Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Effects of Weight History on the Association Between Directly-Measured Adiposity and Mortality in Older Adults.
• Combining Biomarker and Self-reported Dietary Intake Data: A Review of the State of the Art and an Exposition of Concepts.
• Dissonance in Naming Adiposity: A Quantitative Survey of Naming Preferences From a Convenience Sample of Health Professional and Lay Population in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Sleeping with the TV on May Make You Gain Weight.
• Study: Association [Not Necessarily Causation] of Exposure to Artificial Light at Night While Sleeping with Risk of Obesity in Women.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Significant Effect of Food, Health, & Choices: Curriculum and Wellness Interventions Intervention to Decrease Childhood Obesity in Fifth-Graders.
• RCT: No Significant Effects of Sport for LIFE: All Island in Children From Low Socio-economic Status.
• RCT: "Girls Active may not have had an effect on the random 90 girls per school included in the evaluation."
• RCT: "In the setting of routine prenatal care, lifestyle advice given by trained healthcare providers was not successful in limiting GWG and pregnancy complications."
• RCT: A Comprehensive Multicomponent School-based Educational Intervention Did Not Affect Fruit and Vegetable Intake at the 14-year Follow-up.
• Meta-analysis: "The current evidence suggests that quercetin intake did not show a notably favorable effect on weight loss."
• D2d Study: Vitamin D Supplementation Does Not Significantly Reduce Risk of Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: "Supplementation with lunasin-enriched soy extract for 8 weeks did not result in significant changes in serum lipids, glucose, insulin resistance, blood pressure, BMI, or waist circumference."
• RCT: A Single-Dose of a Polyphenol-Rich Fucus Vesiculosus Extract is Insufficient to Blunt the Elevated Postprandial Blood Glucose Responses Exhibited By Healthy Adults in the Evening.
• RCT: No Impact of Hunger on Male Perception of Female Physical Attractiveness in Relation to Adiposity.
• "In this updated meta-analysis, vitamin D supplementation was not associated with reduced major adverse cardiovascular events, individual CVD end points (myocardial infarction, stroke, CVD mortality), or all-cause mortality."

Basic

• Leptin’s Hunger-suppressing Effects are Mediated By the Hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenocortical Axis in Rodents.
• Obesity-associated, but Not Obesity-independent, Tumors Respond to Insulin By Increasing Mitochondrial Glucose Oxidation.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Differences in Nominal Significance (DINS) Error Leads to Invalid Conclusions: Letter Regarding, “Diet Enriched with Fresh Coconut Decreases Blood Glucose Levels and Body Weight in Normal Adults”.
• Child Obesity in Leeds: Cherrypicking Data to Indicate a Fall.
• Guidelines for Medical Nutrition Therapy in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: Systematic Review and Critical Appraisal.
• Using Automation to Combat the Replication Crisis: A Case Study From Controlled-rearing Studies of Newborn Chicks.

Clinical

• RCT: Effects of protein quantity and type on diet induced thermogenesis in overweight adults.
• The relationship between food label use and dietary intake in adults: A systematic review.

Clinical

• How to Improve Health Literacy to Reduce Short- and Long-term Consequences of Maternal Obesity?
• Willing to Go the Extra Mile: Prospective Evaluation of an Intensified Non-surgical Treatment for Patients with Morbid Obesity.
• Effects of a Mediterranean Eating Plan on the Need for Glucose-Lowering Medications in Participants with Type 2 Diabetes: A Subgroup Analysis of the PREDIMED Trial.
• Enrolment of Families with Overweight Children Into a Program Aimed at Reducing Childhood Obesity with and Without a Weight Criterion: A Natural Experiment.
• Metabolic Adaptation is Not Observed After 8 Weeks of Overfeeding but Energy Expenditure Variability is Associated with Weight Recovery.
• Managing Obesity: Scaling the Pyramid to Success.

Children and Adolescents

• Dose Response Relationship Between Program Attendance and Children’s Outcomes in a Community Based Weight Management Program for Children and Their Families.
• Lower Incidence Rate of Type 1 Diabetes After Receipt of the Rotavirus Vaccine in the United States, 2001–2017.

Surgery

• Role of Ethnicity on Weight Loss and Attrition After Bariatric Surgery.
• Nutritional Deficiencies in Patients After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass and Sleeve Gastrectomy During 12-Month Follow-Up.

Drugs

• Therapeutic Effects of Curcumin and Ursodexycholic Acid on Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease [in Rats].
• The Antiobese Effect of AT1 Receptor Blockade is Augmented in Mice Lacking Mas.
• Lilly Decides to Advance Tirzepatide for Obesity.

Caloric Restriction

• Effects of Aging and Caloric Restriction on Fiber Type Composition, Mitochondrial Morphology and Dynamics in Rat Oxidative and Glycolytic Muscles.
• Effects of Timing of Food Intake and Fat/carbohydrate Ratio on Insulin Sensitivity and Preconditioning Against Renal Ischemia Reperfusion Injury By Calorie Restriction.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT:Telemonitoring-supported Exercise Training, Metabolic Syndrome Severity, and Work Ability in Company Employees.
• Trends in Meeting Physical Activity Guidelines Among Urban and Rural Dwelling Adults — United States, 2008–2017.
• A Cellular Census of Human Lungs Identifies Novel Cell States in Health and in Asthma.

Economics & Sociology

• Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Circumstances, Adiposity and Cardiometabolic Risk Measures in Children with Severe Obesity.
• Increasing Socioeconomic Disparities in Sedentary Behaviors in Chinese Children.
• Cost-effectiveness of an Educational Healthcare Circuit for Bariatric Surgery in France.

Epidemiology

• Intake of Vegetables and Fruits Through Young Adulthood is Associated with Better Cognitive Function in Midlife in the US General Population.
• Association Between Serum Vitamin B12 Concentration and Obesity in a Nationally Representative Sample of US Adults.
• BMI and Body Composition in Relation to 14 Cardiovascular Conditions in UK Biobank: A Mendelian Randomization Study.
• Older Adults with Lowest Risk of Developing Type 2 Diabetes: Results From a Large and Diverse US Cohort (2003–2016).
• Body Composition and Falls Risk in Older Adults.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Perceived Weight Discrimination Mediates the Prospective Association Between Obesity and Physiological Dysregulation: Evidence From a Population-Based Cohort.
• Dietary Choline is Related to Neural Efficiency During a Selective Attention Task Among Middle-aged Adults with Overweight and Obesity.
• Nutrition Transition, Overweight and Obesity Among Rural-to-urban Migrant Women in Kenya.
• The Relationship Between Obesity and Depression Among Federally Qualified Health Center Patients. (pdf)
• Food Cue Reactivity in Food Addiction: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study.
• BMI-associated Gene Variants in FTO and Cardiometabolic and Brain Disease: Obesity or Pleiotropy?

