Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Bariatric Embolization of Arteries for the Treatment of Obesity (BEAT Obesity) Trial: Results at 1 Year.
• Sugar Rush or Sugar Crash? A Meta-Analysis of Carbohydrate Effects on Mood.
• Thirst Regulates Motivated Behavior Through Modulation of Brainwide Neural Population Dynamics.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Exercise During Pregnancy Protects Children From Obesity, Study Finds.
• Press release: Exercise During Pregnancy Protects Offspring From Obesity.
• Meeting abstract: Maternal Exercise Enhances Brown Adipose Tissue Development and Thermogenesis in Offspring Mice Challenged with High Fat Diet. (Page 70).

Contrary or Null Findings

• Results from a Natural Experiment: Initial Neighbourhood Investments do Not Change Objectively-assessed Physical Activity, Psychological Distress or Perceptions of the Neighbourhood.
• "... lianas in general have lower structural and chemical defences, a greater nutritional profile and a preferable phenology in comparison with trees, which, contrary to our expectations, has led to assemblages of more‐specialised insects."
• Meta-Analysis: "There was no significant difference for pooled unstandardized mean difference (USMD) hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) by probiotic yogurt compared with the control in T2D …and obesity …."
• "According to the results of the present systematic review and meta‐analysis, there was no significant effect of pomegranate consumption on weight and body composition indices."
• RCT: "Exposure to a slightly sweet lipid-based nutrient supplement during early life does not increase the level of sweet taste most preferred among 4- to 6-year-old Ghanaian children."
• Resveratrol, Lunularin and Dihydroresveratrol do Not Act as Caloric Restriction Mimetics When Administered Intraperitoneally in Mice.
• No Apparent Role of Paternal Obesity on the Success of Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection Cycle a Tertiary IVF Center in Turkey.
• RCT: No Significant Difference in Lipid Metabolism at Two Different Walking Speeds in Obese Individuals.

Basic

• Food Hypersensitivity-induced Chronic Gastrointestinal Inflammation in a Non-human Primate Model of Diet-induced Obesity.
• Suppression of Obesity By an Intestinal Helminth Through Interactions with Intestinal Microbiota.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Revealed: Vitamin Supplements that Don’t Contain What They Say.
• Preprint: "Findings demonstrate non-Cochrane reviews [vs Cochrane reviews] on average report larger effect estimates and have discrepancies in statistical and clinical interpretation more likely to favour physical activity interventions."
• Preprint: "Discrepant results of meta-analyses on the same topic can be attributed to differences in included studies based on review author decision, judgements and performance at different stages of the review process."
• Article: Assessment of Vitamin Status in Patients with Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Pulmonary Disease: Potential Role of Vitamin a as a Risk Factor.
• Letter: Letter to the Editor Re: Oh J., Et Al. Nutrients 2019, 11, 343.
• Reply: Reply: “Letter to the Editor Re: Oh J., Et Al. Nutrients 2019, 11, 343”.
• Inadequate Diet Descriptions: A Conundrum for Animal Model Research.
• Unpacking a Recent Study Linking Diet Soda with Stroke Risks.

Clinical

• Article: Obesity Class Versus the Edmonton Obesity Staging System for Pediatrics to Define Health Risk in Childhood Obesity: Results From the CANPWR Cross-sectional Study.
• Commentary: The Edmonton Obesity Staging System for Pediatrics (EOSS-P) Better Defines Health Risk than Obesity Class.
• Effect of Lorcaserin on Weight Reduction in Persons with Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA): A Combined Subgroup Analysis From 3 RCTs.
• Behavioural Weight Management Interventions for Postnatal Women: A Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews of RCTs.
• Media Multitasking is Associated with Higher Risk for Obesity and Increased Responsiveness to Rewarding Food Stimuli.
• RCT: Effects of Colchicine in Adults with Metabolic Syndrome.

Children and Adolescents

• WIC Food Package Changes: Trends in Childhood Obesity Prevalence.
• Multi-etiological Perspective on Child Obesity Prevention.
• Elevated Serum Uric Acid is Associated with Greater Risk for Hypertension and Diabetic Kidney Diseases in Obese Adolescents with Type 2 Diabetes: An Observational Analysis From the Treatment Options for Type 2 Diabetes in Adolescents and Youth (TODAY) Study.

Surgery

• Effect of Weight Loss on the Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rates of Obese Patients at Risk of Chronic Kidney Disease.
• Effects of Obesity Surgery on Overall and Disease-specific Mortality in a 5-Country, Population-based Study.
• Patient Behaviors and Characteristics Related to Weight Regain After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.
• Metabolic Surgery: Changing Hearts and Minds.

Drugs

• Rhythm Pharmaceuticals (RYTM) Announces Promising Clinical Data in MC4R Pathway Heterozygous Obesity.
• RCT: Effects of Liraglutide on Appetite, Food Preoccupation, and Food Liking.

Food & Diet

• Health Effects of Dietary Risks in 195 Countries, 1990–2017: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017.
• RCT: The Effect of Soybean Lunasin on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors.
• RCT: Efficacy of Fish Oil And/or Probiotic Intervention on the Incidence of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in an At-Risk Group of Overweight and Obese Women.
• Detection of Gluten in Gluten-Free Labeled Restaurant Food.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Potential Therapeutic Utility of Hypoxic-Exercise Training Among Obese Breast Cancer Survivors with Limited Mobility.
• Is Muscular Fitness Associated with Future Health Benefits in Children and Adolescents? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies.
• The Use of Wearable Activity Trackers Among Older Adults: Focus Group Study of Tracker Perceptions, Motivators, and Barriers in the Maintenance Stage of Behavior Change.
• Physical Activity Energy Expenditure and Total Daily Energy Expenditure in Successful Weight Loss Maintainers.

Economics & Sociology

• How Does Birth Weight Affect Health and Human Capital? A Short‐ and Long‐term Evaluation.
• Influence of School‐Level Socioeconomic Status on Children's Physical Activity, Fitness, and Fundamental Movement Skill Levels.
• Peer Effects of Obesity on Child Body Composition.
• The Economics of Diet and Obesity: Understanding the Global Trend.
• The Economic Burden of Elevated Blood Glucose Levels in 2017: Diagnosed and Undiagnosed Diabetes, Gestational Diabetes, and Prediabetes.

