Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Predicted Lean Body Mass, Fat Mass, and All Cause and Cause Specific Mortality in Men: Prospective US Cohort Study.
• Measuring Exercise Levels in Drosophila Melanogaster Using the Rotating Exercise Quantification System (REQS).
• Brain Response to Food Brands Correlates with Increased Intake From Branded Meals in Children: An FMRI Study.
• Senolytics Improve Physical Function and Increase Lifespan in Old Age.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Converting Bad Fat to Good Fat: A New Means of Tackling Obesity.
• Study: Characterizing Browning of White Adipose Tissue Ex Vivo, and Effects of Injecting Autologous Ex Vivo Browned White Adipose Tissue Into Mice. No Good Fat, No Bad Fat, No Significant Effects on Weight or Fat Mass.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Motivational Interviewing "implemented adjunctive to adolescent obesity treatment with predominately African–American, low-income adolescents, …did not result in differential BMI z-scores ….”
• No Consistent Association Found Between Dental Caries and BMI in Children.
• A Higher Protein Intake is Not Associated with 5-year Change in Mid-thigh Muscle Cross-sectional Area By Computed Tomography in Older Adults: The Health, Aging, and Body Composition (Health ABC) Study.
• Hormonal Contraceptive Use Does Not Affect Strength, Endurance, or Body Composition Adaptations to Combined Strength and Endurance Training in Women.
• RCT: "The short period of study caused the nonsignificant changes in BMI and circulatory leptin" [or there was just no effect] in "Effects of n-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Supplementation on Serum Leptin Levels, Appetite Sensations, and Intake of Energy and Macronutrients in Obese People."
• RCT: No Effect of Multi-Ingredient Supplement Containing Satiereal, Naringin, and Vitamin D on Body Composition, Mood, and Satiety in Overweight Adults.
• RCT: Beta-Alanine Does Not Enhance the Effects of Resistance Training in Older Adults.
• RCT: Watching Television or Listening to Music While Exercising Failed to Affect Post-exercise Food Intake or Energy Expenditure in Male Adolescents.

Basic

• Intermittent, Extended Access to Preferred Food Leads to Escalated Food Reinforcement and Cyclic Whole-body Metabolism in Rats: Sex Differences and Individual Vulnerability.
• Senolytics Improve Health, Extend Life: Preclinical Research Findings.
• Chemicals Which Clear Senescent Cells From the Body Can Make Mice Live Longer and Healthier Lives.
• Review: The Effects of Obesity on Skeletal Muscle Contractile Function.
• Diet-Induced Obesity Modifies Vitamin D Metabolism and Adipose Tissue Storage in Mice.
• C. Elegans Responds to High-Glucose Diets Through a Network of Stress-Responsive Transcription Factors.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• GWAS for BMI: A Treasure Trove of Fundamental Insights Into the Genetic Basis of Obesity.
• Using Risk of Bias Domains to Identify Opportunities for Improvement in Food- and Nutrition-related Research: An Evaluation of Research Type and Design, Year of Publication, and Source of Funding.
• Letter Regarding: The Relationships Among Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour, Obesity and Quitting Behaviours Within a Cohort of Smokers in California.
• Re: Letter to the Editor of Public Health in Response to ‘The Relationships Among Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, Obesity, and Quitting Behaviors Within a Cohort of Smokers in California'.
• Letter: Use of People-first Language with Regard to Obesity.
• Letter: Comment on the Biomarkers Reflecting Inflammation and Nutritional Determinants of Anemia (BRINDA) Project.
• Reply to Comment on the Biomarkers Reflecting Inflammation and Nutritional Determinants of Anemia (BRINDA) Project.

Clinical

• Effects of Starvation and Short-term Refeeding on Gastric Emptying and Postprandial Blood Glucose Regulation in Adolescent Females with Anorexia Nervosa.
• Should You Weigh Yourself Regularly?
• Validation of Plasma Biomarker Candidates for the Prediction of EGFR Decline in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• The American Board of Obesity Medicine: Five‐year Report.

Children and Adolescents

• SPH Team Examines Relationships Between Clinical Measures of Obesity and Cumulative Cardiometabolic Risk in Adolescents.
• Growth and body composition in children who are picky eaters: a longitudinal view.

Surgery

• Taste and Odor Preferences Following Roux-en-Y Surgery in Humans.
• Dual Effects of Leptin in Perioperative Gas Exchange of Morbidly Obese Patients.
• RCT: Efficacy and Safety of Endoscopic Gastric Plication for Primary Obesity.

Drugs

• Pill May Replace Injection to Deliver Insulin, Other Peptide Drugs.
• Selegiline Reduces Adiposity Induced By High-fat, High-sucrose Diet in Male Rats.
• Liraglutide Causes Large and Rapid Epicardial Fat Reduction.
• RCT: Coadministration of Lorcaserin and Phentermine for Weight Management.

Food & Diet

• Examining Special Nutritional Requirements in Disease States: Proceedings of a Workshop.
• RCT: Cocoa Ingestion Protects Plasma Lipids in Healthy Males Against Ex Vivo Oxidative Conditions.
• RCT: Nuts as a Replacement for Carbohydrates in the Diabetic Diet: A Reanalysis.
• Just Add Water: Effects of Added Gastric Distention By Water on Gastric Emptying and Satiety Related Brain Activity.
• Role of Dietary Histidine in the Prevention of Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome.
• RCT: Mediterranean-style Eating Pattern with Lean, Unprocessed Red Meat Has Cardiometabolic Benefits for Adults Who are Overweight or Obese.
• Effects of Walnut Consumption on Blood Lipids and Other Cardiovascular Risk Factors: An Updated Meta-analysis and Systematic Review of Controlled Trials.