Equity and Disparities

• Disparities in Trajectories of Changes in the Unhealthy Food Environment in New York City: A Latent Class Growth Analysis, 1990–2010.
• Decomposing Ethnic Differences in BMI and Obesity Rates Among New Zealand Pre-schoolers.
• Disparities in Food Access Around Homes and Schools for New York City Children.

Stigma

• Fat Shaming is Making People Sicker and Heavier.
• Book Chapter: Philosophy, Bias, Stigma.
• Weight-based Victimization, Eating Behaviors, and Weight-related Health in Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents.

Policy Related

• FDA MedWatch Alert: Fecal Microbiota for Transplantation: Safety Communication.
• Getting Real on Rationality—Behavioral Science, Nudging, and Public Policy.
• Taxes and front-of-package labels improve the healthiness of beverage and snack purchases.
• The Dismal Record of Soda Taxes. (pdf)
• Person-centred, Safe and Effective Care in Maternity Services: The Need for Greater Change Towards Best Practice.
• Primer on US Food and Nutrition Policy and Public Health: Protect School Nutrition Standards.
• Canada Announces Its First-ever Food Policy.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy and Offspring Body Composition in Adulthood: Results From Two Birth Cohort Studies.
• Steroid Hormones in Cord Blood Mediate the Association Between Maternal Prepregnancy BMI and Birth Weight.
• Prenatal Risk Predicts Preschooler Executive Function: A Cascade Model.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Dietary Ecomorphological Dispersion and Phenotypic Integration in Felidae and Mustelidae (Mammalia; Carnivora).
• Survival is Negatively Related to Basal Metabolic Rate in Tropical Andean Birds.
• Reproductive and Environmental Drivers of Time and Activity Budgets of Striped Skunks.

Methods

• Reliability and usefulness of upper gastro intestinal contrast studies to assess pouch size in patients with weight loss failure after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass.
• Methodological approach to the assessment of the obesogenic environment in children and adolescents: A review of the literature.

Commentary

• Gut-based Interventions for Diabetes Move Closer to Clinical Reality.
• Partnering to Tackle the Obesity Epidemic: How Employers are Rethinking Obesity to Better Address Care, Treatment, and Engagement with Their Employees.
• Ultra-Processed Food: What Now?
• Everything You Need to Know About Whey Protein.
• Can Eating Chicken Save the Planet?
• Dietary Supplements Linked with Severe Health Events in Children, Young Adults.
• How Many Steps a Day do You Really Need? Spoiler: It Isn't 10,000.
• A Touching Concern for the Health of Mannequins.
• A Furry Fitbit? No, but Dog Owners are More Active.
• Looking for Health Outcomes From Health Policies.
• Our Daily Diet of Plastic.
• Big Changes: Bariatric Surgery, Marriage, and Divorce.

General

• John Urschel Learns the ‘Secret Code’ of Calculus.
• Limiting the Damage: Molecular Basis of Extended Healthspan in Bats.
• Copernicus's Revolutionary Ideas Reorganized the Heavens.
• Spending at Least 120 minutes a Week in Nature is Associated with Good Health and Well-being.
• Commentary on the Problem of Headlines vs Studies: Hyped-up Science Erodes Trust. Here’s How Researchers Can Fight Back.
• Sexual Conflict in Water Striders, Dragonflies and Diving Beetles.
• Quantitative Framework for Coffee Leaf Rust (Hemileia Vastatrix), Production and Futures.
• Discovery and Inhibition of an Interspecies Gut Bacterial Pathway for Levodopa Metabolism.
• A 53-Year-Old Network Coloring Conjecture is Disproved.
• Diet for One? Scientists Stalk the Dream of Personalized Nutrition.
• Can Home Cooking Reverse the Obesity Epidemic?
• One-quarter of People with Diabetes in the U.S. Are Rationing Their Insulin.
• A Twitter Account Corrects One of the Biggest Problems in Health Reporting.
• What Universities Can Learn From One of Science’s Biggest Frauds.
• Why do Zebras Have Stripes? A Hair-Raising New Theory is 'Clever, Complex and Beautiful'.
• Secretary Perdue Announces Kansas City Region as Location for ERS and NIFA.
• The Thrill of Defeat: What Francis Crick and Sydney Brenner Taught Me About Being Scooped.
• EFSA Issues New Advice on Phosphates.
• In Conversation with Dr. George A. Bray, 2019 W.O. Atwater Memorial Lecturer.

Announcements

• Ellen MacArthur Foundation Launched the Food Initiative.
• Survey: Metadata2020 Survey "to understand the familiarity and usage of metadata ... in scholarly communication."
• Webinar: Innovations in the Food System: Shaping the Future of Food - a Workshop [Aug 7-8].
• Webcast: Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Meeting 2 [July 10-11].
• Dr. Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, Scrutinizer of Aging, Dies at 84.
• 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

