Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Let Them Eat Kale: The Misplaced Narrative of Food Access.
• The Therapeutic Effects of Bee Venom on Some Metabolic and Antioxidant Parameters Associated with HFD-induced Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver in Rats.
• The Transcriptomic and Proteomic Responses of Daphnia Pulex to Changes in Temperature and Food Supply Comprise Environment-specific and Clone-specific Elements.
• Social Capital and Obesity Among Adults: Longitudinal Findings From the Montreal Neighborhood Networks and Healthy Aging Panel.

Headline vs Study

• Press-release: You are What Your Mother Eats: Researchers Define Molecular Basis to Explain Link Between a Pregnant Mother's Nutrition and Infant Growth.
• Study: Two Transcription Factors Coordinate Two Functionally Related Neurons in the Hypothalamic Arcuate Nucleus... In Animals. No Mothers; No Nutrition; No Infants.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "Cocoa/DC supplementation does not reduce anthropometric measures significantly."
• "Although preliminary, these first in men findings argue against oral butyrate supplementation as treatment for glucose regulation in human subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus."
• RCT: At 12-month Follow-up, No Effect of a Mobile-based (mHealth) Obesity Prevention Intervention in Pre-school Children.
• No Effect of Postural Alterations on Metabolic Cost in Running on Incline Slopes.
• No Effect of Administration of Unacylated Ghrelin on Subcutaneous PC3 Xenograft Growth in a Rag1-/- Mouse Model of Metabolic Dysfunction.
• Oxidative Stress in Obese Children and Adolescents with and Without Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus is Not Associated with Obstructive Sleep Apnea.
• Contrary to Previous Studies, Prepregnancy BMI and GWG Were Not Correlated with A. Diagnosis of Metabolic Dysfunction.
• RCT: "Compared with the active control of daily texting based on daily home weighing, lottery-based and direct monetary incentives provided no additional benefit for weight loss maintenance."
• Watching Television or Listening to Music While Exercising Failed to Affect Post-exercise Food Intake or Energy Expenditure in Male Adolescents.

Basic

• Is Leptin Resistance the Cause or the Consequence of Diet-induced Obesity?
• Breeding Selection of Rainbow Trout for Muscle Adiposity Content Differentially Affects Lipogenic Capacity and Lipid Mobilization Strategies to Cope with Food Deprivation.
• Remodeling of Skeletal Muscle Mitochondrial Proteome with High-Fat Diet Involves Larger Changes to β-oxidation than Electron Transfer Proteins in Mice.
• Maternal Overnutrition Programs Epigenetic Changes in the Regulatory Regions of Hypothalamic Pomc in the Offspring of Rats.
• Repeated Weight Cycling in Obese Mice Causes Increased Appetite and Glucose Intolerance.
• Effects of Frozen Storage on Phospholipid Content in Atlantic Cod Fillets and the Influence on Diet-Induced Obesity in Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Fat and Happy and Fuzzy About Causality.
• Commentary: Curious Cook - the Strange Story of Gluten, Part 2.
• Commentary: Diet, and Delusions of Evidence.
• Identifying the Best Methods to Assess Adiposity and Metabolic Risk in Children.

Clinical

• Evaluations of Lifestyle, Dietary, and Pharmacologic Treatments for Pediatric Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease—a Systematic Review.
• RCT: Effect of Small Doses of Fructose and Allulose on Postprandial Glucose Metabolism in Type 2 Diabetes.
• Optimal Cut-off Points of Fasting and Post-Glucose Stimulus Surrogates of Insulin Resistance as Predictors of Metabolic Syndrome in Adolescents According to Several Definitions.
• One-Hour Plasma Glucose Compared with Two-Hour Plasma Glucose in Relation to Diabetic Retinopathy in American Indians.
• Feasibility and Effectiveness of Nutritional Telemonitoring for Home Care Clients: A Pilot Study.
• What to do When Doctors Disagree on Diets for Women with Gestational Diabetes.

Children and Adolescents

• The ENCOURAGE Healthy Families Study: A Comparative Effectiveness Trial to Reduce Risk for Type 2 Diabetes in Mothers and Children.
• The Application of MHealth to Monitor Implementation of Best Practices to Support Healthy Eating and Physical Activity in Afterschool Programs.

Surgery

• Metabotypes of Response to Bariatric Surgery Independent of the Magnitude of Weight Loss.
• First Right Lobe Living-donor Hepatectomy After Sleeve Gastrectomy.

Drugs

• Tyrphostin AG17 Inhibits Adipocyte Differentiation in Vivo and in Vitro.
• Visceral Fat is Associated with Mucosal Healing of Infliximab Treatment in Crohn's Disease.
• Effects of Pentoxifylline on Soluble Klotho Concentrations and Renal Tubular Cell Expression in Diabetic Kidney Disease.

Food & Diet

• Effects of Raw Potato Starch on Body Weight with Controlled Glucose Delivery.
• Systematic Review: "There is mixed evidence to draw firm conclusions of the effect of habitual breakfast on academic performance..."
• Limitations of the Evidence Base Used to Set Recommended Nutrient Intakes for Infants and Lactating Women.
• Introduction to Current Knowledge on Micronutrients in Human Milk: Adequacy, Analysis, and Need for Research.
• Yerba Mate Stimulates Mitochondrial Biogenesis and Thermogenesis in High Fat Diet‐Induced Obese Mice.

Caloric Restriction

• Switching From High-fat Diet to Foods Containing Resveratrol as a Calorie Restriction Mimetic Changes the Architecture of Arcuate Nucleus to Produce More Newborn Anorexigenic Neurons.
• Caloric Restriction Mitigates Age-associated Hippocampal Differential CG and Non-CG Methylation.
• Effects of 2-day Calorie Restriction on Cardiovascular Autonomic Response, Mood, and Cognitive and Motor Functions in Obese Young Adult Women.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Levels of Nature and Stress Response.
• RCT: Using Financial Incentives to Promote Physical Activity in American Indian Adolescents.

