Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• The R148.3 Gene Modulates Caenorhabditis Elegans Lifespan and Fat Metabolism.
• The Effects of Food Availability on the Sexual Behavior of Meadow Voles.
• "Unless food purchasing data are available for all sources, differential changes in purchasing patterns can make it difficult to discern the true impacts of nutrition interventions."
• Socioeconomic Status and Differential Lifetime Costs of Overweight and Obesity: An Application of Microsimulation.

Headline vs Study

• Headlines: Could a Drug that Mimics a Zero-carb Diet Help Us Live Longer, Healthier Lives?
• Headlines: Gwynnie DID Get Something Right! Paltrow's High-fat Keto Diet Can Extend Your Lifespan By 10 Years and Ward Off Alzheimer's, Two Studies Conclude.
• Study 1: Continuous, Zero-carbohydrate, Ketogenic Diet (KD) Decreased Longevity; Cyclic KD Had No Effect on Maximum Lifespan or Overall Survival Curves but Decreased Midlife Mortality... In Mice. No Drugs; No Us.
• Study 2: Continuous KD Increased Longevity but No Difference in Maximum Lifespan... In Mice. No Paltrow, Not 10 Years, and No Alzheimer's.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No significant "effect ...of a kindergarten-based, family-involved cluster randomised controlled trial in six European countries on four- to six-year-old children's steps per day."
• RCT: Contrary to hypothesis, "The behavioral weight loss intervention was associated with ...marginally greater cognitive decline overall compared to control."
• RCT: No Significant Effect of a Smartphone Nutrition and Physical Activity App on Healthy Eating Index Among Pregnant Women.
• "In school children, the restriction of high fructose foods with a decrease of caloric and carbohydrate intake at 6 weeks did not induce weight loss..."
• "Poorer food environments were associated with better dietary quality among mothers with degrees..."
• "10g supplementation of resistant starch does not affect the spike in BG or overall glycemic response to a high glycemic load meal."
• "An organic label can either increase or decrease food consumption depending on food type and" person's locus of control.
• Excessive Vitamin E Intake Does Not Cause Bone Loss in Male or Ovariectomized Female Mice Fed Normal or High-Fat Diets.
• Supplementation of Fructo-oligosaccharides Does Not Improve Insulin Sensitivity in Heavy Veal Calves Fed Different Sources of Carbohydrates.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter: "Stated conclusion about industry funding is opposite to what the paper's data show: letter regarding ‘Selective outcome reporting in obesity clinical trials: a cross-sectional review.’"
• Reply: "We appreciate the vigilance of Allison and Thomas and thank them for helping us correct the public record."
• Letter: Effect of Macronutrients on the Glycemic Index.
• Two Letters and Reply: Exercise Type in Dieting Obese Older Adults.

Comments on the “PURE” Study

• PURE study: Associations of Fats and Carbohydrate Intake with Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality in 18 Countries From Five Continents (PURE).
• PURE study: Despite that New Study, Everything We Know About Nutrition is Pretty Much Still True.
• PURE study: A Non-Epidemiologist's Rundown.
• PURE study: Expert Reactions to Study of Replacing Fat with High Carb Intake.
• PURE study: The Fat Vs. Carbs Merry-go-round Spins Again.
• PURE study: New Nutrition Study Changes Nothing: Why the Science of Healthy Eating Appears Confusing—but Isn’t.
• PURE study: ESC: Yusuf, Lloyd-Jones Square Off Over Diet Guidelines.

Basic

• Food in Synchrony with Melatonin and Corticosterone Relieves Constant Light Disturbed Metabolism.
• Calorie Restriction Effects on Circadian Rhythms in Gene Expression are Sex Dependent.
• Effects of Bariatric Surgery on Change of Brown Adipocyte Tissue and Energy Metabolism in Obese Mice.
• Overexpression of C-type Natriuretic Peptide in Endothelial Cells Protects Against Insulin Resistance and Inflammation During Diet-induced Obesity.
• In Rats, Obesity-Associated Metabolic Syndrome Spontaneously Induces Infiltration of Pro-Inflammatory Macrophages in the Synovium and Promotes Osteoarthritis.
• Prior Endurance Training Enhances Beta-Adrenergic Signaling in Epidydimal Adipose Tissue From Mice Fed a High-Fat Diet.
• Zinc Transporter ZIP13 Suppresses Beige Adipocyte Biogenesis and Energy Expenditure By Regulating C/EBP-ß Expression.
• Estrogenic Chemicals at Body Burden Levels Attenuate Energy Metabolism in 3T3-L1 Adipocytes.
• Dietary Fat Quantity and Type Induce Transcriptome-Wide Effects on Alternative Splicing of Pre-mRNA in Rat Skeletal Muscle.

Clinical

• Healthy Eating Behaviors Following a Culturally Sensitive Nutrition Education Intervention for Hispanic Families.
• Prevalence of Micronutrient Deficiency in Patients with Morbid Obesity Before Bariatric Surgery.
• Approaches to Obesity Management.
• Predicting the Ability of Elderly Diabetic Patients to Acquire the Insulin Self-injection Technique Based on the Number of Animal Names Recalled.

Children and Adolescents

• Sleep Patterns and Quality are Associated with Severity of Obesity and Weight-Related Behaviors in Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity.
• Development of a Systems Science Curriculum to Engage Rural African American Teens in Understanding and Addressing Childhood Obesity Prevention.

Surgery

• Proximal Leakage After Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy: An Analysis of Preoperative and Operative Predictors.
• Nutcracker Syndrome Secondary to Bariatric Surgery.
• Bariatric Surgery, Brown Adipose Tissue and Energy Metabolism in Obese Mice.

Drugs

• Drug Therapy Inhibiting IP6K1 Maintains Insulin Sensitivity While Preserving Bone Marrow.
• Cancer, Obesity, Diabetes, and Antidiabetic Drugs.