• Scarcity Mindset Alters Neural Processing Underlying Consumer Decision Making.
• RCT: The Consequences of Foster Care Versus Institutional Care in Early Childhood on Adolescent Cardiometabolic and Immune Markers.
• Social Transmission of Food Safety Depends on Synaptic Plasticity in the Prefrontal Cortex.
• Targeting Glucose Metabolism to Enhance Immunotherapy: Emerging Evidence on Intermittent Fasting and Calorie Restriction Mimetics.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Study finds avocados curb appetite and help with weight loss.
• Study: This was a 6-hour RCT demonstrating effects on short-term reports of hunger – neither effects on actual food intake nor on body weight were studied.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Videogames that Encourage Healthy Behavior Did Not Alter Fasting Insulin or Other Diabetes Risks in Children.
• Lack of Improvement of Sperm Characteristics in Obese Males After Obesity Surgery Despite the Beneficial Changes Observed in Reproductive Hormones.
• RCT: Limited "effects on inflammatory and glycemia-related markers of a whole-grain pasta containing barley β-glucans and Bacillus coagulans BC30, 6086 in healthy overweight or obese volunteers."
• RCT: The Degree of Aminoacidemia After Dairy Protein Ingestion Does Not Modulate the Postexercise Anabolic Response in Young Men.
• "In our comparative cohort study of preterm infants with a gestational age of 30–33 weeks, we found no advantage to routine use of probiotics."
• "Contrary to previous research, this data suggests that men who exercise at high volume will not experience negative outcomes to their sexual function..."
• RCT: No evidence that "a planning competence training (Planungskompetenztraining, PKT) can support participants of a medical rehabilitation program to foster lifestyle change."
• "...the hypothesis was not confirmed, since the high-saturated-fat diet-induced obese rats did not present cardiac dysfunction or impaired intracellular Ca2+ handling proteins."
• "Obesity-related cancer risks appear not to be offset or eliminated by high levels of physical activity or fitness."
• RCT: No Effect of Glucomannan on Body Weight Reduction in Children and Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity.
• RCT: "Among persons at high risk for type 2 diabetes not selected for vitamin D insufficiency, vitamin D3 supplementation at a dose of 4000 IU per day did not result in a significantly lower risk of diabetes than placebo."

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Replacement of Dropouts May Bias Results: Comment on “The Effect of Green Tea Ointment on Episiotomy Pain and Wound Healing in Primiparous Women: A Randomized, Double‐blind, Placebo‐controlled Clinical Trial”.
• Error in Statistical Code in Cluster Randomized Trial on the Effect of a Breakfast in the Classroom Initiative on Obesity in Urban, School-aged Children.
• Have We Really Found the Limit of Human Endurance?
• After Outcry, USDA Will No Longer Require Scientists to Label Research ‘preliminary’.
• “Permeable to Bad Science:” Journal Retracts Paper Hailed By Proponents of Homeopathy.

Basic

• A PRDM16-Driven Metabolic Signal From Adipocytes Regulates Precursor Cell Fate.
• Cyanidin-3-O-Galactoside-Enriched Aronia Melanocarpa Extract Attenuates Weight Gain and Adipogenic Pathways in High-Fat Diet-Induced Obese C57BL/6 Mice.
• Clcn3 Deficiency Ameliorates High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity and Adipose Tissue Macrophage Inflammation in Mice.
• Excessive Visceral Adiposity Induced By a High-Fat Diet is Associated with Increased Fibrosis and Decreased Immune Cellularity of the Mesenteric Lymph Node in Mice.
• Estradiol and NADPH Oxidase Crosstalk Regulates Responses to High Fat Feeding in Female Mice.
• GABA-Stimulated Adipose-Derived Stem Cells Suppress Subcutaneous Adipose Inflammation in Obesity.
• GDF15 Mediates Adiposity Resistance Through Actions on GFRAL Neurons in the Hindbrain AP/NTS.
• Decelerating Ageing and Biological Clocks By Autophagy.

Clinical

• Long-Term Effects of a Novel Continuous Remote Care Intervention Including Nutritional Ketosis for the Management of Type 2 Diabetes: 2-Year Non-randomized Clinical Trial.
• RCT: Postprandial Levels of GLP-1, GIP and Glucagon After 2 Years of Weight Loss with a Paleolithic Diet in Healthy Obese Women.
• RCT: A Lifestyle Program Targeting Women with Obesity and Infertility Improves Their Fertility.

Children and Adolescents

• Do Country-level Environmental Factors Explain Cross-national Variation in Adolescent Physical Activity? A Multilevel Study in 29 European Countries.
• RCT: Efficacy of a Home-Based Parent Training-Focused Weight Management Intervention for Preschool Children.

Surgery

• Donor Metabolic Characteristics Drive Effects of Faecal Microbiota Transplantation on Recipient Insulin Sensitivity, Energy Expenditure and Intestinal Transit Time.
• Gastro-Intestinal Tract Cancers Following Bariatric Surgery: A Review.
• Comparative Study of Resting Metabolic Rate and Plasma Amino Acid Profile in Patients Who Underwent Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass and Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy: 6-Month Follow-up Study.

Drugs

• RCT: Postprandial Hypoglycaemia After Roux‐en‐Y Gastric Bypass and the Effects of Acarbose, Sitagliptin, Verapamil, Liraglutide and Pasireotide.
• RCT: Assessment of Compounded Transdermal Mirtazapine as an Appetite Stimulant in Cats with Chronic Kidney Disease.
• Lack of Durable Improvements in β-Cell Function Following Withdrawal of Pharmacological Interventions in Adults with Impaired Glucose Tolerance or Recently Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: Oral Semaglutide Versus Subcutaneous Liraglutide and Placebo in Type 2 Diabetes (PIONEER 4).

Food & Diet

• Capsaicin and Genistein Override the Action of Obestatin to Decrease Lipid Accumulation in 3T3-L1 Cells.
• Investigating the Effect of Sex and Ketosis on Weight-loss-induced Changes in Appetite.
• Different Acute Effects of Fructose and Glucose Administration on Hepatic Fat Content.
• RCT: The Effect of High Compared with Low Dairy Consumption on Glucose Metabolism, Insulin Sensitivity, and Metabolic Flexibility in Overweight Adults.
• RCT: High-protein Feeding Induces De Novo Lipogenesis in Healthy Humans.
• Animal-based and Plant-based Protein-rich Foods and Cardiovascular Health: A Complex Conundrum.
• RCT: Findings "do not provide evidence for choosing white over red meat for reducing CVD risk."
• Plant- and Animal-protein Diets in Relation to Sociodemographic Drivers, Quality, and Cost.
• Fiber Intake Predicts Weight Loss and Dietary Adherence in Adults Consuming Calorie-Restricted Diets.
• Meta-analysis: 46 Studies Identified By the FDA Demonstrates that Soy Protein Decreases Circulating LDL and Total Cholesterol Concentrations in Adults.

