Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Obituary

• Ted Van Itallie, Founder of the First NIH-Funded Obesity Research Center, and One of the Great Founders of Modern Obesity Research Passes.

Featured

• Not Just Fat: Investigating Novel Physiological State Biomarkers in Cetacean Blubber.
• Inverse Association Between Changes in Energetic Cost of Walking and Vertical Accelerations in Non-metastatic Breast Cancer Survivors.
• "Data indicate that simple negative-feedback control accurately models human BW regulation and that the set-point concept is superfluous unless its neuroendocrine representation is found in the brain."
• Best (but Oft-forgotten) Practices: Identifying and Accounting for Regression to the Mean in Nutrition and Obesity Research.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Vegan and Plant-Based Diets Worsen Brain Health.
• Narrative Commentary: Could We Be Overlooking a Potential Choline Crisis in the United Kingdom?

Contrary or Null Findings

• "There was no association between diet quality indices and CVD risk factors among diabetic patients."
• RCT: "Prophylactic incisional negative pressure wound therapy use did not reduce postoperative wound morbidity when compared with a standard surgical dressing in women with class III obesity."
• Maternal Undernutrition and Breast Milk Macronutrient Content are Not Associated with Weight in Breastfed Infants at 1 and 3 Months After Delivery.
• Systematic Review: "The neighbourhood food environment may influence diet and obesity among Chinese residents but the evidence remains preliminary."
• "This systematic review and meta-analysis revealed a rather mixed relationship between FFR [Fast Food Restaurants] access and weight-related behaviours/outcomes among children and adolescents."
• "Areas with high obesity prevalence had more grocery stores and shops specialized in fruits and vegetables, as well as more supermarkets that sold fruits and vegetables."
• Noncomprehensive and Intermittent Obesity‐Related School Programs and Policies May Not Work: Evidence From the COMPASS Study.
• RCT: "Contrary to expectations, provision of LNS [lipid-based nutrient supplements] in early life slightly reduced the total PA and increased the time in SB but did not affect time in MVPA."

Basic

• Persistent Low Body Weight in Humans is Associated with Higher Mitochondrial Activity in White Adipose Tissue.
• Adipocyte Deficiency of ACE2 Increases Systolic Blood Pressures of Obese Female C57BL/6 Mice.
• Adipocytes Initiate an Adipose-Cerebral-Peripheral Sympathetic Reflex to Induce Insulin Resistance During High-Fat Feeding.
• Adipose Tissue-Specific Knockout of AMPKα1/α2 Results in Normal AICAR Tolerance and Glucose Metabolism.
• Neurosecretory Protein GL Induces Fat Accumulation in Mice.
• Fatty Liver Disease Caused By High-Alcohol-Producing Klebsiella Pneumoniae.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Do Low-carbohydrate Diets Increase Energy Expenditure?
• Publication Bias in Trials with and Without Null Findings.

Clinical

• Systematic Review: Appetite-Suppressing and Satiety-Increasing Bioactive Phytochemicals.
• Evaluation of Growth and Obesity in Children with Asthma and Allergic Rhinitis.
• RCT: A Protocol to Deliver Intensive Behavioral Therapy for Obesity in Primary Care Settings.
• Heterogeneity of Treatment Effects From an Intensive Lifestyle Weight Loss Intervention on Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Systematic Review: Nutrition in Medical Education.

Children and Adolescents

• Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: Pediatric Obesity Treatment is Not Associated with an Increased Risk of Depression or Anxiety Over a 16-month Follow-up.
• Evening Chronotypes and Greater Social Jet Lag Were Associated with Greater Adiposity in Adolescent Girls But Not Boys.
• Whom Shall We Fault for Childhood Obesity?

Surgery

• Body Composition Changes Following a Very-Low-Calorie Pre-Operative Diet in Patients Undergoing Bariatric Surgery.
• Improved FGF21 Sensitivity and Restored FGF21 Signaling Pathway in High-Fat Diet/Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Rats After Bariatric Surgery.
• Preoperative Circulating Succinate Levels as a Biomarker for Diabetes Remission After Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• A Long-acting, Dual-agonist Analogue of Lamprey GLP-1 Shows Potent Insulinotropic, β-cell Protective, and Anorexic Activities and Improves Glucose Homeostasis in High Fat-fed Mice.
• RCT: Effects of Sitagliptin on Gastric Emptying Of, and the Glycaemic and Blood Pressure Responses To, a Carbohydrate Meal in Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: Empagliflozin Effectively Lowers Liver Fat Content.

Food & Diet

• Trends in Dietary Carbohydrate, Protein, and Fat Intake and Diet Quality Among US Adults, 1999-2016.
• Health Groups Collaborate to Set Healthy Beverage Guidelines for Kids.
• Mixed Results on Sugar in the UK. (PDF)
• Modified Mediterranean-ketogenic Diet Modulates Gut Microbiome and Short-chain Fatty Acids in Association with Alzheimer's Disease Markers in Subjects with Mild Cognitive Impairment.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Calorie Restriction Modulates Reproductive Development and Energy Balance in Pre-Pubertal Male Rats.
• Carbohydrate Quality and Quantity Affects the Composition of the Red Blood Cell Fatty Acid Membrane in Overweight and Obese Individuals.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Meta-Analysis: Exercise-Based Interventions to Enhance Long-Term Sustainability of Physical Activity in Older Adults.
• Meta‐analysis: Street Connectivity, Physical Activity, and Childhood Obesity.
• RCT: Efficacy of an M-health Physical Activity and Sleep Health Intervention for Adults.
• Leisure-Time Sedentary Behavior, Alcohol Consumption, and Sexual Intercourse Among Adolescents Aged 12-15 Years in 19 Countries From Africa, the Americas, and Asia.
• Sedentary Behavior for 2 Weeks Causes Adverse Health Effects.

