Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• RCT: "Our results challenge the prevailing notion that stress-induced eating of hyper palatable food is mainly found among women by finding that males also engage in such behavior if their experience leads to an adequate stress response."
• Housing Temperature Modulates the Impact of Diet-Induced Rise in Fat Mass on Adipose Tissue Before and During Pregnancy in Rats.
• The Equity Impact of Brief Opportunistic Interventions to Promote Weight Loss in Primary Care: Secondary Analysis of the BWeL Randomised Trial.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: One in Five Chinese Children is Overweight or Obese, and the Booming Economy May Be to Blame, Study Reveals.
• Study: Positive Associations Between Socioeconomic Indicators and Obesity in China. Causation Not Established.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Significant Effect on Body Mass or Physical Activity of a Mobile-Based Intervention for Obesity Prevention Among Female College Students in Saudi Arabia.
• "...body weight, body composition, and lipid profiling are not affected by the number of meals when weight-loss diets are prepared with adequate energy restrictions and sufficient and balanced nutrition."
• "contrary to diversified bet‐hedging expectations, fledging success of large broods was greater when hatchlings had similar rather than variable masses."
• RCT: No Significant effects of carbohydrate mouth rinse on glycogen-reduced 5k run performance trial.
• "Identification and treatment of women with mild GDM during pregnancy had no discernible impact on subsequent diabetes, metabolic syndrome, or obesity 7 years after delivery."
• RCT: Neither beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbutyrate free-acid (HMB-FA) and calcium-salt (HMB-Ca) "improved hypertrophy or reduced muscle damage in resistance-trained men undergoing resistance training ingesting optimal amounts of protein."
• RCT: "The primary intent to treat analysis showed no significant effect on achievement of appropriate GWG [gestational weight gain]/week through 36 weeks in the intervention group ...when compared with the control group..."
• RCT: No Significant Effect on Weight or Most Other Primary Outcomes of a Text Messaging Intervention with Customisation Using Linked Data From Wireless Wearable Activity Monitors to Improve Risk Factors Following Gestational Diabetes.
• RCT: "Contrary to expectations, this study did find that personal achievement reward systems significantly lead to more intrinsic motivation for healthy food choices than social achievement reward systems."

Basic

• Short-term Strength Training Reduces Gluconeogenesis and NAFLD in Obese Mice.
• Oxytocin Treatment Reduced Food Intake and Body Fat and Ameliorated Obesity in Ovariectomized Female Rats.
• A Thermogenic-Like Brown Adipose Tissue Phenotype is Dispensable for Enhanced Glucose Tolerance in Female Mice.
• Dynamic Mitochondrial Responses to a High-fat Diet in Drosophila Melanogaster.

Clinical

• RCT: Improving Child Weight Management Uptake Through Enhanced National Child Measurement Programme Parental Feedback Letters.
• RCT: The Effect of a Low Carbohydrate Formula on Glycaemia in Critically Ill Enterally-fed Adult Patients with Hyperglycaemia.
• Rural-Urban Variation in Weight Loss Recommendations Among US Older Adults with Arthritis and Obesity.
• Satisfaction with Health Care Among Individuals with Overweight and Obesity: A Nationally Representative Cross-sectional Study.
• Metformin: Mechanisms in Human Obesity and Weight Loss.

Children and Adolescents

• Nutrition-Related Practices of Family Child Care Providers and Differences By Ethnicity.
• The STRONG Kids 2 Birth Cohort Study: A Cell-to-Society Approach to Dietary Habits and Weight Trajectories Across the First 5 Years of Life.
• Prospective Study of Physical Activity of Preterm Born Children From Age 5 to 14 Years.
• Altered Thyroid Function and Structure in Overweight and Obese Children and Adolescents: Reversal After Weight Loss.
• Global Evolution of Obesity Research in Children and Youths: Setting Priorities for Interventions and Policies.

Surgery

• Early Weight Loss in Adolescents Following Bariatric Surgery Predicts Weight Loss at 12 and 24 Months.
• RCT: Four Weeks of Preoperative Omega-3 Fatty Acids Reduce Liver Volume.
• Effect of BMI on Surgical Outcomes After Posterior Spinal Fusion for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis.

Drugs

• Metoprolol Succinate: Genetic Aspects of Individual Sensitivity and Efficacy in Patients with Obesity and Chronic Heart Failure.
• Beneficial Effect of Sitagliptin on High Fat Diet Induced Obesity in Wistar Rats.
• RCT: The Effects of Topiramate on Weight Gain in Patients with Schizophrenia.
• RCT: The SGLT2 Inhibitor Dapagliflozin Reduces Liver Fat but Does Not Affect Tissue Insulin Sensitivity in Type 2 Diabetes Patients.

Food & Diet

• Whole Egg Consumption Impairs Insulin Sensitivity in Rat Model of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: The Effect of a New Mixture of Sugar and Sugar-alcohols Compared to Sucrose and Glucose on Blood Glucose Increase and the Possible Adverse Reactions.
• Anti-obesity Effect in High-fat-diet-induced Obese C57BL/6 Mice: Study of a Novel Extract From Mulberry (Morus Alba) Leaves Fermented with Cordyceps Militaris.
• RCT: Effects of a Low Carbohydrate Diet on Energy Expenditure During Weight Loss Maintenance.

Caloric Restriction

• Is Rapamycin a Dietary Restriction Mimetic?
• Apolipoprotein M: A Novel Adipokine Decreasing with Obesity and Upregulated By Calorie Restriction.
• Time-restricted Feeding Causes Irreversible Metabolic Disorders and Gut Microbiota Shift in Pediatric Mice.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: The Feasibility and Acceptability of Morning Versus Evening Exercise for Overweight and Obese Adults.
• Precision Exercise Medicine: Understanding Exercise Response Variability.
• RCT: How Does 6 Months of Active Bike Commuting or Leisure-time Exercise Affect Insulin Sensitivity, Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Intra-abdominal Fat?
• Increasing Access to Physical Activity Within Low Income and Diverse Communities: A Systematic Review.
• Clustering of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior Associated to Risk for Metabolic Syndrome in Older Adults.
• Effectiveness of Healthcare Interventions Using Objective Feedback on Physical Activity: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Economics & Sociology

• Influence of Individual Life Course and Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Position on Dietary Intake in African Americans: The Jackson Heart Study.
• Family Environment, Children's Acculturation and Mothers' Dietary Intake and Behaviors Among Latinas: An Autoregressive Cross-lagged Study.

