Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

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

Headline vs Study

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

Contrary or Null Findings

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

Basic

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

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

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

Clinical

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

Children and Adolescents

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

Surgery

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

Drugs

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

Food & Diet

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

Caloric Restriction

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

Exercise & Physical Activity

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

Economics & Sociology

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

Epidemiology

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

Psychology & Neuroscience

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

Equity and Disparities

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

Stigma

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

Policy Related

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

Intergenerational Effects

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

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

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

Methods

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

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

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

Commentary

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

General

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

Video & Audio

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

Announcements

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

Featured

• RCT: Breakfast Consumption Augments Appetite, Eating Behavior, and Exploratory Markers of Sleep Quality Compared to Skipping Breakfast in Healthy Young Adults.
• High CD8 T Cell Receptor Clonality and Altered CDR3 Properties are Associated with Elevated Isolevuglandins in Adipose Tissue During Diet-Induced Obesity.
• Smoking Cessation, Weight Change, Type 2 Diabetes, and Mortality.
• Clinical Perspectives on Obesity Treatment: Challenges, Gaps, and Promising Opportunities.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Eating in 10-hour Window Can Override Disease-causing Genetic Defects, Nurture Health.
• Study: Time-Restricted Feeding Prevents Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome... In Mice Lacking a Circadian Clock.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Grocery Stores are Not Associated with More Healthful Food for Participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
• Low-carbohydrate Diet Score is Associated with Higher Glycated Haemoglobin: A Secondary Analysis of the UK National Diet and Nutrition Surveys Year 1–6.
• Results of Noninvasive Prenatal RHD Testing in Gestation Week 25 are Not Affected By Maternal BMI.
• "Crayfish consumed greater quantities of macrophyte tissue when predator cues were present, and this result was unexpected and is contrary to most observations in the literature."
• Weight Status Was Not Associated with Being Sedentary or Inactive When at School.
• Among older adults "institutionalization was not associated with poorer nutritional status compared to community dwellers."
• "Dietary gluten intake during adulthood was not associated with risk of microscopic colitis among women without celiac disease."
• RCT: No Effects of Montmorency Tart Cherry Juice Supplementation and FATMAX Exercise on Fat Oxidation Rates and Cardio-metabolic Markers in Healthy Humans.

Basic

• Exercise Without Dietary Changes Alleviates Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Without Weight Loss Benefits in Mice.
• Small Adipose Tissue Stores are Characterized By Reduced Cell Volume Instead of Cell Number in Cystic Fibrosis Mouse Models.
• Programming Mediated By Fatty Acids Affects Uncoupling Protein 1 (UCP-1) in Brown Adipose Tissue.
• Cysteine Thiol Oxidation on SIRT2 Regulates Inflammation in Obese Mice with Sepsis.
• ER-Associated Ubiquitin Ligase HRD1 Programs Liver Metabolism By Targeting Multiple Metabolic Enzymes.
• Microglia Play an Active Role in Obesity-associated Cognitive Decline.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• "Can a bunch of little nudges add up to a public health strategy with an effect on obesity?"
• Webinar: Event Information: Scientific Integrity Principles and Best Practices Across the Scientific Enterprise.
• Some Comments on the Update to BJP Guidance on Experimental Design and Analysis.
• The Challenge of Reforming Nutritional Epidemiologic Research.
• Letter to the Editor and Response Regarding an Assessment of a Health Promotion Model on Obese Turkish Children.

Clinical

• Influence of Age, BMI and Comorbidity on Major Outcomes in Acute Pancreatitis, a Prospective Nation-wide Multicentre Study.
• An Evidence-Based Review of Dietary Supplements on Inflammatory Biomarkers in Obesity.
• Whole-body Vibration Training in Obese Subjects: A Systematic Review.
• Android Fat as a Determinant of Metabolic Syndrome: Sex Differences.

Children and Adolescents

• “Your Body Feels Better When You Drink Water”: Parent and School-Age Children’s Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Cognitions.
• BMI Does Not Capture the High Fat Mass Index and Low Fat-free Mass Index in Children with Cerebral Palsy and Proposed Statistical Models that Improve This Accuracy.
• Body Fatness at a Young Age and Risks of Eight Types of Cancer: Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis of Observational Studies.
• Association of Childhood Obesity with Female Infertility in Adulthood.
• Prevalence of Overweight, Obesity, and Severe Obesity Among Children and Adolescents Aged 2–19 Years: United States, 1963–1965 Through 2015–2016.

Surgery

• Bariatric Surgery: Information, Misinformation, and Inertia.
• Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of Bariatric Procedures in Medicare-Eligible Patients a Systematic Review.
• Long-term Weight Change and Health Outcomes for Sleeve Gastrectomy (SG) and Matched Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB) Participants in the Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery (LABS) Study.

