Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Beauty and the Body of the Beholder: Raters’ BMI Has Only Limited Association with Ratings of Attractiveness of the Opposite Sex.
• Diet-induced Mating Preference in Drosophila.
• No Significant Effect of Maternal Perception of the Food Environment on Reproductive Success or Pup Outcomes in C57BL/6J Mice.
• Carbohydrate Mouth Rinse Improves Cycling Time-Trial Performance Without Altering Plasma Insulin Concentration.

Headline vs Study

• General Headline Critique: ‘Ultra-processed’ Foods and Cancer: Headlines Show the Right Way, and the Wrong Way, to Frame Study Results.
• Headline: MIND Diet May Slow Cognitive Decline in Stroke Survivors.
• Press Release: MIND Diet Slows Cognitive Decline in Stroke Survivors.
• Meeting abstract: Observational Study of Self-reported Diet and Cognitive Decline Post Stroke. No Causation.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "Despite previous reports that obesity in children and adolescents has remained stable or decreased in recent years, we found no evidence of a decline in obesity prevalence at any age. In contrast, we report a significant increase in severe obesity among children aged 2 to 5 years since the 2013–2014 cycle…."
• "Our mixed-methods evaluation of SNaX [a middle school-based obesity prevention intervention] showed acceptability and fidelity, but not effectiveness."
• School Breakfast Programs with Implementation of Farm to School Have No Influence on Body Weight Among 3rd and 4th Grade Students.
• RCT: No Significant Effect Observed in the West Midlands ActiVe Lifestyle and Healthy Eating in School Children (WAVES) Study - a Multifaceted Obesity Prevention Intervention Programme Targeted at Children Aged 6-7 Years.
• RCT: "This RCT did not replicate results of the earlier DOLAB 1 study on the effectiveness of nutritional supplementation with DHA for learning and behavior."
• No Consistent Impact of the ID3 Missense Genetic Variant on Changes in Fat Mass, BMI, or Fat Distribution Was Found in Three Danish Cohorts.
• RCT: "Naltrexone and bupropion combination treatment didn’t show weight loss or smoking cessation effect in patients with schizophrenia in this pilot study."
• "we conclude that evidence is limited for the notion that there are clinically important individual differences in exercise-mediated weight change."
• Chronic Ketogenic Low Carbohydrate High Fat Diet Has Minimal Effects on Acid–Base Status in Elite Athletes.
• No evidence of an association between the use of metformin or statins and the incidence of ovarian cancer in patients with T2D was found.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Reasonable Versus Unreasonable Doubt.

Basic

• Physiological Predictors of Leptin Vary During Menses and Ovulation in Healthy Women.
• Effects of Diets Differing in Composition of 18-C Fatty Acids on Adipose Tissue Thermogenic Gene Expression in Mice Fed High-Fat Diets.
• Zinc-α2-Glycoprotein is Associated with Obesity in Chinese People and HFD-Induced Obese Mice.
• Metformin-Induced Changes of the Coding Transcriptome and Non-Coding RNAs in the Livers of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Mice.
• Genetic Ablation of MiR-33 Increases Food Intake, Enhances Adipose Tissue Expansion, and Promotes Obesity and Insulin Resistance.
• CD Obesity-Prone Rats, but Not Obesity-Resistant Rats, Robustly Ferment Resistant Starch Without Increased Weight or Fat Accretion.
• Fat Body Cells are Motile and Actively Migrate to Wounds to Drive Repair and Prevent Infection.

Clinical

• RCT: Weight Control Program and Gestational Weight Gain in Disadvantaged Women with Overweight or Obesity.
• RCT: Daily Pattern of Energy Distribution and Weight Loss.
• Harnessing Centred Identity Transformation to Reduce Executive Function Burden for Maintenance of Health Behaviour Change: The Maintain IT Model.

Children and Adolescents

• Developing Healthy Food Preferences in Preschool Children Through Taste Exposure, Sensory Learning, and Nutrition Education.
• Genetic Variants Associated with Obesity and Insulin Resistance in Hispanic Boys with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• IGF-I and IGFBP-3 Concentrations at 2 Years: Associations with Anthropometry and Milk Consumption in an Indian Cohort.
• Snacking Patterns in Children Linked to Genetic Variants in Taste Buds.
• Parental Warmth Moderates the Association Between BMI Trajectories and Academic Achievement.
• Interaction of Pubertal Development and Metabolic Control in Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus.
• RCT: Early Progressive Feeding in Extremely Preterm Infants.

Surgery

• Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Gastric Bypass Surgery Regulate Serum and Hepatic Levels of Pyruvate Kinase Isoenzyme M2.
• Bariatric Surgery Coverage: A Comprehensive Budget Impact Analysis From a Payer Perspective.

Drugs

• Pathophysiology of Drug Induced Weight and Metabolic Effects: Findings From an RCT in Healthy Volunteers Treated with Olanzapine, Iloperidone, or Placebo.
• Subcutaneous Semaglutide (NN9535) for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes.
• GQ-11: A New PPAR Agonist Improves Obesity-induced Metabolic Alterations in LDLr−/− Mice.
• RCT: Efficacy and Safety of IDegLira Versus Basal-Bolus Insulin Therapy in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Uncontrolled on Metformin and Basal Insulin.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Different Enteral Nutrition Formulas Have No Effect on Glucose Homeostasis but on Diet-induced Thermogenesis in Critically Ill Medical Patients.
• Fiber Intake and Insulin Resistance in 6374 Adults: The Role of Abdominal Obesity.
• Association Between Plasma Trans-Fatty Acid Concentrations and Diabetes in a Nationally Representative Sample of U.S. Adults.
• RCT: "Low-Calorie Vegetarian Versus Mediterranean Diets for Reducing Body Weight and Improving Cardiovascular Risk Profile."
• Effect of Food Order on Ghrelin Suppression.
• Bac­teria-Eat­ers to Pre­vent Food Pois­on­ing?