Epidemiology

• Serum Adiponectin is Associated with Body Composition and Cognitive and Psychological Status in Older Adults Living in Long-term Nursing Homes.
• Within-country Migration and Obesity Dynamics: Analysis of 94,783 Women From the Peruvian Demographic and Health Surveys.
• Investigating Gene–Gene and Gene–Environment Interactions in the Association Between Overnutrition and Obesity-Related Phenotypes.
• External Validation and Comparison of Four Cardiovascular Risk Prediction Models with Data From the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• The Strategic Location of Glycogen and Lactate: From Body Energy Reserve to Brain Plasticity.
• Infant Psychosocial Environment Predicts Adolescent Cardiometabolic Risk: A Prospective Study.
• Effects of Sleep Restriction on Food-Related Inhibitory Control and Reward in Adolescents.
• Hierarchical-drift Diffusion Model of the Roles of Hunger, Caloric Density and Valence in Food Selection.
• Negative Affect, Dietary Restriction, and Food Choice in Bulimia Nervosa.

Equity and Disparities

• Rural‐Urban Disparities in Total Physical Activity, Body Composition, and Related Health Indicators: An Atlantic PATH Study.
• The Education Gradient in Health: The Case of Obesity in the UK and US.

Stigma

• Information Targeting Increases the Weight of Stigma.
• Using an Acceptance-based Behavioral Approach as a Supplement to Obesity Treatment.
• Talking About Childhood Obesity: A Survey of What Parents Want.
• Weight-related Shame and Guilt, Intuitive Eating, and Binge Eating in Female College Students.
• Fat is a Social Justice Issue, Too.

Policy Related

• The Role of Urban Design in Childhood Obesity‐A Case Study in Lisbon, Portugal.
• UK Children’s Body Mass Index Report Cards: Public Benefit or Poor Policy?
• Prevention of Overweight and Obesity Undertaken By Local Government Units in Poland.
• Too Little, Too Slowly: International Perspectives on Childhood Obesity. (pdf)
• Using Concept Maps to Compare Obesity Knowledge Between Policy Makers and Primary Care Researchers in Canada.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Cascading Impacts of Large-carnivore Extirpation in an African Ecosystem.
• Energy Expenditure and Body Temperature Variations in Llamas Living in the High Andes of Peru.
• Context-dependent Scaling of Kinematics and Energetics During Contests and Feeding in Mantis Shrimp.

Methods

• A Comparison of Mean-Based and Quantile Regression Methods for Analyzing Self-Report Dietary Intake Data.
• Estimating the Burden of Child Malnutrition Across Parliamentary Constituencies in India: A Methodological Comparison.
• Issues in Measuring and Interpreting Diet and Its Contribution to Obesity.
• Issues in Measuring the Healthiness of Food Environments and Interpreting Relationships with Diet, Obesity and Related Health Outcomes.

Commentary

• "Obesity and Diabetes ARE Regressive; A Soda Tax? Not so much..."
• Lesbian and Bisexual Women More at Risk for Obesity, Study Finds.
• Obesity Rate Climbing in Indiana, New Study Says.
• Not All Clickbait is Obvious — Here’s How to Protect Yourself From Sneaky Nutrition Misinformation.
• The Surprisingly Positive Association Between Obesity and Cancer Immunotherapy Efficacy.

General

• Does Evidence Support the High Expectations Placed in Precision Medicine? A Bibliographic Review.
• "A plant virus distributes its genes into eight separate segments that can all reproduce, even if they infect different cells."
• Noir I – the Anti-executioner [Peer Review].
• Males as Somatic Investment in a Parthenogenetic Nematode.
• Vassar College President Elizabeth Bradley, About What Economics, Healthcare Management, and Art History Have Taught Her About How to Be an Effective Leader.
• TedX Talk: How to Help Youth See Past the Present and Dream Big.
• Epidemiologists of the Future: Data Collector or Scientist?
• Integrating Social and Behavioral Determinants of Health Into Population Health Analytics: A Conceptual Framework and Suggested Road Map.
• Food Security and 10-Year Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among U.S. Adults.
• Hot Topics in Science Communication: Aggressive Language Decreases Trustworthiness and Credibility in Scientific Debates.
• Human Sound Systems are Shaped By Post-Neolithic Changes in Bite Configuration.
• Scientists Rise Up Against Statistical Significance.
• “Retire Statistical Significance”: The Discussion.

Video & Audio

• Podcast: Researchers’ Attempts to Tackle the Long-term Effects of Pediatric Cancer Treatment.
• Video: The Food Exposome and Brain Aging: An Epidemiological Approach - Cecilia Samieri, PhD.

Announcements

• Travel Scholarships Available and Registration Open for Short Courses on Causal Inference and Mathematical Sciences in Obesity Research, Summer 2019.
• IU Study Aims to Better Understand Repetitive Head Impacts in Sports.
• UAB's Mona Fouad is 2018 Distinguished Faculty Lecturer.
• NORC of UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• IU School of Public Health Bloomington Continues Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track Positions Available in Every Department: Multiple Listings Posted.