Caloric Restriction

• Methionine Restriction Delays Senescence and Suppresses the Senescence-associated Secretory Phenotype in the Kidney Through Endogenous Hydrogen Sulfide.
• A Novel Nutritional Supplement Prevents Muscle Loss and Accelerates Muscle Mass Recovery in Caloric-restricted Mice.
• Early Time-Restricted Feeding Improves 24-Hour Glucose Levels and A
  Ects Markers of the Circadian Clock, Aging, and Autophagy in Humans.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Ready to Move: A Unique University Worksite Wellness Initiative.
• Exercise Trials for Blood Pressure Control: Keeping It Real.
• Neighbourhood Built Environment and Physical Function Among Mid-to-older Aged Adults: A Systematic Review.

Economics & Sociology

• The Price of Ultra-processed Foods and Beverages and Adult Body Weight: Evidence From U.S. Veterans.
• Socioeconomic Inequalities in Childhood-to-adulthood BMI Tracking in Three British Birth Cohorts.
• Examining Cumulative Inequality in the Association Between Childhood SES and BMI From Midlife to Old Age.
• BMI in Religious Contexts: Exploring the Multilevel Influences of Religion.

Epidemiology

• "Among individuals with MI, those that have engaged in any light or moderate physical activity were more likely to survive their MI."
• The Role of Country of Birth, and Genetic and Self-identified Ancestry, in Obesity Susceptibility Among African and Hispanic Americans.
• Association of Exposure to Artificial Light at Night While Sleeping with Risk of Obesity in Women.
• Clinical Manifestations and Factors Associated with Osteosarcopenic Obesity Syndrome: A Cross-Sectional Study in Koreans with Obesity.
• Cross-sectional and Prospective Associations of Actigraphy-Assessed Sleep Regularity with Metabolic Abnormalities.
• Tantalizing Data and Ample Buzz for Personalized Nutrition.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Precision Medicine Analysis of a Behavioral Counseling Strategy to Improve Adherence to Diabetes Self-management Among Youth.
• Review: Temperament in Obesity-related Research: Concepts, Challenges, and Considerations for Future Research.
• Lived Experience of Obese People Who Feel that They are Addicted to Food (PDF).
• Longitudinal Preliminary Study of Addiction-Like Responses to Food and Alcohol Consumption Among Individuals Undergoing Weight Loss Surgery.
• Do Emotions Cause Eating? The Role of Previous Experiences and Social Context in Emotional Eating.

Equity and Disparities

• Does the Ethnic Density Effect Extend to Obesity? A Cross-sectional Study of 415 166 Adults in East London.
• Obesity and Disparities in Human Papillomavirus Vaccination for U.S. Adolescent Girls and Young Women.
• Effects of Economic Inequality on Obesity.

Stigma

• Weight Bias in Radiology Resident Selection.
• The Role of Weight Stigma in Parental Weight Talk.
• Implications of Differing Attitudes and Experiences Between Providers and Persons with Obesity.
• Addressing Internalized Weight Bias and Changing Damaged Identifies for People Living with Obesity.
• Perceived Weight Discrimination Mediates the Prospective Association Between Obesity and Physiological Dysregulation.
• How Doctors Can Stop Stigmatizing — and Start Helping — Kids with Obesity.

Policy Related

• Insights on the Influence of Sugar Taxes on Obesity Prevention Efforts.
• USDA Launches New School Nutrition Training Website.
• Executive Order on Modernizing the Regulatory Framework for Agricultural Biotechnology Products.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal, but Not Paternal or Grandparental, Caffeine Intake is Associated with Childhood Obesity and Adiposity.
• Association of Infant Feeding Patterns with Taste Preferences in European Children and Adolescents: A Retrospective Latent Profile Analysis.
• Maternal and Offspring Genetic Risk of Type 2 Diabetes and Offspring Birthweight Among African Ancestry Populations.
• The Effect of Maternal Dietary Habits During Pregnancy on Neonate Leptin Methylation Patterns and Gestational Age (PDF).
• Time-restricted Feeding Reduces High-fat Diet Associated Placental Inflammation and Limits Adverse Effects on Fetal Organ Development.
• Maternal Dietary Glycemic and Insulinemic Indexes are Not Associated with Birth Outcomes or Childhood Adiposity at 5 Years of Age in an Irish Cohort Study.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Evolution Of, and Via, Developmental Plasticity: Insights Through the Study of Scaling Relationships.
• About “spendthrift” and “thrifty” Phenotypes: Resistance and Susceptibility to Overeating Revisited.
• Elephants Have a Nose for Quantity.

Methods

• Obesity and Chemotherapy Administration: Between Empiric and Mathematic Method Review.
• Application of Stable Isotope Labels for Metabolomics in Studies in Fatty Liver Disease.

Commentary

• Diet is a Vital Sign.
• Associations of Dietary Cholesterol and Egg Consumption with Incident Cardiovascular Disease and Total Mortality.
• The History of the Bagel: A New York City Story By Way of Poland and the Lower East Side.
• Perspective: Should Exclusive Breastfeeding Still Be Recommended for 6 Months?
• Medical Misinformation and the Internet: A Call to Arms.
• Fighting for the Common Ground of Better Diet.
• The Humble Glycemic Index Marks Global Diabetes Risk.
• 5 Little-known Facts About Protein.
• Better Metadata Could Help Save the World!

General

• Functional Regulators of Bacterial Flagella.
• Monkeys Use Their 'eagle' Call to Warn Each Other About Drones.
• Definitions of Sex and Intimacy Among Gender and Sexual Minoritised Groups in Urban India.
• To What Extent is Blood a Reasonable Surrogate for Brain in Gene. Expression Studies: Estimation From Mouse Hippocampus and Spleen.
• Research Integrity is Much More than Misconduct.
• When Pigs Fly: Emotional Support Animals, Service Dogs and the Politics of Legitimacy Across Species Boundaries.
• Life Finds a Way: Parthenogenesis in Asian Water Dragons [with Video].
• The Early Origin of Feathers.
• Forensic Pollen Scientists are Helping the US Track Opioids.
• Small, Furry and Powerful: Are Mouse Lemurs the Next Big Thing in Genetics?

Video & Audio

• Podcast: Diego Rose on Environmental Sustainability and Our Food.
• Podcast: Rick Larrick on the Hidden Energy Cost of Our Food.
• Outdated Gender Stereotypes are Harming Science.

Announcements

• IU to Acquire Fastest University-owned AI Supercomputer.
• Web-computing Platform Was Created By IU Scientists to Support and Publish Reproducible Neuroscience Research.
• 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).