Economics & Sociology

• Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Position and Risks of Major Chronic Diseases [including Diabetes] and All-cause Mortality: A Quasi-experimental Study.
• Association Between Food, Physical Activity, and Social Assistance Environments and the BMI of Schoolchildren From Different Socioeconomic Strata.
• You Can’t “nudge” Nuggets: An Investigation of College Late-night Dining with Behavioral Economics Interventions.
• Strong Coexistence for a Model with Endogenous Evolution of Heterogeneous Agents.

Epidemiology

• Association Between Thyroid Hormones and the Components of Metabolic Syndrome.
• Characterization of Adult Obesity in Florida Using the OneFlorida Clinical Research Consortium.
• The Association Between Obesity and Restless Legs Syndrome: A Systemic Review and Meta-analysis of Observational Studies.
• An Assessment of the Relationship Between Abdominal Obesity and the Severity of Upper Extremity Lymphedema.
• Time to Deliver: Report of the WHO Independent High-Level Commission on Noncommunicable Diseases.
• USDA/ERS Releases State Fact Sheets.
• Lifetime Prevalence and Prognosis of Prediabetes Without Progression to Diabetes.
• Diabetes Risk Scores for Hispanics Living in the United States: A Systematic Review.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Experimental Scarcity Increases the Relative Reinforcing Value of Food in Food Insecure Adults.
• Adherence to the French Eating Model is Inversely Associated with Overweight and Obesity: Results From a Large Sample of French Adults.
• A Qualitative Analysis of the Role of Emotions in Different Patterns of Long-term Weight Loss.
• Why do Dieters Regain Weight? Calorie Deprivation Alters Body and Mind, Overwhelming Willpower.
• Neuroanatomy of the VmPFC and DlPFC Predicts Individual Differences in Cognitive Regulation During Dietary Self-control Across Regulation Strategies.
• Hunger, Food Cravings, and Diet Satisfaction are Related to Changes in Body Weight During a 6-Month Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention: The Beef WISE Study.

Stigma

• Understanding Paediatric Patients’ Attitudes Toward Obesity and Expectations Prior to Entering a Weight Management Program.
• Do Exerciser Weight Status and Perceived Motivation Predict Instructors’ Motivation and Beliefs About the Exerciser? A Test of Motivation Contagion Effects.
• Thin Idealization and Causal Attributions Mediate the Association Between Culture and Obesity Stereotypes.
• The Pain of Weight-related Stigma Among Women with Overweight or Obesity.

Policy Related

• A Tax on Sugar Sweetened Beverages in Colombia: Estimating the Impact on Overweight and Obesity Prevalence Across Socio Economic Levels.
• School Accreditation Scheme Reduces Childhood Obesity in Hong Kong.
• Women's Health Policy in the United States: An American College of Physicians Position Paper.
• Why Weight? An Analytic Review of Obesity Management, Diabetes Prevention, and Cardiovascular Risk Reduction.
• Organic Labeling Policy.

Intergenerational Effects

• Exploring the Impact of Maternal Obesity on Offspring Renal Morphology and Later Life Health.
• Intergenerational Influence of Paternal Obesity on Metabolic and Reproductive Health Parameters of the Offspring: Male-Preferential Impact and Involvement of Kiss1-Mediated Pathways.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Male Nutritional History Affects Female Fecundity in a Male-dimorphic Mite: Evidence for a Nuptial Gift?
• Nutrient‐specific Compensation for Seasonal Cold Stress in a Free‐ranging Temperate Colobine Monkey.

Methods

• Micronutrients in Human Milk: Analytical Methods.
• Reliability and validity of the new VikingSlice software for computed tomography body composition analysis.

Commentary

• Link Between Social Stress and Shortened Lifespan: Mouse Study.
• Loud Restaurant Music Favors Burgers?
• Sustaining Health-Protective Behaviors Such as Physical Activity and Healthy Eating.
• Experts Split on the Magic of Taxing Sugar.
• Most Who Avoid Gluten Lack Symptoms of Intolerance, Sensitivity.

General

• Odor Alters Color Preference in a Foraging Jumping Spider.
• Randomization to Randomization Probability: Estimating Treatment Effects Under Actual Conditions of Use.
• TEDMED Talk: Addressing the Public Health Impact of Mountaintop Removal Mining.
• New Analysis Supports Benefits of HIEs.
• Big Data and Predictive Analytics: Recalibrating Expectations.
• Audio: Green-Blooded Lizards.
• Social Stress Shortens Lifespan in Mice.
• Podcast: Ingestible Medical Sensors.
• Podcast: What Can Scientists Bring to Congress?
• Days on Earth are Getting Longer, Thanks to the Moon.
• New Synthetic Nerve System Could Enable Prosthetic Limbs to Have a Sense of Touch.
• Reliable Funding for Biomedical Research Pays Off.
• Podcast: Low-Impact Eating.

Announcements

• School of Public Health Researchers Help Reveal Social Stress is Associated with Shortened Lifespan in Mice.
• ObesityWeek Registration Opens June 15th.
• 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.
• In Memoriam: Doug Altman.