Featured

• Microbiota Depletion Impairs Thermogenesis of Brown Adipose Tissue and Browning of White Adipose Tissue.
• RCT: Effect of Integrated Behavioral Weight Loss Treatment and Problem-Solving Therapy on BMI and Depressive Symptoms Among Patients with Obesity and Depression.
• RCT: A Reduction in Sedentary Behaviour in Obese Women During Pregnancy Reduces Neonatal Adiposity.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Flax Seed Fiber Can Protect Against Obesity, Finds Study.
• Study: Microbial Fermentation of Flaxseed Fibers Modulates the Transcriptome of GPR41-expressing Enteroendocrine Cells and Protects Against Diet-induced Obesity ... In Mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Contrary to social contagion hypothesis, ”As network exposure to overweight/obesity among friends increased, individuals' BMI significantly decreased by 0.06 kg/m2 (p = 0.04)."
• Meta-analysis: Exposure to Hypoxia Did Not Induce a Consistent Change in the Relative Contribution of Carbohydrate or Fat to the Total Energy Yield During Exercise Matched for Relative Intensities, Compared with Normoxia.
• RCT: "Vitamin D supplementation has no effect on matrix metalloproteinases-2, -9, and tissue inhibitor matrix metalloproteinase-1 in subjects with metabolic syndrome: A pilot study."
• RCT: "We found no effect of intact GLP-1 (7-36), protected from DPP4 mediated degradation on coronary microcirculation in overweight adults."
• "A Physical Activity Calorie Equivalent …label may not be an effective labelling strategy to reduce the liking or consumption of discretionary snack foods."
• "Among nulliparous overweight and obese gravidas, neither dinoprostone, misoprostol, or cervical catheter significantly impacted the induction to birth time."
• No Significant Association of Gluten-free Diet with BMI Change in Pediatric Celiac Patients.
• "No significant associations existed between personal vehicle access with diet or physical activity outcomes."

Basic

• Effect of Fish Oil Supplementation and Restricted Feeding on Body Fat Distribution and Blood Lipid Profile in a Rabbit Model of Castration-induced Obesity.
• Microbiota Depletion Impairs Thermogenesis of Brown Adipose Tissue and Browning of White Adipose Tissue.
• Metabolic Footprint and Intestinal Microbial Changes in Response to Dietary Proteins in a Pig Model.
• Energy Metabolism Couples Hepatocyte Integrin-linked Kinase to Liver Glucoregulation and the Postabsorptive Response of Mice in an Age-dependent Manner.
• Moderate Increases of Liver-Secreted RBP4 do Not Impair Glucose Homeostasis in Mice.
• The Effect of Ketogenic Diet on Behaviors and Synaptic Functions of Naive Mice.
• Endogenous Advanced Glycation End Products in Pancreatic Islets After Short-term Carbohydrate Intervention in Obese, Diabetes-prone Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in Western Countries: Discrepancies in Published Estimates.
• Retraction: Ling, W. Et Al. Evaluation of Anti-Obesity Activity, Acute Toxicity, and Subacute Toxicity of Probiotic Dark Tea. Biomolecules 2018, 8(4), 99.
• Red Pen Reviews: Website with Expert Health and Nutrition Book Reviews.

Clinical

• RCT: Long-Term Effects of Randomization to a Weight Loss Intervention in Older Adults: A Pilot Study.
• Bone Metabolism in Adolescents and Adults Undergoing Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass: A Comparative Study.
• Influence of Weight Reduction and Enhanced Protein Intake on Biomarkers of Inflammation in Older Adults with Obesity.
• Similar Weight Loss Induces Greater Improvements in Insulin Sensitivity and Liver Function Among Individuals with NAFLD Compared to Individuals Without NAFLD.

Children and Adolescents

• Association of Infant Temperament with Subsequent Obesity in Young Children of Mothers with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.
• Association Between Hair Cortisol Concentration and Dietary Intake Among Normal Weight Preschool Children Predisposed to Overweight and Obesity.
• Effects of X-chromosome Tenomodulin Genetic Variants on Obesity in a Children’s Cohort and Implications of the Gene in Adipocyte Metabolism.
• Potential Circadian and Circannual Rhythm Contributions to the Obesity Epidemic in Elementary School Age Children.

Surgery

• The PYY/Y2R-Deficient Mouse Responds Normally to High-Fat Diet and Gastric Bypass Surgery.
• Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass is Associated with Hyperinsulinemia but Not Increased Maximal β-Cell Function.

Drugs

• RCT: L-Carnitine Plus Metformin in Clomiphene-resistant Obese PCOS Women, Reproductive and Metabolic Effects.
• Statins Associated with 38 Per Cent Increased Risk of Type 2 Diabetes.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Effects of Macronutrient Manipulation on Postprandial Metabolic Responses in Overweight Males with High Fasting Lipids During Simulated Shift Work.
• RCT: Protein Supplementation Improves Lean Body Mass in Physically Active Older Adults.
• RCT: Energy Drinks Induce Acute Cardiovascular and Metabolic Changes Pointing to Potential Risks for Young Adults.
• RCT: An Infant Formula with Large, Milk Phospholipid–coated Lipid Droplets Containing a Mixture of Dairy and Vegetable Lipids Supports Adequate Growth and is Well Tolerated in Healthy, Term Infants.
• Saturated Fat is More Metabolically Harmful for the Human Liver than Unsaturated Fat or Simple Sugars.
• "...four weeks of watermelon consumption reduced body weight and blood pressure while improving blood lipid profile and antioxidant status."
• Dietary Reference Intakes for Sodium and Potassium.
• Commentary: On the Hunt for Precision Personalized Diets.

Caloric Restriction

• Perspective: Caloric Restriction Mimetics Against Age-Associated Disease: Targets, Mechanisms, and Therapeutic Potential.
• Overeating, Caloric Restriction and Breast Cancer Risk By Pathologic Subtype: The EPIGEICAM Study.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Energy-saving Walking Mechanisms in Obese Adults.
• Aquatic Management of LGBTQ Participants in Park and Recreation Settings.
• Implementing Successful School Run Clubs: Lessons Learned From a District-level Initiative in Boston Public Schools.
• The Impact of a Park Refurbishment in a Low Socioeconomic Area on Physical Activity: A Cost-effectiveness Study.
• Physical Activity Communication: A Scoping Review of the Literature.

Economics & Sociology

• The Missing Obese Men? Labour Force Participation and Obesity Among Prime-age Men in the United States.
• Socioeconomic Characteristics and Obesity-related Psycho-social Profiles.