Caloric Restriction

• Distinct Patterns of Gene Expression in Human Cardiac Fibroblasts Exposed to Rapamycin Treatment or Methionine Restriction.
• Sulfur Amino Acid Restriction–induced Changes in Redox-sensitive Proteins are Associated with Slow Protein Synthesis Rates.
• A Comparative Approach to Metabolic Aspects of Aging: Conserved Mechanisms and Effects of Calorie Restriction and Environment.
• Low-calorie Diet Enhances Intestinal Regeneration After Injury.
• Maternal Obesity-induced Decreases in Plasma, Hepatic and Uterine Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids During Labour is Reversed Through Improved Nutrition at Conception.
• Despite Benefits, Intermittent Fasting Increases Risk for Hypoglycemia in Type 2 Diabetes.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Genetic and Environmental (physical Fitness and Sedentary Activity) Interaction Effects on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Mexican American Children and Adolescents.
• A Systematic Literature Review of Reviews on Techniques for Physical Activity Measurement in Adults: A DEDIPAC Study.

Economics & Sociology

• Association Between Childhood Obesity and Environmental Characteristics: Testing a Multidimensional Environment Index Using Census Data.
• Being Successful and Being Thin: The Effects of Thin-Ideal Social Media Images with High Socioeconomic Status on Women’s Body Image and Eating Behaviour.

Epidemiology

• Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Death in Individuals with Prediabetes Defined By Different Criteria: The Whitehall II Study.
• Systematic Review Into Obesity and Weight Gain Within Male Prisons.
• Childhood BMI and Adult Type 2 Diabetes, Coronary Artery Diseases, Chronic Kidney Disease, and Cardiometabolic Traits: A Mendelian Randomization Analysis.
• Association of BMI with Lifetime Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Compression of Morbidity.
• The Productivity Burden of Diabetes at a Population Level.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Prevention and Management of Obesity in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Among Primary Care Pediatricians.
• Points-based Physical Activity: A Novel Approach to Facilitate Changes in Body Composition in Inactive Women with Overweight and Obesity.
• Attentional Bias is More Predictive of Eating Behavior After Self-control Exertion.
• RCT: GestationaL Obesity Weight Management.
• Association Between Obstetric Provider’s Advice and Gestational Weight Gain.
• Promoting Health and Activity in the Summer Trial: Implementation and Outcomes of a Pilot Study.
• Evaluation of Medicare’s Intensive Behavioral Therapy for Obesity.
• Mindfulness Approaches and Weight Loss, Weight Maintenance, and Weight Regain.

Equity and Disparities

• Marriage Markets as Explanation for Why Heavier People Work More Hours.
• Social and Demographic Predictors of Nutritional Risk.

Stigma

• Managing Anti-Fat Stigma in Primary Care: An Observational Study.
• A Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Body Image Dissatisfaction and Weight Self-Stigma.
• Weight Bias Internalization Across Weight Categories Among School-aged Children. Validation of the Weight Bias Internalization Scale for Children.

Policy Related

• Neighbourhood Food Environments: Food Choice, Foodscapes and Planning for Health.
• Time to Redesign the Process for Dietary Guidelines?
• Tackling Obesity and Disease: The Culprit is Sugar; The Response is Legal Regulation.
• Addressing Health Equity Through Action on the Social Determinants of Health: A Global Review of Policy Outcome Evaluation Methods.
• From Civic Group to Advocacy Coalition: Using a Food Policy Audit as a Tool for Change.
• Toddler Drinks, Formulas, and Milks: Labeling Practices and Policy Implications.

Intergenerational Effects

• Greater Neonatal Fat-Free Mass and Similar Fat Mass Following an RCT to Control Excess Gestational Weight Gain.
• Embryonic Defects Induced By Maternal Obesity in Mice Derive From Stella Insufficiency in Oocytes.
• Is There a Causal Effect of Parity on Body Composition: A Birth Cohort Study.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Understanding Cooperative Intergroup Aggression in Vervet Monkeys: The Importance of Resource-Based Benefits and Social Incentives. (pdf)
• High Activity Before Breeding Improves Reproductive Performance By Enhancing Mitochondrial Function and Biogenesis.

Methods

• Response Heterogeneity: Challenges for Personalised Medicine and Big Data Approaches in Psychiatry and Chronic Pain.
• Human Subcutaneous Tissue Response to Glucose Sensors: Macrophages Accumulation Impact on Sensor Accuracy.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• A Long-term Mechanistic Computational Model of Physiological Factors Driving the Onset of Type 2 Diabetes in an Individual.
• Dynamic FMRI Networks Predict Success in a Behavioral Weight Loss Program Among Older Adults.

Commentary

• Horse Sense for Weight Loss.
• When Food Isn't Medicine - a Challenge for Physicians and Health Systems.
• Wishful Thinking Comes Back to Bite in Childhood Obesity.
• Never Give Up on the Virtue of Doubt.

General

• Early Results From Clinical Trials Not All They're Cracked Up to Be, Shows New Research.
• Book Review: The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World—and Us, Richard O. Prum.
• Mechanism for Initiation of Food Allergy: Dependence on Skin Barrier Mutations and Environmental Allergen Co-stimulation.
• Want to Boost Reproducibility? Get Another Lab Involved.
• Researchers Find Success Treating Cancer Survivors’ Fatigue with Placebo Pills.
• Video Humor: Saving Science with Sciencepiration.
• Train PhD Students to Be Thinkers Not Just Specialists.
• Reproducibility of Preclinical Animal Research Improves with Heterogeneity of Study Samples.

Announcements

• IU Bloomington Awards Research Grants for Food Systems Sustainability, Quantum Information Science.
• Seminar March 22: GW Sugar and Sweetener Series: Why is Reducing Sugar Intake So Difficult?
• FNB - Examining Special Nutritional Requirements in Disease States: A Workshop.
• FDA Launches Catalog of Food Safety, Nutrition, and Cosmetic Safety Education Materials.
• SNEB Annual Conference Call for Abstracts.
• UAB’s NORC Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.

Featured

• Primary Cilia are Dysfunctional in Obese Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells.
• Energy Intake Functions and Energy Budgets of Ectotherms and Endotherms Derived From Their Ontogenetic Growth in Body Mass and Timing of Sexual Maturation.
• Two-day Fasting Evokes Stress, but Does Not Affect Mood, Brain Activity, Cognitive, Psychomotor, and Motor Performance in Overweight Women.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: The Key to Weight Loss is Diet Quality, Not Quantity, a New Study Finds.
• Study: "There was no significant difference in weight change between a healthy low-fat diet vs a healthy low-carbohydrate diet, and neither genotype pattern nor baseline insulin secretion was associated with the dietary effects on weight loss."
• News Critique: Low Carb, Low Fat, Null Result, Blank Check.