Caloric Restriction

• Fasting and Weight‐loss Restrictive Diet Practices Among 2,700 Cancer Survivors: Results From the NutriNet‐Santé Cohort.
• Dietary Methionine Restriction Regulated Energy and Protein Homeostasis By Improving Thyroid Function in High Fat Diet Mice.
• The Long-term Effect of Maternal Dietary Protein Restriction on 5-HT1A Receptor Function and Behavioral Responses to Stress in Adulthood.
• RCT: Effects of Caloric Restriction on Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Fatigue, and Disability Responses to Aerobic Exercise in Older Adults with Obesity.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Using Devices to Assess Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in a Large Cohort Study: The Women’s Health Study.
• Social Capital Predicts Accelerometry-measured Physical Activity Among Older Adults in the U.S.: A Cross-sectional Study in the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project.
• RCT: nergy Compensation in Response to Aerobic Exercise Training in Overweight Adults.
• RCT: Effects of Caloric Restriction on Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Fatigue, and Disability Responses to Aerobic Exercise in Older Adults with Obesity.
• RCT: Intervention Effects of “Girls on the Move” on Increasing Physical Activity.
• Physical Activity Interventions with African American or Latino Men: A Systematic Review.

Economics & Sociology

• Parental Correlates of Food Parenting Practices: Socioeconomic Status, Weight, and Dieting Status.
• Prevalence of Overweight & Obesity Among School Students From High and Low-income Families in Bangladesh: A Cross-sectional Study.
• Social Network Body Size is Associated with Body Size Norms of South Asian Adults.
• Socioeconomic Factors Associated with Diet Quality and Meeting Dietary Guidelines in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods in the Southeast United States.
• Socioeconomic Disparities in Abdominal Obesity Over the Life Course in China.

Epidemiology

• Predicted Lean Body Mass, Fat Mass, and All Cause and Cause Specific Mortality in Men: Prospective US Cohort Study.
• An Overview and Update on Obesity and the Obesity Paradox in Cardiovascular Diseases.
• Trends in Overweight, Obesity, and Waist-to-height Ratio Among Australian Children From Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds, 1997 to 2015.
• Metabolic Obesity Phenotypes and Risk of Colorectal Cancer in Postmenopausal Women.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Obesity and Overweight Problems Among Individuals 1 to 25 Years Following Acute Rehabilitation for Traumatic Brain Injury: A NIDILRR Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems Study.
• Psychosocial Correlates of Food Addiction and Its Association with Quality of Life in a Non-Clinical Adolescent Sample.
• Relationship Between Body Image and Weight Status in East Asian Countries: Comparison Between South Korea and Taiwan.
• BMI and Risk of Suicide: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Brain Dopamine and Obesity.
• Five A’s Counseling in Weight Management of Obese Patients in Primary Care: A Cluster-randomized Controlled Trial (INTERACT).

Equity and Disparities

• Similar Weight Loss and Maintenance in African American and White Women in the Improving Weight Loss (ImWeL) Trial.
• Gender and Racial/Ethnic Variation in Obesity Severity Across the Pediatric Lifespan.

Ethics

• Beware the Hazards of Moral Certitude.
• “We argue that biomedical discourses on obesity contribute to the thin ideal nuanced against discourses of healthism that permeate our society.”

Stigma

• Avoiding Exercise Mediates the Effects of Internalized and Experienced Weight Stigma on Physical Activity in the Years Following Bariatric Surgery.
• Canadian Senate Report on Obesity: Focusing on Individual Behaviours Versus Social Determinants of Health May Promote Weight Stigma.
• Weight‐based Discrimination Among Nursing Students.
• Adolescent Reactions to Parental Communication About Weight.
• Use of People-first Language with Regard to Obesity.

Policy Related

• Tennessee's Gold Sneaker Initiative: Engaging Childcare Centers in Voluntary Tobacco-Free Policy.
• School Screening Program: Update of the Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity Between 1996 and 2017.
• Applications of Systems Modelling in Obesity Research.
• Taxing Highly Processed Foods: Impacts on Obesity and Underweight in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Intergenerational Effects

• Association Between Maternal Adherence to Healthy Lifestyle Practices and Risk of Obesity in Offspring: Results From Two Prospective Cohort Studies of Mother-child Pairs in the United States.
• The Relationship Between Parental Locus of Control and Adolescent Obesity: A Longitudinal Pre-birth Cohort.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The Behavioral Energetics of New Zealand's Bats: Daily Torpor and Hibernation, a Continuum.
• Capacity to Support Predators Scales with Habitat Size.
• Testing the AC/DC Hypothesis: Rock and Roll is Noise Pollution and Weakens a Trophic Cascade.
• Diet Shifts By Adult Flightless Dung Beetles Circellium Bacchus, Revealed Using DNA Metabarcoding, Reflect Complex Life Histories.

Methods

• Considering Our Methods: Methodological Issues with Rodent Models of Appetite and Obesity Research.
• Measurement of Physical Activity in Clinical Practice and Research: Advances in Cancer and Chronic Respiratory Disease.
• Leptin to Adiponectin Ratio – a Surrogate Biomarker for Early Detection of Metabolic Disturbances in Obesity.
• Assessment Measures in Research on Eating Disorders: Most Prominent Evaluation Methods Spanning the Scholarly Literature.

Commentary

• Eating for Peace.
• Long Live the Coffee Drinkers.
• Plasticity of Fat Cells.
• Etiological Assessment of Obesity: Factors that Affect Physical Activity.
• Really? These Researchers Think BMI is a Habit?
• Of Course Breastfeeding is a Political Issue.

General

• Signatures of the Evolution of Parthenogenesis and Cryptobiosis in Panagrolaimid Nematodes.
• The Science of Antiscience Thinking.
• An Inverse Latitudinal Gradient in Speciation Rate for Marine Fishes.
• Behavioural Ecology of Raptors.
• Audio: North American Dogs.
• Can Scientific Rigor and Creativity Coexist?
• Scientists Rarely Admit Mistakes. A New Project Wants to Change That.
• Perceived Statistical Knowledge Level and Self-Reported Statistical Practice Among Academic Psychologists.
• Decomposition of the Total Effect in the Presence of Multiple Mediators and Interactions.

Video & Audio

• Audio: Interview with Author Paul Greenberg on "The Omega Principle."
• Audio: Peter Attia Interviews Ron Krauss, M.D.: A Deep Dive Into Heart Disease.