Epidemiology

• Meta-analysis: Genetic Variants in Promoter Regions Associated with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• Influence of Obesity, Parental History of Diabetes, and Genes in Type 2 Diabetes: A Case-control Study.
• Adult Body Weight Trends in 27 Urban Populations of Brazil From 2006 to 2016: A Population-based Study.
• Overweight and Obesity in the Russian Population: Prevalence in Adults and Association with Socioeconomic Parameters and Cardiovascular Risk Factor.
• Household Food Insecurity and Home Food Availability in Relation to Youth Diet, BMI, and Adiposity.
• Changes in Body Composition and Weight During the Menopause Transition.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Efficacy of Mobile Health Applications to Enhance Weight Loss Following Bariatric Surgery.
• Avoiding Hunger or Attaining Fullness? Implicit Goals of Satiety Guide Portion Selection and Food Intake Patterns.
• Evidence of Bi-directional Associations Between Depressive Symptoms and Body Mass Among Older Adults.
• Recruitment of Cognitive Control Regions During Effortful Self-control is Associated with Altered Brain Activity in Control and Reward Systems in Dieters During Subsequent Exposure to Food Commercials.

Equity and Disparities

• Associations Between Obesity, Obesogenic Environments, and Structural Racism Vary By County-Level Racial Composition.
• Association Between Emotional Eating, Energy-dense Foods and Overeating in Latinos.
• Disparities By Household Income and Race/ethnicity: The Utility of BMI for Surveilling Excess Adiposity in Children.

Ethics

• Is It Ethical for Nutrition Scientists to Accept Industry Money?
• Irresponsibly Infertile? Obesity, Efficiency, and Exclusion From Treatment.

Stigma

• RCT: Video Teaching Leads to Improved Attitudes Towards Obesity.
• RCT: Severe Obesity as a Barrier to International Travel: A Qualitative Analysis.
• Longitudinal Study: Weight Teasing and Gender on Body Esteem in Youth.
• Cross-sectional: The Impact of School Bullying on Physical Activity in Overweight Youth: Exploring Race and Ethnic Differences.
• Psychosocial Measures and Weight Change in a Clinical Paediatric Population with Obesity.
• The Role of BMI Group on the Impact of Weight Bias Versus Body Positivity Terminology on Behavioural Intentions and Beliefs.
• Association of Body Fat with Health-Related Quality of Life and Depression in Nonagenarians.

Policy Related

• Cross-sectional: Physical Activity, Screen Time, and Outdoor Learning Environment Practices and Policy Implementation in Texas Child Care Centers.
• Obesity Prevention in Children and Young People: What Policy Actions are Needed? (pdf)
• Multilevel Governance, Public Health and the Regulation of Food: Is Tobacco Control Policy a Model?
• Obesity Prevention in Children and Young People: What Policy Actions are Needed.
• Translating Behavioral Medicine Evidence to Public Policy.
• Challenges in Shaping Policy with Data.
• A Comprehensive Policy for Reducing Sugar Beverages for Healthy Life Extension.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Rabbit Bones Suggest Neanderthals Were Better Hunters than We Thought.
• Diet May Drive Influenza a Virus Exposure in African Mammals.
• Pollen Reverses Decreased Lifespan, Altered Nutritional Metabolism, and Suppressed Immunity in Honey Bees (Apis Mellifera) Treated with Antibiotics.

Methods

• Reliability and Validity of Environmental Audits Using GigaPan® Technology in Parks.
• Wide Field Speckle Imaging for the Investigation of Cerebral Blood Flow in Vivo in Murine Model of Obesity.
• Want to Leave a Legacy? Be a Mentor.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Computational Modelling of Energy Balance in Individuals with Metabolic Syndrome.
• Best (but Oft-forgotten) Practices: Missing Data Methods in RCTs.

Commentary

• Do Skinny People Have Faster Metabolisms? Not Really.
• Is Pleasure Important for Good Nutrition?
• Blocking Adoption for People with Obesity in Ireland.
• Shaking Diabetes Into Remission.
• Low-Carb Diets Linked to Higher Odds for A-Fib.
• Does Eating Fat Make You Fat?
• Dietitians Host Lunch, Highlight Need for Healthy Food Education.
• Ben Goldacre: A Great Time to Be Alive.
• Time to Put Up or Shut Up on Childhood Obesity.
• Aiming the Obesity Blame Game at Working Moms.
• Fear of Questions About Cherished Beliefs.
• Childhood Obesity: Talking Crisis While Acting Casually.
• Research Integrity and Why Bad Science Has Become Such a Problem.

General

• RCT: Ad Libitum Weekend Recovery Sleep Fails to Prevent Metabolic Dysregulation During a Repeating Pattern of Insufficient Sleep and Weekend Recovery Sleep.
• Dietary Choline and Betaine Intakes and Risk of Total and Lethal Prostate Cancer in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study.
• Marginal Effects—Quantifying the Effect of Changes in Risk Factors in Logistic Regression Models.
• Peer-review Experiments Tracked in Online Repository.
• The Turing Way: An Open Source Resource Promoting Best Practice for Reproducible Research.
• The Scientific Coming of Age of an Old Concept: Hormesis.
• Dubious Diagnosis [prediabetes].
• A Diet Low in Red and Processed Meat Does Not Reduce Rate of Crohn’s Disease Flares.
• Is the Story About Sensitive Women and Stoical Men True? Gender Differences in Health After Adjustment for Reporting Behavior.
• Do Dietary Factors Significantly Influence Tinnitus?
• Scientists Transform the Bane of Black Soot Into a Boon for Water Purification.

Video & Audio

• E29: Linda Bartoshuk on Supertasters, Yuck, and the Future of Food Nutrition.
• Message (Not) in a Bottle: Breast Milk Quality and Quantity in the Generational Transmission of Obesity - Ellen W. Demerath, PhD.

Announcements

• NASEM Workshop: A Health Equity Approach to Obesity Efforts.
• Monica Baskin Inducted as Society of Behavioral Medicine President-elect. (pdf)
• Nutrition 2019 Early Registration Ends March 15th at 11:59 PM ET.
• NORC of UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• IU School of Public Health Bloomington Continues Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track Positions Available in Every Department: Multiple Listings Posted.
• Short Courses on Obesity, Mathematics, and Causal Inference Recommence in Summer 2019!

