates Anti-inflammaging Effects in Calorie-restricted Mice.
• Sex Differences in the Response to Dietary Restriction in Rodents.
• Reduced-calorie Diet Shows Signs of Slowing Ageing in People.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Accelerating Accelerometer Research in Aging.
• Physical Activity in Public Parks of High and Low Socioeconomic Status in Colombia Using Observational Methods.
• A One-year Resistance Training Program Following Weight Loss Has No Significant Impact on Body Composition and Energy Expenditure in Postmenopausal Women Living with Overweight and Obesity.
• Exercise Rescues Obesity-induced Adipose Tissue Premature Aging and Restores Cardio-metabolic Homeostasis.

Economics & Sociology

• Intentions to Prevent Weight Gain in Older and Younger Adults; The Importance of Perceived Health and Appearance Consequences.
• The Effect of Education on Health: Evidence From National Compulsory Schooling Reforms. (pdf)
• Accumulating Data to Optimally Predict Obesity Treatment (ADOPT) Core Measures: Environmental Domain.
• Eating with Others and Meal Location are Differentially Associated with Nutrient Intake By Sex.
• Neighborhood Racial Diversity and Metabolic Syndrome.

Epidemiology

• Macular Xanthophylls are Related to Intellectual Ability Among Adults with Overweight and Obesity.
• Geographical Variation in the Prevalence of Obesity, Metabolic Syndrome, and Diabetes Among US Adults.
• Are Mothers’ Working Hours Associated with General and Abdominal Obesity in Children and Adolescents? The Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2008–2012).
• Obesity, but Not Physical Activity, is Associated with Higher Prevalence of Asymptomatic Diverticulosis.
• Differential Models of Twin Correlations in Skew for Body-mass Index (BMI).

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Increasing Maternal Employment Influences Child Overweight/Obesity Among Ethnically Diverse Families.
• Assessing and Counseling the Obese Patient: Improving Resident Obesity Counseling Competence.
• The Effect of Attentional Bias Modification Training on Food Intake in Overweight and Obese Women.
• Depression and Peripheral Inflammatory Profile of Patients with Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• Illustrating a "consequential" shift in the study of health inequalities: a decomposition of racial differences in the distribution of body mass.
• Geospatial Inequalities and Determinants of Nutritional Status Among Women and Children in Afghanistan: An Observational Study.
• Prevalence and Predictors of Diabetes Mellitus and Hypertension in Armenian Americans in Los Angeles.
• Weight Loss Attempts in a Racially Diverse Sample of Primary Care Patients.
• Late Adulthood Mortality Among African‐American and White American People with Type 1 Diabetes According to Age at Diabetes Diagnosis.

Stigma

• Mechanisms Underlying Weight Status and Healthcare Avoidance in Women: A Study of Weight Stigma, Body-related Shame and Guilt, and Healthcare Stress.
• Conceptualizing Obesity as a Chronic Disease: An Interview with Dr. Arya Sharma.

Policy Related

• In Nafta Talks, U.S. Tries to Limit Junk Food Warning Labels.
• The Impact of U.S. Free Trade Agreements on Calorie Availability and Obesity: A Natural Experiment in Canada.
• The SMART Study, a Mobile Health and Citizen Science Methodological Platform for Active Living Surveillance, Integrated Knowledge Translation, and Policy Interventions: Longitudinal Study.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Obesity: A Serious Pediatric Health Crisis.
• The Association Between Psychological Factors and Breastfeeding Behaviour in Women with a BMI ≥30 Kg/m2: A Systematic Review.
• Cannabis Use During the Perinatal Period in a State with Legalized Recreational and Medical Marijuana: The Association Between Maternal Characteristics, Breastfeeding Patterns, and Neonatal Outcomes.
• The Effect of Gestational Weight Gain on Persistent Increase in BMI in Adolescents: A Longitudinal Study.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Biochemical Bases of Growth Variation During Development: A Study of Protein Turnover in Pedigreed Families of Bivalve Larvae (Crassostrea Gigas).
• The Impact of Development on Patterns of Nutrient Limitation.
• Metabolic Scaling Across Succession: Do Individual Rates Predict Community‐level Energy Use?

