Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Examining the Impact of a Summer Learning Program on Children's Weight Status and Cardiorespiratory Fitness: A Natural Experiment.
• It's All in the Timing: The Effect of a Healthy Food Cue on Food Choices From a Pictorial Menu.
• Innervation of Thermogenic Adipose Tissue Via a Calsyntenin 3β–S100b Axis.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Eating More Rice Could Help Fight Obesity, Study Suggests.
• Press release: International Study Suggests that Eating More Rice Could Be Protective Against Obesity.
• Meeting presentation: Cross-sectional Ecological Correlation Shows Association Between Per Capita Rice Consumption and BMI. No Fighting or Protection Demonstrated.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "No evidence of preliminary effectiveness on the primary outcome and mixed reports of teachers' acceptability of PAL training suggest the need to review the training" after "Introducing physically active lessons in UK secondary schools."
• RCT: No Significant Effect on BMI of Effect of a Workplace Wellness Program.
• RCT: No Significant Differential Effect on Weight of a Behavioural Intervention for Weight Loss Maintenance Versus Standard Weight Advice in Adults with Obesity.
• "No between-group differences in child BMI z-score were found..." in a "Comparative Effectiveness Trial of an Obesity Prevention Intervention in EFNEP and SNAP-ED."
• RCT: "web-based intervention using an activity monitor failed to promote weight-loss maintenance."
• "In extremely obese women undergoing cesarean delivery, prophylactic PICO NPWT was not associated with a decreased risk of the primary outcome compared with standard dressings."
• Advanced-age C57BL/6JRj Mice do Not Develop Obesity upon Western-type Diet Exposure.
• "In the age group of people around 70 years, dog ownership is not associated with reduced odds for developing T2D."

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• "More specifically, industry-funded research had a lower proportion of spin than nonprofit-funded research. This is important because it goes against a commonly expressed view that industry funding may have a direct or indirect effect on an investigator to explicitly describe nonsignificant results."
• Diet Blogs Often Fail to Provide Accurate Information, References.
• Scientific Integrity Issues in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry: Improving Research Reproducibility, Credibility, & Transparency.
• Breakfast Skipping Studies Critique.
• Study of Autism and Vitamin D Earns Retraction After Questions About Reliability.

Basic

• A High-fat Diet Promotes Depression-like Behavior in Mice By Suppressing Hypothalamic PKA Signaling.
• Inhibition of GIP Signaling Extends Lifespan Without Caloric Restriction.
• Crossroad Between Obesity and Cancer: A Defective Signaling Function of Heavily Lipid-Laden Adipocytes.

Clinical

• Effect on Health Care Expenditures During Nationwide Implementation of the Diabetes Prevention Program as a Health Insurance Benefit.
• RCT: Effect of a Weight-loss Stabilization Following a Weight Reduction with or Without Meal Replacement on Cardiometabolic Risk in Overweight Women.
• RCT: Ultra-Processed Diets Cause Excess Calorie Intake and Weight Gain: An Inpatient Trial of Ad Libitum Food Intake.
• RCT: The Beneficial Effects of Mediterranean Diet Over Low-fat Diet May Be Mediated By Decreasing Hepatic Fat Content.
• Sleeping in Doesn’t Mitigate Metabolic Changes Linked to Sleep Deficit.

Children and Adolescents

• Free Fatty Acids as an Indicator of the Nonfasted State in Children.
• RCT: Comparison of Yoga Versus Physical Exercise on Executive Function, Attention, and Working Memory in Adolescent Schoolchildren.
• Tonsillectomy Does Not Alter BMI Trajectory of Children with Down Syndrome Regardless of OSA Resolution.
• Meta-analysis: Co-morbidities Associated with Child and Adolescent Obesity.

Surgery

• Obesity-Related Epigenetic Changes After Bariatric Surgery.
• Employment Outcomes 2 Years After Bariatric Surgery: Relationship to Quality of Life and Psychosocial Predictors.
• Combined Loss of GLP-1R and Y2R Does Not Alter Progression of High-fat Diet-induced Obesity or Response to RYGB Surgery in Mice.
• Endoscopic Sleeve Gastroplasty Versus Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy.

Drugs

• RCT: Pegbelfermin (BMS-986036), a PEGylated Fibroblast Growth Factor 21 Analogue, in Patients with Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis.
• RCT: Superior Efficacy of Insulin Degludec/liraglutide Versus Insulin Glargine U100 as Add‐on to Sodium‐glucose Co‐transporter‐2 Inhibitor Therapy.
• FDA Approves New Combination Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes.

Food & Diet

• RCT: Impact of Oat Processing on Glycaemic and Insulinaemic Responses in Healthy Humans.
• RCT: Effect of Tea Catechins with Caffeine on Energy Expenditure in Middle-aged Men and Women.
• RCT: Replacing Saturated Fat with Walnuts or Vegetable Oils Improves Central Blood Pressure and Serum Lipids in Adults at Risk for Cardiovascular Disease.
• Review: Seafood Intake and the Development of Obesity, Insulin Resistance and Type 2 Diabetes.
• The Potential Role of Protein Leverage in the US Obesity Epidemic.

Caloric Restriction

• RCT: Two Days of Calorie Deprivation Impairs High Level Cognitive Processes, Mood, and Self-reported Exertion During Aerobic Exercise.
• Full-Fat Dairy Food Intake is Associated with a Lower Risk of Incident Diabetes Among American Indians with Low Total Dairy Food Intake.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Exercise Prevents Obesity-induced Cognitive Decline and White Matter Damage in Mice.
• Differential Relationship Between Physical Activity and Intake of Added Sugar and Nutrient-dense Foods: A Cross-sectional Analysis.
• RCT: Short-Term Resistance Training Improves Cardiac Autonomic Modulation and Blood Pressure in Hypertensive Older Women.
• RCT: Inducing Incentive Sensitization of Exercise Reinforcement Among Adults Who do Not Regularly Exercise.
• Review: Can Exercise-Induced Modulation of the Tumor Physiologic Microenvironment Improve Antitumor Immunity?
• Review: Aerobic Exercise Training and Vascular Function with Aging in Healthy Men and Women.

Economics & Sociology

• Association of Neighborhood Built Environments with Childhood Obesity: Evidence From a 9-year Longitudinal, Nationally Representative Survey in the US.
• Rural Areas Drive Increases in Global Obesity.
• Few High-Risk Patients Attend Diabetes Prevention Programs: Providers Often Failed to Recommend Them.