Featured

• The Leptin Sensitizer Celastrol Reduces Age-associated Obesity and Modulates Behavioral Rhythms.
• Best (but Oft-forgotten) Practices: Missing Data Methods in Randomized Controlled Nutrition Trials.
• The Need for Greater Rigor in Childhood Nutrition and Obesity Research.
• RCT: "Among overweight or obese adults with subsyndromal depressive symptoms, multinutrient supplementation compared with placebo and food-related behavioral activation therapy compared with no therapy did not reduce episodes of major depressive disorder during 1 year."

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Instagram Stars Could Make Kids Fatter. Healthier? Not So Much, Study Says.
• Study: "Influencer marketing of unhealthy foods increased children’s immediate food intake, whereas the equivalent marketing of healthy foods had no effect." Effects on obesity not tested.

Contrary or Null Findings

• No Significant Effect of Participation in Structured Programming to Prevent Unhealthy Weight Gain During the Summer in School-aged Children From Low-income Neighbourhoods on Weight Gain.
• No Benefit with Early GDM Screening in Obese Women.
• RCT: "Empirically treating hospitalized severely malnourished children during the stabilization phase with lactose-free, reduced-carbohydrate milk formula did not improve clinical outcomes."
• RCT: No Effect of Fish Protein Supplementation on Glucose Metabolism in Older Nursing Home Residents.
• RCT: "Intention-to-treat analysis showed that light therapy ...had no effect on insulin sensitivity..."
• RCT: "…no significant time or group × time effect for fish oil versus placebo for liver fat, liver enzymes, anthropometry, or body composition including VAT (p > 0.05 for all), with similar finding for sub-analysis of participants with NAFLD."
• RCT: No Significant Differences Between Treatment and Control Groups in Eight Week Trial of Aerobic Interval-Resistance Training Combined with Chamomile Consumption on Body Composition and Glucose Homeostasis in Overweight and Obese Women.
• RCT: "Offering a multi-component physical activity intervention to 30-49 year-olds with low levels of VO2max had no effect on the change in VO2max from baseline to twelve months compared with routine care."

Basic

• Obesity, Diabetes, and the Gut Microbiome: An Updated Review.
• Protein-coding Variants Implicate Novel Genes Related to Lipid Homeostasis Contributing to Body-fat Distribution.
• Deletion of Robo4 Prevents High Fat Diet Induced Adipose Artery and Systemic Metabolic Dysfunction.
• The Antagonist Effect of Arachidonic Acid on GLUT4 Gene Expression By Nuclear Receptor Type II Regulation.
• Beta 3 Adrenergic Receptor Activation Rescues Metabolic Dysfunction in Female Estrogen Receptor Alpha-Null Mice.
• Parasitic Gut Infection in Libellula Pulchella Causes Functional and Molecular Resemblance of Dragonfly Flight Muscle to Skeletal Muscle of Obese Vertebrates.
• Ablation of Adipocyte Creatine Transport Impairs Thermogenesis and Causes Diet-Induced Obesity.
• Identification of a Natural Beige Adipose Depot in Mice.
• Differential Effects of Diet and Weight on Taste Responses in Diet-induced Obese Mice.
• Housing Temperature Modulates the Impact of Diet-Induced Rise in Fat Mass on Adipose Tissue Before and During Pregnancy in Rats.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Research Supporting Chile's Anti-Obesity Regulations Doesn't Tell Us If the Regulations Work.
• A.I. Gives Cheesecake and Brats an A+ in Nutrition?

Clinical

• 'Just Because I'm Old It Doesn't Mean I Have to Be Fat': A Qualitative Study Exploring Older Adults' Views and Experiences of Weight Management.
• Weight Loss and Weight Gain Among Participants in a Community-based Weight Loss Challenge.
• Infographic. The Effects of Frequency, Intensity, Duration and Volume of Walking Interventions on CVD Risk Factors: A Systematic Review and Meta-regression Analysis of RCTs Among Inactive Healthy Adults.
• RCT: Improved Menstrual Function in Obese Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome After Behavioural Modification Intervention.
• "One year of a digitally supported [comprehensive continuous care intervention] significantly improved surrogates of NAFLD and advanced fibrosis in patients with T2D."
• RCT: Effect of Integrated Behavioral Weight Loss Treatment and Problem-Solving Therapy on BMI and Depressive Symptoms Among Patients with Obesity and Depression.

Children and Adolescents

• Fat Mass Predicts Food-specific Inhibitory Control in Children.
• Serum Interleukin 15 in Adolescent Girls with Obesity, Normal Weight, and Anorexia Nervosa.
• Obesity Measured as Percent Body Fat, Relationship with BMI, and Percentile Curves for Mexican Pediatric Population.

Surgery

• Change in Gastrointestinal Symptoms Over the First 5 Years After Bariatric Surgery in a Multicenter Cohort of Adolescents.
• Contraceptive Use Among Adolescent Female Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Patients.

Drugs

• Weight Loss Medications in the Treatment of Obesity and Hypertension.
• RCT: Adjunctive Telmisartan Treatment on Body Metabolism in Clozapine or Olanzapine Treated Patients with Schizophrenia.
• RCT: Effect of Liraglutide on Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Patients with Hypertension and Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: Mineralocorticoid Antagonism Enhances Brown Adipose Tissue Function in Humans.

Food & Diet

• Effect of 8-hour Time-restricted Feeding on Sleep Quality and Duration in Adults with Obesity.
• The Effect of Canola Oil on Body Weight and Composition: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of RCTs.
• RCT: Effects of Cocoa-rich Chocolate on the Ventricle-arterial Coupling and Vascular Function of Young and Healthy Adults.
• RCT: A Plant-Based Meal Stimulates Incretin and Insulin Secretion More than an Energy- and Macronutrient-Matched Standard Meal in Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: Energy Drinks Induce Acute Cardiovascular and Metabolic Changes Pointing to Potential Risks for Young Adults.
• A Systematic Review of the Association of Skipping Breakfast with Weight and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Children and Adolescents. What Should We Better Investigate in the Future?
• Fast-Food Offerings in the United States in 1986, 1991, and 2016 Show Large Increases in Food Variety, Portion Size, Dietary Energy, and Selected Micronutrients.
• REVIEW: Dietary Fibers as Emerging Nutritional Factors Against Diabetes: Focus on the Involvement of Gut Microbiota.

