Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Diabetes and Diet: Purchasing Behavior Change in Response to Health Information.
• Does Effectiveness of Weight Management Programs Depend on the Food Environment?
• The Translation of Age-related Body Composition Findings From Rodents to Humans.
• Longitudinal Analysis of Biomarker Data From a Personalized Nutrition Platform in Healthy Subjects.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Community Efforts to Combat Childhood Obesity Can Be Effective, Study Finds.
• Study: The Prevalence of Community Programmes and Policies to Prevent Childhood Obesity in a Diverse Sample of US Communities. Associations, not necessarily causation. (updated) 

Contrary or Null Findings

• “Our Original Hypothesis Was that Diet Composition Would Affect Longevity; However…diet Composition Had No Impact on Survival” or Metabolic Factors in Mice.
• "After adjusting for covariates, origin-based discrimination was ...not associated with either the intercept or slope of BMI."
• No Significant Associations of BMI with Outcome Measures of the Patients with Penetrating Injuries.
• "Although other advantages might exist for breakfasts based on low-GI/low-GL foods, our findings support the hypothesis that minor differences in nutritional and perceived characteristics of breakfast are of limited importance regarding medium-term energy intake in healthy men."
• High-Sugar, High-Saturated-Fat Dietary Patterns are Not Associated with Depressive Symptoms in Middle-Aged Adults in a Prospective Study.
• High-dose Omega-3 Fatty Acids Have No Effect on Platelet Aggregation or Coagulation Measured with Static and Flow-based Aggregation Instruments and Sonoclot; An Observational Study in Healthy Volunteers.
• No Evidence for Multimodal Body Mass Distributions and Body Mass-related Capture Order in Wild-caught Damaraland Mole-rats.
• "...higher BMI, and particularly higher fat mass, at pre-school age predicted more food approaching and less food avoidant eating behaviors at the age of 10 years, rather than the hypothesized reverse direction."
• "While teacher training is hypothesized to contribute to the development of physical literacy among elementary school students, the observed effects in this study were either small or null."
• CDC Childhood Physical Activity Strategies Fail to Show Sustained Fitness Impact in Middle School Children.

Basic

• Effect of Food Predictability on Lifespan in Male Mice.
• Glucagon Receptor Signaling Regulates Energy Metabolism Via Hepatic Farnesoid X Receptor and Fibroblast Growth Factor 21.
• The DNA Repair Protein OGG1 Protects Against Obesity By Altering Mitochondrial Energetics in White Adipose Tissue.
• Metabolic Dynamics of Human Sertoli Cells are Differentially Modulated By Physiological and Pharmacological Concentrations of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1.
• Asthma Alleviates Obesity in Males Through Regulating Metabolism and Energy Expenditure.
• Decrease in αβ/γδ T-cell Ratio is Accompanied By a Reduction in High-Fat Diet–Induced Weight Gain, Insulin Resistance, and Inflammation.
• Targeting Nuclear Receptor NR4A1-dependent Adipocyte Progenitor Quiescence Promotes Metabolic Adaptation to Obesity.
• Fluorescent Blood–brain Barrier Tracing Shows Intact Leptin Transport in Obese Mice.
• Adipose Tissue Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Human Obesity is Linked to a Specific DNA Methylation Signature in Adipose-derived Stem Cells.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Influential Errors | the Diet Heart Tale.
• The Complicated Connection Between Supermarkets and Obesity.
• Newsweek Overlooks Key Limitation of Study on Vitamin D and Childhood Obesity.
• Comment on “The Plateau of Human Mortality: Demography of Longevity Pioneers”.

Clinical

• Body Contouring After Massive Weight Loss.
• Obesity and Endocrine Management of the Patient with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
• RCT: Dissemination of the Look AHEAD Intensive Lifestyle Intervention in the United States Military.
• Influence of Obesity on the Response to Influenza Infection and Vaccination.

Children and Adolescents

• Acceleration of BMI in Early Childhood and Risk of Sustained Obesity.
• Taq1a Polymorphism (rs1800497) is Associated with Obesity-related Outcomes and Dietary Intake in a Multi-ethnic Sample of Children.
• RCT: Type of Infant Formula Increases Early Weight Gain and Impacts Energy Balance.

Surgery

• Long-Term Outcomes After Bariatric Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Weight Loss at 10 or More Years for All Bariatric Procedures.
• Weight Loss Surgery Utilization in Patients Aged 14–25 with Severe Obesity.

Drugs

• "...the results suggest that the use of methylphenidate in patients who have ADHD and obesity is relevant not only for controlling ADHD symptoms but also for improving the nutritional status of these individuals."
• Effects of Immediate or Delayed Estradiol on Behavior in Old Menopausal Macaques on Obesogenic Diet.
• More Options & Better Outcomes for Obesity Medicine?
• Efficacy and Safety of LY3298176, a Novel Dual GIP and GLP-1 Receptor Agonist, in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

Food & Diet

• Urinary Tract Infection: Should Cranberry and Probiotics Be Considered?
• RCT: Potential Metabolic Effect of Sucralose Following an Oral Glucose Load in Subjects with Obesity and Normal-weight Subjects.
• Consumption of Mediterranean Versus Western Diet Leads to Distinct Mammary Gland Microbiome Populations.
• "The Taxonomic Composition of the Gut Microbiome Associates With Patient Ethnicity and Geographic Location"
• Combating Excessive Eating: A Role for Four Evidence‐Based Remedies.

Caloric Restriction

• Effects of Acute Exercise Combined with Calorie Restriction Initiated Late-in-Life on Insulin Signaling, Lipids and Glucose Uptake in Skeletal Muscle From Old Rats.
• Calorie Restriction Prevents Diet-induced Insulin Resistance Independently of PGC-1-driven Mitochondrial Biogenesis in White Adipose Tissue.
• Caloric Restriction Promotes Functional Changes Involving Short-chain Fatty Acid Biosynthesis in the Rat Gut Microbiota.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Community-based Physical Activity Programs, What are the Health Benefits for Older Adults?
• Systematic Review Of Physical Activity Questionnaires For Young People Finds None With "Conclusive Evidence For Both Acceptable Validity And Reliability"
• Objectively Measured Physical Activity in Older Adults with and Without Diabetes.
• RCT: Investigating the Holistic Benefits of Father–daughter Co-physical Activity with Mediation Analyses.
• Structural and Functional Body Components in Athletic Health and Performance Phenotypes.

