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Featured

• RCT: Metformin Blunts Muscle Hypertrophy in Response to Progressive Resistance Exercise Training in Older Adults.
• RCT: Effects of High-intensity Interval Training Versus Moderate-intensity Training on Cardiometabolic Health Markers in Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury.
• Treatment of Adolescent Obesity in 2020.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Dark Chocolate Reduces Depression, Finds Study.
• Study: Cross-sectional Association of Self-reported Dark Chocolate Consumption and Depressive Symptoms.
• Counter Headline: No, Eating Chocolate Won’t Cure Depression.
• Headline: Fast Food May Be a Prime Culprit in Teenage Depression.
• Study: Measured Sodium and Potassium Excretion Associated with Depression in 84 Urban Adolescents.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "The results also showed no effect of the messages on parents’ food selection."
• RCT: "In conclusion, the present study shows no relevant effect of meal composition or postprandial activity behavior regarding subjective mood and none of the four treatment conditions can be rated superior in older adults with a risk phenotype for cardiovascular diseases."
• Meta-Analysis: Three RCTs offer limited evidence that "FMT [fecal microbiota transplantation] in patients with obesity and MS showed a short-term benefit on insulin sensitivity but did not confer a benefit with regards to other clinical parameters."
• RCT: "Although carbohydrate mouth rinsing has been shown to be effective in increasing aerobic performance, the results from this investigation show no benefit in RE [resistance exercise] performance in resistance-trained males."
• RCT: "A 24-week exercise and nutrition supplementation program among community-living people in late midlife to early old age improved self-rated health and the overall level of physical activity, without objective improvements in physical and cognitive function."
• RCT: Adding Smartwatch to Theoretically Based, Social Media-delivered Health Education Intervention Did Not Result in Substantial Improvement in Outcomes for College Students' Health Behaviors/outcomes.
• RCT: No Ergogenic Effects of a 10-day Combined Heat and Hypoxic Acclimation on Aerobic Performance in Normoxic Thermoneutral or Hot Conditions.
• RCT: No Significant Effectiveness Demonstrated in Trial of the 5A's Model for Changing Physical Activity Behaviors in Rural Adults Recruited From Primary Care Clinics.
• Dark Chocolate Not Shown to Benefit Retinal Blood Flow, Visual Function Vs. Milk Chocolate.
• Systematic Review: "Energy and macronutrient intake were not detectably different in night shift compared to other shift patterns."

Basic

• The Hepatokine Tsukushi Gates Energy Expenditure Via Brown Fat Sympathetic Innervation.
• Phospholipid Methylation Regulates Muscle Metabolic Rate Through Ca2+ Transport Efficiency.
• Adipose Tissue–derived WNT5A Regulates Vascular Redox Signaling in Obesity Via USP17/RAC1-mediated Activation of NADPH Oxidases.
• Cold-induced Lipid Dynamics and Transcriptional Programs in White Adipose Tissue.
• MAPK Erk5 in Leptin Receptor-Expressing Neurons Controls Body Weight and Systemic Energy Homeostasis in Female Mice.
• Metabolic Disturbances of a High Fat Diet are Dependent on APOE Genotype and Sex.
• Fundamental Roles for Hypoxia Signalling in Adipose Tissue Metabolism and Inflammation in Obesity.
• Four Nights of Sleep Restriction Suppress the Postprandial Lipemic Response and Decrease Satiety.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Comment [at Bottom of Page] on Incorrect Analysis in ‘Effectiveness of a Normative Nutrition Intervention in Chilean Pregnant Women on Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes: The CHiMINCs Study’.
• Am I Going to Need a Smaller Plate? In Which I Juggle a New Weight Loss Trial & Old Systematic Reviews.
• That Study About the Health Risks of Red Meat: An Excellent News Report.
• New “guidelines” Say Continue Red Meat Consumption Habits, but Recommendations Contradict Evidence.
• Meta-analysis: Effects of Carbohydrate Mouth Rinse on Cycling Time Trial Performance.
• Comment: Effects of Carbohydrate Mouth Rinse on Cycling Time Trial Performance.
• Reply: Effect of Carbohydrate Mouth Rinse on Cycling Time Trial Performance.
• "This error occurred because the case register form the authors used selects the male gender by default, and the researcher who registered these 6 patients did not correctly change it to female."

Clinical

• Self-Weighing and Visual Feedback Facilitates Self-Directed Learning in Adults Who are Overweight and Obese.
• Factors Associated with Improving Diet and Physical Activity Among Persons with Excess Body Weight.
• RCT: Text Messaging and Brief Phone Calls for Weight Loss in Overweight and Obese English- and Spanish-speaking Adults.
• RCT: Reduction in Glycated Hemoglobin and Daily Insulin Dose Alongside Circadian Clock Upregulation in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Consuming a Three-Meal Diet.
• RCT: A Clinical Carepath for Obese Pregnant Women.
• Psychosocial and Behavioral Predictors of Successful Weight Loss in Individuals that are Obese.