Epidemiology

• Hilly Neighborhoods are Associated with Increased Risk of Weight Gain Among Older Adults in Rural Japan: A 3-years Follow-up Study.
• The Dietary Transition and Its Association with Cardiometabolic Mortality Among Chinese Adults, 1982–2012: A Cross-sectional Population-based Study.
• Obesity and Cancer Treatment Efficacy: Existing Challenges and Opportunities.
• Prospective Associations Between Play Environments and Pediatric Obesity.
• Estimates of the Current and Future Burden of Cancer Attributable to Excess Body Weight and Abdominal Adiposity in Canada.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Excessive Consumption of Sugar: An Insatiable Drive for Reward.
• Dietary Restraint and Weight Loss in Relation to Disinhibited Eating in Obese Veterans Following a Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention.
• Internalized Weight Bias and Psychological Wellbeing: An Exploratory Investigation of a Preliminary Model.
• Comorbid Obesity and Cigarette Smoking are Linked to Neurobiological Alterations in Inhibitory Control During Smoking Cue Exposure.
• Appetitive Pavlovian-to-Instrumental Transfer in Participants with Normal-Weight and Obesity.
• Computerized Neurocognitive Training for Improving Dietary Health and Facilitating Weight Loss.

Equity and Disparities

• Family Spirit Nurture (FSN) – a Randomized Controlled Trial to Prevent Early Childhood Obesity in American Indian Populations: Trial Rationale and Study Protocol.
• Comparing the Self-Rated Health Effects of Obesity on the Health of African Americans and Caribbean Blacks.

Ethics

• Killing Us Gently with Implicit Weight Bias.
• Arguments for and against a sugar consumption tax pose an ethical dilemma.
• Too Fat to be President? Chris Christie and Fat Stigma as Rhetorical Disability.

Stigma

• Bullying Perpetration and Victimization Among Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity in a Nationally Representative Sample.
• Psychological Well-being and Weight-related Teasing in Childhood Obesity.

Policy Related

• Addressing Food Insecurity and Malnourishment Among Older Adults: The Critical Role of Older Americans Act Nutrition Programs.
• Association of a Beverage Tax on Sugar-Sweetened and Artificially Sweetened Beverages with Changes in Beverage Prices and Sales at Chain Retailers in a Large Urban Setting.
• Policies for Tackling Obesity and Creating Healthier Food Environments: 2019 Progress Update Australian Governments.
• Innovation to Create a Healthy and Sustainable Food System: A Science Advisory From the American Heart Association.
• Commentary: Climate Change, Health and Green Space Co-benefits.

Intergenerational Effects

• The Association Between Maternal BMI and Child Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• To What Extent Does Maternal BMI Predict Intentions, Attitudes or Practices of Early Infant Feeding?
• Obesity and Socioeconomic Disparities: Rethinking Causes and Perinatal Care.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Differential Glycogen Utilization in Shark Acid- and Base-regulatory Gill Cells.
• Food-derived Volatiles Enhance Consumption in Drosophila Melanogaster.
• Adherence to a Priori Dietary Indexes and Baseline Prevalence of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the PREDIMED-Plus Randomised Trial.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Integrated Multiscale Mathematical Modeling of Insulin Secretion Reveals the Role of Islet Network Integrity for Proper Oscillatory Glucose-dose Response.
• Mathematical modeling informs the impact of changes in circadian rhythms and meal patterns on insulin secretion.

Methods

• Obesity and chemotherapy administration: between empiric and mathematic method review.
• Stressing the importance of choice: Validity of a preclinical free‐choice high‐caloric diet paradigm to model behavioural, physiological and molecular adaptations during human diet‐induced obesity and metabolic dysfunction.

Commentary

• Does Physical Activity and Self-Weighing Prevent Weight Regain?
• "Not Reporting Results of a Clinical Trial Is Academic Misconduct."
• Evolutionary Physiology Shows the Need for an Unprecedented Study on Sugar.
• Protein: Everything You Think You Know is Wrong.
• Why Brown Fat Has a Lot of Nerve.
• How Much Protein do You Need Per Day?

General

• Using Instrumental Variables to Address Bias From Unobserved Confounders.
• Microscopic Robotic Teeth Cleaning Crew.
• 3D Wrist Bones in Motion!
• Using Selfies to Challenge Public Stereotypes of Scientists.
• Swim Exercise in C. Elegans Extends Neuromuscular and Intestinal Healthspan, Enhances Learning Ability, and Protects Against Neurodegeneration.
• Placebo: Can the Mind Cure You?
• Twenty-six Assumptions that Have to Be Met If Single Random Assignment Experiments are to Warrant “gold Standard” Status: A Commentary on Deaton and Cartwright.
• Instruction of Evaluation Competencies in Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH)-Accredited Master of Public Health (MPH) Degree Programs.
• Data Sharing and How It Can Benefit Your Scientific Career.
• Brazilian Biomedical Science Faces Reproducibility Test.
• Webinar: May 29: Selling Without Selling Out: How to Communicate Your Science.

Announcements

• May 25: Overview of the National Academies Report on Reproducibility and Replicability in Science and Engineering with a Focus on How the Conclusions and Recommendations Relate to Research and Reporting in Psychological Science.
• 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.
• Short Course: Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research (7/29-8/2 @Bloomington, IN).
• Short Course: Mathematical Science in Obesity Research (6/3-7 @Baltimore, MD).
• Indiana’s Bodyworks Studio wins Community Impact Award.

Featured

• "Regardless of any randomization process that might have determined which school was assigned which treatment status, this was not a cluster-randomized trial."
• Concentration-Dependent Effects of a Dietary Ketone Ester on Components of Energy Balance in Mice.
• Sarcopenia and Its Implications for Metabolic Health.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Bottle-fed Babies More Likely to Become Obese as Breast Milk is More Healthy.
• Press release: WHO Study Confirms Breastfeeding Protects Against Child Obesity...
• Study: The authors state: "the data come from cross-sectional studies, which can detect an association between exposure and outcome but do not justify causal inference."