Mathematical and Quantitative

• A Mathematical Model for Predicting Obesity Transmission with Both Genetic and Nongenetic Heredity.
• The Influence of Obesity on the Pharmacokinetics of Dioxin in Mice: An Assessment Using Classical and PBPK Modeling.

Commentary

• The Value of Nutrition Obesity Research Centers: As Told by Dr. David Allison.
• Blind to the Biggest Drivers of Obesity?
• GP Training is Outdated and Needs to Teach Young Doctors About Nutrition, Experts Claim.
• Warning: Coffee in California May Cause Cancer.
• Speech By FDA's Scott Gottlieb: Reducing the Burden of Chronic Disease.
• 'Food Computer' Creator Marketing to World.

General

• Seeing Beyond the Margins: Challenges to Informed Inclusion of Vulnerable Populations in Research.
• Analyzing Ordinal Data with Metric Models: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
• Documenting Quantitative Research for Transparency and Reproducibility: Principles and Standards.

Video & Audio

• Audio: Easy Exercise.
• Audio: Tooth Sensor.

Announcements

• ECO2018, the 25th European Congress on Obesity, Will Take Place in Vienna, Austria From 23rd to 26th May 2018.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Heath Ranked 11th in Nation Among Colleges for Public Health Majors.
• Michael Hendryx Receives Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award at IU Bloomington's School of Public Health.
• Register: April 18-19 Meeting on Reproducibility and Replicability in Science.
• UAB’s NORC Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.

Featured

• Trends in Obesity and Severe Obesity Prevalence in US Youth and Adults By Sex and Age, 2007-2008 to 2015-2016.
• Weight Stigma Goes Viral on the Internet: Systematic Assessment of YouTube Comments Attacking Overweight Men and Women.
• From Fat Cells Through an Obesity Theory.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: TV, Online Ads During Sports Events May Help Make Kids Fat.
• Study: "Sports sponsorships are commonly used to market unhealthy food and nonalcoholic beverages." No measurement of making 'kids fat'.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Apparent Influence of a Consumer-wearable Activity Tracker on Sedentary Time and Prolonged Sedentary Bouts: Secondary Analysis.
• "Living in ...[food desert] was not associated with a difference in HbA1c..."
• RCT: "Intensive nutritional intervention after hip fracture improved nutritional intake and status, but not LOS or clinical outcomes."
• Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 Does Not Directly Influence Skeletal Muscle Cell Proliferation and Differentiation or Ex Vivo Muscle Contractility.
• Meta-analysis: No Significant Effect of Vitamin D Supplementation on Body Fat Mass.
• Consumption of Soy-based Infant Formula is Not Associated with Early Onset of Puberty.
• RCT: No Effect of Vitamin D on Weight Change in Obesity.
• RCT: No Significant Effect of the NU-AGE Diet on Cognitive Functioning in Older Adults.

Basic

• Impaired Mitochondrial Energetics Characterize Poor Early Recovery of Muscle Mass Following Hind Limb Unloading in Old Mice.
• Targeted Deletion of Adipocyte Abca1 (ATP-Binding Cassette Transporter A1) Impairs Diet-Induced Obesity.
• Inflammation Arising From Obesity Reduces Taste Bud Abundance and Inhibits Renewal.
• Glucagon Contributes to Liver Zonation.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Can You Criticize Science (or do Science) Without Looking Like an Obsessive? Maybe Not.
• The Obesity Paradox: A Misleading Term that Should Be Abandoned.
• Journal Retracts Study Linking “gut Makeover” to Weight Loss, Improved Health.
• Letter: Steps Per Day and Its Relationship to Energy Expenditures.
• Response: To Steps Per Day and Its Relationship to Energy Expenditures.