Drugs

• Semaglutide vs Liraglutide for Weight Loss in Patients with Obesity.
• RCT: Efficacy and Safety of MYL‐1501D Versus Insulin Glargine in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes After 24 Weeks: Results of the Phase III INSTRIDE 2 Study.
• Understanding of Anti‐diabetic Medication is Associated with Blood Glucose in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: At Baseline Date of the KAMOGAWA‐DM Cohort Study.
• Association of Hemoglobin A1c Levels with Use of Sulfonylureas, Dipeptidyl Peptidase 4 Inhibitors, and Thiazolidinediones in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Treated with Metformin.

Food & Diet

• Implicit Attitudes and Self-esteem Towards Food Images After Consuming a Sugar or Diet Beverage.
• RCT: Mode of Infant Feeding, Eating Behaviour and Anthropometry in Infants at 6-months of Age Born to Obese Women – a Secondary Analysis of the UPBEAT Trial.
• Dietary Supplementation with the Microalgae Nannochloropsis Gaditana Reduces Weight Gain and Improves Metabolic Health in Rats.
• Consumption of Cherry Out of Season Changes White Adipose Tissue Gene Expression and Morphology to a Phenotype Prone to Fat Accumulation.
• RCT: Dietary Cholesterol Contained in Whole Eggs is Not Well Absorbed and Does Not Acutely Affect Plasma Total Cholesterol Concentration in Men and Women.

Caloric Restriction

• Functional Gut Microbiota Remodeling Contributes to the Caloric Restriction-Induced Metabolic Improvements.
• Calorie Restriction Attenuates Hypertrophy-induced Redox Imbalance and Mitochondrial ATP-sensitive K+ Channel Repression.
• Fasting and Time of Day Independently Modulate Circadian Rhythm Relevant Gene Expression in Adipose and Skin Tissue.
• Calorie Restriction Curbs Proinflammation that Accompanies Arterial Aging, Preserving a Youthful Phenotype.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Physical Activity is Related to Function and Fatigue but Not Pain in Women with Fibromyalgia: Baseline Analyses From the Fibromyalgia Activity Study with TENS (FAST).
• How Well do Activity Monitors Estimate Energy Expenditure? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the Validity of Current Technologies.
• Associations of Device-measured Physical Activity Across Adolescence with Metabolic Traits: Prospective Cohort Study.

Economics & Sociology

• Socioeconomic Status and the Association Between Height and Obesity Amongst First Class Primary School Children in Ireland.
• Interaction Between Parental Education and Household Wealth on Children’s Obesity Risk.

Epidemiology

• Health and Health Behaviors During the Great Recession: A Note on Drinking, Smoking, Obesity, and Physical Activity.
• Regression Models to Predict Corrected Height, Weight, and Obesity Indicators Among University Students in Beijing, China.
• Obesity Prevalence and Voting Behaviors in the 2016 US Presidential Election.
• The Association Between 25(OH)D Levels, Frailty Status and Obesity Indices in Older Adults.
• Prevalence of Overweight, Obesity, and Severe Obesity Among Adults Aged 20 and Over: United States, 1960–1962 Through 2015–2016.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• RCT: Breakfast Consumption and the Attention and Concentration of 18-27 Year-old Students.
• Links Between Obesity-Induced Brain Insulin Resistance, Brain Mitochondrial Dysfunction, and Dementia.

Equity and Disparities

• Socioeconomic Inequality in Excessive Weight: The Case of Indonesia.
• Racial Differences in Rates of Change of Childhood BMI and Blood Pressure Percentiles.

Stigma

• Respectful Language and Care in Childhood Obesity.
• Discrimination and Adiposity Among Latinos.
• Weight Bias Among Exercise and Nutrition Professionals: A Systematic Review.
• Preference for People-First Language Among Patients Seeking Bariatric Surgery.
• Beware of Shaming the Shamers.
• Book Chapter: Psychosocial Consequences of Body Weight and Obesity.
• Weight Loss Surgery Patients’ Gender-Differentiated Experiences of Vanity Stigma.

Policy Related

• FDA Issues Draft Guidance on the Labeling of Dietary Supplements Containing Live Microbials.
• Draft Guidance for Industry: Policy Regarding Quantitative Labeling of Dietary Supplements Containing Live Microbials.
• A Note on Sugar Taxes and Changes in Total Calorie Consumption.