Featured

• Body-size Shifts in Aquatic and Terrestrial Urban Communities.
• Increased Intake of Energy-dense Diet and Negative Energy Balance in a Mouse Model of Chronic Psychosocial Defeat.
• Social Subordination is Associated with Energetics & Reduced Lifespan in Mice.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Mental Health Alert! Eat More of Raw Fruit and Vegetables to Feel Better.
• Press Release: Raw Fruit and Vegetables Provide Better Mental Health Outcomes.
• Study: Some Self-reported Intakes of Raw and Processed Fruits and Vegetables are Cross-sectionally Associated with Some Self-reported Measurements of Mental Health in Some Statistical Models.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Dementia Exercise Programmes 'don't Slow Brain Decline'.
• No Effect of Magnetic Water on Feed Conversion Ratio, Body Weight Gain, Feed Intake and Livability of Male Broiler Chickens.
• These Pilot Findings Did Not Confirm an Association Between Light Exposure (lux) and HbA1c Levels (mmol/mol) in Obese and Overweight Teenagers.
• "Living in an area with low physical food access [i.e., 'food desert'] was not associated with a difference in HbA1c."
• ", contrary to what is generally hypothesized, in a normal environment containing fatty acids, the immunosuppressive effect of IDO may not be due to a decrease in CD4+ T‑cell survival and proliferation, since IDO supplies the required energy for cell survival and proliferation by increasing free fatty acid oxidation."
• "In boys, the average sleep score was not associated with anthropometric measurements..."
• RCT: No Significant Effects of Supervised Physical Training on Inflammation and Endothelial Function After Gastric Bypass Surgery.
• RCT: "Our findings suggest that thrombin generation capacity, coagulation activation, fibrin clot structure, and lysability are unaffected by long-term active commuting and leisure-time exercise in women and men who are overweight and obese."

Basic

• Role of Xenobiotics in the Induction and Progression of Fatty Liver Disease.
• Deep Phenotyping in Zebrafish Reveals Genetic and Diet-Induced Adiposity Changes that May Inform Disease Risk.
• Osteoglycin, a Novel Coordinator of Bone and Glucose Homeostasis.
• The Transplantation of ω3 PUFA-Altered Gut Microbiota of Fat-1 Mice to Wild-Type Littermates Prevents Obesity and Associated Metabolic Disorders.
• Striatal Dopamine Regulates Systemic Glucose Metabolism in Humans and Mice.
• Adiponectin Protects Hepatocytes Against Acetominophen-Induced Cell Death By Modulation of ER Stress and Inflammasome Activation.
• Review: The CD36-PPARγ Pathway in Metabolic Disorders.
• Metabolic Response of Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis Niloticus) to Acute and Chronic Hypoxia Stress.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter: Recovery Test Results as a Prerequisite for Publication of Gaseous Exchange Measurements.
• Letter: Determining the Worldwide Prevalence of Obesity.
• Reply To: Determining the Worldwide Prevalence of Obesity.
• Letter: Are We Really Assessing Safety and Efficacy of Bariatric Surgery in Patients Suffering From Bipolar Disorder?
• Letter: Defining Short-term, Medium-term, Long-term, and Very Long-term Follow-up After Bariatric Surgery.
• Letter: Residual Confounding in the Study By van Dalem et al.
• Letter: Clinical Nutrition Education in Medical Schools - Comment on the ESPEN Survey.
• Reply To: Clinical Nutrition Education in Medical Schools - Comment on the ESPEN Survey.

Clinical

• Energy Expenditure in Pregnant Women with Obesity Does Not Support Energy Intake Recommendations.
• RCT: "A home-based, multi-disciplinary child obesity intervention had lower programme costs per child, greater reach, with similar BMI SDS outcomes at 12 months when compared with the previous hospital-based conventional model."
• RCT: Psychological Effects of Belonging to a Facebook Weight Management Group in Overweight and Obese Adults.
• Midwifery Management of Pregnant Women Who are Obese.

Children and Adolescents

• Waist Circumference in 6–12-year-old Children: The Health Oriented Pedagogical Project.
• Impact of Early‐Life Weight Status on Cognitive Abilities in Children.
• High Burden of Birthweight-lowering Genetic Variants in Africans and Asians.
• Change in Weight Status From Childhood to Early Adulthood and Late Adulthood Risk of Colon Cancer in Men: A Population-based Cohort Study.
• Genetic and Environmental Factors Affecting Birth Size Variation: A Pooled Individual-based Analysis of Secular Trends and Global Geographical Differences Using 26 Twin Cohorts.

Surgery

• Surgical Treatment of Obesity.
• Costly Hurdles for Bariatric Surgery.
• Liraglutide Effects on Upper Gastrointestinal Investigations: Implications Prior to Bariatric Surgery.
• Are Bariatric Centres of Excellence Meeting the Standards of Care?

Drugs

• What Does the Acarbose Cardiovascular Evaluation (ACE) Trial Tell Us?
• RCT: Does Armodafinil Improve Driving Task Performance and Weight Loss in Sleep Apnea?
• Antidepressant Induced Weight Gain.

Food & Diet

• The War on Gluten: Wheat Sensitivity Isn't Imaginary, Most Researchers Now Agree. But What's Really Behind It?
• How Mediterranean is the Mediterranean Diet?
• Apples, Oranges, and Eggs.
• The Effect of Low-Carbohydrate Diet on Glycemic Control in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
• RCT: Saturated Fat is More Metabolically Harmful for the Human Liver than Unsaturated Fat or Simple Sugars.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• The Association Between Objectively Measured Physical Activity and Subsequent Health Care Utilization in Older Men.
• Physical Activity Levels Predict Exercise-induced Hypoalgesia in Older Adults.
• Measuring Physical Activity with Implanted Cardiac Devices: A Systematic Review.

Economics & Sociology

• Daily Dietary Intake Patterns Improve After Visiting a Food Pantry Among Food-Insecure Rural Midwestern Adults.
• “If I Can Afford Steak, Why Worry About Buying Beans”: African American Men’s Perceptions of Their Food Environment.
• Ethnic Differences in the Influence of Peers on Weight-Related Behavior.
• The Association Between Food Insecurity and Incident Type 2 Diabetes in Canada: A Population-based Cohort Study.