Children and Adolescents

• Predicting Early Emergence of Childhood Obesity in Underserved Preschoolers.
• Meta-Analysis: Effects of Exercise Intervention on Health-Related Physical Fitness and Blood Pressure in Preschool Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of RCTs.
• Lifestyle and Environmental Factors Associated with Predictors of Childhood Obesity.
• Maternal BMI Change Linked to Child Activity Change in Family-Based Behavioral Interventions for Pediatric Weight Management.

Surgery

• Disease–Treatment Interactions in the Management of Patients with Obesity and Diabetes with Atrial Fibrillation: The Potential Mediating Influence of Epicardial Adipose Tissue.
• Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease is Associated with Impairment of Ejection Fraction Among Individuals with Obesity Undergoing Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• Effects of Lorcaserin on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Overweight and Obese Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• RCT: Investigating Optimal β-cell-preserving Treatment in Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults.
• RCT: Effect of Linagliptin vs Glimepiride on Major Adverse Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

Food & Diet

• Associations Between Food Security Status and Diet-Related Outcomes Among Students at a Large, Public Midwestern University.
• Quality Matters: A Meta-analysis on Components of Healthy Family Meals.
• RCT: Postprandial Glycemic and Insulinemic Effects of the Addition of Aqueous Extracts of Dried Corn Silk, Cumin Seed Powder or Tamarind Pulp, in Two Forms, Consumed with High Glycemic Index Rice.
• Review of Current Evidence and Clinical Recommendations on the Effects of Low-carbohydrate and Very-low-carbohydrate (including Ketogenic) Diets for the Management of Body Weight and Other Cardiometabolic Risk Factors: A Scientific Statement From the National Lipid Association Nutrition and Lifestyle Task Force.
• Changes in Nut Consumption Influence Long-term Weight Change in US Men and Women.
• The Effect of Low Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load Diets on Hepatic Fat Mass, Insulin Resistance, and Blood Lipid Panels in Individuals with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.

Caloric and Dietary Restriction

• Appetite Control is Improved By Acute Increases in Energy Turnover at Different Levels of Energy Balance.
• Urinary Total T3 Levels as a Method to Monitor Metabolic Changes in Relation to Variation in Caloric Intake in Captive Bonobos (Pan Paniscus).
• Evaluating Insulin/Glucose Ratio Using Breakfast of Calorie Restriction Meal for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Comparison of Blood Carbonic Anhydrase Activity of Athletes Performing Interval and Continuous Running Exercise at High Altitude.
• Adverse Events of Exercise Therapy in RCTs: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Potential Implications of Blood Flow Restriction Exercise on Vascular Health: A Brief Review.
• Free Time and Physical Activity Among Americans 15 Years or Older: Cross-sectional Analysis of the American Time Use Survey.

Economics & Sociology

• The Association Between Neighborhood Socioeconomic Deprivation, Cardiorespiratory Fitness, and Physical Activity in US Youth.
• Longitudinal Associations of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status with Cardiovascular Risk Factors: A 46-year Follow-up Study.
• BMI and Labor Market Participation: A Cohort Study of Transitions Between Work, Unemployment, and Sickness Absence.

Epidemiology

• Comparisons of Self‐Reported and Measured Height and Weight, BMI, and Obesity Prevalence From National Surveys: 1999‐2016.
• NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery in Young and Older Adults Reliability and Relationship to Adiposity and Physical Activity.
• Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity in Midlife and Breast Cancer Risk in the Reykjavik Cohort.
• Examining the Connection Between Residential Histories and Obesity Among Ghanaians: Evidence From a National Survey.
• Geographic Availability of Physicians Certified By the American Board of Obesity Medicine Relative to Obesity Prevalence.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• RCT: Experimental Non-severe Hypoglycaemia Substantially Impairs Cognitive Function in Type 2 Diabetes.
• Intolerance of Uncertainty and Eating Disorder Behaviour: Piloting a Consumption Task in a Non-clinical Sample.
• The Association Between ADHD and Obesity: Intriguing, Progressively More Investigated, but Still Puzzling.
• Effectiveness of a Social Media Intervention for Reducing Portion Sizes.
• Associations Between Self-monitoring and Weight Change in Behavioral Weight Loss Interventions.

Equity and Disparities

• Five Fruit and Vegetable a Day Does Not Reflect the Upward Trend of Obesity in the U.S.
• Geodatabase Development for Visualizing Obesity Risk Factors in New Mexico–Mexico Border Communities.
• Widening Childhood Obesity Inequalities in Birmingham Primary Schools – a Longitudinal Analysis and Multi-level Linear Regression of BMI Changes Between 2006-2015.