Announcements

• A Director of Outreach, Alumni Engagement, and Events Position (PAE3PR) Within the Dean’s Office, SPH-B, is Open.
• 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.
• Sustainable Diets, Food, and Nutrition: A Workshop.

Featured

• Glucagon-receptor Signaling Regulates Energy Metabolism Via Hepatic Farnesoid X Receptor and Fibroblast Growth Factor 21.
• RCT: Ten-year Outcomes of Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass Versus Laparoscopic Gastric Banding.
• Is Birth Weight the Major Confounding Factor in the Study of Gestational Weight Gain?: An Observational Cohort Study.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Poor Gut Health May Trigger Risk of Depression in Obesity: Study.
• Study: Behaviors and Insulin Action in Brains of Mice with High Fat Diet Induced Obesity with and Without Antibiotic Treatment. No Gut Health. No Depression.

Contrary or Null Findings

• No Apparent Effectiveness of the Fresh Rx Program in Food Bank on Obesity.
• RCT: Altering Glucose Variability with Low-or High-Glycemic–Index Diets in Adults with Prediabetes Does Not Affect Beta-Cell Function or Markers of Oxidative Stress.
• RCT: "CHO had no effect on raising the intraoperative core temperature, and no negative impact on the perioperative outcome."
• "Surprisingly, there was no difference in tumour size between NC [normal chow] and HF [high fructose] groups in WT mice."
• High BMI Has No Impact on the Survival of Chinese Patients with Lower Thoracic Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Treated with Curative Esophagectomy: A Propensity Score-matched Study.
• Maternal Overweight is Not an Independent Risk Factor for Increased Birth Weight, Leptin and Insulin in Newborns of Gestational Diabetic Women.
• Low-Dose FGF-21 Administration Decreases Obesity-Induced Hepatic Steatosis, but Has No Effect on Inflammation in Mice.
• Dietary Protein Intake is Not Associated with Progression of Diabetic Nephropathy in Patients Without Macroalbuminuria.
• "Saccharin Does Not Affect [is not associated with] Insulin Resistance in 14 Overweight Adults without Diabetes."

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• PubMed Commons Comment: Concerns about "Systematic review and meta-analysis of the effect of increased vegetable and fruit consumption on body weight and energy intake."
• Erratum 2 years later: Erratum To: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the Effect of Increased Vegetable and Fruit Consumption on Body Weight and Energy Intake.
• "There is no such thing as a miracle diet, but if there's a miracle meeting, this is it."
• Point: The Carbohydrate-Insulin Model of Obesity: Beyond “Calories In, Calories Out”.
• Counterpoint: The Carbohydrate-Insulin Model of Obesity is Difficult to Reconcile with Current Evidence.
• Original Viewpoint: Disclosures in Nutrition Research Why It is Different.
• Letter: Conflict of Interest in Nutrition Research.
• Letter: Conflicts of Interest in Nutrition Research.
• Author's Reply: Conflicts of Interest in Nutrition Research.

Basic

• Modulation of HSF1 Activity Through Silencing of Ser303/Ser307 Phosphorylation Exacerbates the Development of Age-Related Obesity and Its Comorbidities in Mice.
• Virus-Induced Interferon-γ Causes Insulin Resistance in Skeletal Muscle and Derails Glycemic Control in Obesity.
• The Flavonoid Compound Quercetin Alleviates Hepatic Steatosis in C57BL/J Mice By Enhancing Frataxin-Mediated PINK1/Parkin-Dependent Mitophagy.
• The Adiponectin Promoter Activator NP-1 Induces High Levels of Circulating TNFα and Weight Loss in Obese (fa/fa) Zucker Rats.

Clinical

• Eating in the Absence of Hunger: Stability Over Time and Associations with Eating Behaviours and Body Composition in Children.
• Real-World Safety and Efficacy of Fluid-Filled Dual Intragastric Balloon for Weight Loss.
• RCT: Physical Activity, Fruit, Vegetable, and Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake Patterns of College Students in Kansas.
• RCT: The Effects of If‐Then Plans on Weight Loss: Results of the McGill CHIP Healthy Weight Program.

Children and Adolescents

• Neurocognitive and Health Correlates of Overweight and Obesity Among Ten-Year-Old Children Born Extremely Preterm.
• An Examination of the Associations Between Pediatric Loss of Control Eating, Anxiety, and Body Composition in Children and Adolescents.
• Patterns of Dietary Supplement Use in Children with Down Syndrome.
• Pre-, Perinatal, and Parental Predictors of BMI Trajectory Milestones.

Surgery

• Thin Bones: Vitamin D and Calcium Handling After Bariatric Surgery.
• Gastric Plication and Sleeve Gastrectomy in an Experimental Model of Obesity: New Insights Into Weight Loss, Intake and Metabolic Results.

Drugs

• Targeting the Incretin/Glucagon System with Triagonists to Treat Diabetes.
• Acute Effect of Empagliflozin on Fractional Excretion of Sodium and EGFR in Youth with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Understanding the Impact of Commonly Utilized, Non-insulin, Glucose-lowering Drugs on Body Weight in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

Food & Diet

• "Among highly educated persons, aged >45 years, a high consumption of red, total, and red + processed meat was related to increased all-cause mortality, compared with those with low consumption, whereas no significant associations were found for SFA intake. Dietary guidelines should specifically limit meat consumption and not relying only in limiting SFA intake."
• RCT: Effect of Intermittent Versus Continuous Energy Restriction on Weight Loss, Maintenance and Cardiometabolic Risk.
• High Fructose Intake During Pregnancy in Rats Influences the Maternal Microbiome and Gut Development in the Offspring.
• Fermented Soybean Suppresses Visceral Fat Accumulation in Mice.
• Intake of Baked Cod Fillet Resulted in Lower Serum Cholesterol and Higher Long Chain N-3 PUFA Concentrations in Serum and Tissues in Hypercholesterolemic Obese Zucker Fa/fa Rats.
• RCT: Effect of a High-Protein, High-Fiber Beverage Preload on Subjective Appetite Ratings and Subsequent Ad Libitum Energy Intake in Overweight Men and Women.
• RCT: Quinoa Seed Lowers Serum Triglycerides in Overweight and Obese Subjects.

