Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Adipose Tissue Senescence and Inflammation in Aging is Reversed by the Young Milieu.
• Obesity as a Disease: The Obesity Society 2018 Position Statement.
• Effects of Exercise and Food Additive Monosodium Glutamate on Life Span in Caenorhabditis Elegans.
• Twenty‐five Years of Research About Adipogenic Adenoviruses: A Systematic Review.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Skipping Breakfast Raises the Chance of Type-2 Diabetes By a Third – and Starting the Day with Muesli is the Best Way to Ward Off the Deadly Condition.
• Study: Self-reported Breakfast Habits Associated with Diabetes in Meta-analysis of 6 Studies. Causation Not Established. Muesli Not Studied.
• Headline and News Analysis: An analysis of newspaper coverage of sedentary behaviour as a health issue in Australia: "Sitting ducks face chronic disease."

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "The primary analyses show no evidence of clinical effectiveness or cost-effectiveness...The West Midlands ActiVe lifestyle and healthy Eating in School children (WAVES) study..."
• RCT: No Effect on BMI of a School-Based Comprehensive Intervention for Childhood Obesity in China.
• RCT: A Mobile Health-supported Behavioral Intervention Did Not Decrease the Incidence of GDM.
• RCT: "HeLP is not effective or cost-effective in preventing overweight or obesity in children aged 9–10 years."
• RCT: "Although BMI and MUAC were found to be higher in the MINGO group compared to the control group, these effects have not been found to be statistically significant after adjusting for BFM score, Eat 10 score, and MGH SST score."
• RCT: "DHA supplementation in the second half of pregnancy has no effect on childhood growth or fat mass at 7 years of age, supporting findings from follow ups of the DOMInO children at 3 and 5 years."
• RCT: "Substituting white rice with green lentils within a food matrix such as chili may help to increase satiety but may not translate to a decrease in subsequent food intake."
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, a higher macronutrient intake during the first three weeks of life predicted higher fasting insulin concentration in young adulthood."
• "Thus, contrary to prior thinking, gluconeogenesis can operate in bloodstream form T. brucei."

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• "The moderate use/reporting of fidelity strategies within trials of infant feeding interventions suggests that previous findings of inconsistent effectiveness may not fully reflect the intended interventions."
• A Serious Flaw in Nutrition Epidemiology: A Meta-Analysis Study.
• Dubious and Fraudulent Activities in Sports Nutrition.

Basic

• Intact Innervation is Essential for Diet-Induced Recruitment of Brown Adipose Tissue.
• Sonic Hedgehog Signaling Instigates High-Fat Diet-Induced Insulin Resistance By Targeting PPARγ Stability.
• The Gα12/13-Coupled Receptor LPA4 Limits Proper Adipose Tissue Expansion and Remodeling in Diet-Induced Obesity.
• Tumor Suppressor RARRES1: A Novel Regulator of Fatty Acid Metabolism in Epithelial Cells.
• Expansion of Islet-Resident Macrophages Leads to Inflammation Affecting β Cell Proliferation and Function in Obesity.
• REVIEW: An Update on Immune Dysregulation in Obesity‐related Insulin Resistance.
• Fatty Acid Uptake and Oxidation are Increased in the Liver of Rats with Adjuvant-Induced Arthritis.
• Hypothalamic Gene Transfer of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) Promotes Healthy Aging in Mice.
• The Effects of Aging on Rho Kinase and Insulin Signalling in Skeletal Muscle and White Adipose Tissue of Rats.

Clinical

• RCT: Effect of Vitamin D Supplementation Along with Weight Loss Diet on Meta‐inflammation and Fat Mass in Obese Subjects with Vitamin D Deficiency.
• Diabetes Knowledge of Primary Health Care and Specialist Nurses in a Major Urban Area.
• RCT: Intensive Behavioral Therapy for Obesity Combined with Liraglutide 3.0 Mg.
• RCT: The Acute Effects of Dietary Carbohydrate Reduction on Postprandial Responses of Non-esterified Fatty Acids and Triglycerides.
• Benefits of Community Gardening Activity in Obesity Intervention: Findings From F.E.A.T. Programme.

Children and Adolescents

• Adolescent Body Composition and Associations with Body Size and Growth From Birth to Late Adolescence.
• Adolescent Obesity and Weapon Carrying at School.
• Prevention and Treatment of Pediatric Obesity: A Strategy Involving Children, Adolescents and the Family for Improved Body Composition.

Surgery

• A 23-Year Study of Mortality and Development of Co-morbidities in Patients with Obesity Undergoing Bariatric Surgery in Comparison with Medical Treatment of Obesity.
• Cancer Risk Following Bariatric Surgery—Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of National Population-Based Cohort Studies.

Drugs

• Gender-related Issues in the Pharmacology of New Anti-obesity Drugs.
• The Key Role of a Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonist in Body Fat Redistribution.
• Safety and Weight Gain with Drugs for Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: Pegbelfermin (BMS‐986036), PEGylated FGF21, in Patients with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.

Food & Diet

• The Effect of Daily Fluid Management and Beverages Consumption on the Risk of Bladder Cancer: A Meta-analysis of Observational Study.
• Dietary Sugar Silences a Colonization Factor in a Mammalian Gut Symbiont.
• Phytoecdysteroid-enriched Quinoa Seed Leachate Enhances Healthspan and Mitochondrial Metabolism in Caenorhabditis Elegans.

Caloric Restriction

• Food Restriction, but Not Seasonality, Modulates the Acute Phase Response of a Neotropical Bat.
• Calorie Restriction Reprograms Diurnal Rhythms in Protein Translation to Regulate Metabolism.
• REVIEW: Intermittent Versus Continuous Energy Restriction on Weight Loss and Cardiometabolic Outcomes.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• In Swiss Young Men, "The Secular Trends of Decreasing Physical Performances and Increasing BMI Have Stopped...Over the Last Ten Years."
• Dynamics of Pleasure-Displeasure at the Limit of Exercise Tolerance: Conceptualizing the Sense of Exertional Physical Fatigue as an Affective Response.
• The Effects of Exercise Regimens on Irisin Levels in Obese Rats Model: Comparing High-Intensity Intermittent with Continuous Moderate-Intensity Training.

Economics & Sociology

• Preschool Environmental Factors, Parental Socioeconomic Status, and Children’s Sedentary Time: An Examination of Cross-Level Interactions.
• A Meta-analysis of the Literature on the Association of the Social and Built Environment with Obesity: Identifying Factors in Need of More In-Depth Research.