Food & Diet

• "Therefore, there is currently no clear evidence that advice to consume breakfast has any substantial efficacy or effectiveness in the prevention or treatment of obesity."
• Supplemental Protein From Dairy Products Increases Body Weight and Vitamin D Improves Physical Performance in Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Dietary Whole Egg Consumption Attenuates Body Weight Gain in Type 2 Diabetic Rats.
• Fermented Soy Product Intake is Inversely Associated with the Development of High Blood Pressure: The Japan Public Health Center–Based Prospective Study.
• Low Calcium Intake in Midpregnancy is Associated with Hypertension Development Within 10 Years After Pregnancy: The Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study.
• Associations of Dairy Intake with Incident Prediabetes or Diabetes in Middle-Aged Adults Vary By Both Dairy Type and Glycemic Status.
• Impact on Dietary Intake of a Self-directed, Gender-tailored Diabetes Prevention Program in Men.

Caloric Restriction

• Impact of Caloric Intake in Critically Ill Patients With, and Without, Refeeding Syndrome: A Retrospective Study.
• Effect of Dietary Modification By Calorie Restriction on Cholesterol Levels in Lipoprotein(a) and Other Lipoprotein Classes.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Can Magnesium Enhance Exercise Performance?
• RCT: Increasing Physical Activity Through Principles of Habit Formation in New Gym Members.
• RCT: Effect of High-Intensity Interval Training on Fitness, Fat Mass and Cardiometabolic Biomarkers in Children with Obesity.
• Effect of Electronic Education Based on Health Promotion Model on Physical Activity in Diabetic Patients.
• RCT: The Effect of a Movement-to-music Video Program on the Objectively Measured Sedentary Time and Physical Activity of Preschool-aged Children and Their Mothers.

Economics & Sociology

• Development and Evaluation of an Obesity Ontology for Social Big Data Analysis.
• African American Women and Obesity Through the Prism of Race.
• Shopping Pattern and Food Purchase Differences Among Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Households and Non-supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Households in the United States.

Epidemiology

• Childhood Obesity and Adult Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: A Systematic Review with Meta-analysis.
• Gene Co-expression Networks in Whole Blood Implicate Multiple Interrelated Molecular Pathways in Obese Asthma.
• Prevalence of Obesity and Diabetes in Patients with Schizophrenia.
• Identification of New Susceptibility Loci for Type 2 Diabetes and Shared Etiological Pathways with Coronary Heart Disease.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Dispositional Mindfulness and Reward Motivated Eating: The Role of Emotion Regulation and Mental Habit.
• Psychological Correlates of Body Image Dissatisfaction Before and After Bariatric Surgery.
• Excessive Body Fat Linked to Blunted Somatosensory Cortex Response to General Reward in Adolescents.
• Longitudinal Impact of Weight Misperception and Intent to Change Weight on BMI of Adolescents and Young Adults with Overweight or Obesity.
• Lifestyle Intervention Program Benefits Children with Overweigh Compared to Children with Obesity.
• Developmental Vitamin D Deficiency Affects Spatial Learning in Wistar Rats.
• Monetary Incentive Interventions Can Enhance Psychological Factors Related to Fruit and Vegetable Consumption.

Equity and Disparities

• "At term gestation, the fetuses of obese women spend more time unmonitored by external intrapartum EFM than nonobese women. This represents a disparity among a high risk group that may result in poor pregnancy outcomes if fetal distress is present."
• Criminal Justice Contact, Stressors, and Obesity-Related Health Problems Among Black Adults in the USA.
• Psychosocial Factors in the Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status and Cardiometabolic Risk: The HCHS/SOL Sociocultural Ancillary Study.
• RCT: Preventing Weight Gain Improves Sleep Quality Among Black Women.

Ethics

• Introducing a Sugar Tax, Morally Justifiable? A Debate on the Introduction of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy. (pdf)
• The Tipping of the Big Stone—And Life Itself. Obesity, Moral Work and Responsive Selves Over Time.

Stigma

• Parental Views on Identifying the Future Risk of Childhood Overweight and Obesity During Infancy.
• Disability, Bureaucracy, and Stigma Among People Living with Poverty and Chronic Illness.
• Perceived Physical Abilities Mediates the Relations Between Perceived Weight-related Victimization and Students' Perceived Physical Education Performance/involvement in Physical Activity Outside School.
• Weight Bias and Psychosocial Implications for Acute Care of Patients with Obesity.

Policy Related

• Making Wellness Programs Genuinely Voluntary.
• DC-Obesity: A New Model for Estimating Differential Lifetime Costs of Overweight and Obesity By Socioeconomic Status.
• Advisory Committee Could Not Agree on Bariatric Surgery Coverage Policies Among Medicare Population.

Intergenerational Effects

• Perinatal Brain Docosahexaenoic Acid Concentration Has a Lasting Impact on Cognition in Mice.
• Human Milk Microbial Community Structure is Relatively Stable and Related to Variations in Macronutrient and Micronutrient Intakes in Healthy Lactating Women.
• Exposure to Secondhand Smoke, Exclusive Breastfeeding and Infant Adiposity at Age 5 Months.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• "Larvae that eat royal jelly, a substance secreted by the glands of nurse bees, develop into queens, while those that feed on a combination of pollen and honey called bee bread become workers."
• Alterations of Methionine Supply During Late Gestation in Dairy Cows May Be Associated with Newborn Birth Weight.
• How Unpredictable Access to Food Increases the Body Fat of Small Passerines: A Mechanistic Approach.
• Critical Review of Beige Adipocyte Thermogenic Activation and Contribution to Whole-body Energy Expenditure.

Methods

• Functional Multiple Indicators, Multiple Causes Measurement Error Models.
• Compositional Data Analysis for Physical Activity, Sedentary Time and Sleep Research.
• Mobile Apps for the Management of Diabetes.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• When Seeing Isn't Believing: How Math Can Guide Our Interpretation of Measurements and Experiments.
• Adaptive Temperature Regulation in the Little Bird in Winter: Predictions From a Stochastic Dynamic Programming Model.

Commentary

• Cost-effectiveness of Obesity Interventions: Will We Know It When We See It?
• Personalized Nutrition: Hype or Hope?
• Scientists Look for ‘moon Shots’ in Food, Ag Research.
• Fruit and Veggies Beneficial for Heart Health, but Carbs Aren't. What?

