Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• RCT: Effects of a Low Carbohydrate Diet on Energy Expenditure During Weight Loss Maintenance.
• Effect of Carbohydrate Ingestion on Central Fatigue During Prolonged Running Exercise in Moderate Hypoxia.
• Web-Based Educational Seminars Compare Favorably with In-House Seminars for Bariatric Surgery Patients.
• The Evolution of Lactase Persistence: Milk Consumption, Insulin-Like Growth Factor I, and Human Life-History Parameters.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Skipping Breakfast May Lead to Obesity, Study Finds.
• Study: Delayed Feeding Protocol Increased Body Weight, Affected Metabolism, and Altered Circadian Oscillation... In Rats.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "In conclusion, the ASK school-based physical activity intervention showed no significant effect on HRQoL."
• RCT: "Even a very intense exposure to TV advertising promoting fruit consumption is not enough to make children eat more fruit."
• RCT: "...there were no intervention effects in the overall group..." in trial promoting child self-regulation around energy-dense food.
• RCT: "Main and intervention effects were not found for any of the children’s PA levels" in a Parental Modeling Intervention.
• RCT: "honey does not have an effect on stimulated plasma glucose and serum insulin concentrations compared with the standard glucose solution in obese prepubertal girls."
• RCT: "a community-based, multisetting, multistrategy intervention program for healthy weight development and lifestyle choices...[in] 2250 children aged 8 to 10 years ...had no significant effect on the BMI z-score, incidence of general and abdominal obesity…."
• RCT: "In conclusion, the results of this study do not indicate that the GI of potatoes is important for satiety in normal-weight men."
• RCT: "Compared with usual care, the NET-Works intervention showed no significant difference in BMI change at 24 (–0.12 kg/m2; 95% confidence interval [CI] = −0.44, 0.19) or 36 months (–0.19 kg/m2; 95% CI = −0.64, 0.26)," the primary outcomes.
• Consumption of 1-5 Whole Eggs [per 2000 Kcal] Dose-dependently Increases Liver Cholesterol but Not Plasma Cholesterol and Egg White Has No Effect on Liver and Plasma Cholesterol in Hamsters.
• No Association of Either Fruits or Vegetables with Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Middle-aged Men and Women.
• Eating Frequency is Not Associated with Obesity in Chinese Adults.

Basic

• Reduced Oxygen Consumption By Fat Cells Improves Metabolic Defects.
• Metabolic Reprogramming of Natural Killer Cells in Obesity Limits Antitumor Responses.
• Acyl-ghrelin Mediated Lipid Retention and Inflammation in Obesity-related Type 2 Diabetes.
• Obesity-associated Exosomal MiRNAs Modulate Glucose and Lipid Metabolism in Mice.
• Anti-Obesity Potential of Rare Sugar D-psicose By Regulating Lipid Metabolism in Rats.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Recent Headlines About Low-Carb Diets are Misleading.
• Letter to the Editor: Risk Thresholds for Alcohol Consumption.

Clinical

• Men and Women Respond Differently to Rapid Weight Loss: Metabolic Outcomes of a Multi-centre Intervention Study After a Low-energy Diet.
• Safety of Obese Persons in Nursing Homes.
• Pilot RCT: Effects of Indoor Thermal Environment on Human Food Intake, Productivity, and Comfort.
• RCT: A High Weekly Dose of Cholecalciferol and Calcium Supplement Enhances Weight Loss and Improves Health Biomarkers in Obese Women.

Children and Adolescents

• RCT: Smartphone-Based Healthy Weight Management Intervention for Chinese American Adolescents: Short-Term Efficacy and Factors Associated with Decreased Weight.
• RCT: Effects of a Community‐Based Diabetes Prevention Program for Latino Youth with Obesity.
• School Start Time Changes in the COMPASS Study: Associations with Youth Sleep Duration, Physical Activity, and Screen Time.

Surgery

• Meta analysis: Evaluation of All Types of Metabolic Bariatric Surgery and Its Consequences.
• Influence of Gastric Bypass Surgery on Resting Energy Expenditure, Body Composition, Physical Activity, and Thyroid Hormones in Morbidly Obese Patients.
• Issue: Plastic Surgery After Weight Loss.

Drugs

• RCT: Gelesis100: A Novel Nonsystemic Oral Hydrogel for Weight Loss.
• Review: Weight Loss Associated with Sodium-glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibition.

Food & Diet

• Meta-analysis: "Compared with omnivores, vegetarians and vegans had lower BMD at the femoral neck and lumbar spine and vegans also had higher fracture rates."
• Science Special Issue: Diet and Health.
• Alcohol Intake and Weight Loss During Intensive Lifestyle Intervention for Adults with Overweight or Obesity and Diabetes.
• Short-Term Effects of Healthy Eating Pattern Cycling on Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: Pooled Results From Two RCTs.

Caloric Restriction

• Selenocysteine Mimics the Effect of Dietary Restriction on Lifespan Via SKN‑1 and Retards Age‑associated Pathophysiological Changes in Caenorhabditis Elegans.
• Mechanisms Through Which Lithocholic Acid Delays Yeast Chronological Aging Under Caloric Restriction Conditions.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Systematic Review: Exercise Timing in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• Association of Sickle Cell Trait and Hemoglobin S Percentage with Physical Fitness.

Economics & Sociology

• Integrating Sociological Perspectives Into Obesogenic Research: Associations Between Air Pollution Exposure and Obesity Prevalence Across U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Areas.
• The Usefulness of Small-area-based Socioeconomic Characteristics in Assessing the Treatment Outcomes of Type 2 Diabetes Patients: A Register-based Mixed-effect Study.