Intergenerational Effects

• Longer-term Outcomes in Offspring of GDM Mothers Treated with Metformin Versus Insulin.
• LincRNA H19 Protects From Dietary Obesity By Constraining Expression of Monoallelic Genes in Brown Fat.
• Association of Gestational Diabetes with Maternal Disorders of Glucose Metabolism and Childhood Adiposity.
• Influence of Maternal Obesity on the Association Between Common Pregnancy Complications and Risk of Childhood Obesity.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Primary Biological Motivators in Food Advertisements: Energy Density and Sexual Appeals Compete for Appetitive Motivational Activation.
• Maternal Condition and Maternal Investment During Lactation in Mantled Howler Monkeys.
• Seasonal Shifts in Reproduction Depend on Prey Availability for an Income Breeder.
• Energetic Consequences for a Northern, Range-Edge Lizard Population.

Methods

• Preliminary Feasibility and Acceptability of the Remote Food Photography Method for Assessing Nutrition in Young Children with Type 1 Diabetes.
• Reliability of Joint Kinematic Calculations Based on Direct Kinematic and Inverse Kinematic Models in Obese Children.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Adaptive Fuzzy Integral Sliding Mode Control of Blood Glucose Level in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes: In Silico Studies.

Commentary

• A Hard Look at Defining Fitness to Serve.
• National Obesity Care Week: 5 Reasons to Take Action.
• Advice Regarding Alcohol Use By Individuals with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Primum Non Nocere.
• When is Milk Really Milk?
• How Unsaturated Fats Protect Against Cardiovascular Disease Revealed.
• Vitamin D Supplementation: Of Scandal, Sunlight, and Skin in the Game.
• People with Obesity – Their Heroic Battle to Defeat Their Genes in a Hostile Hypercaloric Sedentary Environment.
• Carbs, Good for You? Fat Chance!

General

• Human Milk Composition and Dietary Intakes of Breastfeeding Women of Different Ethnicity From the Manawatu-Wanganui Region of New Zealand.
• Unidirectional Transitions in Nectar Gain and Loss Suggest Food Deception is a Stable Evolutionary Strategy in Epidendrum (Orchidaceae): Insights From Anatomical and Molecular Evidence.
• Is Civility Contagious? Examining the Impact of Modeling in Online Political Discussions.
• "Knowledge Begins in Wonder": The Smithsonian Institution's Children's Room.
• Constructing and Validating a Scale of Inquisitive Curiosity.

Announcements

• IU Bloomington: Safety Program Receives Award From American Society of Safety Professionals.
• IU Bloomington: Researchers Receive Award for Significant Contribution to Industrial Hygiene.
• Staff Openings at IU SPH: Director of Special Projects and Executive Assistant to the Dean.
• NIH Seeking Nutrition Department Chief.
• FASEB Webinar: Enhancing Research Rigor and Reproducibility.
• FASEB Webinar: Promoting Good Mentoring in Science Careers.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track positions available in every department and two department chairs open – see multiple listings posted here.
• UAB’s NORC Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.

Featured

• Deletion of the Glucagon Receptor Gene Before and After Experimental Diabetes Reveals Differential Protection From Hyperglycemia.
• Hepatoprotective Effects of Insect Extracts in an Animal Model of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• A Genome-wide Association Study for Harness Racing Success in the Norwegian-Swedish Coldblooded Trotter Reveals Genes for Learning and Energy Metabolism.

Headline vs Study

• Satirical Headline Critique: EAT CHEESE LIVE FOREVER EAT CHEESE NEVER DIE.
• Headline: Parents Can Reduce Child Obesity Risk, Here’s the Trick to Doing So.
• Study: Conflicting Associations Among Observation of Caregiver Behaviors, Toddler Regulatory Abilities, and Toddler BMIz Trajectory in Longitudinal Observational Study. No Tricks; No Reducing Risk.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Omega-3 Fatty Acids Does Not Affect Physical Activity and Body Weight in Primary School Children.
• RCT: No Differential Effectiveness of Two High Protein Meal Replacement Programs—One Which Provides the Same Daily Energy Restriction (DER) and the Other Which Further Restricts Kilojoules Through Alternate Energy Restriction.
• "In the adjusted models, maternal metabolic complications were not associated with offspring neurodevelopment."
• High Amylose Cornstarch Preloads Stabilized Postprandial Blood Glucose but Failed to Reduce Satiety or Food Intake in Healthy Women.
• "There was no significant relationship between the objective time constraint and HEI score of food purchases."
• "In this meta-analysis, the choice of weight loss strategy did not confer a weight loss benefit."
• Visceral Fat Area Measured with Computed Tomography Does Not Predict Postoperative Course in Crohn´s Disease Patients.
• No change in BMI observed among "The 'Challenge for a Healthier Louisiana' program [which] supported twelve projects that addressed the root causes of obesity through integrated community-level changes."