Equity and Disparities

• For richer, for poorer: the relationship between adolescent obesity and future household economic prosperity.
• Family food purchases of high- and low-calorie foods in full-service supermarkets and other food retailers by Black women in an urban US setting.

Epidemiology

• Abdominal Obesity in Type 1 Diabetes Associated with Gender, Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Complications, and Difficulties Achieving Treatment Targets: A Cross Sectional Study at a Secondary Care Diabetes Clinic.
• Impact of Ambient Air Pollution on Obesity: A Systematic Review.
• Effect of Severe Obesity in Childhood and Adolescence on Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Early Adulthood in an American Indian Population.
• Night Shift Work Exposure Profile and Obesity: Baseline Results From a Chinese Night Shift Worker Cohort.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Plate-clearing Tendencies and Portion Size are Independently Associated with Main Meal Food Intake in Women: A Laboratory Study.
• You Ought to Love Your Body: The Effect of Body-positive Advertising on Self-discrepancies, Discrete Emotions, & Body Image Outcomes.
• The Experience of Eating: The Effects of Music on Food-taste, Food-pleasantness, and the Rate of Mastication.
• The Relationship Between Delay and Social Discounting, and BMI in University Students.
• Self‐esteem and Peer‐perceived Social Status in Early Adolescence and Prediction of Eating Pathology in Young Adulthood.

Ethics

• Moralized Health-Related Persuasion Undermines Social Cohesion.

Stigma

• Obesity: Information or Stigmatization From the Media?
• Predictors of Weight Stigma Experienced By Middle-older Aged, General-practice Patients with Obesity in Disadvantaged Areas of Australia: A Cross-sectional Study.
• The Pain of Weight-Related Stigma Among Women with Overweight or Obesity.
• "Let's Not Be Rude to Fat People" Says The Times.
• Framing Obesity a Disease: Indirect Effects of Affect and Controllability Beliefs on Weight Bias.

Policy Related

• Mexico's “Sugar Tax”: Space, Markets, Resistance.
• Differences in the Neighborhood Retail Food Environment and Obesity Among US Children and Adolescents By SNAP Participation.
• From Practice to Policy: Making Impactful Change in Childhood Obesity Prevention.
• Obesity and the Future of Food Policies that Promote Healthy Diets.
• Reducing the Prevalence of Childhood Obesity in Households Receiving Supplement Nutrition Assistance Program Benefits in Baltimore City, Maryland Through Interactive Nutrition Education.

Intergenerational Effects

• Intergenerational Associations of Parent Adverse Childhood Experiences and Child Health Outcomes.
• Gestational Dyslipidaemia and Adverse Birthweight Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Global Genetic Differentiation of Complex Traits Shaped By Natural Selection in Humans.
• Almost Like a Whale – First Evidence of Suction-feeding in a Seabird.
• Foraging Strategy of Wasps – Optimisation of Intake Rate or Efficiency?

Methods

• An Ingestible Bacterial-electronic System to Monitor Gastrointestinal Health.
• Extending Methods in Dietary Patterns Research.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Modeling the Health [including Obesity-related] Effects of Time‐varying Complex Environmental Mixtures: Mean Field Variational Bayes for Lagged Kernel Machine Regression.

Commentary

• Nuts with Benefits.
• When the Subject is Obesity, Wishful Thinking is Abundant.

General

• Truth with a Vengeance.
• Genetic and Environmental Factors Affecting Birth Size Variation: A Pooled Individual-based Analysis of Secular Trends and Global Geographical Differences Using 26 Twin Cohorts.
• Research Suggests Sweet Potatoes Didn't Originate in the Americas as Previously Thought.
• RCT: "This interventional study failed to show significant improvements in verbal memory after 6 months of resveratrol in healthy elderly with a wide BMI range."
• A Classical Math Problem Gets Pulled Into the Modern World.
• Video: Mathematical Models that Describe the Dynamics of Cancer.

Announcements

• Video: Beautiful By Design: The Indiana University Bloomington Campus.
• SciCafe: Primate Palate: Orangutans, Obesity, and Human Evolution, June 6th.
• Registration open: June 13 - The Current Understanding of Pre-Pregnancy Weight, Gestational Weight Gain, and the Impacts on Maternal and Child Health Among Women with Obesity: A Virtual Workshop (Webinar).
• 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

• Cost-Effectiveness of Product Reformulation in Response to the Health Star Rating Food Labelling System in Australia.
• Wildfire Smoke Impacts Activity and Energetics of Wild Bornean Orangutans.
• Obesity Management: What Should We do If Fat Gain is Necessary to Maintain Body Homeostasis in a Modern World?
• Heritability of Body Size in the Polar Bears of Western Hudson Bay.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Junk Food Ads Increase Craving for Fast Foods.
• Meeting presentation: Self-reported Food Intake is Associated with Self-reported Recollection of Food Advertising. No Cravings.
• Headline: Here's Why Eating More Slowly May Help You Lose Weight.
• Study: Effects of Changes in Eating Speed on Obesity in Patients with Diabetes: A Secondary Analysis of Longitudinal Health Check-up Data.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Effect of a Theory-based Behavioural Intervention on Preventing Rapid Weight Gain in Formula Milk-fed Infants.
• No Effect of Programmed Exercise on Perceived Stress in Middle-aged and Old Women: A Meta-analysis of RCTs.
• RCT: "A 4‐week high protein diet with ad libitum food intake did not affect energy intake and energy expenditure in children with obesity."
• "Food‐mapping indicated prior knowledge and attitudes had no effect on the choices made" by adolescents.
• RCT: "H3G-Brazil demonstrated positive 6-month effects on some social cognitive variables but an adverse effect on unhealthy weight control behaviors."
• Diet-Induced Weight Loss Has No Effect on Psychological Stress in Overweight and Obese Adults: A Meta-Analysis of RCTs.
• RCT: "We cannot currently provide strong evidence for a beneficial effect of insoluble cereal fibre on glycaemic metabolism..."
• RCT: No Apparent Effects of Aerobic Training, Resistance Training, or Both on Brain-derived Neurotrophic Factor in Adolescents with Obesity.