Epidemiology

• Association Between Added Sugar Intake and Mortality is Nonlinear and Dependent on Sugar Source in 2 Swedish Population–based Prospective Cohorts.
• Neighbourhood Convenience Stores and Childhood Weight Outcomes: An Instrumental Variable Approach.
• Proportion of Cancer Cases Attributable to Excess Body Weight By US State, 2011-2015.
• Geographic Variation in Obesity, Behavioral Treatment, and Bariatric Surgery for Veterans.
• Does the Obesity Paradox Predict Functional Outcome in Intracerebral Hemorrhage?
• Regional and Traffic-related Air Pollutants are Associated with Higher Consumption of Fast Food and Trans Fat Among Adolescents.
• Obesity Survival Paradox in Cancer Patients: Results From the Physical Frailty in Older Adult Cancer Patients (PF-EC) Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Friendship as a Social Mechanism Influencing BMI Among Emerging Adults.
• Incentivizing Healthy Behaviors at Scale: Closing the Gap Between Science and Population-Level Implementation.
• Comparing Anxiety and Depression to Obesity and Smoking as Predictors of Major Medical Illnesses and Somatic Symptoms.
• Impulsivity is Associated with Food Intake, Snacking, and Eating Disorders in a General Population.
• Evaluating Associations Between Metabolic Health, Obesity and Depressive Symptoms: A Prospective Analysis of Data From the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) with a 2‑year Follow‑up.

Equity and Disparities

• Cultures Under Stress: A Cross-national Meta-analysis of Cortisol Responses to the Trier Social Stress Test and Their Association with Anxiety-related Value Orientations and Internalizing Mental Disorders.
• We are What We Eat: Obesity, Income, and Social Comparisons.
• Socioeconomic Factors and Inequality in the Prevalence and Treatment of Diabetes Among Middle-Aged and Elderly Adults in China.
• Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities Among Immigrants and Their Children.

Stigma

• Two Sides of Weight Bias in Adolescent Binge‐eating Disorder: Adolescents’ Perceptions and Maternal Attitudes.
• Implicit Attitudes Toward Dieting and Thinness Distinguish Fat‐phobic and Non‐fat‐phobic Anorexia Nervosa From Avoidant/restrictive Food Intake Disorder in Adolescents.

Policy Related

• Evaluation of a Mobile Farmer's Market Aimed at Increasing Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Food Deserts: A Pilot Study to Determine Evaluation Feasibility.
• Methods for Trustworthy Nutritional Recommendations NutriRECS (Nutritional Recommendations and Accessible Evidence Summaries Composed of Systematic Reviews): A Protocol.
• Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) Position Statement: Enact Taxes on Sugar Sweetened Beverages to Prevent Chronic Disease.

Intergenerational Effects

• Is Energy Balance in Pregnancy Involved in the Etiology of Gestational Diabetes in Women with Obesity?
• Prenatal Exercise and Pre-gestational Diseases: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Turpor Reduces Predation Risk By Compensating for the Energetic Cost of Antiforaging Behaviors.
• The Covariance Between Metabolic Rate and Behaviour Varies Across Behaviours and Thermal Types: Meta‐analytic Insights.
• Maternal Diet and Age Alter Direct and Indirect Relationships Between Life‐history Traits Across Multiple Generations.

Methods

• A Bioassay for Monitoring the Effect of Diet on Lipid Accumulation in Drosophila Melanogaster Larvae.
• Comparison of Three Meta-analytic Methods Using Data From Digital Interventions on Type 2 Diabetes.
• Can Waist Circumference Provide a New “third” Dimension to BMI When Predicting Percentage Body Fat in Children? Insights Using Allometric Modelling.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Diagnostic Performance of an Artificial Neural Network to Predict Excess Body Fat in Children.
• Mathematical Model of Infertility Due to Obesity in Female.

Commentary

• The Mundane Miracle of Intermittent Fasting.
• Belly Fat Reduction Mechanisms From Exercise Revealed.
• Spitballs Taking Flight in the Guise of Theories.
• Cut Carbs and Lose Weight.
• What’s Hot or Not for 2019 in Fitness, Nutrition, and Health.
• Intermittent Fasting Induces Weight Loss, but the Effects on Cardiometabolic Health are Modulated by Energy Balance.

General

• Communicating Uncertainty in Policy Analysis.
• Birth Cohort Effects on the Quantity and Heritability of Alcohol Consumption in Adulthood: A Finnish Longitudinal Twin Study.
• Super Awesome Science Show: Smells of the Season.
• Adaptive Design in Surveys and Clinical Trials: Similarities, Differences and Opportunities for Cross‐fertilization.
• Elucidating Cuttlefish Camouflage.
• The Effectiveness of Advertising Embedded in Televised Sport Programming: How Team Performance Influences De Formation.
• Environmental Changes and Sexually Antagonistic Selection.
• The Moving to Health (M2H) Approach to Natural Experiment Research: A Paradigm Shift for Studies on Built Environment and Health.
• Vaccine-induced T-cell responses do not predict the rate of acquisition after repeated intrarectal SIVmac239 challenges in Mamu-B*08+ rhesus macaques.
• Bigger Brains in Trickier Habitats.

Announcements

• IU SPH Seeks a Director, Grant Administration.
• Workshop Report: Understanding and Overcoming the Challenge of Obesity and Overweight in the Armed Forces: Proceedings of a Workshop.
• 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 Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track Positions Available in Every Department and Two Department Chairs Open: See Multiple Listings Posted Here.

Featured

• Advanced Dietary Patterns Analysis Using Sparse Latent Factor Models in Young Adults.
• RCT: Reduced Eating Pace (RePace) Behavioral Intervention for Children Prone to or with Obesity: Does the Turtle Win the Race?
• Contribution of Wetted Clothing to Body Energy Exchange and Heat Stress.
• RCT: "participation during childhood in a preventive intervention to enhance supportive parenting can ameliorate the effects of life in a disadvantaged neighborhood on men's drug use and women's BMI across ages 19-25 years."