Epidemiology

• An Exome-Wide Sequencing Study of the GOLDN Cohort Reveals Novel Associations of Coding Variants and Fasting Plasma Lipids.
• The Shifting Burden of Obesity: Changes in the Distribution of Obesity in China, 2010–2015.
• REVIEW: Is Reducing Appetite Beneficial for Body Weight Management in the Context of Overweight and Obesity?
• Chemicals in Household Dust May Promote Fat Cell Development.
• Associations of BMI and Waist Circumference with All‐Cause Mortality: A 22‐Year Cohort Study.
• Predicting Islet Cell Autoimmunity and Type 1 Diabetes: An 8-Year TEDDY Study Progress Report.
• Glucose Variables in Type 1 Diabetes Studies with Dapagliflozin: Pooled Analysis of Continuous Glucose Monitoring Data From DEPICT-1 and -2.
• Diabetes-Related Complications and Mortality in Patients with Young-Onset Latent Autoimmune Diabetes: A 14-Year Analysis of the Prospective Hong Kong Diabetes Register.

Caloric Restriction

• The effect of caloric restriction on working memory in healthy non-obese adults.
• Associations of adult-attained height and early life energy restriction with postmenopausal breast cancer risk according to estrogen and progesterone receptor status.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Decreasing the Consumption of Foods with Sugar Increases Their Reinforcing Value: A Potential Barrier for Dietary Behavior Change.
• Testing Effects of Smaller Portions and Information in a Behavioral Model.
• RCT and Economic Evaluation of a Task-based Weight Management Program.
• Use of Mobile Applications in the Management of Overweight and Obesity in Primary and Secondary Care.
• Brain Imaging of Taste Perception in Obesity: A Review.

Equity and Disparities

• Racial/Ethnic Differences in Obesity in People with Spinal Cord Injury: The Effects of Disadvantaged Neighborhood.
• Extra-familial Social Factors and Obesity in the Hispanic Community Children’s Health Study/Study of Latino Youth. (pdf)
• Structural Interventions to Reduce and Eliminate Health Disparities.
• Temporal Trends in Normal Weight Central Obesity and Its Associations with Cardiometabolic Risk Among Chinese Adults.
• Coping, Discrimination, and Physical Health Conditions Among Predominantly Poor, Urban African Americans: Implications for Community-Level Health Services.
• Diabetes, Obesity, and Subsequent Risk of Postmenopausal Breast Cancer Among White and Black Women in the Southern Community Cohort Study.

Ethics

• Ethical Issues in Bariatric Surgery.
• Obesity Prevention and Promotion of Good Nutrition: Public Health Ethics Issues.
• Ethical Aspects of Prevention of Overweight and Obesity. (pdf)

Stigma

• Fat Cats and Porky Pooches: “Pet Obesity,” Moral Panic, and Multi-Species Possibilities.
• Multiple Stigmas? Social Deprivation, Gender and Obesity.
• Obesity as a Barrier to Kidney Transplantation.

Policy Related

• Mobility Disability and Obesity with Risk of Unemployment in Two Cohorts From Sweden.
• School Wellness in Wisconsin: Evaluating Policies for Practices to Prevent Pediatric Obesity.
• The Effects of Early Nutritional Interventions on the Development of Atopic Disease in Infants and Children: The Role of Maternal Dietary Restriction, Breastfeeding, Hydrolyzed Formulas, and Timing of Introduction of Allergenic Complementary Foods.
• Supporting Wellness at Pantries: Development of a Nutrition Stoplight System for Food Banks and Food Pantries.
• The Effect of the 2009 WIC Food Package Change on Childhood Obesity Varies By Gender and Initial Weight Status in Los Angeles County.
• Health Lens Analysis of Urban Agriculture Policy. (pdf)
• Perspectives From Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participants on Improving SNAP Policy.
• Implementing Multilevel School‐Based Physical Activity Interventions Using Core Implementation Components Model.

Intergenerational Effects

• Exposure to HIV Virus, Treatment Before Birth Linked to Obesity Later in Life.
• Effects of obesity and diabetes on the epigenetic modification of mammalian gametes.

Methods

• "We find that it is possible to accurately estimate nutritional intake in a fast-paced free-living environment using digital photography."
• A New Targeted Lipidomics Approach Reveals Lipid Droplets in Liver, Muscle and Heart as a Repository for Diacylglycerol and Ceramide Species in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver.
• Reconstructing Functional Networks in the Human Intestinal Tract Using Synthetic Microbiomes.

Commentary

• Explicitly Dehumanizing People with Obesity.
• Op-ed: Obesity is One of Indiana's Greatest Health Challenges.
• Food is Medicine.
• Senior Tori Galloway Found Her Calling at IU's Center for Underwater Science.
• Confronting the Replication Crisis Could Lead to Better Science.
• Health Benefits of Fruits and Vegetables.

General

• A Robust and Efficient Approach to Causal Inference Based on Sparse Sufficient Dimension Reduction.
• Audio: Pets on Planes: Are Emotional Support Animals Legit?
• The Importance of Predefined Rules and Prespecified Statistical Analyses do Not Abandon Significance.
• Civility, Credibility, and Health Information: The Impact of Uncivil Comments and Source Credibility on Attitudes About Vaccines.
• Birds of a Feather: Estimating the Value of Statistical Life From Dual-Earner Families.
• The Math that Takes Newton Into the Quantum World.
• ‘Fat Cats’ – Obesity Epidemic Affects Pets, Too.
• WHO Pulls Support From Initiative Promoting Global Move to Plant Based Foods.

Video & Audio

• Video: Smell, Your Least Appreciated Sense.
• Video: Retention Strategies for RCTs - Michaela Kiernan, PhD.

Announcements

• Registration for the Metascience Conference is Now Open!
• IU’s Wheelchair Basketball Club Welcomes Everyone of All Abilities.
• Columnist Dr. David Katz Nominated for National Health and Wellness Award.
• TOS Abstract Submission for ObesityWeek 2019 (11/3-7 @Las Vegas) is Now Open!
• IU's 'Taste of Italy' Service-learning Project Gives Students Hands-on Experience as Restaurateurs.
• NORC of UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research (7/29-8/2 @Bloomington, IN).
• The Mathematical Science in Obesity Research (6/3-7 @Baltimore, MD).