General

• Over the Past Decade, Scientists or Universities Have Used the Freedom of Information Act to Get Thousands of Competitors' Grants Proposals. And Many of the Targeted Scientists are Upset.
• A Geomagnetic Declination Compass for Horizontal Orientation in Fruit Flies.

Announcements

• IU Bloomington Professor Receives Three Million Dollar Grant to Study Effects of Minerals on Cognitive Decline.
• New Power of Family Meals Report Released.
• Rise in Demand for Organic Food Leads IU School of Public Health-Bloomington Faculty to Research Ways to Help Farmers Transition to Organic Production.
• UAB’s NORC seeks post-doctoral fellows in obesity research.
• Research Position at Boston Children’s Hospital – Collaborate with Researchers at IU and UAB.
• IU Dean invited to join The Academy of Europe, Academia Europaea.

Featured

• The Medical Care Costs of Youth Obesity: An Instrumental Variables Approach.
• Fat and Happy in the City: Eastern Chipmunks in Urban Environments.
• Cellular Senescence Drives Age-dependent Hepatic Steatosis.
• Insulin Resistance in Cavefish as an Adaptation to a Nutrient-limited Environment.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Your Coffee May Keep Your Brain From Recognizing Sugar.
• Press release: Caffeine Tempers Taste, Triggering Temptation for Sweets.
• Study: Caffeine Decreased Perceived Sweet Taste Perception Compared to Quinine When Added to Decaffeinated Coffee; No Difference in Hunger and No Measurement of Temptation.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Pre-selecting Healthier Options as Defaults Did Not Increase Choosing of Healthier Options.
• RCT: High Intake of Dairy During Energy Restriction Does Not Affect Energy Balance or the Intestinal Microflora Compared to Low Dairy Intake in Overweight Individuals.
• Grip Strength Not Tied to Incident Type 2 Diabetes.
• "Oxygen consumption, ATP, and ROS emission were thus independently affected in responses to corticosterone increase suggesting that concepts and models aiming at linking environmental stress and individual responses may misestimate energy allocation possibilities."
• "Contrary to our hypotheses, Anglo Americans had better health across the board on all health outcome variables (BMI; F (1)= 3.63, p =.050; C-Reactive Protein; F (1)= 9.05, p =.003; Cholesterol; F (1)= 43.51, p =.000; Blood Pressure; F (1)= 43.32, p =.000; Fasting Glucose; F (1)= 12.25, p =.001)."
• "In the quasi-causal model, however, the effect of soda consumption on BMI was greatly reduced and no longer significant, with a large genetic confound in both men and women (P < 0.05)."
• RCT: Conjugated Linoleic Acid Does Not Affect Digestion and Absorption of Fat and Starch.
• "Our study could not confirm the hypothesis that PA [physical activity] moderates the shift work-BMI relation."

Basic

• Effects of Androgens on the Leptin System in Immature Male Atlantic Salmon Parr.
• Cardiac Contractile Dysfunction in Aging Mice with Type 2 Diabetes is Associated with Impaired Energetics and Cytoskeletal Organization.
• Genetic Depletion of Adipocyte Creatine Metabolism Inhibits Diet-Induced Thermogenesis and Drives Obesity in Mice.
• Adipochemokines Induced By Ultraviolet Irradiation Contribute to Impaired Fat Metabolism in Subcutaneous Fat Cells.
• Dysregulation of Placental MiRNA in Maternal Obesity is Associated with Pre- and Postnatal Growth.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Even Correlations Based on Billions of Data Points do Not Prove Causation.
• The Quality of Evidence on Nutrition Intervention Published in Chinese Journals: An Assessment of Meta-analyses on Vitamin Interventions. (PDF)
• Further Thoughts on Limitations, Uncertainties and Competing Interpretations Regarding Chemical Exposures and Diabetes.
• Physical Activity and Dementia: Another Negative Study, Another Void in News Coverage.
• Comment On: Chocolate Consumption and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease, Stroke, and Diabetes.
• Reply To: Comment on Chocolate Consumption and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease, Stroke, and Diabetes.
• Increasing the Rigor of Obesity Research Publications.

Clinical

• Unhealthy Weight Control Strategies: An Outcome of Body Image and Eating Tensions in Women of Mexican Origin Living in Rural Farming Communities.
• Leaner, Healthier, Happier Together––A Family-Centred Approach to Weight Loss with the Overweight Dog and Her Caregivers.
• Does Evidence Support the Use of Mobile Phone Apps as a Driver for Promoting Healthy Lifestyles From a Public Health Perspective? A Systematic Review of RCTs.
• RCT: Sleep Quality and Body Composition Variations in Obese Male Adults After 14 Weeks of Yoga Intervention.
• Precision Nutrition: A Review of Personalized Nutritional Approaches for the Prevention and Management of Metabolic Syndrome.
• Variability in Weight Change Early in Behavioral Weight Loss Treatment: Theoretical and Clinical Implications.

Children and Adolescents

• Cost-effectiveness of Family-Based Obesity Treatment.
• Traffic-related Air Pollution Associations with Cytokeratin-18, a Marker of Hepatocellular Apoptosis, in an Overweight and Obese Paediatric Population.

Surgery

• RCT: Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy Versus Banded Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass for Diabetes and Obesity.
• The Effects of Duodenojejunal Omega Switch in Combination with High-Fat Diet and Control Diet on Incretins, Body Weight, and Glucose Tolerance.

Drugs

• Efficacy and Safety of Linagliptin in 2681 Asian Patients Stratified By Age, Obesity, and Renal Function: A Pooled Analysis of RCT.
• Health-related Quality of Life in RCTs of Lorcaserin for Obesity Management: What Mediates Improvement?
• Current and Emerging Pharmacotherapies for Obesity in Australia.
• Salvianolic Acid B Improves Glucolipid Metabolism By Regulating Adipogenic Transcription Factors in Mice with Diet-induced Obesity.
• FDA: Liraglutide Prevents Heart Attacks, Strokes, and CV Deaths.