Caloric Restriction

• Anti-inflammatory Action of β-hydroxybutyrate Via Modulation of PGC-1α and FoxO1, Mimicking Calorie Restriction.
• Maternal Age Alters Offspring Lifespan, Fitness, and Lifespan Extension Under Caloric Restriction.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Ground Reaction Forces in Ballet: Differences Resulting From Footwear and Jump Conditions.
• RCT: "Effect of a multifactorial intervention on the increase in physical activity in subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus."
• Motor Competence, Perceived Physical Competence, Physical Fitness, and Physical Activity Within Finnish Children.
• Effect of a Behavioral Intervention Strategy on Sustained Change in Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

Economics & Sociology

• The Influence of Immigrant Generation on Obesity Among Asian Americans in California From 2013 to 2014.
• Heterogeneity in the Effect of Mid-childhood Height and Weight Gain on Human Capital at Age 14-15 Years.
• Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Feeding Practices in Finnish Preschools.

Epidemiology

• Smoking and Obesity as Risk Factors in Frontotemporal Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease.
• Impact of Maternal BMI and Gestational Weight Gain on Pregnancy Complications: An Individual Participant Data Meta‐analysis of European, North American and Australian Cohorts.
• Reducing Waste in Nutritional Epidemiology: Review and Perspectives.
• Serum Apolipoprotein B is Associated with Increased Risk of Metabolic Syndrome Among Middle‐aged and Elderly Chinese: A Cross‐sectional and Prospective Cohort Study.
• "The risk of developing an obesity-related cancer seems to be increasing in a stepwise manner in successively younger birth cohorts in the USA."
• Obesity and Bone Health Revisited: A Mendelian Randomization Study for Koreans.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Anxiety Increases Visual Attention to Hedonic Foods: A Preliminary Eye-tracking Study on the Impact of the Interplay Between Integral and Incidental Affect on Foods.
• Overeating and Binge Eating Among Immigrants in the United States: New Terrain for the Healthy Immigrant Hypothesis.
• Potential Moderators of the Portion Size Effect.
• Longitudinal Associations Between Emotion Regulation and Adiposity in Late Adolescence: Indirect Effects Through Eating Behaviors.

Equity and Disparities

• Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Association Between Adverse Childhood Experience, Perceived Discrimination and BMI.
• RCT: Effect of a Breakfast in the Classroom Initiative on Obesity in Urban School-aged Children.

Stigma

• An Exploratory Study of the Public Dining Experience of Obese People.
• The Effects of Parental and Peer Factors on Psychiatric Symptoms in Adolescents with Obesity.
• Systematic Review: Weight Bias in Educational Setting.

Policy Related

• The Effect of Randomly Providing Nutri-Score Information on Actual Purchases in Colombia.
• Hunger or Deportation: Implications of the Trump Administration’s Proposed Public Charge Rule.
• Two Year Follow-up of Schools in Randomised Trial to Assess the Sustainability of an Intervention to Improve the Implementation of a School-based Nutrition Policy.
• Communicating Risk Regarding Food Consumption: The Case of Processed Meat.
• Sodium and Potassium Dietary Reference Intake Values Updated in New Report; Introduces New Category for Sodium Based on Chronic Disease Risk Reduction.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Predation Decreases Cohort Foraging Activity and Growth, Yet Increases Individual Size Variation in Prey.
• Brown Adipose Tissue Plays Thermoregulatory Role Within the Thermoneutral Zone in Mongolian Gerbils (Meriones Unguiculatus).

Methods

• RCT: Measurement of Health and Social Behaviors in Schoolchildren: Comparing Paper Versus Electronic Mode.
• Comparison of Psychometric Properties Between Recall Methods of Interview-based Physical Activity Questionnaires: A Systematic Review.
• Comparing Physical Activity Estimates in Children From Hip-worn Actigraph GT3X+ Accelerometers Using Raw and Counts Based Processing Methods.
• Congruent Validity of Resting Energy Expenditure Predictive Equations in Young Adults.
• Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in Western Countries: Discrepancies in Published Estimates.

Commentary

• Stop the Patient Blame Game: What Actually Causes Obesity?
• Fat Cell Genes Punch the Clock to Carry Out Key Metabolic Functions.
• Addressing Medicine’s Bias Against Patients Who are Overweight.
• A National Institute of Nutrition: Of Science, Sense, and Sisyphus.
• Myths, Presumptions, and Denying Access to Obesity Care.

General

• Introducing ELife’s First Computationally Reproducible Article.
• Social Determinants of Health-Related Quality of Life: A Recreation Setting Analysis.
• Too Much Academic Science is Bad Science.
• Fighting Fake Science: Barriers and Solutions.
• Scientific Integrity Principles and Best Practices: Recommendations From a Scientific Integrity Consortium.
• Treatment Effects in Multicenter RCTs.
• The Case for Being Skeptical of Moral Outrage.
• Will Scientific Error Checkers Become as Ubiquitous as Spell-checkers?
• The Real Cost of Knowledge.
• Senators Tell FDA to Speed Up Approvals of Generic Insulin.
• "This study found sex differences in the size of NIH funds awarded to comparable first-time female and male PIs, even at top research institutions."

Video & Audio

• Audio: Sara Bleich on Menu Labeling, Marketing and Public Health.
• Audio: Cheryl Queen on Corporate Responsibility and Power in the Food Industry.

Announcements

• July at Cornell: 2019 WHO/Cochrane/Cornell Summer Institute for Systematic Reviews in Nutrition for Global Policy Making.
• 7th Annual Weight Stigma Conference 27th – 28th June 2019, London, Ontario, Canada.
• 6th Canadian Obesity Summit, April 23-26, 2019, the Westin, Ottawa, Ont.
• From the Desk: Provost Robel Reflects on Campus Progress and Looks Forward.
• 3 Hoosier Cities Land on '100 Best Places to Live' List.
• Call for Papers: 7th Annual Obesity Journal Symposium.
• Body Composition Measurements From Birth Through 5 Years: Challenges, Gaps, and Existing & Emerging Technologies; May 30-31, 2019.
• NORC of UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• IU School of Public Health Bloomington Continues Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track Positions Available in Every Department: Multiple Listings Posted.
• Short Courses on Obesity, Mathematics, and Causal Inference Recommence in Summer 2019!

