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Obituaries: Three Great Scholars, Leaders, and Friends

• Leann Birch, Who Knew How to Get a Child to Eat Peas, Dies at 72.
• Judith Schneider Stern, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Nutrition and Internal Medicine at UC Davis, Died on May 8, 2019.
• Mario DiGirolamo - Born in Rome, Italy on March 31, 1934 Departed on February 5, 2019.

Featured

• Extreme Events Reveal an Alimentary Limit on Sustained Maximal Human Energy Expenditure.
• Maternal Overnutrition Programs Hedonic and Metabolic Phenotypes Across Generations Through Sperm TsRNAs.
• Metabolic Inflexibility Detected in Overweight Labradors.
• Best (but Oft Forgotten) Practices: Sample Size Planning for Powerful Studies.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Up to 25 Cups of Coffee a Day Still Safe for Heart Health, Study Says.
• Press-release: Coffee Not as Bad for Heart and Circulatory System as Previously Thought.
• Meeting abstract: No Statistically Significant Cross-sectional Correlation in Arterial Stiffness for Individuals Who Drink >3 Cups of Coffee/day Group (>25 Excluded). No Causation Established; 25-cup Drinkers Not Specifically Studied.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "Despite intensive, state-of-the-art, and often creative interventions conducted by seasoned investigators, all 5 of the studies considered below failed to alter the trajectory of weight gain in their participants compared with controls."
• RCT: "In this low-income, adolescent population, neither of the family-based interventions improved BMI or health-related secondary outcomes."
• RCT: No Effect of a School-Based Comprehensive Intervention for Childhood Obesity in China on BMI.
• RCT: "the intervention did not demonstrate a significant increase in nurse visits for obesity care..."
• RCT: "There seems to be no differential effect of weight loss or its interaction with macronutrient composition on measures of satiety."
• RCT: "A smartphone based attentive eating intervention and standard dietary advice did not result in reduced energy intake or greater weight loss at 4 or 8 week follow-up than standard dietary advice alone."
• RCT: "The use of AKTIDIET® [app] to support health advice for weight loss cannot be recommended."
• "There was no difference in adjusted hospital mortality across BMI strata in subjects with moderate to severe ARDS."
• "Our [mendelian randomization] findings support that T2DM and kidney disease increase TMAO levels and observational evidence for cardiovascular diseases may be due to confounding or reverse causality."

Basic

• Impact of Dietary Sucrose on Adiposity and Glucose Homeostasis in C57BL/6J Mice Depends on Mode of Ingestion: Liquid or Solid.
• Adipose HuR Protects Against Diet-Induced Obesity and Insulin Resistance.
• Hypothalamic Endocannabinoids Inversely Correlate with the Development of Diet-Induced Obesity in Male and Female Mice.
• Obesity-Induced Immune Dysfunction and Immunosuppression: TEM Observation of Lymph Node Microarchitecture and Immune Cell Interactions.
• Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Kinase is a Metabolic Checkpoint for Polarization of Macrophages to the M1 Phenotype.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• When Poorly Conducted Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses Can Mislead: A Critical Appraisal and Update of Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses Examining the Effects of Probiotics in the Treatment of Functional Constipation in Children.
• The Science Behind the Headlines.
• Make Reports of Research Misconduct Public.
• Three RCTs Evaluating the Impact of “spin” in Health News Stories Reporting Studies of Pharmacologic Treatments on Patients’/caregivers’ Interpretation of Treatment Benefit.

Clinical

• RCT: Impact of High Volume Energy Drink Consumption on Electrocardiographic and Blood Pressure Parameters.
• Low-fat Dietary Pattern and Breast Cancer Mortality By Metabolic Syndrome Degree: Secondary Analyses of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) Dietary Modification Randomized Trial.
• RCT: The Effects of Six‐week Resistance, Aerobic and Combined Exercises on the Pro‐inflammatory and Anti‐inflammatory Markers in Overweight Patients with Moderate Haemophilia A.
• RCT: Effects of Red Meat, White Meat, and Nonmeat Protein Sources on Atherogenic Lipoprotein Measures in the Context of Low Compared with High Saturated Fat Intake.

Children and Adolescents

• Young Children Have Higher Variability of Insulin Requirements: Observations During Hybrid Closed-Loop Insulin Delivery.
• Outcomes, Care Utilization, and Expenditures in Adolescent Pregnancy Complicated By Diabetes.
• Changes in Visceral and Subcutaneous Fat in Youth with Type 2 Diabetes in the TODAY Study.

Surgery

• Gastric Bypass Surgery in Lean Adolescent Mice Prevents Diet-induced Obesity Later in Life.
• Bariatric/Metabolic Surgery Induces Noticeable Changes of Microbiota and Their Secreting Extracellular Vesicle Composition in the Gut.

Drugs

• RCT: Effect of Liraglutide on Body Weight and Pain in the Treatment of Overweight and Knee Osteoarthritis.
• RCT: Timing of Postpartum Etonogestrel-releasing Implant Insertion and Bleeding Patterns, Weight Change, 12-month Continuation and Satisfaction Rates.
• The Contribution of Obesity to Prescription Opioid Use in the United States.
• Metformin and DPP-4 Inhibitor Differentially Modulate the Intestinal Microbiota and Plasma Metabolome of Metabolically Dysfunctional Mice.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Yogurt Improves Insulin Resistance and Liver Fat in Obese Women with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Metabolic Syndrome.
• RCT: Blueberries Improve Biomarkers of Cardiometabolic Function in Participants with Metabolic Syndrome.
• RCT: Role of Calcium and Low-Fat Dairy Foods in Weight-Loss Outcomes Revisited in Overweight/Obese Postmenopausal Women.
• Low-Carb and Ketogenic Diets in Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: Skipping Breakfast Before Exercise Creates a More Negative 24-hour Energy Balance in Healthy Physically Active Young Men.

Caloric Restriction

• Aging and Nutrition: Theories, Consequences, and Impact of Nutrients.
• Metabolic Disequilibrium and Aging: Modifying Favorably with Calorie Restriction and Calorie Restriction Mimetics. (pdf)
• Energy Metabolism and Intermittent Fasting: The Ramadan Perspective.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• PART 1: Cycling is Associated with a Lower Incidence of Cardiovascular Diseases and Death.
• PART 2: Cycling and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Including Body Composition, Blood Lipids and Cardiorespiratory Fitness Analysed as Continuous Variables.
• RCT: Effects of Interval Training on Visceral Adipose Tissue in Centrally Obese 70‐Year‐Old Individuals.
• Physical Activity Moderates the Effects of Daily Psychosocial Stressors on Ambulatory Blood Pressure.