Epidemiology

• Obesity and Diabetes Rates are Up in Every State.
• Association of Obesity with Mortality Over 24 Years of Weight History.
• High Waist-to-hip Ratio Levels are Associated with Insulin Resistance Markers in Normal-weight Women.
• Food Insecurity is Associated with Maladaptive Eating Behaviors and Objectively Measured Overeating.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Melanocortin-3 Receptors Expressed on Agouti-Related Peptide Neurons Inhibit Feeding Behavior in Female Mice.
• Homeostatic and neurocognitive control of energy intake in response to exercise in pediatric obesity: a psychobiological framework.

Stigma

• Social Stigma and Self-esteem as Mediators of the Relationship Between BMI and Internet Addiction Disorder.
• Mindfulness Capability Mediates the Association Between Weight-Based Stigma and Negative Emotion Symptoms.
• Time Course of Attentional Biases Toward Body Shapes in Women Who are Overweight or Obese.

Policy Related

• Use of Dairy Terms in the Labeling of Plant-Based Products.
• The Bitter Truth: Why Don't Sugar Taxes Work?
• Supporting a Sugar Tax in New Zealand: Sugar Sweetened Beverage (‘Fizzy Drink’) Consumption as a Normal Behaviour Within the Obesogenic Environment.
• Obesity, Political Responsibility, and the Politics of Needs.
• Commentary: Searching for Obesity Prevention Strategies that Work.
• Grappling with Complex Food Systems to Reduce Obesity: A US Public Health Challenge.
• FDA Statement: New Qualified Health Claim for Consuming Oils with High Levels of Oleic Acid to Reduce Coronary Heart Disease Risk.

Intergenerational Effects

• High-Fat Diet During the Perinatal Period Induces Loss of Myenteric Nitrergic Neurons and Increases Enteric Glial Density, Prior to the Development of Obesity.
• Prenatal Metformin Treatment Improves Ovarian Function in Offspring of Obese Rats.
• Identification of Novel LEPR Mutations in Pakistani Families with Morbid Childhood Obesity.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The AmP Project: Comparing Species on the Basis of Dynamic Energy Budget Parameters.
• Wing Morphology, Flight Type and Migration Distance Predict Accumulated Fuel Load in Birds.

Methods

• Image Warping Using WebGL for a Smart Avatar Animating Body Weight Evolution.
• Evaluation of a Patient Experience Tool in Dietetic Practice: Validation and Clinical Usage of the Assessment of Registered Dietitian Care Survey (ARCS).
• Fat Mass Estimation in Neonates: Anthropometric Models Compared with Air Displacement Plethysmography.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Echoes of Early Life: Recent Insights From Mathematical Modeling.
• Diet Has Independent Effects on the Pace and Shape of Aging in Drosophila Melanogaster.
• Proximity Effects in Obesity Rates in the US: A Spatial Markov Chains Approach.
• Mathematical Model for Body Fat Percentage in Military Using Thermal Imaging and Circumferences.

Commentary

• Food Color Does More than Guide Us—it Changes the Experience of Taste.
• Food Study Finds Benefits to Low-carb Diets.
• Poverty, Stress, and Access to Obesity Care.
• Research Center Finds New Links Between Obesity, Kidney Stones.
• How a Low-Carb Diet Might Help You Maintain a Healthy Weight.
• Does Cutting Carbs Really Help Keep Weight Off? The Big New Diet Study, Explained.
• How the Western Diet Has Derailed Our Evolution - Burgers and Fries Have Nearly Killed Our Ancestral Microbiome.
• Guests From Africa Learn Youth Sports, Public Health.
• Health Plans Punishing Members for Weight Loss.

General

• Is Smart Sexy? Examining the Role of Relative Intelligence in Mate Preferences.
• When Rats Rescue Robots.
• FDA Reminds Parents Not to Feed Honey to Children Younger than 1 Year: Honey Pacifiers Suspected in Texas Infant Botulism Cases.
• CBD: Weed Wonder Drug?
• Open is Not Enough.
• Early-life Exposure to Weather Shocks and Child Height: Evidence From Industrializing Japan.
• Symposium: Strengthening Aging Research: Experiences with Rigor, Reproducibility, and Transparency (Slides Available on Request).
• Protecting the Value of Medical Science in the Age of Social Media and “Fake News”.

Video & Audio

• SciFriday: The Social Power of Smell.
• Audio Abstract: Assessing the impact of nutrition interventions on health and nutrition outcomes of community-dwelling adults: a systematic review.

Announcements

• UAB: Pavela Elected to Lead Ethics Section for APHA.
• IU Bloomington: Faculty Member Elected to Serve as Nutrition Research Chair for ASN.
• FDA Extends Comment Period on Use of the Names of Dairy Foods in Labeling Plant-Based Products.
• UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• UAB’s NORC Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track Positions Available in Every Department and Two Department Chairs Open: See Multiple Listings Posted Here.

Featured

• High-throughput Screening for Selective Appetite Modulators: A Multibehavioral and Translational Drug Discovery Strategy.
• Gold Nanoparticles as Cell Regulators: Beneficial Effects of Gold Nanoparticles on the Metabolic Profile of Mice with Pre-existing Obesity.
• Objectively Measured Pediatric Obesity Prevalence Using the OneFlorida Clinical Research Consortium.