Contrary or Null Findings

• No Statistically Significant Effect of Exercise By Playing Active Video Gaming in Overweight and Obese Children.
• "…it cannot be concluded that a high-carbohydrate diet or increased percentage of total energy intake in the form of carbohydrates increases [is associated with] the odds of obesity."
• "Diverging from findings linking paternal incarceration to negative child behavioral outcomes, here we find no effect of incarcerated fathers on child body mass, while maternal incarceration is associated with significantly lower odds of overweight."
• No Effect of 7 Days of Exercise on Exogenous Carbohydrate Oxidation and Insulin Resistance in Children with Obesity.
• Supplementation with Trans Fatty Acid at 1% Energy Did Not Increase Serum Cholesterol Irrespective of the Obesity-related Genotypes in Healthy Adult Japanese. (pdf)
• RCT: No Statistically Significant Effect of a Physical Activity Intervention on Health Related Quality of Life in Metabolically Unhealthy African-American Women.
• No Effect of Adjunctive Minocycline Treatment on Body Metabolism in Patients with Schizophrenia.
• No Effect of Saturated Fatty Acid Chain Length on Meal Induced Thermogenesis in Overweight Men.
• Elevating Adipose Eosinophils in Obese Mice to Physiologically Normal Levels Does Not Rescue Metabolic Impairments.
• "Individual variations in ratings of physical attractiveness were broadly unrelated to rater BMI and suggest that mutual attraction is an unlikely explanation for assortative mating for obesity."

Basic

• Vitamin A and Marbling Attributes: Intramuscular Fat Hyperplasia Effects in Cattle.
• Curcumin and Piperine Supplementation of Obese Mice Under Caloric Restriction Modulates Body Fat and Interleukin-1β.
• An Experimental Model for Hypertensive Crises Emergencies: Long-term High-fat Diet Followed By Acute Vasoconstriction Stress on Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats.
• Sensory Denervation of Inguinal White Fat Modifies Sympathetic Outflow to White and Brown Fat in Siberian Hamsters.
• AgR Neurons Require Carnitine Acetyltransferase to Regulate Metabolic Flexibility and Peripheral Nutrient Partitioning.
• Arctigenin Protects Against Steatosis in WRL68 Hepatocytes Through Activation of the PI3K/AKT and AMPK Pathways.
• Increased Expression of the Innate Immune Receptor TLR10 in Obesity and Type-2 Diabetes: Association with ROS-Mediated Oxidative Stress.
• Altered Endocannabinoid Signalling May Contribute to Changes in Intestinal Permeability, Inflammation and Incretin Release in Human Obesity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Is the Sugar Conspiracy Our Favorite Conspiracy Theory?
• Conspiracy By Bigs (Tobacco, Sugar or Fats) Does Not Explain Why Science Makes Mistakes.
• Capable and credible? Challenging Nutrition Science.

Clinical

• Self-monitoring Lifestyle Behavior in Overweight and Obese Pregnant Women: Qualitative Findings.
• RCT: The Effect of Long-term Weight-loss Intervention Strategies on the Dynamics of MRI-measured Pancreatic-fat and Morphology.
• RCT: Changes in Gut Microbiota–Related Metabolites and Long-term Successful Weight Loss in Response to Weight-Loss Diets.
• Microbiome-based Mechanisms Hypothesized to Initiate Obesity-associated Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Children and Adolescents

• The Common Marmoset Monkey: Avenues for Exploring the Prenatal, Placental and Postnatal Mechanisms in Developmental Programming of Pediatric Obesity.
• Successful Weight Loss Initiation and Maintenance Among Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity: Does Age Matter?
• Physical Activity in the Preschool Classroom: An Approach to Enhance Executive Functioning Through the Move for Thought Prek-k Program.
• The Accuracy of Parent-reported Height and Weight for 6–12 Year Old U.S. Children.
• Gender-related Differences in Cardiometabolic Risk Factors and Lifestyle Behaviors in Treatment-seeking Adolescents with Severe Obesity.
• RCT: Dietitian-led Lifestyle Modification Program for Obese Chinese Adolescents with Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• Challenges and Facilitators to Promoting a Healthy Food Environment and Communicating Effectively with Parents to Improve Food Behaviors of School Children.

Surgery

• Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty is a Reproducible and Effective Endoscopic Bariatric Therapy Suitable for Widespread Clinical Adoption.
• Duodenal-jejunal Sleeve Bypass: A Safe and Effective Novel Treatment for Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes?
• Laparoscopic Subtotal Gastrectomy in Morbid Obese Patients: A Valid Option to Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass in Particular Circumstances.

Drugs

• Liraglutide Protects Cardiac Function in Diabetic Rats Through the PPARα Pathway.
• Effect of Ertugliflozin on Glucose Control, Body Weight, Blood Pressure and Bone Density in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Inadequately Controlled on Metformin Monotherapy (VERTIS MET).
• Emerging Nonmetabolic Functions of Skin Fat.

Food & Diet

• Hyperpalatability and the Generation of Obesity: Roles of Environment, Stress Exposure and Individual Difference.
• Effects of Total Fat Intake on Bodyweight in Children.
• Modeling Dynamic Food Choice Processes to Understand Dietary Intervention Effects.
• RCT: Sleep Extension May Be a Feasible Lifestyle Intervention to Reduce Free Sugar Intakes Among Short Sleepers.
• RCT: Evaluation of Meal Replacements and a Home Food Environment Intervention for Long-term Weight Loss.

Caloric Restriction

• Differential Response to Caloric Restriction of Retroperitoneal, Epididymal, and Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue Depots in Rats.
• Short-term Methionine Deprivation Improves Metabolic Health Via Sexually Dimorphic, MTORC1-independent Mechanisms.
• Intermittent Energy Restriction for Weight Loss: Spontaneous Reduction of Energy Intake on Unrestricted Days.
• Effect of Caloric Restriction on Depression.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Accelerometer Physical Activity is Associated with Greater Gray Matter Volumes in Older Adults Without Dementia or Mild Cognitive Impairment.
• Group-Based Diet and Physical Activity Weight-Loss Interventions: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of RCTs.
• The Built Environment as a Determinant of Physical Activity: A Systematic Review of Longitudinal Studies and Natural Experiments.