Stigma

• News: Treat Obesity with the Same Effort Used to Reduce Smoking, Says Lead Psychologist.
• Obesity Education in Medical Schools, Residencies, and Fellowships Throughout the World: A Systematic Review.
• News: 'Fat Shaming is Just Bullying'.
• News: Obesity as a Protected Class.
• News: NEDA Continues Legacy of Weight Stigma Awareness Week.
• Obesity Stigma in Germany and the United States.

Policy Related

• Unprocessed Red Meat and Processed Meat Consumption: Dietary Guideline Recommendations From the Nutritional Recommendations (NutriRECS) Consortium.
• cRCT: Conditional Cash Transfer And/or Lipid-based Nutrient Supplement Targeting the First 1000 D of Life Increased Attendance at Preventive Care Services but Did Not Improve Linear Growth in Young Children in Rural Mali.

Intergenerational Effects

• The Effects of Dietary Fatty Acids in the Physiological Outcomes of Maternal High-fat Diet on Offspring Energy Homeostasis in Mice.
• Maternal and Cord Blood Folate Concentrations are Inversely Associated with Fetal DNA Hydroxymethylation, but Not DNA Methylation, in a Cohort of Pregnant Canadian Women.
• The Impact of Maternal Pre-pregnancy Impaired Fasting Glucose on Preterm Birth and Large for Gestational Age: A Large Population-based Cohort Study.
• Paternal Nongenetic Intergenerational Transmission of Metabolic Disease Risk.
• Strength of Nonhuman Primate Studies of Developmental Programming: Review of Sample Sizes, Challenges, and Steps for Future Work.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Developmental Delay in Shivering Limits Thermogenic Capacity in Juvenile High-altitude Deer Mice (Peromyscus Maniculatus).
• Parental Responses to Increasing Levels of Handicapping in a Burying Beetle.

Methods

• Using Metabolite Profiling to Construct and Validate a Metabolite Risk Score for Predicting Future Weight Gain.
• Examining Mexican-Heritage Mothers' Perceptions of Their Children's Weight: Comparison of Silhouette and Categorical Survey Methods.
• Adaptive Empirical Pattern Transformation (Adept) with Application to Walking Stride Segmentation.
• Detailed 3-dimensional Body Shape Features Predict Body Composition, Blood Metabolites, and Functional Strength.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Errors in BMI From Self-Reported Data By Sex and Across Waves of Add Health.

Commentary

• Sugar: Solve for the Answer You Like.
• Bariatric Surgery and Its Role in Obesity Pandemic.
• Exposure to Endocrine-disrupting Chemicals and Cardiometabolic Disease: A Developmental Origins Approach.
• Will Plant-Based Fast Food Sweep the Planet?
• Fundamental Roles for Hypoxia Signalling in Adipose Tissue Metabolism and Inflammation in Obesity.
• Lipedema: An Overdue Call to Action.
• (In)visible Women: A Narrative Study of Larger Women's Pregnant Embodiment and Maternal Healthcare.
• Obesity Medicine Education: Effective but Uncommon.
• The Saddest Leafy Green.
• Meat Eating and Your Health: Is There, Really, News?
• 17 Years of Nutritional Advice.
• A Red Meat Issue Flames Up.

General

• A Keeper of Many Crypts: A Behaviour-manipulating Parasite Attacks a Taxonomically Diverse Array of Oak Gall Wasp Species.
• The Untapped Potential of Reptile Biodiversity for Understanding How and Why Animals Age.
• Evaluating the Cumulative Impact of Childhood Misfortune: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach.
• Moving Beyond the Current Limits of Data Analysis in Longevity and Healthy Lifespan Studies.
• Construction of a Comprehensive Observer-based Scale Assessing Aging-related Health and Functioning in Captive Rhesus Macaques.
• Senolytics Decrease Senescent Cells in Humans: Preliminary Report From a Clinical Trial of Dasatinib Plus Quercetin in Individuals with Diabetic Kidney Disease.
• Journals’ Instructions to Authors: A Cross-sectional Study Across Scientific Disciplines.
• 400 Years and (re)counting.
• Major Error Undermines Study Suggesting Change Introduced in the CRISPR Babies Experiment Shortens Lives.
• Counterfactual Thinking: Imagining What Might Have Been.
• Scientific Sinkhole: The Pernicious Price of Formatting.

Announcements

• IUB SPH Emerging Luminaries Symposium Celebrates Cutting-edge Scholars, Stimulates Research with Unique Grant Proposal Partnership Challenge Prize.
• TOS Blackburn Symposium on Intermittent Fasting and Circadian Rhythms – Does When You Eat Matter?
• Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior Conference Program Proposals Due Oct. 4.
• Fellowship: AHA's Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• Fellowship: UAB Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• 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!

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.