Headline vs. Study

• Headline: Ghee For Weight Loss: This Is How Ghee Helps Burn Belly Fat.
• Study: We find no study demonstrating this.
• Headline: Researchers Make a Tiny Implant to Help You with Weight Loss.
• Study: Effective Weight Control Via an Implanted Self-powered Vagus Nerve Stimulation Device... In Rats.
• Headline critique: Implantable Device ‘aids Weight Loss’? Let’s Wait for the Evidence.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: A Purported Detoxification Supplement Does Not Improve Body Composition, Waist Circumference, Blood Markers, or Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Healthy Adult Females.
• RCT: "We found no evidence of any beneficial effect of monthly vitamin D3 supplementation on mood-related outcomes in healthy premenopausal women over the winter period, so recommendations for supplementations are not warranted in this population for mood-related outcomes."
• RCT: In a School-Based Comprehensive Intervention for Childhood Obesity in China, "intervention did not mitigate excess weight gain."
• RCT: "Short-term treatment with standard diabetic doses of metformin does not reduce tumor proliferation in women with endometrioid endometrial cancer awaiting hysterectomy."
• RCT: L-Arginine Supplementation Does Not Affect BMR, [18F]FDG Uptake By BAT, or Skeletal Muscle Mitochondrial Respiration in Europid and South Asian Overweight and Prediabetic Men.
• RCT: No Significant Effect of a Childcare-based Intervention to Reduce Sitting Time Among Pre-schoolers.
• "Contrary to our hypotheses, only treadmill improved forward walking, while backward walking improved with treadmill and stretching."
• RCT: "Although measures of self-reported PA and stage of change suggest the effectiveness of the counselling intervention, the results obtained with accelerometers are contrasting, probably due to the fact that some types of PA participants engaged in could not be recorder by accelerometers."

Basic

• Modulation of HIF-2α PAS-B Domain Contributes to Physiological Responses in Hypoxic and Metabolic Stress.
• Spray Dried Smectite Clay Particles as a Novel Treatment Against Obesity.
• Partial Inhibition of the Hypothalamic Iroquois Homeobox 3 (IRX3) Gene Exacerbates an Obese Phenotype in Mice.
• IRX5 Regulates Adipocyte Amyloid Precursor Protein and Mitochondrial Respiration in Obesity.
• Effective Weight Control Via an Implanted Self-powered Vagus Nerve Stimulation Device.
• Weight Control Success and Depression By Gender with Respect to Weight Control Behaviors.
• Noise-induced Sleep Disruption Increases Weight Gain and Decreases Energy Metabolism in Female Rats.
• Dopamine and Diet-induced Obesity.
• Twenty‐five Years of Research About Adipogenic Adenoviruses: A Systematic Review.
• Transcriptional Control of Brown and Beige Fat Development and Function.
• Anti-obesity Effects of GIPR Antagonists Alone and in Combination with GLP-1R Agonists in Preclinical Models.
• Environmental Temperature Effects on Adipose Tissue Growth in a Hibernator.
• Nutrient Biomarker Patterns, Cognitive Function, and FMRI Measures of Network Efficiency in the Aging Brain.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Correction To: A Mathematical Model of the Effects of Resistance Exercise-induced Muscle Hypertrophy on Body Composition.
• Comment on ‘Exercise Training Decreases Pancreatic Fat Content and Improves Beta Cell Function Regardless of Baseline Glucose Tolerance: A Randomised Controlled Trial’.
• Comment on ‘Exercise Training Decreases Pancreatic Fat Content and Improves Beta Cell Function Regardless of Baseline Glucose Tolerance: A Randomised Controlled Trial’. Reply to Amini P and Moharamzadeh S [letter].
• Letter to the Editor: “Effectiveness of Prenatal Vitamin D Deficiency Screening and Treatment Program: A Stratified Randomized Field Trial”.
• Response to Letter to the Editor: “Effectiveness of Prenatal Vitamin D Deficiency Screening and Treatment Program: A Stratified Randomized Field Trial”.
• Letter to the Editor—comments on Kleckner Et Al. (2018) “Effects of Exercise During Chemotherapy-induced Peripheral Neuropathy: A Multicenter, Randomized Controlled Trial”.
• Improving the Scientific Rigor of Nutritional Recommendations for Adults with Diabetes.
• Former Cedars-Sinai Scientist Committed Misconduct in Food Preservatives-obesity Paper.
• Notice of Retraction and Replacement. Snook Et Al. Change in Percentages of Adults with Overweight or Obesity Trying to Lose Weight, 1988-2014.

Clinical

• Insulin Translates Unfavourable Lifestyle Into Obesity.
• Obesity Management for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes: Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes—2019.
• ¡Viva Maryvale!: A Multilevel, Multisector Model to Community-Based Diabetes Prevention.

Children and Adolescents

• A Narrative Review of Childhood Picky Eating and Its Relationship to Food Intakes, Nutritional Status, and Growth.
• Predictors of Resilience Among Infants at Risk for Rapid Weight Gain.
• The Association Between Vascular Complications During Pregnancy in Women with Type 1 Diabetes and Congenital Malformations.
• Antibiotic and Acid-suppression Medications During Early Childhood are Associated with Obesity.
• Drivers of Overweight/Obesity in 4–11 Year Old Children of Australians and Immigrants; Evidence From Growing Up in Australia.
• Cognitive Restriction Accentuates the Increased Energy Intake Response to a 10-month Multidisciplinary Weight Loss Program in Adolescents with Obesity.
• Dietary Patterns and Association with Obesity of Children Aged 6–17 Years in Medium and Small Cities in China: Findings From the CNHS 2010–2012.
• Time Trends in Prevalence and Incidence Rates of Childhood Overweight and Obesity in Portugal: Generation XXI Birth Cohort.
• Screening and Referral for Childhood Obesity: Adherence to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation.
• Systematic Review of Natural Experiments for Childhood Obesity Prevention and Control.
• BMI Change During Puberty is an Important Determinant of Adult Type 2 Diabetes Risk in Men.

Surgery

• Association of Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass Surgery with Telomere Length in Patients with Obesity.
• Paired Editorial: Five-year Changes in Dietary Intake and Body Composition in Adolescents with Severe Obesity Undergoing Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery.
• Surgical Management of Obesity.