Economics & Sociology

• How Family Socioeconomic Status, Peer Behaviors, and School-based Intervention on Healthy Habits Influence Adolescent Eating Behaviors.
• Gender Differences in the Pathways From Childhood Disadvantage to Metabolic Syndrome in Adulthood: An Examination of Health Lifestyles.
• A Study on Diet Experience of Women in Commercial Sex Industry.
• RCT: Examining the Ripple Effect of a Nationally Available Weight Management Program on Untreated Spouses.
• The Effects of Ramadan Fasting on Activity and Energy Expenditure.

Epidemiology

• BMI and Central Obesity with Falls Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults.
• Skinfold Thickness Measurements and Mortality in White Males During 27.7 Years of Follow-up.
• BMI and Tobacco-product Use Among U.S. Youth: Findings From Wave 1 (2013–2014) of the PATH Study.
• Perfluoroalkyl Substances and Changes in Body Weight and Resting Metabolic Rate in Response to Weight-loss Diets: A Prospective Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Body Size Estimation of Self and Others in Females Varying in BMI.
• Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Val66Met Polymorphism in Context of Executive Functions and Working Memory in Obese Patients.
• Oxytocin Curbs Calorie Intake Via Food-specific Increases in the Activity of Brain Areas that Process Reward and Establish Cognitive Control.
• Leptin and Brain–adipose Crosstalks.
• Attribution of Weight Regain to Emotional Reasons Amongst European Adults with Overweight and Obesity Who Regained Weight Following a Weight Loss Attempt.
• Depression and Obesity: Evidence of Shared Biological Mechanisms.
• Perceived Diet and Exercise Behaviors Among Social Network Members with Personal Lifestyle Habits of Public Housing Residents.

Equity and Disparities

• Prevalence of Obesity Among Youths By Household Income and Education Level of Head of Household - United States 2011-2014.
• Is the Childhood Home Food Environment a Confounder of the Association Between Child Maltreatment Exposure and Adult BMI?
• RCT: Weight Control Program and Gestational Weight Gain in Disadvantaged Women with Overweight or Obesity.

Stigma

• Weight Stigma Predicts Poorer Psychological Well-Being Through Internalized Weight Bias and Maladaptive Coping Responses.
• RCT: The Impact of Applicants' Weight and Education About Obesity on Applicant Ratings. (pdf)
• Obesity Stigma as a Globalizing Health Challenge.
• "I am a fat baby, who moved to a fat child, who moved to a fat teenager, who moved to a fat adult": Women's reflections of a lifetime of body and weight concern.

Policy Related

• Nudging People to Make Good Choices Can Backfire.
• The Value of the National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research: Past, Present, and Future.
• Understanding the Impacts of Food Consumer Choice and Food Policy Outcomes.
• Data Sharing and Reanalysis of RCTs in Biomedical Journals with a Full Data Sharing Policy: Survey of Studies Published in the BMJ and PLOS Medicine.
• Obesity in Pregnancy: A Comparison of Four National Guidelines.

Intergenerational Effects

• Roles of Birth Mode and Infant Gut Microbiota in Intergenerational Transmission of Overweight and Obesity From Mother to Offspring.
• Mother and Child Personality Traits Associated with Common Feeding Strategies and Child BMI.
• Maternal High-fat Diet Associated with Altered Gene Expression, DNA Methylation, and Obesity Risk in Mouse Offspring.
• Parenting Matters: Moderation of Biological and Community Risk for Obesity.
• Association Between Prenatal Exposure to Multiple Insecticides and Child Body Weight and Body Composition in the VHEMBE South African Birth Cohort.
• Adherence to a Healthy Eating Index for Pregnant Women is Associated with Lower Neonatal Adiposity in a Multiethnic Asian Cohort.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Influence of Food Availability on Mate-guarding Behaviour of Ladybirds.
• Using Portable Physiological Sensors to Estimate Energy Cost for ‘Body-in-the-Loop’ Optimization of Assistive Robotic Devices. (pdf)
• Measuring Metabolic Rates of Small Terrestrial Organisms By Fluorescence-based Closed-system Respirometry.
• Do Humans Still Forage in an Obesogenic Environment? Mechanisms and Implications for Weight Maintenance.

Methods

• The UK Evaluating Calorie Intake - Self-report Calibrated to DLW.
• Conducting Multicenter Research in Healthcare Simulation: Lessons Learned From the INSPIRE Network.
• Considering Our Methods: Methodological Issues with Rodent Models of Appetite and Obesity Research.
• Comparison of Self-reported Dietary Intakes From the Automated Self-Administered 24-h Recall, 4-d Food Records, and Food-frequency Questionnaires Against Recovery Biomarkers.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Computing Obesity: Signal Processing and Machine Learning Applied to Predictive Modeling of Clinical Weight-Loss.
• Computational Studies on Horseshoe Shape Pocket of Human Orexin Receptor Type 2 and Boat Conformation of Suvorexant By Molecular Dynamics Simulations.
• Cost-utility Analysis Alongside an RCT: Community-delivered Multicomponent Obesity Intervention Vs. Enhanced Standard Care.

Commentary

• Got Milk, Must Conference.
• SNAP, WIC, and Junk Food.
• Low-fat vs low-carb? Major study concludes: it doesn’t matter for weight loss.
• Over-under Topsy-turvy - What’s the Deal with “healthy Obesity”?
• Exploring Grandparents' Roles in Young Children's Lifestyle Behaviors and the Prevention of Childhood Obesity: An Australian Perspective.

General

• Patterns of Sexual Size Dimorphism in Horseshoe Bats: Testing Rensch's Rule and Potential Causes.
• The Many Advantages of Asexual Reproduction.
• The Association of Herbal/botanical Supplement Use with Quality of Life, Recurrence and Survival in Newly Diagnosed Stage II Colon Cancer Patients: A Two-year Follow-up Study.
• Do Human Pheromones Exist?
• Clonal Polymorphism and High Heterozygosity in the Celibate Genome of the Amazon Molly.
• Why are So Many Animals Homosexual?
• Three Decades of Peer Review Congresses.
• Association Between Purpose in Life and Glucose Control Among Older Adults.