Economics & Sociology

• U.S. Obesity as Delayed Effect of Excess Sugar.
• Association of Weight with Sociometric Status in Classrooms of Taiwanese Adolescents.
• Relative Influence of BMI and Socioeconomic Class on Blood Pressure Levels and Health.

Epidemiology

• Use of Social Media, Search Queries, and Demographic Data to Assess Obesity Prevalence in the United States.
• Association Between Abdominal Obesity and Fragility Fractures Among Elderly Israeli Women.
• Norwegian Children and Adolescents in Blended Families are at Risk of Larger One‐year BMI Increments.
• Association of Dietary Pattern with Carotid Intima Media Thickness Among Children with Overweight or Obesity.
• Low Level of Adiponectin Predicts the Development of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Is It Irrespective to Visceral Adiposity Index, Visceral Adipose Tissue Thickness and Other Obesity Indices?

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Emotion Regulation Difficulties and Impaired Working Memory Interact to Predict Boredom Emotional Eating.
• Meta Analysis: Higher Risk of Depression in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity.
• Weight Gain is Associated with Changes in Neural Response to Palatable Food Tastes Varying in Sugar and Fat and Palatable Food Images.
• Predicting Exercise with a Personality Facet: Planfulness and Goal Achievement.

Equity and Disparities

• Identifying Opportunities to Promote Physical Activity in a Diverse Low-Income Population: A Mixed-Method Study at a Boys & Girls Club Site.
• The Relationship Between Childhood Obesity and Neighborhood Food Ecology Explored Through the Context of Gentrification in New York City.
• Racial and Ethnic Differences in Obesity in People With Spinal Cord Injury: The Effects of Disadvantaged Neighborhood.
• Food Insecurity is Associated with Body Dissatisfaction Among Children in California.
• Racial/Ethnic Disparities in the Prevalence of Diabetes and Prediabetes By BMI.

Stigma

• News: Fat-shaming Only Makes the Obesity Epidemic Worse.
• Review: Mexican American Parental Knowledge and Perceptions of Childhood Obesity.

Policy Related

• Strengthening Our Voice in Public Policy on Medical Education.
• Caring for Pregnant Women with Obesity: Implications of Policy on Practice.
• The Policy Ecology of Behavioral Health Homes: Case Study of Maryland’s Medicaid Health Home Program.
• Legislative and Executive Branch Developments Affecting the United States Department of Agriculture Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
• EPA Chief Directs Agency to Dramatically Reduce Animal Testing.
• Price Transparency, Consumerism Top Issues for Healthcare Execs.

Intergenerational Effects

• Early Mother-child Dyadic Pathways to Childhood Obesity Risk: A Conceptual Model.
• Maternal Folic Acid Supplementation Does Not Counteract the Deleterious Impact of Prenatal Exposure to Environmental Pollutants on Lipid Homeostasis in Male Rat Descendants.
• Gestational Oxidative Stress Protects Against Adult Obesity and Insulin Resistance.
• Predictors of the Dietary Inflammatory Index in Children and Associations with Childhood Weight Status: A Longitudinal Analysis in the Lifeways Cross-Generation Cohort Study.
• Developmental Undernutrition, Offspring Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.
• Prenatal Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children Participation.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Energy Availability is Associated with Luteinizing Hormone Pulse Frequency and Induction of Luteal Phase Defects.
• Social Foraging Extends Associative Odor-food Memory Expression in an Automated Learning Assay for Drosophila.

Methods

• Systems Pharmacology-based Method to Dissect Action Mechanisms of Weight Loss Herbal Intervention Therapy (W-LHIT) for Obesity.
• Food Store Environment Examination – FoodSee: A New Method to Study the Food Store Environment Using Wearable Cameras.
• Translating Science Into Business Innovation: The Case of Open Food and Nutrition Data Hackathons.

Commentary

• A Green Light From FDA for Oral Semaglutide.
• Intermittent Fasting – What the Science Says.
• The Rise and Fall of the Juice Boxes.
• This is Why the U.S. Is Failing to Tackle Childhood Obesity.
• What Works for Obesity, If Not Shaming?
• Commentary: Role of Vitamin D in Disease Through the Lens of Mendelian Randomization—Evidence From Mendelian Randomization Challenges the Benefits of Vitamin D Supplementation for Disease Prevention.
• Obesity and Sleep a Growing Concern.
• A Place for Vitamin Supplementation and Functional Food in Bariatric Surgery?

General

• Sexual Consent Communication in Best-Selling Pornography Films: A Content Analysis.
• Downsizing for Downtown: Limb Lengths, Toe Lengths, and Scale Counts Decrease with Urbanization in Western Fence Lizards (Sceloporus Occidentalis).
• The Prevalence of Errors in Machine Learning Experiments.
• Women’s Sexual Satisfaction, Communication, and Reasons for (No Longer) Faking Orgasm: Findings From a U.S. Probability Sample.
• Counseling College Students After a Positive Pregnancy Test: Trends in Practice.
• HIV Risk and Prevention Outcomes in a Probability-Based Sample of Gay and Bisexual Men in the United States.
• Failing Grade: 89% of Introduction-to-Psychology Textbooks that Define or Explain Statistical Significance do So Incorrectly.
• The Differences Between Observed and Self-reported Food Safety Practices: A Study with Food Handlers Using Structural Equation Modeling.
• Can Smiling Really Make You Happier? Scientists Have Disagreed for Decades. Now They’re Working Together to Try to Find the Answer.
• Development of Algorithmic Dementia Ascertainment for Racial/ethnic Disparities Research in the U.S. Health and Retirement Study.
• A Journal Club to Fix Science.
• The Criminologist Accused of Cooking the Books.
• Pigs Model Human Brains, Snake Fangs Inspire Microneedles, and Canines Advance Cardiac Imaging.
• Audio: A Troubling Decline in North American Birds.