Economics & Sociology

• Systematic Review: Children of Single-parent Households are at a Higher Risk of Obesity.
• Socioeconomically Distressed Communities Associated with Long-term Mortality After Bariatric Surgery.
• Early Life Socioeconomic Status Moderates Associations Between Objective Sleep and Weight-related Indicators in Middle Childhood.
• Diet Quality Trends Among Adults with Diabetes By Socioeconomic Status in the U.S.: 1999–2014.

Epidemiology

• Night‐time Eating and Body Weight Status Among US Adults, 2007–2016.
• Combined Effect of Central Obesity and Urinary PAH Metabolites on Lung Function: A Cross-sectional Study in Urban Adults.
• Identifying Determinants of Obesity in Athens, Greece Through Global and Local Statistical Models.
• Significant Increase in Risk of Fibrosis or Cirrhosis at Time of HCV Diagnosis for Hispanics with Diabetes and Obesity Compared with Other Ethnic Groups.
• Lifestyle Risk Factors, Obesity and Infectious Disease Mortality in the General Population: Linkage Study of 97,844 Adults From England and Scotland.
• Psychosocial Factors Associated with Treatment Outcomes in Women with Obesity and Major Depressive Disorder Who Received Behavioral Activation for Depression.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Food Addiction in Adolescents: Exploration of Psychological Symptoms and Executive Functioning Difficulties in a Non-clinical Sample.
• Deconstructing Weight Management Interventions for Young Adults: Looking Inside the Black Box of the EARLY Consortium Trials.
• Ambivalence Toward Healthy and Unhealthy Food and Moderation By Individual Differences in Restrained Eating.
• Self‐regulation Foci and Mood Affect Healthy and Unhealthy Eating Behaviours Differently in Successful Weight‐loss Treatment Participants.
• Effect of Dose of Behavioral Weight Loss Treatment on Glycemic Control in Adults with Prediabetes.

Equity and Disparities

• Prepregnancy Diabetes and Breastfeeding Cessation Among Black Women in the United States.
• Weight-based Victimization Among Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents: Implications for Substance Use and Mental Health.
• Ethnic Disparities in Adiposity: Focus on Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Visceral, and Generalized Obesity.

Ethics

• Commercial Interests, Agenda Setting, and the Epistemic Trustworthiness of Nutrition Science.
• Obesity, Political Responsibility, and the Politics of Needs.

Stigma

• Weight Stigma and Physical Health: An Unconsidered ‘obesity’ Cost.
• Unhealthy Weight Control Behaviors and Substance Use Among Adolescent Girls: The Harms of Weight Stigma.
• Weight‐based Teasing is Associated with Gain in BMI and Fat Mass Among Children and Adolescents At‐risk for Obesity: A Longitudinal Study.

Policy Related

• UK Sugar Tax: Historic Sales Shift to Sugar-free.
• Adolescent Obesity in the Past Decade a Systematic Review of Genetics and Determinants of Food Choice.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Nutritional Restriction During Gestation Impacts Differently on Offspring Muscular and Elastic Arteries and is Associated with Increased Carotid Resistance and Ventricular Afterload in Maturity.
• The Influence of Protein Restriction During Mid- to Late Gestation on Beef Offspring Growth, Carcass Characteristic and Meat Quality.
• Association of Preterm Birth with Risk of Ischemic Heart Disease in Adulthood.
• Hyperglycemia During Pregnancy May Raise Child's Obesity Risk.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Thermal Regime Effects on the Resting Metabolic Rate of Rattlesnakes Depend on Temperature Range.
• Predatory Behavior Changes with Satiety or Increased Insulin Levels in the Praying Mantis (Tenodera Sinensis).

Methods

• Meta-analysis: Intra-Abdominal Adipose Tissue Quantification By Alternative Versus Reference Methods.
• Development and Validation of Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis Equations in Adolescents with Severe Obesity.
• Development and Validation of a Tool to Assess the Rural Neighborhood Environment for Obesity in Korean Adults.
• Accuracy of a Mixed Effects Model Interpolation Technique for the Estimation of Pregnancy Weight Values.
• Evaluation of Measurement Error in 24-hour Dietary Recall for Assessing Sodium and Potassium Intake Among US Adults — National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), 2014.

Commentary

• How Fasting May Prevent Obesity-related Insulin Resistance.
• Preventing Weight Gain More Important than Weight Loss and More Realistic to Study in Cohorts than in RCTs.
• Polyagonists for the Treatment of Obesity and Diabetes.
• Fast Relief From Excess Weight!
• The Elusive Magic of 10,000 Steps Per Day.
• Good Question: Why is Diabetes Incidence Going Down?

General

• Of Chaos, Storms and Forking Paths: The Principles of Uncertainty.
• Metamorphic Robustness Testing: Exposing Hidden Defects in Citation Statistics and Journal Impact Factors.
• The Role of Prosocial Behaviors in Mate Choice: A Critical Review of the Literature.
• Jumping Gene Gave Fish a Freshwater Start.
• Nutrients in the US Diet: Naturally Occurring or Enriched/fortified Food and Beverage Sources, Plus Dietary Supplements: NHANES 2009–2012.

Announcements

• EASO New Investigators United Autumn School: September 2019.
• WEBINAR: Feasibility of Online Nutrition Education in the Workplace: Working Toward Healthy Lifestyles.
• Study Spotlight: Results and Comparisons From the RISE Clinical Trial—Adult Medication Study.
• Workshop to Focus on MRI of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders.
• Training Program: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Training Program: AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• Short Course: Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research, Indiana University Bloomington (July 29-August 2, 2019).