Featured

• "Across measures of weight status, physical activity/sedentary behaviour, and nutrition, the effects reported in scaled‐up interventions were typically 75% or less of the effects reported in pre–scale‐up efficacy trials."
• Validation of Sensor-Based Food Intake Detection By Multicamera Video Observation in an Unconstrained Environment.
• Targeting Senescent Cells Alleviates Obesity-induced Metabolic Dysfunction.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Keto Diet Not Effective, Causes Blood Sugar Problems in Women.
• Press-release: Females Respond Poorly to Ketogenic Weight Loss Diet in an Animal Model.
• Headline: Snorting Sugar Could Help Fight Lung Disease, Study Says.
• Study: Study of Mouse Lung Macrophages and Inflammation. No Sugar Snorting.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Phentermine did not improve on large weight losses achieved with liraglutide alone."
• RCT: "We found no evidence that a pre-conception lifestyle intervention improved female wellbeing five years after randomization." (pdf)
• "While dual burdens of anemia, stunting, and underweight are prevalent, there is no evidence of clustering of overweight with other forms of malnutrition in India."
• "An obesity prevention intervention integrating brief provider counseling and parent‐targeted phone counseling did not impact 12 and 24‐month BMI status overall but did have a significant impact on BMI in girls."
• "Contrary to popular belief, results of this review suggest that the use of natural supplements for weight loss are unlikely to contribute to meaningful weight loss and in some cases may contribute to harm."
• "In contrast to young mice, advanced-age mice on [Western-type Diet] did not show a higher body weight or adipose tissue masses."

Basic

• Exploring the Lean Phenotype of Glutathione-Depleted Mice: Thiol, Amino Acid and Fatty Acid Profiles.
• Review: Extrinsic and Intrinsic Immunometabolism Converge: Perspectives on Future Research and Therapeutic Development for Obesity.
• Compensation for Cold-induced Thermogenesis During Weight Loss Maintenance and Regain in Mice.
• Adipose Lipocalin 2 Overexpression Protects Against Age-Related Decline in Thermogenic Function of Adipose Tissue and Metabolic Deterioration.
• Role of Arginase 2 in Systemic Metabolic Activity and Adipose Tissue Fatty Acid Metabolism in Diet-Induced Obese Mice.
• Involvement of Gastrin-Releasing Peptide Receptor in the Regulation of Adipocyte Differentiation in 3T3-L1 Cells.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Preprint: Improving the Scientific Rigor of Nutritional Recommendations for Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: a Comprehensive Review of the American Diabetes Association Guidelines Recommended Eating Patterns.
• Letter: BMI as a Potential Confounder for Oncological Outcomes Following Autologous Fat Transfer.
• Reply: BMI as a Potential Confounder for Oncological Outcomes Following Autologous Fat Transfer.
• Article: Associations of Obesity and Circulating Insulin and Glucose with Breast Cancer Risk: A Mendelian Randomization Analysis.
• Letter: Regarding Article, “Associations of Obesity and Circulating Insulin and Glucose with Breast Cancer Risk: A Mendelian Randomization Analysis”.
• Letter: Letter to the Editor on ‘Dietary Patterns and Endometrial Cancer: A Meta-analysis’.
• Reply: Reply to Alizadeh’s Letter to the Editor on ‘Dietary Patterns and Endometrial Cancer: A Meta-analysis’.

Clinical

• Primary Care Interventions for Obesity: Review of the Evidence.
• RCT: The Effects of Diet-induced Weight Loss on Asthma Control and Quality of Life in Obese Adults with Asthma.
• Comparison of Surgical Versus Diet‐induced Weight Loss on Appetite Regulation and Metabolic Health Outcomes.

Children and Adolescents

• Assessing the Agreement of 5 Ideal Body Weight Calculations for Selecting Medication Dosages for Children with Obesity.
• Differential Genome-wide DNA Methylation Patterns in Childhood Obesity.
• Assessment of Parents’ Preferences for Incentives to Promote Engagement in Family-Based Childhood Obesity Treatment.
• RCT: Impact of a Childcare Food Service Intervention on Child Dietary Intake in Care.
• Systematic Review: Biomechanical Characteristics of Walking in Children and Adolescents with Overweight/Obesity: Possible Implications for the Development of Musculoskeletal Disorders.

Surgery

• Consequences of Bariatric Surgery on Outcomes in Rheumatic Diseases.
• Operative Morbidity of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in Subjects Older than Age 65.
• Gastric Bypass Versus Sleeve Gastrectomy: Patient Selection and Short-term Outcome of 47,101 Primary Operations From the Swedish, Norwegian, and Dutch National Quality Registries.
• Metabolic Surgery for Hypertension in Patients with Obesity.

Drugs

• RCT: Pharmacokinetics of Anakinra in Subjects of Heavier Versus Lighter Body Weights.
• RCT: Rituximab Maintenance Overcomes the Negative Prognostic Factor of Obesity in CLL: Subgroup Analysis of the International Randomized AGMT CLL‐8a Mabtenance Trial.
• Liraglutide Modulates Adipokine Expression During Adipogenesis, Ameliorating Obesity, and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Mice.
• RCT: Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion Versus Multiple Daily Injection Regimens in Children and Young People at Diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes: Pragmatic RCT and Economic Evaluation.

Food & Diet

• Increased Hunger, Food Cravings, Food Reward, and Portion Size Selection After Sleep Curtailment in Women Without Obesity.
• Meta-analysis: The Effect of Liquid Meal Replacements on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Overweight/Obese Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Change in Plant-Based Diet Quality is Associated with Changes in Plasma Adiposity-Associated Biomarker Concentrations in Women.
• Review: The Influence of Meal Frequency and Timing on Health in Humans: The Role of Fasting.
• Within-person Compensation for Snack Energy By US Adults, NHANES 2007–2014.
• US Experts Reviewing Low-carb, Other Diets for Guidelines.