Drugs

• RCT: Leucine-Metformin-Sildenafil Combination (NS-0200) on Weight and Metabolic Parameters.
• RCT: Linagliptin as Add-on to Empagliflozin in a Fixed-dose Combination in Japanese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: Glycaemic Efficacy and Safety Profile.
• RCT: Intensive Behavioral Therapy for Obesity Combined with Liraglutide 3.0 Mg.
• Sustained 52‐week Efficacy and Safety of Triple Therapy with Dapagliflozin Plus Saxagliptin Versus Dual Therapy with Sitagliptin Added to Metformin in Patients with Uncontrolled Type 2 Diabetes.
• Association of Second-line Antidiabetic Medications with Cardiovascular Events Among Insured Adults with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Inula Japonica Thunb. Flower Ethanol Extract Improves Obesity and Exercise Endurance in Mice Fed a High-Fat Diet.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Appetite Responses to High-fat Diets Rich in Mono-unsaturated Versus Poly-unsaturated Fats.
• Contrasting Effects of Short-Term Mediterranean and Vegan Diets on Microvascular Function and Cholesterol in Younger Adults: A Comparative Pilot Study.
• The Relationship Between Food Security and Type of Carbohydrate Consumed Among Coronary Heart Patients: A Case-Control Study. (pdf)
• Daily Yogurt Consumption Improves Glucose Metabolism and Insulin Sensitivity in Young Nondiabetic Japanese Subjects with Type-2 Diabetes Risk Alleles.
• Depression and Eating Styles are Independently Associated with Dietary Intake.
• Blackcurrant (Ribes Nigrum) Prevents Obesity‐Induced Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis in Mice.
• Dietary Cadmium Intake and Sources in the US.
• Ghrelin Enhances Food Odor Conditioning in Healthy Humans: An FMRI Study.

Caloric Restriction

• Differential Metabolic Responses to Adipose Atrophy Associated with Cancer Cachexia and Caloric Restriction in Rats and the Effect of Rikkunshito in Cancer Cachexia.
• Comparing the Effects of Low-Protein and High-Carbohydrate Diets and Caloric Restriction on Brain Aging in Mice.
• Effects of Intermittent Versus Continuous Energy Intakes on Insulin Sensitivity and Metabolic Risk in Women with Overweight.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Hunter‐gatherers as Models in Public Health.
• How Does Exercise Treatment Compare with Antihypertensive Medications? A Network Meta-analysis of 391 RCTs Assessing Exercise and Medication Effects on Systolic Blood Pressure.
• How are Different Levels of Knowledge About Physical Activity Associated with Physical Activity Behaviour in Australian Adults?

Economics & Sociology

• Psychological and Biological Pathways Linking Perceived Neighborhood Characteristics and BMI.
• Associations of Changes in BMI and Body Fat Percentage with Demographic and Socioeconomic Factors: The ELANA Middle School Cohort.
• Child Obesity and the Interaction of Family and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Context.
• Do Neighborhoods Matter? A Systematic Review of Modifiable Risk Factors for Obesity Among Low Socio-Economic Status, Black and Hispanic Children.

Epidemiology

• Patterns of Weight Change Associated with Disease Diagnosis in a National Sample.
• Examining the Pattern of New Foods and Beverages Consumed During Obesity Treatment to Inform Strategies for Self-monitoring Intake.
• The Role of Time Use Behaviors in the Risk of Obesity Among Low-Income Mothers.
• The Complicated Effects of Obesity on Cancer and Immunotherapy.
• Diabetes, Plasma Glucose, and Incidence of Fatty Liver, Cirrhosis, and Liver Cancer: A Prospective Study of 0.5 Million People.
• Mean Body Weight, Height, Waist Circumference, and BMI Among Adults: United States, 1999–2000 Through 2015–2016. (pdf)
• Obesity and Lipid-related Parameters for Predicting Metabolic Syndrome in Chinese Elderly Population.
• Prevalence and Correlates of Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome in a Rural Indigenous Community in Baja California, Mexico.
• Pre‐ and Post‐diagnosis BMI and Heart Failure Mortality: A Dose–response Meta‐analysis of Observational Studies Reveals Greater Risk of Being Underweight than Being Overweight.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Acculturation and Sugar-sweetened Beverage Consumption Among Hispanic Adolescents: The Moderating Effect of Impulsivity.
• Allostatic load and executive functions in overweight adults.

Ethics

• Feasibility of Reidentifying Individuals in Large National Physical Activity Data Sets From Which Protected Health Information Has Been Removed with Use of Machine Learning.
• Media, ‘Fat Panic’ and Public Pedagogy: Mapping Contested Terrain.

Stigma

• Fitspo at Every Size? A Comparative Content Analysis of #curvyfit Versus #curvyyoga Instagram Images.
• Anti-Fat Bias Among General Practitioners Effect on Treatment of Tension Headache in Patients with Obesity.
• The Relationship Between Weight Status and Depressive Symptoms in a Population Sample with Obesity.
• The Obesity Society Updates Position on Obesity.
• Physical and Mental Health and Stigma in Canadian Military Personnel and Canadian Civilians.
• Obesity as a Disease: The Obesity Society 2018 Position Statement.

Policy Related

• Report From a Symposium on Accelerating Policy-driven Action Against Excessive Sugar Consumption for the Prevention of Early Childhood Caries and Noncommunicable Diseases.
• Minneapolis Food Law Has Done Little to Change Consumer Habits (so Far).
• A Meta-Analysis of Food Labeling Effects on Consumer Diet Behaviors and Industry Practices.
• Supermarket Policies on Less-healthy Food at Checkouts: Natural Experimental Evaluation Using Interrupted Time Series Analyses of Purchases.
• Unpacking Walkability Indices and Their Inherent Assumptions.

Intergenerational Effects

• Breastfeeding: A Key Modulator of Gut Microbiota Characteristics in Late Infancy.
• Association of Maternal Prepregnancy Weight with Offspring Adiposity Throughout Adulthood Over 37 Years of Follow‐up.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• The Interplay Between Voluntary Food Intake, Dietary Carbohydrate-lipid Ratio and Nutrient Metabolism in an Amphibian, (Xenopus Laevis).
• Do Naked Mole Rats Accumulate a Metabolic Acidosis or an Oxygen Debt in Severe Hypoxia?
• Counting the Breaths of Wild Porpoises Reveals Their Revved-up Metabolism.
• Frailty as metabolic failure: insights from evolution, energetics and epidemiology.

Methods

• Dietary Assessment Toolkits: An Overview.
• Implications of the Variation in Biological 18O Natural Abundance in Body Water to Inform Use of Bayesian Methods for Modelling Total Energy Expenditure When Using Doubly Labelled Water.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Optimisation of Children Z-score Calculation Based on New Statistical Techniques.
• Modeling Users’ Online Participation: Evidence From Online Weight-Loss Communities.

Commentary

• What's the Harm of Hanging on to Weak Dietary Advice?
• The Biggest Whoppers of 2018 in Health and Obesity.

