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Obituary

• In Memoriam: TOS Member and Award Winner John G. Kral, MD, PhD.

Featured

• Meta-analysis: Effects of Dietary Protein Quantity on Bone Quantity Following Weight Loss.
• Linking Chemical Exposure to Lipid Homeostasis: A Municipal Waste Water Treatment Plant Influent is Obesogenic for Zebrafish Larvae.
• "New findings include that a woman's household SNAP participation with or without updating for last periods health status and higher local dairy product prices reduce significantly her BMI and probability of being obese."
• Methylome and Transcriptome Maps of Human Visceral and Subcutaneous Adipocytes Reveal Key Epigenetic Differences at Developmental Genes.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Genes Play a Role in Triggering Obesity, but So Does Your Diet: Study.
• Headline: Genes, Yes, but Obesity Pandemic Mostly Down to Diet: Study.
• Study: Associations between Polygenic Risk Scores and BMI Over Time. No Diet Measured.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Activity Space Metrics Not Associated with Sociodemographic Variables, Diet or Health Outcomes.
• Contrary to Previous Findings, Our Analyses Suggest the Association Between Maltreatment Experiences and Longitudinal Weight Outcomes Dissipates After Controlling for Relevant Confounders.
• "Contrary to prior studies on adult and pediatric patients with trauma, this study found no difference between obese and non-obese patients in severity of solid organ injury after blunt abdominal trauma in the adult population."
• RCT: Moderate Postmeal Walking Has No Beneficial Effects Over Resting on Postprandial Lipemia, Glycemia, Insulinemia, and Selected Oxidative and Inflammatory Parameters in Older Adults with a Cardiovascular Disease Risk Phenotype.
• Circulating Levels of the Components of the GH/IGF-1/IGFBPs Axis Total and Intact IGF-binding Proteins (IGFBP) 3 and IGFBP 4 and Total IGFBP 5, as well as PAPPA, PAPPA2 and Stanniocalcin-2 Levels are Not Altered in Response to Energy Deprivation and/or Metreleptin Administration in Humans.
• RCT: "Concurrent training using repetitions to concentric failure did not promote additional benefits for neuromuscular function, muscle thickness, or functional capacity of older individuals."
• RCT: Pedometers Alone Do Not Increase Mobility in Inpatient Rehabilitation.
• RCT: "manipulating box size had little effect [but other factors did] on child consumption, and neither box size nor quantity/variety of items consistently affected adults' consumption."
• RCT: Beetroot Juice Does Not Enhance Supramaximal Intermittent Exercise Performance in Elite Endurance Athletes.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• What’s Published in the Journal Isn’t What the Researchers Actually Did.
• Scientific Integrity Principles and Best Practices: Recommendations from a Scientific Integrity Consortium.
• Commentary in Journal of Food Science: Working to Improve Scientific Integrity.
• Using Behavioral Science to Inform Policies Limiting Sugary-Drink Portions: Reply to Wilson and Stolarz-Fantino (2018).

Basic

• Enzyme Associated with Detoxification Linked to Obesity and Fatty Liver Disease.
• Fibroblast Activation Protein Restrains Adipogenic Differentiation and Regulates Matrix-Mediated MTOR Signaling.
• High-Fat Diet Induced Obesity Causes Site-Specific Reprogramming of Macrophage Responses to Bacterial Lipopolysaccharide.
• Modified Apple Polysaccharide Regulates Microbial Dysbiosis to Suppress High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity in C57BL/6J Mice.
• Overproduction of Endothelin-1 in Mice Impairs Glucose Tolerance but Does Not Promote Visceral Adipose Tissue Inflammation or Limit Metabolic Adaptations to Exercise.
• In Vitro Effects of Sitosterol and Sitostanol on Mitochondrial Respiration in Human Brown Adipocytes, Myotubes and Hepatocytes.

Clinical

• Systematic review of systematic reviews: Types of Interventions Targeting Dietary, Physical Activity, and Weight-Related Outcomes among University Students.
• Calories Purchased By Hospital Employees after Implementation of a Cafeteria Traffic Light–Labeling and Choice Architecture Program.
• New Reports Provide Guidance for Obesity Care.

Children and Adolescents

• Association of Obesity with Multiple Sclerosis Risk and Response to First-line Disease Modifying Drugs in Children.
• Consumption Patterns of Milk and 100% Juice in Relation to Diet Quality and Body Weight Among United States Children.
• The Role of Genetic Predisposition, Programing during Fetal Life, Family Conditions, and Post-natal Diet in the Development of Pediatric Fatty Liver Disease.
• Attempts to Lose Weight Among Adolescents Aged 16–19 in the United States, 2013–2016. (PDF)

Surgery

• RCT: Exercise Mitigates Bone Loss in Women with Severe Obesity After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.
• Conversion from Prediabetes to Diabetes in Individuals with Obesity, 5-Years Post-Band, Sleeve, and Gastric Bypass Surgeries.

Drugs

• RCT: Glycaemic Benefit of IGlarLixi in Insulin-naive Type 2 Diabetes Patients with High HbA1c or Those with Inadequate Glycaemic Control on Two Oral Antihyperglycaemic Drugs in the LixiLan-O Randomized Trial.
• RCT: Effect of Liraglutide on Estimates of Lipolysis and Lipid Oxidation in Obese Patients with Stable Coronary Artery Disease and Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes.

Food & Diet

• The Ketogenic Diet for Obesity and Diabetes—Enthusiasm Outpaces Evidence.
• The Super Fly that Could Feed Us, End Waste and Make Plastic and Fuel.
• The Mediterranean Diet and 2-Year Change in Cognitive Function by Status of Type 2 Diabetes and Glycemic Control.
• Meta-analysis: Association Between Plant-Based Dietary Patterns and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes.
• Protein Leverage Coming at Us.