Featured

• Weight Loss, Diet Composition and Breast Cancer Incidence and Outcome in Postmenopausal Women.
• Three-dimensional Label-free Imaging Throughout Adipocyte Differentiation By Stimulated Raman Microscopy.
• BMI and Social Interactions From Adolescence to Adulthood.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Study Shows How Diet Can Prevent a Mid-life Microbiome Crisis and Improve Brain Health.
• Study: "These data highlight a potential pathway by which targeting the gut microbiome with prebiotics can modulate the peripheral immune response and alter neuroinflammation..." in middle aged mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Statistically Significant Effect on Weight of a Computerised Decision-Support Tool for Health Professionals for the Prevention and Treatment of Childhood Obesity.
• RCT: No Significant Effect of a Weight Management Intervention for Maternal Obesity, on Maternal and Child Outcomes at 24 Months Following Birth.
• "Neither egg nor cholesterol intakes were associated with stroke risk in this cohort, regardless of apoE phenotype."
• RCT: Three Consecutive Weeks of Nutritional Ketosis Has No Effect on Cognitive Function, Sleep, and Mood, Compared with a High-carbohydrate, Low-fat Diet in Healthy Individuals.
• RCT: "Intervention with fish oil and/or probiotics during pregnancy ...conferred no benefits in lowering the risk of GDM or improving glucose metabolism in overweight and obese women."
• "Results suggest that treatment intensification is often delayed despite consistently poor glycaemic control for more than 12 months, contrary to treatment guideline recommendations."
• "Contrary to general belief, the return of large carnivores does not always translate into higher compensation costs."
• RCT: "Contrary to previous acute exercise studies, 50 min of walking before dinner in the E-PAraDiGM protocol did not affect 24-h glucose profiles."
• Meta-analysis: "Based on our findings, modulation of gut microbiota composition through pro-/ synbiotic supplements did not have favorable effects to manage overweight or obese children and adolescents."
• "In this low-income, adolescent population, neither of the family-based interventions improved BMI or health-related secondary outcomes."

Basic

• A Brain-Melanocortin-Vagus Axis Mediates Adipose Tissue Expansion Independently of Energy Intake.
• Adipose Sirtuin 6 Drives Macrophage Polarization Toward M2 Through IL-4 Production and Maintains Systemic Insulin Sensitivity in Mice and Humans.
• Pancreatic Adipocytes Mediate Hypersecretion of Insulin in Diabetes-Susceptible Mice.
• Ginger Prevents Obesity Through Regulation of Energy Metabolism and Activation of Browning in High-fat Diet-induced Obese Mice.
• Obesity Impacts the Regulation of MiR-10b and Its Targets in Primary Breast Tumors.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• The Implementation of Randomization Requires Corrected Analyses. Comment on ”Comprehensive Nutritional and Dietary Intervention for Autism Spectrum Disorder—A Randomized, Controlled 12-Month Trial, Nutrients 2018, 10, 369”.
• Reply to “Comment On: Comprehensive Nutritional and Dietary Intervention for Autism Spectrum Disorder—A Randomized, Controlled 12-Month Trial, Nutrients 2018, 10, 369”.
• University of Sydney Pulls Claims Elderberries Can Fight Flu.
• A New Science Integrity Blog.
• Commentary: CrossFit Demands Retraction of Paper Claiming Their Participants are More Likely to Be Injured.

Clinical

• Reversing Type 2 Diabetes with Bariatric Surgery, Very Low Calorie Diets, and Carbohydrate Restriction: A Review of the Evidence.
• Altered Thyroid Function and Structure in Children and Adolescents Who are Overweight and Obese: Reversal After Weight Loss.
• RCT: Daily Self‐Weighing to Prevent Holiday‐Associated Weight Gain in Adults.
• Obesity, Weight Loss and Its Influence on Telomere Length: New Insights for Personalized Nutrition.
• RCT: Circulating Gut Microbiota Metabolite Trimethylamine-N-Oxide (TMAO) and Changes in Bone Density in Response to Weight Loss Diets.
• Clinical Insights Into the Genetic Overlap Between Obesity Susceptibility and Food Choices.

Children and Adolescents

• Meta-analysis: Treatment of Obesity, with a Dietary Component, and Eating Disorder Risk in Children and Adolescents.
• Effects of School Neighborhood Food Environments on Childhood Obesity at Multiple Scales.
• Factors Affecting the Dose of Intervention Received and the Participant Satisfaction in a School-based Obesity Prevention Intervention.
• Trends in Levels of Lipids and Apolipoprotein B in US Youths Aged 6 to 19 Years, 1999-2016.
• The FTO Gene and Measured Food Intake in 5‐ to 10‐Year‐Old Children Without Obesity.
• Predictors and Patterns of Eating Behaviors Across Childhood: Results From the Generation R Study.

Surgery

• The Amount of Weight Loss Six Months After Bariatric Surgery: It Makes a Difference.
• Meta-analysis: ffect of Bariatric Surgery on Serum Inflammatory Factors of Obese Patients.
• Five-Year Outcomes of Gastric Bypass in Adolescents as Compared with Adults.

Drugs

• Trypsin Inhibitors: Promising Candidate Satietogenic Proteins as Complementary Treatment for Obesity and Metabolic Disorders?
• First-in-Human Study of Dual Inhibitor Licogliflozin Showed Significant Weight Loss in Obese Patients.
• The Effects of Licogliflozin, a Dual SGLT1/2 Inhibitor, on Body Weight in Obese Patients with or Without Diabetes.

Food & Diet

• Efficacy of Balanced Nutrition Meal Replacement Diet with Altered Macromolecule Composition Along with a Caloric Restriction on Body Weight Control.
• Salt Intake and Prevalence of Overweight/obesity in Japan, China, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
• RCT: Using the Avocado to Test the Satiety Effects of a Fat-Fiber Combination in Place of Carbohydrate Energy in a Breakfast Meal in Overweight and Obese Men and Women.
• Late‐life Time‐restricted Feeding and Exercise Differentially Alter Healthspan in Obesity [in Mice].
• Feasibility and Acceptability of a Takeaway Masterclass Aimed at Encouraging Healthier Cooking Practices and Menu Options in Takeaway Food Outlets.
• Changes in Intake of Plant-based Diets and Weight Change: Results From 3 Prospective Cohort Studies.