General

• Friendships in Animals.
• Randomization: The Forgotten Component of the RCT.
• Remarkable Problem-solving Ability of Unicellular Amoeboid Organism and Its Mechanism.
• Small Acts of Kindness.
• Maternal effects on offspring aging: rotifers as a model system for aging.
• A Mathematical Weibull Model to Unravel the Involvement of Acute Exercise on Serum Growth Hormone Response in Elite Male Water Polo Players. (pdf)
• Prolonged Ovarian Acyclicity is Associated with a Higher Likelihood of Developing Hyperprolactinemia in Zoo Female African Elephants.
• Real-world Data Reveal a Diagnostic Gap in Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• Oculomotor Response to Cumulative Subconcussive Head Impacts in US High School Football Players.
• The Joy of Giving Lasts Longer than the Joy of Getting.
• IU study focuses on repetitive subconcussive head impacts in sports.
• Sitting on an Increased Risk of Death.

Video & Audio

• Podcast: Rudy Leibel, M.D.: Finding the Obesity Gene and Discovering Leptin (EP.33).
• Audio: What Happens When You Double Dip that Chip?

Announcements

• APHA's Billion Steps Challenge: The Challenge Begins Jan. 1, 2019.
• 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 Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track Positions Available in Every Department and Two Department Chairs Open: See Multiple Listings Posted Here.

Featured

• The Energy Requirements and Metabolic Benefits of Wilderness Hunting in Alaska.
• Irisin Mediates Effects on Bone and Fat Via αV Integrin Receptors.
• Quantifying the Imprecision of Energy Intake of Humans to Compensate for Imposed Energetic Errors: A Challenge to the Physiological Control of Human Food Intake.
• Compensation in Response to Energy Deficits Induced By Exercise or Diet.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Fighting Obesity—Could It Be as Plain as Dirt?
• Study: Spray Dried Smectite Clay Particles as a Novel Treatment Against Obesity... In Rats.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "School feeding had no effect on HAZ and BAZ [height-for-age and BMI-for-age scores] in children aged 5-15 years."
• RCT: No Meaningfully Differential Effects of Different Effects of BodyPump and Traditional Heavy Load Resistance Training.
• RCT: "Videoconference and community‐based delivery were as effective [or as ineffective] as an FQHC‐based weight loss program."
• "Contrary to hypotheses, however, participants reported moderately positive attitudes toward treating the client regardless of BMI."
• "There was no difference in the occurrence of incident metabolic comorbidities between lean NAFLD and non-lean NAFLD."
• "We found no association between early life BMI and subsequent dementia..."
• "we tested the hypothesis that calorically matched interval (INT) training would improve both fasted and post-prandial arterial stiffness more than continuous (CONT) exercise in adults with prediabetes" and found no statistically significant support.
• "We found no evidence for a persistent effect of prenatal exposure to traffic pollution on BMI trajectory from birth through mid-childhood in a population exposed to modest levels of air pollution."
• "...fast food contained 33% less energy than full service meals."

Basic

• Doubled Lifespan and Patient‐like Pathologies in Progeria Mice Fed High‐fat Diet.
• CRISPR-mediated Activation of a Promoter or Enhancer Rescues Obesity Caused By Haploinsufficiency.
• Genetic Nicotinamide N-Methyltransferase (Nnmt) Deficiency in Male Mice Improves Insulin Sensitivity in Diet-Induced Obesity but Does Not Affect Glucose Tolerance.
• Loss of μ-Crystallin Causes PPARγ Activation and Obesity in High-Fat Diet-Fed Mice.
• Sex Differences in Inflammatory Responses to Adipose Tissue Lipolysis in Diet-Induced Obesity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Establishing Validity and Cross-Context Equivalence of Measures and Indicators.
• Quantifying the Imprecision of Energy Intake of Humans to Compensate for Imposed Energetic Errors: A Challenge to the Physiological Control of Human Food Intake.
• The Case of GWAS of Obesity: Does Body Weight Control Play By the Rules?
• Letter: GWAS for BMI. A Treasure Trove of Fundamental Insights Into the Genetic Basis of Obesity.
• Thanks for Opening an Overdue Discussion on GWAS of BMI: A Reply to Prof. Speakman et al.

Clinical

• RCT: The ICook 4-H Study: Report on Physical Activity and Sedentary Time in Youth Participating in a Multicomponent Program Promoting Family Cooking, Eating, and Playing Together.
• Bariatric Surgery, Lifestyle Interventions and Orlistat for Severe Obesity: The REBALANCE Mixed-methods Systematic Review and Economic Evaluation.
• Exercise and Diet: Different Tools for Different Jobs. (pdf)
• Is Waist Circumference More Strongly Associated with Metabolic Risk Factors than Waist-to-height Ratio in Asians?
• RCT: Effectiveness of a Brief Behavioural Intervention to Prevent Weight Gain Over the Christmas Holiday Period.

Children and Adolescents

• 2‐hr Vs. 1‐hr Glucose Tolerance Testing: Predicting Prediabetes in Adolescent Girls with Obesity.
• RCT: Implementing School-Based Policies to Prevent Obesity.

Surgery

• Change in Brain Volume and Cortical Thickness After Behavioral and Surgical Weight Loss Intervention.
• Lack of Standard Definitions of Primary and Secondary (Non)responders After Primary Gastric Bypass and Gastric Sleeve: A Systematic Review.

Drugs

• RCT: Pegbelfermin (BMS-986036), PEGylated FGF21, in Patients with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.
• Liraglutide Induces Beige Fat Development and Promotes Mitochondrial Function in Diet Induced Obesity Mice Partially Through AMPK-SIRT-1-PGC1-α Cell Signaling Pathway.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Effect of Dried Fruit on Postprandial Glycemia.
• Blueberry Containing Diets Protect From Bone Loss Induced By Sex Steroid Deficiency Differently Depending on Sex and By Mechanisms Independent of Canonical Sex Steroid Receptor Signaling.
• RCT: Anti-obesity and Anti-hyperlipidemic Activity of Processed Honey.
• RCT: A 12-wk Whole-grain Wheat Intervention Protects Against Hepatic Fat in Overweight Subjects.
• Strategies to Improve Bioavailability of Omega-3 Fatty Acids From Ethyl Ester Concentrates.

Caloric Restriction

• Dietary Methionine Restriction Reduces Hepatic Steatosis and Oxidative Stress in High-fat-fed Mice By Promoting H2S Production.
• Caloric Restriction Rescues Yeast Cells From Alpha-synuclein Toxicity Through Autophagic Control of Proteostasis.
• Intermittent Fasting Exerts Beneficial Metabolic Effects on Blood Pressure and Cardiac Structure By Modulating Local Renin-angiotensin System in the Heart of Mice Fed High-fat or High-fructose Diets.
• Impact of Calorie Restriction on Glycemic Control in Overweight Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• The Impact of Physical Activity to the Child’s Quality of Life: A Synthetic Review.
• Decompression Sickness, Fatness and Active Hydrophobic Spots.
• Physical Activity Less than the Recommended Amount May Prevent the Onset of Major Biological Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease: A Cohort Study of 198,919 Adults.
• Benefits of Resistance Training on Body Composition and Glucose Clearance are Inhibited By Long-term Low Carbohydrate Diet in Rats.
• Determinants of Changes in Physical Activity From Pre-diagnosis to Post-diagnosis in a Cohort of Prostate Cancer Survivors.