Caloric Restriction

• Food Restriction Promotes Damage Reduction in Rat Models of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• Effects of Weight Loss on Adipose Visceral and Subcutaneous Tissue in Overweight Adults.
• Age, Calorie Restriction, and Age of Calorie Restriction Onset Reduce Maturation of Natural Killer Cells in C57Bl/6 Mice.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• A Home‐based Mentored Vegetable Gardening Intervention Demonstrates Feasibility and Improvements in Physical Activity and Performance Among Breast Cancer Survivors.
• RCT: Applying Natural Language Processing to Understand Motivational Profiles for Maintaining Physical Activity After a Mobile App and Accelerometer-Based Intervention.
• The TreadWheel: Interval Training Protocol for Gently Induced Exercise in Drosophila Melanogaster.
• Inequality in Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour, Sleep Duration and Risk of Obesity in Children.

Economics & Sociology

• Cultural Features Influencing Eating, Overweight, and Obesity in the Roma People of South Bohemia.
• Examining Longitudinal Associations Between the Recreational Physical Activity Environment, Change in BMI, and Obesity By Age.

Epidemiology

• Effect of Maternal Obesity on Labor Induction in Postdate Pregnancy.
• A 25-year Retrospective Analysis of the American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status Classification: Did We “up-code” Young Obese Patients When Obesity Was Not Yet Considered a Disease?
• Associations of Multiple Unhealthy Lifestyle Behaviors with Overweight/obesity and Abdominal Obesity Among Brazilian Adolescents.
• Impact of Obesity and Ozone on the Association Between Particulate Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke Mortality Among US Adults.
• Food Insecurity in Older Adults: Results From the Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases Cohort Study 3.
• Men Who Were Thin During Early Adulthood Exhibited Greater Weight Gain‐associated Visceral Fat Accumulation in a Study of Middle‐aged Japanese Men.
• The Influence of Obesity and Weight Gain on Quality of Life According to the SF-36 for Individuals of the Dynamic Follow-up Cohort of the University of Navarra.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Decision Making Deficits in Relation to Food Cues Influence Obesity: A Triadic Neural Model of Problematic Eating.
• Less is More: Negative Income Shock Increases Immediate Preference in Cross Commodity Discounting and Food Demand.
• Is Obesity Associated with Depression in Children? Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Equity and Disparities

• Evaluating the Contribution of Differences in Lean Mass Compartments for Resting Energy Expenditure in African American and Caucasian American Children.
• Sex Differences in Fitness Outcomes Among Minority Youth After Participation in a Park-based After-school Program.
• Similar Weight Loss and Maintenance in African American and White Women in the Improving Weight Loss (ImWeL) Trial.
• Society and Social Institutions: The Racial, Spatial, and Intergenerational Contours of Food Inequality in America—Origins, Implications, and Conditions of Possibility (book Chapter).

Stigma

• BMI as a Moderator of the Association Between Weight Status Misperception and Disordered Eating Behaviors.
• Weight Perception, Weight Stigma Concerns, and Overeating.
• Weight Stigma in Anti‐Obesity Campaigns: The Role of Images.
• Weight and Shape Concern Impacts Weight Gain Prevention in the SNAP Trial: Implications for Tailoring Intervention Delivery.

Policy Related

• A Comprehensive Life Cycle Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Emissions From U.S. Household Food Choices. (pdf)
• California Bans Local Taxes on Groceries for 12 Years.
• Potential Policy Approaches to Address Diet-Related Diseases.

Intergenerational Effects

• Transgelin Induces Dysfunction of Fetal Endothelial Colony Forming Cells From Gestational Diabetic Pregnancies.
• Maternal Exercise in Rats Upregulates the Placental IGF‐system with Diet and Sex‐specific Responses: Minimal Effects in Mothers Born Growth Restricted.
• The Influence of Maternal Obesity and Breastfeeding on Infant Appetite- and Growth-Related Hormone Concentrations: The SKOT Cohort Studies.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Editorial: Comparative Studies of Energy Homeostasis in Vertebrates.
• The Pace-of-life Syndrome Revisited: The Role of Ecological Conditions and Natural History on the Slow-fast Continuum.

Methods

• Differences in Energy Expenditure Between Respiratory Chamber and Metabolic Ward in Inpatient Men and Women.
• Accuracy of Total Energy Expenditure Predictive Equations After a Massive Weight Loss Induced By Bariatric Surgery.
• Near-Infrared Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy as an Indirect Technique to Assess Brown Adipose Tissue in Young Women.
• Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis in the Assessment of Sarcopenia.
• Photographic Methods for Measuring Packaged Food and Beverage Products in Supermarkets.

Commentary

• Is Air Pollution Adding Giving Us More Diabetes?
• Factors that Can Affect Ingestive Behaviour: Psychological or Hedonic Factors.
• Big Data and Empirical Approaches to Understanding Diseases Provide a Limited Picture of Pathogenesis.
• Do Slimmer, Younger Women Have More Breast Cancer?
• Meet the Scientific Sleuths: A Dozen Who’ve Had an Impact on the Scientific Literature.
• Point of Order: Nutritional Prescriptions and Food Sequence.
• A Hot Debate About Insulin and Sugar and Obesity.
• Are More People Exercising Even as Obesity Rates Climb?

General

• Ensuring Food Integrity By Metrology and FAIR Data Principles.
• Optogenetic Dissection of Descending Behavioral Control in Drosophila.
• The Class II Histone Deacetylase Hypothesis of Addiction.
• Separated Triplets Offer a Glimpse Into 'The Wild West of Psychology'.
• Dissecting the Basis of Novel Trait Evolution in a Radiation with Widespread Phylogenetic Discordance.
• Multigenerational Attainments, Race, and Mortality Risk Among Silent Generation Women.
• Analysis of Shared Heritability in Common Disorders of the Brain.
• Mapping Hot Spots of Breast Cancer Mortality in the United States: Place Matters for Blacks and Hispanics.
• Lack of Group-to-individual Generalizability is a Threat to Human Subjects Research.
• Odds Ratios—Current Best Practice and Use.