Food & Diet

• The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Frequency of Sugar-sweetened Soft Drink Consumption Among Low-income Adults in the US.
• Impact of Competitive Foods in Public Schools on Child Nutrition: Effects on Adolescent Obesity in the United States an Integrative Systematic Literature Review.
• Molasses Extract Improves Body Composition and Glucose Metabolism of Mice on a High-fat Diet.
• RCT: Intermittent Energy Restriction Improves Weight Loss Efficiency in Obese Men.
• The Environmental Impact of Fertilizer Embodied in a Wheat-to-bread Supply Chain.
• Feeding Releases Endogenous Opioids in Humans.

Caloric Restriction

• Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 Receptor Regulates Hypothermia During Calorie Restriction.
• Extracellular Matrix Remodeling and Matrix Metalloproteinase Inhibition in Visceral Adipose During Weight Cycling in Mice.
• Production of Superoxide and Hydrogen Peroxide From Specific Mitochondrial Sites Under Different Bioenergetic Conditions.
• Curcumin Limits Weight Gain, Adipose Tissue Growth, and Glucose Intolerance Following the Cessation of Exercise and Caloric Restriction in Rats.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Short-term Arrival Strategies for Endurance Exercise Performance at Moderate Altitude.
• High-intensity Interval Versus Moderate-intensity Continuous Training: Superior Metabolic Benefits in Diet-induced Obesity Mice.
• RCT: Benefits of Different Intensity of Aerobic Exercise in Modulating Body Composition Among Obese Young Adults.
• RCT: Effects of Prolonged Exercise Versus Multiple Short Exercise Sessions on Risk for Metabolic Syndrome and the Atherogenic Index in Middle-aged Obese Women.
• Effects of Intermittent Fasting and Chronic Swimming Exercise on Body Composition and Lipid Metabolism.

Economics & Sociology

• Gender Differences and the Role of Parental Education, School Types and Migration on the BMI of 2930 Austrian School Children.
• Social Determinants of Overweight and Obesity Rates By Elementary School in a Predominantly Hispanic School District.
• The Effect of Neighborhood Fast Food on Children’s BMI: Evidence From a Sample of Mover.
• "Anatomy of a Foodie": Group Profiles from the 2017 Food and Health Survey.
• DC-Obesity: A New Model for Estimating Differential Lifetime Costs of Overweight and Obesity By Socioeconomic Status.

Epidemiology

• Connection of Religion and Health: Relevance in the Study of Obesity Amongst Children and Adolescents.
• Maternal History of Child Abuse and Obesity Risk in Offspring: Mediation By Weight in Pregnancy.
• Dual Parental Employment Leads to Significant Rise in Childhood Obesity, Economists Find.
• Declines in the Incidence of Diabetes in the U.S.—Real Progress or Artifact?
• Association of Childhood BMI and Change in BMI with First Adult Ischemic Stroke.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Feeding Releases Endogenous Opioids in Humans.
• Mindfulness-based Interventions for Adults Who are Overweight or Obese: A Meta-analysis of Physical and Psychological Health Outcomes.
• Review: Neuroendocrine Regulation of Energy Balance: Implications on the Development and Surgical Treatment of Obesity.
• Unrecognized Sleep Loss Accumulated in Daily Life Can Promote Brain Hyperreactivity to Food Cue.
• Review: Stress-Induced Eating and the Relaxation Response as a Potential Antidote.

Equity and Disparities

• Webinar: Breaking Barriers to Bike Share: Insights on Equity.
• Harnessing Implementation Science to Increase the Impact of Health Equity Research.
• Primary Care Physicians' Collection, Comfort, and Use of Race and Ethnicity in Clinical Practice in the United States.

Stigma

• News article: Fat Bias Starts Early and Takes a Serious Toll.
• Scientists Challenge Stereotypes with Selfies.

Policy Related

• Community Policies and Programs to Prevent Obesity and Child Adiposity. (PDF)
• Barriers and Potential Facilitators to the Implementation of Government Policies on Front-of-pack Food Labeling and Restriction of Unhealthy Food Advertising in Thailand.
• How Many Calories in That? New York City Delays Enforcing Labeling Rules.
• Using Obesity Research to Shape Obesity Policy in Minnesota: Stakeholder Insights and Feasibility of Recommendations.
• The Development of Scientific Evidence for Health Policies for Obesity: Why and How?

Intergenerational Effects

• Early Pregnancy Weight Gain Exerts the Strongest Effect on Birth Weight, Posing a Critical Time to Prevent Childhood Obesity.
• Recognition of a Sequence: More Growth Before Birth, Longer Telomeres at Birth, More Lean Mass After Birth.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Nitty-gritty of Homo Naledi’s Diet Revealed in Its Teeth.
• Interaction Between Diet and Evolution of Digestive Mechanisms.
• Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry Metabolic Maps to Resting Energy Expenditure Estimation, and Body Size Dependence in Brazilian Young Men.
• High Suckling Rates and Acoustic Crypsis of Humpback Whale Neonates Maximise Potential for Mother–calf Energy Transfer.
• Nutrient Limitation Determines the Fitness of Cheaters in Bacterial Siderophore Cooperation.

Methods

• Tracking of BMI Z Scores for Severe Obesity.
• Lost in Translation: Allometric Scaling of Bioactive Dietary N-3 and N-6 Fatty Acids.
• Non-regular Inference for Dynamic Weighted Ordinary Least Squares: Understanding the Impact of Solid Food Intake in Infancy on Childhood Weight.
• Methods for Significance Testing of Categorical Covariates in Logistic Regression Models After Multiple Imputation: Power and Applicability Analysis.

Commentary

• Does Eating Breakfast Like a King Really Prevent Obesity?
• Lifestyle as Medicine: Of Research, RxESPECT, and Silver Spoons.
• Seven Principles for Moderation and Respect.
• Some Studies Show Being Overweight Leads to a Greater Risk of Death; Others Show It Doesn’t. Here’s What’s Really Going On.
• How Being Cold May One Day Help People Lose Weight and Protect Against Diabetes.
• Netflix Vegan Hit What the Health Serves Up Bad Science.