Video & Audio

• Audio: Gut Microbiome.

Announcements

• UAB’s NORC Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• Call for Abstracts: ObesityWeek, the Obesity Society, November 11-15, 2018, Tennessee.
• NCCOR Webinar: Preventing Childhood Obesity in Latin America- Feb 27, Collaborating for Impact- Mar 27.
• Regional Seminar on Drivers of Consumer Food Choices, Bangkok Sukhumvit, Bangkok, Thailand, 13/03/2018 – 14/03/2018.

Featured

• Was there ever really a “sugar conspiracy”?
• Comparison of Adiposity Indicators Associated with Fasting-state Insulinemia, Triglyceridemia, and Related Risk Biomarkers in a Nationally Representative, Adult Population.
• Carbon Dioxide in Carbonated Beverages Induces Ghrelin Release and Increased Food Consumption in Male Rats: Implications on the Onset of Obesity.
• A Review of Machine Learning in Obesity.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Peas, Broccoli May Prevent Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome, Says Study.
• Study: "[F]ermentable fiber protects against metabolic syndrome by nourishing microbiota to restore IL-22-mediated enterocyte function"... in mice.
• Headline critique: No, Asparagus Won't Give You Cancer.
• Headline critique: Study Versus Headlines on Fatness and Fitness.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: The Primary Analyses Suggest that This [school Based Lifestyle Program] Intervention Had No Statistically Significant Effect on BMI Z Score or on Preventing Childhood Obesity.
• "We found little evidence that these longer-term effects of the weight management program differed depending on the community food environment."
• RCT: No Effects on Energy Intake of Substitution, and Adding of Carbohydrate and Fat to Whey-Protein in Healthy Older Men.
• Caloric Restriction and Diet-Induced Weight Loss do Not Induce Browning of Human Subcutaneous White Adipose Tissue in Women and Men with Obesity.
• Carbohydrate Mouth Rinse Reduces Rating of Perceived Exertion but Does Not Affect Performance and Energy Systems Contribution During a High-intensity Exercise.
• "This meta-analysis demonstrated that omega-3 fatty acids had no significant association with fatal or nonfatal coronary heart disease or any major vascular events. It provides no support for current recommendations for the use of such supplements in people with a history of coronary heart disease."
• "We conclude that feeding consistently triggers cerebral opioid release even in the absence of subjective pleasure associated with feeding, suggesting that metabolic and homeostatic rather than exclusively hedonic responses play a role in the feeding-triggered cerebral opioid release."
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, metformin treatment did not affect hepatic lipid metabolism or peripheral oxidation."

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Overlooking Regression to the Mean Leads to Unwarranted Interpretations: Letter Concerning, “Do Obese and Extremely Obese Patients Lose Weight After Lumbar Spine Fusions? Analysis of a Cohort of 7303 Patients From the Kaiser National Spine Registry.”
• Response to Letter to the Editor By Kroeger et al.
• Accuracy of Self-reported Height, Weight and Waist Circumference in a Japanese Sample.
• Research Interactions Between Academia and Food Companies: How to Improve Transparency and Credibility of an Inevitable Liaison.

Novel Hypotheses & Thinking

• Phenotype Diffusion and One Health: A Proposed Framework for Investigating the Plurality of Obesity Epidemics Across Many Species.
• Adipose Tissue Hypoxia in Obesity and Its Impact on Preadipocytes and Macrophages: Hypoxia Hypothesis.
• Do Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors Prevent Heart Failure with a Preserved Ejection Fraction By Counterbalancing the Effects of Leptin? A Novel Hypothesis.

Basic

• Loss of Mitochondrial Protease ClpP Protects Mice From Diet-Induced Obesity and Insulin Resistance.
• Temporal Partitioning of Adaptive Responses of the Murine Heart to Fasting.
• Mitochondrial Translation Requires Folate-dependent TRNA Methylation.
• Short-term Methionine Deprivation Improves Metabolic Health Via Sexually Dimorphic, MTORC1-independent Mechanisms.
• Glucagon And/or IGF-1 Production Regulates Resetting of the Liver Circadian Clock in Response to a Protein or Amino Acid-only Diet.
• The Leptin, Dopamine and Serotonin Receptors in Hypothalamic POMC-Neurons of Normal and Obese Rodents.
• Dihydromyricetin Improves Type 2 Diabetes-induced Cognitive Impairment Via Suppressing Oxidative Stress and Enhancing Brain-derived Neurotrophic Factor-mediated Neuroprotection in Mice.
• Acute Activation of Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Increases Glucose Oxidation in Muscle Without Changing Glucose Uptake.
• Predation Stress and Food Ration Alter Gut Microbiota in Species of Perch.
• Shift Work Cycle-induced Alterations of Circadian Rhythms Potentiate the Effects of High Fat Diet on Inflammation and Metabolism.

Clinical

• Understanding Diabetes-Related Distress Characteristics and Psychosocial Support Preferences of Urban African American Adults Living with Type 2 Diabetes: A Mixed-Methods Study.
• Distinct Cachexia Phenotypes and the Importance of Adipose Tissue Loss on Survival of Patients with Advanced Pancreatic Cancer on FOLFIRINOX Chemotherapy.
• RCT: "Approximately one hour of sleep restriction on 5 nights a week led to less proportion of fat mass loss in individuals undergoing hypocaloric weight loss, despite similar weight loss."
• Incorporating Weight Management and Physical Activity Throughout the Cancer Care Continuum.

Children and Adolescents

• Primary Care Obesity Prevention in 0-2 Year Olds Through Parent Nutritional Counseling: Evaluation of Child Behaviors and Parent Feeding Styles.
• The Association Between Obesity and Dengue Severity Among Pediatric Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Effect of Dietary Counseling on a Comprehensive Metabolic Profile From Childhood to Adulthood.
• Effect of the Fukushima Earthquake on Weight in Early Childhood: A Retrospective Analysis.