Obituaries: Three Great Scholars, Leaders, and Friends

• Leann Birch, Who Knew How to Get a Child to Eat Peas, Dies at 72.
• Judith Schneider Stern, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Nutrition and Internal Medicine at UC Davis, Died on May 8, 2019.
• Mario DiGirolamo - Born in Rome, Italy on March 31, 1934 Departed on February 5, 2019.

Featured

• Extreme Events Reveal an Alimentary Limit on Sustained Maximal Human Energy Expenditure.
• Maternal Overnutrition Programs Hedonic and Metabolic Phenotypes Across Generations Through Sperm TsRNAs.
• Metabolic Inflexibility Detected in Overweight Labradors.
• Best (but Oft Forgotten) Practices: Sample Size Planning for Powerful Studies.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Up to 25 Cups of Coffee a Day Still Safe for Heart Health, Study Says.
• Press-release: Coffee Not as Bad for Heart and Circulatory System as Previously Thought.
• Meeting abstract: No Statistically Significant Cross-sectional Correlation in Arterial Stiffness for Individuals Who Drink >3 Cups of Coffee/day Group (>25 Excluded). No Causation Established; 25-cup Drinkers Not Specifically Studied.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "Despite intensive, state-of-the-art, and often creative interventions conducted by seasoned investigators, all 5 of the studies considered below failed to alter the trajectory of weight gain in their participants compared with controls."
• RCT: "In this low-income, adolescent population, neither of the family-based interventions improved BMI or health-related secondary outcomes."
• RCT: No Effect of a School-Based Comprehensive Intervention for Childhood Obesity in China on BMI.
• RCT: "the intervention did not demonstrate a significant increase in nurse visits for obesity care..."
• RCT: "There seems to be no differential effect of weight loss or its interaction with macronutrient composition on measures of satiety."
• RCT: "A smartphone based attentive eating intervention and standard dietary advice did not result in reduced energy intake or greater weight loss at 4 or 8 week follow-up than standard dietary advice alone."
• RCT: "The use of AKTIDIET® [app] to support health advice for weight loss cannot be recommended."
• "There was no difference in adjusted hospital mortality across BMI strata in subjects with moderate to severe ARDS."
• "Our [mendelian randomization] findings support that T2DM and kidney disease increase TMAO levels and observational evidence for cardiovascular diseases may be due to confounding or reverse causality."

Basic

• Impact of Dietary Sucrose on Adiposity and Glucose Homeostasis in C57BL/6J Mice Depends on Mode of Ingestion: Liquid or Solid.
• Adipose HuR Protects Against Diet-Induced Obesity and Insulin Resistance.
• Hypothalamic Endocannabinoids Inversely Correlate with the Development of Diet-Induced Obesity in Male and Female Mice.
• Obesity-Induced Immune Dysfunction and Immunosuppression: TEM Observation of Lymph Node Microarchitecture and Immune Cell Interactions.
• Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Kinase is a Metabolic Checkpoint for Polarization of Macrophages to the M1 Phenotype.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• When Poorly Conducted Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses Can Mislead: A Critical Appraisal and Update of Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses Examining the Effects of Probiotics in the Treatment of Functional Constipation in Children.
• The Science Behind the Headlines.
• Make Reports of Research Misconduct Public.
• Three RCTs Evaluating the Impact of “spin” in Health News Stories Reporting Studies of Pharmacologic Treatments on Patients’/caregivers’ Interpretation of Treatment Benefit.

Clinical

• RCT: Impact of High Volume Energy Drink Consumption on Electrocardiographic and Blood Pressure Parameters.
• Low-fat Dietary Pattern and Breast Cancer Mortality By Metabolic Syndrome Degree: Secondary Analyses of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) Dietary Modification Randomized Trial.
• RCT: The Effects of Six‐week Resistance, Aerobic and Combined Exercises on the Pro‐inflammatory and Anti‐inflammatory Markers in Overweight Patients with Moderate Haemophilia A.
• RCT: Effects of Red Meat, White Meat, and Nonmeat Protein Sources on Atherogenic Lipoprotein Measures in the Context of Low Compared with High Saturated Fat Intake.

Children and Adolescents

• Young Children Have Higher Variability of Insulin Requirements: Observations During Hybrid Closed-Loop Insulin Delivery.
• Outcomes, Care Utilization, and Expenditures in Adolescent Pregnancy Complicated By Diabetes.
• Changes in Visceral and Subcutaneous Fat in Youth with Type 2 Diabetes in the TODAY Study.

Surgery

• Gastric Bypass Surgery in Lean Adolescent Mice Prevents Diet-induced Obesity Later in Life.
• Bariatric/Metabolic Surgery Induces Noticeable Changes of Microbiota and Their Secreting Extracellular Vesicle Composition in the Gut.

Drugs

• RCT: Effect of Liraglutide on Body Weight and Pain in the Treatment of Overweight and Knee Osteoarthritis.
• RCT: Timing of Postpartum Etonogestrel-releasing Implant Insertion and Bleeding Patterns, Weight Change, 12-month Continuation and Satisfaction Rates.
• The Contribution of Obesity to Prescription Opioid Use in the United States.
• Metformin and DPP-4 Inhibitor Differentially Modulate the Intestinal Microbiota and Plasma Metabolome of Metabolically Dysfunctional Mice.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Yogurt Improves Insulin Resistance and Liver Fat in Obese Women with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Metabolic Syndrome.
• RCT: Blueberries Improve Biomarkers of Cardiometabolic Function in Participants with Metabolic Syndrome.
• RCT: Role of Calcium and Low-Fat Dairy Foods in Weight-Loss Outcomes Revisited in Overweight/Obese Postmenopausal Women.
• Low-Carb and Ketogenic Diets in Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: Skipping Breakfast Before Exercise Creates a More Negative 24-hour Energy Balance in Healthy Physically Active Young Men.

Caloric Restriction

• Aging and Nutrition: Theories, Consequences, and Impact of Nutrients.
• Metabolic Disequilibrium and Aging: Modifying Favorably with Calorie Restriction and Calorie Restriction Mimetics. (pdf)
• Energy Metabolism and Intermittent Fasting: The Ramadan Perspective.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• PART 1: Cycling is Associated with a Lower Incidence of Cardiovascular Diseases and Death.
• PART 2: Cycling and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Including Body Composition, Blood Lipids and Cardiorespiratory Fitness Analysed as Continuous Variables.
• RCT: Effects of Interval Training on Visceral Adipose Tissue in Centrally Obese 70‐Year‐Old Individuals.
• Physical Activity Moderates the Effects of Daily Psychosocial Stressors on Ambulatory Blood Pressure.