Headline vs Study

• Headlines vs Science on Obesity and Nutrition at OW2018.
• Headline: Air Pollution Can Make You Fat - Researchers.
• Study: Longitudinal Associations (Not Necessarily Causation) of in Utero and Early Life Near-roadway Air Pollution with Trajectories of Childhood BMI.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "However, contrary to our expectations, the more employees perceived their senior managers as supportive of active breaks, the less likely they were to take these breaks."
• No Independent Associations Between Preconception Paternal Dietary Patterns and Embryonic Growth; The Predict Study.
• RCT: "In patients undergoing mechanical ventilation, the rate of survival at 90 days associated with the use of an energy-dense formulation for enteral delivery of nutrition was not higher than that with routine enteral nutrition."
• No Effect of Human Presence at Night on Disease, Body Mass, or Metabolism in Rural and Urban House Finches (Haemorhous Mexicanus).
• No Effects of Explicit Approach-avoidance Training on Immediate Consumption of Soft Drinks.
• No Association Between Dietary Markers and Incident Hypertension in a Population-based Sample.
• Food-variety-focused Labelling Does Not Increase Ideal Portion Size, Expected Fullness or Snack Intake.

Basic

• Diet-Induced Adaptive Thermogenesis Requires Neuropeptide FF Receptor-2 Signalling.
• Protective Effects of Ghrelin on Fasting-induced Muscle Atrophy in Aging Mice.
• Paradoxical Effects of Obesity on T Cell Function During Tumor Progression and PD-1 Checkpoint Blockade.
• Circulating Adipose Fatty Acid Binding Protein is a New Link Underlying Obesity-Associated Breast/Mammary Tumor Development.
• Long-term Dietary Macronutrients and Hepatic Gene Expression in Aging Mice.
• Review: Obesity and Dysregulated Central and Peripheral Macrophage‐neuron Crosstalk.
• Lipid Metabolism in Adipose Tissue and Liver From Diet-induced Obese Rats: A Comparison Between Wistar and Sprague-Dawley Strains.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Retraction of RCT on Diet Composition.
• The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans.
• Viewpoint: Physical Activity Guidelines for Health and Prosperity in the United States.
• Editorial: New Physical Activity Guidelines a Call to Activity for Clinicians and Patients.

Clinical

• RCT: Effects of Indoor Thermal Environment on Human Food Intake, Productivity, and Comfort.
• RCT: Effects of α-Lipoic Acid, Carnosine, and Thiamine Supplementation in Obese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• Personalized Group Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Obesity: A Longitudinal Study in a Real-world Clinical Setting.
• Dietary Branched-chain Amino Acids Intake Exhibited a Different Relationship with Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity Risk: A Meta-analysis.

Children and Adolescents

• Longer Sleep Duration During Infancy and Toddlerhood Predicts Weight Normalization Among High Birth Weight Infants.
• Metabolically Healthy Obesity and High Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in Children and Adolescents: International Childhood Vascular Structure Evaluation Consortium.
• Adolescent Overweight and Obesity and the Risk for Pancreatic Cancer Among Men and Women: A Nationwide Study of 1.79 Million Israeli Adolescents.

Surgery

• Building a Broader Base for Surgery at OW2018.
• Multi-sensor Ecological Momentary Assessment of Behavioral and Psychosocial Predictors of Weight Loss Following Bariatric Surgery: Study Protocol for a Multicenter Prospective Longitudinal Evaluation.

Drugs

• Impact of Gastric Banding Versus Metformin on β-Cell Function in Adults with Impaired Glucose Tolerance or Mild Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: Effect of Switching From Pioglitazone to the SGLT2 Inhibitor Dapagliflozin on Body Weight and Metabolism‐related Factors in Patients with Type‐2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• Lorcaserin and Renal Outcomes in Obese and Overweight Patients in the CAMELLIA-TIMI 61 Trial.

Food & Diet

• Sustainable Diets, Food, and Nutrition: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief.
• RCT: Effects of a Low Carbohydrate Diet on Energy Expenditure During Weight Loss Maintenance.
• Carbohydrates: Not All that Bad?
• RCT: Cranberries Attenuate Animal-based Diet-induced Changes in Microbiota Composition and Functionality.
• RCT: Plant-based Diet in Overweight Individuals in a 16-week Trial: Metabolic Benefits of Plant Protein.

Caloric Restriction

• Caloric Restriction and Cellular Senescence.
• The Safety and Efficacy of Weight Loss Via Intermittent Fasting or Standard Daily Energy Restriction in Adults with Type 1 Diabetes and Overweight or Obesity: A Pilot Study.
• Energy Restriction in Renal Protection.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Physical Activity on Prescription in Accordance with the Swedish Model Increases Physical Activity: A Systematic Review.
• Subclinical Coronary Artery Disease in Veteran Athletes: Is a New Preparticipation Methodology Required?
• Structured, Aerobic Exercise Reduces Fat Mass and is Partially Compensated Through Energy Intake but Not Energy Expenditure in Women.

Economics & Sociology

• Social Support and Trajectories of BMI and Waist to Hip Ratio From Mid-adulthood to Old Age.
• Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status and Weight Gain During Infancy: The BeeBOFT Study.
• Inequality in Body Mass Indices Across Countries: Evidence From Convergence Tests.

Epidemiology

• RCT: Metabolic Effects of Breaking Prolonged Sitting with Standing or Light Walking in Older South Asians and White Europeans.
• American Gut: An Open Platform for Citizen Science Microbiome Research.
• Childhood Obesity and Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis.
• Prevalence of Hyperuricemia and the Relationship Between Serum Uric Acid and Obesity: A Study on Bangladeshi Adults.
• Lowering Saturated Fat and Increasing Vegetable and Fruit Intake May Increase Insulin Sensitivity 2 Years Later in Children with a Family History of Obesity.
• Obesity Drives Risk for Heart Disease, Requires Collaboration.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Using Genetics to Understand the Causal Influence of Higher BMI on Depression.
• Diet Quality in Persons with and Without Depressive and Anxiety Disorders.
• Early Weight Gain Predicts Later Metabolic Syndrome in Depressed Patients Treated with Antidepressants: Findings From the METADAP Cohort.