Contrary or Null Findings

• "I use detailed data on individuals’ food consumption and find that drug coverage worsens people’s diets."
• “This Meta-analysis Found that the Funding Source (i.e., Food Industry Sponsorship Versus Neutral Organisations Sponsorship) Did Not Affect the Findings of Studies in Terms of the Association Between Dairy Consumption and the Risk of Developing Type-2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases.”
• RCT: "results of the current study show that consumption of a high-fat, MCT breakfast meal replacement shake did not lead to significant changes in body composition, metabolism, or metabolic blood markers over the course of eight weeks."
• "...contrary to expectations, leptin signalling not only remains functional but is constantly activated in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus (ARH) neurons of obese mice."
• "...contrary to our hypothesis, the data shows that male mice gained more body weight per gram of food consumed."
• "These findings are contrary to the hypothesis that impaired capacity to deposit triglycerides or proliferation of new mature adipocytes are potential mechanisms for ectopic fat distribution in this setting."
• "...evidence that oat β-glucan consumption does not influence short- or medium-term energy intakes in healthy individuals..."
• RCT: No Effect of Glucomannan on Body Weight Reduction in Children and Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity.
• Dealing with Too Little: The Direct Experience of Scarcity Does Not Affect Snack Intake.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Insufficient Reporting of Randomization Procedures and Unexplained Unequal Allocation: A Commentary on “Dairy-Based and Energy-Enriched Berry-Based Snacks Improve or Maintain Nutritional and Functional Status in Older People in Home Care”.
• Conditioning on “study” is Essential for Valid Inference When Combining Individual Data From Multiple Randomized Controlled Trials: A Comment on Reesor et al's School‐based Weight Management Program Curbs Summer Weight Gain Among Low‐income Hispanic Middle School Students. J Sch Health. 2019;89(1):59‐67.
• Article: Is Obesity Associated with Major Depression? Results From the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
• Replication (preprint): "We do not find Onyike et al.'s (2003) principal conclusions especially convincing."
• Reflection: The Results of My Crowdsourced Reanalysis Project.
• 'Breast is Best, but Does It Prevent Obesity?'.
• Article to Featured: Effect of a Multidimensional Physical Activity Intervention on BMI, Skinfolds and Fitness in South African Children: Results From a Cluster-Randomised Controlled Trial.

Basic

• MRP14 Enhances the Ability of Macrophages to Recruit T Cells and Promotes Obesity-Induced Insulin Resistance.
• Sex Modulates Hepatic Mitochondrial Adaptations to High Fat Diet and Physical Activity.
• Gut Bacteria are Critical for Optimal Muscle Function in Mice: A Potential Link with Glucose Homeostasis.
• Low-Dose PCB126 Compromises Circadian Rhythms Associated with Disordered Glucose and Lipid Metabolism in Mice.
• Circadian Clock Regulation of the Glycogen Synthase (gsn) Gene By WCC is Critical for Rhythmic Glycogen Metabolism in Neurospora Crassa.

Clinical

• Influence of BMI on Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Surgery for Diverticular Disease.
• Influence of BMI on Long-Term Outcome in Patients with Rectal Cancer—A Single Centre Experience.
• Timing of Food Intake: Identifying Contributing Factors to Design Effective Interventions.
• Glucose and Lipid Homeostasis and Inflammation in Humans Following an Isocaloric Ketogenic Diet.
• Reconceptualizing Anorexia Nervosa.

Children and Adolescents

• Unhealthy Foods Taste Better Among Children with Lower Self-control.
• The Impact of Aerobic Exercises in Reducing Obesity Among African-American Adolescents.
• Weight Trajectories and Disordered Eating Behaviours in 11‐ to 12‐year‐olds: A Longitudinal Study Within the Danish National Birth Cohort.
• Childhood Metabolic Biomarkers are Associated with Performance on Cognitive Tasks in Young Children.
• Preschoolers Exhibit Conformity to Computer-simulated Food Portion Selection Behaviors of Remote Peers.

Surgery

• Systematic review: Effects of Bariatric Surgery on Maternal and Infant Outcomes of Pregnancy.
• Modifiable Factors Associated with Weight Regain After Bariatric Surgery: A Scoping Review.
• Trending Weight Loss Patterns in Obese and Super Obese Adolescents.
• Sleeve Gastrectomy Compared with Gastric Bypass for Morbidly Obese Patients with End Stage Renal Disease: A Decision Analysis.

Drugs

• Meta-analysis: Sodium‐Glucose Co‐Transporter‐2 (SGLT‐2) Inhibitors and Cancer.
• Getting to Precision Psychopharmacology: Combining Clinical and Genetic Information to Predict Fat Gain From Aripiprazole.
• Manipulation Checking the Munchies: Validating Self-Reported Dietary Behaviors During Cannabis Intoxication.

Food & Diet

• Systematic review: Impacts of Carbohydrate‐restricted Diets on Micronutrient Intakes and Status.
• Systematic review: Impact of Whole, Fresh Fruit Consumption on Energy Intake and Adiposity.
• Coffee Consumption By Type and Risk of Digestive Cancer: A Large Prospective Cohort Study.
• Consumption of Low‐calorie Sweetened Beverages is Associated with Higher Total Energy and Sugar Intake Among Children, NHANES 2011–2016.
• Children's Dietary Quality and Micronutrient Adequacy By Food Security in the Household and Among Household Children.
• MHealth Improved Fruit and Vegetable Accessibility and Intake in Young Children.

Caloric Restriction

• RCT: Changes in Resting Energy Expenditure with Intermittent Fasting Versus Continuous Daily Restriction.
• Interactions Between Mitochondrial Haplotype and Dietary Macronutrient Ratios Confer Sex-specific Effects on Longevity in Drosophila Melanogaster.
• “I Will Fast … Tomorrow”: Intentions to Restrict Eating and Actual Restriction in Daily Life and Their Person-level Predictors.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Meta-analysis: Additive Stress of Normobaric Hypoxic Conditioning to Improve Body Mass Loss and Cardiometabolic Markers in Individuals with Overweight or Obesity.
• Meta-analysis: Prevalence and Predictors of Dropout From High‐intensity Interval Training in Sedentary Individuals.
• RCT: The Effect of Exergaming on Executive Functions in Children with ADHD.
• Influence of Beliefs and Social Support on Physical Activity Among Fifth and Sixth Grade Students in Southern Indiana.
• Physical Activity Levels Among Rural Adolescents with a History of Ankle Sprain and Chronic Ankle Instability.
• Which Patients Benefit From Physical Activity on Prescription (PAP)? A Prospective Observational Analysis of Factors that Predict Increased Physical Activity.

Economics & Sociology

• Relationship of Socioeconomic Status Indicators to Obesity in Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White Middle-Aged Women: A Population Study.
• Higher Socioeconomic Status is Related to Healthier Levels of Fatness and Fitness Already at 3 to 5 Years of Age.
• Neighborhood Disadvantage Across the Transition From Adolescence to Adulthood and Risk of Metabolic Syndrome.
• “The Only Place Where People Don't Judge Other People's Body”: Obese People's Museum Experience.
• A Qualitative Assessment of US Black and Latino Adolescents’ Attitudes About Targeted Marketing of Unhealthy Food and Beverages.