Caloric Restriction

• Differential Effects of Alternate‐Day Fasting Versus Daily Calorie Restriction on Insulin Resistance.
• Effects of Multiple Cycles of Weight Loss and Regain on the Body-Weight Regulatory System in Rats.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: The Effects of Acute Exercise on Appetite, Circulating Ghrelin Concentrations and Butyrylcholinesterase Activity in Normal Weight Males with Variants of the Obesity-linked FTO Rs9939609 Polymorphism.
• The Effects of Pediatric Obesity on Patellofemoral Joint Contact Force During Walking.
• Association of Step Volume and Intensity with All-Cause Mortality in Older Women.
• Effects of a 12-Week Exercise Intervention on Subsequent Compensatory Behaviors in Adolescent Girls: An Exploratory Study.

Economics & Sociology

• Roommate Effects in Health Outcomes [including Obesity].
• Trends in Obesity Prevalence among Brazilian Adults from 2002 to 2013 by Educational Level.
• Thesis: Early Childhood Obesity – Exploring the Impact of Environmental and Social Factors and Parental Beliefs of Caring for Infants with Known Obesity Risk Factors.
• A Social-ecological Review of the Rural Versus Urban Obesity Disparity.

Epidemiology

• A Metabolic Obesity Profile is Associated with Decreased Gray Matter Volume in Cognitively Healthy Older Adults.
• Changes in the Prevalence of Overweight, Obesity, and Severe Obesity between 2010 and 2017 in Preschoolers: A Population‐based Study.
• Natural Environments and Craving: The Mediating Role of Negative Affect.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• The Ergogenic Potency of Carbohydrate Mouth Rinse on Endurance Running Performance of Dehydrated Athletes.
• The Effect of the Spatial Positioning of a Healthy Food Cue on Food Choice from a Pictorial-style Menu.
• The Moderating Effects of Mindful Eating on the Relationship between Emotional Functioning and Eating Styles in Overweight and Obese Women.
• The Effect of Brief Mindfulness Training on Brain Reactivity to Food Cues during Nicotine Withdrawal: A Pilot Functional Imaging Study.

Equity and Disparities

• Trends in Health Equity in the United States by Race/Ethnicity, Sex, and Income, 1993-2017.
• Trends in Non‐Hispanic White Mortality in the United States by Metropolitan‐Nonmetropolitan Status and Region, 1990–2016.

Ethics

• Systematic Review: Patient Care without Borders: A Systematic Review of Medical and Surgical Tourism.
• Causes of Reporting Bias: A Theoretical Framework.

Stigma

• Mixed Methods Analysis Examining Differential Patterns of Long-Term Distress From Weight Stigma.
• Stigma: A Biocultural Proposal for Integrating Evolutionary and Political‐economic Approaches.
• Relationship between Weight-Related Self-Stigma and Mental Health for Overweight/Obese Children in Hong Kong.
• Should Obesity Be Recognised as a Disease?
• Weight Bias Internalization and Long-Term Weight Loss in Patients with Obesity.

Policy Related

• Free School Meals as an Approach to Reduce Health Inequalities among 10–12- Year-old Norwegian Children.
• Obesity Campaigners Fear New UK Prime Minister Will Bury Obesity Proposals.
• Herbal Doctor Remedies Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of All Drug Products Due to Marketing without FDA Approval and Concerns with Manufacturing Practices.
• USDA Proposes to Limit Access to Food Stamps.

Intergenerational Effects

• Children Exposed to Maternal Obesity or Gestational Diabetes Mellitus During Early Fetal Development Have Hypothalamic Alterations that Predict Future Weight Gain.
• Maternal Blood Pressure Mediates the Association Between Maternal Obesity and Infant Weight Gain in Early Postpartum.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Caloric Restriction, Longevity and Aging: Recent Contributions from Human and Non-human Primate Studies.
• African Savanna Elephants (Loxodonta africana) as an Example of a Herbivore Making Movement Choices Based on Nutritional Needs.
• Five Animals that Could Help Us Beat Human Diseases.
• The Good, the Bad and the Slimy: Experimental Studies of Hagfish Digestive and Nutritional Physiology.

Methods

• Relationships between Observations and Parental Reports of 3-5 Year Old Children's Emotional Eating Using the Children's Eating Behaviour Questionnaire.
• Regression Decomposition Technique toward Finding Intra-household Gender Bias of Calorie Consumption.
• Systematic review: System Dynamics and Agent‐based Obesity Models: Evaluating Obesity as Part of the Global Syndemic.
• Daily Sampling Reveals Personalized Diet-Microbiome Associations in Humans.

Commentary

• Anorexia May Be Linked to Metabolism, a Genetic Analysis Suggests.
• Dan Murphy: More Meat? Less Meat? Wrong Question.
• Fat or Fiction: The Diet-heart Hypothesis.
• Time-restricted Feeding.
• Fruits and Veggies, Talk and Reality.
• Nutrition Science is Broken. This New Egg Study Shows Why.
• The Wrongful Demonisation of All Fats Has Caused Low Carb Dieters to Lose Faith in Mainstream Science. But at What Cost?
• Is Awareness of Excess Weight a Problem?
• More Teens Trying to Lose Weight, Mostly DIY.
• Pediatricians and Obesity.

General

• Frequent Prescribed Fires Can Reduce Risk of Tick-borne Diseases.
• How a Data Detective Exposed Suspicious Medical Trials.
• NEJM: New Guidelines for Statistical Reporting in the Journal.
• If Journals Embraced Conditional Equivalence Testing, Would Research Be Better?
• What We Can Learn From Five Naturalistic Field Experiments that Failed to Shift Commuter Behavior. (PDF)
• Evidence vs Consensus in Clinical Practice Guidelines.
• Many USDA Workers to Quit as Research Agencies Move to Kansas City: ‘The Brain Drain We All Feared’.
• Exclusive: Russian Site Says It Has Brokered Authorships for More than 10,000 Researchers.
• Criminologist Posts 27-page Article Explaining Why He Asked for One of His Papers to Be Retracted.
• C. Elegans Healthier Without Longevity Gene.
• Checking Your Phone at Night Won't Necessarily Throw Off Your Internal Clock, Mouse Study Finds.
• Lemurs at Duke May Aid in Alzheimer's Research. But First They Need Your Old Phone.