Equity and Disparities

• Socioeconomic Status Associated with BMI, HbA1c in Type 2 Diabetes.
• Weight Trends in Veterans with and Without Diabetes, 2000 to 2014.

Stigma

• The Mediating Role of Internalized Weight Stigma on Weight Perception and Depression Among Emerging Adults: Exploring Moderation By Weight and Race.
• Sex Differences in the Relationships Among Weight Stigma, Depression, and Binge Eating.
• Child BMI Over Time and Parent-Perceived Overweight.

Policy Related

• Health-motivated Taxes on Red and Processed Meat: A Modelling Study on Optimal Tax Levels and Associated Health Impacts.
• Variation in Nutritional Quality of School Lunches with Implementation of National School Lunch Program Guidelines.
• Perceptions of Obesity Prevention Policies: Socioeconomic Assessment in the Turkish Capital.
• Obesity in America: A Market Failure?
• AMA Seeks Warning Labels for Foods with High Added Sugar Content.

Intergenerational Effects

• Long-term Behavioural Effects of Maternal Obesity in C57BL/6J Mice.
• The Impact of Maternal BMI, Gestational Weight Gain, and Breastfeeding on Early Childhood Weight.
• Review of General Suggestions on Physical Activity to Prevent and Treat Gestational and Pre-existing Diabetes During Pregnancy and in Postpartum.
• Maternal High-Fat Diet Programs Offspring Liver Steatosis in a Sexually Dimorphic Manner in Association with Changes in Gut Microbial Ecology in Mice.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Human Resting Energy Expenditure Varies with Circadian Phase.
• Early Mongolians Ate Dairy, but Lacked the Gene to Digest It.
• Global Pattern of Nest Predation is Disrupted By Climate Change in Shorebirds.
• The Role of Feeding Strategy in the Tolerance of a Terrestrial Salamander (Plethodon Cinereus) to Biogeochemical Changes in Northern Hardwood Forests.

Methods

• Statistical Methods to Model and Evaluate Physical Activity Programs, Using Step Counts: A Systematic Review.
• Estimation of Non-shivering Thermogenesis and Cold-induced Nutrient Oxidation Rates: Impact of Method for Data Selection and Analysis.
• Calorie Estimation From Pictures of Food: Crowdsourcing Study.
• Flexible OLED Array Detects Blood Oxygen.
• ‘Invisible’ Mice Reveal Anatomical Secrets.
• Thermoneutral Housing Does Not Influence Fat Mass or Glucose Homeostasis in C57BL/6 Mice.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Model-based in Silico Analysis of the PI3K/Akt Pathway: The Elucidation of Cross-talk Between Diabetes and Breast Cancer.
• Mathematical Model for Body Fat Percentage in Military using Thermal Imaging and Circumferences.

Commentary

• How Often Should You Weigh Yourself?
• Markers of Hypoxia and Oxidative Stress in Aging Volunteers Ingesting Lycosomal Formulation of Dark Chocolate Containing Astaxanthin.
• Diet: Guidance Veers From Variety.
• OW2018: Real Innovation in Obesity Drugs at Last?
• What If the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick?
• On the Margin of the Impossible: Navigating through the flood of information on obesity.

General

• The Evolutionary Exploitation of Vertebrate Peroxisome Proliferator-activated Receptor γ By Organotins.
• You Can Handle the Truth: Mispredicting the Consequences of Honest Communication.
• In Defense of Corporate Sponsorships and a Plea for Civility.
• Data to Assess the Effect of Moral Identity on Green Consumption Tendency.
• Are Biologists Getting the Mathematical Training They Need in College?
• Editorial: Revised Guidelines to Enhance the Rigor and Reproducibility of Research Published in American Physiological Society Journals.
• Fixed, Random, and Mixed Effects: Modern Approaches to Dealing with Nested, Clustered, Panel, and Longitudinal Data.
• Chemo‐preventive and Therapeutic Effect of the Dietary Flavonoid Kaempferol: A Comprehensive Review.
• Can Listening to Bees Help Save Them - and Us?
• Learning From Gorillas to Save Killer Whales a Wild Approach to Personalized Health Care.

Video & Audio

• Podcast: Mark and Chris Bell: Steroids, Powerlifting, Addiction, Diet, Training, Helping Others, Documentaries, and Living Your Best Life (EP.28).
• Audio: Wherever My Microbiome May Roam.
• Audio: Variety is the Spice of Life.

Announcements

• RSM Conference: Optimal Diet and Lifestyle Strategies for the Management of Cardio-metabolic Risk.
• IU-Bloomington's School of Public Health's Online Graduate Certificate in Gerontology and Health Ranked #2 in Nation!
• UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• UAB’s NORC Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track Positions Available in Every Department and Two Department Chairs Open: See Multiple Listings Posted Here.