Epidemiology

• BMI Trajectories From Adolescent to Young Adult for Incident High Blood Pressure and High Plasma Glucose.
• Quadriceps Impairment is Associated with Gait Mechanics in Young Adults with Obesity.
• Suboptimal Bone Microarchitecure in Adolescent Girls with Obesity Compared to Normal-weight Controls and Girls with Anorexia Nervosa.
• Morbid Obesity in Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Significant Risk Factor for Re-Operation.
• Sugar-sweetened Beverage Affordability and the Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in a Cross Section of Countries.
• Fate of the Metabolically Healthy Obese—is This Term a Misnomer? A Study From the Clinical Practice Research Datalink.
• Rising Rural Body-mass Index is the Main Driver of the Global Obesity Epidemic in Adults.
• Commentary: The Urban-Rural Race to Obesity.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Time is Overestimated in Obesity: A Cohort Study.
• Emotion Dysregulation and BMI: The Explanatory Role of Emotional Eating Among Adult Smokers.
• Obesity, Brain Volume, and White Matter Microstructure at MRI: A Cross-sectional UK Biobank Study.
• Evaluating the Influence of Racially Targeted Food and Beverage Advertisements on Black and White Adolescents’ Perceptions and Preferences.

Equity and Disparities

• Organizational and Geographic Nursing Home Characteristics Associated with Increasing Prevalence of Resident Obesity in the United States.
• A Health Disparities Perspective on Obesity Research.

Stigma

• Ethical Challenges in Global Health-related Stigma Research.
• Workplace Wellness that Promotes Stigma, Not Health.

Policy Related

• Sugar-sweetened Beverage Prices: Variations By Beverage, Food Store, and Neighborhood Characteristics, 2017.
• Critique: Food Processing: Criteria for Dietary Guidance and Public Health?
• A Bridge in Flux: Narratives and the Policy Process in the Pacific Northwest.
• An Accountability Evaluation for the International Food & Beverage Alliance's Global Policy on Marketing Communications to Children to Reduce Obesity: A Narrative Review to Inform Policy.
• School Health Policy Implementation: Facilitators and Challenges.
• Economics and Policy in Bariatric Surgery.
• The 2009 Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Food Package Change and Children's Growth Trajectories and Obesity in Los Angeles County.

Intergenerational Effects

• Oxytocin, Vasopressin and Prolactin in New Breastfeeding Mothers: Relationship to Clinical Characteristics and Infant Weight Loss.
• Association of Gestational Weight Gain with Adverse Maternal and Infant Outcomes.
• Maternal Overnutrition Programs Hedonic and Metabolic Phenotypes Across Generations Through Sperm TsRNAs.
• Associations of Maternal Psychological Distress During Pregnancy with Childhood General and Organ Fat Measures.
• Maternal and Fetal Genetic Effects on Birth Weight and Their Relevance to Cardio-metabolic Risk Factors.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Fish as Models for Understanding the Vertebrate Endocrine Regulation of Feeding and Weight.
• Reproductive Fitness of Drosophila is Maximised By Optimal Developmental Temperature.

Methods

• Community-Based Older Adults' Acceptance of and Willingness Toward Waist Circumference Measurement.
• Methodologic Considerations for Measuring Energy Expenditure Differences Between Diets Varying in Carbohydrate Using the Doubly Labeled Water Method.
• Beyond Nutrient Intake: Use of Digital Food Photography Methodology to Examine Family Dinnertime.

Commentary

• Does Skipping Breakfast Lead to Weight Loss or Weight Gain?
• How a Questionnaire Helped Me Find People and Tell the Story of Food Insecurity in Louisville.
• Is Success in Diabetes Possible Without Obesity Care?
• LIVE and Let DIEt: Taking Stock of the Ketogenic Kalamity.
• The Dark Side of Information Proliferation.
• Does Rice Help or Hurt with Obesity?
• Leads in Leeds for Reducing Childhood Obesity.
• Is Tribalism Undermining Objectivity About Low-carb, High-fat Diets?
• Why is Sit Less, Play More a Controversial Idea?
• When is a Condition a Disease and Not an Identity?

General

• Five Ways to Lie with Charts.
• Five Essential Factors for Data Sharing.
• Sphingosine Lipid Signaling in Alcoholic Liver Injury.
• Gulf Killifish Survive Toxic Water with a Little Help From Their Friends.
• Making Research Evaluation More Transparent: Aligning Research Philosophy, Institutional Values, and Reporting.
• The Resveratrol Rice DJ526 Callus Significantly Increases the Lifespan of Drosophila (Resveratrol Rice DJ526 Callus for Longevity).
• Bad Evidence: Ten Years After a Landmark Study Blew the Whistle on Junk Science, the Fight Over Forensics Rages On.
• Eye for Manipulation: A Profile of Elisabeth Bik.

Video & Audio

• The Biology of Weight Loss.
• Webinar Recording: The Changing Burden of Diabetes in Rural and Urban America.
• Podcast with Author of Dietary Cholesterol or Egg Consumption with Incident CVD and Mortality.
• UAB Health Disparities Research Symposium Targets Obesity and Other Issues.

Announcements

• Indiana University's Linda Smith Elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
• 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.
• Short Course: Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research (7/29-8/2 @Bloomington, IN).
• Short Course: Mathematical Science in Obesity Research (6/3-7 @Baltimore, MD).

Featured

• Self-report Versus Objective Measurement of Weight History: Implications for Pre-treatment Weight Gain.
• Snake Venom Potency and Yield are Associated with Prey-evolution, Predator Metabolism and Habitat Structure.
• Fat Cell Progenitors Get Singled Out.
• Social Relationships and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Among Post-Menopausal Women.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Vegan Burgers Make Men Feel Fuller than Beef, Study Finds.
• News release: Vegan Diets are Best for Gut Hormones and Satiety, According to New Study.
• Study: Secondary Endpoints of a Single Meal Challenge of a Vegan Sandwich Plus Unsweetened Tea Compared to a Processed Pork Sandwich Plus a 21-g-of-sugar Cafe Latte. No Diets. Where's the Beef?