Basic

• Hepatic Glucagon-Receptor Signaling Enhances Insulin-Stimulated Glucose Disposal in Rodent.
• Resveratrol Improves the Energy Sensing and Glycolipid Metabolism of Blunt Snout Bream Megalobrama Amblycephala Fed High-carbohydrate Diets By Activating the AMPK–SIRT1–PGC-1α Network.
• Lipid Metabolism in Insect Disease Vectors.
• Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) Channels: A Metabolic TR(i)P to Obesity Prevention and Therapy.
• Obesity Increases Airway Smooth Muscle Responses to Contractile Agonists.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Before, After, Pre, Post, and Bogus Claims.
• Why Causality, and Not Prediction, Should Guide Obesity Prevention Policy.

Clinical

• Epicardial Fat Distribution Assessed with Cardiac CT in Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia/Cardiomyopathy.
• Rethinking the Association Between Overweight/obesity and ADHD in Children: A Longitudinal and Psychosocial Perspective.
• The Role and Impact of Community Health Workers in Childhood Obesity Interventions: A Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis.
• Effects of Intentional Weight Loss in Patients with Obesity and Heart Failure: A Systematic Review.
• Dynapenic Abdominal Obesity as a Risk Factor for Worse Trajectories of ADL Disability Among Older Adults: ELSA Cohort Study.

Children and Adolescents

• QuickStats: Number of Youths Aged 2–19 Years and Adults Aged ≥20 Years with Obesity or Severe Obesity — National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2015–2016.
• Defining Metabolically Healthy Obesity in Children: A Scoping Review.
• Gratitude Facilitates Healthy Eating Behavior in Adolescents and Young Adults.
• Body Mass Index Changes in Early Childhood.
• PedsQL 3.2 Diabetes Module for Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults: Reliability and Validity in Type 1 Diabetes.

Surgery

• Does Bariatric Surgery Cause Vitamin A, B1, C or E Deficiency? A Systematic Review.
• RCT: Effects of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Eating Behaviors, Affective Symptoms, and Weight Loss After Bariatric Surgery.
• Obesity Surgery Makes Patients Healthier and More Functional: Real World Results From the UK National Bariatric Surgery Registry.
• Causal Attributions for Obesity Among Patients Seeking Surgical Versus Behavioral/Pharmacological Weight Loss Treatment.
• Conversion of Standard Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass to Distal Bypass for Weight Loss Failure and Metabolic Syndrome: 3-year Follow-up and Evolution of Technique to Reduce Nutritional Complications.

Drugs

• Intranasal Oxytocin Reduces Weight Gain in Diet-induced Obese Prairie Voles.
• Efficacy and Safety of a Fixed-dose Combination of D-norpseudoephedrine, Triiodothyronine, Atropine, Aloin, and Diazepam in Obese Patients.
• Human-origin Probiotic Cocktail Increases Short-chain Fatty Acid Production Via Modulation of Mice and Human Gut Microbiome.

Food & Diet

• Food Texture: A Potential Dietary Consideration for Obesity Prevention?
• RCT: Glycemic Effects of a Low-Carbohydrate Enteral Formula Compared with an Enteral Formula of Standard Composition in Critically Ill Patients.
• Cardiovascular Disease Prevention By Diet Modification.
• Chia Oil Supplementation Changes Body Composition and Activates Insulin Signaling Cascade in Skeletal Muscle Tissue of Obese Animals.
• Serving Style Preferences for Various Meal Arrangements Among Children.

Caloric Restriction

• Investigation of the Long-term Sustainability of Changes in Appetite After Weight Loss.
• Restricted Calorie Intake and Autophagy: Is There a Link?
• The Effect of Fasting or Calorie Restriction on Autophagy Induction: A Review of the Literature.
• Time-Restricted Feeding Prevents Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome in Mice Lacking a Circadian Clock.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Post-workout Muscle Building and Repair Blunted in Obese Adults.
• Long‐term Determinants of Changes in Television Viewing Time in Adults: Prospective Analyses From the Young Finns Study.
• Self-regulated Use of a Wearable Activity Sensor is Not Associated with Improvements in Physical Activity, Cardiometabolic Risk or Subjective Health Status.
• The Effectiveness of EHealth Interventions on Physical Activity and Measures of Obesity Among Working‐age Women: A Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis.
• Worldwide Trends in Insufficient Physical Activity From 2001 to 2016: A Pooled Analysis of 358 Population-based Surveys with 1·9 Million Participants.

Economics & Sociology

• Healthy Eating Among Mexican Immigrants: Migration in Childhood and Time in the United States.
• Prospective Cohort Study of Overweight and Obesity Among Rural Indian Adults: Sociodemographic Predictors of Prevalence, Incidence and Remission.
• The Body as Metaphor: Social Class and Obesity.
• Financial Incentives Could Be Key to Tackling Australia's Obesity Crisis: CSIRO Study.