Video & Audio

• Podcast: Celebrating Howarth Bouis’ Contributions to Biofortification.
• Podcast: Exercise Framework, Deadlifting, Lower Back Pain, Blood Pressure, Nootropics, CGM, and More.

Announcements

• Complex Trait Analysis of Next Generation Sequence Data.
• Obesity Expert Stephen O'Rahilly to Receive $100K Taubman Prize for Excellence.
• Sept 24 - Reproducibility and Replicability in Science: Next Steps Symposium.
• IU Bloomington: Prevention Insights to Oversee Evidence-based Research for Claude McNeal Productions’ Lilly Endowment Grant.
• IU Alum "Blair Johnson receives White House award for young scientists."
• Uncharted: A Six-part Series in Search of Culinary Inspiration.
• Training Program: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Training Program: AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• Short Course: Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research, Indiana University Bloomington (July 29-August 2, 2019).

Featured

• A Novel Automated System Yields Reproducible Temporal Feeding Patterns in Laboratory Rodents.
• Voice Break in Boys – Temporal Relations with Other Pubertal Milestones and Likely Causal Effects of BMI.
• RCT: Effect of Different Doses of Supervised Exercise on Food Intake, Metabolism, and Non-exercise Physical Activity.
• A Receptor of the Immunoglobulin Superfamily Regulates Adaptive Thermogenesis.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Study: Fruits and Vegetables Help Switch Off Genes Responsible for Obesity.
• Study: Self-reported fruit and vegetable intake statistically interacts with genetic obesity risk score. No "switching off" measured. Association, not necessarily causation.

Contrary or Null Findings

• No Apparent Effect of an In-home Intervention of Parent-implemented Strategies to Increase Child Vegetable Intake: Results From a Non-randomized Cluster-allocated Community Trial.
• RCT: No Effect on Prevention of Obesity in Toddlers (PROBIT) Trial: Responsive Feeding Promotion From Birth to 24 Months.
• RCT: "at follow-up there was no significant differences between intervention and control group in mean energy of foods packed within lunchboxes" after an m-health intervention targeting parents of school aged children to improve the nutritional quality of foods packed in the lunchbox 'SWAP IT'.
• Activity Space Metrics Not Associated with Sociodemographic Variables, Diet or Health Outcomes.
• "Despite significant food-related outcomes in the main analysis of this trial, no significant mediating or moderating effects were found for any hypothesised mediators or moderators."
• "With a high number of mixed and null results, clear socio‐economic patterning in the presence of physical activity environments in high‐income countries was not evident in this systematic review."
• "Contrary to hypotheses, higher PTSD symptoms were associated with better physical activity and diet quality."
• "We found no evidence that sleep duration very early in life affects adolescent body composition or cardiovascular health."
• No effect of the EP3 antagonist DG-041 on body weight and glucose homeostasis in male mice with diet-induced obesity.
• Behavioral Weight Loss Interventions are Insufficient to Address the Obesity Crisis in Endometrial Cancer Survivors.

Basic

• Phenotypic Effects of Dietary Stress in Combination with a Respiratory Chain Bypass in Mice.
• Housing Temperature Affects the Acute and Chronic Metabolic Adaptations to Exercise in Mice.
• YIPF6 Controls Sorting of FGF21 Into COPII Vesicles and Promotes Obesity.
• A Muscle-Specific UBE2O/AMPKα2 Axis Promotes Insulin Resistance and Metabolic Syndrome in Obesity.
• Feedback Regulation of Arid5a and Ppar-γ2 Maintains Adipose Tissue Homeostasis.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Commentary: Why Everything You Know About Nutrition is Wrong.
• Letter: Concerning: Borude, S (2019). Which Is a Good Diet—Veg or Non-veg? Faith-Based Vegetarianism for Protection from Obesity—a Myth or Actuality?

Clinical

• Pilot study: The Effects of Time Restricted Feeding on Overweight, Older Adults.
• RCT: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as an Adjunct to the MOVE! Program.
• Prognostic Value of Energy Expenditure and Respiratory Quotient Measuring in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis.

Children and Adolescents

• From Conception to Infancy — Early Risk Factors for Childhood Obesity.
• Systematic review: Association Between Access to Convenience Stores and Childhood Obesity.
• Associations of Cardiometabolic Outcomes with Indices of Obesity in Children Aged 5 Years and Younger.
• Demographic, Psychological, Behavioral, and Cognitive Correlates of BMI in Youth: Findings From the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study.
• Describing Studies on Childhood Obesity Determinants By Socio-Ecological Model Level: A Scoping Review to Identify Gaps and Provide Guidance for Future Research.
• Design, Making, and Homesteading: Middle Schoolers Address Issues of and Solutions for Food Systems. (pdf)
• Food Insecurity is Associated with Prediabetes Risk Among U.S. Adolescents.
• RCT: A Parent Treatment Program for Preschoolers with Obesity.
• Systematic review: Role of Women's Empowerment in Child Nutrition Outcomes.

Surgery

• Is Transdermal Multivitamin Patch Effective in Gastric Bypass Patients?
• Prospective Longitudinal Trends in Body Composition and Clinical Outcomes 3 Years Following Sleeve Gastrectomy.

Drugs

• The Effects of Dapagliflozin on Urinary Metabolites in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Longer‐term Liraglutide Administration at the Highest Dose Approved for Obesity Increases Reward‐related Orbitofrontal Cortex Activations to Food Cues: Implications for Plateauing Weight Loss in Response to Anti‐obesity Therapies.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Portion Size Has Sustained Effects Over 5 Days in Preschool Children.
• Maternal Exposure to Non-nutritive Sweeteners Impacts Progeny’s Metabolism and Microbiome.
• Meta-analysis: Almond Consumption and Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease.
• The Impact of Dairy Products in the Development of Type 2 Diabetes: Where Does the Evidence Stand in 2019?

