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Featured

• The Behaviour of Overweight Dogs Shows Similarity with Personality Traits of Overweight Humans.
• What is the Effect of Diet And/or Exercise Interventions on Behavioural Compensation in Non-exercise Physical Activity and Related Energy Expenditure of Free-living Adults? A Systematic Review.
• Early Adipogenesis Contributes to Excess Fat Accumulation in Cave Populations of Astyanax Mexicanus [cavefish].

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Low Social Rank is More Harmful to Health than Obesity: Study.
• Press-release: The Lancet: Low Socioeconomic Status Reduces Life Expectancy and Should Be Counted as a Major Risk Factor in Health Policy, Study Says.
• Study: Associations Between Occupational Position, Obesity, and Other Factors with Mortality in Individual-level Data Meta-analysis of 48 Cohorts.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "...rate [of weight loss] does not seem to have a significant impact on body composition or on compensatory mechanisms, once EB is reestablished."
• RCT: "No significant effect of an approach–avoidance training intervention for children and adolescents with obesity."
• Depression and Anxiety: Lack of Associations with an Inadequate Diet in a Sample of Pregnant Women with a History of Bariatric Surgery-a Multicenter Prospective Controlled Cohort Study.
• RCT: A Nutritive Dose of Pure (–)-epicatechin Does Not Beneficially Affect Increased Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Overweight-to-obese Adults.
• Long-limb Length Difference Had No Effect on Outcomes of Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery for Obese Chinese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, the further participants were from office destinations the less they walked, suggesting that changing the relative distance between workstations and other destinations on the same floor may not be the most fruitful target for promoting walking and reducing sitting in the workplace."
• "Contrary to expectation VFs [vertebral fractures] were associated with BMI and FBM but not with BMD."
• RCT: "...this study failed to show that adding celecoxib (200 mg/day) to megestrol (320 mg/day) could enhance anti-cachexic effects of megestrol."

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Commentary: Errors Trigger Retraction of Study on Mediterranean Diet's Heart Benefits.
• Commentary: That Huge Mediterranean Diet Study Was Flawed. But Was It Wrong?
• Somebody took the randomized out of our favorite randomized controlled trial.
• Ketogenic Diets and Evolution.
• Papers on Fatty Acids in Meat Science Show Wide Variation in Methods and Data Presentation.
• "We find a large disparity between the strength of language as presented to the research consumer and the underlying strength of causal inference among the studies most widely shared on social media."

Basic

• Differential Carbohydrate Utilization and Organic Acid Production By Honey Bee Symbionts.
• Deficient Ganglioside Synthesis Restores Responsiveness to Leptin and Melanocortin Signaling in Obese KKAy Mice.
• The Effects of Volume Versus Intensity of Long-term Voluntary Exercise on Physiology and Behavior in C57/Bl6 Mice.
• Cardiac Metabolic Effects of KNa1.2 Channel Deletion and Evidence for Its Mitochondrial Localization in Wild-Type Mice.

Clinical

• Mastication of Nuts Under Realistic Eating Conditions: Implications for Energy Balance.
• Using Virtual Human Technology to Examine Weight Bias and the Role of Patient Weight on Student Assessment of Pediatric Pain.
• Overcoming Obesity-induced Immunotherapeutic Failure.
• Screening For Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Selectively in a University Maternity Hospital.

Children and Adolescents

• Early Excessive Growth with Distinct Seasonality in Preschool Obesity.
• Childhood Obesity / Overweight Steadily Rose From 1999 to 2014.
• Adolescents at High Risk of Obesity Show Greater Striatal Response to Increased Sugar Content in Milkshakes.
• Harmonization of Approaches to Nutrient Reference Values: Applications to Young Children and Women of Reproductive Age.
• The Scope of Sleep Problems in Canadian Children and Adolescents with Obesity.

Surgery

• Insomnia and Depressive Symptoms in Relation to Unhealthy Eating Behaviors in Bariatric Surgery Candidates.
• Treatment of Obesity in Young People—a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Calcium Absorption May Be Affected After Either Sleeve Gastrectomy or Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass in Premenopausal Women: A 2-y Prospective Study.
• Bariatric Surgery Today: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
• Perioperative Patient Care Involved with Robotic-assisted Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• Patients with Obesity Caused By Melanocortin-4 Receptor Mutations Can Be Treated with a Glucagon-like-peptide-1 Receptor Agonist, Iepsen EW.
• Inactivating Hepatic Follistatin Alleviates Hyperglycemia in Mice.
• Dapsone Protects Brain Microvascular Integrity From High-fat Diet Induced LDL Oxidation.

Food & Diet

• Mary Poppins Was Right: Adding Small Amounts of Sugar or Salt Reduces the Bitterness of Vegetables.
• RCT: Nutrient Enrichment of Human Milk with Human and Bovine Milk–based Fortifiers for Infants Born Weighing Less than 1250 G.
• Grocery Store Interventions to Change Food Purchasing Behaviors: A Systematic Review of RCTs.
• Dietary Fiber Intervention on Gut Microbiota Composition in Healthy Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Caloric Restriction

• Modulation of Intestinal Microbiota and IMMUNO-metabolic Parameters By Caloric Restriction and Lactic Acid Bacteria.
• Intermittent Fasting Confers Protection in CNS Autoimmunity By Altering the Gut Microbiota.
• Calorie Restriction-Induced Increase in Skeletal Muscle Insulin Sensitivity is Not Prevented By Overexpression of the P55α Subunit of Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase.
• Reducing Calories to Lose Weight.
• Reducing Calories to Lose Weight—Reply.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Keep Moving Without Hurting: The Interaction Between Physical Activity and Pain in Determining Cognitive Function at the Population Level.
• Influence of an Adapted Physical Activity Program on Self-Esteem and Quality of Life of Breast Cancer Patients After Mastectomy.
• Investigating the Effects of Behavioral Change, Social Support, and Self-efficacy in Physical Activity in a Collectivistic Culture: Application of Stages of Motivational Readiness for Change in Korean Young Adults.
• Outdoor Time and Metabolically Healthy Obesity in Children: Results From the Canadian Health Measures Survey.
• The Contributions of ‘Diet’, ‘Genes’, and Physical Activity to the Etiology of Obesity: Contrary Evidence and Consilience.
• Physical Activity and Incident Cardiovascular Disease in Women: Is the Relation Modified by Level of Global Cardiovascular Risk?