Economics & Sociology

• Education Can Reduce Health Differences Related to Genetic Risk of Obesity.
• Adverse Childhood Experiences and Weight Status Among Adolescents.
• Shirts or Skins?: Tattoos as Costly Honest Signals of Fitness and Affiliation Among US Intercollegiate Athletes and Other Undergraduates.
• Early Life Disadvantage and Adult Adiposity: Tests of Sensitive Periods During Childhood and Behavioural Mediation in Adulthood.

Epidemiology

• Is Recovery From Ankle Sprains Negatively Affected By Obesity?
• Life Course Effects of Socioeconomic and Lifestyle Factors on Metabolic Syndrome and 10-Year Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: A Longitudinal Study in Taiwan Adults.
• Sources and Pattern of Protein Intake and Risk of Overweight or Obesity in Young UK Twins.
• Obesity and Metabolic Features Associated with Long-term Developing Diastolic Dysfunction in an Initially Healthy Population-based Cohort.
• Preliminary Analysis to Investigate Accuracy of Data Mining for Childhood Obesity and Overweight Predictions.
• Association of BMI and Age with Incident Diabetes in Chinese Adults.
• Association of Clinical and Social Factors with Excess Hypertension Risk in Black Compared with White US Adults.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Social Influence Shifts Valuation of Appetitive Cues in Early Adolescence and Adulthood.
• Why some obese people become depressed whilst others do not: exploring links between cognitive reactivity, depression and obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• Recent Trends in the Prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes and the Association with Abdominal Obesity Lead to Growing Health Disparities in the USA: An Analysis of the NHANES Surveys From 1999 to 2014.
• Trends in Racial/Ethnic and Nativity Disparities in Cardiovascular Health Among Adults Without Prevalent Cardiovascular Disease in the United States, 1988 to 2014.
• Early Life Disadvantage and Adult Adiposity: Tests of Sensitive Periods During Childhood and Behavioural Mediation in Adulthood.
• "…among both blacks and whites, the distance-weighted poverty rate of extralocal neighborhoods is significantly and inversely related to BMI, suggesting that relative affluence in nearby neighborhoods engenders relative deprivation among residents of the focal neighborhood, leading to increased BMI."
• Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America.
• It Weigh(t)s on You: Everyday Discrimination and Adiposity Among Latinos.

Stigma

• Mismatch in Children’s Weight Assessment, Ideal Body Image, and Rapidly Increased Obesity Prevalence in China.
• An Intervention to Promote Physical Activity Through Creation of Body-Size Inclusive Spaces. (pdf)

Policy Related

• Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Child Health: Implications for Policy.
• Expected Changes in Obesity After Reformulation to Reduce Added Sugars in Beverages: A Modeling Study.
• Associations Between BMI and Urban “Green” Streetscape in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

Intergenerational Effects

• Genome-wide Profiling of Histone H3K27 Acetylation Featured Fatty Acid Signalling in Pancreatic Beta Cells in Diet-induced Obesity in Mice.
• Transgenerational effects of egg nutrients on the early development of Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) across a thermal gradient.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Energy (Im-)Balance in Frugivorous Lemurs in Southern Madagascar: A Preliminary Study in Lemur Catta and Eulemur Rufifrons × Collaris.
• The Mechanism Enabling Hibernation in Mammals.
• Body Condition and Adrenal Glucocorticoid Activity Affects Metabolic Marker and Lipid Profiles in Captive Female Elephants in Thailand.
• Genetic Variants in SGLT1, Glucose Tolerance, and Cardiometabolic Risk.

Methods

• Association Between Residential Self-selection and Non-residential Built Environment Exposures.
• The Glucose Control Resistance Scale (GCRS). (pdf)
• Tutorial for Using SliceOmatic to Calculate Thigh Area and Composition From Computed Tomography Images From Older Adults.
• Introductory Overview of Statistical Analysis of Microbiome Data.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Type 2 Diabetes: When Does It Start...for Japanese (mostly) Men?

Commentary

• How Health Nonsense Prevails- and What We Can do About It.
• Registering a Grievance About Grievance Studies.
• Which Matters Most: Calories, Carbs, or Consumption Patterns?
• Determinants of Risk for Childhood Obesity.
• "Sloppy science bears substantial blame for Americans' bad eating habits."

General

• Effects of TDCS-like Electrical Stimulation on Retinal Ganglion Cells.
• Mamu -B*17+ Rhesus Macaques Vaccinated with Env, Vif, and Nef Manifest Early 2 Control of SIVmac239 Replication. (pdf)
• Males Increase Their Fitness By Choosing Large Females in the Common Bedbug Cimex Lectularius.
• How Researchers Can Find Different Results Using the Same Data.
• Post-hoc Power Using Observed Estimate of Effect Size is Too Noisy to Be Useful. (pdf)
• Aging as a Biological Target for Prevention and Therapy.
• Sleep Deprivation and Obesity in Adults: A Brief Narrative Review.
• Researcher Requests for Inappropriate Analysis and Reporting: A U.S. Survey of Consulting Biostatisticians.
• “Daniel Lambert, a Protagonist of Real Life with Monstrous Obesity in Eighteenth Century in England.”

Announcements

• IUPUI Biologist Will Use a $1.75 Million National Institutes of Health Grant to Look Into the Link Between Obesity and Brain Cell Components Called Cilia.
• “…Birmingham’s Discovery BioMed Inc. And Philadelphia Based Monell Chemical Senses Center …[partner] to Advance Human Health By Improving the Taste and Acceptability of Nutritious Plant-based Foods and Increasing Patient Willingness to Take Life-saving Oral Medicines.”.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track positions available in every department and two department chairs open – see multiple listings posted here.
• 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

• “…The largest statistical mediator of the difference in hypertension incidence between black and white participants was the Southern dietary pattern.”
• Too Picky for My Taste? The Effect of the Gluten-free Dietary Restriction on Impressions of Romantic Partners.
• Modulation of Xenobiotic Nuclear Receptors in High-fat Diet Induced Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• Short-term Changes in Added Sugar Consumption By Adolescents Reflected in the Carbon Isotope Ratio of Fingerstick Blood.