Basic

• The Novel Adipokine WISP1 Associates with Insulin Resistance and Impairs Insulin Action in Human Myotubes and Mouse Hepatocytes.
• FTO is a Transcriptional Repressor to Auto-regulate Its Own Gene and Potentially Associated with Homeostasis of Body Weight.
• Effects of N-3PUFAs on Autophagy and Inflammation of Hypothalamus and Body Weight in Mice.
• An Insurmountable NPY Y5 Receptor Antagonist Exhibits Superior Anti-obesity Effects in High-fat Diet-induced Obese Mice.
• Reduced Adiposity By Compensatory WAT Browning upon IBAT Removal in Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• In Pursuit of the “Something” that is Better than Nothing for Measuring Energy Intake.
• Control, Perceived Control or Self-efficacy as Confounders in the Relation Between Fruit and Vegetable Consumption and Psychological Disorders.
• Comment on “Early introduction of complementary foods and childhood overweight in breastfed and formula-fed infants in the Netherlands: the PIAMA birth cohort study."
• Letter to the Editor Regarding Pluymen et al.'s Paper: Early Introduction of Complementary Foods and Childhood Overweight in Breastfed and Formula-fed Infants in the Netherlands: The PIAMA Birth Cohort Study.
• Response to Letters to the Editor Regarding Our Paper “Early Introduction of Complementary Foods and Childhood Overweight in Breastfed and Formula-fed Infants in the Netherlands: The PIAMA Birth Cohort Study.
• Sound Science to Benefit the Public's Health: Opportunities and Challenges in Industry-Funded Nutrition Research.
• Letter: Does Protein Supplementation Really Augment Hypertrophy in Older Persons with Resistance Exercise Training?
• Reply To: Does Protein Supplementation Really Augment Hypertrophy in Older Persons with Resistance Exercise Training?

Clinical

• Validating Pre-treatment BMI as Moderator of Antidepressant Treatment Outcomes: Findings From CO-MED Trial.
• Change in Health-related Quality of Life and Social Cognitive Outcomes in Obese, Older Adults in a Weight Loss RCT: Does Physical Activity Behavior Matter?
• “Fat is Really a Four‐letter Word”: Exploring Weight‐related Communication Best Practices in Children with and Without Disabilities and Their Caregivers.
• MANAGEMENT OF ENDOCRINE DISEASE: Which Metabolic Procedure? Comparing Outcomes in Sleeve Gastrectomy and Roux-en Y Gastric Bypass.

Children and Adolescents

• Characteristics of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Across the Spectrum of Glucose Tolerance in Obese Adolescents.
• Evaluation of Complex Community‐based Childhood Obesity Prevention Interventions.
• RCT: Anthropometric Outcomes of a Motivational Interviewing School-based Trial Involving Adolescents with Overweight.

Surgery

• Predictors for Adherence to Multidisciplinary Follow-Up Care After Sleeve Gastrectomy.
• Roux-en-Y-Induced Weight Loss and Metabolic Improvements are Similar in TGR5-Deficient and Wildtype Mice.

Drugs

• Indomethacin Enhances Brown Fat Activity.
• Effect of Race on the Glycaemic Response to Sitagliptin: Insights From the Trial Evaluating Cardiovascular Outcomes with Sitagliptin (TECOS).

Food & Diet

• Pathways and Mechanisms Linking Dietary Components to Cardiometabolic Disease: Thinking Beyond Calories.
• Perspective: Protein Requirements and Optimal Intakes in Aging: Are We Ready to Recommend More than the Recommended Daily Allowance?
• Low-protein Diet in Cancer: Ready for Prime Time?

Caloric Restriction

• Relationship Between Genes and Diet on Lifespan in Drosophila.
• Short-Term, Intermittent Fasting Induces Long-Lasting Gut Health and TOR-Independent Lifespan Extension.
• Fasting Activates Fatty Acid Oxidation to Enhance Intestinal Stem Cell Function During Homeostasis and Aging.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Adherence to American Cancer Society Guidelines on Nutrition and Physical Activity in Female Cancer Survivors: Results From an RCT.
• Psychosocial and Demographic Predictors of Postpartum Physical Activity.
• Inverse Relationship Between Changes of Maximal Aerobic Capacity and Changes in Walking Economy After Weight Loss.

Economics & Sociology

• For Richer, for Poorer: The Relationship Between Adolescent Obesity and Future Household Economic Prosperity.
• An Unlikely Heroine—Fat and Unemployed: Doris Dörrie's Film Die Friseuse (2010).
• Nurses’ Perception of the Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status, Incidence Rates and Complications of a Type 2 Diabetes Diagnosis in the Adult Population.
• Longitudinal Physical Activity Patterns Among Older Adults: A Latent Transition Analysis.
• Understanding the Meaning of Food in People with Type 2 Diabetes Living in Northern Appalachia.