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "…fish oil and/or probiotics during pregnancy ...conferred no benefits in lowering the risk of GDM or improving glucose metabolism in overweight and obese women."
• "There was no overall association of TLEE [Time of last eating episode] with the development of prediabetes or diabetes in the Whitehall II population."
• "...our data suggest that stevioside supplementation could improve the calcium and phosphorus digestibility and decrease blood glucose levels of broilers."
• RCT: No Significant Differential Effect of HIIT vs Moderate Intensity Continuous Training in People with CKD.
• The Sole Presence of Equipment Does Not Seem to Favor the Use of Fitness Zones in Low-income Neighborhoods.
• RCT: "Compared with overnight fasting, pre-operative carbohydrate loading did not significantly enhance peri-operative well being or recovery in patients undergoing day-case cholecystectomy."
• RCT: No Significant Impact of Dietary Nitrate Supplementation on Executive Function During Hypoxic Exercise.
• "…no significant association between maternal education level and risk of GDM."
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Serial Anthropometric Measurements and Motivational Text Messages on Weight Reduction Among Workers.
• RCT: No Significant Effect Intervention to Promote Walking During the Commute to Work.
• RCT: No significant support for "the hypothesis that asynchronous dietary counseling supplied through a custom smartphone app results in better adherence to a Mediterranean diet in a non-Mediterranean population than traditional standard-of-care (SOC) counseling."

Basic

• Targeting Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor-Gamma Decreases Host Mortality After Influenza Infection in Obese Mice.
• New Insight Into Human Sweet Taste: A Genome-wide Association Study of the Perception and Intake of Sweet Substances.
• Methodologic Considerations for Measuring Energy Expenditure Differences Between Diets Varying in Carbohydrate Using the Doubly Labeled Water Method.
• Branched-chain Amino Acids Impact Health and Lifespan Indirectly Via Amino Acid Balance and Appetite Control.
• Identification of Metabolically Distinct Adipocyte Progenitor Cells in Human Adipose Tissues.
• Role of Orexin in Exercise-induced Leptin Sensitivity in the Mediobasal Hypothalamus of Mice.
• Intermittent Fasting Increases Energy Expenditure and Promotes Adipose Tissue Browning in Mice.
• High BMI is Associated with Elevated Blood Levels of Progerin MRNA.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Retraction and Republication—Effect of a High-fat Mediterranean Diet on Bodyweight and Waist Circumference: A Prespecified Secondary Outcomes Analysis of the PREDIMED RCT.
• The Need for Synergy Between Biological and Behavioral Approaches to Address Accelerated Weight Gain During the Summer in Children.
• Perspective: Refined Grains and Health: Genuine Risk, or Guilt By Association? (pdf)
• Retraction Watch: Journalist’s Questions Lead to Expression of Concern for Paper on Melatonin and Pistachios.
• Expression of Concern to Spectrofluorimetric Determination of Melatonin in Kernels of Four Different Pistacia Varieties After Ultrasound-Assisted Solid-Liquid Extraction.

Clinical

• Adherence to Sleep Guidelines Reduces Risk of Overweight/obesity in Addition to 8-5-2-1-0 Guidelines Among a Large Sample of Adolescents in the United States.
• Cognitive Training Therapy Improves the Effect of Hypocaloric Treatment on Subjects with Overweight/Obesity.
• RCT: Individualised Nutritional Support in Medical Inpatients at Nutritional Risk.
• RCT: Outcomes of an RCT of Videoconference Vs. In‐person or In‐clinic Nutrition and Exercise in Midlife Adults with Obesity.

Children and Adolescents

• Low‐calorie Sweetener Use, Weight, and Metabolic Health Among Children: A Mini‐review.
• Association of Caloric Intake From Sugar-Sweetened Beverages with Water Intake Among US Children.
• A Pilot Study of School-Based Comprehensive Cardiovascular Screening in Middle School Children.

Surgery

• Comparative Efficacy of Bariatric Surgery in the Treatment of Morbid Obesity and Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis.
• The Safety and Benefits of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in Elderly Patients: A Case-Control Study.
• Changes in Energy Expenditure of Patients with Obesity Following Bariatric Surgery: A Systematic Review of Prospective Studies and Meta-analysis.
• Motivations of Males with Severe Obesity, Who Pursue Medical Weight Management or Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• Meta-analysis: Long-term Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Metformin on the Health of Children.
• RCT: The SGLT2 Inhibitor Dapagliflozin Reduces Liver Fat but Does Not Affect Tissue Insulin Sensitivity...With 8-Week Treatment in Type 2 Diabetes Patients.
• Long-term Effects of Metformin on Diabetes Prevention: Identification of Subgroups that Benefited Most in the Diabetes Prevention Program and Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study.

Food & Diet

• Association of Skipping Breakfast with Cardiovascular and All-Cause Mortality.
• Effects of Ginseng Dietary Supplementation on a High-Fat Diet-induced Obesity in C57BL/6 Mice.
• Association of High-fat Diet with Neuroinflammation, Anxiety-like Defensive Behavioral Responses, and Altered Thermoregulatory Responses in Male Rats.
• Chronic Calorie‐dense Diet Drives Differences in Motivated Food Seeking Between Obesity‐prone and Resistant Mice.
• Trends in Energy Drink Consumption Among U.S. Adolescents and Adults, 2003–2016.

Caloric Restriction

• Intermittent Energy Restriction is a Feasible, Effective, and Acceptable Intervention to Treat Adolescents with Obesity.
• Review: The Role of Intermittent Fasting and Meal Timing in Weight Management and Metabolic Health.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Trends in Sedentary Behavior Among the US Population, 2001-2016.
• Alleles Associated with Physical Activity Levels are Estimated to Be Older than Anatomically Modern Humans.
• RCT: Effects of Interval Training on Visceral Adipose Tissue in Centrally Obese 70‐Year‐Old Individuals.
• Aerobic Exercise Improves Food Reward Systems in Obese Rats Via Insulin Signalling Regulation of Dopamine Levels in the Nucleus Accumbens.
• Voluntary Wheel Running Reduces Weight Gain in Mice By Decreasing High-fat Food Consumption.
• RCT: Wearable Technology‐based Intervention for Increasing Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity and Reducing Sedentary Behavior in Breast Cancer Survivors.

Economics & Sociology

• Socioeconomic Trajectories of BMI and Waist Circumference: Results From the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.
• Trends and Correlates of Excessive Body Weight in 3 Czech Adolescents in Relation to Family 4 Socioeconomic Status Over a 16-year Study Period 5 (2002-2018).
• Do Income Inequalities in Higher Weight Status Depend on Social Integration?
• A Growing Social Divide in BMI, Strength, and Fitness of Swedish Male Conscripts.
• The Economic Burden of Elevated Blood Glucose Levels in 2017: Diagnosed and Undiagnosed Diabetes, Gestational Diabetes Mellitus, and Prediabetes.
• Food, Eating, and Happy Aging: The Perceptions of Older Chinese People.