Video & Audio

• Former FDA Commissioner David Kessler: Obesity Problem 'is Worse than We Think'.
• Videos from two-day meeting "Food for thought: The science and politics of nutrition."

Announcements

• 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

• A Stromal Cell Population that Inhibits Adipogenesis in Mammalian Fat Depots.
• Trial Characteristics and Appropriateness of Statistical Methods Applied for Design and Analysis of Randomized School-Based Studies Addressing Weight-Related Issues: A Literature Review.
• Does Weight Stigma Reduce Working Memory? Evidence of Stereotype Threat Susceptibility in Adults with Obesity.
• Effects of 8-hour Time Restricted Feeding on Body Weight and Metabolic Disease Risk Factors in Obese Adults: A Pilot Study.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Tuberculosis Vaccine Could Reverse Type 1 Diabetes, Study Shows.
• Headline: Has Dr. Denise Faustman Found a Cure for Type 1 Diabetes?
• Study: The 3 Individuals with Type 1 Diabetes that Received the Vaccine Still Had Elevated HbA1c and Required Insulin Therapy. No Demonstration of Cure.
• Study critique: Statement From JDRF and American Diabetes Association.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "Most of the explanatory variables including provision of schools meals were not significantly associated with the nutritional status indicators." (pdf)
• Statin Therapy Does Not Reduce Liver Fat Scores in Patients Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV Infection. (pdf)
• RCT: "Preventing the winter decline in serum 25(OH)D with daily vitamin D3 supplementation of 10 or 20 µg had no cardiometabolic effects in healthy 4- to 8-y-old Danish children."
• "In the present meta‐analysis, no effect on markers of renal function was found after provision of a low carbohydrate diet compared with a control diet in patients with T2DM."
• Obesity is Not Associated with an Increased Risk of Portal Vein Thrombosis in Cirrhotic Patients.
• Temporal Distribution of Carbohydrate and Calorie Intake is Not Associated with Hemoglobin A1C in Persons with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• "Contrary to non-obese ARDS patients, driving pressure was not associated with mortality in obese ARDS patients."
• RCT: No Effect of Resveratrol on VLDL‐TG Kinetics and Insulin Sensitivity in Obese Men with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.

Basic

• Altered Exocrine Function Can Drive Adipose Wasting in Early Pancreatic Cancer.
• The Lupin Seed Protein γ‐Conglutin Suppresses Differentiation of 3T3-L1 Preadipocytes Into Mature Adipocytes.
• Downregulation of the Hypothalamic Hypoxia-Inducible Factor (HIF) Complex Exacerbates Diet-Induced Obesity in Male Mice.
• Glucagon Receptor Signaling Regulates Energy Metabolism Through the Hepatic Farnesoid X Receptor and Fibroblast Growth Factor 21 in Mice.
• Circulating MiR-374a-5p is a Potential Modulator of the Inflammatory Process in Obesity.
• Quercetin Lowers Plasma Triglycerides Accompanied By White Adipose Tissue Browning in Diet-Induced Obese Mice.
• Innate Immune Cells in the Adipose Tissue.
• Effects of SCFA on the DNA Methylation Pattern of Adiponectin and Resistin in High-fat-diet-induced Obese Male Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Regression to the Mean Continues to Confuse People and Lead to Errors in Published Research.
• Letter: Incorrect Analyses Were Used in “Different Enteral Nutrition Formulas Have No Effect on Glucose Homeostasis but on Diet-induced Thermogenesis in Critically Ill Medical Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial” and Corrected Analyses are Requested.
• Food Addiction: Not All Individuals Attempting to Lose Weight are Addicts Nor are All Athletes Either.
• The Mediterranean Diet: Where are We Now?
• Retraction Watch: A journal decided to correct, rather than retract, a paper that contained "potentially contentious advice." Do you agree with their call?
• Ignorance of Causality Meets Fear of Body Positivity.

Clinical

• Effect of Vegetarian Dietary Patterns on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of RCTs.
• Family TXT: Feasibility and Acceptability of a MHealth Obesity Prevention Program for Parents of Pre-Adolescent African American Girls.
• Short-term Weight Loss Reverses Obesity-induced Microvascular Endothelial Dysfunction.
• OAC Steps Up to Help People Find Obesity Care Providers.
• Global Diabetes Prevention Interventions: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis of the Real-World Impact on Incidence, Weight, and Glucose.

Children and Adolescents

• Cardiorespiratory Fitness Attenuates the Obesity Risk in Chinese Children Who Have Parents with Overweight/Obesity.
• Trends in Weight Loss Efforts Among US Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity.
• Tracking and Variability in Childhood Levels of BMI: The Bogalusa Heart Study.
• Prevalence of Dietary Supplement Use in US Children and Adolescents, 2003-2014.
• Childhood Self-Control and Adolescent Obesity: Evidence From Longitudinal Data on a National Cohort.
• Prevalence and Correlates of Disordered Eating Behaviors Among Young Adults with Overweight or Obesity.
• Association of Exposure to Formula in the Hospital and Subsequent Infant Feeding Practices with Gut Microbiota and Risk of Overweight in the First Year of Life.
• Methods for Measuring Risk for Type 2 Diabetes in Youth: The Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT).

Surgery

• Liver Blood Dynamics After Bariatric Surgery: The Effects of Mixed-meal Test and Incretin Infusions.
• GLP-2 Receptor Signaling Controls Circulating Bile Acid Levels but Not Glucose Homeostasis in Gcgr−/− Mice and is Dispensable for the Metabolic Benefits Ensuing After Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy.
• Intestinal Glucose Absorption Was Reduced By Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy Via Decreased Gastric Leptin Secretion.
• Weight Loss Surgery Reduces Healthcare Resource Utilization and All-Cause Inpatient Mortality in Morbid Obesity.