General

• Effects of Excessive Dietary Phosphorus Intake on Bone Health.
• Organs on Chips.
• From Mass Death, Life.
• Scientists Built a Virtual Reality 'Holodeck' for Lab Animals.
• Audio: Running the Numbers on a Transition to Renewable Energy.
• Stop Blocking Postdocs’ Paths to Success.
• Elderly Chimps May Get Alzheimer’s, Renewing Interest in Studying These Animals.
• High Salt Intake May Double Heart Failure Risk.

Video & Audio

• African Honeyhunters Use a Call to Get Birds to Lead Them to the Location of Honey.
• Can We Grow Older Without Growing Sicker?

Announcements

• New book out: "What She Ate."
• UAB’s NORC seeks post-doctoral fellows in obesity research.

Featured

• RCT: The Buddy System: Benefits and Costs of Dieting in Roommate Pairs.
• Orexin Activation Counteracts Decreases in Nonexercise Activity Thermogenesis (NEAT) Caused By High-fat Diet.
• RCT: Comparison of an Alternative Schedule of Extended Care Contacts to a Self-directed Control: A Randomized Trial of Weight Loss Maintenance.

Headline vs Study

• Headline critique: Walnuts for Weight Loss? Times Makes Huge Leap Based on Brain Scans of 9 People.
• Title vs Study: Title - Sports Dietitian May Lead to Improved Performance and Recovery. Study - No Measurements of Performance or Recovery.

• Headline: Study Confirms Preservative in Cereal Promotes Obesity.
• Press release: Study Shows How Food Preservatives May Disrupt Human Hormones and Promote Obesity.
• Study: Three Chemicals Induce Perturbations in Endoplasmic Reticulum and Mitochondria... In Human-induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Derivatives. No Humans, No Obesity, and Only One Food Preservative.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "We found no effect for this [mindfulness] intervention, although the small sample size limits interpretation. The results were contrary to what was expected."
• "Contrary to what was hypothesized, adipogenesis increased independently of initial BMI in prolonged critically-ill patients."
• "Contrary to expectations, attitudes, perceived normative pressure, and perceived behavioral control (PBC) did not fully mediate the relationship between time spent online and [mother's] behavioral [feeding] intentions."
• RCT: "A single dietary education session was not effective in reducing GI or gestational weight gain among less educated women."
• RCT: "A PUFA-rich diet consumed for 7 d ...did not alter subjective ratings of hunger or fullness."
• RCT: "Vitamin D supplementation does not reduce depressive symptoms in overweight or obese, otherwise healthy adults without clinical depression."
• "...being teased by peers at ages 10–12 years did not prospectively predict young men’s BMI or obesity."
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, neither having PTSD nor depression were associated with obesity among veterans."
• Obesity Treatment with Botulinum Toxin-A is Not Effective.

Basic

• Deleterious Effect of N-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis in the Fat-1 Mouse Model.
• Hold Your Nose to Prevent Obesity.
• Partial Sleep Deprivation Reduces the Efficacy of Orexin-A to Stimulate Physical Activity and Energy Expenditure in Male Sprague-Dawley Rats.
• Adult Female Rats with Diet-Induced Obesity Display Memory Deficits in Object Recognition.
• Arginine and Aerobic Training Prevent Endothelial and Metabolic Alterations in Rats at High Risk for the Development of the Metabolic Syndrome.
• Stable Isotope Labeling Reveals Novel Insights Into Ubiquitin-Mediated Protein Aggregation with Age, Calorie Restriction, and Rapamycin Treatment.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• I’ll Have a Handful of Magic Weight Loss Walnuts, Please.
• Letter by Banack et al Regarding Article, “Body Mass Index and Mortality Among Adults Undergoing Cardiac Surgery: A Nationwide Study With a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.”
• Response by Mariscalco and Murphy to Letters Regarding Article, “Body Mass Index and Mortality Among Adults Undergoing Cardiac Surgery: A Nationwide Study With a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.”

Clinical

• Addition of Rye Bran and Pea Fiber to Pork Meatballs Enhances Subjective Satiety in Healthy Men, but Does Not Change Glycemic or Hormonal Responses.
• What Factors Facilitate Weight Loss Among Medicaid Beneficiaries Participating in the Diabetes Prevention Program?
• Reducing Clinical Noise for BMI Measures Due to Unit and Transcription Errors in the Electronic Health Record.
• Clinical Versus Objective Assessment of Overweight and Obese Children Among Primary Care Physicians.

Children and Adolescents

• Children's Food and Satiety Responsiveness in Association with Post-prandial Glucose Following a Standardized Liquid Meal.
• Untargeted Metabolomics Identifies a Plasma Sphingolipid-related Signature Associated with Lifestyle Intervention in Prepubertal Children with Obesity.
• Factors Associated with Long-term Weight Loss Maintenance Following Bariatric Surgery in Adolescents with Severe Obesity.
• Identification of Key Genes and Pathways Associated with Obesity in Children.

Surgery

• Adolescent Bariatric Surgery: A Systematic Review of Recommendation Documents (pdf).
• Five Die While Using Obesity Devices, FDA Says.
• Bariatric Surgery is Accompanied By Changes in Extracellular Vesicle-Associated and Plasma Fatty Acid Binding Protein 4.
• Single Anastomosis Duodeno-Ileal Switch (SADIS): A Systematic Review of Efficacy and Safety.

Drugs

• High Hopes for a New Diabesity Drug.
• Role of Omentin, Vaspin, Cardiotrophin-1, TWEAK and NOV/CCN3 in Obesity and Diabetes Development.
• Zeroing in on Receptors that Cause Obesity.
• PCSK9 Inhibitors and the Choice Between Innovation, Efficiency, and Affordability.

Food & Diet

• Objective Quantification of the Food Proximity Effect on Grapes, Chocolate and Cracker Consumption in a Swedish High School. A Temporal Analysis.
• Dietary Energy Density: Applying Behavioural Science to Weight Management.
• Fat Sensation: Fatty Acid Taste and Olfaction Sensitivity and the Link with Disinhibited Eating Behaviour.
• Ineffectiveness of Commercial Weight-loss Programs for Achieving Modest but Meaningful Weight Loss.
• Dynamics of Intrapericardial and Extrapericardial Fat Tissues During Long-term, Dietary-induced, Moderate Weight Loss.