Epidemiology

• Obesity and Loss of Disease-free Years Owing to Major Non-communicable Diseases: A Multicohort Study.
• Weight Loss Increases All-cause Mortality in Overweight or Obese Patients with Diabetes: A Meta-analysis.
• Evaluation of a Summary Score for Dyslipidemia, Oxidative Stress and Inflammation (DOI Score) in Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Its Relationship with Obesity.
• Genetics of Severe Obesity.
• Insomnia Symptoms and Sleep Duration and Their Combined Effects in Relation to Associations with Obesity and Central Obesity.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Jerkies, Tacos, and Burgers: Subjective Socioeconomic Status and Meat Preference.
• Moderating Effects of Components of Resilience on Obesity Across Income Strata.
• Unfavourable Gender Effect of High BMI on Brain Metabolism and Connectivity.
• Neurobehavioral Correlates of Obesity are Largely Heritable.
• Regulation of Energy Rheostasis By the Melanocortin-3 Receptor.

Equity and Disparities

• Racial Differences in Mechanisms Linking Childhood Socioeconomic Status with Growth in Adult BMI: The Role of Adolescent Risk and Educational Attainment.
• Hospital Length of Stay By Race-Ethnicity and Weight Loss Procedure Types.
• Two‐Year Changes in Child Weight Status, Diet, and Activity By Neighborhood Nutrition and Physical Activity Environment.

Stigma

• Commentary: Tess Holliday: Public Health Threat.
• Respectful Language and Care in Childhood Obesity.
• Association Between Obesity and Patient-centered Measures Using the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.

Policy Related

• RCT: Influence of Front-of-package Nutrition Labels on Beverage Healthiness Perceptions.
• Perceived Effectiveness and Fairness of Obesity Taxes in Turkey.
• Food Deserts Don’t Cause Obesity. But that Doesn’t Mean They Don’t Matter.
• Weight Gains From Trade in Foods: Evidence From Mexico.

Intergenerational Effects

• Prevalence of Low Birth Weight and Its Association with Maternal Body Weight Status in Selected Countries in Africa: A Cross-sectional Study.
• Folate Treatment of Pregnant Rats Abolishes Metabolic Effects in Female Offspring Induced By a Paternal Pre-conception Unhealthy Diet.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Ingestive Behavior of Bornean Orangutans (Pongo Pygmaeus Wurmbii): Coping with Mechanical Challenges While Foraging.
• Starvation Tolerance of Extraordinarily Heavy Embayment Copepod Acartia Steueri in Sagami Bay, Japan.
• Dietary Antioxidants, but Not Courtship Effort, Affect Oxidative Balance in the Testes and Muscles of Crickets.
• Female Status, Food Security, and Stature Sexual Dimorphism: Testing Mate Choice as a Mechanism in Human Self‐domestication.

Methods

• Framework for Estimating Sleep Timing From Publicly Observable Activity on Online Social Network Sites.
• Narrative Review of New Methods for Assessing Food and Energy Intake.
• National Institutes of Health Pathways to Prevention Workshop: Methods for Evaluating Natural Experiments in Obesity.
• Use of Deep Learning to Examine the Association of the Built Environment with Prevalence of Neighborhood Adult Obesity.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• The Proposal to Lower P Value Thresholds to 0.005.
• Lowering the P Value Threshold—To the Editor.
• Lowering the P Value Threshold—Reply.
• Arm Circumference-to-Height Ratio as a Situational Alternative to BMI Percentile in Assessing Obesity and Cardiometabolic Risk in Adolescents.

New Books

• New Book: Interval Weight Loss for Life.
• New Book: Practical Guide to Obesity Medicine.
• New Book: Handbook of Obesity Treatment, Second Edition.
• New Book: Treating Obesity with Personalized Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
• Data Release: CDC Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity - Legislation.

Commentary

• Genes that Make You Fat, but Keep You Healthy.
• Really? Cardio Beats Strength on Metabolism?
• Big, Bad, and Unfortunate Mistakes.
• Cosmopolitan editor defends putting plus-size model Tess Holliday on cover.
• In Defense of Sugar: A Critique of Diet-Centrism.
• In Critique of “In Defense of Sugar”: The Nuance of Whole Foods.
• The Demonization of ‘Diet’ Is Nothing New.
• Sugar Wars - Commentary From the Editor.
• Is Any Alcohol Dangerous to Your Health?
• Availability of High-fat Foods Might Drive the Obesity Epidemic.