Caloric Restriction

• Intermittent Fasting Beneficial Effects on the Steatosis and Inflammation of the Liver in Mice Fed a High-fat or a High-fructose Diet.
• Review: Epigenetic Regulation of Metabolism and Inflammation By Calorie Restriction.
• Long‐term Caloric Restriction Ameliorates Deleterious Effects of Aging on White and Brown Adipose Tissue Plasticity.
• Six Weeks of Morning Fasting Causes Little Adaptation of Metabolic or Appetite Responses to Feeding in Adults with Obesity.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Percentage of Adults Who Met Federal Guidelines for Aerobic Physical Activity Through Leisure-Time Activity,* By Race/Ethnicity — National Health Interview Survey,† 2008–2017.
• "Greater self‐reported overall physical fitness and its components are associated with less bodily, lumbar and sciatic pain, and reduced pain disability during pregnancy."
• Assessment of Maximal Fat Oxidation During Exercise: A Systematic Review.
• Associations Between Walk Score and Objective Measures of Physical Activity in Urban Overweight and Obese Women.
• The Association Between Negative Affect and Physical Activity Among Adults in a Behavioral Weight Loss Treatment.

Economics & Sociology

• A Multilevel Study of Neighborhood Disadvantage, Individual-socioeconomic Position, and BMI.
• Neighborhood Outdoor Play of White and Non-White Hispanic Children: Cultural Differences and Environmental Disparities.
• Cultivating Cultural Competence to Address Childhood Obesity in Ethnic Minority Youth.

Epidemiology

• Multivariate Analysis of Genome-wide Data to Identify Potential Pleiotropic Genes for Type 2 Diabetes, Obesity and Coronary Artery Disease Using MetaCCA.
• Race/Ethnicity, Obesity, and the Risk of Being Verbally Bullied: A National Multilevel Study.
• Visceral Obesity, but Not Central Obesity, is Associated with Cardiac Remodeling in Subjects with Suspected Metabolic Syndrome.
• Geographical Variation in the Prevalence of Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome Among US Adolescents.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Effects of Mood Induction Using Movie Watching on Food Intake and Hormone Levels.
• Motivational Interviewing and Home Visits to Improve Health Behaviors and Reduce Childhood Obesity: A Pilot Study.
• Implementation of a Virtual Patient-centered Weight Loss Maintenance Behavior Competency Assessment in Adults with Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• BMI Across the Life-Course: Emergence of Race By Sex Disparities in Early Childhood.
• Socioeconomic Inequalities in Obesity: Modelling Future Trends in Australia.

Stigma

• Moral Discourse in General Practitioners’ Accounts of Obesity Communication.
• Psychosocial Stress and Overweight and Obesity: Findings From the Chicago Community Adult Health Study.
• Validation of the Two-Factor Weight Bias Internalization Scale.
• Relationship Between Overweight Identification, Dieting Behaviors, and Body Measurements.
• Blatant Dehumanization of People with Obesity.

Intergenerational Effects

• Parent-Perceived Stress and Its Association with Children’s Weight and Obesity-Related Behaviors.
• Associations of Pre-Pregnancy BMI, Gestational Weight Gain and Maternal Parity with the Trajectory of Weight in Early Childhood: A Prospective Cohort Study.
• Maternal BMI and Risk of Neonatal Adverse Outcomes in China: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Food Sharing and Affiliation: An Experimental and Longitudinal Study in Cockatiels (Nymphicus Hollandicus).
• The Relationship Between Housing Types and Metabolic and Weight Phenotypes: A Nationwide Survey.

Methods

• Machine Learning-Based Method for Obesity Risk Evaluation Using Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms Derived From Next-Generation Sequencing.
• BMI vs Deuterium Dilution Method for Establishing Childhood Obesity Prevalence, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Morocco, Namibia, Senegal, Tunisia and United Republic of Tanzania.
• The Causal Association Between Obesity and Stillbirth: Strengths and Limitations of the Consecutive Pregnancies Approach.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Meta-regression: Associations Between the Rate, Amount, and Composition of Weight Loss as Predictors of Spontaneous Weight Regain in Adults Achieving Clinically Significant Weight Loss.
• Application of mathematical models in the management of obesity during pregnancy and the postpartum period in reproductive age women.

Commentary

• Overeating and Food Position Memory Halted By Neural Stimulation.
• Public Health Messages that Help or Hurt.
• Take Your Vegetables By Prescription?
• Communicating About Risk in a Food-Obsessed World—Reprised.
• Most Cats and Dogs in the US are Overweight, New Study Reveals.
• A Doctor’s Advice on Weight: Useful or Not?

General

• The Lost History of One of the World’s Strangest Science Experiments.
• Central Macular Thickness in Diabetic Patients: A Sex-based Analysis.
• Figure Errors, Sloppy Science, and Fraud: Keeping Eyes on Your Data.
• Three Research-based Lessons to Improve Your Mentoring.
• Scientific Integrity and Data Accuracy.
• University Fights Restrictive Indiana Law on Fetal Tissue Research.
• "Although single-meal studies clearly show an increase in iron bioavailability from dephytinization of cereals, medium-term consumption of reduced phytate bread under free-living conditions suggests that this strategy does not work to improve iron status in healthy women of reproductive age."
• FTC Hits Predatory Scientific Publisher with a $50 Million Fine.

Video & Audio

• Audio: Science vs - Fasting Diets: What's the Skinny?
• E30: Christina Roberto on Food Labeling in Guatemala and Soda Taxes in Philly.
• Video: Weight Gain at Menopause.

Announcements

• Health Equity Advocate Shiriki Kumanyika Receives 2019 Elizabeth Fries Health Education Award.
• Steven Austad, Ph.D., and UAB Postdoctoral Fellow in Longevity Research Jessica Hoffman, Ph.D., Have Won the George C. Williams Prize From the International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health, or ISEMPH.
• Book Reviews: Globe to Gut: Inside Big Food.
• Obesity Research the Focus of Indiana CTSI Spring Retreat at IU Bloomington.
• Bloomington Rated 5th Best U.S. City in Which to Raise a Family.
• Indiana is getting "Real" about the food they serve: BTN LiveBIG.
• NORC of UAB 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.
• Short Courses on Causal Inference and Mathematical Sciences in Obesity Research, Summer 2019.