Clinical

• RCT: Intermittent V. Continuous Energy Restriction.
• Percutaneous CT Guided Cryovagotomy for the Management of Mild - Moderate Obesity: A Pilot Trial.
• ADOPT: Obesity Treatment Reaches Level of Maturity with Its Own Collaborative Initiative and Resource.
• Commentary: A Failing Grade on Knowledge of Obesity Care.
• Article: Current Knowledge of Obesity Treatment Guidelines By Health Care Professionals.

Children and Adolescents

• RCT: The Application of Optimal Defaults to Improve Elementary School Lunch Selections: Proof of Concept.
• Efficacy of an Exercise Intervention Among Children with Comorbid Asthma and Obesity.
• Denying Care to Teens with Severe Obesity.

Surgery

• Meta-analysis: One Anastomosis Gastric Bypass Versus Roux‐en‐Y Gastric Bypass for Morbid Obesity.
• Variation in Exhaled Acetone and Other Ketones in Patients Undergoing Bariatric Surgery: A Prospective Cross-sectional Study.
• Anemia and Bariatric Surgery: Results of a National French Survey on Administrative Data of 306,298 Consecutive Patients Between 2008 and 2016.
• Emotional Eating Behavior Hinders Body Weight Loss in Women After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery.
• Freeze a Nerve for Weight Loss? Not So Fast!

Drugs

• RCT: Native Oxyntomodulin Has Significant Glucoregulatory Effects Independent of Weight Loss in Obese Humans with and Without Type 2 Diabetes.
• Cost of Achieving HbA1c Treatment Targets and Weight Loss Responses with Once-Weekly Semaglutide Versus Dulaglutide in the United States.
• Hepatocyte-secreted DPP4 in Obesity Promotes Adipose Inflammation and Insulin Resistance.
• Dipeptidyl Peptidase-4 Inhibitors and Incidence of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: Population Based Cohort Study.
• Semaglutide Injection Phase 2 Data Presented at ENDO Demonstrated Significant Weight Loss in Adults with Obesity.

Food & Diet

• Review: Nonnutritive Sweeteners in Weight Management and Chronic Disease.
• Estimated 24-Hour Urinary Sodium and Potassium Excretion in US Adults.
• Systematic review: Source of Bias in Sugar-sweetened Beverage Research.
• Dietary Carbohydrates Impair the Protective Effect of Protein Restriction Against Diabetes in NZO Mice Used as a Model of Type 2 Diabetes.
• Malnutrition, Poor Food Intake, and Adverse Healthcare Outcomes in Non-critically Ill Obese Acute Care Hospital Patients.

Caloric Restriction

• Sirtuins as Mediator of the Anti-Ageing Effects of Calorie Restriction in Skeletal and Cardiac Muscle.
• Global Remodeling of the Mouse DNA Methylome During Aging and in Response to Calorie Restriction.
• Roux‐en‐Y Gastric Bypass Compared to Equivalent Diet Restriction: Mechanistic Insights Into Diabetes Remission.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Can a Lifestyle Intervention Increase Active Transportation in Women Aged 55-70 Years?
• RCT: Collision Activity During Training Increases Total Energy Expenditure Measured Via Doubly Labelled Water.
• RCT: Supervised Physical Training Improves Weight Loss After Roux‐en‐Y Gastric Bypass Surgery.
• "Despite the popularity of PA [physical activity] apps available on the commercial market, there were substantial shortcomings in the areas of data safety and likelihood of effectiveness of the apps assessed."
• 2018 Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee Scientific Report. (pdf)

Economics & Sociology

• Gender, Time Use and Overweight and Obesity in Adults: Results of the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health.
• The Power of Social Networks and Social Support in Promotion of Physical Activity and BMI Among African American Adults.
• Neighborhood Social and Economic Change and Retail Food Environment Change in Madrid (Spain): The Heart Healthy Hoods Study.