Epidemiology

• Association of Accelerometer-Measured Light-Intensity Physical Activity with Brain Volume.
• Prevalence of Eating Disorders Over the 2000–2018 Period: A Systematic Literature Review.
• Prevalence of Severe Obesity Among Primary School Children in 21 European Countries.
• Body Mass Trajectories and Cortical Thickness in Middle-aged Men: A 42-year Longitudinal Study Starting in Young Adulthood.
• Meta-analysis: Epigenome-wide Association Studies in Neonates Reveals Widespread Differential DNA Methylation Associated with Birthweight.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• How Cognitive Bias Modification Alters Behavioral and Brain Responses to Food Cues in Individuals with Obesity.
• Assessing Causality in the Association Between Attention-deficit/hyperactivity Disorder and Obesity.
• Memory Impairments in Women with Obesity are Associated with HbA1c Levels and Brain Iron Independently of Insulin Sensitivity.
• Psychologically Informed App to Manage Weight Loss. (pdf)
• Amygdala NPY Circuits Promote the Development of Accelerated Obesity Under Chronic Stress Conditions.
• Differential Effects of BMI on Brain Response to Odor in Olfactory, Reward and Memory Regions: Evidence From FMRI.
• Retinal Morphometric Markers of Crystallized and Fluid Intelligence Among Adults with Overweight and Obesity.

Equity and Disparities

• Observational Analysis of Disparities in Obesity in Children in the UK: Has Leeds Bucked the Trend?
• Sleep Patterns and Obesity: Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos Sueño Ancillar Study.

Stigma

• News: Doctors Underestimate Obese Patients' Weight Loss Attempts.
• Moral discourse in general practitioners' accounts of obesity communication.

Policy Related

• A Food Lover's Love of Nutrition Science, Policy, and Politics. (pdf)
• The Added Value of Establishing a Lexicon to Help Inform, Compare, and Better Understand the Implementation of Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change Strategies in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education.
• Sleep—an Essential Component of Obesity Screening and Counseling: A Policy Analysis of the Affordable Care Act.
• The 2009 Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Food Package Change and Children's Growth Trajectories and Obesity in Los Angeles County.
• Building Playgrounds for Children of All Abilities: Legal Requirements and Professional Recommendations.
• The Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions for Reducing Obesity Among Young Children Through Healthy Eating, Physical Activity, and Screen Time.
• Cost-Effectiveness of the US Food and Drug Administration Added Sugar Labeling Policy for Improving Diet and Health.
• Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages in Paediatric Age: A Position Paper of the European Academy of Paediatrics and the European Childhood Obesity Group.

Intergenerational Effects

• Maternal and Early‐life Area‐level Characteristics and Childhood Adiposity.
• Effect of Maternal Obesity and Preconceptional Weight Loss on Male and Female Offspring Metabolism and Olfactory Performance in Mice.
• Population-specific Life History Tradeoffs in Nocturnal Breastfeeding.
• Investigating Possible Trans/Intergenerational Associations with Obesity in Young Adults Using an Exposome Approach.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Autonomic Cardiac Regulation Facilitates Acute Heat Tolerance in Rainbow Trout: In Situ and in Vivo Support.
• Immune State is Associated with Natural Dietary Variation in Wild Mice Mus Musculus Domesticus.
• Honey, I Ate the Kids: The Sweet Side of Filial Cannibalism.
• Seasonal Dynamics of Lipid Metabolism and Energy Storage in the Brazilian Free-tailed Bat.

Methods

• Drosophila Melanogaster as a High-throughput and in Vivo Model to Study Body Weight and Feeding Behaviour.
• RCT: Using Metabolic Profiling and Gene Expression Analyses to Explore Molecular Effects of Replacing Saturated Fat with Polyunsaturated Fat.
• Identification of Factors Associated with Variation in US County-Level Obesity Prevalence Rates Using Epidemiologic vs Machine Learning Models.

Commentary

• Is Ghee Healthy? Here's What the Science Says.
• Obesity and Diabetes Risk Linked to Common Food Ingredient [in Mice].
• Food is Medicine—The Promise and Challenges of Integrating Food and Nutrition Into Health Care.
• Ranting About Gluttony Doesn’t Help with Obesity.
• Can Ethical Labelling Make Food Systems Healthy, Sustainable, and Just?
• Fear & Curiosity About Risks in the Food Supply.
• 2019 Obesity Canada Report Card on Access to Obesity Treatments for Adults Shows Much Room for Improvement.
• Does Marijuana Really Cause the Munchies?

General

• "Results suggest the appearance of heterogeneous, researcher-generated p-values used in the meta-analysis rather than unbiased evidence of real effects for air quality."
• Bad Data Science = Bad Business: Census 2020.
• Sons May Be Bad for Maternal Health at Older Age: New Evidence for Costs of Reproduction in Humans.
• Dr. David Hamburg, Leader in Conflict Resolution, Dies at 93.
• Kindness Begins with Yourself: The Role of Self‐compassion in Adolescent Body Satisfaction and Eating Pathology.
• Gene Expression Changes Associated with the Evolutionary Loss of a Metabolic Trait: Lack of Lipogenesis in Parasitoids.
• Simulation-based Validation of Spatial Capture-recapture Models: A Case Study Using Mountain Lions.
• Public Release of the Reproducibility and Replicability in Science Report.
• The ‘Cuddle Hormone’ Might Help America Take on the Obesity Epidemic.
• USDA Launches SNAP Online Purchasing Pilot.
• U.S. Trust in Pharma Ticks Upward, but Consumers Still Distrust the Industry.
• Valuation of Measurement Error in 24-hour Dietary Recall for Assessing Sodium and Potassium Intake Among US Adults — National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), 2014.
• Dose-response Relation Between Dietary Sodium and Blood Pressure: A Meta-regression Analysis of 133 RCTs.

Video & Audio

• Video: E35: Jennifer Pomeranz on Food Policy and Industry Tactics Driving Preemption.
• Assessing and Managing Energy Balance: Are Clinically Relevant Solutions Available? - Corby K Martin 4-16-2019.

Announcements

• New Book By IU Prof Emeritus Engs: Health and Medicine Through History From Ancient Practices to 21st-Century Innovations.
• Webinar: Public Release of the Reproducibility and Replicability in Science Report.
• 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.
• Short Course: Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research (7/29-8/2 @Bloomington, IN).
• Short Course: Mathematical Science in Obesity Research (6/3-7 @Baltimore, MD).