Video & Audio

• Science Vs. Exercise.
• Audio: Dan Harris: 10% Happier – Meditation, Kindness, and Compassion.

Announcements

• Commitment to Inclusion: IU Bloomington and IUPUI Honored with Excellence in Diversity Awards.
• Fellowship: AHA's Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• Fellowship: UAB Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• IU Bloomington: CSHP Doctoral Candidate Elizabeth Bartelt Awarded 2019 Emerging Scholars in Family Planning Grant.
• IU Bloomington's School of Public Health Opens Second Wave of Faculty Recruitment: Multiple Positions Available in Every Department.
• Chair Search for Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at IUB's School of Public Health Now Open!

Featured

• Cardiac Disease is Linked to Adiposity in Male Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla).
• Are Slim Models Doing Better? Advertising Effect of Model Body Size.
• Circadian Lipid Synthesis in Brown Fat Maintains Murine Body Temperature During Chronic Cold.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Warning: Exercising While Dieting Could Be Bad for Your Bones.
• Headline: Diet or Work Out to Lose Weight, but Don't do Both: Study.
• Study: Exercise Degrades Bone in Caloric Restriction, Despite Suppression of Marrow Adipose Tissue... In Female Mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Rifaximin treatment slightly worsened insulin sensitivity (P = 0.03), did not improve glucose or lipid homeostasis, and did not significantly improve adipose tissue inflammation."
• "Contrary to the authors’ hypotheses, limited relations between food insecurity and child obesity or other growth parameters were found in the study."
• "We found no association between BMI-for-age and dental caries in children in both primary and mixed dentition."
• RCT: Minimal effects of a mindfulness-based intervention on depressive symptoms, stress eating, and telomere length in adolescents at-risk for adult obesity.
• "Contrary to our hypotheses, in most cases, maternal perceptions of child's body weight were not related to maternal feeding styles, nor were many feeding practices predicted by concern about child weight."
• RCT: "This study shows that whole fresh fruit, 100% fruit juice, and sweetened fruit juice did not have a significant effect on the blood glucose levels in non-diabetic Emirati university students."
• No Significant Association of BMI with Acute Outcome in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention of Chronic Total Occlusion.
• RCT: "Low-dose testosterone therapy for 24 weeks was associated with less weight gain-and did not lead to sustained improvements in depression, anxiety, or disordered eating symptoms-compared with placebo in women with AN."
• "No influence of BMI was identified on mechanical muscle sensitivity in the craniofacial region of healthy individuals."
• RCT: Food-Assisted Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition Program, Contributes to Postpartum Weight Retention in Guatemala.

Basic

• Adipose Lipid Turnover and Long-term Changes in Body Weight.
• Loss of TLE3 Promotes the Mitochondrial Program in Beige Adipocytes and Improves Glucose Metabolism.
• MiR-876-3p Regulates Glucose Homeostasis and Insulin Sensitivity By Targeting Adiponectin.
• Angiotensin II Type 2 Receptor Mediates High Fat Diet-Induced Cardiomyocyte Hypertrophy and Hypercholesterolemia.
• Recombinant Irisin Induces Weight Loss in High Fat DIO Mice Through Increase in Energy Consumption and Thermogenesis.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Potential Impact on Prevalence of Obesity in the UK of a 20% Price Increase in High Sugar Snacks: Modelling Study.
• Comment: Inflated Expectations of Reduced Obesity Prevalence Result From an Erroneous Static Weight Loss Model.
• Reply: Re: Potential Impact on Prevalence of Obesity in the UK of a 20% Price Increase in High Sugar Snacks: Modelling Study.

Clinical

• Gestational Weight Gain and Pregnancy Outcomes Among Nulliparous Women.
• Executive Function, Eating Behavior, and Preoperative Weight Loss in Bariatric Surgery Candidates: An Observational Study.
• RCT: Enhancing Group‐based Internet Obesity Treatment: A Pilot RCT Comparing Video and Text‐based Chat.

Children and Adolescents

• Adolescent Wine Consumption is Inversely Associated with Long-term Weight Gain.
• Inflammatory Markers and Bone Mass in Children with Overweight/obesity: The Role of Muscular Fitness.
• Foundational Knowledge Regarding Childhood Obesity: A Cross-sectional Study of Medical Students.
• Missed Work Among Caregivers of Children with a High BMI: Child, Parent, and Household Characteristics.

Surgery

• RCT: The Effect of Chest Physiotherapy After Bariatric Surgery on Pulmonary Functions, Functional Capacity, and Quality of Life.
• Selenium Status After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass: Interventions and Recommendations.

Drugs

• RCT: Effects of Recombinant Human Growth Hormone Treatment on Growth, Body Composition, and Safety in Infants or Toddlers with Prader-Willi Syndrome.
• Propionic Acid Counteracts the Inflammation of Human Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue: A New Avenue for Drug Development.
• Efficacy, Safety and Tolerability of Oral Semaglutide Versus Placebo Added to Insulin ± Metformin in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: The PIONEER 8 Trial.

Food & Diet

• Eating in the Absence of Hunger is Related to Worse Diet Quality Throughout Pregnancy.
• Portion Size Normality and Additional Within-meal Food Intake: Two Crossover Laboratory Experiments.
• Dairy Foods, Obesity, and Metabolic Health: The Role of the Food Matrix Compared with Single Nutrients.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• RCT: Acute Effect of Equicaloric Meals Varying in Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load on Arterial Stiffness and Glycemia in Healthy Adults.
• RCT: Impact of Protein Supplementation on Leg Lean Mass and Integrated Muscle Protein Synthesis During Inactivity and Energy Restriction in Older Persons.
• Scientific Evidence of Diets for Weight Loss: Different Macronutrient Composition, Intermittent Fasting, and Popular Diets.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Effects of Age and Obesity on Trunk Kinetics and Kinematics During Dominant Side One-handed Carrying.
• The Use of the Intensity Gradient and Average Acceleration Metrics to Explore Associations with BMI Z-score in Children.
• RCT: Impact of Deep Water Running in Interval Training (DWR-IT) on Body Composition, Functional Capacity, and Quality of Life in Overweight Adults.
• Energy Compensation Following a Supervised Exercise Intervention in Women Living with Overweight/Obesity is Accompanied By an Early and Sustained Decrease in Non-structured Physical Activity.