Caloric Restriction

• 2 Years of Calorie Restriction and Cardiometabolic Risk (CALERIE): Exploratory Outcomes of a Multicentre, Phase 2, RCT.
• Insulin/IGF Signaling and Vitellogenin Provisioning Mediate Intergenerational Adaptation to Nutrient Stress.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Effect of Essential Amino Acid Supplementation and Aerobic Exercise on Insulin Sensitivity in Healthy Older Adults.
• Persistent Impairment in Cardiopulmonary Fitness After Breast Cancer Chemotherapy.
• Effects of Aerobic Exercise During Pregnancy on 1-Month Infant Neuromotor Skills.
• Neuroprotective Effects of Exercise on the Morphology of Somatic Motoneurons Following the Death of Neighboring Motoneurons.
• RCT: Comparing the Effects of 6 Months Aerobic Exercise and Resistance Training on Metabolic Control and β‐cell Function in Chinese Patients with Prediabetes.
• Association of Dimethylguanidino Valeric Acid with Partial Resistance to Metabolic Health Benefits of Regular Exercise.
• Straight Arm Walking, Bent Arm Running: Gait-specific Elbow Angles.

Economics & Sociology

• Medical and Social Constructionist Perspectives on Obesity and Their Relevance for Social Work: Contradictory Explanations for Ever Expanding Nations?
• Socioeconomic Status and Acculturation: Why Mexican Americans are Heavier than Mexican Immigrants and Whites.
• Family Socioeconomic Position and Abnormal Birth Weight: Evidence From a Chinese Birth Cohort.
• Cross-sectional Association Between Diet Quality and Cardiometabolic Risk By Education Level in Mexican Adults.
• Obesity Prevalence in Large US Cities: Association with Socioeconomic Indicators, Race/ethnicity and Physical Activity.

Epidemiology

• Violence Victimization Predicts BMI One Decade Later Among an Urban Sample of African American Young Adults: Sex as a Moderator and Dehydroepiandrosterone as a Mediator.
• Systematic review: Association Between Access to Convenience Stores and Childhood Obesity.
• Meta-analysis: Mindfulness‐based Interventions for Weight Loss.
• Sugary Drink Consumption and Risk of Cancer: Results From NutriNet-Santé Prospective Cohort.
• Prospective Associations of Waist-to-Height Ratio with Cardiovascular Events in Postmenopausal Women.
• Educational and Health Outcomes of Children Treated for Type 1 Diabetes: Scotland-Wide Record Linkage Study of 766,047 Children.
• Dementia Risk By Combinations of Metabolic Diseases and BMI: Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study Cohort Study.
• Metabolic Syndrome is Associated with an Increased Risk of Psoriasis: A Nationwide Population-based Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Meta-analysis: Does Perceived Overweight Increase Risk of Depressive Symptoms and Suicidality Beyond Objective Weight Status?
• The Impact of Exposure to the Thin Ideal on Chocolate Cravings in U.S. -born Women.
• Non-food Rewards and Highly Processed Food Intake in Everyday Life.
• Lack of Conflict During Food Choice is Associated with the Failure of Restrained Eating.
• Management of Overweight and Obesity in Primary Care—A Systematic Overview of International Evidence‐based Guidelines.

Equity and Disparities

• Job Discrimination for Obesity Ruled Illegal.
• Universal Drug Coverage and Income‐related Disparities in Glycaemic Control.

Ethics

• The Moralization of Obesity.
• Identifying a Human Rights–based Approach to Obesity for States and Civil Society.

Stigma

• The Moralization of Obesity.
• Addressing Internalized Weight Bias and Changing Damaged Social Identities for People Living with Obesity.
• Weight Bias Internalization in a Commercial Weight Management Sample.
• Identifying a Human Rights–based Approach to Obesity for States and Civil Society.
• Extracurricular Activity Involvement and Body Image in Youth with Obesity.
• The Psychological Burden of Baby Weight: Pregnancy, Weight Stigma, and Maternal Health.
• Let Me Explain Weight Stigma.
• Separating Self-Stigma From Self-Care.

Policy Related

• Promoting a Healthier NYC Workforce: Findings From In-person and Online Programs to Prevent Diabetes.
• Treat and Reduce Obesity Act Gains Support in the U.S. House of Representatives in Record Time.

Intergenerational Effects

• Intrauterine Programming of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.
• RNA-Sequencing Analysis of Paternal Low-Protein Diet-Induced Gene Expression Change in Mouse Offspring Adipocytes.
• Maternal Obesity, Birth Size, and Risk of Childhood Cancer Development.
• Exposure to Maternal Obesity During Suckling Outweighs in Utero Exposure in Programming for Post-weaning Adiposity and Insulin Resistance in Rats.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Does Grandparental Care Select for a Longer Lifespan in Non-human Mammals?
• What Determines the Basal Rate of Metabolism?

Methods

• Sympathetic Activity in Obesity: A Brief Review of Methods and Supportive Data.
• Perspective: Network Meta-analysis Reaches Nutrition Research: Current Status, Scientific Concepts, and Future Directions.
• Perspective: The Application of a Priori Diet Quality Scores to Cardiovascular Disease Risk—A Critical Evaluation of Current Scoring Systems.
• Brown Adipose Tissue: Multimodality Evaluation By PET, MRI, Infrared Thermography, and Whole‐Body Calorimetry (TACTICAL‐II).

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Abstract: Assessment of Type I Error Rates and Power of Common Analysis Methods in Murine Obesity-Related Study: ‘Plasmode-Based’ Simulation.