Economics & Sociology

• Systematic Review: Children of Single-parent Households are at a Higher Risk of Obesity.
• Socioeconomically Distressed Communities Associated with Long-term Mortality After Bariatric Surgery.
• Early Life Socioeconomic Status Moderates Associations Between Objective Sleep and Weight-related Indicators in Middle Childhood.
• Diet Quality Trends Among Adults with Diabetes By Socioeconomic Status in the U.S.: 1999–2014.

Epidemiology

• Night‐time Eating and Body Weight Status Among US Adults, 2007–2016.
• Combined Effect of Central Obesity and Urinary PAH Metabolites on Lung Function: A Cross-sectional Study in Urban Adults.
• Identifying Determinants of Obesity in Athens, Greece Through Global and Local Statistical Models.
• Significant Increase in Risk of Fibrosis or Cirrhosis at Time of HCV Diagnosis for Hispanics with Diabetes and Obesity Compared with Other Ethnic Groups.
• Lifestyle Risk Factors, Obesity and Infectious Disease Mortality in the General Population: Linkage Study of 97,844 Adults From England and Scotland.
• Psychosocial Factors Associated with Treatment Outcomes in Women with Obesity and Major Depressive Disorder Who Received Behavioral Activation for Depression.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Food Addiction in Adolescents: Exploration of Psychological Symptoms and Executive Functioning Difficulties in a Non-clinical Sample.
• Deconstructing Weight Management Interventions for Young Adults: Looking Inside the Black Box of the EARLY Consortium Trials.
• Ambivalence Toward Healthy and Unhealthy Food and Moderation By Individual Differences in Restrained Eating.
• Self‐regulation Foci and Mood Affect Healthy and Unhealthy Eating Behaviours Differently in Successful Weight‐loss Treatment Participants.
• Effect of Dose of Behavioral Weight Loss Treatment on Glycemic Control in Adults with Prediabetes.

Equity and Disparities

• Prepregnancy Diabetes and Breastfeeding Cessation Among Black Women in the United States.
• Weight-based Victimization Among Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents: Implications for Substance Use and Mental Health.
• Ethnic Disparities in Adiposity: Focus on Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Visceral, and Generalized Obesity.

Ethics

• Commercial Interests, Agenda Setting, and the Epistemic Trustworthiness of Nutrition Science.
• Obesity, Political Responsibility, and the Politics of Needs.

Stigma

• Weight Stigma and Physical Health: An Unconsidered ‘obesity’ Cost.
• Unhealthy Weight Control Behaviors and Substance Use Among Adolescent Girls: The Harms of Weight Stigma.
• Weight‐based Teasing is Associated with Gain in BMI and Fat Mass Among Children and Adolescents At‐risk for Obesity: A Longitudinal Study.

Policy Related

• UK Sugar Tax: Historic Sales Shift to Sugar-free.
• Adolescent Obesity in the Past Decade a Systematic Review of Genetics and Determinants of Food Choice.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Nutritional Restriction During Gestation Impacts Differently on Offspring Muscular and Elastic Arteries and is Associated with Increased Carotid Resistance and Ventricular Afterload in Maturity.
• The Influence of Protein Restriction During Mid- to Late Gestation on Beef Offspring Growth, Carcass Characteristic and Meat Quality.
• Association of Preterm Birth with Risk of Ischemic Heart Disease in Adulthood.
• Hyperglycemia During Pregnancy May Raise Child's Obesity Risk.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Thermal Regime Effects on the Resting Metabolic Rate of Rattlesnakes Depend on Temperature Range.
• Predatory Behavior Changes with Satiety or Increased Insulin Levels in the Praying Mantis (Tenodera Sinensis).

Methods

• Meta-analysis: Intra-Abdominal Adipose Tissue Quantification By Alternative Versus Reference Methods.
• Development and Validation of Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis Equations in Adolescents with Severe Obesity.
• Development and Validation of a Tool to Assess the Rural Neighborhood Environment for Obesity in Korean Adults.
• Accuracy of a Mixed Effects Model Interpolation Technique for the Estimation of Pregnancy Weight Values.
• Evaluation of Measurement Error in 24-hour Dietary Recall for Assessing Sodium and Potassium Intake Among US Adults — National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), 2014.

Commentary

• How Fasting May Prevent Obesity-related Insulin Resistance.
• Preventing Weight Gain More Important than Weight Loss and More Realistic to Study in Cohorts than in RCTs.
• Polyagonists for the Treatment of Obesity and Diabetes.
• Fast Relief From Excess Weight!
• The Elusive Magic of 10,000 Steps Per Day.
• Good Question: Why is Diabetes Incidence Going Down?

General

• Of Chaos, Storms and Forking Paths: The Principles of Uncertainty.
• Metamorphic Robustness Testing: Exposing Hidden Defects in Citation Statistics and Journal Impact Factors.
• The Role of Prosocial Behaviors in Mate Choice: A Critical Review of the Literature.
• Jumping Gene Gave Fish a Freshwater Start.
• Nutrients in the US Diet: Naturally Occurring or Enriched/fortified Food and Beverage Sources, Plus Dietary Supplements: NHANES 2009–2012.