Economics & Sociology

• BMI and Wealth Index: Positively Correlated Indicators of Health and Wealth Inequalities in Nairobi Slums.
• Childhood Poverty Dynamics and Adulthood Overweight/obesity: Unpacking the Black Box of Childhood.
• Food Environments and Dietary Intakes Among Adults: Does the Type of Spatial Exposure Measurement Matter? A Systematic Review.

Epidemiology

• The Importance of Waist Circumference and BMI in Cross-sectional Relationships with Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Vietnam.
• Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2018 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association.
• Association Between Stress Fracture Incidence and Predicted Body Fat in United States Army Basic Combat Training Recruits.
• Family Lifestyle Dynamics and Childhood Obesity: Evidence From the Millennium Cohort Study.
• Daily Associations Between Objective Sleep and Consumption of Highly Palatable Food in Free‐Living Conditions.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Effects of 2-day Calorie Restriction on Cardiovascular Autonomic Response, Mood, and Cognitive and Motor Functions in Obese Young Adult Women.
• Executive and Reward-Related Function in Pediatric Obesity: A Meta-Analysis.
• Food Deprivation Reduces the Illusory Bias for Food-related but Not for Neutral Stimuli.
• Antidepressant Utilisation and Incidence of Weight Gain During 10 Years’ Follow-up: Population Based Cohort Study.
• Obesity in Aging Exacerbates Neuroinflammation, Dysregulating Synaptic Function-related Genes and Altering Eicosanoid Synthesis in the Mouse Hippocampus: Potential Role in Impaired Synaptic Plasticity and Cognitive Decline.

Equity and Disparities

• The Sheer Stress of Living in a Poor Neighborhood Can Contribute to Obesity and Diabetes.
• Anthropometric and Physiologic Characteristics in White and British Indian Vegetarians and Nonvegetarians in the UK Biobank.
• Association of Physical Activity with Income, Race/Ethnicity, and Sex Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the United States: Findings From NHANES, 2007-2016.

Stigma

• Using Virtual Human Technology to Examine Weight Bias and the Role of Patient Weight on Student Assessment of Pediatric Pain.
• Dispositional Mindfulness Promotes Public Health of the Obesity Population By Reducing Perceived Discrimination and Weight Stigma Concerns.
• Body Size, Body Norms and Some Unintended Consequences of Obesity Intervention in the Pacific Islands.
• How Can Primary Care Help to Reduce Weight Stigma?
• Implicit Preference Towards Slim Bodies and Weight-stigma Modulate the Understanding of Observed Familiar Actions.
• Weight Bias Internalization and Health: A Systematic Review.

Policy Related

• Economic Evaluations of System-based Obesity Interventions - the Case for a New Approach.
• Pros and Cons of Restricting SNAP Purchases.

Intergenerational Effects

• Generation of Maternal Obesity Models in Studies of Developmental Programming in Rodents.
• Pregnancy Loss of Control Over Eating: A Longitudinal Study of Maternal and Child Outcomes.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Female Nursery Web Spiders (Pisaurina Mira) Benefit From Consuming Their Mate.
• Nutrient Intake and Balancing Among Female Colobus Angolensis Palliatus Inhabiting Structurally Distinct Forest Areas: Effects of Group, Season, and Reproductive State.

Methods

• A Non-invasive Assessment of Skin Carotenoid Status Through Reflection Spectroscopy is a Feasible, Reliable and Potentially Valid Measure of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in a Diverse Community Sample.
• Recommendations on the Most Suitable Quality‐of‐life Measurement Instruments for Bariatric and Body Contouring Surgery: A Systematic Review.
• Feasibility of an Estimated Method Using Graduated Utensils to Estimate Food Portion Size in Infants Aged 4 to 18 Months.
• Measurement of Protein Digestibility in Humans By a Dual-tracer Method.
• Extending Methods in Dietary Patterns Research.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Stratified Probabilistic Bias Analysis for BMI-related Exposure Misclassification in Postmenopausal Women.
• The Spatial Distribution of Adult Obesity Prevalence in Denver County, Colorado: An Empirical Bayes Approach to Adjust EHR-Derived Small Area Estimates.
• Application of Machine Learning to Predict Dietary Lapses During Weight Loss.

Commentary

• British Nutritionists Want Jamie Oliver to Stop Fat Shaming Children.
• Hungry, Hungry Hippocampus: Why and How We Eat.

Cancer

• Obesity and Cancer: Existing and New Hypotheses for a Causal Connection.
• A Reversible Epigenetic Link Between Obesity and Cancer Risk.
• The Influence of Natural Killer Cell Dysfunction on the Increased Colon Cancer Incidence in Obesity.
• Obesity-induced Changes in Baseline Immune Responses to Pre-clinical Breast Cancer.
• Obesity is Associated with Larger Soft‐tissue Sarcomas, More Surgical Complications, and More Complex Wound Closures.