Headline vs Study

• Media Critique: What You Need to Know About Claims that Whole Grains Can Prevent Diabetes.
• Headline: Physical education classes fight obesity with fitness and fun.
• Study: There is no corresponding study but the conclusion has previously been described as a myth.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Significant "Effects of Self-Conditioning Techniques (Self-Hypnosis) in Promoting Weight Loss in Patients with Severe Obesity."
• Meta-Analysis of RCTs Indicates that a ‘Choice’ or Preference Arm Was Inferior to ‘No Choice’ Arm or Group Who Did Not Receive Their Preference Did Not Yield Different Weight Loss Results.
• "Available research indicates neither perceived availability of FF nor Geographical Information System (GIS)-based FF presence in the neighborhood has significant associations with weekly FFC."
• No Significant Association of BMI vs EAT-26 Score Among DPT Students of DUHS, Ojha Campus.
• "Our hypotheses ...that food supplement will have a greater effect on fledgling success in the food-limited, urban colony of Jerusalem, than in the rural colony of Alona" was not confirmed.
• RCT: No Significant Effect of a Behavioral Family Intervention for Children with Overweight and Asthma.
• "A conventional intervention had unexpected adverse long-term weight outcomes, whereas positive outcomes from a less conventional sleep intervention remained promising at age 5 y."
• RCT: "An education and nutritional counseling program for overweight women, starting after 3 months of gestation, did not significantly change post-natal excessive weight gain of infants or prevent overweight in mothers and children 2 years after delivery."
• Hearing Impairment and Type 1 Diabetes in the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial/Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications (DCCT/EDIC) Cohort.

Basic

• The Metabolic Regulation of Dietary L-Carnitine in Aquaculture Nutrition: Present Status and Future Research Strategies.
• Striatal Dopamine 2 Receptor Upregulation During Development Predisposes to Diet-induced Obesity By Reducing Energy Output in Mice.
• Heat Stress Decreases Metabolic Flexibility in Skeletal Muscle of Growing Pigs.
• Oxytocin in Metabolic Homeostasis: Implications for Obesity and Diabetes Management.
• Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor–δ Supports the Metabolic Requirements of Cell Growth in TCRβ-Selected Thymocytes and Peripheral CD4+ T Cells in Mice.
• Residual Feed Intake Phenotype and Gender Affect the Expression of Key Genes of the Lipogenesis Pathway in Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue of Beef Cattle.
• Cherry Consumption Out of Season Alters Lipid and Glucose Homeostasis in Normoweight and Cafeteria-Fed Obese Fischer 344 Rats.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• "What if we argued that “a fat body is a legitimately built body” as a foundation for introducing a category for fat bodybuilding into the sport of professional bodybuilding? You can read how that went in Fat Studies."
• Big Data vs Accurate Data in Health Research: Large-scale Physical Activity Monitoring, Smartphones, Wearable Devices and Risk of Unconscious Bias.
• "Published obesity models lack information on the predictive quality and validity of the applied event simulation approaches."
• Recap of Mental Imagery for Weight Loss Study Makes Readers Fill in the Blanks.
• Pregnancy Stage, Dietary Intake and Health Outcomes.
• Factors Associated with Variation in Outcomes in Bariatric Surgery Centers of Excellence.
• Factors Associated with Variation in Outcomes in Bariatric Surgery Centers of Excellence—Reply.
• Everything You Know About Obesity is Wrong.
• Everything You Know About Obesity is Not Wrong.

Clinical

• Exposure to Fad Diet Advertising Among Youth and Young Adults in Canada.
• Personalizing Obesity Assessment and Care Planning in Primary Care: Patient Experience and Outcomes in Everyday Life and Health.
• Effect of Intentional Weight Loss on Mortality Biomarkers in Older Adults with Obesity. (pdf)
• The Effect of Personalised Weight Feedback on Weight Loss and Health Behaviours: Evidence From a Regression Discontinuity Design.
• RCT: Impact of Gastric Banding Versus Metformin on β-Cell Function in Adults with Impaired Glucose Tolerance or Mild Type 2 Diabetes.

Children and Adolescents

• Food Consumption Patterns of Infants and Toddlers: Findings From the Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study (FITS) 2016.
• Fast Foods' Healthier Options Might Not Help Kids Eat Better.

Surgery

• Influence of Massive Weight Loss on the Perception of Facial Age: The Facial Age Perceptions Cohort.
• Comparative Effectiveness of Different Bariatric Procedures in Super Morbid Obesity.
• Circulating Endocannabinoids are Reduced Following Bariatric Surgery and Associated with Improved Metabolic Homeostasis in Humans.

Drugs

• Pharmacologic Therapy to Induce Weight Loss in Women Who Have Obesity/overweight with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis.
• RCT: Intravenous Acetaminophen on Hospital Length of Stay in Obese Individuals Undergoing Sleeve Gastrectomy.
• Prescribing in Paediatric Obesity: Methods to Improve Dosing Safety in Weight-based Dose Calculations.
• Use of Metformin for Weight Management in Children and Adolescents with Obesity in the Clinical Setting.
• Role of Cannabinoids in Obesity.
• Lipid‐lowering Medication is Associated with Decreased Risk of Diabetic Retinopathy and the Need for Treatment in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Real‐world Observational Analysis of a Health Claims Database.
• Common Diabetes Meds (Diuretics) May Raise Odds for Amputation.

Food & Diet

• What is the Evidence Base for a Potassium Requirement?
• You are What You Eat: Diet, Health and the Gut Microbiota.

Caloric Restriction

• Calorie Restriction and Fasting Diets: What do We Know?
• Activation of Brown Adipose Tissue Enhances the Efficacy of Caloric Restriction for Treatment of Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis.
• Effects of Acute Exercise Combined with Calorie Restriction Initiated Late-in-Life on Insulin Signaling, Lipids and Glucose Uptake in Skeletal Muscle From Old Rats.
• Exploring the Effect of Diet Composition in Calorie Restriction Interventions.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Divergent Blood Pressure Response After High-Intensity Interval Exercise: A Signal of Delayed Recovery?
• Effectiveness of School-Based Physical Activity Programmes on Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Children: A Meta-analysis of RCTs.
• RCT: Exercise Training And/or Diet on Reduction of Intra-abdominal Adipose Tissue and Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease.
• Physical Activity Intensity and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention. From the Sun Study.
• Wearable Activity Trackers, Accuracy, Adoption, Acceptance and Health Impact: A Systematic Literature Review.