Commentary

• Tired: Eating bugs. Wired: Eating bug meat grown in a lab.
• Ignorance of Nutrition is No Longer Defensible.
• Dietary Guidelines for Sea Lions: Let ‘Em Eat Caviar!
• Gut Microbes May Help Malnourished Children.
• Will “Functional Food” Replace Candy Bars?
• Public Health Nutrition Policies Should Focus on Healthy Eating, Not on Calorie Counting, Even to Decrease Obesity.
• The Ketogenic Diet for Obesity and Diabetes—Enthusiasm Outpaces Evidence.
• Hype About Keto Diets? Say It Ain’t So!

General

• Spatial Clusters and Non-spatial Predictors of Tick-Borne Disease Diagnosis in Indiana.
• Overestimation of Action-Game Training Effects: Publication Bias and Salami Slicing.
• Association of Cardiorespiratory Fitness with Long-term Mortality Among Adults Undergoing Exercise Treadmill Testing.
• Would I Be Helped? Cross-national CCTV Footage Shows that Intervention is the Norm in Public Conflicts.
• Measuring Biophysical and Psychological Stress Levels Following Visitation to Three Locations with Differing Levels of Nature.
• Trigger Warnings are Trivially Helpful at Reducing Negative Affect, Intrusive Thoughts, and Avoidance.
• The Taste of Water.
• National Food Production Stabilized By Crop Diversity.
• The Rise of Junk Science: Fake Publications are Corrupting the World of Research—and Influencing Real News.
• Segregation and Violence Reconsidered: Do Whites Benefit From Residential Segregation?
• Data Collection as Disruption: Insights From a Longitudinal Study of Young Adulthood.

Announcements

• IU Recognized Again as Global Leader in Patents From U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
• 2019 Obesity Symposium (Indianapolis, September 6).
• TOS Accepting Late Breaking-Abstract Submissions By July 29.
• Search for Department Fiscal Officer Open at IUB-SPH.
• Training Program: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Training Program: AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• Short Course: Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research, Indiana University Bloomington (July 29-August 2, 2019).

Featured

• Who are We Testing? Self-selection Bias in Laboratory-based Eating Behaviour Studies.
• RCT: Contrasting the Effects of 4 Low-calorie Sweeteners and Sucrose on Body Weight in Adults with Overweight or Obesity.
• Comparative Analyses of Chromatin Landscape in White Adipose Tissue Suggest Humans May Have Less Beigeing Potential than Other Primates.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Spinach Has Doping Effect, New Research Says.
• Press release: Spinach Extract Improves Athletic Performance, Study Shows.
• Study: Extracts Containing Ecdysterone, a Compound Found in Spinach, Resulted in Increases in Muscle Mass and Performance. No Spinach Consumed. [Insert Popeye Joke Here].

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Effect of Engaging Children to Support Parental Weight Loss.
• RCT: "In a routine prenatal care setting in Germany, lifestyle advice modified single aspects of dietary behavior, but not energy intake or overall dietary quality."
• RCT: Breakfast is Brain Food? No Significant Effect on Grade Point Average of a Rural Group Randomized Program to Promote School Breakfast in Total Sample.
• RCT: No Effect of Mindfulness-based Group Intervention on BMI or Adiposity in Adolescents At-risk for Excess Weight Gain.
• RCT: Null Effect of Serial Anthropometric Measurements and Motivational Text Messages on Weight Reduction Among Workers.
• "...we find no credible evidence that an individual's BMI is affected by the polygenic risk score for BMI of their full sibling when controlling for the individual's own polygenic risk score for BMI."
• "Our findings suggest greater vulnerability to impairments in executive functions among Hispanics with hypertension and obesity, contrary to the notion of a Hispanic health paradox for cognitive aging."
• "Our analyses do not support the healthy obese concept, with no evidence that the adverse effect of obesity on outcomes was reduced by improved muscle quality."

Basic

• Ghrelin Receptor in AgRP Neurons Regulates Metabolic Adaptation to Calorie Restriction.
• Effects of High‐Fat Diet and Body Mass on Bone Morphology and Mechanical Properties in 1100 Advanced Intercross Mice.
• EPA and DHA Elicit Distinct Transcriptional Responses to High-Fat Feeding in Skeletal Muscle and Liver.
• Deletion of the Enzyme Dihydroceramide Desaturase-1 (DES1) Improves Insulin Resistance and Hepatic Steatosis in Mice.
• Chronic Light Cycle-Disruption Alters Central Insulin and Leptin Signalling as Well as Metabolic Markers in Male Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Meta-analysis Should Be Carried Out Objectively and Rigorously.
• Expression of Concern: Is Interval Training the Magic Bullet for Fat Loss? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Comparing Moderate-intensity Continuous Training with High-intensity Training (HIIT).

Clinical

• Mechanisms of Association of Sleep and Metabolic Syndrome. (pdf)
• RCT: Health Coaching to Encourage Obese Adults to Enroll in Commercially-available Weight Management Programs.
• Meta-analysis: Association of Weight Loss Interventions with Changes in Biomarkers of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.

Children and Adolescents

• RCT: Effects of the Girls on the Move Program on Adiposity and Aerobic Performance (secondary Outcomes) in Low-income Adolescent Girls.
• Is Sport Enough? Contribution of Sport to Overall Moderate- to Vigorous-intensity Physical Activity Among Adolescents.
• Childhood and Adolescent Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Is It Different From Adults?
• Systematic Review: Barriers and Enablers that Influence Overweight/Obesity/Obesogenic Behavior in Adolescents From Lower-Middle Income Countries.

Surgery

• Meal Patterns After Bariatric Surgery in Mice and Rats.
• Metabolically Healthy Obesity and Bariatric Surgery.
• Bariatric Surgery, Clinical Outcomes, and Healthcare Burden in Hispanics in the USA.

Drugs

• BaroNova’s TransPyloric Shuttle Earns FDA-Approval to Treat Obesity.
• Body Weight Management and Safety with Efpeglenatide in Adults Without Diabetes.
• Efficacy and Safety of Liraglutide in Indian Adolescents with Obesity.