Equity and Disparities

• “Promotion of ABOM training and certification in certain geographic locations and among pediatric physicians may help address disparities in ABOM diplomate availability relative to obesity burden.”
• “After stratification by income, there were no differences in childhood overweight/obesity by rurality.”

Economics & Sociology

• Sociodemographic Determinants of Healthy Behaviors Among Brazilian Adolescents: Trends in Physical Activity and Food Consumption, 2009–2015.
• The Effects of Neighborhood Built Environment on Walking for Leisure and for Purpose Among Older People.
• Systematic Review: Socioeconomic Differences in the Association Between the Food Environment and Dietary Behaviors.

Epidemiology

• CDC Releases State-Specific 2018 Data on Adult Obesity Prevalence.
• Minimum Aperture Transit in Healthy Adults of Different Size to Predict Egress Capability. (pdf)
• Does Body Fat Change with Car Ownership Rates? A Longitudinal Survey of Gender Differences.
• Associations Between Sexual Activity and Weight Status: Findings From the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.
• I Know, Therefore I Am Healthier? The Role of Education in Health-Related Behaviors.
• Systematic Review: Trends in Incidence of Total or Type 2 Diabetes.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Exploring the Role of Binge Eating and Psychological Correlates in the Context of Excess Gestational Weight Gain.
• RCT: Mindfulness-Based Weight Loss Intervention on Cardiovascular Reactivity to Social-Evaluative Threat Among Adults with Obesity.
• Identifying Opportunities for Advancing Weight Management in Primary Care.
• Adding Telephone and Text Support to an Obesity Management Program Improves Behavioral Adherence and Clinical Outcomes.

Stigma

• Framing Obesity: Disease Status, Language and Stigma.
• "Letter to Bill Maher: Shame on You for Shaming Fat People."
• "Why Bill Maher is wrong about fat-shaming."
• News Article: It’s the Way We Were All Born Eating.
• Response to News Article: Obesity Stigma and Yo-Yo Dieting, Not BMI, are Behind Chronic Health Conditions, Dietitian Claims.

Policy Related

• Taxing Confectionery, Biscuits, and Cakes to Control Obesity.
• Monthly Variations in Dietary Intake of Women Participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Intergenerational Effects

• Parental Mental Health Associated with Child Overweight and Obesity, Examined Within Rural and Urban Settings, Stratified By Income.
• Paternal Chronic Folate Supplementation Induced the Transgenerational Inheritance of Acquired Developmental and Metabolic Changes in Chickens.
• The (Agri-)Cultural Origins of Obesity.
• Multigenerational Effects of Chronic Maternal Exposure to a High Sugar-fat Diet and Physical Training.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Thermoregulatory Syndromes of Two Sympatric Dung Beetles with Low Energy Costs.
• Individual Foraging Variation Drives Social Organization in Bottlenose Dolphins.

Methods

• A Novel Method for Measuring Diet-induced Thermogenesis in Mice.
• Robust Classification of Eating Sound Collected in Natural Meal Environment.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Optimum Waist Circumference‐height Indices for Evaluating Adult Adiposity: An Analytic Review.
• Establishing Validity and Cross-Context Equivalence of Measures and Indicators.
• Vibration of Effects From Diverse Inclusion/exclusion Criteria and Analytical Choices: 9216 Different Ways to Perform an Indirect Comparison Meta-analysis.

Special Section: Methods of Measuring Food Intake

• A New Statistical Method for Estimating Usual Intakes of Nearly-Daily Consumed Foods and Nutrients Through Use of Only One 24-hour Dietary Recall.
• Best Practices for Conducting and Interpreting Studies to Validate Self-Report Dietary Assessment Methods.
• Is a Single 24-hour Dietary Recall Per Person Sufficient to Estimate the Population Distribution of Usual Dietary Intake?
• A Novel Automated System Yields Reproducible Temporal Feeding Patterns in Laboratory Rodents.

Commentary

• The Psychology of Food Waste: An Interview with Brian Roe and Laura Moreno.
• Temperature as a Control of Obesity: Can We Target Thermogenesis?
• Glucose-Dependent Insulinotropic Polypeptide Receptor Therapies for the Treatment of Obesity, do Agonists = Antagonists?
• Refined Carbohydrates, Phenotypic Plasticity and the Obesity Epidemic.
• Iron Chelators in Obesity Therapy - Old Drugs From a New Perspective?
• Living with Obesity - Existential Experiences.
• Chicken and Egg: Obesity Care Providers and Patients.

General

• Are Confidence Intervals Better Termed “uncertainty Intervals”?
• When Europeans do Science in China.
• RCT: Comparing the Effects of Performing and Recalling Acts of Kindness.
• The Untapped Potential of Reptile Biodiversity for Understanding How and Why Animals Age.
• Common Statistical Mistakes in Entomology: Models Inconsistent with the Experimental Design.
• Walking on Eggshells in Medical Schools: Is It Possible to Train Doctors Without Hurting Anyone’s Feelings?

Video & Audio

• James Corden Responds to Bill Maher's Fat Shaming Take.
• Podcast: Katherine Eban: Widespread Fraud in the Generic Drug Industry.