Announcements

• EASO New Investigators United Autumn School: September 2019.
• WEBINAR: Feasibility of Online Nutrition Education in the Workplace: Working Toward Healthy Lifestyles.
• Study Spotlight: Results and Comparisons From the RISE Clinical Trial—Adult Medication Study.
• Workshop to Focus on MRI of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders.
• 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

• Weight Loss, Diet Composition and Breast Cancer Incidence and Outcome in Postmenopausal Women.
• Three-dimensional Label-free Imaging Throughout Adipocyte Differentiation By Stimulated Raman Microscopy.
• BMI and Social Interactions From Adolescence to Adulthood.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Study Shows How Diet Can Prevent a Mid-life Microbiome Crisis and Improve Brain Health.
• Study: "These data highlight a potential pathway by which targeting the gut microbiome with prebiotics can modulate the peripheral immune response and alter neuroinflammation..." in middle aged mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Statistically Significant Effect on Weight of a Computerised Decision-Support Tool for Health Professionals for the Prevention and Treatment of Childhood Obesity.
• RCT: No Significant Effect of a Weight Management Intervention for Maternal Obesity, on Maternal and Child Outcomes at 24 Months Following Birth.
• "Neither egg nor cholesterol intakes were associated with stroke risk in this cohort, regardless of apoE phenotype."
• RCT: Three Consecutive Weeks of Nutritional Ketosis Has No Effect on Cognitive Function, Sleep, and Mood, Compared with a High-carbohydrate, Low-fat Diet in Healthy Individuals.
• RCT: "Intervention with fish oil and/or probiotics during pregnancy ...conferred no benefits in lowering the risk of GDM or improving glucose metabolism in overweight and obese women."
• "Results suggest that treatment intensification is often delayed despite consistently poor glycaemic control for more than 12 months, contrary to treatment guideline recommendations."
• "Contrary to general belief, the return of large carnivores does not always translate into higher compensation costs."
• RCT: "Contrary to previous acute exercise studies, 50 min of walking before dinner in the E-PAraDiGM protocol did not affect 24-h glucose profiles."
• Meta-analysis: "Based on our findings, modulation of gut microbiota composition through pro-/ synbiotic supplements did not have favorable effects to manage overweight or obese children and adolescents."
• "In this low-income, adolescent population, neither of the family-based interventions improved BMI or health-related secondary outcomes."

Basic

• A Brain-Melanocortin-Vagus Axis Mediates Adipose Tissue Expansion Independently of Energy Intake.
• Adipose Sirtuin 6 Drives Macrophage Polarization Toward M2 Through IL-4 Production and Maintains Systemic Insulin Sensitivity in Mice and Humans.
• Pancreatic Adipocytes Mediate Hypersecretion of Insulin in Diabetes-Susceptible Mice.
• Ginger Prevents Obesity Through Regulation of Energy Metabolism and Activation of Browning in High-fat Diet-induced Obese Mice.
• Obesity Impacts the Regulation of MiR-10b and Its Targets in Primary Breast Tumors.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• The Implementation of Randomization Requires Corrected Analyses. Comment on ”Comprehensive Nutritional and Dietary Intervention for Autism Spectrum Disorder—A Randomized, Controlled 12-Month Trial, Nutrients 2018, 10, 369”.
• Reply to “Comment On: Comprehensive Nutritional and Dietary Intervention for Autism Spectrum Disorder—A Randomized, Controlled 12-Month Trial, Nutrients 2018, 10, 369”.
• University of Sydney Pulls Claims Elderberries Can Fight Flu.
• A New Science Integrity Blog.
• Commentary: CrossFit Demands Retraction of Paper Claiming Their Participants are More Likely to Be Injured.

Clinical

• Reversing Type 2 Diabetes with Bariatric Surgery, Very Low Calorie Diets, and Carbohydrate Restriction: A Review of the Evidence.
• Altered Thyroid Function and Structure in Children and Adolescents Who are Overweight and Obese: Reversal After Weight Loss.
• RCT: Daily Self‐Weighing to Prevent Holiday‐Associated Weight Gain in Adults.
• Obesity, Weight Loss and Its Influence on Telomere Length: New Insights for Personalized Nutrition.
• RCT: Circulating Gut Microbiota Metabolite Trimethylamine-N-Oxide (TMAO) and Changes in Bone Density in Response to Weight Loss Diets.
• Clinical Insights Into the Genetic Overlap Between Obesity Susceptibility and Food Choices.

Children and Adolescents

• Meta-analysis: Treatment of Obesity, with a Dietary Component, and Eating Disorder Risk in Children and Adolescents.
• Effects of School Neighborhood Food Environments on Childhood Obesity at Multiple Scales.
• Factors Affecting the Dose of Intervention Received and the Participant Satisfaction in a School-based Obesity Prevention Intervention.
• Trends in Levels of Lipids and Apolipoprotein B in US Youths Aged 6 to 19 Years, 1999-2016.
• The FTO Gene and Measured Food Intake in 5‐ to 10‐Year‐Old Children Without Obesity.
• Predictors and Patterns of Eating Behaviors Across Childhood: Results From the Generation R Study.

Surgery

• The Amount of Weight Loss Six Months After Bariatric Surgery: It Makes a Difference.
• Meta-analysis: ffect of Bariatric Surgery on Serum Inflammatory Factors of Obese Patients.
• Five-Year Outcomes of Gastric Bypass in Adolescents as Compared with Adults.

Drugs

• Trypsin Inhibitors: Promising Candidate Satietogenic Proteins as Complementary Treatment for Obesity and Metabolic Disorders?
• First-in-Human Study of Dual Inhibitor Licogliflozin Showed Significant Weight Loss in Obese Patients.
• The Effects of Licogliflozin, a Dual SGLT1/2 Inhibitor, on Body Weight in Obese Patients with or Without Diabetes.

Food & Diet

• Efficacy of Balanced Nutrition Meal Replacement Diet with Altered Macromolecule Composition Along with a Caloric Restriction on Body Weight Control.
• Salt Intake and Prevalence of Overweight/obesity in Japan, China, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
• RCT: Using the Avocado to Test the Satiety Effects of a Fat-Fiber Combination in Place of Carbohydrate Energy in a Breakfast Meal in Overweight and Obese Men and Women.
• Late‐life Time‐restricted Feeding and Exercise Differentially Alter Healthspan in Obesity [in Mice].
• Feasibility and Acceptability of a Takeaway Masterclass Aimed at Encouraging Healthier Cooking Practices and Menu Options in Takeaway Food Outlets.
• Changes in Intake of Plant-based Diets and Weight Change: Results From 3 Prospective Cohort Studies.