Epidemiology

• Fat Mass and Obesity-associated (FTO) Rs9939609 Polymorphism Modifies the Relationship Between BMI and Affective Symptoms Through the Life Course: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study.
• Is Food Insecurity Associated with Maternal Health Among UK Ethnic Groups?
• Prevalence and Trends of Overweight and Obesity in Older Adults From 10 European Countries From 2005 to 2013.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• RCT: Lottery-Based Financial Incentives to Increase Physical Activity Among Overweight and Obese Adults.
• Personal Network Characteristics and BMI: The Role of Education Among Black Americans.
• Leveraging Delay Discounting for Health: Can Time Delays Influence Food Choice?
• The Portion Size Effect: Women Demonstrate an Awareness of Eating More than Intended When Served Larger than Normal Portions.
• Binge Eating Disorder and Morbid Obesity are Associated with Lowered Mu-opioid Receptor Availability in the Brain.

Equity and Disparities

• Socio-Economic Disparities in Attitude and Preference for Menu Labels Among Vietnamese Restaurant Customers.
• Socioeconomic Inequalities in Childhood and Adolescent Body-mass Index, Weight, and Height From 1953 to 2015.

Ethics

• Cognitive Function, Consent for Participation, and Compliance with Wearable Device Protocols in Older Adults.

Stigma

• Adolescent Preferences for Weight Terminology Used By Health Care Providers.
• Weight Status and Healthcare Avoidance in Women: A Study of Weight Stigma, Body-related Shame and Guilt, and Healthcare Stress.
• Exploring Nursing Students Change in Attitude Towards Those Who are Obese and Following a Simulated Activity.

Policy Related

• Economic Analysis of Three Interventions of Different Intensity in Improving School Implementation of a Government Healthy Canteen Policy in Australia: Costs, Incremental and Relative Cost Effectiveness.
• Trends in Childhood Height and Weight, and Socioeconomic Inequalities.
• The Childhood Obesity Declines Project: A Review of Enacted Policies.
• Front-of-package Nutrition Labeling Policy: Global Progress and Future Directions.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Androgen Excess and Obesity Induce Sexually Dimorphic Anxiety-like Behavior in the Offspring.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Energetic Trade-offs and Feedbacks Between Behavior and Metabolism Influence Correlations Between Pace-of-life Attributes.
• Social Status Affects Lipid Metabolism in Rainbow Trout, Oncorhynchus Mykiss.

Methods

• Systematic review: Using Electronic Health Record Data for Environmental and Place Based Population Health Research.
• Functional, RF‐Trilayer Sensors for Tooth‐Mounted, Wireless Monitoring of the Oral Cavity and Food Consumption.
• A New Resting Metabolic Rate Equation for Women with Class III Obesity.

Commentary

• Diets to (Live And) Die For.
• Just Say No to Obesity.
• The Heterogeneity of Obesity.
• The Obesity Paradox: A Misleading Term that Should Be Abandoned.
• Obesity as a Threat to National Security: The Need for Precision Engagement.

General

• Neural Androgen Synthesis and Aggression: Insights From a Seasonally-breeding Rodent.
• The New Threat of 'Leak-Flavored' Propaganda.
• Outcome-dependent Associations Between Short Interpregnancy Interval and Offspring Psychological and Educational Problems: A Population-based Quasi-experimental Study.
• Social Motivation and Health in College Club Swimming.
• Predicting Pharmacy Syringe Sales to People Who Inject Drugs: Policy, Practice and Perceptions.
• Patterns of Divergence in the Morphology of Ceratopsian Dinosaurs: Sympatry is Not a Driver of Ornament Evolution.
• Did a Sugar Called Trehalose Contribute to the Clostridium Difficile Epidemic?
• The E.P.A. Says It Wants Research Transparency. Scientists See an Attack on Science.
• Structure and Distribution of an Unrecognized Interstitium in Human Tissues.

Video & Audio

• Cavefish Blood Sugar.

Announcements

• IU School of Public Health-Bloomington Faculty Member to Serve on NSCA Foundation Investment Committee.
• FASEB Science Research Conference: Immunological Aspects of Metabolic Syndrome.
• UAB’s NORC Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.