Announcements

• IU Panel Focuses on Research-Based Solutions to Gun Violence.
• Symposium: Reproducibility and Replicability of Science.
• Max Cooper Receives Lasker Award for Immunology.
• Fellowship: AHA's Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• Fellowship: UAB Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.

Featured

• Total Energy Expenditure Measured Using Doubly Labeled Water Compared with Estimated Energy Requirements in Older Adults (≥65 Y): Analysis of Primary Data.
• A Perspective on the Transition to Plant-Based Diets: A Diet Change May Attenuate Climate Change, but Can It Also Attenuate Obesity and Chronic Disease Risk?
• A Poll Too Far? A Study of the Moderating Effects of Obesity and Poor Health on the Distance to the Ballot Station and Probability to Vote Relationship.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Teen's Junk Food Diet Caused Him to Go Blind, Study Reveals.
• Case study: Single Case Study of Teen with Picky Eating Habits. Cause Not Established; Not a Study.
• News critique: Blind to the Limitations of a Single Case Report of Teen’s “Blindness Caused By Junk Food Diet”.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Overweight Kids Actually Eat Less Right After Stressful Events.
• RCT: "Contrary to our hypothesis, the age-specific [weight loss] intervention was not superior to the age-unspecific CBT-approach."
• "Our data do not support the hypothesis that progranulin is an important link between obesity, insulin resistance, and MetS in childhood."
• "These studies do not support the hypothesis that estrogen derived from total body fat or local (mammary) fat contributes to breast development in OB girls."
• Systematic Review: "The scarce available literature indicates little and mixed evidence of a longitudinal association between exposure to non-parental childcare before age six years and diet or activity behaviours."
• "...no meaningful association between these neighborhood factors and odds of obesity or overweight was found in this cross-sectional analysis..."
• Systematic Review: "..... a rather mixed relationship between access to supermarkets and weight‐related behaviours/outcomes among children and adolescents. Half of the included articles indicated a negative relationship between supermarket access and children's BMI."
• "Food intake following the induction of positive, negative and emotionally confusing mood states [did not differ] compared to a control condition..."

Basic

• Regulation of Triglyceride Synthesis By Estradiol in the Livers of Hybrid Tilapia (Oreochromis Niloticus ♀ × O. Aureus ♂).
• Conjugated Linoleic Acid Isomers Affect Profile of Lipid Compounds and Intensity of Their Oxidation in Heart of Rats with Chemically-Induced Mammary Tumors—Preliminary Study.
• Mitochondrial Damage and Activation of the STING Pathway Leads to Renal Inflammation and Fibrosis in Mice.
• Mice Lacking Adenosine 2A Receptor Reveal Increased Severity of MCD-Induced NASH.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Association Between Vitamin D Supplementation and Mortality: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Comment: Concerns Regarding the Systematic Review of Vitamin D and Mortality By Zhang and Colleagues.
• Response: Re: Association Between Vitamin D Supplementation and Mortality: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Hundreds of Peer Reviewers are Under Investigation for Manipulating Citations.

Clinical

• A Toolbox Approach to Obesity Treatment in Urban Safety-Net Primary Care Clinics: A Pragmatic Clinical Trial.
• Meta-analysis: Early Outcomes and Complications of Obese Patients Undergoing Shoulder Arthroplasty.
• RCT: Weight Loss in Primary Breast Cancer: Impact on Body Composition, Circulating Biomarkers and Tumor Characteristics.
• Heat Therapy Reduces Sympathetic Activity and Improves Cardiovascular Risk Profile in Obese Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.

Children and Adolescents

• Longitudinal Associations Between Overweight/obesity and Stress Biology in Low-income Children.
• Systematic Review: The Effectiveness of Health Professional‐delivered Interventions During the First 1000 Days to Prevent Overweight/obesity in Children.
• A Review of Acute Physical Activity Effects on Brain and Cognition in Children.
• Longitudinal Changes in Weight Status From Childhood and Adolescence to Adulthood.
• Characteristics Associated with Successful Weight Management in Youth with Obesity.
• RCT: Exploring Physical Activity and the Acute Effects on Executive Function and Academic Performance in Primary School Children.

Surgery

• Association of Metabolic Surgery with Major Adverse Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity.
• Clinical Practice Guidelines for Childbearing Female Candidates for Bariatric Surgery, Pregnancy, and Post-Partum Management After Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• Effect of High-fat Diet-induced Obesity on Thyroid Gland Structure in Female Rats and the Possible Ameliorating Effect of Metformin Therapy.
• Metabolic Complications Affecting Adipose Tissue, Lipid and Glucose Metabolism Associated with HIV Antiretroviral Treatment.

Food & Diet

• Association Between Soft Drink Consumption and Mortality in 10 European Countries.
• Association of Animal and Plant Protein Intake with All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality.
• Risks of Ischaemic Heart Disease and Stroke in Meat Eaters, Fish Eaters, and Vegetarians Over 18 Years of Follow-up.
• Is There a Soft Drink Vs. Alcohol Seesaw? A Cross-sectional Analysis of Dietary Data in the Australian Health Survey 2011–12.
• Virgin Olive Oil and Health: Summary of the III International Conference on Virgin Olive Oil and Health Consensus Report.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Impaired Glucose Metabolism and Altered Gut Microbiome Despite Calorie Restriction of Ob/ob Mice.
• The Effect of Short-term Methionine Restriction on Glutathione Synthetic Capacity and Antioxidant Responses at the Whole Tissue and Mitochondrial Level in the Rat Liver.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Meta-analysis: Sex Dimorphism of VO2max Trainability.
• Meta-analysis: Effects of Physical Exercise Training in the Workplace on Physical Fitness.
• Meta-analysis: The Acute Effect of High-Intensity Exercise on Executive Function.
• RCT: Effectiveness of Behaviorally Designed Gamification Interventions with Social Incentives for Increasing Physical Activity Among Overweight and Obese Adults Across the United States.