Drugs

• RCT: Dapagliflozin Plus Once-Weekly Exenatide Versus Placebo in Individuals with Obesity and Without Diabetes: Metabolic Effects and Markers Associated with Bodyweight Loss.
• RCT: Effects of Liraglutide on Gallbladder Emptying in Adults with Overweight or Obesity.
• Rhythm Pharmaceuticals Announces New Topline Clinical Data From Ongoing Phase 2 Basket Studies Evaluating Setmelanotide in Rare Genetic Disorders of Obesity.
• Effects of the SGLT2 Inhibitor Ipragliflozin on Food Intake, Appetite-regulating Hormones, and Arteriovenous Differences in Postprandial Glucose Levels in Type 2 Diabetic Rats.
• Metreleptin Aids in Weight Reduction Among Adults with Obesity Plus Very Low Leptin Levels.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Comparison of Two Low-fat Diets, Differing in Protein and Carbohydrate, on Psychological Wellbeing in Adults with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: Very High Intact-protein Formula Successfully Provides Protein Intake According to Nutritional Recommendations in Overweight Critically Ill Patients.
• Chocolate Intake and Heart Disease and Stroke in the Women's Health Initiative: A Prospective Analysis.
• How Non-nutritive Sweeteners Influence Hormones and Health.

Caloric Restriction

• Effects of Postweaning Calorie Restriction on Accelerated Growth and Adiponectin in Nutritionally Programmed Microswine Offspring.
• Age, Calorie Restriction, and Age of Calorie Restriction Onset Reduce Maturation of Natural Killer Cells in C57Bl/6 Mice.
• RCT: Effect of an Energy Restricted, Nutritionally Complete, Higher Protein Meal Plan on Body Composition and Mobility in Older Adults with Obesity.
• Carnitine Acetyltransferase (Crat) in Hunger-sensing AgRP Neurons Permits Adaptation to Calorie Restriction.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Hypoxic Training Improves Normoxic Glucose Tolerance in Adolescents with Obesity.
• Anthropometric and Body Composition Changes in Smokers vs Abstainers Following an Exercise-aided Pharmacotherapy Smoking Cessation Trial for Women.
• An 8-Week Ketogenic Low Carbohydrate, High Fat Diet Enhanced Exhaustive Exercise Capacity in Mice.

Economics & Sociology

• Contribution of socioeconomic factors to the variation in body-mass index in 58 low-income and middle-income countries: an econometric analysis of multilevel data.
• The Social and Cultural Role of Food for Myanmar Refugees in Regional Australia: Making Place and Building Networks.
• Relationships of Obesity-Related Behavior Patterns with Socioeconomic Status and Acculturation in Korean American Women.
• Do Environmental Factors Drive Obesity? Evidence From International Graduate Students.

Epidemiology

• Longitudinal Study of BMI, Dyslipidemia, Hyperglycemia, and Hypertension in 60,000 Men and Women in Sweden and Austria.
• A Positive Association Between Dietary Sodium Intake and Obesity and Central Obesity: Results From the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999-2006.
• Lower BMI Z-score Trajectory During Early Childhood Following the Birth of a Younger Sibling.
• Association of BMI and Age with Subsequent Breast Cancer Risk in Premenopausal Women.
• Self-Reported Weight-Loss Methods and Weight Change: Ten-Year Analysis in the Swedish Obese Subjects Study Control Group.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• BMI and Risk of Suicide: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Dopaminergic Pathways in Obesity-associated Immuno-metabolic Depression.

Equity and Disparities

• Differences in Childhood BMI Between Lesbian/gay and Bisexual and Heterosexual Female Adolescents: A Follow-back Study.
• The Potential Cost-Effectiveness and Equity Impacts of Restricting Television Advertising of Unhealthy Food and Beverages to Australian Children.

Stigma

• Does Weight Stigma Reduce Working Memory? Evidence of Stereotype Threat Susceptibility in Adults with Obesity.
• Investigating the Self-Stigma and Quality of Life for Overweight/Obese Children in Hong Kong: A Preliminary Study.

Policy Related

• The Impact of Menu Labeling on Food Choices of Consumers.
• Potential Policy Approaches to Address Diet-Related Diseases.
• RCT: The Effect of Graphic Warnings on Sugary-Drink Purchasing.
• UK Obesity Plan: Will It Be Enough?

Intergenerational Effects

• A Retrospective Study of Gestational Weight Gain in Relation to the Institute of Medicine’s Recommendations By Maternal BMI in Rural Pennsylvania From 2006 to 2015.
• Maternal Eating Behavior is a Major Synchronizer of Fetal and Postnatal Peripheral Clocks in Mice.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Nickel Toxicity in Wood Frog Tadpoles: Bioaccumulation and Sublethal Effects on Body Condition, Food Consumption, Activity, and Chemosensory Function.
• Orcas Slap, Kill, but Don't Eat Their Prey.
• Anteater Diet.

The Restoring Insulin Secretion (RISE) Consortium

• Can We RISE to the Challenge of Youth-Onset Type 2 Diabetes?
• Impact of Insulin and Metformin Versus Metformin Alone on β-Cell Function in Youth with Impaired Glucose Tolerance or Recently Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes.
• Metabolic Contrasts Between Youth and Adults with Impaired Glucose Tolerance or Recently Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes: I. Observations Using the Hyperglycemic Clamp.
• Metabolic Contrasts Between Youth and Adults with Impaired Glucose Tolerance or Recently Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes: II. Observations Using the Oral Glucose Tolerance Test.

Commentary

• Innovation at the Intersection of Consumers, Health, and Wellness.
• Sick countries and sick individuals: reassessing the inferential targets in global health research.
• Making Progress on the Global Crisis of Obesity and Weight Management.
• NIH Kills Alcohol Trial, Starts Hunt for Other Suspect Studies.
• FDA Turns Around on Added Sugar in Maple Syrup.
• Techniques for Winning an Argument and Losing a Voice.
• What’s the Best Way to Treat Normal-Weight People with Metabolic Abnormalities?

General

• Return of Research Results to Study Participants: Uncharted and Untested.
• The Treatment of Incomplete Data: Reporting, Analysis, Reproducibility, and Replicability.
• The Neonatal Microbiome and Its Partial Role in Mediating the Association Between Birth By Cesarean Section and Adverse Pediatric Outcomes.
• Associations Between Race, Perceived Psychological Stress, and the Gut Microbiota in a Sample of Generally Healthy Black and White Women: A Pilot Study on the Role of Race and Perceived Psychological Stress.
• Does the Trolley Problem Have a Problem?
• Some Science Journals that Claim to Peer Review Papers do Not do So.