Food & Diet

• Environmental Interventions to Reduce the Consumption of Sugar-sweetened Beverages and Their Effects on Health.
• Meta-analysis: Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Overweight or Obese Individuals.
• Meta-analysis: Relation of Vegetarian Dietary Patterns with Major Cardiovascular Outcomes in Prospective Cohort Studies.
• Early Time-Restricted Feeding Improves 24-Hour Glucose Levels and Affects Markers of the Circadian Clock, Aging, and Autophagy in Humans.
• Restricting Carbohydrates at Breakfast is Sufficient to Reduce 24-hour Exposure to Postprandial Hyperglycemia and Improve Glycemic Variability.

Caloric Restriction

• Short-term Calorie Restriction and 17α-estradiol Administration Elicit Divergent Effects on Proteostatic Processes and Protein Content in Metabolically Active Tissues.
• Caloric Restriction Alters Postprandial Responses of Essential Brain Metabolites in Young Adult Mice.
• Contribution of Changes in Body Composition and Adaptive Thermogenesis to the Decline in Resting Metabolic Rate During Prolonged Calorie-Restricted Weight Loss.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Neighborhood Walkability and Aerobic Physical Activity Among Latinos.
• Coaching the Coach: Evaluation of a Supplemental Facilitator Training to Complement the Bingocize® Health Promotion Program.
• Physical Training, Ucp1 Expression, Mitochondrial Density and Coupling in Adipose Tissue From Women with Obesity.
• RCT: Time-restricted Feeding Plus Resistance Training in Active Females.
• Relationship of Consistency in Timing of Exercise Performance and Exercise Levels Among Successful Weight Loss Maintainers.

Economics & Sociology

• Socioeconomic Correlates of Overweight and Obesity Among Ever-married Urban Women in Bangladesh.
• Associations of Multidimensional Socioeconomic and Built Environment Factors with BMI Trajectories Among Youth in Geographically Heterogeneous Communities.
• Association of Weight Change Patterns in Late Adolescence with Young Adult Wage Differentials.

Epidemiology

• First-year University is Associated with Greater Body Weight, Body Composition and Adverse Dietary Changes in Males than Females.
• Quantifying the Impact of Genes on BMI During the Obesity Epidemic.
• A Structural Equation Modeling Approach for the Association of a Healthy Eating Index with Metabolic Syndrome and Cardio-metabolic Risk Factors Among Obese Individuals.
• Systematic Review: Impact of Parental Incarceration on Body Weight Status of Children and Young Adults.
• The Effect of Reverse Causality and Selective Attrition on the Relationship Between BMI and Mortality in Postmenopausal Women.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Food Selection of Cafeteria Diet Affects Memory Dysfunction Related to Obesity.
• Can Changing the Position of Online Menu Items Increase Selection of Fruit and Vegetable Snacks?
• The Prefrontal Cortex and Obesity: A Health Neuroscience Perspective.

Equity and Disparities

• Multilevel Analysis of Socio-Demographic Disparities in Adulthood Obesity Across the United States Geographic Regions.
• Socioeconomic Inequalities in the Retail Food Environment Around Schools in a Southern European Context.
• Dietary Beliefs and Management of Older American Indians with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Inflammation and Stress Biomarkers Mediate the Association Between Household Food Insecurity and Insulin Resistance Among Latinos with Type 2 Diabetes.

Stigma

• Three Steps to Challenge Internalized Weight Stigma.
• Weight Bias and Stigmatisation: What is It and What Can We do About It?
• Masculinity and Body Image as Negotiated Through Fat Talk.
• Regarding Obesity as a Disease is Associated with Lower Weight Bias Among Physicians: A Cross-sectional Survey Study.

Policy Related

• WHO Draft Guidelines on Dietary Saturated and Trans Fatty Acids: Time for a New Approach?
• Bridging the Gap Between Research and Policy and Practice Comment on CIHR Health System Impact Fellows: Reflections on ‘Driving Change’ Within the Health System. (pdf)
• Impact of State Laws Governing Physical Education on Attendance Among US High School Students, 2003 to 2017.
• Are Australians Ready for Warning Labels, Marketing Bans and Sugary Drink Taxes? Two Cross-sectional Surveys Measuring Support for Policy Responses to Sugar-sweetened Beverages.

Intergenerational Effects

• Oxidative Stress-induced Epigenetic Transcriptional Memory as a Mechanism of Programmed Endothelial Dysfunction in Large for Gestational Age Newborn of Women with Obesity.
• Shaping the Future Heart: Transgenerational Outcomes of Maternal Metabolic Syndrome.
• Association Between Self-reported Prenatal Cannabis Use and Maternal, Perinatal, and Neonatal Outcomes.
• Gestational Diabetes Exposure and Adiposity Outcomes in Childhood and Adolescence: An Analysis of Effect Modification by Breastfeeding, Diet Quality, and Physical Activity.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Fishing Out a Feeding Paradox.
• Artificial Selection on Walking Distance Suggests a Mobility-sperm Competitiveness Trade-off.
• Linking Chemical Exposure to Lipid Homeostasis: A Municipal Waste Water Treatment Plant Influent is Obesogenic for Zebrafish Larvae.
• Nutritional Condition and Physiological Stress Levels of Elk in the Black Hills, South Dakota.

Methods

• Accuracy of Parent-Measured and Parent-Estimated Heights and Weights in Determining Child Weight Status.
• New Charts for the Assessment of Body Composition, According to Air-displacement Plethysmography, at Birth and Across the First 6 Mo of Life.

Commentary

• Solving the Obesity Paradox in Oncology.
• Pasteurized Bacteria for Metabolic Syndrome?
• Can’t Reverse Obesity Trends Without My Pet Project.
• Low-calorie Sweeteners: More Complicated than Sweetness Without Calories.
• Running with Headphones: Is It More Dangerous than You Think?