Economics & Sociology

• Associations Between Food Environment Typologies and BMI: Evidence From Yorkshire, England.
• Effect of National Culture on BMI: A Multilevel Analysis of 53 Countries.
• The Association Between the Neighborhood Social Environment and Obesity in Brazil: A Cross-sectional Analysis.

Epidemiology

• Weight Gain Trajectory and Pain Interference in Young Adulthood: Evidence From a Longitudinal Birth Cohort Study.
• Meta-analysis: The Association Between Body Composition Using Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry and Type-2 Diabetes.
• "...on average, historically long-term oriented countries exhibit significantly lower obesity rates today."
• Associations of Short Stature and Components of Height with Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes.
• Longitudinal Association Between Adiposity and Inter‐arm Blood Pressure Difference.
• Associations Between Childhood Disadvantage and Adult BMI Trajectories Among Midlife Finnish Municipal Employees.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Effects of Alexithymia and Emotional Regulation on Overweight and Obesity.
• Is Social Exposure to Obesity Associated with Weight Status Misperception? Assessing Australians Ability to Identify Overweight and Obesity.
• Consumption Stereotypes and Impression Management: Food Intake.
• Social Anxiety Symptoms Moderate the Link Between Obesity and Metabolic Function.
• The Influence of Sitting Posture on Purchases of Rewarding Food.
• Obesity and Psychosocial Well‐being Among Cancer Patients and Survivors.
• Adipocyte Cannabinoid CB1 Receptor Deficiency Alleviates High Fat Diet-induced Memory Deficit, Depressive-like Behavior, Neuroinflammation and Impairment in Adult Neurogenesis.

Equity and Disparities

• Ranked Importance of Childhood Obesity Determinants: Parents' Views Across Ethnicities in New Zealand.
• The Role of Biocultural Approaches in Assessing Interventions for Maternal Weight and Gestational Weight Gain.
• Evaluation of the Cascade of Diabetes Care in the United States, 2005-2016.
• Food Insecurity, Health, and Development in Children Under Age Four Years.

Ethics

• New Book: Thickening Fat Bodies, Intersectionality, and Social Justice.
• New Book: Morality, Aesthetics, and Fatness: Review of Sabrina Strings’ Fearing the Black Body.
• Ethics in the Setting of Clinical Equipoise: Achilles Tendon Rupture in a Patient with Obesity.
• Ethical Considerations in Assessment and Behavioral Treatment of Obesity: Issues and Practice Implications for Clinical Health Psychologists.

Stigma

• Weight Bias Towards Individuals and Groups in Young Children.
• RCT: Obesity Stigma: Is the ‘Food Addiction’ Label Feeding the Problem?
• Overweight and Lonely? A Representative Study on Loneliness in People with Obesity and Its Determinants.

Policy Related

• Financial Incentives Increase Purchases of Fruit and Vegetables Among Lower-Income Households with Children.
• Systematic Review: Farm to School Activities and Student Outcomes.
• Essential Nutrition Actions: Mainstreaming Nutrition Throughout the Life-course.
• Addressing Food Insecurity in the United States: The Role of Policy, Systems Changes, and Environmental Supports.

Intergenerational Effects

• Systematic Review: Different Types of Parental Stress and Childhood Obesity.
• Developmental Overnutrition and Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in Offspring.
• An Exploratory Study on the Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity and Dieting Proneness.
• Mother or Father: Who is in the Front Line? Mechanisms Underlying the Non-Genomic Transmission of Obesity/Diabetes Via the Maternal or the Paternal Line.
• Multigenerational Effects of Chronic Maternal Exposure to a High Sugar/fat Diet and Physical Training.
• The Effect of Maternal Obesity on Breast Milk Fatty Acids and Its Association with Infant Growth and Cognition.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Meta-analysis: The Water Footprint of Diets.
• The Composition of a Neandertal Social Group Revealed By the Hominin Footprints at Le Rozel (Normandy, France).
• Photoperiodic Changes in Adiposity Increase Sensitivity of Female Siberian Hamsters to Systemic VGF Derived Peptide TLQP-21.
• How People Initiate Energy Optimization and Converge on Their Optimal Gaits.

Methods

• Estimating Children's Weight in the Emergency Department Using a Length-based, Habitus-modified System to Increase the Accuracy of Total Body Weight Estimation: The Utility of the PAWPER Tape in Paediatric Emergency Medicine.
• Systematic Review: Methodology Used to Study Weight Change Among Young Adults Attending College.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• High Performance Data Driven Agent-based Modeling Framework for Simulation of Commute Mode Choices in Metropolitan Area.
• A Mathematical Model of Calcium Dynamics: Obesity and Mitochondria-associated ER Membranes.

Commentary

• Heart Attacks, Strokes, Vegetarians, Vegans and Headlines: A Few Comments.
• Obesity Solution: Don’t Let Them Eat Cake.
• Heart Disease, Stroke, and Vegetarian Diets.
• What is True? The Evidence Base for “evidence-based”.
• Carbohydrate Quality and Health: Distilling Simple Truths From Complexity.
• Ketogenic Diet.
• Familiarity Bias to Fuel the Soft Drink Panic Machine.
• Opinion: Should We Fight Obesity or Accept It? Both.

General

• Personality Traits and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease or Stroke in Women with Diabetes.
• Zika Knowledge and Prevention Practices Among U.S. Travelers: A Large Cross-sectional Survey Study.
• Evidence Lights the Way.
• Exposure to Juvenile Males During Development Suppresses Female Capacity for Parthenogenesis in a Stick Insect.
• Bringing Scientific Rigor to Survey Design in Health Care Research.
• Animal Registries Aim to Reduce Bias.
• Mortality Patterns Between Five States with Highest Death Rates and Five States with Lowest Death Rates: United States, 2017.
• Reversal of Epigenetic Aging and Immunosenescent Trends in Humans.