Featured

• Combining Biomarker and Self-reported Dietary Intake Data: A Review of the State of the Art and an Exposition of Concepts.
• RCT: Portion Size Has Sustained Effects Over 5 Days in Preschool Children.
• Physical Activity and Fitness Among Pediatric Cancer Survivors: A Meta-analysis of Observational Studies.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Exercise Makes You Happier than Money, According to Yale and Oxford Research.
• Study: Association between physical exercise and mental health in 1·2 million individuals: "physical exercise was significantly and meaningfully associated with self-reported mental health burden in the past month. More exercise was not always better."

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Six Weeks of Morning Fasting Causes Little Adaptation of Metabolic or Appetite Responses to Feeding in Adults with Obesity.
• RCT: "leucine-enriched whey protein isolate supplementation did not confer any additional benefit in those already consuming ample amounts of dietary protein at trial enrolment" in sarcopenia.
• RCT: Videogames that Encourage Healthy Behavior Did Not Alter Fasting Insulin or Other Diabetes Risks in Children.
• RCT: "Our results provide evidence opposing one of the main hypotheses of self-determination theory by showing that financial rewards are not necessarily associated with decreases in more internal forms of motivation when offered as part of a complex multicomponent intervention."
• RCT: "Individualized LGI diet consultations for overweight and obese pregnant women failed to make a significant difference in maternal or neonatal insulin resistance compared with the standard gestational diet consultation."
• RCT: Minimal Effect of High Compared with Low Dairy Consumption on Glucose Metabolism, Insulin Sensitivity, and Metabolic Flexibility in Overweight Adults.
• RCT: When Objective Accelerometry Measures are Used, No Significant Effects of a Brief Multimodal Intervention Integrated in Health Education Lessons to Increase Physical Activity and Reduce Sedentary Behavior Among Eighth Graders.
• RCT: "In healthy community-dwelling older men, exercise training and/or calcium-vitamin D fortified milk did not improve HR-QoL or depressive symptoms."
• Salivary α-amylase Copy Number is Not Associated with Weight Trajectories and Glycemic Improvements Following Clinical Weight Loss: Results From a 2-phase Dietary Intervention Study.

Basic

• Chronic Exposure to Green Light Aggravates High-fat Diet-induced Obesity and Metabolic Disorders in Male Mice.
• Myonectin Deletion Promotes Adipose Fat Storage and Reduces Liver Steatosis.
• Neuronal Calcium Sensor-1 (NCS-1) Deficiency is Associated with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in Mice.
• Siah2 Modulates Sex-Dependent Metabolic and Inflammatory Responses in Adipose Tissue to a High-Fat Diet Challenge.
• Synergistic Effects of DHA and Sucrose on Body Weight Gain in PUFA-Deficient Elovl2 -/- Mice.
• Effect of Propiconazole on the Lipid Metabolism of Zebrafish Embryos.
• Combined Exercise and Calorie Restriction Therapies Restore Contractile and Mitochondrial Functions in Skeletal Muscle of Obese–insulin Resistant Rats.
• Hyperadrenocorticism of Calorie Restriction Contributes to Its Anti‐inflammatory Action in Mice.
• Supplementation with Sodium Butyrate Modulates the Composition of the Gut Microbiota and Ameliorates High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity in Mice.
• Resveratrol Treatment Ameliorates Leptin Resistance and Adiposity Programmed By the Combined Effect of Maternal and Post‐Weaning High‐Fat Diet.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Retraction and Republication—Effect of a High-fat Mediterranean Diet on Bodyweight and Waist Circumference: A Prespecified Secondary Outcomes Analysis of the PREDIMED Randomised Controlled Trial.
• Maybe Combining Red Wine and Tea Doesn’t Kill Tumors After All.
• Rein in the Four Horsemen of Irreproducibility.
• What is the Best Housing Temperature to Translate Mouse Experiments to Humans?

Clinical

• RCT: Time-Restricted Feeding Improves Glucose Tolerance in Men at Risk for Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: Adiposity, Hepatic Triglyceride, and Carotid Intima Media Thickness During Behavioral Weight Loss Treatment in Antipsychotic-Treated Youth.
• Behavioural Weight Management Interventions for Postnatal Women: A Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews of RCTs.
• RCT: Closing the Gap: Results of the Multicenter Canadian Trial of Structured Transition in Young Adults with Type 1 Diabetes.
• Effects of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention on Distress, Weight Gain, and Glucose Control for Pregnant Low-Income Women: A Quasi-Experimental Trial Using the ORBIT Model.
• The Short-chain Fatty Acid Propionate Increases Glucagon and FABP4 Production, Impairing Insulin Action in Mice and Humans.

Children and Adolescents

• Reach of a Low-intensity, Multicomponent Childhood Overweight and Obesity Intervention Delivered in an Integrated Primary Care Setting.
• Preterm Birth as a Risk Factor for Metabolic Syndrome and Cardiovascular Disease in Adult Life: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
• Diet, Weight Gain, and Head Growth in Hospitalized US Very Preterm Infants: A 10-year Observational Study.
• Testing Bidirectional Associations Between Childhood Aggression and BMI: Results From Three Cohorts.
• Health Outcomes of Youth in Clinical Pediatric Weight Management Programs in POWER.

Surgery

• Genetic Determinants of Weight Loss After Bariatric Surgery. (pdf).
• Role of Adipose Tissue GLP-1R Expression in Metabolic Improvement After Bariatric Surgery in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

Drugs

• RCT: Effects of Inulin Propionate Ester Incorporated Into Palatable Food Products on Appetite and Resting Energy Expenditure.
• RCT: Comparing the Effects of Ipragliflozin Versus Metformin on Visceral Fat Reduction and Metabolic Dysfunction in Japanese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Treated with Sitagliptin.
• "Among persons with weight loss of at least 5% after 1 year, those originally randomly assigned to metformin had the greatest loss during years 6 to 15."