Featured

• Intergenerational Inheritance of High Fat Diet-induced Cardiac Lipotoxicity in Drosophila.
• Apocalyptic Public Health: Exploring Discourses of Fatness in Childhood ‘obesity’ Policy.
• Childhood Obesity and the Associated Roles of Neighborhood and Biologic Stress.
• NASEM Report: Science Breakthroughs to Advance Food and Agricultural Research By 2030.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: New Study Confirms This Tea Can Cut Obesity and Reduce Inflammation.
• Study: Green Tea Extract Prevents Obesity in Male Mice By Alleviating Gut Dysbiosis in Association with Improved Intestinal Barrier Function that Limits Endotoxin Translocation and Adipose Inflammation.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "There was no evidence of a dietary or activity behaviour ripple effect on untreated partners, i.e. comparing partners in the ... [treatment] arms."
• "Contrary to expectations, KD025 upregulated the insulin signaling, as confirmed by the increased phosphorylation levels of Akt and GSK-3α/β, and the differentiation-promoting activity of insulin signaling was observed to be overwhelmed by the inhibitory activity."
• No Association Between Fruits or Vegetables and Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Middle-aged Men and Women.
• "Contrary to expectations, we found no evidence of lasting toxicological effects on mortality, adult body weight, organ histology, hormone levels, fertility, hatch rates and eggshell strength in birds experimentally fed plastic."
• Meta-analysis: Psyllium Supplementation Does Not Reduce Body Weight, BMI, and WC Significantly.
• "Our findings suggest that unmeasured genetic, environmental, and familial factors are likely confounding associations between breastfeeding, cesarean delivery, prenatal smoking, and GDM with childhood obesity in observational studies."
• "No associations of changes in eGFR with changes in BMI z-score, blood pressure or parameters of glucose and lipid metabolism were found."
• RCT: Almond Consumption Increases Satiety Hormones Relative to a High-Carbohydrate Food but Has Minimal Impact on Body Composition.
• "Alcohol use did not explain the anthropometric changes observed in a sample well represented by freshmen engaging in risky drinking (and excluding those with daily risky drinking) during the academic year."
• RCT: "This result did not correspond to the results of previous studies [15,18,19] that reported weight reduction using auricular acupuncture and auricular acupressure."

Basic

• Host Genetics and Diet Composition Interact to Modulate Gut Microbiota and Predisposition to Metabolic Syndrome in Spontaneously Hypertensive Stroke-prone Rats.
• Serotonin Receptor HTR6-mediated MTORC1 Signaling Regulates Dietary Restriction–induced Memory Enhancement.
• The Effect of Diet and Exercise on Tobacco Carcinogen-induced Lung Cancer.
• Deficiency of Mitophagy Receptor FUNDC1 Impairs Mitochondrial Quality and Aggravates Dietary-Induced Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome.
• 3,5 Diiodo-l-Thyronine (T2) Promotes the Browning of White Adipose Tissue in High-Fat Diet-Induced Overweight Male Rats Housed at Thermoneutrality.
• Voluntary Corn Oil Ingestion Increases Energy Expenditure and Interscapular UCP1 Expression Through the Sympathetic Nerve in C57BL/6 Mice.
• Hepatic-Specific Arid1a Regulates Insulin Sensitivity and Lipid Metabolism in Mice.
• Dose-dependent and Strain-dependent Anti-obesity Effects of Lactobacillus Sakei in a Diet Induced Obese Murine Model.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• "Few journals in ... nutrition and dietetics...require prospective trial registration, and those with existing registration policies rarely enforce them..."
• Commentary: No Link Between Diet and Dementia? Not So Fast.
• Notice of Retraction and Replacement. Hawkins Et Al. Trends in Weight Loss Efforts Among US Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity. JAMA Pediatr. 2018;172(8):782-784.
• "...the observed relative effect sizes could typically be explained away by an unmeasured confounder associated with the exposure and the outcome with a relative effect of 2.0 ..., above and beyond adjusted variables, in nutritional ... epidemiology."
• Response to Letter to the Editor: Left Gastric Artery Embolization for Weight Loss—a Dead-End Procedure.
• Article: A Randomised Controlled Trial of Dietary Improvement for Adults with Major Depression (the ‘SMILES’ Trial).
• Letter: The SMILES Trial: Do Undisclosed Recruitment Practices Explain the Remarkably Large Effect?
• Reply: The SMILES Trial: An Important First Step.
• Correction: Correction To: A Randomised Controlled Trial of Dietary Improvement for Adults with Major Depression (the ‘SMILES’ Trial).
• Article: Dairy-Based and Energy-Enriched Berry-Based Snacks Improve or Maintain Nutritional and Functional Status in Older People in Home Care.
• Letter: Insufficient Reporting of Randomization Procedures and Unexplained Unequal Allocation: A Commentary on “Dairy-Based and Energy-Enriched Berry-Based Snacks Improve or Maintain Nutritional and Functional Status in Older People in Home Care”.

Clinical

• Nursing Evidence –Based Interprofessional Practice Guidelines for Care in Post-Bariatric Surgery – ICU - Systematic Literature Review.
• Emotional Intelligence in Binge Eating Disorder Among the Obese Population.
• Long‐Term Follow‐up of the Mind Your Health Project: Acceptance‐Based Versus Standard Behavioral Treatment for Obesity.
• Obesity Treatment, Beyond the Guidelines Practical Suggestions for Clinical Practice.
• Viewpoint: Reexamining Recommendations for Treatment of Hypercholesterolemia in Older Adults.

Children and Adolescents

• Engaging Fathers in Early Obesity Prevention During the First 1,000 Days: Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change Strategies.
• Strange Rise of Mukbang Parents Who Feed Their Kids Fast Food for Cash.
• Physical Fitness, Physical Activity, and the Executive Function in Children with Overweight and Obesity.
• Morning Circadian Misalignment is Associated with Insulin Resistance in Girls with Obesity & Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome.

Surgery

• End‐of‐Trial Health Outcomes in Look AHEAD Participants Who Elected to Have Bariatric Surgery.
• Very Low-Calorie Diet in Candidates for Bariatric Surgery: Change in Body Composition During Rapid Weight Loss.