Featured

• Objective Food Intake in Night and Day Shift Workers: A Laboratory Study.
• Taking Opportunity Costs Seriously in Public Health Law.
• Brs3 Neurons in the Mouse Dorsomedial Hypothalamus Regulate Body Temperature, Energy Expenditure, and Heart Rate, but Not Food Intake.
• A Method for Measuring Human Body Composition Using Digital Images.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Eating This High-Protein Snack Before Bed Can Improve Your Metabolism, Study Finds.
• Press Release: Late Night Snacker? Make It Cottage Cheese. New Research Shows Protein Before Bed Supports Metabolism, Muscle Recovery.
• Study: Pre-sleep Protein in Casein Supplement or Whole-food Form Has No Impact on Resting Energy Expenditure or Hunger in Women.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "I find evidence that suggests that neighborhoods do not have a causal impact on BMI."
• "...higher cheese consumption was associated with lower BMI at the 5-year follow-up..."
• "Contrary to our hypotheses, active tDCS significantly increased chocolate consumption vs. sham..."
• "Contrary to our hypotheses, SPFAs [persons with self-perceived food addiction] did not show increased AB [attentional bias] to food-cues, and this was not moderated by hunger condition or the expectancy information."
• "Seven bisphenol analogs tested induced little to no [ppar_gamma] agonist activity, but all demonstrated antagonistic properties. These findings were contrary to both our assumptions and literature reports."
• "There was no evidence to support industry claims that consumers perceive "high in" FOP symbols as harsh or as restricting their control."
• "The findings question the validity of the SSEH and SSPA scales in obesity, with behaviours deemed to be supportive in non-obese populations not necessarily perceived as such by people with obesity."
• "Measures of central adiposity (WC, WHR, WHtR, ABSI) were not associated with fecundability."
• "No association was found between PCB serum levels and occurrence of diabetes and endocrine disorders."
• RCT: No Effect of Focused Attention Whilst Eating on Later Snack Food Intake: Two Laboratory Experiments.

Basic

• Fibroblast Growth Factor Binding Protein 3 (FGFBP3) Impacts Carbohydrate and Lipid Metabolism.
• Pannexin 1 Regulates Adipose Stromal Cell Differentiation and Fat Accumulation in a Mouse Model.
• Receptor Activity-Modifying Protein 3 (RAMP3) Deficiency Enhances Postmenopausal Obesity and Metabolic Disorders in Female C57BL/6 J Mice.
• Thy1 (CD90) Expression is Regulated By DNA Methylation During Adipogenesis.
• Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) Modulates Biometric and Inflammatory Parameters and Anxiety-Like Behavior in Obese Rats.
• Dietary Protein Restriction Reduces Circulating VLDL Triglyceride Levels Via CREBH-APOA5–dependent and –independent Mechanisms.
• Switch to Low-fat Diet Improves Outcome of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Obese Mice.
• Leptin and Insulin do Not Exert Redundant Control of Metabolic or Emotive Function Via Dopamine Neurons.
• Genotype to Phenotype: Diet-by-mitochondrial DNA Haplotype Interactions Drive Metabolic Flexibility and Organismal Fitness.
• Ghrelin Receptor Agonist Rescues Excess Neonatal Mortality in a Prader-Willi Syndrome Mouse Model.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Unreasonable Doubts About Obesity and Health.
• Unsubstantiated Conclusions in RCT of Binge Eating Program Due to Differences in Nominal Significance (DINS) Error.
• Correction Notice: Protocol Deviations and Reanalyses in a Derivative Study of the PREDIMED Trial.

Clinical

• RCT: A Novel Self-Micro-Emulsifying Delivery System Enhances Enrichment of Eicosapentaenoic Acid and Docosahexaenoic Acid After Single and Repeated Dosing in Healthy Adults.
• “Barty” - a Serious Game to Fight Childhood Obesity: First Insights.
• Natural History of Obesity Sub-phenotypes: Dynamic Changes Over Two Decades and Prognosis in the Framingham Heart Study.
• Home and Neighbourhood Built Environment Features in Family‐based Treatment for Childhood Obesity.
• Behavioral Interventions for Obesity in Children and Adults: Evidence Base, Novel Approaches, and Translation Into Practice.

Children and Adolescents

• Meta-analysis: Motivational Interviewing to Treat Adolescents with Obesity.
• Early Antibiotic Exposure and Weight Outcomes in Young Children.
• The Use of Weight Adjusted for Height Rather than BMI to Assess Growth Trajectory: Results From a Population‐based Cohort.
• Gut Microbiota in the First 2 Years of Life and the Association with BMI at Age 12 in a Norwegian Birth Cohort.

Surgery

• Meta-analysis: Effect of Physical Exercise on Weight Loss and Physical Function Following Bariatric Surgery.
• Weight Change After Roux-en Y Gastric Bypass, Physical Activity and Eating Style: Is There a Relationship?
• Obesity-induced Pancreatopathy in Rats is Reversible After Bariatric Surgery.
• Influence of Gastric Bypass Surgery on Resting Energy Expenditure, Body Composition, Physical Activity, and Thyroid Hormones in Morbidly Obese Patients.

Drugs

• "Let's Stay Together"; GIP and GLP-1 dual agonism in the treatment of metabolic disease.
• How Does Lorcaserin Facilitate Weight Loss and Who Will Benefit?

Food & Diet

• Systematic review: Reduced Salt Intake for Heart Failure.
• Effect of a Lifestyle Intervention Program with Energy-Restricted Mediterranean Diet and Exercise on Weight Loss and Cardiovascular Risk Factors: One-Year Results of the PREDIMED-Plus Trial.
• The Relationship Between Vegetable Intake and Weight Outcomes: A Systematic Review of Cohort Studies.
• The Impact of Freeze Dried Broccoli Extract to Mitigate Inflammation in Human Adipocytes Through the Mevalonate Pathway.

Caloric Restriction

• Caloric Restriction Improves the Redox Homeostasis in the Aging Male Rat Heart Even When Started in Middle-adulthood and When the Body Weight is Stable.
• Change of Gut Microbiota Between Different Weight Reduction Programs.
• Dietary Restriction Improves Intestinal Cellular Fitness to Enhance Gut Barrier Function and Lifespan in D. Melanogaster.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• "There has been a meaningful decline in the cardiorespiratory fitness of adults since 1980, which has progressively increased in magnitude over time, suggestive of a corresponding decline in population health."
• RCT: Protein Supplementation After Exercise and Before Sleep Does Not Further Augment Muscle Mass and Strength Gains During Resistance Exercise Training in Active Older Men.
• Exercise Performance Increase in Smokeless Tobacco‐user Athletes After Overnight Nicotine Abstinence.
• Exercise Effects on Physiological Function During Aging.
• Exploring the Specific Needs of Persons with Multiple Sclerosis for MHealth Solutions for Physical Activity: Mixed-methods Study.
• The Impacts of Different Gamification Orientations of Fitness Apps on Consumers’ Physical Activities.