Food & Diet

• Sustainable Diets, Food, and Nutrition: Proceedings of a Workshop.
• Meta-Analysis of RCTs of Red Meat Consumption in Comparison with Various Comparison Diets on Cardiovascular Risk Factors.
• RCT: Contrasting the Effects of 4 Low-calorie Sweeteners and Sucrose on Body Weight in Adults with Overweight or Obesity.
• Nutrition Therapy for Adults with Diabetes or Prediabetes: A Consensus Report.
• Extended Ketogenic Diet and Physical Training Intervention in Military Personnel.
• Should Viscous Fiber Supplements Be Considered in Diabetes Control? Results From a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of RCTs.
• The Effect of Liquid Meal Replacements on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Overweight/Obese Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of RCTs.
• RCT: Effect of a Lifestyle Intervention Program with Energy-Restricted Mediterranean Diet and Exercise on Weight Loss and Cardiovascular Risk Factors: One-Year Results of the PREDIMED-Plus Trial.
• RCT: Mediterranean Versus Western Diet Effects on Caloric Intake, Obesity, Metabolism, and Hepatosteatosis in Nonhuman Primates.
• Beverage Intake During Alternate-day Fasting: Relationship to Energy Intake and Body Weight.

Caloric Restriction

• Clinical Management of Intermittent Fasting in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus.
• A Review of the Molecular Pathways Mediating the Improvement in Diabetes Mellitus Following Caloric Restriction.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• A Body in Motion: Exercise and Cognition.
• Handgrip Strength, Inflammatory Markers and Mortality.
• The Panacea of Human Aging Calorie Restriction Versus Exercise.

Epidemiology

• Elucidation of Causal Direction Between Asthma and Obesity: A Bi-directional Mendelian Randomization Study.
• Obesity: Global Epidemiology and Pathogenesis.
• Relationship Between Individual Ventilatory Threshold and Maximal Fat Oxidation (MFO) Over Different Obesity Classes in Women.
• Imbalance in Obesity and Mental Health Among “little Emperors” in China.
• Temporal Changes in Obesity and Sleep Habits in Hong Kong Chinese School Children: A Prospective Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Time is Overestimated in Obesity.
• Population Density is Beneficially Associated with 12-year Diabetes Risk Marker Change Among Residents of Lower Socio-economic Neighborhoods.
• Tasting with Your Eyes: Sensory Description Substitutes for Portion Size.
• Mood and Goal-Related Factors Associated with Early Non-Response in an Internet-Based Behavioral Weight Loss Program.

Economics & Sociology

• Modern Transference of Domestic Cooking Skills.
• “…we demonstrate that convenience store competition was associated with greater consumption of healthy foods and lower obesity rates.”

Policy Related

• Sleep-an Essential Component of Obesity Screening and Counseling: A Policy Analysis of the Affordable Care Act.
• Obesity prevention in children and young people: what policy actions are needed?

Equity and Disparities

• Utilizing a Board Game to Measure Family/Parenting Factors and Childhood Obesity Risk.
• RCT: Eat, Pray, Move: a Multilevel Church-Based Intervention to Address Obesity Among African Americans and Latinos.
• Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Adult Obesity in the United States: CDC's Tracking to Inform State and Local Action.

Stigma

• Shaping the Body Politic: Mass Media Fat-Shaming Affects Implicit Anti-Fat Attitudes.
• Psychometric Properties and Measurement Invariance of the Weight Self-Stigma Questionnaire and Weight Bias Internalization Scale in Children and Adolescents.

Intergenerational Effects

• Effects of Maternal and Grandmaternal Flea Infestation on Offspring Quality and Quantity in a Desert Rodent: Evidence for Parasite-mediated Transgenerational Phenotypic Plasticity.
• Comparing Pregnancy Outcomes and Loss Rates in Elective Twin Pregnancy Reduction to Ongoing Twin Gestations in a Large Contemporary Cohort. (pdf)
• Uncontrolled Eating During Pregnancy Predicts Fetal Growth.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Human Gain-of-Function MC4R Variants Show Signaling Bias and Protect Against Obesity.
• Polygenic Prediction of Weight and Obesity Trajectories From Birth to Adulthood.
• Commentary: Polygenic Risk Scores Expand to Obesity.

Methods

• Computational Models for the Mechanical Investigation of Stomach Tissues and Structure.
• Development of a Gold-standard Method for the Identification of Sedentary, Light and Moderate Physical Activities in Older Adults: Definitions for Video Annotation.
• Ethnicity-specific Cut-offs that Predict Co-morbidities: The Way Forward for Optimal Utility of Obesity Indicators.

Commentary

• Hold the Soda, Hold the Fat Shaming.
• Flummoxed By an Imaginary Concept of Healthy Food.
• It’s Just in Mice! This Scientist is Calling Out Hype in Science Reporting.
• Genetic Basis of Obesity Carries Weight.
• When Adding Sugar Doesn’t Add Up to Added Sugar.
• Why Obese Horses Need Both Diet and Exercise.
• The Data All Guilt-Ridden Parents Need.
• Genes are Not Destiny? What’s that Supposed to Mean?
• The Disturbing Links Between Too Much Weight and Several Types of Cancer.
• Counteracting Health Misinformation: A Role for Medical Journals.
• Kevin Hall: Common Ground on Ultra-Processed Foods?

General

• Tissue-specific Accumulation, Sexual Difference, and Maternal Transfer of Chlorinated Paraffins in Black-spotted Frogs.
• Bringing CAR-T Cancer Treatments to Solid Tumors with Help From Alpacas.
• Scientists Change Monkey Minds Using Low-intensity Ultrasound.
• Ten Simple Rules Towards Healthier Research Labs.
• Identifying Finding Sentences in Conclusion Subsections of Biomedical Abstracts.
• Metformin Induces the AP-1 Transcription Factor Network in Normal Dermal Fibroblasts.
• The Well-Meaning Bad Ideas Spoiling a Generation.
• Microbes in the Human Body Swap Genes, Even Across Tissue Boundaries, Study Indicates.
• Biologists Uncover New Rules for Cellular Decision-Making in Genetics.
• The FDA Just Approved a New Prescription Weight-Management Device. Here's How It Works.
• Food is Medicine—The Promise and Challenges of Integrating Food and Nutrition Into Health Care.

Video & Audio

• Video: In Vivo Protocol of Controlled Subconcussive Head Impacts for the Validation of Field Study Data.
• Carbs, Calories, or Quality: What Matters Most for Weight Control? [Distinguished Lecturer Award Keynote, Canadian Obesity Summit - Dr. Kevin Hall].

Announcements

• IU Bloomington: With New Name, Prevention Insights Will Promote and Sustain Healthy Environments and Behaviors Nationwide.
• Advanced Therapies for Pediatric Obesity - October 4, 2019 @ University of Minnesota.
• Interdisciplinary Nutrition Sciences Symposium - July 24-25, 2019 @ Chapel Hill, NC.
• 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.
• Short Course: Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research (7/29-8/2 @Bloomington, IN).
• Short Course: Mathematical Science in Obesity Research (6/3-7 @Baltimore, MD).