Caloric Restriction

• Crossing the Thin Line to Starvation: Caloric Restriction.
• Effects of nutrient and water restriction on thermal tolerance: A test of mechanisms and hypotheses.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• We are Nowhere Close to the Limits of Athletic Performance: Genetic Engineering Will Bring Us New Bolts and Shaqs.
• Audio: Running Rat Memory.
• Exercise Training Prevents Skeletal Muscle Plasma Membrane Cholesterol Accumulation, Cortical Actin Filament Loss, and Insulin Resistance in C57BL/6J Mice Fed a Western-style High-fat Diet.
• Effects of Protein Supplementation Combined with Resistance Exercise on Body Composition and Physical Function in Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Exercise Training with Dietary Restriction Enhances Circulating Irisin Level Associated with Increasing Endothelial Progenitor Cell Number in Obese Adults: An Intervention Study.

Economics & Sociology

• Socioeconomic Inequalities in Child Obesity and Overweight in Portugal.
• A Taste of Inequality: Food's Symbolic Value Across the Socioeconomic Spectrum.
• Residential Socioeconomic, Food and Built Environments and Glycemic Control in Individuals with Diabetes in New York City 2007–2013.

Epidemiology

• Fuzzy Risk Factors in Case–control Studies; An Example of Relationship Between Obesity and Hypertension.
• Exploring the Relationship Between Church Level Predictors of Status and Obesity Risk in African American Women of Faith.
• Association Between Dietary Energy Density and Obesity-Associated Cancer: Results From the Women’s Health Initiative.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Preliminary Support for the Role of Alcohol Cues in Food Cravings and Attentional Biases.
• My Fitness Pal Calorie Tracker Usage in Eating Disorders.
• Excessive Body Fat Linked to Blunted Somatosensory Cortex Response to General Reward in Adolescents.
• Neural Predictors of 12-month Weight Loss Outcomes Following Bariatric Surgery.
• Body Weight Misperception and Dissatisfaction Among Overweight and Obese Adult Nigerians.

Equity and Disparities

• Rural-Urban Differences in Cancer Incidence and Trends in the United States.
• Are Green Cities Healthy and Equitable? Unpacking the Relationship Between Health, Green Space and Gentrification.
• The Promise of Equity: A Review of Health Equity Research in High-Impact Quality Improvement Journals.
• Insights on the Intersection of Health Equity and School Nutrition Policy Implementation: An Exploratory Qualitative Secondary Analysis.
• Metabolic Syndrome and Cardio-Cerebrovascular Risk Disparities Between Pilots and Aircraft Mechanics.

Ethics

• Body Sovereignty and Body Liability in the Wake of an "Obesity Epidemic": A Poststructural Analysis of the Soda Ban.

Stigma

• Prospective Associations Between Peer Teasing in Childhood and Young Men’s Obesity.
• Perceived Racism and Incident Diabetes in the Black Women’s Health Study.
• Mindsets Predict Body-shame and Anti-fat Attitudes Via Attributions.

Policy Related

• Inaccuracies in ICD Coding for Obesity Would Be Expected to Bias Administrative Database Spine Studies Toward Overestimating the Impact of Obesity on Perioperative Adverse Outcomes.
• Sugar Tax: The Fiscalisation of Childhood Obesity?
• Updated Cost-effectiveness Analysis of PCSK9 Inhibitors Based on the Results of the FOURIER Trial.

Intergenerational Effects

• Association of Pre-pregnancy BMI with Offspring Metabolic Profile.
• SIRT1 Reduction is Associated with Sex-specific Dysregulation of Renal Lipid Metabolism and Stress Responses in Offspring By Maternal High-fat Diet.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The Carnivorous Feeding Behavior of Early Homo at HWK EE, Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
• Sociodemographic Variation in Foraging Behavior and the Adaptive Significance of Worker Production in the Facultatively Social Small Carpenter Bee, Ceratina Calcarata.
• Dihydrocapsiate Improved Age-associated Impairments in Mice By Increasing Energy Expenditure.
• Association of Adiposity, Telomere Length and Mortality: Data From the NHANES 1999–2002.
• Mediation and Modification of Genetic Susceptibility to Obesity By Eating Behaviors.

Methods

• A Simple Method for Identification of Misreporting of Energy Intake From Infancy to School Age: Results From a Longitudinal Study.
• People with a BMI Greater than 30 Under-report Their Dietary Intake: A Systematic Review.
• Methods Needed to Measure Predictive Accuracy: A Study of Diabetic Patients.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Examining the Association Between C-Reactive Protein and Obesity By Using the Fractional Polynomial Approach; Applying on NHANES Dataset From 2001 to 2010.
• Mediation Analysis for a Survival Outcome with Time-varying Exposures, Mediators, and Confounders.
• Publish Your Raw Data and Your Speculations, Then Let Other People do the Analysis: Track and Field Edition.

Commentary

• Maybe that Standing Desk Isn’t a Panacea.
• Putting Sugar on Trial.
• The Sweeter Things in Life: Debunking the Junk About Splenda.
• Why Your Messy Kitchen is Making You Fat.
• Global Obesity Epidemic Worsening.
• Can You Trick Your Brain to Lose Weight? "The Hungry Brain" Review.

General

• Tracking Elephants.
• Sexual Conflict in Arachnids. (pdf)
• What are Researchers Doing to Curb the Rate of Lyme Disease Infection?
• Video: Overview of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine [Neil DeGrass Tyson].
• Usual Choline Intakes are Associated with Egg and Protein Food Consumption in the United States.
• A Sparse Latent Regression Approach for Integrative Analysis of Glycomic and Glycotranscriptomic Data.

Announcements

• New Book: Interval Weight Loss By Nick Fuller.
• Book Review: Fat and heart disease: challenging the dogma.
• New Book: Metabolic Living: Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India By Harris Solomon Durham.
• 10th Annual Course on Isotope Tracers in Metabolic Research: Principles and Practice of Kinetic Analysis.
• UAB’s NORC seeks post-doctoral fellows in obesity research.
• NCI workshop, "Understanding the Role of Muscle and Body Composition in Studies of Cancer Risk and Prognosis in Cancer Survivors," September 25-26, 2017, in the NIH Conference Center at 5635 Fishers Lane in Rockville, MD.