Economics & Sociology

• Measures of Acculturation and Relations to ZBMI Among Mexican-Origin Youth.
• The Association Between Obesity and Social Exclusion in Middle-aged and Older Adults: Findings From a Nationally Representative Study in Germany.
• How Financial Constraints Influence Consumer Behavior: An Integrative Framework.
• The Effect of School Sports Facilities on Physical Activity, Health and Socioeconomic Status in Adulthood.
• Studies "show that agents more frequently recommend round (vs. angular) shaped products to heavier targets, notably for products and categories in which body size is irrelevant (e.g., lamps and perfume)."

Epidemiology

• Meta-analysis: Observational Evidence for Unintentional Weight Loss in All-Cause Mortality and Major Cardiovascular Events.
• Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Mortality in Healthy Men and Women.
• Current and Future Landscape of Nutritional Epidemiologic Research.
• BMI Trajectories Across Adulthood and Smoking in Relation to Prostate Cancer Risks: The NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study.
• Hypothalamic Obesity: 4 Years of the International Registry of Hypothalamic Obesity Disorders.
• US Immigration Westernizes the Human Gut Microbiome.
• The Relationship of Weight Suppression to Treatment Outcomes During Behavioral Weight Loss.
• Association of BMI with Overall and Cause-specific Mortality: A Population-based Cohort Study of 3·6 Million Adults in the UK.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• First Impressions of Personality Traits From Body Shapes.
• Aetiology of Eating Behaviours: A Possible Mechanism to Understand Obesity Development in Early Childhood.
• Body Image, Eating, and Weight. Some Cultural Differences.
• Individual Differences in Appeal of Energy Dense Foods Predicts Lower Body Mass Change During Adolescence.
• Calorie Information and Dieting Status Modulate Reward and Control Activation During the Evaluation of Food Images.

Equity and Disparities

• Missing Information in Statewide and National Cancer Databases: Correlation with Health Risk Factors, Geographic Disparities, and Outcomes.
• Sugary Drink Consumption Among NYC Children, Youth, and Adults: Disparities Persist Over Time, 2007–2015.

Ethics

• Self-Reports of Virtue in Nutrition.
• ‘So under “cause for concern”, I’ll write that…’ Class, Parenting and Risk Prevention in Public Health Practices in Schools: A Question of Moral Value?
• It´s Harder to Push, When I Have to Push Hard – Physical Exertion and Fatigue Changes Reasoning and Decision-making on Hypothetical Moral Dilemmas in Males.
• My Life as a Public Health Crisis.

Stigma

• Viewpoints of Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity Attending Lifestyle Obesity Treatment Interventions: A Qualitative Systematic Review.
• Weight Bias Internalization Among Adolescents Seeking Weight Loss: Implications for Eating Behaviors and Parental Communication.
• Testing Risk and Protective Pathways Between Weight Bias and Mental Health Symptoms in a Bariatric Sample.
• Book: Body Image, Eating, and Weight.

Policy Related

• Draft Guidance for Industry: Serving Sizes of Foods that Can Reasonably Be Consumed at One Eating Occasion, Reference Amounts Customarily Consumed, Serving Size-Related Issues, Dual-Column Labeling, and Miscellaneous Topics.
• A Qualitative Evaluation of the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentive (FINI) Grant Program. (pdf)

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Fructose Induces Gender-dependent Changes in Both LXRα Promoter Methylation and Cholesterol Metabolism in Progeny.
• Influence of Maternal Age on the Effects of Seleno-l-methionine in the Model Organism Daphnia Pulex Under Standard and Heat Stress Conditions.
• Early Maternal Perceived Stress and Children’s BMI: Longitudinal Impact and Influencing Factors.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Stressful Living in Lower‐quality Habitats? Body Mass, Feeding Behaviour and Physiological Stress Levels in Wild Wood Mouse Populations.
• Herbivory Elicits Changes in Green Leaf Volatile Production Via Jasmonate Signaling and the Circadian Clock.
• The Role of Parasitism in the Energy Management of a Free-ranging Bird.
• Diapause-associated Changes in the Lipid and Metabolite Profile of the Asian Tiger Mosquito, Aedes Albopictus.
• Nutrition in Extreme Food Specialists: An Illustration Using Termites.

Methods

• A New Method for Studying Licking Behavior Determinants in Rodents: Application to Diet‐Induced Obese Mice.
• Body Image: Methods of Assessment in Children, Adolescents, and Adults.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• The Development of a Mathematical Human Thermal Model.
• Endogenous Amino Acid Losses From the Gastrointestinal Tract of the Adult Human—A Quantitative Model.

Commentary

• Vitamin Vaping Raises Wariness Among Scientists.
• Yo-Yo Dieting is Better than None.
• Who Benefits From a Booming Fitness Industry?
• An Empty Political Approach to Obesity.
• Peer Review: The Worst Way to Judge Research, Except for All the Others.
• The Clinical Importance of Using People-First Language in Obesity Management.