Surgery

• Comparative Outcomes of Bariatric Surgery in Patients with Impaired Mobility and Ambulatory Population.
• Five-year Outcomes of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy: A Comparison Between Adults and Adolescents.

Drugs

• Few Prescription Meds Have Dosing Guidelines for Obese Kids.
• Antisense Inhibition of Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase 1B with IONIS-PTP-1BRx Improves Insulin Sensitivity and Reduces Weight in Overweight Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Beneficial Effects of Apple Cider Vinegar on Weight Management, Visceral Adiposity Index and Lipid Profile in Overweight or Obese Subjects Receiving Restricted Calorie Diet.
• RCT: A Plant-Based Dietary Intervention Improves Beta-Cell Function and Insulin Resistance in Overweight Adults.

Caloric Restriction

• RCT: Effects of 2 Years of Caloric Restriction on Oxidative Status Assessed By Urinary F2-isoprostanes.
• RCT: Intermittent Fasting in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and the Risk of Hypoglycaemia.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome, Objectively-measured Physical Activity and Exercise Training Interventions: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• RCT: Effects of 12-week Circuit Exercise Program on Obesity Index, Appetite Regulating Hormones, and Insulin Resistance in Middle-aged Obese Females.
• Steps, Moderate-to-vigorous Physical Activity, and Cardiometabolic Profiles.
• Recent Perspectives Regarding the Role of Dietary Protein for the Promotion of Muscle Hypertrophy with Resistance Exercise Training.

Economics & Sociology

• Built Environmental Characteristics and Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Neighborhood Characteristics, Food Deserts, Rurality, and Type 2 Diabetes in Youth: Findings From a Case-control Study.
• Neighborhood Built Environment and Socioeconomic Status in Relation to Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Weight Status of Adolescents.
• Embodiment of Social Roles and Thinness as a Form of Capital: A Qualitative Approach Towards Understanding Female Obesity Disparities in Chile.
• Food Insecurity, Diet Quality and BMI of Women Participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
• The Impact of Obesity on Medical Care Costs and Labor Market Outcomes in the US.
• Gender Difference and Spatial Heterogeneity in Local Obesity.

Epidemiology

• The Adiponectin Paradox in the Elderly: Associations with Body Composition, Physical Functioning, and Mortality.
• In Patients with Metastatic Melanoma, Obesity is Associated with Improved Progression-free Survival and Overall Survival.
• Eating Until Full and Eating Quickly are Associated with Being Overweight in Japanese Men and Women.
• Night Shift Work, Genetic Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes in the UK Biobank.
• Elevations of Metabolic Risk Factors 20 Years or More Before Diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes – Experience From the AMORIS Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• A Prospective Study of Marital Quality and Body Weight in Midlife.
• RCT: Commitment Lotteries Promote Physical Activity Among Overweight Adults.
• Opinion: Evolving Societal Norms of Obesity What is the Appropriate Response?
• Changes in Eating Behavior and Plasma Leptin in Children with Obesity Participating in a Family-centered Lifestyle Intervention.
• Daily and Seasonal Influences on Dietary Self-monitoring Using a Smartphone Application.
• Calorie Labeling Promotes Dietary Self-Control By Shifting the Temporal Dynamics of Health- and Taste-Attribute Integration in Overweight Individuals.

Equity and Disparities

• Impacts of Federally Funded State Obesity Programs on Adult Obesity Prevalence in the United States, 1998-2010.
• Gender Differences in the Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity, Associated Behaviors, and Weight-related Perceptions in a National Survey of Primary School Children in China.
• Health Care Expenditures of Overweight and Obese U.S. Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
• Comparison of Measures of Adiposity and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors Among African American Adults: The Jackson Heart Study.
• Interventions for Preventing Childhood Obesity in African-American Children: A Critical Review.
• Obesity Tied to Income, Education, but Not in All Populations.

Stigma

• Association Between Chronic Bullying Victimization with Weight Status and Body Self-image.
• Medical Students with More Weight Bias Held More Negative Attitudes Towards Weight Management Counseling.
• Body Gratitude Writing Leads to Lower Internalized Weight Bias and Better Body Image.
• Body Size Perceptions and Preferences Favor Overweight in Adult Saharawi Refugees.

Policy Related

• Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure?
• Updates to H.R.772 - Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act of 2017.
• A Cautionary Tale of Warning Messages on Food Products: The Case of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages.

Intergenerational Effects

• Family Size Effects on Childhood Obesity: Evidence on the Quantity-quality Trade-off Using the NLSY.
• Duration of Breastfeeding and Subsequent Adolescent Obesity: Effects of Maternal Behavior and Socioeconomic Status.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• High-energy, High-fat Lifestyle Challenges an Arctic Apex Predator, the Polar Bear.
• Effects of Temperature on Hard Clam (Mercenaria Mercenaria) Feeding and Energetics.
• Estimation of Energetic Condition in Wild Baboons Using Fecal Thyroid Hormone Determination.

Methods

• Multi-omics Approach to Elucidate the Gut Microbiota Activity. Metaproteomics and Metagenomics Connection.
• Discordance Between BMI and a Novel Body Composition Change Index (BCCI) as Outcome Measures in Weight Change Interventions.

Commentary

• Obesity Crisis Can’t Be Solved By Schools – Major New Study.
• A Beautiful Childhood Obesity Plan with Null Results.
• School-Based Program Fails to Dent Kids' Obesity.
• Three Hurdles for Actually Dealing with Obesity.
• The Language of Obesity Just Makes Matters Worse.
• Weight Loss Surgery: The False Stigma of an Easy Way Out.
• Where Telling People What They Oughta Wanna Eat Fails.

General

• The Bees do It, but What About the Birds? Evidence for Sex Ratio Adjustment in Birds.
• The Role of Experimenter Belief in Social Priming.
• A Neurochemical Hypothesis for the Origin of Hominids.
• NSF Will Require Reporting of Sexual Harassment.

Video & Audio

• Video: Is Five a Day Enough?
• Video: Saturated Fats: Have We Got It Wrong?
• Video: Panel Discussion: Dietary Guidelines, Why All the Confusion – How Much Should We Blame the Media?