Featured

• Social Subordination and Wound Receipt Related to Weight and NPY in Rats.
• Using Blubber Explants to Investigate Adipose Function in Grey Seals: Glycolytic, Lipolytic and Gene Expression Responses to Glucose and Hydrocortisone.
• Rewiring the Taste System.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Loneliness a Bigger Killer than Obesity, Say Researchers.
• Press release: So Lonely I Could Die: Social Isolation, Loneliness Could Be Greater Threat to Public Health than Obesity, Researchers Say.
• Study: Plenary Talk at APA Meeting; No Abstract or Study Details Provided.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Playful Interventions Increase Knowledge About Healthy Habits and Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Yet Fail to Show Evidence of Reducing BMI in Children.
• Geographic Accessibility of Food Outlets Not Associated with BMI Change Among Veterans, 2009–14.
• Higher Densities of Fast-food and Full-service Restaurants are Not Associated with Obesity Prevalence.
• Systematic Review: "the evidence assessed in this review suggests that current policies are generally falling short of anticipated health impacts."
• RCT: "…Use of the watch band did not affect the physical activity level, anthropometric data and quality of life of the officer workers."
• "This feasibility study suggests ...use of an AM [activity meter] program in the primary care setting ...[showed] no effectiveness in improving activity level, screen time or BMI over 4 months" in children. (pdf)
• RCT: No Effect on Preventing Weight Related Problems By the New Moves Program Among Brazilian Adolescent Girls.
• "No significant association between [offspring] obesity and maternal GDM was observed among female participants [but there was among male]."
• RCT: "Results suggest that the 5:2 diet is a successful but not superior weight loss approach in male war veterans when compared to a" standard energy reduced diet.
• RCT: "Contrary to our hypothesis, there were no significant differences in any change scores by nutrition educational condition" with or without a behavioral skills component.

Basic

• Lipid Droplet Biogenesis.
• Obesity-associated Gene TMEM18 Has a Role in the Central Control of Appetite and Body Weight Regulation.
• L-phenylalanine Modulates Gut Hormone Release and Glucose Tolerance, and Suppresses Food Intake Through the Calcium-sensing Receptor in Rodents.
• Effect of Circulating Glucagon and Free Fatty Acids on Hepatic FGF21 Production in Dairy Cows.
• Expression of the Aquaglyceroporin HC-9 in a Freeze-Tolerant Amphibian that Accumulates Glycerol Seasonally.
• Impact of Ghrelin on Body Composition and Muscle Function in a Long-term Rodent Model of Critical Illness.

Clinical

• The Challenge of Treating Obesity and Overweight: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief.
• Profiles of Sociodemographic, Behavioral, Clinical and Psychosocial Characteristics Among Primary Care Patients with Comorbid Obesity and Depression.
• RCT: Moderate Walking Enhances the Effects of an Energy-Restricted Diet on Fat Mass Loss and Serum Insulin in Overweight and Obese Adults.
• Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements During Pregnancy and Lactation Did Not Affect Human Milk Oligosaccharides and Bioactive Proteins.
• RCT: Appetite and Gut Hormones Response to a Putative a-Glucosidase Inhibitor, Salacia Chinensis, in Overweight/Obese Adults.
• Is Type 2 Diabetes Associated with Impaired Capacity for Weight Loss?

Children and Adolescents

• Preventing Childhood Obesity: Early-life Messages From Epidemiology.
• The Weighty Issue of Obesity in Paediatric Respiratory Medicine.

Surgery

• The Long-Term Effects of Bariatric Surgery on Type 2 Diabetes Remission, Microvascular and Macrovascular Complications, and Mortality: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
• The Role of Bariatric Surgery in Abdominal Organ Transplantation—the Next Big Challenge?
• Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass in Type 2 Diabetes Patients with Mild Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• The Role of Bariatric Surgery to Treat Diabetes: Current Challenges and Perspectives.
• Fat Mass, Fat-free Mass, and Resting Metabolic Rate in Weight-stable Sleeve Gastrectomy Patients Compared with Weight-stable Nonoperated Patients.

Food & Diet

• RCT: The Effect of Dairy and Non-dairy Beverages Consumed with High Glycemic Cereal on Subjective Appetite, Food Intake and Post-prandial Glycemia in Young Adults.
• All You Can Eat Buffets, Obesity, Mindfulness, and Mindful Eating: An Exploratory Investigation. (pdf)
• Substitution of Water or Fresh Juice for Bottled Juice and Type 2 Diabetes Incidence.
• Effect of Lactobacillus on Body Weight and Body Fat in Overweight Subjects: A Systematic Review of RCTs.

Caloric Restriction

• Caloric Restriction-Induced Extension of Chronological Lifespan Requires Intact Respiration in Budding Yeast.
• During Yeast Chronological Aging Resveratrol Supplementation Results in a Short-lived Phenotype Sir2-dependent.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Utility of Social Cognitive Theory in Intervention Design for Promoting Physical Activity Among African-American Women: A Qualitative Study.
• Effects of Interventions with a Physical Activity Component on Bone Health in Obese Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Nutritional Ketone Salts Increase Fat Oxidation but Impair High-intensity Exercise Performance in Healthy Adult Males.
• Aerobic Exercise Elevates Markers of Angiogenesis and Macrophage IL6 Gene Expression in the Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue of Overweight-to-obese Adults.
• RCT: Effect of Low Vs. High Intensity Exercise Training on Biomarkers of Inflammation and Endothelial Dysfunction in Adolescents with Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Association Between Childhood Health, Socioeconomic and School-related Factors and Effort–reward Imbalance at Work.
• Socioeconomic Position and Markers of Adiposity Among Female Teachers in Mexico.
• Income, Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and the ‘weekend Warrior’ Among U.S. Adults.
• Men’s Weight Loss Stories: How Personal Confession, Responsibility and Transformation Work as Social Control.