Caloric Restriction

• Dawn-to-sunset Fasting Suggests Potential New Treatment for Obesity-related Conditions.
• Dietary Restriction Enhances Circadian Amplitude and Delays Visual Decline By a Clock-driven Increase in Phototransduction.
• Fasting Modulates Synaptic Plasticity in the Dentate Gyrus of Male Rats.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• For Fat Burning, Interval Training Beats Continuous Exercise.
• Rates of Injury From Sports, Recreation, and Leisure Activities Among Children and Adolescents Aged 1–17 Years, By Age Group — National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2015–2017.
• Prevalence of Low Back Pain, Seeking Medical Care, and Lost Time Due to Low Back Pain Among Manual Material Handling Workers in the United States.
• Exercise Prevents the Adverse Effects of Maternal Obesity on Placental Vascularization and Fetal Growth.
• Interindividual Variability and Individual Responses to Exercise Training in Adolescents with Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Does Employment-Based Insurance Make the US Medical Care System Unfair and Inefficient?
• Using Economic Evidence to Support Policy Decisions to Fund Interventions for Non-communicable Diseases.
• For Fashion Industry, China's Child Obesity Problem Could Be Big Business.
• The Economics of Taxes on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages: A Review of the Effects on Prices, Sales, Cross-Border Shopping, and Consumption.

Epidemiology

• Association of Sugary Beverage Consumption with Mortality Risk in US Adults.
• Decline of Childhood Overweight and Obesity in Italy From 2008 to 2016.
• Measures of General and Abdominal Obesity and Disability Severity in a Large Population of People with Multiple Sclerosis.
• Changing Impact of Obesity on Active Life Expectancy of Older Americans.
• Abdominal Obesity is More Strongly Correlated with Obstructive Sleep Apnea than General Obesity in China: Results From Two Separated Observational and Longitudinal Studies.
• Relationship Between DXA Measured Metrics of Adiposity and Glucose Homeostasis; An Analysis of the NHANES Data.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Systematic Review: Increasing Healthy Food Choices Through Nudges.
• Editorial: Preventing Weight Gain More Important than Weight Loss and More Realistic to Study in Cohorts than in RCTs.
• Obesity, Subliminal Perception and Inhibition: Neuromodulation of the Prefrontal Cortex.
• Impact of Intensive Lifestyle Intervention on Neural Food Cue Reactivity: Action for Health in Diabetes Brain Ancillary Study.

Equity and Disparities

• We Need a New Approach to Prevent Obesity in Low-Income Minority Populations.
• Pronounced Social Inequality in Health-related Factors and Quality of Life in Women and Men From Austria Who are Overweight or Obese.
• Regional Variation in Type 2 Diabetes: Evidence From 137 820 Adults on the Role of Neighbourhood BMI.

Stigma

• Does Dissatisfaction With, or Accurate Perception of Overweight Status Help People Reduce Weight? Longitudinal Study of Australian Adults.
• NP Student Encounters with Obesity Bias in Clinical Practice.
• Health Concerns and Moral Distaste - ‘Concern Trolling’ as a Moralizing Rhetoric.
• Male Body Dissatisfaction, Eating Disorder Symptoms, Body Composition, and Attentional Bias to Body Stimuli Evaluated Using Visual Search.

Policy Related

• Study Protocol: Exploring Network Structure and the Role of Key Stakeholders to Understand the Obesity Prevention System in an Australian Metropolitan Health Service.
• Improving the Health of Alaska Native People Through Use of a Policy Change Model and Capacity Building.
• Adherence to WHO’s Nutrition Recommendations in the UK: Dietary Patterns and Policy Implications From a National Survey.
• Policy Statement: Recommendations for the Establishment of Stroke Systems of Care: A 2019 Update: A Policy Statement From the American Stroke Association.
• Can We Stop the Obesity Epidemic?
• Assessing the Early Impact of Menu-Labeling on Calories in Chain Restaurants in Ontario, Canada.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal BMI Affects Embryo Morphokinetics: A Time-lapse Study.
• Children Exposed to Maternal Obesity or Gestational Diabetes During Early Fetal Development Have Hypothalamic Alterations that Predict Future Weight Gain.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Temporal Trends in Florida Panther Food Habits.
• Giant Tiger Sharks Eat Backyard Birds, Surprising Study Reveals.
• Section-specific H+ Fluxes in Renal Tubules of Fasted and Fed Goldfish.
• Developmental Plasticity in Metabolism but Not in Energy Reserve Accumulation in a Seasonally Polyphenic Butterfly.

Methods

• New Methods for Analysis and Interpretation of Obesity Experiments.
• Racial and Educational Disparities in Cognitive Life Expectancies: A Multivariate, Incidence-based Life Table Approach.
• Predicting Nationwide Obesity From Food Sales Using Machine Learning.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• A Study on the Modeling of Obesity.
• Comparison of Parametric and Nonparametric Estimators for the Association Between Incident Prepregnancy Obesity and Stillbirth in a Population-Based Cohort Study.

Commentary

• Time for a Holiday – Step on the Scales Please.
• Ultraprocessed Food Makes Us Fat: Forewarned, but Not Forearmed.
• A Non-BMI-Centric Approach to Diagnosing and Managing Obesity.
• Can We Walk and Chew Gum and Lose Weight All at Once?
• Sydney Playwright Presents the Human Side of Nutrition Science.
• Appetite as a Vital Sign.
• An Objective Line Between Processed and Ultra-Processed.
• Making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice.
• Apples and Oranges, Tobacco and Sugar.

General

• A Solution to Psychology’s Reproducibility Problem Just Failed Its First Test.
• RCT: To Tweet or Not to Tweet, that is the Question: A Trial of Twitter Effects on Article Engagement in Medical Education.
• The Varying Effects of Neighborhood Disadvantage on College Graduation: Moderating and Mediating Mechanisms.
• Charcoal Toothpaste May do Harm and Not Much Good.
• Report Puts Scientific Replicability and Reproducibility Under the Microscope.
• Improving Environmental Risk Assessments of Chemicals: Steps Towards Evidence-based Ecotoxicology.
• Association Between Life Purpose and Mortality Among US Adults Older than 50 Years.
• Trends in Proportion of Women as Authors of Medical Journal Articles, 2008-2018.

Announcements

• Webinar: Using Law and Policy to Promote Health Equity and Achieve Healthy People Goals (June 13).
• Comment Request-Generic Clearance for the Development of Nutrition Education Messages and Products for the General Public: Due 06/04/2019.
• Menu Labeling Social Media Toolkit for Consumer Outreach.
• Training Program: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Training Program: AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• Short Course: Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research, Indiana University Bloomington (July 29-August 2, 2019).
• Short Course: Mathematical Science in Obesity Research, Baltimore, MD (June 3-7, 2019).
• Webinar: The Potential Role of Nutrition in the First 2 Years of Life in the Prevention of Child Overweight and Obesity.