Featured

• Evaluation of Oral Sugar Test Response for Detection of Equine Metabolic Syndrome in Obese Crioulo Horses.
• RCT: Impact of Intensive Lifestyle Intervention on Disability-Free Life Expectancy: The Look AHEAD Study.
• The Evolution of Body Fatness: Trading Off Disease and Predation Risk.
• Scientific Rigor and Credibility in the Nutrition Research Landscape.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Being in a Relationship Makes You Gain Weight, New Study Shows.
• Study: Repeated, Cross-sectional, Dichotomized, Self-reported BMI Shows Lower Proportion of Couples in Normal Weight Range, with No Difference in Trends in Proportion of Normal Weight Over Time Between Couples and Singles.

Contrary or Null Findings

• “In the Final Matched Model, the Head Start Program Did Not Have a Statistically Significant Effect on Children’s Obesity.”
• RCT: In Young Healthy Men, Insect Protein Supplementation Did Not Improve Adaptations to Eight Weeks of Resistance Training in Comparison to Carbohydrate Supplementation.
• Light-at-night Was Also Not Associated with an Increase in Body Weight in Mice.
• Obesity is Not Associated with a Differential Outcome Following Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery.
• "The study observed no mortality risk reductions associated with weight loss in individuals with CHD, and reduced mortality risk associated with weight gain in individuals who were normal weight at baseline."
• Orexin a but Not Orexin B Regulates Lipid Metabolism and Leptin Secretion in Isolated Porcine Adipocytes.
• RCT: "There was no beneficial effect of fatty fish compared to meat on cognitive functioning in the preschool children."
• RCT: Supplementation with Resveratrol and Curcumin Does Not Affect the Inflammatory Response to a High-Fat Meal in Older Adults with Abdominal Obesity.
• RCT: "We do not find significant causal effects of [an Illinois workplace wellness program] on total medical expenditures, health behaviors, employee productivity, or self-reported health status in the first year." (PDF)

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• The purpose of a pilot study is to demonstrate the feasibility of an experiment, not to estimate the treatment effect.
• Undark Commentary on Media & Brian Wansink.
• Mindless Hype for the MIND Diet.
• Letter in Response To: Effects of Probiotics on Body Weight, BMI, Fat Mass and Fat Percentage in Subjects with Overweight or Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis of RCTs.
• Comment On: Lifestyle Predictors of Obese and Non-obese Patients with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Cross-sectional Study.
• Reply Letter to the Editor: Lifestyle Predictors of Obese and Non-obese Patients with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Cross-sectional Study.
• Letter: "I am writing to clarify the discrepancies between the trial as registered and the trial as reported in the manuscript."

Basic

• New Study Finds Link Between Body Temperature and Obesity in Mice.
• A Drosophila Model for Flavor Perception and Feeding Decision.
• Association of Fat Mass Profile with Natriuretic Peptide Receptor Alpha in Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue of Medication-free Healthy Men: A Cross-sectional Study.
• In Mice, Insulin Resistance Causes Inflammation in Adipose Tissue.
• ERRγ Preserves Brown Fat Innate Thermogenic Activity.
• Effects of Resveratrol and Genistein on Nutrient Digestibility and Intestinal Histopathology of Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus Mykiss).
• Melatonin Absence Leads to Long-Term Leptin Resistance and Overweight in Rats.
• Insulin-like Receptors and Carbohydrate Metabolism in Gills of the Euryhaline Crab Neohelice Granulata: Effects of Osmotic Stress.
• Allostery Revealed Within Lipid Binding Events to Membrane Proteins.

Clinical

• RCT: Efficacy of Cinnamon in Patients with Type II Diabetes Mellitus.
• Large Weight Loss Raises [is Associated With] Fragility Fracture Risk in Type 2 Diabetes.
• Obesity Treatment Platform Available Through Athenahealth.