Economics & Sociology

• Socioeconomic Status and Biological Risks for Health and Illness [Metabolic Disorder] Across the Life Course.
• Neighborhood Effects on Body Mass: Temporal and Spatial Dimensions.

Epidemiology

• Use of a Metabolic Syndrome Severity Z Score to Track Risk During Treatment of Prediabetes: An Analysis of the Diabetes Prevention Program.
• Atherosclerosis and Microvascular Complications: Results From the Canadian Study of Longevity in Type 1 Diabetes.
• Genetic Tools for Coronary Risk Assessment in Type 2 Diabetes: A Cohort Study From the ACCORD Clinical Trial.
• Association of Body Temperature with Obesity. The CoLaus Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Mental Work Requires Physical Energy: Self-Control is Neither Exception Nor Exceptional.
• Stimulating the nucleus accumbens in obesity: A positron emission tomography study after deep brain stimulation in a rodent model.

Equity and Disparities

• Gender and Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Association Between Alcohol Drinking Patterns and BMI-the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2010.
• African Americans, African Immigrants, and Afro-Caribbeans Differ in Social Determinants of Hypertension and Diabetes: Evidence From the National Health Interview Survey.
• Association of Clinical and Social Factors with Excess Hypertension Risk in Black Compared with White US Adults.

Stigma

• Perceived Weight Discrimination and Risk of Incident Dementia.
• The Bigger Picture: Young Children's Perception of Fatness in the Context of Other Physical Differences.
• Stigmatizing Images in the Media – a Cross‐national Survey.

Policy Related

• Interventions to Treat Obesity Work—so Why Am I Not Celebrating?
• Beverage Policy Implementation By Child and Adult Care Food Program Participation and Program Type: A Statewide Examination in Georgia.
• Quasi-experiment of Trayless Dining Intervention on Food Choices of University Students.
• A Qualitative Investigation Into the U.S. Department of Agriculture 18‐item Household Food Security Survey Module: Variations in Interpretation, Understanding and Report By Gender.
• Hunger in Higher Education: Experiences and Correlates of Food Insecurity Among Wisconsin Undergraduates From Low-Income Families.

Intergenerational Effects

• How Often Parents Make Decisions with Their Children is Associated with Obesity.
• The Association of Grandparent Care with Childhood Overweight and Obesity in Chinese American Families.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The Critical Role of Dietary Foliage in Maintaining the Gut Microbiome and Metabolome of Folivorous Sifakas.
• Revisiting the Evolutionary Origins of Obesity: Lazy Versus Peppy‐thrifty Genotype Hypothesis.
• Hibernation and Torpor: Prospects for Human Spaceflight.

Methods

• Technology Innovations in Dietary Intake and Physical Activity Assessment: Challenges and Recommendations for Future Directions.
• Development and Initial Validation Evidence for a Mindful Eating Questionnaire for Children.
• Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry Positioning Protocols in Assessing Body Composition: A Systematic Review of the Literature.
• An Automated Grading System for Detection of Vision-Threatening Referable Diabetic Retinopathy on the Basis of Color Fundus Photographs.
• Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence–Based Grading of Diabetic Retinopathy in Primary Care.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Commentary: Mathematical Models: Obesity By the Numbers - Toward Greater Precision in Obesity Research.
• “…semi-mechanistic mathematical models to evaluate the effect of circadian disruption on hepatic gluconeogenesis.”

Commentary

• Breast Milk: A Postnatal Link Between Maternal Life Choices and the Prevention of Childhood Obesity.
• The Young Child with Severe Obesity: Commentary on the Characteristics of a Vulnerable Population and a Framework for Treatment.
• Editors’ Note: Big Data in Obesity Research.
• Fast Food and Asthma and Allergy: Be Afried, Be Deeply Afried?
• Dodging Obesity: Euphemisms Don’t Help.
• Quoi?! More Burgers than Baguettes in France?

General

• Toward a More Scientific Science.
• Optimal Designs for Testing Hypothesis in Multiarm Clinical Trials.
• Chronic Sleep Restriction Affects the Association Between Implicit Bias and Explicit Social Decision Making.
• Fossils Reveal the Complex Evolutionary History of the Mammalian Regionalized Spine.
• Individual Variations in Cardiovascular-disease-related Protein Levels are Driven By Genetics and Gut Microbiome.
• America’s Eating Habits: Food Away From Home.
• Is Your Salad Habit Eco-Friendly?

Video & Audio

• Audio: Vegans: Are They Right?
• Audio: EXERCISE & MEMORY.

Announcements

• New IU Teaching Kitchen Provides Opportunities for Cooking Courses, Events and More.
• Federal Park Association Names Bloomington Parks Department Best in US.
• 26th European Congress on Obesity, Glasgow Scotland (28 April - 01 May 2019).
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track positions available in every department and two department chairs open – see multiple listings posted here.
• 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

• Social Regulation of Insulin Signaling and the Evolution of Eusociality in Ants.
• A Thing of Beauty: Structure and Function of Insulin's “Aromatic Triplet”.
• Associations Between Childhood Weight Status and Timing of First Sex in an Ethnically Diverse Sample.
• A Gut-brain Neural Circuit for Nutrient Sensory Transduction.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Cleaning Product Use Alters Infant Microbiome to Cause Obesity.
• Study: Arbitrary Index of Self-reported Disinfectant (but Not Detergent) Use Was Associated with Some Gut Microbiota in Some Analyses and with BMIz Score and Odds of Obesity for Some Arbitrary Centiles of Use and Analyses, but Not Others.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Financial incentives combined with a smartphone app designed to track physical activity did not promote physical activity or decrease obesity." (PDF)
• RCT: A Telehealth Intervention Not Significantly Effective in Increasing Physical Activity During Cancer Treatment.
• "Contrary to our hypotheses, ...visual portrayals do not significantly influence attitudes towards bariatric surgery..."
• "Contrary to other work in ant-Hemipteran mutualisms, we observed no evidence that food rewards provided by sap-feeders induced changes in ant behavior for either ant species examined."
• "Contrary to expectation, food rescue may increase rather than decrease recipient choice due to flexibility in spending stemming from budget relief."
• "Contrary to general belief that remittances are mostly used for food consumption amongst households in the Pacific islands, the empirical results show that remittances have alternative uses by the households in Fiji."
• RCT: "no significant differences were observed between the control and walnut groups regarding body weight…or body fat …."
• "Although lowering maternal risk of gestational diabetes, gestational hypertension, and pre-eclampsia is important in relation to maternal and fetal pregnancy outcomes, such interventions are unlikely to have a direct impact on childhood obesity."