Featured

• Are Corporations Nudging the Nudgers?
• Five-Year Outcomes of Gastric Bypass in Adolescents as Compared with Adults.
• The Gliotransmitter ACBP Controls Feeding and Energy Homeostasis via the Melanocortin System.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Mothers’ Microbes Modulate Metabolism During Pregnancy.
• Study: High‐fat Diet Intake Modulates Maternal Intestinal Adaptations to Pregnancy and Results in Placental Hypoxia, as Well as Altered Fetal Gut Barrier Proteins and Immune Markers... In Mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Significant of Effectiveness in Total Sample of a Physical Activity Intervention in Preschoolers.
• RCT: When Objective Methods of Physical Activity are Used, No Statistically Significant Evidence of Effects in Kids Out; Evaluation of a Brief Multimodal Cluster Randomized Intervention Integrated in Health Education Lessons to Increase Physical Activity and Reduce Sedentary Behavior Among Eighth Graders.
• Maternal Obesity is Not Associated with Increased Crown-rump Length in First-trimester Ultrasounds of Singleton Gestations.
• RCT: "There was no difference in the WLM of participants who received the NULevel intervention compared to participants who received standard lifestyle advice via newsletter."
• "Contrary to previous literature, our results do not support a harmful association of monosaccharides and disaccharides with NAFLD."
• RCT: No Significant of Effectiveness in Total Sample of a Physical Activity Intervention in Preschoolers.
• RCT: When Objective Methods of Physical Activity are Used, No Statistically Significant Evidence of Effects in Kids Out; Evaluation of a Brief Multimodal Cluster Randomized Intervention Integrated in Health Education Lessons to Increase Physical Activity and Reduce Sedentary Behavior Among Eighth Graders.
• RCT: "Although observational data suggested that folate and vitamin B12 status are associated with body composition, random allocation of a supplement with both B-vitamins combined versus placebo did not confirm an effect on BMI or body composition."
• No Effect of Vitamin D Administration Plus Dietary Intervention on Emerging Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome.
• Salivary α-amylase Copy Number is Not Associated with Weight Trajectories and Glycemic Improvements Following Clinical Weight Loss: Results From a 2-phase Dietary Intervention Study.
• "Contrary to some previous experimental data, acute sleep deficit had no significant association with total EI..."
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation on Body Weight.

Basic

• Accumulation of Intramuscular Toxic Lipids, a Link between Fat Mass Accumulation and Sarcopenia.
• Offspring Exposed to Maternal High Fat Diet Exhibits Systemic Inflammation and Pancreatic Islet Dysfunction.
• Obesity-Associated Hypermetabolism and Accelerated Senescence of Bone Marrow Stromal Stem Cells Suggest a Potential Mechanism for Bone Fragility.
• Diacylglycerol Oil Reduces Fat Accumulation and Increases Protein Content By Inducing Lipid Catabolism and Protein Metabolism in Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis Niloticus).
• β-Lapachone Regulates Obesity Through Modulating Thermogenesis in Brown Adipose Tissue and Adipocytes: Role of AMPK Signaling Pathway.
• White Adipose Tissue Response of Obese Mice to Ambient Oxygen Restriction at Thermoneutrality: Response Markers Identified, but No WAT Inflammation.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• The Implementation of Randomization Requires Corrected Analyses in “Comprehensive Nutritional and Dietary Intervention for Autism Spectrum Disorder—A Randomized, Controlled 12-Month Trial.”
• Letter & Response - Conditioning on "study" is essential for valid inference when combining individual data from multiple randomized controlled trials: a comment on Reesor et al's School-based weight management program curbs summer weight gain among low-income Hispanic middle school students. J Sch Health. 2019;89(1):59-67.
• “The Conclusions of Intervention Studies Such as Effectiveness of a Program for Reducing the Prevalence of Obesity,…could Be Impacted By RTM And, Therefore, Estimates of the Effect of an Intervention May Be Inaccurate.”.
• Digging Into Breakfast: Serving Up a Better Understanding of the Effects on Health of the “most Important Meal of the Day”.
• Mind Your Methods: Obesity Trials and the Consort Guidelines.

Clinical

• Effectiveness of social media-based lifestyle modification interventions for weight reduction in obese and overweight individuals: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
• Comparing Disordered Eating and Feeding Practices in African American and Caucasian Treatment-seeking Youth with Obesity.
• No Association of Obesity Class with Trial of Labor After Cesarean Success.
• RCT: Seasonal Fluctuations in Weight and Self-weighing Behavior Among Adults in a Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention.
• Testosterone Therapy in Men with Hypogonadism Prevents Progression From Prediabetes to Type 2 Diabetes: Eight-Year Data From a Registry Study.

Children and Adolescents

• The Long-Term Effects of Dietary Nutrient Intakes During the First 2 Years of Life in Healthy Infants From Developed Countries: An Umbrella Review.
• Behavioral Research Agenda in a Multietiological Approach to Child Obesity Prevention.
• Potential Solutions for Pediatric Weight Loss Programs in the Treatment of Obesity in Rural Communities.
• Feasibility of Pediatric Obesity and Prediabetes Treatment Support Through Tess, the AI Behavioral Coaching Chatbot.
• Increasing Prevalence of Diabetic Ketoacidosis at Diabetes Diagnosis Among Children in Quebec: A Population-based Retrospective Cohort Study.
• Wisdom and Wishes About Walking to School.
• US Pediatrician Practices and Attitudes Concerning Childhood Obesity: 2006 and 2017.
• Heavy Teen Boys May Face Higher Heart Disease Risk as Adults.

Surgery

• Effects of Roux En Y Gastric Bypass Surgery on Neurobehavioral Symptom Domains Associated with Severe Obesity.
• RCT: Improving Compliance with Very Low Energy Diets (VLEDs) Prior to Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• RCT: Evaluation of Treatment-Dose Enoxaparin in Acutely Ill Morbidly Obese Patients at an Academic Medical Center.
• RCT: Effects of Intermittent Versus Continuous Phentermine Therapy on Weight Reduction and Inflammatory Markers in Obese Non-diabetic Patients.

Food & Diet

• Meta-analysis: The Effect of Canola Oil on Body Weight and Composition.
• RCT: Three Consecutive Weeks of Nutritional Ketosis Has No Effect on Cognitive Function, Sleep, and Mood Compared with a High-carbohydrate, Low-fat Diet in Healthy Individuals.
• Vegetarianism: "Shunning the Sacrilegious Taste of Blood."
• TMAO and Heart Disease: The New Red Meat Risk?