Economics & Sociology

• Socioeconomic Differences in BMI in Spain: An Intersectional Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy.
• Soda, Salad, and Socioeconomic Status: Findings From the Seattle Obesity Study (SOS).
• Socioeconomic Status in Relation to Childhood General and Central Obesity in Primary School Children in the City of Farokh Shahr in 2009.

Epidemiology

• Associations of Body Mass and Fat Indexes with Cardiometabolic Traits.
• Exploring the Role of Family Functioning in the Association Between Frequency of Family Dinners and Dietary Intake Among Adolescents and Young Adults.
• Body Composition and Mortality in the General Population: A Review of Epidemiologic Studies.
• Inverse Association Between Metabolic Syndrome and Altitude: A Cross-Sectional Study in an Adult Population of Ecuador.
• Severe Housing-cost Burden and Obesity Among Preschool-aged Low-income Children in Los Angeles County.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Weight Self-stigma and Weight Loss During Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention.
• A Healthy Lifestyle Decreases the Risk of Obesity Among Children at High Polygenic Risk.
• Race and Income Moderate the Association Between Depressive Symptoms and Obesity.
• Healthcare Providers’ Advice on Lifestyle Modification in the US Population.
• Implications of Agency in Studies of Self-regulation and Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• Ethnic Differences in Eating Disorder Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Predictive Effects of Risk Factors Among Young Women.
• Developing Key Performance Indicators for Guaranteeing Right to Health and Access to Medical Service for Persons with Disabilities in Korea: Using a Modified Delphi.
• Protective Factors Associated with Fewer Generalized Anxiety Disorder Symptoms Among Women Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence.

Stigma

• Understanding the Psychosocial Impact of Weight Loss Following Bariatric Surgery: A Qualitative Study.
• Healthy Life Centre Participants’ Perceptions of Living with Overweight or Obesity and Seeking Help for a Perceived “wrong” Lifestyle.
• Weight Stigma and Its Impact on Pediatric Care.
• Explicit and Implicit Measures of Weight Stigma in Young Children.
• Assessment of Public Attitudes Toward Weight Loss Surgery in the United States.

Policy Related

• What Factors Influence Ultra-processed Food Purchase and Consumption in Households with Children? A Comparison Between Participants and Non-participants of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
• Addressing Food Insecurity in Vulnerable Populations.
• What Young Australians Think About a Tax on Sugar-sweetened Beverages.
• Structural Responses to the Obesity and Non‐communicable Diseases Epidemic: Update on the Chilean Law of Food Labelling and Advertising.
• Environmental Impact on Health Across Generations: Policy Meets Biology. A Review of Animal and Human Models.

Intergenerational Effects

• Genetic Insights Into Fetal Growth and Measures of Glycaemic Regulation and Adiposity in Adulthood: A Family-based Study.
• Dietary Fish Oil Supplementation During Early Pregnancy in Rats on a Cafeteria-diet Prevents Fatty Liver in Adult Male Offspring.
• The Influence of Maternal BMI and Physical Activity on Select Cardiovascular Risk Factors of Preadolescent Hispanic Children.
• Paternal Grandfather’s Access to Food Predicts All-cause and Cancer Mortality in Grandsons.
• Early Post-conception Maternal Cortisol, Children’s HPAA Activity and DNA Methylation Profiles.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Containing Obesity From a Human Evolutionary Perspective.
• Sperm Competition and the Evolution of Male Reproductive Anatomy in Rodents.

Methods

• The Reachable 3-D Workspace Volume is a Measure of Payload and Body-mass-index: A Quasi-static Kinetic Assessment.
• Imputing Missing Values for Improved Statistical Inference Applied to Intrauterine Growth Restriction Problem.
• Challenges of Non–Intention-to-Treat Analyses.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Mathematical Model of Hemodynamic Mechanisms and Consequences of Glomerular Hypertension in Diabetic Mice.
• Multiscale Mathematical Modeling Vs. The Generalized Transfer Function Approach for Aortic Pressure Estimation: A Comparison with Invasive Data.
• Random-Effects Meta-analysis: Summarizing Evidence with Caveats.

Commentary

• Just Thinking You Have Poor Endurance Genes Changes Your Body.
• Population Declines in Grip Strength.
• The Misleading Fast Food Boogeyman.

General

• Size‐dependent Mating Pattern in a Nuptial Gift‐giving Insect.
• Contrary to Common Belief, RCTs Inevitably Produce Biased Results.
• Key Opinion Leaders’ Guide to Spinning a Disappointing Clinical Trial Result.
• Genetic Mutation Drives Tumor Regression in Tasmanian Devils.
• Frog Sex in the City.
• No Place for ‘Trial By Media’ in Bullying Allegations.

Video & Audio

• TedTalk: 3 Kinds of Bias that Shape Views on Science Matters.
• PodCast: Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., Ph.D.: New Frontiers in Cancer Therapy, Medicine, and the Writing Process.
• Video: Regression to the Mean in Nutrition and Obesity Research.
• Recordings From NUTRITION 2018 are Now Available.

Announcements

• 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 Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track Positions Available in Every Department and Two Department Chairs Open: See Multiple Listings Posted Here.

Featured

• RCT: "Effects of alternate-day fasting or daily calorie restriction on body composition, fat distribution, and circulating adipokines."
• Social Status Predicts Response to Dietary Cycling in Female Rhesus Monkeys.
• RCT: "our research identifies workplace health promotion programs as potent catalysts of weight stigma and weight-based discrimination, especially when they emphasize individual responsibility for health outcomes."
• Dietary restriction normalizes glucose metabolism and BDNF levels, slows disease progression, and increases survival in huntingtin mutant mice.

Headline vs Study

• Headline Critique: Claim that Hot Baths Can Substitute for Exercise Lacks Evidence.
• Headline: A Tax Hike on Alcohol is the Obesity Fix Australians Need to Swallow.
• Study: Cost-effectiveness modeling of obesity prevention policies in Australia - "there is currently limited empirical evidence of the impact of these interventions on BMI outcomes, with all scoring ‘low’ on the strength of evidence criteria."