General

• The Oddity Effect Drives Prey Choice but Not Necessarily Attack Time.
• Female-biased Sex Ratios are Associated with Higher Maternal Testosterone Levels in Nutria (Myocastor Coypus).
• Mamu-B*17+ Rhesus Macaques Vaccinated with Env, Vif, and Nef Manifest Early Control of SIVmac239 Replication.
• Unexpected Reversal of C3 Versus C4 Grass Response to Elevated CO2 During a 20-year Field Experiment.
• Smarter Metrics Will Help Fix Our Food System.
• Clinical Trial Participants’ Views of the Risks and Benefits of Data Sharing.

Video & Audio

• Minority Opinion Persuasion: How Many Voices Does It Take to Effect Change?

Announcements

• Medical Statistician Doug Altman Dies.
• David Allison Selected to Receive the Harry V. Roberts Statistical Advocate of the Year Award.
• 11th Annual Course on Isotope Tracers in Metabolic Research: Principles and Practice of Kinetic Analysis.
• ObesityWeek Registration Opens Friday, June 15.
• Royal Society of Medicine (Event): The Impact of Diet and Weight on Mental Health and Psychological Wellbeing.
• CDC Launches Infant and Toddler Nutrition Website.
• Webinar: June 21 - Obesity Isn't Simple: Identifying Complex, Evidence-based Strategies to Treat Obesity Seriously.
• UAB’s NORC Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.

Featured

• Let Them Eat Kale: The Misplaced Narrative of Food Access.
• The Therapeutic Effects of Bee Venom on Some Metabolic and Antioxidant Parameters Associated with HFD-induced Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver in Rats.
• The Transcriptomic and Proteomic Responses of Daphnia Pulex to Changes in Temperature and Food Supply Comprise Environment-specific and Clone-specific Elements.
• Social Capital and Obesity Among Adults: Longitudinal Findings From the Montreal Neighborhood Networks and Healthy Aging Panel.

Headline vs Study

• Press-release: You are What Your Mother Eats: Researchers Define Molecular Basis to Explain Link Between a Pregnant Mother's Nutrition and Infant Growth.
• Study: Two Transcription Factors Coordinate Two Functionally Related Neurons in the Hypothalamic Arcuate Nucleus... In Animals. No Mothers; No Nutrition; No Infants.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "Cocoa/DC supplementation does not reduce anthropometric measures significantly."
• "Although preliminary, these first in men findings argue against oral butyrate supplementation as treatment for glucose regulation in human subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus."
• RCT: At 12-month Follow-up, No Effect of a Mobile-based (mHealth) Obesity Prevention Intervention in Pre-school Children.
• No Effect of Postural Alterations on Metabolic Cost in Running on Incline Slopes.
• No Effect of Administration of Unacylated Ghrelin on Subcutaneous PC3 Xenograft Growth in a Rag1-/- Mouse Model of Metabolic Dysfunction.
• Oxidative Stress in Obese Children and Adolescents with and Without Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus is Not Associated with Obstructive Sleep Apnea.
• Contrary to Previous Studies, Prepregnancy BMI and GWG Were Not Correlated with A. Diagnosis of Metabolic Dysfunction.
• RCT: "Compared with the active control of daily texting based on daily home weighing, lottery-based and direct monetary incentives provided no additional benefit for weight loss maintenance."
• Watching Television or Listening to Music While Exercising Failed to Affect Post-exercise Food Intake or Energy Expenditure in Male Adolescents.

Basic

• Is Leptin Resistance the Cause or the Consequence of Diet-induced Obesity?
• Breeding Selection of Rainbow Trout for Muscle Adiposity Content Differentially Affects Lipogenic Capacity and Lipid Mobilization Strategies to Cope with Food Deprivation.
• Remodeling of Skeletal Muscle Mitochondrial Proteome with High-Fat Diet Involves Larger Changes to β-oxidation than Electron Transfer Proteins in Mice.
• Maternal Overnutrition Programs Epigenetic Changes in the Regulatory Regions of Hypothalamic Pomc in the Offspring of Rats.
• Repeated Weight Cycling in Obese Mice Causes Increased Appetite and Glucose Intolerance.
• Effects of Frozen Storage on Phospholipid Content in Atlantic Cod Fillets and the Influence on Diet-Induced Obesity in Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Fat and Happy and Fuzzy About Causality.
• Commentary: Curious Cook - the Strange Story of Gluten, Part 2.
• Commentary: Diet, and Delusions of Evidence.
• Identifying the Best Methods to Assess Adiposity and Metabolic Risk in Children.

Clinical

• Evaluations of Lifestyle, Dietary, and Pharmacologic Treatments for Pediatric Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease—a Systematic Review.
• RCT: Effect of Small Doses of Fructose and Allulose on Postprandial Glucose Metabolism in Type 2 Diabetes.
• Optimal Cut-off Points of Fasting and Post-Glucose Stimulus Surrogates of Insulin Resistance as Predictors of Metabolic Syndrome in Adolescents According to Several Definitions.
• One-Hour Plasma Glucose Compared with Two-Hour Plasma Glucose in Relation to Diabetic Retinopathy in American Indians.
• Feasibility and Effectiveness of Nutritional Telemonitoring for Home Care Clients: A Pilot Study.
• What to do When Doctors Disagree on Diets for Women with Gestational Diabetes.

Children and Adolescents

• The ENCOURAGE Healthy Families Study: A Comparative Effectiveness Trial to Reduce Risk for Type 2 Diabetes in Mothers and Children.
• The Application of MHealth to Monitor Implementation of Best Practices to Support Healthy Eating and Physical Activity in Afterschool Programs.

Surgery

• Metabotypes of Response to Bariatric Surgery Independent of the Magnitude of Weight Loss.
• First Right Lobe Living-donor Hepatectomy After Sleeve Gastrectomy.