General

• Sedentary Songbirds Maintain Higher Prevalence of Haemosporidian Parasite Infections than Migratory Conspecifics During Seasonal Sympatry.
• Ancient Herders Enriched and Restructured African Grasslands.
• Introducing ‘Letters to Young Scientists,’ a New Column From Science Careers.
• What I Learned About Weight Loss From Spending a Day Inside a Metabolic Chamber.

Video & Audio

• Audio: Sleep Deprivation and Muscle Loss.

Announcements

• Dietary Guidelines Public Call for Nominations September 6 - October 6.
• IU School of Public Health Bloomington Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track Positions Available in Every Department and Two Department Chairs Open – See Multiple Listings Posted Here.
• UAB’s Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) Seeks Post-Doctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• Research Symposium: Use of Real-World Data to Improve the Prevention and Care of Diabetes-Related Outcomes.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track positions available in every department and two department chairs open – see multiple listings posted here.
• UAB’s NORC Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.

Featured

• Implementation of Environmental Enrichment After Middle Age Promotes Healthy Aging and Reduces Fatness in Mice.
• Suppression of Insulin Feedback Enhances the Efficacy of PI3K Inhibitors.
• Does Obesity Shorten Life? Or is It the Soda? On Non-manipulable Causes. (pdf)
• RCT: Cardiovascular Safety of Lorcaserin in Overweight or Obese Patients.

Headline vs Study

• Media critique: What You Need to Know About Stories Proclaiming ‘no Safe Level of Alcohol’.
• Headline: Losing Just One Night of Sleep Could Affect Your Metabolism and Lead to Obesity, According to a New Study.
• Study: Acute Sleep Loss Alters Genome-wide DNA Methylation and Metabolic Fuel Utilization in Humans. No Obesity.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Intragastric injection of BTX-A does not appear to be an effective method of achieving preoperative weight loss in super-obese patients."
• "…the associations of any breastfeeding, duration and exclusiveness of breastfeeding, and age at the introduction of solid foods with general, visceral, and organ fat measures at the age of 10 y are largely explained by family-based sociodemographic factors."
• Obesity Does Not Increase the Incidence and Severity of Intraoperative and Postoperative Complications After Lung Lobectomy.
• No Evidence of Overweight in Long‐Term Survivors of Childhood Cancer After Glucocorticoid Treatment.
• RCT: "The DPA [daily physical activity] program evaluated here did not improve the psychosocial well-being of elementary school-aged children more than usual practices."
• "These data suggest that sedentary behavior is not associated with changes in cognitive performance in interventions that intend to reduce sedentary behavior."
• "The results of the present study suggest that arterial stiffness is not associated with sitting time in obese African Americans."
• RCTs: "1200 mg/day calcium supplementation may reduce risk of colorectal adenomas among those with normal BMI but not in overweight or obese individuals..."

Basic

• Glucomannan Hydrolysate Promotes Gut Proliferative Homeostasis and Extends Lifespan in Drosophila Melanogaster.
• Loss of the E3 Ubiquitin Ligase MKRN1 Represses Diet-Induced Metabolic Syndrome Through AMPK Activation.
• P53 in AgRP Neurons is Required for Protection Against Diet-Induced Obesity Via JNK1 in Mice.
• MTOR Signaling in X/A‐Like Cells Contributes to Lipid Homeostasis in Mice.
• Hepatocyte ALOXE3 is Induced During Adaptive Fasting and Enhances Insulin Sensitivity By Activating Hepatic PPARγ in Diet-Induced and Genetically Obese Mouse Models.
• The Circulating Metabolome of Human Starvation.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• The Claim that Effectiveness Has Been Demonstrated in the Parenting, Eating and Activity for Child Health (PEACH) Childhood Obesity Intervention is Unsubstantiated By the Data.
• The Challenge of Reforming Nutritional Epidemiologic Research.
• Low Carb Diets Could Shorten Life (really?!).
• Commentaries on Viewpoint: Use Aerobic Energy Expenditure Instead of Oxygen Uptake to Quantify Exercise Intensity and Predict Endurance Performance.
• Perspective: Limiting Dependence on Nonrandomized Studies and Improving Randomized Trials in Human Nutrition Research: Why and How.
• Anti-obesity Effects of Spirulina Maxima in High Fat Diet Induced Obese Rats Through Activating AMPK Pathway and SIRT1.
• Misrepresentation of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center Weight Loss Predictor.
• Reply to DM Thomas et al.