Children and Adolescents

• Taking Children’s Humor Seriously: A Study of Humor in Children Diagnosed with Obesity and the Medicalization of Body Weight.
• Health-e-Eater: Dinnertime Companion Robot and Magic Plate for Improving Eating Habits in Children From Low-Income Families.
• Reliability and Validity of HeartSmartKids: A Survey of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Children.
• Physical Activity and Inactivity Trajectories Associated with Body Composition in Pre-schoolers.

Surgery

• Bariatric Surgery in the Elderly is Associated with Similar Surgical Risks and Significant Long-Term Health Benefits. (PDF)
• Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy Corrects Metabolic Perturbations in a Low-Exercise Capacity Rat Model.
• Bariatric Surgery Alters Gene Expression.

Drugs

• The Potential of a Microneedle Patch for Reducing Obesity.
• The "Ideal" Body Weight for Pediatric Gentamicin Dosing in the Era of Obesity: A Population Pharmacokinetic Analysis.

Food & Diet

• Sources of Foods that are Ready-to-Consume (‘Grazing Environments’) Versus Requiring Additional Preparation (‘Grocery Environments’): Implications for Food–Environment Research and Community Health.
• RCT: The Effect of Daily Fortified Yogurt Consumption on Weight Loss in Adults with Metabolic Syndrome.
• The Relationship Between Dietary Macronutrients and Hepatic Telomere Length in Aging Mice.
• A Computationally Driven Analysis of the Polyphenol-protein Interactome.
• The Consequences of Seasonal Fasting During the Dormancy of Tegu Lizards (Salvator Merianae) on Their Postprandial Metabolic Response.
• The Role of Glucokinase and Insulin Receptor Substrate-2 in the Proliferation of Pancreatic Beta Cells Induced By Short-term High-fat Diet Feeding in Mice.

Caloric Restriction

• Intermittent Fasting with or Without Exercise Prevents Weight Gain and Improves Lipids in Diet-Induced Obese Mice.
• Long-Term Caloric Restriction Improves Cardiac Function, Remodeling, Adrenergic Responsiveness, and Sympathetic Innervation in a Model of Postischemic Heart Failure.
• RCT: Preoperative Short‐Term Calorie Restriction for Prevention of Acute Kidney Injury After Cardiac Surgery.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Effects of the FitDesk on Work Performance in College Students.
• The Influence of Exercise Training on the Bone Marrow Microenvironment in Obesity and Cancer.
• Physical Activity Levels in Adults and Older Adults 3–4 Years After Pedometer-based Walking Interventions: Long-term Follow-up of Participants From Two RCTs in UK Primary Care.

Economics & Sociology

• Increasing Overweight and Obesity Erodes Engagement in One's Neighborhood By Women, but Not Men.
• Income Inequality and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in a Highly Unequal Country: A Fixed-effects Analysis From South Africa.
• Neighborhood Environments and Physical Activity: A Longitudinal Study of Adolescents in a Natural Experiment.
• Subjective Socioeconomic Status Modulates Perceptual Discrimination Between Beverages with Different Energy Densities.

Epidemiology

• Food Insecurity, Food “Deserts,” and Glycemic Control in Patients with Diabetes: A Longitudinal Analysis.
• Early Release of Selected Estimates Based on Data From the January–September 2017 National Health Interview Survey. (PDF)
• Association Between Obesity and Sperm Quality.
• Body Composition in Long-term Survivors of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Diagnosed in Childhood: A Focus on Sarcopenic Obesity.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Comparison of Two Front-of-package Nutrition Labeling Schemes, and Their Explanation, on Consumers' Perception of Product Healthfulness and Food Choice.
• Interplay Between the Gut-brain Axis, Obesity and Cognitive Function.
• Predictors of Long-Term Adherence to Multiple Health Behavior Recommendations for Weight Management.
• Do Scores on the Food Craving Inventory and Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire Correlate with Expected Brain Regions of Interest in People with Obesity?
• Body Weight and Its Association with Impulsivity in Middle and Old Age Individuals.
• Association Between Purpose in Life and Glucose Control Among Older Adults.
• Psychological Status and Weight Variability Over Eight Years: Results From Look AHEAD.