Caloric Restriction

• The Impact of Aging, Calorie Restriction and Dietary Fat on Autophagy Markers and Mitochondrial Ultrastructure and Dynamics in Mouse Skeletal Muscle.
• Growth-restriction during lactation reduced physical activity in female mice by reducing the central drive to be active and displayed a more fatigable skeletal muscle phenotype.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Gum Chewing While Walking Increases Fat Oxidation and Energy Expenditure.
• Cardiorespiratory Fitness as a Predictor of Short‐term and Lifetime Estimated Cardiovascular Disease Risk.
• Comparative Relevance of Physical Fitness and Adiposity on Life Expectancy.
• Financial Incentives for Physical Activity in Adults: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Neighborhood Food Environment and Physical Activity Among U.S. Adolescents.
• For Fat Burning, Interval Training Beats Continuous Exercise.

Economics & Sociology

• Gender-specific Mediators of the Association Between Parental Education and Adiposity Among Adolescents.
• Food as a New Old Commons.

Epidemiology

• Epigenetics in Human Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.
• Overweight and Obesity Among School Bus Drivers in Rural Arkansas.
• Relationships Among Child Eating Behaviors and Household Food Insecurity in Youth with Obesity.
• Association of Sugary Beverage Consumption with Mortality Risk in US Adults a Secondary Analysis of Data From the REGARDS Study.
• Effect of Late-life Weight Change on Dementia Incidence: A 10-year Cohort Study Using Claim Data in Korea.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Sex-specific Roles of Cellular Inflammation and Cardiometabolism in Obesity-associated Depressive Symptomatology.
• Association of Social and Behavioral Risk Factors with Earlier Onset of Adult Hypertension and Diabetes.
• A Digital Behavioral Weight Gain Prevention Intervention in Primary Care Practice: Cost and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis.
• Food Craving Predicts the Consumption of Highly Palatable Food but Not Bland Food.

Equity and Disparities

• Do Differences in Compositional Time Use Explain Ethnic Variation in the Prevalence of Obesity in Children? Analyses Using 24-hour Accelerometry.
• A Three-year Multifaceted Intervention to Prevent Obesity in Children of Mexican-heritage.
• Correlates and Inequality of Underweight and Overweight Among Women of Reproductive Age: Evidence From the 2016 Nepal Demographic Health Survey.
• Obesity, Equity and Choice.

Ethics

• Regulating Sugar-Sweetened Beverages.
• Challenging Diversity: Steering Effects of Buzzwords in Projectified Health Care - Obesity Case Study.

Stigma

• Body Image Distortion Following Social Rejection or Acceptance Cues.
• Advocating for Fat Activism in a Therapeutic Context.

Policy Related

• Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes Emerging Evidence on a New Public Health Policy.
• Food Environment Research in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Scoping Review.
• FDA Warns of Risks Associated with Use of Unauthorized Devices for Diabetes Management Used Alone or Along with Other Devices.
• Materials & Transcripts From: Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee: Meeting 1.
• Association of a Beverage Tax on Sugar-Sweetened and Artificially Sweetened Beverages with Changes in Beverage Prices and Sales at Chain Retailers in a Large Urban Setting.
• Implementing Strategies to Enhance Public Health Surveillance of Physical Activity in the United States. (pdf)

Intergenerational Effects

• Famine Exposure During the Fetal Period Increased the Risk of Dyslipidemia in Female Adults.
• Role of miRNA in the Transmission of Metabolic Diseases Associated With Paternal Diet-Induced Obesity.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Responding to the Weather: Energy Budgeting By a Small Mammal in the Wild.
• Endocrine Disruption Alters Developmental Energy Allocation and Performance in Rana Temporaria.

Methods

• A Simple Method to Monitor Hepatic Gluconeogenesis and Triglyceride Synthesis Following Oral Sugar Tolerance Test in Obese Adolescents.
• Development of a Scale to Measure Quality of Life of Overweight Women.
• Identification of Plasma Lipid Metabolites Associated with Nut Consumption in US Men and Women.
• Perspective: Advancing Understanding of Population Nutrient–Health Relations Via Metabolomics and Precision Phenotypes.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Predicting Nationwide Obesity From Food Sales Using Machine Learning.
• The Reign of the P-value is Over: What Alternative Analyses Could We Employ to Fill the Power Vacuum?

Commentary

• Diet, RCTs, and the Religion-izing of Science: Even Good Tools Can Be Used Badly...
• RNA Messaging System Which Tells Proteins How to Behave in Cells is Functioning Differently in Diabetes.
• Severe Teen Obesity: Care Delayed May Be Health Denied.
• In Teens with Severe Obesity, Can Bariatric Surgery Wait Until Adulthood?
• "Are Fruit Juices Just as Unhealthy as Sugar-Sweetened Beverages?"
• Does Eating Ultraprocessed Food Affect Weight Gain? It’s Complicated.
• Told Ya So: It’s the Ultra-Processed Food.
• Indiana Youth Institute CEO Talks Good Eating, Ample Activity to Fight Childhood Obesity.
• Replacing Some Carbs with Avocado Might Promote Weight Loss, Study Finds.
• Help Address Food Waste and Food Insecurity: Increase Understanding of Date Labeling.
• Rural Areas Drive Global Obesity.
• What? A Low-Fat Diet Prevents Breast Cancer?
• NCDs, UHC, and Global Presumptions.
• Ultra-Processed Foods Cause Weight Gain.
• Study Puts Eggs and Dietary Cholesterol Back on the Radar.
• Radical Concept: Medical Care for a Medical Condition.

General

• "Women Untold": Documentary based on the careers of Dr. Jewel Plummer Cobb, Alice Augusta Ball and Dr. Evelyn Boyd Granville.
• This 100-Million-Year-Old Squid Relative Was Entrapped in Amber Read.
• Are Vitamin D Levels Jeopardized By Sunscreen?
• Female-female Aggression in Goitered Gazelles: The Desire for Isolation.
• Senolytic Therapies for Healthy Longevity.
• The National Academies Illustrates the More Nuanced Value of Transparency in Science.
• RCT: Claims of Causality in Health News.
• REVIEW: Relationship between Diet/exercise and Pharmacotherapy to Enhance the GLP‐1 Levels in Type 2 Diabetes.
• Socioeconomic Position and Intergenerational Associations of Ideal Health Behaviors.
• You Can’t ‘Starve’ Cancer, but You Might Help Treat It with Food.
• How Did Life Arrive on Land? A Billion-Year-Old Fungus May Hold Clues.