Announcements

• Book Review: Contours of the Nation: Making Obesity and Imagining Canada, 1945-1970.
• New Summer Institute on the Social Determinants of Health: Emory University -- Rollins School of Public Health.
• Apply to Become an Obesity Society Fellow.
• Fluid Dynamics and Particulate and Multiphase Processes Research at the International Space Station to Benefit Life on Earth.
• UAB Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• UAB’s NORC seeks post-doctoral fellows in obesity research.

Featured

• Spin in Randomised Clinical Trial Reports of Interventions for Obesity.
• Infrared Thermography, a New Method for Detection of Brown Adipose Tissue Activity After a Meal in Humans.
• Effects of Heat Stress and Insulin Sensitizers on Pig Adipose Tissue.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: McDonald's French Fries Might Hold a Cure for Baldness.
• Study: In Vitro Hair Follicle Formation on a Substrate Made with a Chemical Added to Fryer Oil; Successful Follicle Transfer... To Mice.
• News Critique: McDonald's French Fries Cannot Cure Baldness, Clarifies Scientist.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "...we reject that neighborhood environments have meaningful effects on healthy eating."
• Obesity Does Not Influence Prostate Intrafractional Motion.
• Study Finds Virtually Zero Benefit From Workplace Wellness Program in 1st Year.
• RCT: Interrupting Prolonged Sitting with Regular Activity Breaks Does Not Acutely Influence Appetite.
• Hypoxia During Resistance Exercise Does Not Affect Physical Performance, Perceptual Responses, or Neuromuscular Recovery.
• "Surprisingly, we also found that ablation of macrophage-derived IGF-1 reduces body weight in female mice by ~10%."
• Meta-analysis: "The effect of probiotics on fat mass was non-significant (-0.42 [-1.08, 0.23] kg, I2 = 84%)."

Basic

• Inducible Knockdown of Endothelial Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase-1B Promotes Neointima Formation in Obese Mice By Enhancing Endothelial Senescence.
• MiR-27b-3p Regulation in Browning of Human Visceral Adipose Related to Central Obesity.
• Genipin Ameliorates Diet-induced Obesity Via Promoting Lipid Mobilization and Browning of White Adipose Tissue in Rats.
• FNDC5 Attenuates Adipose Tissue Inflammation and Insulin Resistance Via AMPK-mediated Macrophage Polarization in Obesity.
• Membrane Trafficking Protein CDP138 Regulates Fat Browning and Insulin Sensitivity Through Controlling Catecholamine Release.
• Effect of N-Acetylcysteine on Dyslipidemia and Carbohydrate Metabolism in Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Rats.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• The Comfort of Opinion Without the Discomfort of Thought.
• A Critical Analysis of Obesity Prevention Policies and Strategies.
• A Response To: A Critical Analysis of Obesity Prevention Policies and Strategies.
• Actual Body Weight or Perceived Body Weight? Comment On: Childhood Obesity and School Absenteeism: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Response to Letter On: Childhood Obesity and School Absenteeism: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Clinical

• Comparison of Retinal Vascular Geometry in Obese and Non-obese Children.
• The Role of Motivation to Reduce Obesity Among Elderly People: Response to Priming Temptation in Obese Individuals.
• Weighted Vest Use During Dietary Weight Loss on Bone Health in Older Adults with Obesity.
• Meta-analysis: Effects of Weight Changes in the Autonomic Nervous System.

Children and Adolescents

• Maintenance Interventions in Overweight or Obese Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• The GReat-Child™ Trial: A Quasi-Experimental Intervention on Whole Grains with Healthy Balanced Diet to Manage Childhood Obesity in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• A Review: Associations Between Attention-deficit/hyperactivity Disorder, Physical Activity, Medication Use, Eating Behaviors and Obesity in Children and Adolescents.
• Sleep Duration and Incidence of Obesity in Infants, Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Prospective Studies.
• Provider Views on Childhood Obesity Management in Primary Care Settings: A Mixed Methods Analysis.
• Association of Weight Control Behaviors with BMI in Korean Adolescents: A Quantile Regression Approach.

Surgery

• Aspiration Therapy as a Tool to Treat Obesity: 1- to 4-Year Results in a 201-Patient Multi-Center Post-Market European Registry Study.
• Intravenous Metronidazole, Liquid Tinidazole, and Intra-vaginal Boric Acid to Cure Trichomonas in a Patient with Gastric Bypass Surgery.
• Diagnosing Internal Herniation After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery: Literature Overview, Cadaver Study and the Added Value of 3D CT Angiography.

Drugs

• RCT: Effect of Lorcaserin Alone and in Combination with Phentermine on Food Cravings After 12-Week Treatment.
• Obese Children Require Lower Doses of Pantoprazole than Nonobese Peers to Achieve Equal Systemic Drug Exposures.
• The Complex Relationship Between Antipsychotic-Induced Weight Gain and Therapeutic Benefits: A Systematic Review and Implications for Treatment.
• Obesity and Pediatric Drug Development.

Food & Diet

• RCT: "carbohydrate mouth rinsing improves running time to exhaustion and peak treadmill speed under Ramadan fasting conditions."
• RCT: Cashew Nut Consumption Increases HDL Cholesterol and Reduces Systolic Blood Pressure in Asian Indians with Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: A Preliminary Study for Evaluating the Dose-Dependent Effect of D-Allulose for Fat Mass Reduction in Adult Humans.
• Plasma Amino Acids During 8 Weeks of Overfeeding: Relation to Diet Body Composition and Fat Cell Size in the PROOF Study.
• Factors Influencing Food Choice of Athletes at International Competition Events.
• RCT: Effects of Intervention Promoting Healthy Children's Meals on Children's Ordering and Dietary Intake in a Quick-service Restaurant.
• Buttermilk and Krill Oil Phospholipids Improve Hippocampal Insulin Resistance and Synaptic Signaling in Aged Rats.

Caloric Restriction

• Butyrate Reduces Appetite and Activates Brown Adipose Tissue Via the Gut-brain Neural Circuit.
• Caloric Restriction Improves Glucose Homeostasis, Yet Increases Cardiometabolic Risk in Caveolin-1-deficient Mice.
• RCT: Is Two Days of Intermittent Energy Restriction Per Week a Feasible Weight Loss Approach in Obese Males?