Drugs

• RCT: "Obese patients with AIMSS obtained more analgesic benefit from duloxetine compared with nonobese patients."
• RCT: Effects of Combined GIP and GLP-1 Infusion on Energy Intake, Appetite and Energy Expenditure in Overweight/obese Individuals.
• Integrase Inhibitor Treatment Leads to Greater Weight Gain.
• Safety and Effectiveness of Longer‐Term Phentermine Use: Clinical Outcomes From an Electronic Health Record Cohort.

Food & Diet

• High-fructose Corn Syrup Enhances Intestinal Tumor Growth in Mice.
• Food Intake During School Lunch is Better Explained By Objectively Measured Eating Behaviors than By Subjectively Rated Food Taste and Fullness: A Cross-Sectional Study.
• RCT: The Effect of Low-Carbohydrate and Low-Fat Diets on Pain in Individuals with Knee Osteoarthritis.
• Fat From Dairy Foods and ‘meat’ Consumed Within Recommended Levels is Associated with Favourable Serum Cholesterol Levels in Institutionalised Older Adults. (pdf)
• Cochrane Review: Mediterranean‐style Diet for the Primary and Secondary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease.

Caloric Restriction

• New Evidence Links Lifespan Extension to Metabolic Regulation of Immune System.
• The Effect of Intermittent Compared with Continuous Energy Restriction on Glycaemic Control in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: 24-month Follow-up of a Randomised Noninferiority Trial.
• Review: Intermittent Fasting in Cardiovascular Disorders.
• Review: The Effects of Calorie Restriction, Intermittent Fasting and Vegetarian Diets on Bone Health.
• Proteomic Analysis Applied to Human Plasma During Intermittent Fasting.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Targeting White Adipose Tissue with Exercise or Bariatric Surgery as Therapeutic Strategies in Obesity.
• Is There a ‘recent Occupational Paradox’ Where Highly Active Physically Active Workers Die Early? Or are There Failures in Some Study Methods?
• The Combination of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviors Modifies the Genetic Predisposition to Obesity.

Economics & Sociology

• Country of Birth and County of Residence and Association with Overweight and Obesity—a Population-based Study of 219 555 Pregnancies in Norway.
• Family Environment, Physical Activity and Sedentarism in Preadolescents with Childhood Obesity: ANOBAS Case-control Study.

Epidemiology

• Association of Weight Fluctuation with Mortality in Japanese Adults.
• Associations of Dietary Cholesterol or Egg Consumption with Incident Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality.
• Are Spouses’ Sleep Problems a Mechanism Through Which Health is Compromised? Evidence Regarding Insomnia and Heart Disease.
• "After accounting for effects on adult BMI, the association of age at puberty with MS [multiple sclerosis] susceptibility attenuated."

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Emotional Impact on Health Behavior Adherence After Bariatric Surgery.
• Role of Delay Discounting in Predicting Change in HBA1c for Individuals with Prediabetes.
• Eating Responses to External Food Cues in Weight Discordant Siblings.
• Negative Social Evaluation Impairs Executive Functions in Adolescents with Excess Weight: Associations with Autonomic Responses.

Equity and Disparities

• Sexual Orientation Disparities in Cardiovascular Risk Factors Differ By Sex and Race/Ethnicity Among High School Aged Youth.
• Body Image Dissatisfaction Influences Cardiovascular Health in Overweight and Obese African American Women.
• RCT: Home‐Based Lifestyle Therapy on Postpartum Weight in Underserved Women with Overweight or Obesity.

Stigma

• Shades of Shame and Pride.
• Why is Obesity Such a Political Issue?
• Book: Fatness, Obesity, and Disadvantage in the Australian Suburbs.
• Children's Perceptions of Overweight Peers.
• Weight Discrimination and Physical Activity Among Adults.
• Weight Bias Among Healthcare Providers: We Have Met the Enemy and It is Us.

Policy Related

• Shaping Science and Policy on Obesity.
• Public Policies to Reduce Sugary Drink Consumption in Children and Adolescents.

Intergenerational Effects

• Gestational Jet Lag Predisposes to Later-life Skeletal and Cardiac Disease.
• Maternal High-Fat, High-Sucrose Diet Induces Transgenerational Cardiac Mitochondrial Dysfunction Independent of Maternal Mitochondrial Inheritance.
• Relationship of Maternal Weight Status Before, During, and After Pregnancy with Breast Milk Hormone Concentrations.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• A Neural Basis for Food Foraging in Obesity.
• Conservation of Physiological Dysregulation Signatures of Aging Across Primates.

Methods

• Food or Nutrient Pattern Assessment Using the Principal Component Analysis Applied to Food Questionnaires. Pitfalls, Tips and Tricks.
• Identifying Notions of Environment in Obesity Research Using a Mixed-methods Approach.
• Handheld Indirect Calorimetry as a Clinical Tool for Measuring Resting Energy Expenditure in Children with and Without Obesity.
• Census Tract Food Tweets and Chronic Disease Outcomes in the U.S., 2015–2018.
• Regression Dilution in Energy Management Patterns.

Commentary

• A Yo-Yo Diet of Misinformation About Eggs.
• Nutrition Education in Medical School, Residency Training, and Practice.
• Sugar-Sweetened Drinks Flow with Bitter Consequences for Heart.
• Purity Can Be a Potent Foe of Goodness.

General

• Mapping the Microbial Interactome: Statistical and Experimental Approaches for Microbiome Network Inference.
• Can’t See the Wood for the Trees: Confounders, Colliders and Causal Inference - a Statistician’s Approach.
• Social Alliances Improve Rank and Fitness in Convention-based Societies.
• Statistical Inference in the 21st Century: A World Beyond P < 0.05.
• Forget About Morality. Wrong is Wrong.
• Mapping the Human Body at Cellular Resolution -- the NIH Common Fund Human BioMolecular Atlas Program. (pdf)
• A Tablet-Based Tool for Accurate Measurement of Hand Proprioception After Stroke.
• How Rats Became an Inescapable Part of City Living.
• Texting-While-Driving Bans and Motor Vehicle Crash–Related Emergency Department Visits in 16 US States: 2007–2014.
• Relative Deprivation in Context: How Contextual Status Homogeneity Shapes the Relationship Between Disadvantaged Social Status and Health.
• Here’s What the Government’s Dietary Guidelines Should Really Say.
• Trends in the Use of Common Words and Patient-Centric Language in the Titles of Medical Journals, 1976-2015.