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "In conclusion, the ASK school-based physical activity intervention showed no significant effect on HRQoL."
• RCT: Fitness Trackers Had No Measurable Effect Compared with Exercise Program Alone in Obese Patients After Total Knee Arthroplasty.
• RCT: No Statistically Significant Effect of Mandolean® Training on BMI in Young People with Obesity in Pilot Study.
• RCT: No effect of a nutritional supplement (providing "150 kcal, 20 g of whey protein, 800 IU vitamin D and a combination of vitamins and minerals") on "health-related quality of life and mood in older adults" in an exercise program.
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Diabetes Self-management Education on Glycaemic Control Among Type 2 Diabetic Patients at a Family Medicine Clinic in Kenya.
• "These data indicate that consumption of a calorie containing carbohydrate solution and not sweet taste drives the development of leptin resistance..."
• RCT: Men and Women with Obesity Had More Favorable Changes in Nutritional Composition and Eating Behavior with CER [continuous Energy Restriction] than IER [intermittent Energy Restriction].
• RCT: "...ingestion of a whey protein supplement before bedtime during a 4-week period on a VLCD improved nitrogen balance, but did not lead to any significant improvement in the quality of the weight loss in regard to observed changes in body composition and health parameters compared with controls."
• RCT: Neither Standard Cognitive-behavioral Treatment (CBT) nor an Intervention Combining Physical Exercise and Dietary Therapy (PED-t) Lowered Risk of Non-Communicable Diseases in Women with Bulimia Nervosa or Binge Eating Disorders.
• Notice of Retraction: Meal Size, Not Body Size, Explains Errors in Estimating the Calorie Content of Meals.
• "Contrary to the overarching hypothesis, there were no significant between-group differences in whole-body or regional FM, LM or BMC, suggesting that there was no relationship between body composition and spinal curvature" in salmon.
• RCT: "For pregnant women who are overweight or obese, metformin given in addition to dietary and lifestyle advice initiated at 10–20 weeks' gestation does not improve pregnancy and birth outcomes."

Basic

• Microbiome Dynamics in Obesity.
• Knockdown of ANT2 Reduces Adipocyte Hypoxia and Improves Insulin Resistance in Obesity.
• Cannabinoid‐1 Receptor Antagonism Improves Glycemic Control and Increases Energy Expenditure Via Sirt1/mTORC2 and AMPK Signaling.
• Ghrelin Serves as a Signal of Energy Utilization and is Involved in Maintaining Energy Homeostasis in Broilers.
• Sucrose Nonfermenting AMPK-related Kinase (SNARK) Regulates Exercise-stimulated and Ischemia-stimulated Glucose Transport in the Heart.
• Estrogen Receptor Alpha Signaling Maintains Immunometabolic Function in Males and is Obligatory for Exercise-induced Amelioration of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver.
• Combined Exercise and Caloric Restriction Therapies Restores Contractile and Mitochondrial Functions in Skeletal Muscle of Obese-insulin Resistant Rats.
• Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Induce Lipopolysaccharide Tolerance in Rat Neutrophils.
• Adipocyte O-GlcNAc Transferase Governs Diet-Induced Hyperphagia and Obesity.
• Thioesterase Superfamily Member 2 Promotes Hepatic VLDL Secretion By Channeling Fatty Acids Into Triglyceride Biosynthesis.
• The E3 Ligase March5 is a PPARγ Target Gene that Regulates Mitochondria and Metabolism in Adipocytes.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Are Nutrition Studies Doomed, Needing an Overhaul — or Doing Just Fine?
• One Gene Cures Obesity? Nope.
• Whole-Fat or Nonfat Dairy? The Debate Continues.
• The Failure to Measure Dietary Intake Engendered a Fictional Discourse on Diet-Disease Relations.
• A critical commentary on the PURE Study.
• Clinical Relevance and Validity of Tools to Predict Infant, Childhood and Adulthood Obesity: A Systematic Review.
• Letter to the Editor: Clinical Relevance and Validity of Obesity Risk Prediction Tools.
• Response to ‘Clinical Relevance and Validity of Obesity Risk Prediction Tools’ By Redsell et al.

Clinical

• RCT: Fit & Strong! Plus Trial Outcomes for Obese Older Adults with Osteoarthritis.
• RCT: The Timing of Activity After Eating Affects the Glycaemic Response of Healthy Adults.
• Bariatric Surgery, Lifestyle Interventions and Orlistat for Severe Obesity: The REBALANCE Mixed-methods Systematic Review and Economic Evaluation. (pdf)
• ROHHAD Syndrome, a Rare Cause of Hypothalamic Obesity: Report of Two Cases. (pdf)

Children and Adolescents

• RCT: Dance Exergaming in a Group: Influence on Psychosocial Factors in Adolescent Girls.
• Associations Between the Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet and Cardiorespiratory Fitness with Total and Central Obesity in Preschool Children: The PREFIT Project.
• Quantifying the Contribution of Obesity to Incident Childhood Asthma: It’s About Time.

Surgery

• Influence of Weight Loss on Pulmonary Function and Levels of Adipokines Among Asthmatic Patients Undergoing Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.
• Bariatric Surgery in the Elderly Patient: Safety and Short-time Outcome.

Drugs

• RCT: Thromboxane-Dependent Platelet Activation in Obese Subjects with Prediabetes or Early Type 2 Diabetes: Effects of Liraglutide- or Lifestyle Changes-Induced Weight Loss.
• RCT: A Novel Dual Glucagon-like Peptide and Glucagon Receptor Agonist SAR425899.

Food & Diet

• Long-Term Effects of a Novel Continuous Remote Care Intervention Including Nutritional Ketosis for the Management of Type 2 Diabetes: A 2-year Non-randomized Clinical Trial.
• RCT: Two-Week Exclusive Supplementation of Modified Ketogenic Nutrition Drink Reserves Lean Body Mass and Improves Blood Lipid Profile in Obese Adults.
• What We Know About Diet and Weight Loss.
• Craft, Artisan or Locally Made are Top Alcoholic Beverage Trends for 2019: Results From the National Restaurant Association’s Annual “What’s Hot” Survey.

Caloric Restriction

• Alternate Day Fasting Decreases Preference for a Calorically Dense Diet By Increasing Chow Intake and Altering Meal Pattern Parameters.
• Caloric Restriction Limits Fatty Acid Oxidation and Improves Cardiac Function in Heart Failure Associated with Obesity.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Depot-specific Adipose Tissue Metabolite Profiles and Corresponding Changes Following Aerobic Exercise.
• Improving Active Gaming's Energy Expenditure in Healthy Adults Using Structured Playing Instructions for the Nintendo Wii and Xbox Kinect.
• GWAS Identifies 14 Loci for Device-measured Physical Activity and Sleep Duration.