Announcements

• Fellowship: AHA's Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• Fellowship: UAB Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Webinars: National Diabetes Prevention Program at ADA, September 2019.
• Roundtable: Advancing Effective Obesity Communications.
• Webinar: Use of Digital Food Photography Methodology to Examine Family Dinnertime.

Featured

• Urbanization and Elevated Cholesterol in American Crows.
• SREBP-regulated Adipocyte Lipogenesis is Dependent on Substrate Availability and Redox Modulation of MTORC1.
• Evidence-based Recommendations for Energy Intake in Pregnant Women with Obesity.
• Does Exclusion of Extreme Reporters of Energy Intake (the “Goldberg Cutoffs”) Reliably Reduce or Eliminate Bias in Nutrition Studies? Analysis with Illustrative Associations of Energy Intake with Health Outcomes.

Headline vs Study

• Press release: Ponce De Leon Health Launches Dietary Supplement with At-Home DNA Epigenetic Test, Containing Ingredient Shown to Increase Healthspan and Lifespan.
• Conference presentation: Dietary Supplement Increases Lifespan and Healthspan of Unspecified Mammalian Models. Maybe. Only the Conference, Not a Specific Study, Referenced in Press Release. (pdf)

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "No changes were observed in adult body mass index (BMI), child BMI z-score,..." in trial of a healthy lifestyle promotion/obesity prevention intervention for AI [American Indian] families.
• Universal School-Based Intervention Does Not Reduce Socioeconomic Inequalities in Weight Status Among Adolescents.
• "The most robust study to date of plate size and consumption suggests that previous meta-analyses of a low-quality body of evidence may have considerably overestimated effects."
• RCT: BMI, weight, and WC changes "did not differ significantly between study groups" in trial of "the effectiveness of a computerised decision-support tool (DST), designed for paediatric healthcare professionals, as a means to tackle childhood obesity."
• RCT: "Unhealthy and healthy comfort eating did not dampen reactivity or enhance recovery of psychophysiological stress compared to control, and no differences in reactivity or recovery were found by comfort food type."
• RCT: No Significant Effect on BMI of Behavior Interventions Addressing Obesity in Rural Settings: The E-FLIP for Kids Trial.
• "Contrary to expectations, both lineages responded similarly to nutrient enrichment and were similarly plastic in their traits."
• Physical exercise "is detrimental at a young age for both affective-like behaviors and spatial learning and memory but showed no effects at middle and late middle age despite hippocampal gene expression alterations" in mice.
• "These findings show that an environment with a high prevalence of overweight does not necessarily shift adolescent "norms," contrary to visual normalization theory."

Basic

• MondoA Drives Muscle Lipid Accumulation and Insulin Resistance.
• Role of Adipose Tissue Inflammation in Fat Pad Loss Induced By Fasting in Lean and Mildly Obese Mice.
• Perivascular Adipose Tissue–Derived Extracellular Vesicle MiR-221-3p Mediates Vascular Remodeling.
• SBP2 Deficiency in Adipose Tissue Macrophages Drives Insulin Resistance in Mice with Diet-Induced Obesity.
• Physiological Roles of the GIP Receptor in Murine Brown Adipose Tissue.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter: Links Between Childhood Obesity, Gestational Diabetes, and Infant Temperament.
• Reply: Links Between Childhood Obesity, Gestational Diabetes, and Infant Temperament.
• Smaller Dishware to Reduce Energy Intake: Fact or Fiction?

Clinical

• Case study: Alopecia Following Deoxycholic Acid Treatment for Submental Adiposity.
• Eating Disorder Pathology Among Individuals Living with Food Insecurity: A Replication Study.
• RCT: Modified Alternate-Day Fasting Vs. Calorie Restriction in the Treatment of Patients with Metabolic Syndrome.
• RCT: Medium-chain Triglycerides (8:0 and 10:0) are Promising Nutrients for Sarcopenia.

Children and Adolescents

• What Change in BMI is Associated with Improvement in Percentage Body Fat in Childhood Obesity? A Meta-regression.
• Duration of Breastfeeding is Associated with Leptin (LEP) DNA Methylation Profiles and BMI in 10-year-old Children.
• The Association of the Executive Functions with Overweight and Obesity Indicators in Children and Adolescents: A Literature Review.
• Distinct Methods for Assessing Compliance with a Physical Activity Guideline for Children in Preschools.

Surgery

• Association of Metabolic Surgery with Major Adverse Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity.
• Metabolic Features of Individuals with Obesity Referred for Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery.
• Commentary: The Muses Seeking Perfect Knowledge of Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• Effectiveness of a Community-Based Weight Management Program for Patients Taking Antidepressants And/or Antipsychotics.
• Antipsychotics and Schizophrenia, and Their Relationship to Diabetes.

Food & Diet

• Changes in Dairy Product Consumption and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: Results From 3 Large Prospective Cohorts of US Men and Women.
• RCT: Effects of Citrulline Malate and Beetroot Juice Supplementation on Energy Metabolism and Blood Flow During Submaximal Resistance Exercise.
• Perspective: Guiding Principles for the Implementation of Personalized Nutrition Approaches that Benefit Health and Function.
• Commentary: Will 2020 Guidelines Skip Tough Questions?