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter: The Stated Conclusions are Contradicted By the Data, Based on Inappropriate Statistics, and Should Be Corrected: Comment on ‘intervention for Childhood Obesity Based on Parents Only or Parents and Child Compared with Follow-up Alone’.
• Reply: "After reading the letter from Dawson et al., we understand that we should have emphasized in the abstract and in the final conclusion the lack of significant between‐group difference in the change in BMI‐SDS."
• Pharmaceutical Companies Show Higher Rates of Compliance with Trial Reporting than do Universities. (PDF)
• Remember When a Glass of Wine a Day Was Good for You? Here's Why that Changed.
• Letter: The 3500 Kcal Rule is Invalid for Projections of Weight Change.

Basic

• Biosynthesis, Structure, and Folding of the Insulin Precursor Protein.
• Fisetin Protects Against Hepatic Steatosis Through Regulation of the Sirt1/AMPK and Fatty Acid β-Oxidation Signaling Pathway in High-Fat Diet-Induced Obese Mice.
• Mitochondrial-Nuclear Genetic Interaction Modulates Whole Body Metabolism, Adiposity, and Gene Expression in Vivo.
• Adipose MTORC1 Suppresses Prostaglandin Signaling and Beige Adipogenesis Via the CRTC2-COX-2 Pathway.
• Acetyl-CoA Synthetase 2 (ACSS2) Promotes Systemic Fat Storage and Utilization Through Selective Regulation of Genes Involved in Lipid Metabolism.
• Hepatic Leptin Receptor Expression Can Partially Compensate for IL-6Rα Deficiency in DEN-Induced Hepatocellular Carcinoma.

Clinical

• RCT: Exercise to Improve Walking Energetics in Older Adults.
• Improving the Effectiveness of Lifestyle Interventions for Gestational Diabetes Prevention: A Meta‐analysis and Meta‐regression.

Children and Adolescents

• Child Weight Gain Trajectories Linked to Oral Microbiota Composition.
• Consumption of Sugars, Saturated Fat, and Sodium Among US Children From Infancy Through Preschool Age, NHANES 2009–2014.

Surgery

• Morbid Obesity and Hypertension: The Role of Perirenal Fat.
• Changes in Liver Gene Expression and Plasma Concentration of Rbp4, Fetuin-A, and Fgf21 in Sprague-Dawley Rats Subjected to Different Dietary Interventions and Bariatric Surgery.
• The Effects of Provider-prescribed Obesogenic Drugs on Post-laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy Outcomes: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
• RCT: Assessment of Gastric Emptying in Sleeve Gastrectomy in Comparison to Hybrid (Adding a Gastrojejunostomy to the Sleeved Stomach).

Drugs

• RCT: Effects of Bardoxolone Methyl on Body Weight, Waist Circumference and Glycemic Control in Obese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Stage 4 Chronic Kidney Disease.
• A Carnosine Analog Mitigates Metabolic Disorders of Obesity By Reducing Carbonyl Stress in Rodents.
• Long-term Metformin Treatment in Adolescents with Obesity and Insulin Resistance, Results of an Open Label Extension Study.

Food & Diet

• Sources of Foods that are Ready-to-Consume ('Grazing Environments') Versus Requiring Additional Preparation ('Grocery Environments'): Implications for Food-Environment Research and Community Health.
• Effects of Chronic Omega-3 Fatty Acid Supplementation on Erythrocyte Deformability and Muscle Microvascular Oxygenation in Endurance Trained Cyclists.
• High-protein Diets for Weight Management: Interactions with the Intestinal Microbiota and Consequences for Gut Health. A Position Paper By the My New Gut Study Group.
• Effect of a Very Low-Calorie Ketogenic Diet on Food and Alcohol Cravings, Physical and Sexual Activity, Sleep Disturbances, and Quality of Life in Obese Patients.
• Dietary Patterns and Self-reported Incident Disability in Elderly.

Caloric Restriction

• Maternal Perinatal Calorie Restriction Temporally Regulates the Hepatic Autophagy and Redox Status in Male Rat.
• Comparison of Low Calorie High Protein and Low Calorie Standard Protein Diet on Waist Circumference of Adults with Visceral Obesity and Weight Cycling.
• Longer Daily Fasting Times Improve Health and Longevity in Mice.
• Intermittent Fasting Increases SOD2 and Catalase Immunoreactivities in the Hippocampus but Does Not Protect From Neuronal Death Following Transient Ischemia in Gerbils.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Diet Macronutrient Composition, Physical Activity, and Body Composition in Soldiers During 6 Months Deployment.
• Domain-specific Physical Activity and Affective Wellbeing Among Adolescents: An Observational Study of the Moderating Roles of Autonomous and Controlled Motivation.
• Cardiovascular Risk Profile in Olympic Athletes: An Unexpected and Underestimated Risk Scenario.
• Actions to Improve Physical Activity Surveillance in the United States.

Economics & Sociology

• Socioeconomic Status in Adolescents: A Study of Its Relationship with Overweight and Obesity and Influence on Social Network Configuration.
• Obesity in Adolescence Predicts Lower Educational Attainment and Income in Adulthood.
• The Social Foraging Niche of the Mbendjele Bayaka. (PDF)

Epidemiology

• Unexpected Neighborhood Sources of Food and Drink: Implications for Research and Community Health.
• Change in an Urban Food Environment: Storefront Sources of Food/Drink Increasing Over Time and Not Limited to Food Stores and Restaurants.
• The Epidemiology of Obesity.
• Review: Overweight and Obesity as Major, Modifiable Risk Factors for Urinary Incontinence in Young to Mid‐aged Women.
• Obesity Could Overtake Smoking as Biggest Preventable Cause of Cancer in Women.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Understanding Outcomes in Behavior Change Interventions to Prevent Pediatric Obesity: The Role of Dose and Behavior Change Techniques.
• Does Education Attenuate the Genetic Risk of Obesity? Evidence From U.K. Twins.
• Visual Evoked Potentials in Offspring Born to Mothers with Overweight, Obesity and Gestational Diabetes.
• Chronotype and Energy Intake Timing in Relation to Changes in Anthropometrics: A 7-year Follow-up Study in Adults.
• When Busy is Less Indulging: Impact of Busy Mindset on Self-Control Behaviors.