Drugs

• Tyrphostin AG17 Inhibits Adipocyte Differentiation in Vivo and in Vitro.
• Visceral Fat is Associated with Mucosal Healing of Infliximab Treatment in Crohn's Disease.
• Effects of Pentoxifylline on Soluble Klotho Concentrations and Renal Tubular Cell Expression in Diabetic Kidney Disease.

Food & Diet

• Effects of Raw Potato Starch on Body Weight with Controlled Glucose Delivery.
• Systematic Review: "There is mixed evidence to draw firm conclusions of the effect of habitual breakfast on academic performance..."
• Limitations of the Evidence Base Used to Set Recommended Nutrient Intakes for Infants and Lactating Women.
• Introduction to Current Knowledge on Micronutrients in Human Milk: Adequacy, Analysis, and Need for Research.
• Yerba Mate Stimulates Mitochondrial Biogenesis and Thermogenesis in High Fat Diet‐Induced Obese Mice.

Caloric Restriction

• Switching From High-fat Diet to Foods Containing Resveratrol as a Calorie Restriction Mimetic Changes the Architecture of Arcuate Nucleus to Produce More Newborn Anorexigenic Neurons.
• Caloric Restriction Mitigates Age-associated Hippocampal Differential CG and Non-CG Methylation.
• Effects of 2-day Calorie Restriction on Cardiovascular Autonomic Response, Mood, and Cognitive and Motor Functions in Obese Young Adult Women.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Levels of Nature and Stress Response.
• RCT: Using Financial Incentives to Promote Physical Activity in American Indian Adolescents.

Economics & Sociology

• Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Position and Risks of Major Chronic Diseases [including Diabetes] and All-cause Mortality: A Quasi-experimental Study.
• Association Between Food, Physical Activity, and Social Assistance Environments and the BMI of Schoolchildren From Different Socioeconomic Strata.
• You Can’t “nudge” Nuggets: An Investigation of College Late-night Dining with Behavioral Economics Interventions.
• Strong Coexistence for a Model with Endogenous Evolution of Heterogeneous Agents.

Epidemiology

• Association Between Thyroid Hormones and the Components of Metabolic Syndrome.
• Characterization of Adult Obesity in Florida Using the OneFlorida Clinical Research Consortium.
• The Association Between Obesity and Restless Legs Syndrome: A Systemic Review and Meta-analysis of Observational Studies.
• An Assessment of the Relationship Between Abdominal Obesity and the Severity of Upper Extremity Lymphedema.
• Time to Deliver: Report of the WHO Independent High-Level Commission on Noncommunicable Diseases.
• USDA/ERS Releases State Fact Sheets.
• Lifetime Prevalence and Prognosis of Prediabetes Without Progression to Diabetes.
• Diabetes Risk Scores for Hispanics Living in the United States: A Systematic Review.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Experimental Scarcity Increases the Relative Reinforcing Value of Food in Food Insecure Adults.
• Adherence to the French Eating Model is Inversely Associated with Overweight and Obesity: Results From a Large Sample of French Adults.
• A Qualitative Analysis of the Role of Emotions in Different Patterns of Long-term Weight Loss.
• Why do Dieters Regain Weight? Calorie Deprivation Alters Body and Mind, Overwhelming Willpower.
• Neuroanatomy of the VmPFC and DlPFC Predicts Individual Differences in Cognitive Regulation During Dietary Self-control Across Regulation Strategies.
• Hunger, Food Cravings, and Diet Satisfaction are Related to Changes in Body Weight During a 6-Month Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention: The Beef WISE Study.

Stigma

• Understanding Paediatric Patients’ Attitudes Toward Obesity and Expectations Prior to Entering a Weight Management Program.
• Do Exerciser Weight Status and Perceived Motivation Predict Instructors’ Motivation and Beliefs About the Exerciser? A Test of Motivation Contagion Effects.
• Thin Idealization and Causal Attributions Mediate the Association Between Culture and Obesity Stereotypes.
• The Pain of Weight-related Stigma Among Women with Overweight or Obesity.

Policy Related

• A Tax on Sugar Sweetened Beverages in Colombia: Estimating the Impact on Overweight and Obesity Prevalence Across Socio Economic Levels.
• School Accreditation Scheme Reduces Childhood Obesity in Hong Kong.
• Women's Health Policy in the United States: An American College of Physicians Position Paper.
• Why Weight? An Analytic Review of Obesity Management, Diabetes Prevention, and Cardiovascular Risk Reduction.
• Organic Labeling Policy.

Intergenerational Effects

• Exploring the Impact of Maternal Obesity on Offspring Renal Morphology and Later Life Health.
• Intergenerational Influence of Paternal Obesity on Metabolic and Reproductive Health Parameters of the Offspring: Male-Preferential Impact and Involvement of Kiss1-Mediated Pathways.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Male Nutritional History Affects Female Fecundity in a Male-dimorphic Mite: Evidence for a Nuptial Gift?
• Nutrient‐specific Compensation for Seasonal Cold Stress in a Free‐ranging Temperate Colobine Monkey.

Methods

• Micronutrients in Human Milk: Analytical Methods.
• Reliability and validity of the new VikingSlice software for computed tomography body composition analysis.

Commentary

• Link Between Social Stress and Shortened Lifespan: Mouse Study.
• Loud Restaurant Music Favors Burgers?
• Sustaining Health-Protective Behaviors Such as Physical Activity and Healthy Eating.
• Experts Split on the Magic of Taxing Sugar.
• Most Who Avoid Gluten Lack Symptoms of Intolerance, Sensitivity.