Announcements

• 2018 EASO New Investigators United Autumn School - Open to Early Career Researcher/practitioners in Palma, Mallorca From 1-3 October 2018.
• Advanced Therapies for Pediatric Obesity: Friday, October 5, 2018.
• BMJ to Launch New Nutrition Journal.
• Request for Information on Strategies for Enhancing Postdoctoral Career Transitions to Promote Faculty Diversity (Grant Announcement).
• The Food and Drug Administration's Comprehensive, Multi-Year Nutrition Innovation Strategy; Public Meeting; Request for Comments.
• 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: A Mediterranean-style Eating Pattern with Lean, Unprocessed Red Meat Has Cardiometabolic Benefits for Adults Who are Overweight or Obese.
• RCT: Acute Modulation in Dietary Behavior Following Glycogen Depletion and Post-exercise Supplementation in Trained Cyclists.
• Late-life Targeting of the IGF-1 Receptor Improves Healthspan and Lifespan in Female Mice.

Headline vs Study

• Press-release: Frequently Enjoying Kimchi Decreases Body Fat and Suppresses Obesity-Related Complications.
• Study: Lactic Acid Bacteria Isolated From Kimchi to Evaluate Anti-obesity Effect in High Fat Diet-induced Obese Mice – Enjoyment Not Assessed.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Minimal Effects of a Modified Version of Baby-Led Weaning on Infant Food and Nutrient Intakes.
• Advanced Glycation End Products and Their Receptors Did Not Show Any Association with Body Mass Parameters in Metabolically Healthy Adolescents.
• Metformin Does Not Reduce Inflammation in Diabetics with Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm or at High Risk of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Formation.
• RCT: "Supervised physical training following RYGB improved VO2 max, hip MS and physical function, but the positive effects were not maintained at follow-up."
• No Association Between Fat Tissue and Height in 5019 Children and Adolescents, Measured Between 1982 and 2011 in Kolkata/India.
• Mercury, Omega-3 Fatty Acids, and Seafood Intake are Not Associated with Heart Rate Variability or QT Interval.
• Behavioral Weight Management for Underserved Postpartum African American Women: "The intervention was not feasible because of these low rates of attendance and high rates of attrition after randomization."
• Meta-analysis: No Significant Effect of Programmed Exercise on Perceived Stress in Middle-aged and Old Women.

Basic

• FGF21 Decreases Body Weight Without Reducing Food Intake or Bone Mineral Density in High-fat Fed Obese Rhesus Macaque Monkeys.
• Inulin Fiber Dose-dependently Modulates Energy Balance, Glucose Tolerance, Gut Microbiota, Hormones and Diet Preference in High-fat Fed Male Rats.
• The Role of Time of Food Intake on Upcoming Liver Disease in Male Wistar Rat.
• Macrophage Phenotype and Bioenergetics are Controlled By Oxidized Phospholipids Identified in Lean and Obese Murine Adipose Tissue.
• Aldolase Promotes the Development of Cardiac Hypertrophy By Targeting AMPK Signaling in Adult Male Mice.
• Bisphenol S Exposure Alters Expression of Hypothalamic Neuropeptides and the Hypothalamic Apelin Receptor in Male Mice.
• Weighing in on Weight Loss in Pancreatic Cancer.
• Unexpected Cell Population Gives Fat a Brake.
• Flightless-I Controls Fat Storage in Drosophila.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• What Does the PREDIMED Trial Retraction & Re-Boot Mean for the Mediterranean Diet?
• Discovering Anew the Flaws in Self-Reports.
• Fecal Microbial Transplant in Children with Ulcerative Colitis: A Randomized, Double Blinded, Placebo-Controlled Pilot Study Retraction.
• Commentary on NuSI.
• This Mediterranean Diet Study Was Hugely Impactful. The Science Just Fell Apart.

Clinical

• RCT: Loss-framed Financial Incentives with Personalized Goal Setting Significantly Increased Physical Activity Among Ischemic Heart Disease Patients Using Wearable Devices During the 16-week Intervention, and Effects Were Sustained During the 8-week Follow-up.
• RCT: Effects of 8-hour Time Restricted Feeding on Body Weight and Metabolic Disease Risk Factors in Obese Adults: A Pilot Study.
• Clinical Consequences of Chemotherapy Dose Reduction in Obese Patients with Stage III Colon Cancer: A Retrospective Analysis From the PETACC 3 Study.
• Dietary and Nutritional Approaches for Prevention and Management of Type 2 Diabetes.
• Obesity: Care in Rural Communities.

Children and Adolescents

• Helping with Meal Preparation and Children’s Dietary Intake: A Literature Review.
• Methods for Measuring Risk for Type 2 Diabetes in Youth: The Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT).

Surgery

• Meta-analysis: The Effectiveness of Endoscopic Gastroplasty for Obesity Treatment According to FDA Thresholds.
• Does Bariatric Surgery Influence Plasma Levels of Fetuin-A and Leukocyte Cell-derived Chemotaxin-2 in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus?

Drugs

• RCT: Metabolic Effects of Antipsychotics on Adiposity and Insulin Sensitivity in Youths.
• Therapeutic Luminal Coating of the Intestine.
• Weight Loss Surgery 'in a Pill' Could Address Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.
• The Urgent Need for Optimal Monitoring of Metabolic Adverse Effects in Children and Youngsters Who Take On-label or Off-label Antipsychotic Medication.
• Rhythm Pharmaceuticals Completes Pivotal Enrollment in Two Ongoing Phase 3 Clinical Trials Evaluating Setmelanotide in Rare Genetic Disorders of Obesity.
• Drug Extends Lifespan and Healthspan in Mice.