Caloric Restriction

• Short-term Dietary Restriction in Old Mice Rejuvenates the Aging-induced Structural Imbalance of Gut Microbiota.
• Methionine Metabolism and Methyltransferases in the Regulation of Aging and Lifespan Extension Across Species.
• RCT: Weight Loss in Primary Breast Cancer: Impact on Body Composition, Circulating Biomarkers and Tumor Characteristics.
• Commentary: Thinsplaining the Ease of Calorie Restriction.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• The Association of School-related Active Travel and Active After-school Clubs with Children’s Physical Activity: A Cross-sectional Study in 11-year-old UK Children.
• Systematic Review: Physical Activity Interventions Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations.
• Understanding Levels and Motivation of Physical Activity for Health Promotion Among Chinese Middle-Aged and Older Adults: A Cross-Sectional Investigation.
• Can You Preserve Lean Body Mass During “semi-starvation?”
• Physical Activity During Pregnancy and Intelligence in Sons: A Cohort Study.

Economics & Sociology

• A Genetic Sum Score of Risk Alleles Associated with BMI Interacts with Socioeconomic Position in the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study.
• Paternal Impact on the Life Course Development of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in the Offspring.
• Social Network Influences and the Adoption of Obesity-related Behaviours in Adults: A Critical Interpretative Synthesis Review.
• The Problem of Obesity in Times of Late Capitalism: From Neoliberal Economics to Collaborative Public Policies Based on “good Living”.
• Does Parental Concern About Their Child’s Future Risk of Overweight Vary By Their Ethnic Background? Cross-sectional Analysis of a National Cohort Study.

Epidemiology

• Eating Behaviors in Healthy Young Adult Twin Pairs Discordant for BMI.
• Associations of Chronic Inflammation, Insulin Resistance, and Severe Obesity with Mortality, Myocardial Infarction, Cancer, and Chronic Pulmonary Disease.
• Association Between Maternal Pre-pregnancy Obesity and Preterm Birth According to Maternal Age and Race or Ethnicity: A Population-based Study.
• Owner and Cat-Related Risk Factors for Feline Overweight or Obesity.
• Cadmium, Obesity, and Education, and the 10-year Incidence of Hearing Impairment: The Beaver Dam Offspring Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Evaluating Potential Behavioral Mediators for Increasing Similarity in Friends’ Body Size Among College Students.
• Early Attachment and Parental Stress as Predictors of Obesity Risk in Middle Adolescence: The Role of Self-regulation and Food Consumption.
• The Effects of Psychological and Environmental Stress on Micronutrient Concentrations in the Body: A Review of the Evidence.
• What do Young Women with Obesity Want From a Weight Management Program?
• Collaboration in Complex Systems: Multilevel Network Analysis for Community-Based Obesity Prevention Interventions.

Equity and Disparities

• Racial Disparities in Breastfeeding Initiation and Duration Among U.S. Infants Born in 2015.
• Commentary: Delayed Versus Early Treatment for Obesity.

Stigma

• Weight Stigma Among Pregnant and Postpartum Women.
• Perceived Overweight/obesity, Low Resilience, and Body Size Dissatisfaction Among Adolescents.

Policy Related

• The Association Between Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Child Obesity: Implications for US Policy.
• Designing Better Sugary Drink Taxes.

Intergenerational Effects

• Gestational High Fat Diet Protects 3xTg Offspring From Memory Impairments, Synaptic Dysfunction, and Brain Pathology.
• Are Observed Associations Between a High Maternal Prepregnancy BMI and Offspring IQ Likely to Be Causal?

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Remnants of Ancient Bread Give Clues to Natufian Diet.
• Adjustments in Control of Mitochondrial Respiratory Capacity While Facing Temperature Fluctuations.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Multicollinear Physical Activity Accelerometry Data and Associations to Cardiometabolic Health: Challenges, Pitfalls, and Potential Solutions.
• Predictive Mathematical Models of Weight Loss.

Methods

• Obesity level estimation software based on decision trees.
• Scale Development Study: Hedonistic Eating Scale.

Commentary

• Can Plant-Based Meat Alternatives Be Part of a Healthy and Sustainable Diet?
• City Crows May Have High Cholesterol Because They Eat Fast Food.
• How the Trump Administration Limited the Scope of the USDA’s 2020 Dietary Guidelines.
• Study: Do Daily Weigh-ins Help You Lose Weight?
• Diet, Dots, and Doom.
• Moralizing Obesity Builds Stigma Three Ways.
• Junk Food Kills, Protective Food Saves, Hallelujah!
• DEEP Talk: Powerful Personal Insights Into Obesity.

General

• Fetal Cell Microchimerism; Normal and Immunocompromised Gestations in Mice.
• Association Between Educational Attainment and Causes of Death Among White and Black US Adults, 2010-2017.
• A Standardized Citation Metrics Author Database Annotated for Scientific Field.
• Building Prediction Models for Dementia: The Need to Account for Interval Censoring and the Competing Risk of Death.
• Kin Recognition and Co‐operative Foraging in Drosophila Melanogaster Larvae.
• Large-scale GWAS Reveals Insights Into the Genetic Architecture of Same-sex Sexual Behavior.
• Epigallocatechin-3-gallate Suppresses Neutrophil Migration Speed in a Transgenic Zebrafish Model Accompanied By Reduced Inflammatory Mediators.
• Alirocumab, Decreased Mortality, Nominal Significance, P Values, Bayesian Statistics, and the Duplicity of Multiplicity.
• Association of Sleep Problems and Melatonin Use in School-aged Children.
• Trends and Predictors of Biomedical Research Quality, 1990–2015: A Meta-research Study.

Video & Audio

• Nutrition2019 Webcast: Processed Foods: Nutrition, Definitions and Policy Issues.
• How to Live Longer, Without Losing Quality of Life.

Announcements

• New Gender Affirming Care Team at IU Health Center Supports Transgender, Nonbinary Students.
• Jeffrey M. Friedman to receive 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
• Sept 19: WEBINAR: Who’s Leading the Leading Health Indicators? Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity.
• Malnutrition Awareness Week.
• Training Program: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Training Program: AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.