General

• Odor Alters Color Preference in a Foraging Jumping Spider.
• Randomization to Randomization Probability: Estimating Treatment Effects Under Actual Conditions of Use.
• TEDMED Talk: Addressing the Public Health Impact of Mountaintop Removal Mining.
• New Analysis Supports Benefits of HIEs.
• Big Data and Predictive Analytics: Recalibrating Expectations.
• Audio: Green-Blooded Lizards.
• Social Stress Shortens Lifespan in Mice.
• Podcast: Ingestible Medical Sensors.
• Podcast: What Can Scientists Bring to Congress?
• Days on Earth are Getting Longer, Thanks to the Moon.
• New Synthetic Nerve System Could Enable Prosthetic Limbs to Have a Sense of Touch.
• Reliable Funding for Biomedical Research Pays Off.
• Podcast: Low-Impact Eating.

Announcements

• School of Public Health Researchers Help Reveal Social Stress is Associated with Shortened Lifespan in Mice.
• ObesityWeek Registration Opens June 15th.
• UAB’s NORC Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• In Memoriam: Doug Altman.

Featured

• Body-size Shifts in Aquatic and Terrestrial Urban Communities.
• Increased Intake of Energy-dense Diet and Negative Energy Balance in a Mouse Model of Chronic Psychosocial Defeat.
• Social Subordination is Associated with Energetics & Reduced Lifespan in Mice.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Mental Health Alert! Eat More of Raw Fruit and Vegetables to Feel Better.
• Press Release: Raw Fruit and Vegetables Provide Better Mental Health Outcomes.
• Study: Some Self-reported Intakes of Raw and Processed Fruits and Vegetables are Cross-sectionally Associated with Some Self-reported Measurements of Mental Health in Some Statistical Models.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Dementia Exercise Programmes 'don't Slow Brain Decline'.
• No Effect of Magnetic Water on Feed Conversion Ratio, Body Weight Gain, Feed Intake and Livability of Male Broiler Chickens.
• These Pilot Findings Did Not Confirm an Association Between Light Exposure (lux) and HbA1c Levels (mmol/mol) in Obese and Overweight Teenagers.
• "Living in an area with low physical food access [i.e., 'food desert'] was not associated with a difference in HbA1c."
• ", contrary to what is generally hypothesized, in a normal environment containing fatty acids, the immunosuppressive effect of IDO may not be due to a decrease in CD4+ T‑cell survival and proliferation, since IDO supplies the required energy for cell survival and proliferation by increasing free fatty acid oxidation."
• "In boys, the average sleep score was not associated with anthropometric measurements..."
• RCT: No Significant Effects of Supervised Physical Training on Inflammation and Endothelial Function After Gastric Bypass Surgery.
• RCT: "Our findings suggest that thrombin generation capacity, coagulation activation, fibrin clot structure, and lysability are unaffected by long-term active commuting and leisure-time exercise in women and men who are overweight and obese."

Basic

• Role of Xenobiotics in the Induction and Progression of Fatty Liver Disease.
• Deep Phenotyping in Zebrafish Reveals Genetic and Diet-Induced Adiposity Changes that May Inform Disease Risk.
• Osteoglycin, a Novel Coordinator of Bone and Glucose Homeostasis.
• The Transplantation of ω3 PUFA-Altered Gut Microbiota of Fat-1 Mice to Wild-Type Littermates Prevents Obesity and Associated Metabolic Disorders.
• Striatal Dopamine Regulates Systemic Glucose Metabolism in Humans and Mice.
• Adiponectin Protects Hepatocytes Against Acetominophen-Induced Cell Death By Modulation of ER Stress and Inflammasome Activation.
• Review: The CD36-PPARγ Pathway in Metabolic Disorders.
• Metabolic Response of Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis Niloticus) to Acute and Chronic Hypoxia Stress.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter: Recovery Test Results as a Prerequisite for Publication of Gaseous Exchange Measurements.
• Letter: Determining the Worldwide Prevalence of Obesity.
• Reply To: Determining the Worldwide Prevalence of Obesity.
• Letter: Are We Really Assessing Safety and Efficacy of Bariatric Surgery in Patients Suffering From Bipolar Disorder?
• Letter: Defining Short-term, Medium-term, Long-term, and Very Long-term Follow-up After Bariatric Surgery.
• Letter: Residual Confounding in the Study By van Dalem et al.
• Letter: Clinical Nutrition Education in Medical Schools - Comment on the ESPEN Survey.
• Reply To: Clinical Nutrition Education in Medical Schools - Comment on the ESPEN Survey.

Clinical

• Energy Expenditure in Pregnant Women with Obesity Does Not Support Energy Intake Recommendations.
• RCT: "A home-based, multi-disciplinary child obesity intervention had lower programme costs per child, greater reach, with similar BMI SDS outcomes at 12 months when compared with the previous hospital-based conventional model."
• RCT: Psychological Effects of Belonging to a Facebook Weight Management Group in Overweight and Obese Adults.
• Midwifery Management of Pregnant Women Who are Obese.

Children and Adolescents

• Waist Circumference in 6–12-year-old Children: The Health Oriented Pedagogical Project.
• Impact of Early‐Life Weight Status on Cognitive Abilities in Children.
• High Burden of Birthweight-lowering Genetic Variants in Africans and Asians.
• Change in Weight Status From Childhood to Early Adulthood and Late Adulthood Risk of Colon Cancer in Men: A Population-based Cohort Study.
• Genetic and Environmental Factors Affecting Birth Size Variation: A Pooled Individual-based Analysis of Secular Trends and Global Geographical Differences Using 26 Twin Cohorts.

Surgery

• Surgical Treatment of Obesity.
• Costly Hurdles for Bariatric Surgery.
• Liraglutide Effects on Upper Gastrointestinal Investigations: Implications Prior to Bariatric Surgery.
• Are Bariatric Centres of Excellence Meeting the Standards of Care?

Drugs

• What Does the Acarbose Cardiovascular Evaluation (ACE) Trial Tell Us?
• RCT: Does Armodafinil Improve Driving Task Performance and Weight Loss in Sleep Apnea?
• Antidepressant Induced Weight Gain.