Equity and Disparities

• An Exploration of Multilevel Physical Activity Correlates Among Low-Income African Americans in Alabama and Mississippi.
• The Independent Role of Deprivation in Abdominal Obesity Beyond Income Poverty. A Population-based Household Survey in Chinese Adults.
• Pilot Project to Integrate Community and Clinical Level Systems to Address Health Disparities in the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity Among Ethnic Minority Inner-City Middle School Students: Lessons Learned.

Stigma

• Weight‐Related Terms Differentially Affect Self‐Efficacy and Perception of Obesity.
• Personal Factors Associated with the Attitudes of Nurses Towards Patients with Obesity: A Literature Review.
• Perceived Body Discrimination and Intentional Self-Harm and Suicidal Behavior in Adolescence.
• Weight‐based Victimization From Friends and Family: Implications for How Adolescents Cope with Weight Stigma.
• Self-perceived Overweight, Weight Loss Attempts, and Weight Gain.
• A Momentary Maintenance Model of Dysregulated Eating Among Marginalized/stigmatized Individuals.
• Barriers and Facilitators to Seeking Treatment for Subclinical Eating Disorders: The Importance of Supportive Relationships.

Policy Related

• Means as Well as Ends: Some Critical Insights for UK Sport Policy on the Impact of Facility Ownership and Configuration on Sports Participation.
• Perspective: Food-Based Dietary Guidelines in Europe—Scientific Concepts, Current Status, and Perspectives.

Intergenerational Effects

• The Impact of Maternal Gestational Weight Gain on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Children.
• Fetal Sex Modifies the Effect [association] of Maternal Macronutrient Intake on the Incidence of Small-for-gestational-age Births: A Prospective Observational Cohort Study.
• Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension Diet and Activity to Limit Gestational Weight: RCT: Maternal Offspring Metabolics Family Intervention Technology Enhanced Trial.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Interaction Between Step-to-step Variability and Metabolic Cost of Transport During Human Walking.
• Limits to Sustained Energy Intake XXIX: The Case of the Golden Hamster (Mesocricetus Auratus).
• Decreased Mitochondrial Metabolic Requirements in Fasting Animals Carry an Oxidative Cost.
• City Life on Fast Lanes: Urbanization Induces an Evolutionary Shift Towards a Faster Lifestyle in the Water Flea Daphnia.

Methods

• Development of the Highly Processed Food Withdrawal Scale.
• Does a Parsimonious Measure of Complex BMI Trajectories Exist?
• Estimation of Non-shivering Thermogenesis and Cold-induced Nutrient Oxidation Rates: Impact of Method for Data Selection and Analysis.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Mathematical Optimization to Explore Tomorrow's Sustainable Diets: A Narrative Review.
• Kidney Disease with Metabolic Syndrome Risk Factor Using Dynamic Model Approach in Indonesia.

Commentary

• 6 Ideas for Curbing Our Obesity Epidemic.
• Which Kinds of Foods Make Us Fat?
• This is How Employers Can Innovate on Obesity Care.
• Modern Medicine and Maladies of Evidence.
• Ebola Virus Disease Preparations do Not Protect the United States Against Other Infectious Outbreaks.
• Keeping Slim When Food is Abundant: What Energy Mechanisms Could Be at Play?
• From Lifespan to Healthspan.
• Congratulations. Your Study Went Nowhere.

General

• Reboot Undergraduate Courses for Reproducibility.
• Special Issue on Meta-Research in Science Magazine.
• Factors Influencing Individual Participation During Intergroup Interactions in Mountain Gorillas.
• Elimination of Senescent Cells Prevents Neurodegeneration in Mice.
• Obesity and Influenza a Shedding.
• How Math Helps Explain the Delicate Patterns of Dragonfly Wings.
• Unique Fatty Acids in Flower Seed Oil Could Improve Renewable Lubricants.
• Effects of Aging on Timing of Hibernation and Reproduction.

Video & Audio

• Video: The Gut-Brain Connection.
• Audio: IDing Ivory Poachers.

Announcements

• Nov 12: Chrono-nutrition: Circadian Clocks, Mealtimes and Metabolic Disorders.
• Scientific Advances and Challenges in Safety Evaluation of Food Packaging Materials: 2-3 April 2019.
• IU Alumnus C. David Allis Wins Lasker Award for Pioneering Role in Epigenetics.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track positions available in every department and two department chairs open – see multiple listings posted here.
• 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

• A Previously Unknown Electron-transfer Pathway Now Reveals an Energy-generation System Used By Bacteria in the Human Gut.
• RCT: Physical Activity Maintenance Following Home-Based, Individually Tailored Print Interventions for African American Women.
• RCT: Exercise Periodization Over the Year Improves Metabolic Syndrome and Medication Use.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: These are the Best Times to Eat Breakfast and Dinner for Weight Loss, Study Says.
• Study: Pilot Feasibility Study of Specific Time-restricted Feeding Protocol Versus Habitual Eating Pattern. Best Time Not Established.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "contrary to previous findings, nitrate supplementation [via beetroot juice] had no effect on contractile performance in unfatigued [exercise] conditions."
• No Significant Effect on Glucose and Insulin Levels in Healthy Males After Consuming Breakfast Containing Different Composition of Macronutrient with Equal Energy. (pdf)
• Population Level Mitogenomics of Long-lived Bats Reveals Dynamic Heteroplasmy and Challenges the Free Radical Theory of Ageing.
• "Our findings are contrary to previous studies and question the thermoregulatory hypothesis, indicating that seasonality in AN [anorexia nervosa] is more complex and might be subject to other biological or psychological factors, for example physical activity or body dissatisfaction."
• RCT: "Contrary to expectations, isometric exercise was no better than isotonic exercise or walking at reducing pain in individuals with plantar fasciopathy."
• "contrary to our hypothesis, maltreated youth had significantly lower rates of diagnoses across almost all major physical disease categories assessed and did not differ from comparison youth in terms of BMI."
• "In contrast to previous systematic reviews, this study suggested that lean mass is better preserved in continuous dieting compared to regular intermittent dieting."
• RCT: Different Modalities of Exercise Improve Macrovascular Function but Not Microvascular Function in Metabolic Syndrome.