Clinical

• The Responsibility of Veterinarians to Address Companion Animal Obesity.
• An Addiction Model-based Mobile Health Weight Loss Intervention in Adolescents with Obesity.
• Impact of Primary Breast Cancer Therapy on Energetic Capacity and Body Composition.
• Post-prandial Uridine Physiology is Altered By Obesity. (pdf)
• RCT: A Church-Based Weight Loss Intervention in African American Adults Using Text Messages (LEAN Study).
• RCT: A Ketogenic Diet Reduces Central Obesity and Serum Insulin in Women with Ovarian or Endometrial Cancer.
• Men and Women Respond Differently to Rapid Weight Loss: Metabolic Outcomes of a Multi‐centre Intervention Study After a Low‐energy Diet in 2500 Overweight, Individuals with Pre‐diabetes (PREVIEW).

Children and Adolescents

• "Higher participation in organized sport was associated with increased participation in free play over time" in five-year cohort study of fourth grade children.
• Interaction Between Parental Education and Household Wealth on Children's Obesity Risk.
• Validation of Dietary Reference Intakes for Predicting Energy Requirements in Elementary School-age Children.

Surgery

• The Efficacy of Energy-Restricted Diets in Achieving Preoperative Weight Loss for Bariatric Patients: A Systematic Review.
• RCT: EUS-Guided Intragastric Injection of Botulinum Toxin a in the Preoperative Treatment of Super-Obese Patients.
• Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery-Induced Weight Loss and Metabolic Improvements are Similar in TGR5-Deficient and Wildtype Mice.
• Bariatric Surgery Improves the Employment Rate in People with Obesity: 2-year Analysis.

Drugs

• RCT: Efficacy and Safety of Semaglutide Compared with Liraglutide and Placebo for Weight Loss in Patients with Obesity.
• Induction of Beige Adipocytes By Naturally Occurring β3-adrenoceptor Agonist P-synephrine.
• RCT: Efficacy and Safety of Once-weekly Dulaglutide Versus Insulin Glargine in Mainly Asian Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus on Metformin And/or a Sulfonylurea.
• Cardiovascular Safety of Lorcaserin in Overweight or Obese Patients.
• RCT: Effect of Sitagliptin on Energy Metabolism and Brown Adipose Tissue in Overweight Individuals with Prediabetes.

Food & Diet

• Switching From a High-fat Cellulose Diet to a High-fat Pectin Diet Reverses Certain Obesity-related Morbidities.
• Opportunistic Food Consumption in Relation to Childhood and Adult Food Insecurity: An Exploratory Correlational Study.
• RCT: Reductions in Food Cravings are Similar with Low-fat Weight Loss Diets Differing in Protein and Carbohydrate in Overweight and Obese Adults with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Polyphenols Regulating MicroRNAs and Inflammation Biomarkers in Obesity.
• Dietary Carbohydrate Intake and Mortality: A Prospective Cohort Study and Meta-analysis.
• Influence of Food Texture on Energy Metabolism and Adiposity in Male Rats.
• RCT: High Protein, Partial Meal Replacement Program with or Without Alternate Day Fasting.
• The Impact of Food Order on Postprandial Glycemic Excursions in Prediabetes.

Caloric Restriction

• Resistance Training and Caloric Restriction Prevent Systolic Blood Pressure Rise By Improving the Nitric Oxide Effect on Smooth Muscle and Morphological Changes in the Aorta of Ovariectomized Rats.
• Experiences of Using Very Low Energy Diets for Weight Loss By People with Overweight or Obesity: A Review of Qualitative Research.
• Gut Microbiota Mediates the Anti-obesity Effect of Calorie Restriction in Mice.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Association of Physical Activity with Age-related Changes in Muscle Echo Intensity in Older Adults: A 4-year Longitudinal Study.
• RCT: Telephone-delivered Physical Activity and Weight Management Intervention for Individuals with Lower Extremity Amputation.
• High-intensity Interval Training Elicits Improvements in Objective Measures of Cardiorespiratory Fitness Within 8 Weeks in Diseased Cohorts Compared with No Intervention.
• Association of Objectively Measured Physical Activity with Brown Adipose Tissue Volume and Activity in Young Adults.

Epidemiology

• Metabolic Markers, Regional Adiposity, and Adipose Cell Size: Relationship to Insulin Resistance in African-American as Compared with Caucasian Women.
• Sarcopenia as a Predictor of Hospitalization Among Older People: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Estimated Global Overweight and Obesity Burden in Pregnant Women Based on Panel Data Model.
• Compositional Associations of Time Spent in Sleep, Sedentary Behavior and Physical Activity with Obesity Measures in Children.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Which is Better in Fat Times and in Lean Times: The Macho Man Vs. The Nice Guy? Priming Effects on Polish and Norwegian Students' Mate Preferences.
• Social Dominance Modulates Stress-induced Neural Activity in Medial Prefrontal Cortex Projections to the Basolateral Amygdala.