Equity and Disparities

• Friends with Health Benefits: The Long-Term Benefits of Early Peer Social Integration for Blood Pressure and Obesity in Midlife.
• Data Spanning Three Decades Illustrate Racial Disparities in Likelihood of Obesity.
• Explained and Unexplained Racial and Regional Inequality in Obesity Prevalence in the United States.

Stigma

• Characteristics of Bias-based Harassment Incidents Reported By a National Sample of U.S. Adolescents.
• Implicit and Explicit Anti-fat Bias: The Role of Weight-related Attitudes and Beliefs.
• Changes in Anti-fat Weight Bias in Women After Exposure to Thin and Plus-sized Models.
• The Effects of Middle School Weight Climate on Youth with Higher Body Weight.

Policy Related

• Nutrigenomics and the Future of Nutrition: Proceedings of a Workshop.
• Does Advertising Content Matter? Impacts of Healthy Eating and Anti-Obesity Advertising on Willingness to Pay By Consumer BMI.

Intergenerational Effects

• Proinflammatory Diets During Pregnancy and Neonatal Adiposity in the Healthy Start Study.
• Vitamin D is Crucial for Maternal Care and Offspring Social Behaviour in Rats.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Testing the Behavioral Origins of Novelty: Did Increased Aggression Lead to Scale-eating in Pupfishes?
• Evolution of Sex-specific Pace-of-life Syndromes: Genetic Architecture and Physiological Mechanisms.
• Reviewing the Effects of Food Provisioning on Wildlife Immunity.
• Review: Environmental Regulation of Metabolism Through the Circadian Clock.
• Convergence of Marine Megafauna Movement Patterns in Coastal and Open Oceans.
• The Biology of Fat.

Methods

• Field Experiments on Food Choice in Grocery Stores: A ‘how-to’ Guide.
• Energy Intake Derived From an Energy Balance Equation, Validated Activity Monitors, and Dual X-Ray Absorptiometry Can Provide Acceptable Caloric Intake Data Among Young Adults.
• The Proposal to Lower P Value Thresholds to .005.

Commentary

• The Disease Delusion.
• Reproducibility of Science: Look Twice Before Crossing.
• Is Popular Fitness Culture Preventing Obesity?
• From Fat Cells Through an Obesity Theory.
• Gary Taubes on How Big Government Made Us Fat.
• The Breakfast-for-Weight-Loss Myth Strikes Again.
• Big Data and Machine Learning in Health Care.

General

• IU Bloomington Scientists Examine Reproducibility of Research Issues and Remedies in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Sackler Colloquium Series.
• Raven Food Calls Indicate Sender’s Age and Sex.
• Is Evolution Always “egolution”: Discussion of Evolutionary Efficiency of Altruistic Energy Exchange.
• Statistical Errors May Taint as Many as Half of Mouse Studies.
• Coffee Consumption Affects Cannabinoid Metabolism.
• There’s No Scientific Basis for Race—It's a Made-Up Label.
• Platypus Milk: How It Could Combat Superbugs.
• Experimental Demonstration that Offspring Fathered By Old Males Have Shorter Telomeres and Reduced Lifespans.
• Low Agreement Among Reviewers Evaluating the Same NIH Grant Applications.

Announcements

• Food for Thought: The Science and Politics of Nutrition. 14 - 15 Jun 2018.
• Keisuke Ejima, Postdoctoral Fellow in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Indiana University, Has Received a Two-year Grant to Research BMI and Mortality Using Artificial Intelligence.
• The Farm Bill and Beyond: Advocating for Nutrition and Research.
• IU School of Public Health-Bloomington Faculty Member Receives NSF Research Grant to Study Learning a New Skill's Effect on Motor Learning.
• UAB’s NORC Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.