Basic

• Mechanisms of Leptin Resistance Revealed.
• Daily Fasting Improves Health and Survival in Male Mice Independent of Diet Composition and Calories.
• Metorin-Like Protein (METRNL) Attenuates Lipid-Induced Inflammation and Insulin Resistance Via AMPK or PPARδ-Dependent Pathways in the Skeletal Muscle of Mice.
• The Inhibitory Innate Immune Sensor NLRP12 Maintains a Threshold Against Obesity By Regulating Gut Microbiota Homeostasis.
• The Chemokine CXCL1 Mediates Obesity-Associated Adipose Stromal Cell Trafficking and Function in the Tumour Microenvironment.
• Hepatic Ago2-Mediated RNA Silencing Controls Energy Metabolism Linked to AMPK Activation and Obesity-Associated Pathophysiology.
• Sarcolipin Signaling Promotes Mitochondrial Biogenesis and Oxidative Metabolism in Skeletal Muscle.
• The Saturation Degree of Fatty Acids and Their Derived Acylcarnitines Determines the Direct Effect of Metabolically Active Thyroid Hormones on Insulin Sensitivity in Skeletal Muscle Cells.
• Butyrate and Dietary Soluble Fiber Improve Neuroinflammation Associated with Aging in Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• "The Latest Attack on Low-Carb Diets: Science or Politics?"
• Shouldn’t Nutrition Education Control Obesity?
• Magical Time-Restricted Eating.
• JAMA Journals Retract Six Papers By Food Marketing Researcher Brian Wansink.
• Retraction Watch reports that “Cornell finds that food marketing researcher Brian Wansink committed misconduct, as he announces retirement.”

Clinical

• RCT: Avocado Fruit on Postprandial Markers of Cardio-Metabolic Risk in Overweight and Obese Men and Women.
• RCT: "The Effect of Soy Nut Compared to Cowpea Nut on Body Weight, Blood Cells, Inflammatory Markers and Chemotherapy Complications in Children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia."
• RCT: Effect of 12 Wk of Resistant Starch Supplementation on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Adults with Prediabetes.
• Generalizing Intensive Blood Pressure Treatment to Adults with Diabetes Mellitus.

Children and Adolescents

• Childhood Obesity, Weight Loss and Developmental Trajectories Predict the Persistence and Remission of Childhood Sleep‐disordered Breathing.
• Advances and Controversies in Diet and Physical Activity Measurement in Youth.
• Postnatal Exposure to Household Disinfectants, Infant Gut Microbiota and Subsequent Risk of Overweight in Children.

Surgery

• Taste and Odor Preferences Following Roux-en-Y Surgery in Humans.
• A Nationwide Safety Analysis of Discharge on the First Postoperative Day After Bariatric Surgery in Selected Patients.

Drugs

• RCT: Hypertrophic Effect of Inhaled Beta2 -agonist with and Without Concurrent Exercise Training.
• Dosing of Enoxaparin in Morbidly Obese Patients: A Retrospective Cohort.

Food & Diet

• A Review of the Evidence Surrounding the Effects of Breakfast Consumption on Mechanisms of Weight Management.
• RCT: Bacteriophage for Gastrointestinal Health (PHAGE) Study: Evaluating the Safety and Tolerability of Supplemental Bacteriophage Consumption.
• What is the Role of Meat in a Healthy Diet?
• Maternal High‐Fat Diet Effects on Adaptations to Metabolic Challenges in Male and Female Juvenile Nonhuman Primates.
• Timing of Food Intake is More Potent than Habitual Voluntary Exercise to Prevent Diet-induced Obesity in Mice.

Caloric Restriction

• Intermittent Fasting: The Choice for a Healthier Lifestyle.
• RCT: Effects of Alternate Day Calorie Restriction and Exercise on Cardio-metabolic Risk Factors in Overweight and Obese Adults.
• Intermittent Fasting Promotes Prolonged Associative Interactions During Synaptic Tagging/capture By Altering the Metaplastic Properties of the CA1 Hippocampal Neurons.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• "We Just Treat Everyone the Same": LGBTQ Aquatic Management Strategies, Barriers and Implementation.
• Swimming Through the Waves: Black Collegiate Swimmers and Their Experiences.
• RCT: Effects of a School-Based Pedometer Intervention in Adolescents.
• RCT: The Effect of Organized Versus Supervised Recess on Elementary School Children’s Participation, Physical Activity, Play, and Social Behavior.
• The Association of Built Environment and Physical Activity in Older Adults.
• Daily Composition of Movement Behaviors is Related to Blood Pressure in Working Adults.

Economics & Sociology

• How Social and Lifestyle Factors of African American Women Influence Behavior and Prevalence of Obesity: Literature Review.
• Prospective Associations Between Social Vulnerabilities and Children’s Weight Status.

Epidemiology

• Age at Introduction of Solid Food and Obesity Throughout the Life Course.
• Association of Herbal/botanic Supplement Use with Quality of Life, Recurrence, and Survival in Newly Diagnosed Stage II Colon Cancer Patients: A 2-y Follow-up Study.
• European Dog Owner Perceptions of Obesity and Factors Associated with Human and Canine Obesity.
• Classification of Obesity Targeted Personalized Dietary Weight Loss Management Based on Carbohydrate Tolerance.
• The Feasibility of Two Anthropometric Indices to Identify Metabolic Syndrome, Insulin Resistance and Inflammatory Factors in Obese and Overweight Adults.
• Serial Measures of Circulating Biomarkers of Dairy Fat and Total and Cause-specific Mortality in Older Adults: The Cardiovascular Health Study.
• The Role of Eating Behavior Traits in Mediating Genetic Susceptibility to Obesity.
• Accuracy of Self-reported Weight Compared to Measured BMI Among Rural Middle School Students in Michigan.
• Nutritional Quality of Food as Represented By the FSAm-NPS Nutrient Profiling System Underlying the Nutri-Score Label and Cancer Risk in Europe: Results From the EPIC Prospective Cohort Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• RCT: Effect of a Behavioral Weight-Loss Intervention on Depressive Symptoms Among Latino Immigrants.
• Food and Non-food Reinforcement Among Pregnant Women.
• Visceral Fat-related Systemic Inflammation and the Adolescent Brain: A Mediating Role of Circulating Glycerophosphocholines.
• Low Self-Esteem for Physical Appearance Mediates the Effect of BMI on Smoking Initiation Among Adolescents.