Equity and Disparities

• Ethnic Disparities of Beverage Consumption in Infants and Children 0-5 Years of Age; National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2011 to 2014.
• Geographic Differences in Obesity Prevalence and Its Risk Factors Among Asian Americans: Findings From the 2013–2014 California Health Interview Survey.
• Investigating Socioeconomic Disparities in the Potential Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Environments of Churches.

Stigma

• Weight Stigma is a Modifiable Risk Factor.
• How and why weight stigma drives the obesity 'epidemic' and harms health.

Policy Related

• Public Perceptions of Sugar Sweetened Beverage Taxes: An Integrative Literature Review.
• New Bill Aims to Limit Kids’ Drink Options By Offering Milk or Water.

Intergenerational Effects

• Gestational Weight Gain Per Pre-Pregnancy BMI and Birth Weight in Twin Pregnancies: A Cohort Study in Wuhan, China.
• INSIGHT Study Maternal Return to Work and Infant Weight Outcomes.
• Prospective Cohort Studies of Birth Weight and Risk of Obesity, Diabetes, and Hypertension in Adulthood Among the Chinese Population.
• Neonatal Morbidity in the Offspring of Obese Women Without Hypertension or Diabetes.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The Role of Curvature Feedback in the Energetics and Dynamics of Lamprey Swimming: A Closed-loop Model.
• Blood Pressure is Associated with Resting Energy Expenditure and Body Composition in Non-obese 18–39 Year-olds: Results of the Ic-basarot Project.
• Extreme Physiological Plasticity in a Hibernating Basoendothermic Mammal, Tenrec Ecaudatus.
• Impact of Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions on Global Human Nutrition.

Methods

• Sheep as a Model for Control of Appetite and Energy Expenditure.
• The Weight‐Focused Forms of Self‐Criticising/Attacking and Self‐Reassuring Scale: Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Associations with Control, Loss of Control of Eating and Weight in Overweight and Obese Women.
• Potential Biases in Machine Learning Algorithms Using Electronic Health Record Data.
• Controversy and Debate Paper #1: The Fatal Flaws of Food Frequency Questionnaires and other Memory-Based Dietary Assessment Methods.
• Controversy and Debate: Memory based Methods Paper #2.
• Controversy and Debate: Memory-Based Dietary Assessment Methods Paper #3.
• Controversy and Debate: Memory based Methods Paper #4.
• Anthropometric Indices as Surrogates for Estimating Abdominal Visceral and Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue: A Meta-analysis with 16,129 Participants.
• Can the Artificial Intelligence Technique of Reinforcement Learning Use Continuously-monitored Digital Data to Optimize Treatment for Weight Loss?

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Oxygen Uptake Kinetics and Speed-time Correlates of Modified 3-minute All-out Shuttle Running in Soccer Players.
• A mathematical model of type 1 diabetes involving leptin effects on glucose metabolism.

Commentary

• Wondering Why More Teens Aren’t Thinking Weight Loss.
• Diet Boosts the Effectiveness of a Cancer Drug.
• Meeting the Challenge of Scale for Obesity Care.
• If You're Worried About the New Alcohol Study, Here's Some Perspective.
• What Will It Take to Reverse Childhood Obesity? More than a Single Solution.
• The Madness of Hunger.
• Lorcaserin — Elixir or Liability?
• Lorcaserin: From Also-Ran to Holy Grail in the NEJM.

General

• No More Excuses for Non-reproducible Methods.
• Longevity Examined: An Ancient Greek’s Very Modern Views on Ageing.
• The "finding that judgment depends on context may be applicable to any field in which humans categorize continuous distributions."
• Sexual Dimorphism in Drosophila Melanogaster Survival of Beauveria Bassiana Infection Depends on Core Immune Signaling.
• Sons May Be Bad for Maternal Health at Older Age. New Evidence for Costs of Reproduction in Humans.
• Hypogonadism and Its Treatment Following Ischaemic Stroke in Men with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• How Healthy is the Healthspan Concept?
• Evaluating the Replicability of Social Science Experiments in Nature and Science Between 2010 and 2015.
• Alien Signals to Earth Could Piggyback on Neutron Star Collisions.
• UK Weather: Food to Increase in Price Because of Extreme Conditions.

Video & Audio

• It's Not the Fat that Makes Us Unhealthy.

Announcements

• IU Bloomington: Professional Athletic Training Program Receives Scholarship Funding From Bill Cramer Professional Development Award.
• $1.5 Million Gift Establishes Endowed Johnson Chair for Diversity and Leadership at IU.
• Closing Friday—2018 Nominations for TOS Council and the Nominating Committee.
• IU Bloomington School of Public Health Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track positions available in every department and two department chairs open – see multiple listings posted here.
• UAB’s NORC Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.