General

• What’s Wrong with Bananas.
• Audio: BOMBARDIER BEETLE BUDDIES.
• Evaluation of Lowering the P Value Threshold for Statistical Significance From .05 to .005 in Previously Published RCTs in Major Medical Journals.
• The 10th Oxbridge Varsity Medical Ethics Debate-should We Fear the Rise of Direct-to-consumer Genetic Testing?
• The World’s Strongest MRI Machines are Pushing Human Imaging to New Limits.
• The FDA Warns Against the Use of Many Genetic Tests with Unapproved Claims to Predict Patient Response to Specific Medications: FDA Safety Communication.
• IU Scientist Group Fights for Science-based Public Policy.
• Accumulation of High Magnitude Acceleration Events Predicts Cerebrovascular Reactivity Changes in Female High School Soccer Athletes.
• New Supercomputer with 1 Million Processors is World's Fastest Brain-Mimicking Machine.

Video & Audio

• Slowing Aging – Sirtuins, NAD, and the Epigenetics of Aging.
• Could It Be the Sugar?

Announcements

• Top 10 Things to Catch at ObesityWeek 2018.
• WEBINAR: Current and Emerging Knowledge and Research on Non-Nutritive Sweeteners.
• Alyce Fly elected to serve as Nutrition Research Chair for American Society of Nutrition.
• Incoming President, the Obesity Society, 2018‐2019: Steven B. Heymsfield, MD.
• UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• UAB’s NORC Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track Positions Available in Every Department and Two Department Chairs Open: See Multiple Listings Posted Here.

Featured

• Smoking Cessation, Weight Gain, and Risk of Stroke Among Postmenopausal Women.
• RCT: Assessing the Effects of Health Claims on Choice of Foods in the Presence of Front-of-pack Labels.
• Folate and Vitamin B12 Levels in Early Pregnancy and Maternal Obesity.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: A Healthy Home with More Fruits and Vegetables and Less Time Watching TV Can Cut Children's Genetic Obesity Risks By HALF, Study Finds.
• Study: "[H]eritability of BMI SD score was significantly higher among children living in overall higher-risk ... compared with those living in overall lower-risk home environments." Gene-environment correlation, not necessarily gene-environment interaction.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "The health education and counseling program did not improve daily PA of participants with moderate-to-high cardiovascular risk."
• "Lower availability of healthy food stores measured subjectively, but not objectively, was associated with mortality...".
• "No overall intervention effects after 14 y due to the free-fruit scheme on the consumption of fruit, vegetables, and unhealthy snacks were observed, but...".
• "There was no association between increased maternal BMI and fetal adiposity measures, or mediation by treated gestational diabetes."
• Rapid 5 Lb Weight Gain is Not Associated with Readmission in Patients with Heart Failure.
• Resistin Levels are Not Associated with Obesity in Central Precocious Puberty.
• "...we did not find support for the relationship between healthy intention and hypothetical food choice."
• The Low WHRs and BMIs Judged Most Attractive do Not Indicate Higher Fertility.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Q&A: The “Regression to the Mean Project:” What Researchers Should Know About a Mistake Many Make.
• No, Eating Only Organic Food is Not Going to Save You From Cancer.
• Science vs Fervent Beliefs About Weight Cycling.
• Finding a Confession of Faith in a Dataset.

Basic

• Tart Cherry Reduces Inflammation in Adipose Tissue of Zucker Fatty Rats and Cultured 3T3-L1 Adipocytes.
• The E3 Ubiquitin Ligase MARCH1 Regulates Glucose Tolerance and Lipid Storage in a Sex-Specific Manner.
• Hypothalamic Macrophage Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase Mediates Obesity-Associated Hypothalamic Inflammation.
• Coordinated Targeting of Cold and Nicotinic Receptors Synergistically Improves Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in Diet-Induced Obese Mice.

Clinical

• Long-Term Weight Gain Associated with High Omentin Levels at Hospital Discharge Improves Prognosis of Patients Following Acute Heart Failure.
• Common Complications and Management After Massive Weight Loss Patient Safety in Plastic Surgery.
• Moving Research Into Practice: Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Weight Management for Cancer Patients and Survivors.

Children and Adolescents

• Is Eating in the School Canteen Better to Fight Overweight? A Sociological Observational Study on Nutrition in Italian Children.
• Increased Cellular Aging By 3 Years of Age in Latino, Preschool Children Who Consume More Sugar-Sweetened Beverages: A Pilot Study.
• Impact of Motivational Interviewing on Outcomes of an Adolescent Obesity Treatment: Results From the MI Values Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial.

Surgery

• Risk of Suicide and Self-harm is Increased After Bariatric Surgery—a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Effects of Obesity and Gastric Bypass Surgery on Nutrient Sensors, Endocrine Cells, and Mucosal Innervation of the Mouse Colon.
• 4-Year Changes in Sex Hormones, Sexual Functioning, and Psychosocial Status in Women Who Underwent Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• The Effects of Caffeine Intake on Weight Loss: A Systematic Review and Dos-response Meta-analysis of RCTs.
• Inhibition of Cannabinoid Receptor 1 Can Influence the Lipid Metabolism in Mice with Diet-Induced Obesity.
• Obesity Drug to Update Label with CV Safety Information.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Substitution of Corn Starch with Resistant Starch Type 4 in a Breakfast Bar Decreases Postprandial Glucose and Insulin Responses.
• RCT: A Mediterranean Diet Supplemented with Dairy Foods Improves Markers of Cardiovascular Risk.
• Options for Keeping the Food System Within Environmental Limits.
• Do the Effects of Resveratrol on Thermogenic and Oxidative Capacities in IBAT and Skeletal Muscle Depend on Feeding Conditions?
• Effects of Dietary Interventions on DNA Methylation in Adult Humans: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Delayed First Active-phase Meal, a Breakfast-skipping Model, Led to Increased Body Weight and Shifted the Circadian Oscillation of the Hepatic Clock and Lipid Metabolism-related Genes in Rats Fed a High-fat Diet.