Featured

• RCT: "A breakfast in the classroom initiative ...had an unintended consequence of increasing incident and prevalent obesity."
• The Effects of Roux En Y Gastric Bypass Surgery on Neurobehavioral Symptom Domains Associated with Severe Obesity.
• The Effects of a Teaching Intervention on Weight Bias Among Kinesiology Undergraduate Students.
• Predictors of Weight Change: Findings From an Employee Wellness Program.
• Development and Testing of a Multicomponent Obesogenic Built Environment Measure for Youth Using Kernel Density Estimations.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Sofas, Vinyl Flooring Might Put Kids at Risk of Cancer, Obesity and More.
• Press Release: "Children carry evidence of toxins from home flooring and furniture." Obesity not measured; study is AAAS meeting presentation.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Significant Effect of Impact of Sit-stand Desks at Work on Energy Expenditure or Anthropometric Variables.
• "No significant differences were found in the pharmacokinetics of tramadol and O-desmethyltramadol, indicating that the opioid can be administered to overweight, obese and diabetic patients without dosage adjustment."
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Performance Review and Facilitated Feedback to Increase Implementation of Healthy Eating and Physical Activity-promoting Policies and Practices in Centre-based Childcare.
• "This meta-analysis suggested no effect of kiwifruit on metabolic health in patients with cardiovascular risk factors..."
• No Evidence that Changes in Weight Status Affect Cognitive Function in Children and Adolescents with Obesity? A Secondary Analysis of a Clinical Trial.
• RCT: "The probiotics used in this study did not prevent GDM in overweight and obese pregnant women."
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Fermented Camel Milk on Obesity Measures and Blood Pressure of Adolescents with Metabolic Syndrome.
• One-year Treatment with Gonadotropin-releasing Hormone Analogues Does Not Affect BMI, Insulin Sensitivity or Lipid Profile in Girls with Central Precocious Puberty.

Basic

• Gestational Caloric Restriction Improves Redox Homeostasis Parameters in the Brain of Wistar Rats: A Screening From Birth to Adulthood.
• MiR-27b-3p Inhibition Enhances Browning of Epididymal Fat in High-Fat Diet Induced Obese Mice.
• Combination of Exercise and Calorie Restriction Exerts Greater Efficacy on Cardioprotection than Monotherapy in Obese-insulin Resistant Rats Through the Improvement of Cardiac Calcium Regulation.
• Metabolic and Gut Microbial Characterization of Obesity-prone Mice Under High-fat Diet.
• The Less Weight Loss Due to Modest Food Restriction Drove More Fat Accumulation in Striped Hamsters Refed with High–fat Diet.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Systematic Review: "Industry-funded parallel design RCTs evaluating drugs exhibited the most methodological protections against bias."
• "if we persist in focusing on flimsy methods for measuring success – like focus groups and surrogate behavior measures – we will continue to see very little progress."

Clinical

• RCT: Effect of a Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention in People with Serious Mental Illness and Diabetes.
• One‐year Weight Loss Maintenance Outcomes Following a Worksite‐based Weight Reduction Program Among Japanese Men with Cardiovascular Risk Factors.
• Strategies for Glycemic Control in Nonobese and Obese Type 2 Diabetic Patients with Coronary Artery Disease.
• Seasonal Variations in the Achievement of Guideline Targets for HbA1c, Blood Pressure, and Cholesterol Among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Effect of a Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention in People with Serious Mental Illness and Diabetes.
• Achievement of Guideline-Recommended Weight Loss Among Patients with Ischemic Stroke and Obesity.
• RCT: Exercise Videogames, Physical Activity, and Health: Wii Heart Fitness.
• Enrollment Challenges: Recruiting Men to Weight Loss Interventions.

Children and Adolescents

• Consumption of Ultraprocessed Foods, Nutritional Status, and Dyslipidemia in Schoolchildren: A Cohort Study.
• Association of Bisphenol a and Its Substitutes, Bisphenol F and Bisphenol S, with Obesity in United States Children and Adolescents.

Surgery

• The Effectiveness and Safety of Barbed Sutures in the Bariatric Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy as Day-case Surgery: A Case-matched Study.
• The Dutch Bariatric Weight Loss Chart: A Multicenter Tool to Assess Weight Outcome Up to 7 Years After Sleeve Gastrectomy and Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.
• Changes in Sexual Functioning in Women and Men in the 5 Years After Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• RCT: Intrauterine Metformin Exposure and Offspring Cardiometabolic Risk Factors (PedMet Study): A 5-10 Year Follow-up of the PregMet Trial.
• RCT: Efficacy of Exercise with and Without Metformin on Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.
• Golean Detox USA Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Golean DETOX Capsules Due to Presence of Undeclared Sibutramine and Phenolphthalein.
• Mendelian Obesity, Molecular Pathways and Pharmacological Therapies: A Review. (pdf)

Food & Diet

• RCT: Attenuation of Postmeal Metabolic Indices with Red Raspberries in Individuals at Risk for Diabetes.
• RCT: Acceptability of Alginate Enriched Bread and Its Effect on Fat Digestion in Humans.
• Log Often, Lose More: Electronic Dietary Self‐Monitoring for Weight Loss.
• Effects of Paleolithic Diet on Glucose Control in Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Controlled Clinical Trials.
• Consumption of Brazil Nuts with High Selenium Levels Increased Inflammation Biomarkers in Obese Women.
• Offering Breakfast in the Classroom and Children’s Weight Outcomes.
• Metabolizable Energy From Cashew Nuts is Less than that Predicted By Atwater Factors.
• The Role of Dietary Sugars in Health: Molecular Composition or Just Calories?