General

• Cumulative Meta‐Analysis of the Soy Effect Over Time.
• Socioeconomic Status Moderates the Effects of Health Cognitions on Health Behaviors Within Participants.
• Revisiting the Possibility of Reciprocal Help in Non-human Primates.
• State Statutes and Regulations Related to Human Papillomavirus Vaccination.
• Exposure: S. Aureus Skin Colonization Predisposes to Food Allergy in the LEAP and LEAP-On Studies. (pdf)
• The Insulin-like Growth Factor 2 Gene in Mammals: Organizational Complexity Within a Conserved Locus.
• RCT: Effect of an Intervention to Improve Compliance with the ARRIVE Guidelines (IICARus).
• They Turn to Facebook and YouTube to Find a Cure for Cancer — and Get Sucked Into a World of Bogus Medicine.
• A Skull Bone Discovered in Greece May Alter the Story of Human Prehistory.

Announcements

• FDA Unveils List of Suspected Unlawful Ingredients in Dietary Supplements.
• Three Steps to Challenge Internalized Weight Stigma.
• Training Program: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Training Program: AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• Short Course: Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research, Indiana University Bloomington (July 29-August 2, 2019).

Featured

• A Call to Action to Inform Patient-centred Approaches to Obesity Management: Development of a Disease-illness Model.
• Transgenerational Obesity and Healthy Ageing in Drosophila.
• Physical Activity is Associated with Improved Lipid and Weight-Loss Outcomes After Metabolic Bariatric Surgery in Adolescents with Severe Obesity.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Yo-Yo Dieting Can Make You Weaker - Here’s How Much Weight Change Can Be a Problem.
• Study: Weight Cycling is Associated with [not Necessarily the Cause of] Lower Muscle Mass and Strength and a Greater Likelihood of Developing Sarcopenic Obesity.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Exploring the Myth of the Chubby Gamer: A Meta-analysis of Studies on Sedentary Video Gaming and Body Mass.
• "Consuming above a commonly recommended intake of 0.5 servings of total red meat per day, or about three 3 oz. servings per week, does not negatively influence markers of glycemic control or inflammation in groups of adults without diagnosed cardiometabolic disease."
• Metabolic Adaptation is Not Observed After 8 Weeks of Overfeeding but Energy Expenditure Variability is Associated with Weight Recovery.
• "A U.K. study that measured diet and cognitive decline over an almost 25-year period did not show an association between a healthier diet in midlife and a lower risk for dementia later in life."
• RCT: Tart Cherry Juice: No Effect on Muscle Function Loss or Muscle Soreness in Professional Soccer Players After a Match.
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Dietary Self-monitoring Through a Digital Photography App vs Calorie Tracking on Weight Loss.
• RCT: No Additional Long‐term Effect of Group Versus Individual Family Intervention in the Treatment of Childhood Obesity.
• RCT: No Significant Effect of a Family Physical Activity Planning Program on BMI.

Basic

• The Host Response to Poly(lactide-co-glycolide) Scaffolds Protects Mice From Diet Induced Obesity and Glucose Intolerance.
• The Dualistic Effect of COX-2-Mediated Signaling in Obesity and Insulin Resistance.
• Adipose Tissue-Derived Autotaxin Causes Cardiomyopathy in Obese Mice.
• Electroacupuncture Reduces Body Weight By Regulating Fat Browning-Related Proteins of Adipose Tissue in HFD-Induced Obese Mice.
• NTCP Deficiency in Mice Protects Against Obesity and Hepatosteatosis.
• Obesity After Neonatal Overfeeding is Independent of Hypothalamic Microgliosisuscle Mass and Strength in a Population of Males and Females with Obesity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Fighting Obesity with Coffee and Headlines.
• A Source of Systematic Bias in Self-reported Physical Activity: The Cutpoint Bias Hypothesis.
• Letter: Ultra-Processed Food and Obesity: The Pitfalls of Extrapolation From Short Studies.
• Reply: Challenges Interpreting Inpatient and Outpatient Human Nutrition Studies.
• Reply to Reply.
• Identifying and Clarifying Arguments in a Recent Debate Regarding Measures Based on Memory-based Methods.

Clinical

• Public Notification: Detoxi Slim Contains Hidden Drug Ingredient.
• Safety and Efficiency of Single-Incision Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in Obese Patients: A Case-Matched Comparative Analysis.
• Obesity and Health Care Experiences Among Women and Men Veterans.
• Association Between Regional Body Fat and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among Postmenopausal Women with Normal BMI.

Children and Adolescents

• Adolescent Sugar-sweetened Beverage Consumption: An Extended Health Action Process Approach.
• A Look Back at Healthy Lifestyle Behavioral Patterns Among School-Age Children: Are We Neglecting Healthy Weight for Overweight Kids?

Surgery

• Meta-analysis: Banded Versus Nonbanded Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.
• Changes in Gut Microbiome After Bariatric Surgery Versus Medical Weight Loss.
• Changes in Body Composition, Comorbidities, and Nutritional Status Associated with Lower Weight Loss After Bariatric Surgery in Older Subjects.
• Overvaluation of Weight or Shape and Loss‐of‐Control Eating Following Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• Meta-analysis: Comparative Efficacy and Safety of Pharmacotherapies for the Treatment of Obesity Among Adults.
• Certain Medtronic MiniMed Insulin Pumps Have Potential Cybersecurity Risks: FDA Safety Communication.

Food & Diet

• Meta-analysis: Coffee Intake and Obesity.
• RCT: Protein Supplementation Elicits Greater Gains in Maximal Oxygen Uptake Capacity and Stimulates Lean Mass Accretion During Prolonged Endurance Training.
• Habitual Breakfast Patterns do Not Influence Appetite and Satiety Responses in Normal Vs. High-Protein Breakfasts in Overweight Adolescent Girls.
• The Case for Eating Jellyfish.
• Feeding the World with Data: Visions of Data-Driven Farming.
• Commentary: What Really Matters: Ultra-Processed or Calorie-Dense?