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Sedentary Behavior and Physical Activity of Young Adult University Students.
• Pilot Study: An Acute Bout of High Intensity Interval Exercise Increases 12.5 H GH Secretion.
• Is Regular Exercise an Effective Strategy for Weight Loss Maintenance?
• Systematic Review: Group Walking in Physically Healthy People to Promote Physical Activity.
• Maternal Exercise Improves the Metabolic Health of Adult Offspring.

Economics & Sociology

• Regionalization of School Youth Obesity and Overweight in Texas By Considering Both BMI and Socioeconomic Status.
• The Socioeconomic Disparities in Intakes and Purchases of Less-Healthy Foods and Beverages Have Changed Over Time in Urban Mexico.
• ‘Broad but Not Deep’: Regional Food Hubs and Rural Development in the United States.
• The Effects of Twitter Users' Gender and Weight on Viral Behavioral Intentions Toward Obesity-Related News.
• The Impact of Obesity on Wages: The Role of Personal Interactions and Job Selection. (pdf)

Epidemiology

• Adipokines are Associated with Hypertension in Metabolically Healthy Obese (MHO) Children and Adolescents: A Prospective Population-Based Cohort Study.
• Obesity and Severity of Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
• Obesity and Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Disparities, Controversies, and Biology.
• Associations of Abdominal Subcutaneous and Visceral Fat with Insulin Resistance and Secretion Differ Between Men and Women: The Netherlands Epidemiology of Obesity Study.
• Sex-specific Differences in Mortality and the Obesity Paradox of Patients with Myocardial Infarction Ages >70 Y.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Desire or Disease? Framing Obesity to Influence Attributions of Responsibility and Policy Support.
• Brain Insulin Resistance in Type 2 Diabetes and Alzheimer Disease: Concepts and Conundrums.
• Systematic Screening for Metabolic Syndrome in Consumers with Severe Mental Illness.
• Does Self-Licensing Benefit Self-Regulation Over Time? An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study of Food Temptations.

Policy Related

• Implementation Contextual Factors Related to Youth Advocacy for Healthy Eating and Active Living.
• Current Government Actions and Potential Policy Options for Reducing Obesity in Queensland Schools.
• Process Evaluation and Costing of a Multifaceted Population-Wide Intervention to Reduce Salt Consumption in Fiji.
• Desire or Disease? Framing Obesity to Influence Attributions of Responsibility and Policy Support.

Intergenerational Effects

• Generation of Maternal Obesity Models in Studies of Developmental Programming in Rodents.
• Low Maternal Vitamin D Status in Pregnancy Increases the Risk of Childhood Obesity.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Free-living Greylag Geese Adjust Their Heart Rates and Body Core Temperatures to Season and Reproductive Context.
• The Geometry of Nutrient Space–Based Life-History Trade-Offs: Sex-Specific Effects of Macronutrient Intake on the Trade-Off Between Encapsulation Ability and Reproductive Effort in Decorated Crickets.
• Review: Modulation of Mitochondrial Metabolism as a Biochemical Trait in Blood Feeding Organisms: The Redox Vampire Hypothesis Redux.
• Diet-related Differences in Craniodental Morphology Between Captive-reared and Wild Coyotes, Canis Latrans (Carnivora: Canidae).

Methods

• Assessment of Salivary Adipokines Resistin, Visfatin, and Ghrelin as Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Biomarkers.
• Differences in the Validity of a Visual Estimation Method for Determining Patients’ Meal Intake Between Various Meal Types and Supplied Food Items.
• Cross-validation and Out-of-sample Testing of Physical Activity Intensity Predictions Using a Wrist-worn Accelerometer.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• A Novel Spatiotemporal Longitudinal Methodology for Predicting Obesity Using Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) Cerebral Functional Activity Data.
• Mathematical Analysis of Circadian Disruption and Metabolic Re-entrainment of Hepatic Gluconeogenesis: The Intertwining Entraining Roles of Light and Feeding.

Archeology & Anthropology  

• The Archaeology of Obesity: Discourse Analysis and Implications for North American Obesity Research.
• Bioanthropology of Obesity in a Population of the Autonomus Community of the Basque Country.
• Fat as Productive: Enactments of Fat in an Australian Suburb.

Ketones and Ketogenic Diet for Exercise Performance? 

• Ketone Bodies and Exercise Performance: The Next Magic Bullet or Merely Hype?
• Keto-adaptation Enhances Exercise Performance and Body Composition Responses to Training in Endurance Athletes.
• High Dietary Fat Intake Increases Fat Oxidation and Reduces Skeletal Muscle Mitochondrial Respiration in Trained Humans.
• Low Carbohydrate, High Fat Diet Impairs Exercise Economy and Negates the Performance Benefit From Intensified Training in Elite Race Walkers.
• Ketone Diester Ingestion Impairs Time-Trial Performance in Professional Cyclists.
• Nutritional Ketone Salts Increase Fat Oxidation but Impair High-intensity Exercise Performance in Healthy Adult Males.

Commentary

• New European Guidelines on Medical Management After Bariatric Surgery.
• Obesity & Moral Panic.
• Agricultural Technology Can Save Humanity From Starvation (Again).
• Obese Elephants.
• Community Obesity Rates Help Shape Whether Families are Overweight.
• Evidence, Not Evangelism, for Dietary Recommendations.

General

• The Effect of Ad Hominem Attacks on the Evaluation of Claims Promoted By Scientists.
• Nature Journals Tighten Rules on Non-financial Conflicts.
• Is a Statistical Test Letting Significance Slip Through the Cracks?
• Improved Estimation of Subject-level Functional Connectivity Using Full and Partial Correlation with Empirical Bayes Shrinkage.
• Altering Lipid Droplet Homeostasis Affects Coxiella Burnetii Intracellular Growth.
• Trust, Growth Mindset, and Student Commitment to Active Learning in a College Science Course.
• Athletic Training Service Characteristics for Patients with Ankle Sprains Sustained During High School Athletics.

Video & Audio

• Audio: Energy Saving Homebodies.
• Life After Research: From Hopkins to Forever Homes.

Announcements

• Seminar Series: From Biology To Behavior: A Cross-Disciplinary Discussion Surrounding Sugar And Sweetener Consumption.
• UAB Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• UAB’s NORC seeks post-doctoral fellows in obesity research.