Epidemiology

• An Epigenome-Wide Association Study (EWAS) of Obesity-Related Traits.
• Antibiotic Exposure in Early Life and Childhood Overweight and Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis.
• Prevalence of General and Abdominal Obesity in Portugal: National Food, Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey 2015–2016.
• Chronic Obesity and Incident Hypertension in Latina Women are Associated with Accelerated Telomere Length Loss Over a 1-Year Period.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Consumption and Emotions Among College Students Toward Chocolate Product.
• Adolescents at High Risk of Obesity Show Greater Striatal Response to Increased Sugar Content in Milkshakes.
• Personal Network Characteristics as Predictors of Change in Obesity Risk Behaviors in Early Adolescence.
• Does the Cost of a Meal Influence the Portion Size Effect?
• Social Network Analysis of Stakeholder Networks From Two Community-based Obesity Prevention Interventions.

Equity and Disparities

• "...uneven urban food landscapes are intimately connected to processes of gentrification and shaped along lines of race and class by political decisions and capital flows."
• Gender Dimensions of Food Security, the Right to Food and Food Sovereignty in Nepal.

Ethics

• An Ethicist Asks: Is Obesity Acceptable?
• Regulation of Food Consumption as an Effort to Control Obesity Rates.

Stigma

• Relating Weight Based Self-esteem, Depression, and Anxiety with Weight and Perceived Physical Health Among Young Adults.
• Recognizing and Eliminating Bias in Those with Elevated BMI in Women's Health Care.
• Book Chapter: Understanding the Morbidly Obese Patient.

Policy Related

• Counting Calories Won't Reduce Obesity. So Why are We Requiring Restaurants to Post Them?
• How Ethical is Our Current Delivery of Care to Patients with Severe and Complicated Obesity?
• Active School Travel Intervention Methodologies in North America: A Systematic Review.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal Low Protein Diet Impairs Prostate Growth in Young Rat Offspring and Induces Prostate Carcinogenesis with Aging.
• In Utero and Postnatal Exposure to High Fat, High Sucrose Diet Suppressed Testis Apoptosis and Reduced Sperm Count.
• Obesity Disrupts Rhythmic Clock Gene Expression in Maternal Adipose Tissue During Rat Pregnancy.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Comparisons of Foraging Behavior and Energetics By Great Egrets (Ardea Alba) and Snowy Egrets (Egretta Thula) Across Three Microhabitats.
• Large Mammal Diets and Paleoecology Across the Oldowan-Acheulean Transition at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania From Stable Isotope and Tooth Wear Analyses.
• Integrative Analysis of Indirect Calorimetry and Metabolomics Profiling Reveals Alterations in Energy Metabolism Between Fed and Fasted Pigs.

Methods

• Managing Complexity in Evidence Analysis: A Worked Example in Pediatric Weight Management.
• Developing an Index of Dose of Exposure to Early Childhood Obesity Community Interventions.
• Bite Count Rates in Free-living Individuals: New Insights From a Portable Sensor.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• In Silico Analysis Identifies Intestinal Transit as a Key Determinant of Systemic Bile Acid Metabolism.

Gut Microbiota & Obesity

• Effects of Dietary Intake of Japanese Mushrooms on Visceral Fat Accumulation and Gut Microbiota in Mice.
• Citrus Peel Extracts Attenuated Obesity and Modulated Gut Microbiota in a High-fat Diet-induced Obesity Mice.
• Tu1379 - Obesity Damages Intestinal Mucosal Barrier and Microbiota Composition in Rat Model of Severe Acute Pancreatitis.
• Gut-microbiome-related LCT Genotype and 2-year Changes in Body Composition and Fat Distribution: The POUNDS Lost Trial.
• Loss of Angiopoietin-like 4 (ANGPTL4) in Mice with Diet-induced Obesity Uncouples Visceral Obesity From Glucose Intolerance Partly Via the Gut Microbiota.

Commentary

• Existential Debate in US Food Industry: What is Meat?
• Adding Culture to the Weight-Loss Equation.
• Dietary Assessment and Tracking, Reimagined for the Digital Age.
• What is a Low-glycemic Diet, Really?

General

• Exploring the Relationship Between Technology and Decision Making By Investigating Perceptions of Safety in Outdoor Adventure Activities.
• Give Every Paper a Read for Reproducibility.
• The Transition to Modernity and Chronic Disease: Mismatch and Natural Selection.
• Genetic Diversity and Sex Ratio of Naked Mole Rat, Heterocephalus Glaber, Zoo Populations.
• Effect of the Health Tourism Weight Loss Programme on Body Composition and Health Outcomes in Healthy and Excess-weight Adults.
• Complete Mitochondrial Genomes of Baikal Oilfishes (Perciformes: Cottoidei), Earth's Deepest-Swimming Freshwater Fishes.
• Video: The shocking danger of mountaintop removal – and why it must end.

Announcements

• NuGO Week 2018 in Newcastle on 3- 6 September.  The theme of the conference is "Mitochondria, Nutrition and Health."
• 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

• Special Issue Dedicated to Dr. Timothy J Bartness.
• How Much Variation in Outcomes is Too Much in a Center of Excellence for Bariatric Surgery?
• Fish Reproductive-energy Output Increases Disproportionately with Body Size.