Caloric Restriction

• Dawn-to-sunset Fasting Suggests Potential New Treatment for Obesity-related Conditions.
• Dietary Restriction Enhances Circadian Amplitude and Delays Visual Decline By a Clock-driven Increase in Phototransduction.
• Fasting Modulates Synaptic Plasticity in the Dentate Gyrus of Male Rats.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• For Fat Burning, Interval Training Beats Continuous Exercise.
• Rates of Injury From Sports, Recreation, and Leisure Activities Among Children and Adolescents Aged 1–17 Years, By Age Group — National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2015–2017.
• Prevalence of Low Back Pain, Seeking Medical Care, and Lost Time Due to Low Back Pain Among Manual Material Handling Workers in the United States.
• Exercise Prevents the Adverse Effects of Maternal Obesity on Placental Vascularization and Fetal Growth.
• Interindividual Variability and Individual Responses to Exercise Training in Adolescents with Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Does Employment-Based Insurance Make the US Medical Care System Unfair and Inefficient?
• Using Economic Evidence to Support Policy Decisions to Fund Interventions for Non-communicable Diseases.
• For Fashion Industry, China's Child Obesity Problem Could Be Big Business.
• The Economics of Taxes on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages: A Review of the Effects on Prices, Sales, Cross-Border Shopping, and Consumption.

Epidemiology

• Association of Sugary Beverage Consumption with Mortality Risk in US Adults.
• Decline of Childhood Overweight and Obesity in Italy From 2008 to 2016.
• Measures of General and Abdominal Obesity and Disability Severity in a Large Population of People with Multiple Sclerosis.
• Changing Impact of Obesity on Active Life Expectancy of Older Americans.
• Abdominal Obesity is More Strongly Correlated with Obstructive Sleep Apnea than General Obesity in China: Results From Two Separated Observational and Longitudinal Studies.
• Relationship Between DXA Measured Metrics of Adiposity and Glucose Homeostasis; An Analysis of the NHANES Data.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Systematic Review: Increasing Healthy Food Choices Through Nudges.
• Editorial: Preventing Weight Gain More Important than Weight Loss and More Realistic to Study in Cohorts than in RCTs.
• Obesity, Subliminal Perception and Inhibition: Neuromodulation of the Prefrontal Cortex.
• Impact of Intensive Lifestyle Intervention on Neural Food Cue Reactivity: Action for Health in Diabetes Brain Ancillary Study.

Equity and Disparities

• We Need a New Approach to Prevent Obesity in Low-Income Minority Populations.
• Pronounced Social Inequality in Health-related Factors and Quality of Life in Women and Men From Austria Who are Overweight or Obese.
• Regional Variation in Type 2 Diabetes: Evidence From 137 820 Adults on the Role of Neighbourhood BMI.

Stigma

• Does Dissatisfaction With, or Accurate Perception of Overweight Status Help People Reduce Weight? Longitudinal Study of Australian Adults.
• NP Student Encounters with Obesity Bias in Clinical Practice.
• Health Concerns and Moral Distaste - ‘Concern Trolling’ as a Moralizing Rhetoric.
• Male Body Dissatisfaction, Eating Disorder Symptoms, Body Composition, and Attentional Bias to Body Stimuli Evaluated Using Visual Search.

Policy Related

• Study Protocol: Exploring Network Structure and the Role of Key Stakeholders to Understand the Obesity Prevention System in an Australian Metropolitan Health Service.
• Improving the Health of Alaska Native People Through Use of a Policy Change Model and Capacity Building.
• Adherence to WHO’s Nutrition Recommendations in the UK: Dietary Patterns and Policy Implications From a National Survey.
• Policy Statement: Recommendations for the Establishment of Stroke Systems of Care: A 2019 Update: A Policy Statement From the American Stroke Association.
• Can We Stop the Obesity Epidemic?
• Assessing the Early Impact of Menu-Labeling on Calories in Chain Restaurants in Ontario, Canada.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal BMI Affects Embryo Morphokinetics: A Time-lapse Study.
• Children Exposed to Maternal Obesity or Gestational Diabetes During Early Fetal Development Have Hypothalamic Alterations that Predict Future Weight Gain.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Temporal Trends in Florida Panther Food Habits.
• Giant Tiger Sharks Eat Backyard Birds, Surprising Study Reveals.
• Section-specific H+ Fluxes in Renal Tubules of Fasted and Fed Goldfish.
• Developmental Plasticity in Metabolism but Not in Energy Reserve Accumulation in a Seasonally Polyphenic Butterfly.

Methods

• New Methods for Analysis and Interpretation of Obesity Experiments.
• Racial and Educational Disparities in Cognitive Life Expectancies: A Multivariate, Incidence-based Life Table Approach.
• Predicting Nationwide Obesity From Food Sales Using Machine Learning.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• A Study on the Modeling of Obesity.
• Comparison of Parametric and Nonparametric Estimators for the Association Between Incident Prepregnancy Obesity and Stillbirth in a Population-Based Cohort Study.

Commentary

• Time for a Holiday – Step on the Scales Please.
• Ultraprocessed Food Makes Us Fat: Forewarned, but Not Forearmed.
• A Non-BMI-Centric Approach to Diagnosing and Managing Obesity.
• Can We Walk and Chew Gum and Lose Weight All at Once?
• Sydney Playwright Presents the Human Side of Nutrition Science.
• Appetite as a Vital Sign.
• An Objective Line Between Processed and Ultra-Processed.
• Making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice.
• Apples and Oranges, Tobacco and Sugar.

General

• A Solution to Psychology’s Reproducibility Problem Just Failed Its First Test.
• RCT: To Tweet or Not to Tweet, that is the Question: A Trial of Twitter Effects on Article Engagement in Medical Education.
• The Varying Effects of Neighborhood Disadvantage on College Graduation: Moderating and Mediating Mechanisms.
• Charcoal Toothpaste May do Harm and Not Much Good.
• Report Puts Scientific Replicability and Reproducibility Under the Microscope.
• Improving Environmental Risk Assessments of Chemicals: Steps Towards Evidence-based Ecotoxicology.
• Association Between Life Purpose and Mortality Among US Adults Older than 50 Years.
• Trends in Proportion of Women as Authors of Medical Journal Articles, 2008-2018.

Announcements

• Webinar: Using Law and Policy to Promote Health Equity and Achieve Healthy People Goals (June 13).
• Comment Request-Generic Clearance for the Development of Nutrition Education Messages and Products for the General Public: Due 06/04/2019.
• Menu Labeling Social Media Toolkit for Consumer Outreach.
• 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).
• Short Course: Mathematical Science in Obesity Research, Baltimore, MD (June 3-7, 2019).
• Webinar: The Potential Role of Nutrition in the First 2 Years of Life in the Prevention of Child Overweight and Obesity.