Equity and Disparities

• "I find that those in states that did not expand Medicaid are more likely to be overweight and obese ...compared to adults in states that did expand Medicaid."
• Differences in Obesity Among Black and White Children, Adolescents, and Adults with Congenital Heart Disease.

Stigma

• Perceived Weight Discrimination and School Connectedness Among Youth: Does Teacher Support Play a Protective Role?
• Weight Bias Internalization: The Maladaptive Effects of Moral Condemnation on Intrinsic Motivation.
• Weight Stigma is a Modifiable Risk Factor.

Policy Related

• Environmental Impacts of Household Food Consumption and the Efficiency of a Carbon Tax.
• The Impact of the Tax on Sweetened Beverages: A Systematic Review.
• Can Social Programs Break the Vicious Cycle Between Poverty and Obesity? Evidence From Urban Mexico.
• RCT: The Impact of Information Disclosure on Consumer Behavior: Evidence From a Field Experiment of Calorie Labels on Restaurant Menus.

Intergenerational Effects

• Vitamin B-12 Content in Breast Milk of Vegan, Vegetarian, and Nonvegetarian Lactating Women in the United States.
• Influence of Maternal Obesity on the Association Between Common Pregnancy Complications and Risk of Childhood Obesity: An Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis.
• Associations of Maternal Diabetes During Pregnancy with Overweight in Offspring: Results From the Prospective TEDDY Study.
• Longitudinal Associations of in Utero and Early Life Near-roadway Air Pollution with Trajectories of Childhood BMI.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Biomechanics of Chewing Depend More on Animal Size, Not Diet.
• Energetic Consequences for a Northern, Range-Edge Lizard Population.

Methods

• Development, Content Validity and Test-retest Reliability of the Lifelong Physical Activity Skills Battery in Adolescents.
• Understanding Outcomes in Behavior Change Interventions to Prevent Pediatric Obesity: The Role of Dose and Behavior Change Techniques.
• Development of a Prediction Model for Colorectal Cancer Among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Using a Deep Neural Network.
• Automatic Calculation of BMI Using Digital Image Processing.
• Glucose Management Indicator (GMI): A New Term for Estimating A1C From Continuous Glucose Monitoring.
• Long-term Outcomes of the Effects of Home Blood Pressure Telemonitoring and Pharmacist Management on Blood Pressure Among Adults with Uncontrolled Hypertension Follow-up of a Cluster RCT.
• Technology Innovations in Dietary Intake and Physical Activity Assessment: Challenges and Recommendations for Future Directions.

Nutrition 2018 Symposium: Is a Calorie a Calorie? Reframing the Question

• Video: Reframing the Question with the Energy Balance Framework.
• Video: Diets Differing in Macronutrient Composition for Weight Loss and Maintenance of Lost Weight.
• Video: Metabolic Flexibility and Its Importance for Metabolic Health.
• Video: Diet Composition and the Treatment and Prevention of Diseases Other than Obesity.

Commentary

• Which Exercise Burns the Most Calories? Here's What Science Says.
• Are Trends in Obesity and Overweight Shifting?
• Obesity and Cancer.
• Adult Obesity in the United States.
• How Obesity Discrimination is Just as Common as Racism.
• People-First Language: Preferences and Aversions.
• Big, Fat, New Meaning to “Red State”.
• Which Bad Dietary Advice Caused Obesity to Grow?
• Behavioral Weight Loss Interventions to Prevent Obesity-Related Morbidity and Mortality in Adults US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement.
• Behavioral and Pharmacotherapy Weight Loss Interventions to Prevent Obesity-Related Morbidity and Mortality in Adults Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force.

General

• “Precision” Public Health — Between Novelty and Hype.
• Statement From NIH Director on Protecting the Integrity of U.S. Biomedical Research.
• Why are Conversations Limited to About Four People? A Theoretical Exploration of the Conversation Size Constraint.
• RCT: "Aspirin use in healthy elderly persons did not prolong disability-free survival over a period of 5 years but led to a higher rate of major hemorrhage than placebo."
• Introduction: Carbohydrate Chemistry.
• More Security May Actually Make Us Feel Less Secure.
• Increased Adaptability to Sudden Environmental Change Can More than Make Up for the Two-fold Cost of Males.
• The State of Obesity 2018: Better Policies for a Healthier America.
• Aging as a Biological Target for Prevention and Therapy.
• Aging, Cell Senescence, and Chronic Disease Emerging Therapeutic Strategies.
• Africa: The Future of a Global Obesity Epidemic.
• RCT: Effects of Self‐Conditioning Techniques (Self‐Hypnosis) in Promoting Weight Loss in Patients with Severe Obesity.
• John Hancock Will Include Fitness Tracking in All Life Insurance Policies.

Video & Audio

• Audio: Robert Lustig, M.D., M.S.L.: Fructose, Processed Food, NAFLD, and Changing the Food System (EP.14).

Announcements

• Indiana Bioscience Research Institute (IBRI), in Collaboration with Indiana University School of Medicine, Have Created the Lilly Diabetes Center of Excellence (LDCE).
• Faculty Member at the Indiana University School of Public Health Presented with Trailblazer Award for Project “Digging in to Volunteer Engagement: A Community Garden’s Approach to Reducing Food Insecurity.”
• Layla Cameron, a Journalist, Fat-stigma Activist, Filmmaker, and PhD Student at SFU is This Year’s Recipient of the Nora and Ted Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy.
• Diet and Weight: Impact on Mental Health and Psychological Wellbeing (9 October 2018 @ London).
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track positions available in every department and two department chairs open – see multiple listings posted here.
• 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.