Headline vs Study

• Headline, No Study: Heating Food in Microwave Can Cause Diabetes, Obesity, Cancer, Infertility.
• Headline: Low-energy Diets ‘Beat Calorie Counting and Small Portions’ for Weight Loss.
• Study: Non-randomized, Self-selected Intervention of Structured Commercial Weight-loss Plan Versus Self-led Standard Care Plan.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "The addition of three behavior change tools to an informational placebo control did not result in a difference in the proportion of women with excessive total GWG compared to the placebo control in this effectiveness trial of an online, self-directed intervention."
• Degree of Obesity is Not Associated with More than One Intubation Attempt: A Large Centre Experience.
• Dietary Yeast-derived Mannan Oligosaccharides Have Immune-modulatory Properties but do Not Improve High Fat Diet-induced Obesity and Glucose Intolerance in Mice.
• "Contrary to this hypothesis, male and female Malat1-deficient mice gained as much weight, and developed insulin resistance to a similar extent as their Malat1+/+ littermates..."
• Contrary to Predictions of POLS Hypothesis, Fish Weaning Earlier and Thus Growing Faster Were Less Bold and Had Higher HPI Axis Responsiveness than Fish Accepting the Pellets Later or Never.
• "Contrary to hypotheses, chronic stress was not associated with physical activity with the exception of financial stress, which predicted greater likelihood of being highly physically active."
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, adults with high BP displayed greater muscle strength than adults with normal BP."
• RCT: No Significant Differences in Weight Change Among Adolescents Consuming Low Added Sugar Adequate Fiber Diet vs Isocaloric and Eucaloric High Added Sugar Low Fiber Diet Short-term Feeding Pilot Trial.

Basic

• An Exclusive Metabolic Niche Enables Strain Engraftment in the Gut Microbiota.
• Effect of Metabolic Syndrome and Aging on Ca2+ Dysfunction in Coronary Smooth Muscle and Coronary Artery Disease Severity in Ossabaw Miniature Swine.
• Comparison Between Male and Female Rats in a Model of Self-administration of a Chocolate-flavored Beverage: Behavioral and Neurochemical Studies.
• Inflammatory Response in Fatty Liver Disease is Reduced By Two Tryptophan Metabolites From Gut Bacteria.
• Nighttime Exposure to Artificial Light Enhances Rev-erbα-Targeting MicroRNAs and Contributes to Hepatic Steatosis in C3H/HePas Mice.
• In Mice, Time-Controlled Fasting Prevents Aging-Like Mitochondrial Changes Induced By Persistent Dietary Fat Overload in Skeletal Muscle.
• The Autism-Related Protein CHD8 Cooperates with C/EBPβ to Regulate Adipogenesis.
• Resistin Regulates Fatty Acid Β Oxidation By Suppressing Expression of Peroxisome Proliferator Activator Receptor Gamma-Coactivator 1α (PGC-1α).

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter: Unaccounted for Regression to the Mean Renders Conclusion of Article Titled “Uric Acid Lowering in Relation to HbA1c Reductions with the SGLT2 Inhibitor Tofogliflozin” Unsubstantiated.
• This is in Reply to Letter By Dr. Chanaka N. Kahathuduwa, Et Al. Titled: Unaccounted for Regression to the Mean Renders Conclusion of Article Titled “Uric Acid Lowering in Relation to HbA1c Reductions with the SGLT2 Inhibitor Tofogliflozin” Unsubstantiated.
• Expression of Concern: Wansink B, Cheney MM. Super Bowls: Serving Bowl Size and Food Consumption.
• Is Ad Hominem Logic Creeping Into Scholarly Discourse?
• When Authors Lie, Readers Cry and Editors Sigh.
• Commentary: Almost 40% of Peer-reviewed Dietary Research Turns Out to Be Wrong. Here’s Why.
• Commentary: Academic's Meat-only Diet Ruffles Feathers.

Clinical

• Health Care Provider Counseling for Weight Loss Among Adults with Arthritis and Overweight or Obesity — United States, 2002–2014.
• A Taboo Topic? How General Practitioners Talk About Overweight and Obesity in New Zealand.
• Effect of Carbohydrate Restriction-induced Weight Loss on Aortic Pulse Wave Velocity in Overweight Men and Women.

Children and Adolescents

• Child Mortality in England Compared with Sweden: A Birth Cohort Study.
• Associations of Prenatal and Early Life Dietary Inflammatory Potential with Childhood Adiposity and Cardiometabolic Risk in Project Viva.
• How Food Rules at Home Influence Independent Adolescent Food Choices.

Surgery

• Obesity Management Task Force of the European Association for the Study of Obesity Released “Practical Recommendations for the Post-Bariatric Surgery Medical Management.” (PDF)
• Impact of Weight Regain on the Evolution of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.
• 12-year Trajectory of Health-Related Quality of Life in Gastric Bypass Patients Vs. Comparison Groups.

Drugs

• RCT: Effect of Glyburide vs Subcutaneous Insulin on Perinatal Complications Among Women with Gestational Diabetes.
• More Progress with a Super Targeted Obesity Drug.
• MC4R Agonism Promotes Durable Weight Loss in Patients with Leptin Receptor Deficiency.

Food & Diet

• Management of Type 1 Diabetes with a Very Low-Carbohydrate Diet.
• RCT: Effect of a High-egg Diet on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in People with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Early Time-Restricted Feeding Improves Insulin Sensitivity, Blood Pressure, and Oxidative Stress Even Without Weight Loss in Men with Prediabetes.
• Effectiveness of a Carbohydrate Restricted Diet to Treat Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Adolescents with Obesity: Trial Design and Methodology.
• The Mediterranean Diet’s Fight Against Frailty.
• WHO Calls for Elimination of Trans Fat in Foods By 2023.
• When Fed Foods with Similar Palatability, Healthy Adult Dogs and Cats Choose Different Macronutrient Compositions.

Caloric Restriction

• Tissue-specific Transcriptome Profiling of Drosophila Reveals Roles for GATA Transcription Factors in Longevity By Dietary Restriction.
• Necroptosis Increases with Age and is Reduced By Dietary Restriction.
• Overexpression of CYB5R3 and NQO1, Two NAD+‐producing Enzymes, Mimics Aspects of Caloric Restriction.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Meta-Analysis: "The available empirical evidence supports resistance exercise training as an alternative and/or adjuvant therapy for depressive symptoms."
• RCT: Single- and Dual-Hormone Closed-Loop Systems that Adapt to Exercise Using Wearable Sensors.
• Do Highly Physically Active Workers Die Early? A Systematic Review with Meta-analysis of Data From 193 696 Participants.
• RCT: Effect of Aerobic Exercise Training and Essential Amino Acid Supplementation for 24 Weeks on Physical Function, Body Composition and Muscle Metabolism in Healthy, Independent Older Adults.