Video & Audio

• Joe Rogan Experience #1267 - Gary Taubes & Stephan Guyenet.
• Embrace Complexity to Fix the Food System.

Announcements

• "Rita Colwelll, former director of the National Science Foundation ...will receive an honorary Doctor of Science degree during the graduate commencement ceremony."
• "The staff at Nutrition Evidence Systematic Review (NESR), formerly the Nutrition Evidence Library (NEL), specializes in conducting food- and nutrition-related systematic reviews."
• IUB SPH Panorama: Your Scoop for Public Health and Diversity.
• NORC of UAB 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.
• IU School of Public Health Bloomington Continues Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track Positions Available in All Departments: Multiple Listings Posted.
• Travel Scholarships Available and Registration Open for Short Courses on Causal Inference and Mathematical Sciences in Obesity Research, Summer 2019.

Featured

• RCT: "Our results challenge the prevailing notion that stress-induced eating of hyper palatable food is mainly found among women by finding that males also engage in such behavior if their experience leads to an adequate stress response."
• Housing Temperature Modulates the Impact of Diet-Induced Rise in Fat Mass on Adipose Tissue Before and During Pregnancy in Rats.
• The Equity Impact of Brief Opportunistic Interventions to Promote Weight Loss in Primary Care: Secondary Analysis of the BWeL Randomised Trial.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: One in Five Chinese Children is Overweight or Obese, and the Booming Economy May Be to Blame, Study Reveals.
• Study: Positive Associations Between Socioeconomic Indicators and Obesity in China. Causation Not Established.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Significant Effect on Body Mass or Physical Activity of a Mobile-Based Intervention for Obesity Prevention Among Female College Students in Saudi Arabia.
• "...body weight, body composition, and lipid profiling are not affected by the number of meals when weight-loss diets are prepared with adequate energy restrictions and sufficient and balanced nutrition."
• "contrary to diversified bet‐hedging expectations, fledging success of large broods was greater when hatchlings had similar rather than variable masses."
• RCT: No Significant effects of carbohydrate mouth rinse on glycogen-reduced 5k run performance trial.
• "Identification and treatment of women with mild GDM during pregnancy had no discernible impact on subsequent diabetes, metabolic syndrome, or obesity 7 years after delivery."
• RCT: Neither beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbutyrate free-acid (HMB-FA) and calcium-salt (HMB-Ca) "improved hypertrophy or reduced muscle damage in resistance-trained men undergoing resistance training ingesting optimal amounts of protein."
• RCT: "The primary intent to treat analysis showed no significant effect on achievement of appropriate GWG [gestational weight gain]/week through 36 weeks in the intervention group ...when compared with the control group..."
• RCT: No Significant Effect on Weight or Most Other Primary Outcomes of a Text Messaging Intervention with Customisation Using Linked Data From Wireless Wearable Activity Monitors to Improve Risk Factors Following Gestational Diabetes.
• RCT: "Contrary to expectations, this study did find that personal achievement reward systems significantly lead to more intrinsic motivation for healthy food choices than social achievement reward systems."

Basic

• Short-term Strength Training Reduces Gluconeogenesis and NAFLD in Obese Mice.
• Oxytocin Treatment Reduced Food Intake and Body Fat and Ameliorated Obesity in Ovariectomized Female Rats.
• A Thermogenic-Like Brown Adipose Tissue Phenotype is Dispensable for Enhanced Glucose Tolerance in Female Mice.
• Dynamic Mitochondrial Responses to a High-fat Diet in Drosophila Melanogaster.

Clinical

• RCT: Improving Child Weight Management Uptake Through Enhanced National Child Measurement Programme Parental Feedback Letters.
• RCT: The Effect of a Low Carbohydrate Formula on Glycaemia in Critically Ill Enterally-fed Adult Patients with Hyperglycaemia.
• Rural-Urban Variation in Weight Loss Recommendations Among US Older Adults with Arthritis and Obesity.
• Satisfaction with Health Care Among Individuals with Overweight and Obesity: A Nationally Representative Cross-sectional Study.
• Metformin: Mechanisms in Human Obesity and Weight Loss.

Children and Adolescents

• Nutrition-Related Practices of Family Child Care Providers and Differences By Ethnicity.
• The STRONG Kids 2 Birth Cohort Study: A Cell-to-Society Approach to Dietary Habits and Weight Trajectories Across the First 5 Years of Life.
• Prospective Study of Physical Activity of Preterm Born Children From Age 5 to 14 Years.
• Altered Thyroid Function and Structure in Overweight and Obese Children and Adolescents: Reversal After Weight Loss.
• Global Evolution of Obesity Research in Children and Youths: Setting Priorities for Interventions and Policies.

Surgery

• Early Weight Loss in Adolescents Following Bariatric Surgery Predicts Weight Loss at 12 and 24 Months.
• RCT: Four Weeks of Preoperative Omega-3 Fatty Acids Reduce Liver Volume.
• Effect of BMI on Surgical Outcomes After Posterior Spinal Fusion for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis.

Drugs

• Metoprolol Succinate: Genetic Aspects of Individual Sensitivity and Efficacy in Patients with Obesity and Chronic Heart Failure.
• Beneficial Effect of Sitagliptin on High Fat Diet Induced Obesity in Wistar Rats.
• RCT: The Effects of Topiramate on Weight Gain in Patients with Schizophrenia.
• RCT: The SGLT2 Inhibitor Dapagliflozin Reduces Liver Fat but Does Not Affect Tissue Insulin Sensitivity in Type 2 Diabetes Patients.

Food & Diet

• Whole Egg Consumption Impairs Insulin Sensitivity in Rat Model of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: The Effect of a New Mixture of Sugar and Sugar-alcohols Compared to Sucrose and Glucose on Blood Glucose Increase and the Possible Adverse Reactions.
• Anti-obesity Effect in High-fat-diet-induced Obese C57BL/6 Mice: Study of a Novel Extract From Mulberry (Morus Alba) Leaves Fermented with Cordyceps Militaris.
• RCT: Effects of a Low Carbohydrate Diet on Energy Expenditure During Weight Loss Maintenance.