Food & Diet

• The War on Gluten: Wheat Sensitivity Isn't Imaginary, Most Researchers Now Agree. But What's Really Behind It?
• How Mediterranean is the Mediterranean Diet?
• Apples, Oranges, and Eggs.
• The Effect of Low-Carbohydrate Diet on Glycemic Control in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• RCT: Saturated Fat is More Metabolically Harmful for the Human Liver than Unsaturated Fat or Simple Sugars.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• The Association Between Objectively Measured Physical Activity and Subsequent Health Care Utilization in Older Men.
• Physical Activity Levels Predict Exercise-induced Hypoalgesia in Older Adults.
• Measuring Physical Activity with Implanted Cardiac Devices: A Systematic Review.

Economics & Sociology

• Daily Dietary Intake Patterns Improve After Visiting a Food Pantry Among Food-Insecure Rural Midwestern Adults.
• “If I Can Afford Steak, Why Worry About Buying Beans”: African American Men’s Perceptions of Their Food Environment.
• Ethnic Differences in the Influence of Peers on Weight-Related Behavior.
• The Association Between Food Insecurity and Incident Type 2 Diabetes in Canada: A Population-based Cohort Study.

Equity and Disparities

• For richer, for poorer: the relationship between adolescent obesity and future household economic prosperity.
• Family food purchases of high- and low-calorie foods in full-service supermarkets and other food retailers by Black women in an urban US setting.

Epidemiology

• Abdominal Obesity in Type 1 Diabetes Associated with Gender, Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Complications, and Difficulties Achieving Treatment Targets: A Cross Sectional Study at a Secondary Care Diabetes Clinic.
• Impact of Ambient Air Pollution on Obesity: A Systematic Review.
• Effect of Severe Obesity in Childhood and Adolescence on Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Early Adulthood in an American Indian Population.
• Night Shift Work Exposure Profile and Obesity: Baseline Results From a Chinese Night Shift Worker Cohort.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Plate-clearing Tendencies and Portion Size are Independently Associated with Main Meal Food Intake in Women: A Laboratory Study.
• You Ought to Love Your Body: The Effect of Body-positive Advertising on Self-discrepancies, Discrete Emotions, & Body Image Outcomes.
• The Experience of Eating: The Effects of Music on Food-taste, Food-pleasantness, and the Rate of Mastication.
• The Relationship Between Delay and Social Discounting, and BMI in University Students.
• Self‐esteem and Peer‐perceived Social Status in Early Adolescence and Prediction of Eating Pathology in Young Adulthood.

Ethics

• Moralized Health-Related Persuasion Undermines Social Cohesion.

Stigma

• Obesity: Information or Stigmatization From the Media?
• Predictors of Weight Stigma Experienced By Middle-older Aged, General-practice Patients with Obesity in Disadvantaged Areas of Australia: A Cross-sectional Study.
• The Pain of Weight-Related Stigma Among Women with Overweight or Obesity.
• "Let's Not Be Rude to Fat People" Says The Times.
• Framing Obesity a Disease: Indirect Effects of Affect and Controllability Beliefs on Weight Bias.

Policy Related

• Mexico's “Sugar Tax”: Space, Markets, Resistance.
• Differences in the Neighborhood Retail Food Environment and Obesity Among US Children and Adolescents By SNAP Participation.
• From Practice to Policy: Making Impactful Change in Childhood Obesity Prevention.
• Obesity and the Future of Food Policies that Promote Healthy Diets.
• Reducing the Prevalence of Childhood Obesity in Households Receiving Supplement Nutrition Assistance Program Benefits in Baltimore City, Maryland Through Interactive Nutrition Education.

Intergenerational Effects

• Intergenerational Associations of Parent Adverse Childhood Experiences and Child Health Outcomes.
• Gestational Dyslipidaemia and Adverse Birthweight Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Global Genetic Differentiation of Complex Traits Shaped By Natural Selection in Humans.
• Almost Like a Whale – First Evidence of Suction-feeding in a Seabird.
• Foraging Strategy of Wasps – Optimisation of Intake Rate or Efficiency?

Methods

• An Ingestible Bacterial-electronic System to Monitor Gastrointestinal Health.
• Extending Methods in Dietary Patterns Research.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Modeling the Health [including Obesity-related] Effects of Time‐varying Complex Environmental Mixtures: Mean Field Variational Bayes for Lagged Kernel Machine Regression.

Commentary

• Nuts with Benefits.
• When the Subject is Obesity, Wishful Thinking is Abundant.

General

• Truth with a Vengeance.
• Genetic and Environmental Factors Affecting Birth Size Variation: A Pooled Individual-based Analysis of Secular Trends and Global Geographical Differences Using 26 Twin Cohorts.
• Research Suggests Sweet Potatoes Didn't Originate in the Americas as Previously Thought.
• RCT: "This interventional study failed to show significant improvements in verbal memory after 6 months of resveratrol in healthy elderly with a wide BMI range."
• A Classical Math Problem Gets Pulled Into the Modern World.
• Video: Mathematical Models that Describe the Dynamics of Cancer.

Announcements

• Video: Beautiful By Design: The Indiana University Bloomington Campus.
• SciCafe: Primate Palate: Orangutans, Obesity, and Human Evolution, June 6th.
• Registration open: June 13 - The Current Understanding of Pre-Pregnancy Weight, Gestational Weight Gain, and the Impacts on Maternal and Child Health Among Women with Obesity: A Virtual Workshop (Webinar).
• UAB’s NORC Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.