Food & Diet

• Series: Food for Thought: The Science and Politics of Nutrition.
• Oral Hydroxysafflor Yellow A Reduces Obesity in Mice By Modulating the Gut Microbiota and Serum Metabolism.
• An Appetite for Health: Americans Over 50 Strive for Heart and Muscle Health.
• Hypothalamic Integration of the Endocrine Signaling Related to Food Intake.
• Review of the Scientific Evidence on the Physiological Effects of Certain Non-Digestible Carbohydrates.
• Harmonization of Approaches to Nutrient Reference Values: Applications to Young Children and Women of Reproductive Age (2018).

Caloric Restriction

• Short-Term Fasting Reveals Amino Acid Metabolism as a Major Sex-Discriminating Factor in the Liver.
• Food restriction promotes damage reduction in rat models of type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Physical Wellness Among Gaming Adults: Cross-Sectional Study.
• Predictors of Long-Term Exercise Capacity in Patients Who Have Had Lung Transplantation.
• Serum Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha Associates with Myocardial Oxygen Demand and Exercise Tolerance in Postmenopausal Women.

Economics & Sociology

• Opposite Associations of Household Income with Adolescent BMI According to Migrant Status: Hong Kong’s “Children of 1997” Birth Cohort.
• Associations of Subjective Social Status with Accelerometer-based Physical Activity and Sedentary Time Among Adolescents.
• Contribution of Socioeconomic Factors to the Variation in Body-mass Index in 58 Low-income and Middle-income Countries.
• Sex-specific Epigenetic Mediators Between Early Life Social Disadvantage and Adulthood BMI.
• Workshop Proceedings: Advancing Obesity Solutions Through Investments in the Built Environment.

Epidemiology

• Pilot Data on the Association Between Social Jetlag and Obesity-related Characteristics in Dutch Adolescents Over One Year.
• Abdominal Obesity, Sarcopenia, and Osteoporosis are Associated with Frailty in Men Living with and Without HIV.
• The Effect of Obesity on the Rate of Heparin-induced Thrombocytopenia.
• Association of Obesity, Sleep Apnea and Hypothalamic Inflammation: Novel Possibilities of Research.
• Epigenomics and Metabolomics Reveal the Mechanism of the APOA2 -saturated Fat Intake Interaction Affecting Obesity.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Self-regulation and Obesity: The Role of Executive Function and Delay Discounting in the Prediction of Weight Loss.
• Associations Between Depressive Symptoms and Indices of Obesity in Adults with Prediabetes and Normal Blood Glucose Levels.
• Sexual (dys)functioning is Related to Drive for Thinness, Not Drive for Muscularity.
• Misleading Health Consumers Through Violations of Communicative Norms: A Case Study of Online Diabetes Education.
• Commentary: Myth-Busting, Confusion, and Deception.

Equity and Disparities

• Ethnic Disparities in Childhood BMI Trajectories and Obesity and Potential Causes Among 29,250 US Children: Findings From the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth and Kindergarten Cohorts.
• Trends and Disparities in Diet Quality Among US Adults By Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Status.
• Obesity Prevalence Among Adults Living in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties United States, 2016.
• Differences in Obesity Prevalence By Demographic Characteristics and Urbanization Level Among Adults in the United States, 2013-2016.
• Differences in Obesity Prevalence By Demographics and Urbanization in US Children and Adolescents, 2013-2016.
• Commentary: Urbanization Causes Obesity? Not Exactly.

Stigma

• Development and Pilot Validation of a Video Instrument Stimulating Weight Stigma on Future Physical Activity Experimental Designs.
• Book Chapter: Weight Stigma and Related Social Factors in Psychological Care.
• Body Weight Perception, Disordered Weight Control Behaviors, and Depressive Symptoms Among Korean Adults.
• Weight Stigma and Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Adrenocortical Axis Reactivity in Individuals Who are Overweight.

Policy Related

• Evaluating the Effect of SNAP-Ed on Household Food Security Status and Dietary Intake of SNAP-Ed-eligible Participants in Indiana.
• The Effect of Graphic Warnings on Sugary-Drink Purchasing.

Intergenerational Effects and Associations

• Intrauterine exposure to metformin: Evaluation of endothelial and perivascular adipose tissue function in abdominal aorta of adult offspring.
• Intrauterine growth restriction combined with a maternal high-fat diet increased adiposity and serum corticosterone levels in adult rat offspring.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Claw Morphometrics in Monitor Lizards: Variable Substrate and Habitat Use Correlate to Shape Diversity Within a Predator Guild.
• Comparative Feeding Strategies and Kinematics in Phocid Seals: Suction Without Specialized Skull Morphology.
• Repeated Freezing Induces a Trade-off Between Cryoprotection and Egg Production in the Goldenrod Gall Fly, Eurosta Solidaginis.

Methods

• Amperometric Immunoassay for the Obesity Biomarker Amylin Using a Screen Printed Carbon Electrode Functionalized with an Electropolymerized Carboxylated Polypyrrole.
• Recommendations for Characterization and Reporting of Dietary Fibers in Nutrition Research.

Commentary

• The Brain’s Control Center for Diabetes and Obesity.
• A Double Dose of Discrimination.
• Humans, Made to Move It.
• The Truth About Spices: Is It Time to Ditch the Turmeric Latte?
• Why the Medical Research Grant System Could Be Costing Us Great Ideas.
• Linking Nutrition and Health Part 2: Obesity and Overeating.

General

• Handling Missing Data in Single-Case Studies.
• The Moderating Role of Kindness on the Relation Between Trust and Happiness.
• Scientists Watch Bacteria 'harpoon' DNA to Speed Their Evolution.
• Does an Uneven Sample Size Distribution Across Settings Matter in Cross-classified Multilevel Modeling? Results of a Simulation Study.
• Doubt and Truth Take Center Stage in Dean Allison’s Remarks to IUSPH Graduating Students.
• IgE to the Mammalian Oligosaccharide Galactose-α-1,3-Galactose is Associated with Increased Atheroma Volume and Plaques with Unstable Characteristics.
• Gene Therapy Reverses Rat's Paralysis.

Announcements

• FDA Public Meeting: Foods Produced Using Animal Cell Culture Technology.
• NIDDK Body Weight Planner: New Website.
• 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.