Video & Audio

• Podcast: Fasting Framework, Vitamin Supplementation, Antioxidants, Time Management, Problem-solving, and More.
• Video: Exercise Dose in Children — DIC Interview.
• Podcast: Continuous Glucose Monitors – Impact of Food, Sleep, and Stress on Glucose, the Unmatched Power of CGM to Drive Behavioral Change, and the Exciting Future of CGM.

Announcements

• Webinar: The Potential Role of Nutrition in the First 2 Years of Life in the Prevention of Child Overweight and Obesity.
• NORC of UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• Short Course: Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research (7/29-8/2 @Bloomington, IN).
• Short Course: Mathematical Science in Obesity Research (6/3-7 @Baltimore, MD).

Featured

• Examining the Impact of a Summer Learning Program on Children's Weight Status and Cardiorespiratory Fitness: A Natural Experiment.
• It's All in the Timing: The Effect of a Healthy Food Cue on Food Choices From a Pictorial Menu.
• Innervation of Thermogenic Adipose Tissue Via a Calsyntenin 3β–S100b Axis.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Eating More Rice Could Help Fight Obesity, Study Suggests.
• Press release: International Study Suggests that Eating More Rice Could Be Protective Against Obesity.
• Meeting presentation: Cross-sectional Ecological Correlation Shows Association Between Per Capita Rice Consumption and BMI. No Fighting or Protection Demonstrated.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "No evidence of preliminary effectiveness on the primary outcome and mixed reports of teachers' acceptability of PAL training suggest the need to review the training" after "Introducing physically active lessons in UK secondary schools."
• RCT: No Significant Effect on BMI of Effect of a Workplace Wellness Program.
• RCT: No Significant Differential Effect on Weight of a Behavioural Intervention for Weight Loss Maintenance Versus Standard Weight Advice in Adults with Obesity.
• "No between-group differences in child BMI z-score were found..." in a "Comparative Effectiveness Trial of an Obesity Prevention Intervention in EFNEP and SNAP-ED."
• RCT: "web-based intervention using an activity monitor failed to promote weight-loss maintenance."
• "In extremely obese women undergoing cesarean delivery, prophylactic PICO NPWT was not associated with a decreased risk of the primary outcome compared with standard dressings."
• Advanced-age C57BL/6JRj Mice do Not Develop Obesity upon Western-type Diet Exposure.
• "In the age group of people around 70 years, dog ownership is not associated with reduced odds for developing T2D."

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• "More specifically, industry-funded research had a lower proportion of spin than nonprofit-funded research. This is important because it goes against a commonly expressed view that industry funding may have a direct or indirect effect on an investigator to explicitly describe nonsignificant results."
• Diet Blogs Often Fail to Provide Accurate Information, References.
• Scientific Integrity Issues in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry: Improving Research Reproducibility, Credibility, & Transparency.
• Breakfast Skipping Studies Critique.
• Study of Autism and Vitamin D Earns Retraction After Questions About Reliability.

Basic

• A High-fat Diet Promotes Depression-like Behavior in Mice By Suppressing Hypothalamic PKA Signaling.
• Inhibition of GIP Signaling Extends Lifespan Without Caloric Restriction.
• Crossroad Between Obesity and Cancer: A Defective Signaling Function of Heavily Lipid-Laden Adipocytes.

Clinical

• Effect on Health Care Expenditures During Nationwide Implementation of the Diabetes Prevention Program as a Health Insurance Benefit.
• RCT: Effect of a Weight-loss Stabilization Following a Weight Reduction with or Without Meal Replacement on Cardiometabolic Risk in Overweight Women.
• RCT: Ultra-Processed Diets Cause Excess Calorie Intake and Weight Gain: An Inpatient Trial of Ad Libitum Food Intake.
• RCT: The Beneficial Effects of Mediterranean Diet Over Low-fat Diet May Be Mediated By Decreasing Hepatic Fat Content.
• Sleeping in Doesn’t Mitigate Metabolic Changes Linked to Sleep Deficit.

Children and Adolescents

• Free Fatty Acids as an Indicator of the Nonfasted State in Children.
• RCT: Comparison of Yoga Versus Physical Exercise on Executive Function, Attention, and Working Memory in Adolescent Schoolchildren.
• Tonsillectomy Does Not Alter BMI Trajectory of Children with Down Syndrome Regardless of OSA Resolution.
• Meta-analysis: Co-morbidities Associated with Child and Adolescent Obesity.

Surgery

• Obesity-Related Epigenetic Changes After Bariatric Surgery.
• Employment Outcomes 2 Years After Bariatric Surgery: Relationship to Quality of Life and Psychosocial Predictors.
• Combined Loss of GLP-1R and Y2R Does Not Alter Progression of High-fat Diet-induced Obesity or Response to RYGB Surgery in Mice.
• Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty Versus Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy.

Drugs

• RCT: Pegbelfermin (BMS-986036), a PEGylated Fibroblast Growth Factor 21 Analogue, in Patients with Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis.
• RCT: Superior Efficacy of Insulin Degludec/liraglutide Versus Insulin Glargine U100 as Add‐on to Sodium‐glucose Co‐transporter‐2 Inhibitor Therapy.
• FDA Approves New Combination Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Impact of Oat Processing on Glycaemic and Insulinaemic Responses in Healthy Humans.
• RCT: Effect of Tea Catechins with Caffeine on Energy Expenditure in Middle-aged Men and Women.
• RCT: Replacing Saturated Fat with Walnuts or Vegetable Oils Improves Central Blood Pressure and Serum Lipids in Adults at Risk for Cardiovascular Disease.
• Review: Seafood Intake and the Development of Obesity, Insulin Resistance and Type 2 Diabetes.
• The Potential Role of Protein Leverage in the US Obesity Epidemic.