Featured

• Cost-Effectiveness of Product Reformulation in Response to the Health Star Rating Food Labelling System in Australia.
• Wildfire Smoke Impacts Activity and Energetics of Wild Bornean Orangutans.
• Obesity Management: What Should We do If Fat Gain is Necessary to Maintain Body Homeostasis in a Modern World?
• Heritability of Body Size in the Polar Bears of Western Hudson Bay.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Junk Food Ads Increase Craving for Fast Foods.
• Meeting presentation: Self-reported Food Intake is Associated with Self-reported Recollection of Food Advertising. No Cravings.
• Headline: Here's Why Eating More Slowly May Help You Lose Weight.
• Study: Effects of Changes in Eating Speed on Obesity in Patients with Diabetes: A Secondary Analysis of Longitudinal Health Check-up Data.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Effect of a Theory-based Behavioural Intervention on Preventing Rapid Weight Gain in Formula Milk-fed Infants.
• No Effect of Programmed Exercise on Perceived Stress in Middle-aged and Old Women: A Meta-analysis of RCTs.
• RCT: "A 4‐week high protein diet with ad libitum food intake did not affect energy intake and energy expenditure in children with obesity."
• "Food‐mapping indicated prior knowledge and attitudes had no effect on the choices made" by adolescents.
• RCT: "H3G-Brazil demonstrated positive 6-month effects on some social cognitive variables but an adverse effect on unhealthy weight control behaviors."
• Diet-Induced Weight Loss Has No Effect on Psychological Stress in Overweight and Obese Adults: A Meta-Analysis of RCTs.
• RCT: "We cannot currently provide strong evidence for a beneficial effect of insoluble cereal fibre on glycaemic metabolism..."
• RCT: No Apparent Effects of Aerobic Training, Resistance Training, or Both on Brain-derived Neurotrophic Factor in Adolescents with Obesity.

Basic

• The Novel Adipokine WISP1 Associates with Insulin Resistance and Impairs Insulin Action in Human Myotubes and Mouse Hepatocytes.
• FTO is a Transcriptional Repressor to Auto-regulate Its Own Gene and Potentially Associated with Homeostasis of Body Weight.
• Effects of N-3PUFAs on Autophagy and Inflammation of Hypothalamus and Body Weight in Mice.
• An Insurmountable NPY Y5 Receptor Antagonist Exhibits Superior Anti-obesity Effects in High-fat Diet-induced Obese Mice.
• Reduced Adiposity By Compensatory WAT Browning upon IBAT Removal in Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• In Pursuit of the “Something” that is Better than Nothing for Measuring Energy Intake.
• Control, Perceived Control or Self-efficacy as Confounders in the Relation Between Fruit and Vegetable Consumption and Psychological Disorders.
• Comment on “Early introduction of complementary foods and childhood overweight in breastfed and formula-fed infants in the Netherlands: the PIAMA birth cohort study."
• Letter to the Editor Regarding Pluymen et al.'s Paper: Early Introduction of Complementary Foods and Childhood Overweight in Breastfed and Formula-fed Infants in the Netherlands: The PIAMA Birth Cohort Study.
• Response to Letters to the Editor Regarding Our Paper “Early Introduction of Complementary Foods and Childhood Overweight in Breastfed and Formula-fed Infants in the Netherlands: The PIAMA Birth Cohort Study.
• Sound Science to Benefit the Public's Health: Opportunities and Challenges in Industry-Funded Nutrition Research.
• Letter: Does Protein Supplementation Really Augment Hypertrophy in Older Persons with Resistance Exercise Training?
• Reply To: Does Protein Supplementation Really Augment Hypertrophy in Older Persons with Resistance Exercise Training?

Clinical

• Validating Pre-treatment BMI as Moderator of Antidepressant Treatment Outcomes: Findings From CO-MED Trial.
• Change in Health-related Quality of Life and Social Cognitive Outcomes in Obese, Older Adults in a Weight Loss RCT: Does Physical Activity Behavior Matter?
• “Fat is Really a Four‐letter Word”: Exploring Weight‐related Communication Best Practices in Children with and Without Disabilities and Their Caregivers.
• MANAGEMENT OF ENDOCRINE DISEASE: Which Metabolic Procedure? Comparing Outcomes in Sleeve Gastrectomy and Roux-en Y Gastric Bypass.

Children and Adolescents

• Characteristics of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Across the Spectrum of Glucose Tolerance in Obese Adolescents.
• Evaluation of Complex Community‐based Childhood Obesity Prevention Interventions.
• RCT: Anthropometric Outcomes of a Motivational Interviewing School-based Trial Involving Adolescents with Overweight.

Surgery

• Predictors for Adherence to Multidisciplinary Follow-Up Care After Sleeve Gastrectomy.
• Roux-en-Y-Induced Weight Loss and Metabolic Improvements are Similar in TGR5-Deficient and Wildtype Mice.

Drugs

• Indomethacin Enhances Brown Fat Activity.
• Effect of Race on the Glycaemic Response to Sitagliptin: Insights From the Trial Evaluating Cardiovascular Outcomes with Sitagliptin (TECOS).

Food & Diet

• Pathways and Mechanisms Linking Dietary Components to Cardiometabolic Disease: Thinking Beyond Calories.
• Perspective: Protein Requirements and Optimal Intakes in Aging: Are We Ready to Recommend More than the Recommended Daily Allowance?
• Low-protein Diet in Cancer: Ready for Prime Time?

Caloric Restriction

• Relationship Between Genes and Diet on Lifespan in Drosophila.
• Short-Term, Intermittent Fasting Induces Long-Lasting Gut Health and TOR-Independent Lifespan Extension.
• Fasting Activates Fatty Acid Oxidation to Enhance Intestinal Stem Cell Function During Homeostasis and Aging.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Adherence to American Cancer Society Guidelines on Nutrition and Physical Activity in Female Cancer Survivors: Results From an RCT.
• Psychosocial and Demographic Predictors of Postpartum Physical Activity.
• Inverse Relationship Between Changes of Maximal Aerobic Capacity and Changes in Walking Economy After Weight Loss.