Caloric Restriction

• Dietary Methionine Restriction Ameliorates the Impairment of Learning and Memory Function Induced By Obesity in Mice.
• Selenocysteine Mimics the Effect of Dietary Restriction on Lifespan Via SKN‑1 and Retards Age‑associated Pathophysiological Changes in Caenorhabditis Elegans.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Gut Microbiota Diversity Associates with Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Post‐primary Treatment Breast Cancer Survivors.
• RCT: Effect of a Long Bout Versus Short Bouts of Walking on Weight Loss During a Weight‐Loss Diet.
• Obese Adults Walk Differently in Shoes than While Barefoot.
• Dose-response Associations of Cardiorespiratory Fitness with All-cause Mortality and Incidence and Mortality of Cancer and Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases: The UK Biobank Cohort Study.

Economics & Sociology

• Nudging to Change: Using Behavioral Economics Theory to Move People and Their Health Care Partners Toward Effective Type 2 Diabetes Prevention.
• Social Networks and Physical Activity in Senior Housing: A Pilot Feasibility Study.
• Real-world Impact of Ongoing Regular Exercise in Overweight and Obese US Adults with Diabetes on Health Care Utilization and Expenses.

Epidemiology

• Rural-urban Differences in Health Behaviors and Outcomes Among Older, Overweight, Long-term Cancer Survivors in the RENEW RCT.
• "Lesbian and bi women at increased risk of being overweight."
• Cardiometabolic Risk Factors Differ Among Adolescents with Obesity in Three European Countries – a Cross‐sectional Study.
• Influence of Obesity on Pneumococcus Infection Risk in the Elderly.
• Association of Obesity with Hearing Impairment in Adolescents.
• Body Composition and Diabetes Risk in South Asians: Findings From the MASALA and MESA Studies.
• A Potential Role of the Widespread Use of Microwave Ovens in the Obesity Epidemic.
• BMI Trajectories Preceding First Report of Poor Self-rated Health.
• Mental Illness, Not Obesity Status, is Associated with Food Insecurity Among the Elderly in the Health and Retirement Study.

Equity and Disparities

• Change in the Distribution of BMI in Brazil: Analysing the Interindividual Inequality Between 1974 and 2013.
• Obesity Among Black Women in Food Deserts: An “omnibus” Test of Differential Risk.
• Prevalence of Diabetes, Prediabetes, and Obesity in the Indigenous Kuna Population of Panamá.
• Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Association Between Adverse Childhood Experience, Perceived Discrimination and BMI in a National Sample of U.S. Older Adults.
• Sexual Orientation Identity in Relation to Unhealthy BMI: Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis of 93 429 Individuals From 12 UK Health Surveys.

Stigma

• The Importance of Language in Behavior Change.
• Body Dissatisfaction, Internalized Weight Bias and Quality of Life in Young Men and Women.
• Weight Bias in Pediatric Inpatient Care.

Policy Related

• Associations of Unhealthy Food Environment with the Development of Coronary Artery Calcification.
• Sugar Reduction in Post-Brexit UK: A Supply-Side Agenda. (pdf)
• Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption 3 Years After the Berkeley, California, Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax.
• Early Childhood Obesity Among Underserved Families: A Multilevel Community–Academic Partnership.
• Demystifying Public Health Policy Through Service-Learning Pedagogy.
• Health Policy Performance in 16 Caribbean States, 2010–2015.

Intergenerational Effects

• Obstructive Sleep Apnea is Associated with Altered Glycemic Patterns in Pregnant Women with Obesity.
• Associations of Maternal Diabetes and BMI with Offspring Birth Weight and Prematurity.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Nutrition and Its Role in Human Evolution.
• Higher Fat Stores Contribute to Persistence of Little Brown Bat Populations with White‐nose Syndrome.

Methods

• Convenience Behavior and Being Overweight in Adults: Development and Validation of the Convenience Behavior Questionnaire.
• The Use of Whole Body Calorimetry to Compare Measured Versus Predicted Energy Expenditure in Postpartum Women.
• Measuring Nutritional Knowledge Using Item Response Theory and Its Validity in European Adolescents.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Bariatric Surgery for Patients with Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis Cirrhosis.
• Dynamic model predicting overweight and obesity in Korean adolescents.

Commentary

• A New Expert Committee for New Dietary Guidelines.
• Commentary: Sexual Function After Bariatric Surgery.
• Should You Eat or Skip Breakfast?
• Can You Judge a Processed Food By Its Name?
• Neither Racial Bias Nor Weight Bias is Acceptable.
• U.S. Soda Taxes Work, Studies Suggest — but Maybe Not as Well as Hoped.
• Did the Government’s Dietary Guidelines Help Make Us Fat?
• Health Check: Will Eating Nuts Make You Gain Weight?
• Unintended Consequences From Pushing Breakfast.
• We Need Better Answers on Nutrition.

General

• Comparing the Convergent and Concurrent Validity of the Dynamic Gait Index with the Berg Balance Scale in People with Multiple Sclerosis.
• Why Misinformation is About Who You Trust, Not What You Think.
• Study Yields New Clues to Predict Tipping Points for Marsh Survival.
• Ecological Consequences of Sexually Selected Traits: An Eco-Evolutionary Perspective.
• Length and Robusticity of Metacarpals and Metatarsals to Estimate Physiological Sex From Ancient Maya Skeletal Remains in Northern Belize.
• How to Upgrade Your Thinking and Avoid Traps that Make You Look Stupid.
• Four African American Scientists and Inventors Who Changed the Food Industry.
• Black Leopard Confirmed in Africa for First Time in 100 Years.
• Syringe Service Programming is Good Public Health Policy.
• Less Food Access but More Weight Gain: How Hospitals Tackle the Paradox of Food Insecurity.
• Causal Inference About Good and Bad Outcomes.
• Misunderstood Food Date Labels and Reported Food Discards: A Survey of U.S. Consumer Attitudes and Behaviors.
• The State of the World's Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture. (pdf)

Announcements

• New Book: "The Truth About Food: Why Pandas Eat Bamboo and People Get Bamboozled."
• Introducing the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.
• A Health Equity Approach to Obesity Efforts: A Workshop.
• Register Now! Report Release Webinar for Dietary Reference Intakes for Sodium and Potassium.
• Indiana University Named Top Producer for Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
• Members of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Announced.
• NORC of UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• IU School of Public Health Bloomington Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track Positions Available in Every Department and Two Department Chairs Open: See Multiple Listings Posted Here.