Economics & Sociology

• Laugh and Grow Fat: Happiness Affects BMI Among Urban Chinese Adults.
• The Nutrition Transition in Mexico 1988–2016: The Role of Wealth in the Social Patterning of Obesity By Education.

Epidemiology

• Famine Exposure in Early Life is Associated with Visceral Adipose Dysfunction in Adult Females.
• Alexithymic Traits, Independent of Depression and Anxiety, are Associated with Reduced Sleep Quality.
• Persistence of Elevated Blood Pressure During Childhood and Adolescence: A School-based Multiple Cohorts Study.
• Is Overweight/obesity a Risk Factor for Periodontitis in Young Adults and Adolescents?: A Systematic Review.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• A Multisite 2-Year Follow Up of Psychopathology Prevalence, Predictors, and Correlates Among Adolescents Who Did or Did Not Undergo Weight Loss Surgery.
• Weight Bias as a Social Justice Issue: A Call for Dialogue.

Equity and Disparities

• Trends in Socioeconomic Disparities in Obesity Prevalence Among Low-Income Children Aged 2-4 Years in Los Angeles County, 2003-2014.
• Targeting Risk Factors for Type 2 Diabetes in American Indian Youth: The Tribal Turning Point Pilot Study.

Stigma

• Weight Shame, Social Connection, and Depressive Symptoms in Late Adolescence.
• A Qualitative Exploration of Weight Bias and Quality of Health Care Among Health Care Professionals Using Hypothetical Patient Scenarios.
• Weight Stigma Affects Men Too.

Policy Related

• Reps. Young, Pingree Launch Bipartisan Food Waste Caucus.
• Will Posting Nutritional Information on Menus Prod Diners to Make Healthier Choices?

Intergenerational Effects

• Elevated Prenatal Anti-Müllerian Hormone Reprograms the Fetus and Induces Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Adulthood.
• Childhood Central Adiposity at Ages 5 and 9 Shows Consistent Relationship with that of the Maternal Grandmother but Not Other Grandparents.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Review: Multifaceted Roles of Beige Fat in Energy Homeostasis Beyond UCP1.
• Review: Potential Effects of Fat Mass and Fat-free Mass on Energy Intake in Different States of Energy Balance.
• Nutrients Excretion By Zooplankton in Two Brackish Water Bodies.
• High Resting Metabolic Rates with Low Thermal Dependence Induce Active Dives in Overwintering Pacific Juvenile Loggerhead Turtles.

Methods

• Automated Assessment of Steatosis in Murine Fatty Liver.
• Modeling the Natural History of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Impact of Reduction in BMI And/or Cholesterol on the Prevalence of NAFLD. (PDF)

Commentary

• Fasting During Ramzan Doesn’t Lead to Eating Disorders.
• Bariatric Surgery is Out of Reach Where People Need It the Most.
• Breast-Feeding Has No Impact on I.Q. By Age 16.
• Ode to Olive Oil.
• A Thousand Little Cuts From Weight Bias and Discrimination.
• From NPR: From Collards to Maple Syrup, How Your Identity Impacts the Food You Like.
• Eating Dinner in the Mid-Afternoon and Fasting for the Rest of the Day Improves Blood Sugar Control and Blood Pressure, Pilot Study Says.
• The Science Against Sugar, Alone, is Insufficient in Tackling the Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Crises – We Must Also Overcome Opposition From Vested Interests.

General

• How Will Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Change Science?
• Accumulating Evidence Suggests that Men do Not Find Body Odours of Human Leucocyte Antigen-dissimilar Women More Attractive.
• Whose Values? Whose Risk? Exploring Decision Making About Trial of Labor After Cesarean.
• Revealing the Microbiota of Marketed Edible Insects Through PCR-DGGE, Metagenomic Sequencing and Real-time PCR.
• The Influence of Climatic Variability on Morphological Integration, Evolutionary Rates, and Disparity in the Carnivora.
• Detecting the Contagion Effect in Mass Killings; A Constructive Example of the Statistical Advantages of Unbinned Likelihood Methods.
• Origami-inspired Medical Implants.
• 'Memory Transplant' Achieved in Snails.
• At the Zoo, Harvard Medical Students Get a Different Kind of Training.
• Mini-antibodies Discovered in Sharks and Camels Could Lead to Drugs for Cancer and Other Diseases.
• Lawmaker Introduces KITTEN Act Bill to Bar Use of Kittens, Cats in Painful Experiments.
• Trump Assails High Drug Prices, Avoids Direct Hit on Industry.

Video & Audio

• Video: UAB's Dr. Garvey: In Obesity Management, Patient, Provider Must Set Realistic Goals.

Announcements

• New WTIU Documentary Explores the Beauty of IU's Campus.
• The Current Understanding of Pre-Pregnancy Weight, Gestational Weight Gain, and the Impacts on Maternal and Child Health Among Women with Obesity: A Virtual Workshop (Webinar), June 13.
• Sustainable Diets, Food, and Nutrition: A Workshop By NASEM Health and Medicine, August 1-2.
• Eli Lilly and IUPUI Launch Diabetes Impact Project Targeting Three Indianapolis Neighborhoods.
• Call for Nominations for the Seventeenth Annual Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement By a Woman in the Statistical Sciences.
• Crawfordsville Startup CorVus Fattens Pigs for Science.
• Nominations Call: AAAS Award for Public Engagement with Science.
• 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.