Economics & Sociology

• For Richer, for Poorer: The Relationship Between Adolescent Obesity and Future Household Economic Prosperity.
• An Unlikely Heroine—Fat and Unemployed: Doris Dörrie's Film Die Friseuse (2010).
• Nurses’ Perception of the Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status, Incidence Rates and Complications of a Type 2 Diabetes Diagnosis in the Adult Population.
• Longitudinal Physical Activity Patterns Among Older Adults: A Latent Transition Analysis.
• Understanding the Meaning of Food in People with Type 2 Diabetes Living in Northern Appalachia.

Epidemiology

• An Epigenome-Wide Association Study (EWAS) of Obesity-Related Traits.
• Antibiotic Exposure in Early Life and Childhood Overweight and Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis.
• Prevalence of General and Abdominal Obesity in Portugal: National Food, Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey 2015–2016.
• Chronic Obesity and Incident Hypertension in Latina Women are Associated with Accelerated Telomere Length Loss Over a 1-Year Period.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Consumption and Emotions Among College Students Toward Chocolate Product.
• Adolescents at High Risk of Obesity Show Greater Striatal Response to Increased Sugar Content in Milkshakes.
• Personal Network Characteristics as Predictors of Change in Obesity Risk Behaviors in Early Adolescence.
• Does the Cost of a Meal Influence the Portion Size Effect?
• Social Network Analysis of Stakeholder Networks From Two Community-based Obesity Prevention Interventions.

Equity and Disparities

• "...uneven urban food landscapes are intimately connected to processes of gentrification and shaped along lines of race and class by political decisions and capital flows."
• Gender Dimensions of Food Security, the Right to Food and Food Sovereignty in Nepal.

Ethics

• An Ethicist Asks: Is Obesity Acceptable?
• Regulation of Food Consumption as an Effort to Control Obesity Rates.

Stigma

• Relating Weight Based Self-esteem, Depression, and Anxiety with Weight and Perceived Physical Health Among Young Adults.
• Recognizing and Eliminating Bias in Those with Elevated BMI in Women's Health Care.
• Book Chapter: Understanding the Morbidly Obese Patient.

Policy Related

• Counting Calories Won't Reduce Obesity. So Why are We Requiring Restaurants to Post Them?
• How Ethical is Our Current Delivery of Care to Patients with Severe and Complicated Obesity?
• Active School Travel Intervention Methodologies in North America: A Systematic Review.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Low Protein Diet Impairs Prostate Growth in Young Rat Offspring and Induces Prostate Carcinogenesis with Aging.
• In Utero and Postnatal Exposure to High Fat, High Sucrose Diet Suppressed Testis Apoptosis and Reduced Sperm Count.
• Obesity Disrupts Rhythmic Clock Gene Expression in Maternal Adipose Tissue During Rat Pregnancy.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Comparisons of Foraging Behavior and Energetics By Great Egrets (Ardea Alba) and Snowy Egrets (Egretta Thula) Across Three Microhabitats.
• Large Mammal Diets and Paleoecology Across the Oldowan-Acheulean Transition at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania From Stable Isotope and Tooth Wear Analyses.
• Integrative Analysis of Indirect Calorimetry and Metabolomics Profiling Reveals Alterations in Energy Metabolism Between Fed and Fasted Pigs.

Methods

• Managing Complexity in Evidence Analysis: A Worked Example in Pediatric Weight Management.
• Developing an Index of Dose of Exposure to Early Childhood Obesity Community Interventions.
• Bite Count Rates in Free-living Individuals: New Insights From a Portable Sensor.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• In Silico Analysis Identifies Intestinal Transit as a Key Determinant of Systemic Bile Acid Metabolism.

Gut Microbiota & Obesity

• Effects of Dietary Intake of Japanese Mushrooms on Visceral Fat Accumulation and Gut Microbiota in Mice.
• Citrus Peel Extracts Attenuated Obesity and Modulated Gut Microbiota in a High-fat Diet-induced Obesity Mice.
• Tu1379 - Obesity Damages Intestinal Mucosal Barrier and Microbiota Composition in Rat Model of Severe Acute Pancreatitis.
• Gut-microbiome-related LCT Genotype and 2-year Changes in Body Composition and Fat Distribution: The POUNDS Lost Trial.
• Loss of Angiopoietin-like 4 (ANGPTL4) in Mice with Diet-induced Obesity Uncouples Visceral Obesity From Glucose Intolerance Partly Via the Gut Microbiota.

Commentary

• Existential Debate in US Food Industry: What is Meat?
• Adding Culture to the Weight-Loss Equation.
• Dietary Assessment and Tracking, Reimagined for the Digital Age.
• What is a Low-glycemic Diet, Really?

General

• Exploring the Relationship Between Technology and Decision Making By Investigating Perceptions of Safety in Outdoor Adventure Activities.
• Give Every Paper a Read for Reproducibility.
• The Transition to Modernity and Chronic Disease: Mismatch and Natural Selection.
• Genetic Diversity and Sex Ratio of Naked Mole Rat, Heterocephalus Glaber, Zoo Populations.
• Effect of the Health Tourism Weight Loss Programme on Body Composition and Health Outcomes in Healthy and Excess-weight Adults.
• Complete Mitochondrial Genomes of Baikal Oilfishes (Perciformes: Cottoidei), Earth's Deepest-Swimming Freshwater Fishes.
• Video: The shocking danger of mountaintop removal – and why it must end.

Announcements

• NuGO Week 2018 in Newcastle on 3- 6 September.  The theme of the conference is "Mitochondria, Nutrition and Health."
• UAB’s NORC Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.