Caloric Restriction

• Weight Cycling Increases Longevity Compared with Sustained Obesity in Mice.
• Periodized Low Protein-high Carbohydrate Diet Confers Potent, but Transient, Metabolic Improvements.
• Effect of Restriction Vegan Diet's on Muscle Mass, Oxidative Status, and Myocytes Differentiation: A Pilot Study.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Aerobic Training Protects Cardiac Function During Advancing Age: A Meta-Analysis of Four Decades of Controlled Studies.
• Aerobic Fitness Thresholds to Define Poor Cardiometabolic Health in Children and Youth.
• ATP Production of Muscle Mitochondria After Acute Exercise in Lean and Obese Humans.

Economics & Sociology

• Trends in the Socioeconomic Patterning of Overweight/obesity in India.
• Socio‐economic Indicators, Dietary Patterns, and Physical Activity as Determinants of Maternal Obesity in Middle‐income Countries.
• A Comparison of Dietarian Identity Profiles Between Vegetarians and Vegans.
• You're Worth What You Eat: Adolescent Beliefs About Healthy Eating, Morality and Socioeconomic Status.
• Ego-centered Relative Neighborhood Deprivation and Reported Dietary Habits Among Youth.

Epidemiology

• BMI and Mortality in UK Biobank: Revised Estimates Using Mendelian Randomization.
• Adult Weight Change and the Risk of Pre- and Postmenopausal Breast Cancer in the Chinese Wuxi Exposure and Breast Cancer Study.
• Viewpoint: Current and Future Landscape of Nutritional Epidemiologic Research.
• Association Between Dietary Flavonoids Intake and Obesity in a Cohort of Adults Living in the Mediterranean Area.
• Resistin Levels are Not Associated with Obesity in Central Precocious Puberty.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• You Mad? Using Anger Appeals to Promote Activism Intentions and Policy Support in the Context of Sugary Drink Marketing to Kids.
• Effectiveness of an App and Provider Counseling for Obesity Treatment in Primary Care.
• The Relationship Between Gestational Weight Gain and Postpartum Depression in Normal and Overweight Pregnant Women.

Equity and Disparities

• Racial and Ethnic Differences in Anthropometric Measures as Risk Factors for Diabetes.
• Early Exposure to Cumulative Social Risk and Trajectories of BMI in Childhood.

Ethics

• Size and Life and Death By Moral Machine Logic.
• The Shame of Fat Shaming in Public Health: Moving Past Racism to Embrace Indigenous Solutions.

Stigma

• Is There More to the Equation? Weight Bias and the Costs of Obesity.
• The Impact of Workplace Health Promotion Programs Emphasizing Individual Responsibility on Weight Stigma and Discrimination.

Policy Related

• Obesity, equity and choice.
• A Quasi-experimental Study of a Mandatory Calorie-labelling Policy in Restaurants: Impact on Use of Nutrition Information Among Youth and Young Adults in Canada.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Flexible foraging strategies in Pipistrellus pygmaeus in response to abundant but ephemeral prey.
• Bending the rules: exploitation of allochthonous resources by a top-predator modifies size-abundance scaling in stream food webs.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Nutrition and the Child’s Sex: A Review. (pdf)
• Normalizing Adiponectin Levels in Obese Pregnant Mice Prevents Adverse Metabolic Outcomes in Offspring.
• Gestational Weight Gain Intervention Impacts Determinants of Healthy Eating and Exercise in Overweight/Obese Pregnant Women.

Methods

• Objective Quantification and Analysis of Eating Behaviour Associated with Obesity Development - From Lab to Real-life.
• Which Activities Count? Using Experimental Data to Understand Conceptualizations of Physical Activity.

The Role of the Gut Microbiome

• Gut Microbiota and Obesity.
• Insights Into the Role of Gut Microbiota in Obesity: Pathogenesis, Mechanisms, and Therapeutic Perspectives.
• Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Confers Beneficial Metabolic Effects of Diet and Exercise on Diet-induced Obese Mice.
• The Gut Microbiota in Infants of Obese Mothers Increases Inflammation and Susceptibility to NAFLD.
• The Gut Microbiome of Mexican Children Affected By Obesity.

Commentary

• Infant Gut Microbiome Predicts Obesity in Pre-Teens.
• Canagliflozin Ups Survival in Type 2 Diabetes with Macroalbuminuria.
• SEA HARE INK Increases Appetite.
• A Gut Instinct for Finding Childhood Obesity.
• Study Finds Yo-yo Dieting Increases Lifespan in Mice Compared to Staying Obese.
• Fact Check: Does Glutamine Build Muscle?
• Pets and Humans Learning New Health Tricks.
• The "Marrow of Zen" and a Beginner's Mind.

General

• A Healing Shot to the Gut.
• Nitrogen and Carbon Footprints of Dairy Farm Systems in China and New Zealand, as Influenced By Productivity, Feed Sources and Mitigations/.
• P-34 Seasonal Diet Variation of Thirteen-Lined Ground Squirrels (Ictidomys Tridecemlineatus) in Southwestern Michigan.
• On the Exact and Numerical Solutions to a Nonlinear Model Arising in Mathematical Biology.
• Quantifying the Regression to the Mean Effect in Poisson Processes.
• Older People are Worse than Young People at Telling Fact From Opinion.

Announcements

• Keystone Meeting: Diabetes: Innovations, Outcomes and Personalized Therapies (X3).
• Invitation to Survey: COST OF FORMATTING IN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH.
• UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• UAB’s NORC Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track Positions Available in Every Department and Two Department Chairs Open: See Multiple Listings Posted Here.