Epidemiology

• BMI and Decline in Cognitive Function in Older Black and White Person.
• Adiposity, Telomere Length and Telomere Attrition in Midlife: The 1946 British Birth Cohort.
• Breakfast Intake is Associated with Higher Dietary Diversity Score, Weight Satisfaction and Lower BMI in Girl Adolescents.
• The Contribution of Epidemiology to Nutrition Science.
• Separate and Combined Associations of Obesity and Metabolic Health with Coronary Heart Disease.
• Access and Quality of Parks and Associations with Obesity: A Cross-sectional Study.
• Modeling the Epidemic of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Demonstrates an Exponential Increase in Burden of Disease.
• The Reverse Metabolic Syndrome in the Elderly: Is It a “catabolic” Syndrome?
• Lean Body Mass and Creatine Kinase is Associated with Reduced Inflammation in Obesity.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• The Tantalizing Link Between Obesity and Depression.
• Perceived Physical Activity and Mortality: Evidence From Three Nationally Representative U.S. Samples.
• Integration of Sweet Taste and Metabolism Determines Carbohydrate Reward.
• The Contribution of Behavioural Science to Nutrition: Appetite Control.

Equity and Disparities

• Racial Disparities in Context: Student-, School-, and County-Level Effects on the Likelihood of Obesity Among Elementary School Students.
• Trends and Disparities in the Prevalence of Childhood Obesity in South Texas Between 2009 and 2015.
• Disparities in Accuracy of Maternal Perceptions of Obesity Among Hispanic Children.

Ethics

• Ethical Issues in Obesity Prevention for School Children: A Systematic Qualitative Review.

Policy Related

• Court Sides with Passengers Over the 'Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat'.
• An Anthropological Exploration of the Effects of Family Cash Transfers on the Diets of Mothers and Children in the Brazilian Amazon.
• ‘The University Should Promote Health, but Not Enforce It’: Opinions and Attitudes About the Regulation of Sugar-sweetened Beverages in a University Setting.
• Promoting Active Travel to School: A Systematic Review.
• Budget Impact of a Comprehensive Nutrition-Focused Quality Improvement Program for Malnourished Hospitalized Patients.
• Do You Know What Your Kids are Drinking? Evaluation of a Media Campaign to Reduce Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages.

A ‘Realist’ View and Review of Obesity Policy Effectiveness

• Realist Review--a New Method of Systematic Review Designed for Complex Policy Interventions.
• Realist View: Comment: High Hopes and Hard Outcomes in Obesity Policy.
• Realist View: Article Commentary: The Need for an Overall Strategy.
• Realist View: Don't Throw the Baby Out with the Bathwater.
• Realist View: Recognizing the Needs and Roles of the Key Actors.
• Realist View: A Journey Into Unfamiliar Terrain.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Obesity Programs Reduced Leptin Signaling in the Pituitary and Altered GH/IGF1 Axis Function Leading to Increased Adiposity in Adult Sheep Offspring.
• Insulin Resistance in Pregnant Women with and Without Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, and Measures of Body Composition in Offspring at Birth and 3 Years of Age.
• Maternal Low Intensity Physical Exercise Prevents Obesity in Offspring Rats Exposed to Early Overnutrition.
• Choline Prevents Fetal Overgrowth and Normalizes Placental Fatty Acid and Glucose Metabolism in a Mouse Model of Maternal Obesity.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The Star-nosed Mole Uses the 22 Appendages Encircling Its Nose to Find and Identify Food.
• Environmental Exposure to a Major Urban Wastewater Effluent: Effects on the Energy Metabolism of Northern Pike.
• Living Large: A New Theory Could Explain When and Why Whales Became So Huge.
• Good Ol’ Fat: Links Between Lipid Signaling and Longevity.

Methods

• Validity of the ActiGraph GT3X+ and BodyMedia SenseWear Armband to Estimate Energy Expenditure During Physical Activity and Sport.
• Estimating Heart Rate, Energy Expenditure, and Physical Performance with a Wrist Photoplethysmographic Device During Running.
• Estimation of Resting Energy Expenditure: Validation of Previous and New Predictive Equations in Obese Children and Adolescents.
• Development and Validation of Risk Equations for Complications of Type 2 Diabetes (RECODe) Using Individual Participant Data From Randomised Trials.
• Generalizing RCT Results: Implementation and Challenges Related to Missing Data in the Target Population.
• Radiomanganese PET Detects Changes in Functional ß-Cell Mass in Mouse Models of Diabetes.
• Dynamics of Implementation and Maintenance of Organizational Health Interventions.
• Positive Predictive Value Between Medical-chart Body-mass-index Category and Obesity Versus Codes in a Claims-data Warehouse.
• Juvenile Body Mass Estimation: A Methodological Evaluation.

Commentary

• Catkins Diet—high Protein, Low Carbs—to Help Treat Cats Suffering From Diabetes.
• Buoyed By Science, Pediatricians and Cities Seek to Lower Children’s Sugar Intake.
• Putting Saturated Fat on Trial.
• Neurobiology: A Bitter-sweet Symphony.
• Mistaken Beliefs About Pet Nutrition and Obesity.
• Biomedical Research is Vital to Tackling Public Health Challenges.
• Interviews: Brian Wansink - “It is easier to change your environment than it is to change your mind."

General

• The Mechanism of Diabetic Retinopathy Pathogenesis Unifying Key Lipid Regulators, Sirtuin 1 and Liver X Receptor.
• Intake of Niacin, Folate, Vitamin B-6, and Vitamin B-12 Through Young Adulthood and Cognitive Function in Midlife: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study.
• Allocation, Not Male Resistance, Increases Male Frequency During Epidemics: A Case Study in Facultatively Sexual Hosts.
• Virgin Birth, Double Uteri, and Other Wondrous Female Abilities.
• 'Rules of Life' Outlines Path to Predicting Phenotype.
• Gene Editing Spurs Hope for Transplanting Pig Organs Into Humans.
• Chess Study Revives Debate Over Cognition-Enhancing Drugs.
• 100 Years of Eclipse-Chasing Revealed in Quirky Pictures.

Announcements

• New Human Subjects and Clinical Trial Information Form.
• UAB’s NORC seeks post-doctoral fellows in obesity research.