Caloric Restriction

• Is Rapamycin a Dietary Restriction Mimetic?
• Apolipoprotein M: A Novel Adipokine Decreasing with Obesity and Upregulated By Calorie Restriction.
• Time-restricted Feeding Causes Irreversible Metabolic Disorders and Gut Microbiota Shift in Pediatric Mice.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: The Feasibility and Acceptability of Morning Versus Evening Exercise for Overweight and Obese Adults.
• Precision Exercise Medicine: Understanding Exercise Response Variability.
• RCT: How Does 6 Months of Active Bike Commuting or Leisure-time Exercise Affect Insulin Sensitivity, Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Intra-abdominal Fat?
• Increasing Access to Physical Activity Within Low Income and Diverse Communities: A Systematic Review.
• Clustering of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior Associated to Risk for Metabolic Syndrome in Older Adults.
• Effectiveness of Healthcare Interventions Using Objective Feedback on Physical Activity: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Economics & Sociology

• Influence of Individual Life Course and Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Position on Dietary Intake in African Americans: The Jackson Heart Study.
• Family Environment, Children's Acculturation and Mothers' Dietary Intake and Behaviors Among Latinas: An Autoregressive Cross-lagged Study.

Epidemiology

• Serum Adiponectin is Associated with Body Composition and Cognitive and Psychological Status in Older Adults Living in Long-term Nursing Homes.
• Within-country Migration and Obesity Dynamics: Analysis of 94,783 Women From the Peruvian Demographic and Health Surveys.
• Investigating Gene–Gene and Gene–Environment Interactions in the Association Between Overnutrition and Obesity-Related Phenotypes.
• External Validation and Comparison of Four Cardiovascular Risk Prediction Models with Data From the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• The Strategic Location of Glycogen and Lactate: From Body Energy Reserve to Brain Plasticity.
• Infant Psychosocial Environment Predicts Adolescent Cardiometabolic Risk: A Prospective Study.
• Effects of Sleep Restriction on Food-Related Inhibitory Control and Reward in Adolescents.
• Hierarchical-drift Diffusion Model of the Roles of Hunger, Caloric Density and Valence in Food Selection.
• Negative Affect, Dietary Restriction, and Food Choice in Bulimia Nervosa.

Equity and Disparities

• Rural‐Urban Disparities in Total Physical Activity, Body Composition, and Related Health Indicators: An Atlantic PATH Study.
• The Education Gradient in Health: The Case of Obesity in the UK and US.

Stigma

• Information Targeting Increases the Weight of Stigma.
• Using an Acceptance-based Behavioral Approach as a Supplement to Obesity Treatment.
• Talking About Childhood Obesity: A Survey of What Parents Want.
• Weight-related Shame and Guilt, Intuitive Eating, and Binge Eating in Female College Students.
• Fat is a Social Justice Issue, Too.

Policy Related

• The Role of Urban Design in Childhood Obesity‐A Case Study in Lisbon, Portugal.
• UK Children’s Body Mass Index Report Cards: Public Benefit or Poor Policy?
• Prevention of Overweight and Obesity Undertaken By Local Government Units in Poland.
• Too Little, Too Slowly: International Perspectives on Childhood Obesity. (pdf)
• Using Concept Maps to Compare Obesity Knowledge Between Policy Makers and Primary Care Researchers in Canada.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Cascading Impacts of Large-carnivore Extirpation in an African Ecosystem.
• Energy Expenditure and Body Temperature Variations in Llamas Living in the High Andes of Peru.
• Context-dependent Scaling of Kinematics and Energetics During Contests and Feeding in Mantis Shrimp.

Methods

• A Comparison of Mean-Based and Quantile Regression Methods for Analyzing Self-Report Dietary Intake Data.
• Estimating the Burden of Child Malnutrition Across Parliamentary Constituencies in India: A Methodological Comparison.
• Issues in Measuring and Interpreting Diet and Its Contribution to Obesity.
• Issues in Measuring the Healthiness of Food Environments and Interpreting Relationships with Diet, Obesity and Related Health Outcomes.

Commentary

• "Obesity and Diabetes ARE Regressive; A Soda Tax? Not so much..."
• Lesbian and Bisexual Women More at Risk for Obesity, Study Finds.
• Obesity Rate Climbing in Indiana, New Study Says.
• Not All Clickbait is Obvious — Here’s How to Protect Yourself From Sneaky Nutrition Misinformation.
• The Surprisingly Positive Association Between Obesity and Cancer Immunotherapy Efficacy.

General

• Does Evidence Support the High Expectations Placed in Precision Medicine? A Bibliographic Review.
• "A plant virus distributes its genes into eight separate segments that can all reproduce, even if they infect different cells."
• Noir I – the Anti-executioner [Peer Review].
• Males as Somatic Investment in a Parthenogenetic Nematode.
• Vassar College President Elizabeth Bradley, About What Economics, Healthcare Management, and Art History Have Taught Her About How to Be an Effective Leader.
• TedX Talk: How to Help Youth See Past the Present and Dream Big.
• Epidemiologists of the Future: Data Collector or Scientist?
• Integrating Social and Behavioral Determinants of Health Into Population Health Analytics: A Conceptual Framework and Suggested Road Map.
• Food Security and 10-Year Cardiovascular Disease Risk Among U.S. Adults.
• Hot Topics in Science Communication: Aggressive Language Decreases Trustworthiness and Credibility in Scientific Debates.
• Human Sound Systems are Shaped By Post-Neolithic Changes in Bite Configuration.
• Scientists Rise Up Against Statistical Significance.
• “Retire Statistical Significance”: The Discussion.

Video & Audio

• Podcast: Researchers’ Attempts to Tackle the Long-term Effects of Pediatric Cancer Treatment.
• Video: The Food Exposome and Brain Aging: An Epidemiological Approach - Cecilia Samieri, PhD.

Announcements

• Travel Scholarships Available and Registration Open for Short Courses on Causal Inference and Mathematical Sciences in Obesity Research, Summer 2019.
• IU Study Aims to Better Understand Repetitive Head Impacts in Sports.
• UAB's Mona Fouad is 2018 Distinguished Faculty Lecturer.
• NORC of UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• IU School of Public Health Bloomington Continues Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track Positions Available in Every Department: Multiple Listings Posted.