Economics & Sociology

• Coverage for Obesity Prevention and Treatment Services: Analysis of Medicaid and State Employee Health Insurance Programs.
• Two Observational Studies Examining the Effect of a Social Norm and a Health Message on the Purchase of Vegetables in Student Canteen Settings.
• How Does Childhood Socioeconomic Position Affect Overweight and Obesity in Adolescence and Early Adulthood: A Longitudinal Study.
• A Systematic Review of Neighbourhood Economic Context on Child Obesity and Obesity‐related Behaviours.
• Context Matters: Adolescent Neighborhood and School Influences on Young Adult BMI.
• Recent Origin and Evolution of Obesity-income Correlation Across the United States.

Epidemiology

• Obesogens: Accounting for Environmental Factors in Obesity.
• Association of Body Fat and Risk of Breast Cancer in Postmenopausal Women with Normal BMI.
• The Role of Obesity in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
• Obesity: A New Adverse Effect of Antibiotics?
• Controlling for Obesity in Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Results From Dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
• Understanding the Role of Obesity Trajectories in the Development of Left Ventricular Dysfunction: Another Step on the Path to Heart Failure Screening?
• Body-weight Fluctuation and Incident Diabetes Mellitus, Cardiovascular Disease, and Mortality: A 16-year Prospective Cohort Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• The Rate of Weight Loss Does Not Affect Resting Energy Expenditure and Appetite Sensations Differently in Women Living with Overweight and Obesity.
• The Relationship Between Greater Mindfulness and Less Emotional Eating May Be Explained By Emotion Regulation Among Adults with Overweight/obesity.
• Effect of Exposure to Food-related Television Content on the Accessibility of a Hedonic Eating Goal.
• Weight Suppression Uniquely Predicts Body Fat Gain in First-year Female College Students.
• Sleep and Meal Timing Influence Food Intake and Its Hormonal Regulation in Healthy Adults with Overweight/obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• Racial Differences in the Predictors of Interest in Bariatric Surgery in the Rural, Southeastern USA.
• Does Childhood Environment Moderate the Disparity in Genetic Predisposition for Peak Smoking? (pdf)

Ethics

• How Forcefully Should Clinicians Encourage Treatment When Disagreement Persists About Obesity Risk?
• What are Ethical Ramifications of a Physician’s Power to Name?

Stigma

• Parents Have Both Implicit and Explicit Biases Against Children with Obesity.
• Perceived Body Discrimination and Intentional Self-Harm and Suicidal Behavior in Adolescence.
• Weight Bias Internalization and Weight-Related Quality of Life in a Treatment-Seeking Sample.
• Why Naming Disease Differs From Naming Illness.
• What’s Weight Got to do with It? Mental Health Trainees’ Perceptions of a Client with Anorexia Nervosa Symptoms.

Policy Related

• Pathways for Translating Behavioral Medicine Research to Practice and Policy.
• Moving From Overwhelming to Actionable Complexity in Population Health Policy: Can ALife Help?
• Barriers and Facilitators to Food Policy Development in Fiji.
• Smart Food Policy for Healthy Food Labeling: Leading with Taste, Not Healthiness, to Shift Consumption and Enjoyment of Healthy Foods.
• Exploring Absolute and Relative Measures of Exposure to Food Environments in Relation to Dietary Patterns Among European Adults. (pdf)
• The Association of Flavored Milk Consumption with Milk and Energy Intake, and Obesity: A Systematic Review.
• Are Young Canadians Supportive of Proposed Nutrition Policies and Regulations? An Overview of Policy Support and the Impact of Socio-demographic Factors on Public Opinion.
• Is Promoting Public Transit an Effective Intervention for Obesity?: A Longitudinal Study of the Relation Between Public Transit Usage and Obesity.

Intergenerational Effects

• Patterns of Gestational Weight Gain and Infants Born Large-for-Gestational Age Across Consecutive Pregnancies.
• Traffic Noise Exposure in Relation to Adverse Birth Outcomes and Body Mass Between Birth and Adolescence.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• High Field Metabolic Rates of Wild Harbour Porpoises.
• FAO Report Raises Hopes for Mediterranean and Black Sea Fisheries. (pdf)
• Daily Energy Expenditure of Males Following Alternative Reproductive Tactics: Solitary Roamers Spend More Energy than Group-living Males.

Methods

• RCT: "Absorption and metabolism of isothiocyanates formed from broccoli glucosinolates: effects of BMI and daily consumption."
• Validity and Reliability of the Turkish Version of the Weight Self-stigma Questionnaire.
• Modeling Energy Balance While Correcting for Measurement Error Via Free Knot Splines.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Modeling the Diet Dynamics of Children: The Roles of Socialization and the School Environment.
• Assessing the Efficiency of Changes in Land Use for Mitigating Climate Change.

Commentary

• Whole Fruits and Fruit Fiber Emerging Health Effects.
  • But, on Fruits & Vegetable Meta-analysis Cited, See This Paper.
• Obesity Could Be Prevented By Blocking Single Gene.

General

• Orexin Depolarizes Central Amygdala Neurons Via Orexin Receptor 1, Phospholipase C and Sodium-Calcium Exchanger and Modulates Conditioned Fear.
• Obesity Education for Front-line Healthcare Providers.
• Meet the Supervisors Who Helped to Shape Four Scientists’ Careers.
• Effects of Regional Hypoxia and Incubation Temperature on Growth, Differentiation, Heart Mass, and Oxygen Consumption in Embryos of the Leopard Gecko (Eublepharis Macularius).
• High Genomic Diversity and Candidate Genes Under Selection Associated with Range Expansion in Eastern Coyote (Canis Latrans) Populations.
• A Systematic Review of the Interaction Between Gut Microbiota and Host Health From a Symbiotic Perspective.
• For Nobel Peace Prize Winner Dr Denis Mukwege, His Patients Motivate and Inspire.

Announcements

• Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior (SNEB) Annual Conference, Orlando, FL: Call for Abstracts Deadline January 23, 2019.
• 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 Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track Positions Available in Every Department and Two Department Chairs Open: See Multiple Listings Posted Here.
• USDA Publishes School Meals Final Rule: Flexibilities for Milk, Whole Grains, and Sodium Requirements.
• The American Society for Nutrition (ASN) Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD: Abstract Submission Deadline January 18, 2019.