Caloric Restriction

• PGC-1a integrates a metabolism and growth network linked to caloric restriction.
• Sulfate assimilation regulates hydrogen sulfide production independent of lifespan and reactive oxygen species under methionine restriction condition in yeast.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Meta-analysis: Does Beef Protein Supplementation Improve Body Composition and Exercise Performance?
• Cardiorespiratory Fitness Modulates the Proportions of Monocytes and T Helper Subsets in Lean and Obese Men.
• Cannabis Use in Active Athletes: Behaviors Related to Subjective Effects.
• Types of Sedentary Behavior and Risk of Cardiovascular Events and Mortality in Blacks: The Jackson Heart Study.

Epidemiology

• Associations Between Boys’ Early Childhood Exposure to Family and Neighborhood Poverty and BMI in Early Adolescence.
• Weight Cycling as a Risk Factor for Low Muscle Mass and Strength in a Population of Males and Females with Obesity.
• The Duration of the Interpregnancy Interval in Multiparous Women and Maternal Weight Gain Between Pregnancies: Findings From a UK Population-based Cohort.
• The Impact of Obesity and Insulin Resistance on Thyroid Cancer: A Systematic Review.
• An International Survey of Obesity and Underweight in Youth and Adults with Intellectual Disabilities.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• RCT: Cognitive Effects of Adding Caloric Restriction to Aerobic Exercise Training in Older Adults with Obesity.
• Giving Pork the Chop: Response Inhibition Training to Reduce Meat Intake.

Economics & Sociology

• The indelible weight of place: Childhood neighborhood disadvantage, timing of exposure, and obesity across adulthood.
• Causation or Assortative Mating - The Social Dynamics in Couples With Both Partners Suffering from the Same Lifestyle Disease : A Case Series Study From a German Cohort Study of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients in a Disease Management Programme.

Equity and Disparities

• Plus Size and Obese Workers: Anthropometry Estimates to Promote Inclusive Design.
• A Health Equity Approach to Obesity Efforts: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief.
• Socio-Economic, Psychosocial, Lifestyle and Community Factors do Not Explain Ethnic Inequalities in Obesity in Disadvantaged Israeli Mothers.

Stigma

• Regarding Obesity as a Disease is Associated with Lower Weight Bias Among Physicians.
• Commentary: Five Things to Know About Bullying and Weight Bias.

Policy Related

• How do Age and Major Risk Factors for Mortality Interact Over the Life-course? Implications for Health Disparities Research and Public Health Policy.
• Eat, Play, Live: RCT Within a Natural Experiment Examining the Role of Nutrition Policy and Capacity Building in Improving Food Environments in Recreation and Sport Facilities.
• Protocol of a Research Project ‘Projections of the Burden of Disease and Disability in Finland – Health Policy Prospects’ Using Cross-sectional Health Surveys and Register-based Follow-up. (pdf)
• Does the Ban on Trans-fats Improve Public Health? In Search of the Optimal Policy Response.
• ‘Market Failure’ Arguments are a Poor Guide to Policy.

Intergenerational Effects

• Meta-analysis: The Association Between Maternal BMI and Child Obesity.
• Fathers’ Obesity Might Impact Offspring’s Health.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• In Search of an Undersea Kelp Forest's Missing Nitrogen.
• De Novo Design of Symmetric Ferredoxins that Shuttle Electrons in Vivo.
• Measuring Phenotypic Flexibility By Transcriptome Time-course Analyses During Challenge Tests Before and After Energy Restriction.
• Farm Animals for Studying Muscle Development and Metabolism: Dual Purposes for Animal Production and Human Health.

Methods

• Obesity Perception Survey Among Youth in Turkey: Instrument Development and Test-retest Reliability (pdf).
• Validation of NoSAS (Neck, Obesity, Snoring, Age, Sex) Score as a Screening Tool for Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Analysis in a Sleep Clinic.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Identifying Pre-disease Signals Before Metabolic Syndrome in Mice By Dynamical Network Biomarkers.
• Real-Time Model Predictive Control of Human Bodyweight Based on Energy Intake.

Commentary

• Obesity: A Disease and a Debate for Pets, Too.
• Nutrition Experts Reveal the Biggest Misconception We All Have About Sugar.
• Clinician Roundtable: Can Dietary Interventions Prevent Asthma, Atopy in Children?
• Metabolically Healthy Obesity: What's in a Name?
• Dietary Guidelines for Americans: An Introduction.
• Does Our Poor Remembrance of Things Past Doom Much Nutrition Research?
• Obesity Takes the Brakes Off Neurological Mechanism that Stops Overeating.
• How Much Caffeine is Too Much?
• The Urgent Need for Fresh Thinking on Childhood Obesity.
• Healthy Diets and Sustainable Food Systems.
• Interpreting Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Young Clinical Populations—Folklore and Fallacy.

General

• RCT: Effectiveness of Polypill for Primary and Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases.
• Puppy Love: Choosing the Perfect Pooch Poses Challenges Similar to Dating.
• Stabilizing Food Production Through Crop Diversity.
• "Heartspeakers" -- The Discovery Files.
• Ordered Quantile Normalization: A Semiparametric Transformation Built for the Cross-validation Era.
• Taste of Life: Science Outreach Made Delicious.
• Impact of Diabetes on the Symptoms of Breast Cancer Survivors.
• The Unique Neurology of the Sports Fan’s Brain.
• A General Framework for Comparing Predictions and Marginal Effects Across Models.
• Isaac Asimov Asks, “How do People Get New Ideas?”: A 1959 Essay By Isaac Asimov on Creativity.
• Fear-Based Medical Misinformation and Disease Prevention: From Vaccines to Statins.
• How Americans Decided Dogs Can’t Eat Grains.
• Wired Bacteria Form Nature’s Power Grid: ‘We Have an Electric Planet’.

Announcements

• Reproducibility and Replicability in Science: Next Steps - Sept 24.
• Training Program: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Obesity Research.
• Training Program: AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• Short Course: Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research, Indiana University Bloomington (July 29-August 2, 2019).