Caloric Restriction

• RCT: Two Days of Calorie Deprivation Impairs High Level Cognitive Processes, Mood, and Self-reported Exertion During Aerobic Exercise.
• Full-Fat Dairy Food Intake is Associated with a Lower Risk of Incident Diabetes Among American Indians with Low Total Dairy Food Intake.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Exercise Prevents Obesity-induced Cognitive Decline and White Matter Damage in Mice.
• Differential Relationship Between Physical Activity and Intake of Added Sugar and Nutrient-dense Foods: A Cross-sectional Analysis.
• RCT: Short-Term Resistance Training Improves Cardiac Autonomic Modulation and Blood Pressure in Hypertensive Older Women.
• RCT: Inducing Incentive Sensitization of Exercise Reinforcement Among Adults Who do Not Regularly Exercise.
• Review: Can Exercise-Induced Modulation of the Tumor Physiologic Microenvironment Improve Antitumor Immunity?
• Review: Aerobic Exercise Training and Vascular Function with Aging in Healthy Men and Women.

Economics & Sociology

• Association of Neighborhood Built Environments with Childhood Obesity: Evidence From a 9-year Longitudinal, Nationally Representative Survey in the US.
• Rural Areas Drive Increases in Global Obesity.
• Few High-Risk Patients Attend Diabetes Prevention Programs: Providers Often Failed to Recommend Them.

Epidemiology

• Hilly Neighborhoods are Associated with Increased Risk of Weight Gain Among Older Adults in Rural Japan: A 3-years Follow-up Study.
• The Dietary Transition and Its Association with Cardiometabolic Mortality Among Chinese Adults, 1982–2012: A Cross-sectional Population-based Study.
• Obesity and Cancer Treatment Efficacy: Existing Challenges and Opportunities.
• Prospective Associations Between Play Environments and Pediatric Obesity.
• Estimates of the Current and Future Burden of Cancer Attributable to Excess Body Weight and Abdominal Adiposity in Canada.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Excessive Consumption of Sugar: An Insatiable Drive for Reward.
• Dietary Restraint and Weight Loss in Relation to Disinhibited Eating in Obese Veterans Following a Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention.
• Internalized Weight Bias and Psychological Wellbeing: An Exploratory Investigation of a Preliminary Model.
• Comorbid Obesity and Cigarette Smoking are Linked to Neurobiological Alterations in Inhibitory Control During Smoking Cue Exposure.
• Appetitive Pavlovian-to-Instrumental Transfer in Participants with Normal-Weight and Obesity.
• Computerized Neurocognitive Training for Improving Dietary Health and Facilitating Weight Loss.

Equity and Disparities

• Family Spirit Nurture (FSN) – a Randomized Controlled Trial to Prevent Early Childhood Obesity in American Indian Populations: Trial Rationale and Study Protocol.
• Comparing the Self-Rated Health Effects of Obesity on the Health of African Americans and Caribbean Blacks.

Ethics

• Killing Us Gently with Implicit Weight Bias.
• Arguments for and against a sugar consumption tax pose an ethical dilemma.
• Too Fat to be President? Chris Christie and Fat Stigma as Rhetorical Disability.

Stigma

• Bullying Perpetration and Victimization Among Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity in a Nationally Representative Sample.
• Psychological Well-being and Weight-related Teasing in Childhood Obesity.

Policy Related

• Addressing Food Insecurity and Malnourishment Among Older Adults: The Critical Role of Older Americans Act Nutrition Programs.
• Association of a Beverage Tax on Sugar-Sweetened and Artificially Sweetened Beverages with Changes in Beverage Prices and Sales at Chain Retailers in a Large Urban Setting.
• Policies for Tackling Obesity and Creating Healthier Food Environments: 2019 Progress Update Australian Governments.
• Innovation to Create a Healthy and Sustainable Food System: A Science Advisory From the American Heart Association.
• Commentary: Climate Change, Health and Green Space Co-benefits.

Intergenerational Effects

• The Association Between Maternal BMI and Child Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• To What Extent Does Maternal BMI Predict Intentions, Attitudes or Practices of Early Infant Feeding?
• Obesity and Socioeconomic Disparities: Rethinking Causes and Perinatal Care.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Differential Glycogen Utilization in Shark Acid- and Base-regulatory Gill Cells.
• Food-derived Volatiles Enhance Consumption in Drosophila Melanogaster.
• Adherence to a Priori Dietary Indexes and Baseline Prevalence of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the PREDIMED-Plus Randomised Trial.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Integrated Multiscale Mathematical Modeling of Insulin Secretion Reveals the Role of Islet Network Integrity for Proper Oscillatory Glucose-dose Response.
• Mathematical modeling informs the impact of changes in circadian rhythms and meal patterns on insulin secretion.

Methods

• Obesity and chemotherapy administration: between empiric and mathematic method review.
• Stressing the importance of choice: Validity of a preclinical free‐choice high‐caloric diet paradigm to model behavioural, physiological and molecular adaptations during human diet‐induced obesity and metabolic dysfunction.

Commentary

• Does Physical Activity and Self-Weighing Prevent Weight Regain?
• "Not Reporting Results of a Clinical Trial Is Academic Misconduct."
• Evolutionary Physiology Shows the Need for an Unprecedented Study on Sugar.
• Protein: Everything You Think You Know is Wrong.
• Why Brown Fat Has a Lot of Nerve.
• How Much Protein do You Need Per Day?

General

• Using Instrumental Variables to Address Bias From Unobserved Confounders.
• Microscopic Robotic Teeth Cleaning Crew.
• 3D Wrist Bones in Motion!
• Using Selfies to Challenge Public Stereotypes of Scientists.
• Swim Exercise in C. Elegans Extends Neuromuscular and Intestinal Healthspan, Enhances Learning Ability, and Protects Against Neurodegeneration.
• Placebo: Can the Mind Cure You?
• Twenty-six Assumptions that Have to Be Met If Single Random Assignment Experiments are to Warrant “gold Standard” Status: A Commentary on Deaton and Cartwright.
• Instruction of Evaluation Competencies in Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH)-Accredited Master of Public Health (MPH) Degree Programs.
• Data Sharing and How It Can Benefit Your Scientific Career.
• Brazilian Biomedical Science Faces Reproducibility Test.
• Webinar: May 29: Selling Without Selling Out: How to Communicate Your Science.

Announcements

• May 25: Overview of the National Academies Report on Reproducibility and Replicability in Science and Engineering with a Focus on How the Conclusions and Recommendations Relate to Research and Reporting in Psychological Science.
• NORC of UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• Short Course: Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research (7/29-8/2 @Bloomington, IN).
• Short Course: Mathematical Science in Obesity Research (6/3-7 @Baltimore, MD).
• Indiana’s Bodyworks Studio wins Community Impact Award.