Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Long-term Dietary Macronutrients and Hepatic Gene Expression in Aging Mice.
• Of Mice and Men: Environmental Temperature, Body Temperature, and Treatment of Obesity.
• Seeing More and Eating Less: Effects of Portion Size Granularity on the Perception and Regulation of Food Consumption.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Lack of Sleep Leads to Obesity in Children and Adolescents.
• Study: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Association Between Sleep Duration and Obesity in Infants, Children, and Adolescents.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "Whey protein supplementation during diet-induced weight loss does not have clinically important therapeutic effects on muscle mass or strength in middle-aged postmenopausal women with obesity."
• RCT: "A mobile health-supported behavioral intervention did not decrease the incidence of GDM."
• RCT: "replacing daily snacks for 12 weeks with oligofructose-supplemented granola bars does not differentially affect energy intake, body weight and body composition compared with a control bar."
• Hexamoll® DINCH: Lack of in Vivo Evidence for Obesogenic Properties.
• Assessing “chaotic Eating” Using Self-report and the UK Adult National Diet and Nutrition Survey: No Association Between BMI and Variability in Meal or Snack Timings.
• No Association Between Fat Tissue and Height in 5019 Children and Adolescents, Measured Between 1982 and in 2011 in Kolkata/India.
• "Contrary to the expectation that the cost of predator avoidance behaviours may be greater at warmer exposure temperatures because basal metabolic rates are higher, our results indicated that the energetic cost of foraging less was amplified at cool temperatures."
• "We believe that this survey was flawed in that the survey question that was found to be significant is confusing because it requires a ‘no’ response for an affirmative answer. Because of this, as well as there being no correlation in the other two questions, it is plausible that parental meal planning has no effect on children’s BMI."

Basic

• Hunger is a Gatekeeper of Pain in the Brain.
• Effects of Detraining and Retraining on Muscle Energy-Sensing Network and Meteorin-Like Levels in Obese Mice.
• Prebiotic Mannan-Oligosaccharides Amplify the Hypoglycemic Effects of Metformin in Correlation with Modulating Gut Microbiota.
• Arginase Inhibition Prevents the Development of Hypertension and Improves Insulin Resistance in Obese Rats.
• Preemptive Activation of the Integrated Stress Response Protects Mice From Diet‐induced Obesity and Insulin Resistance Via Fibroblast Growth Factor 21 Induction.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter: Bicycle Helmets and the Experimenter Effect.
• Dietary Disclosures: How Important are Non-financial Interests?

Clinical

• RCT: "Subcutaneous Infiltration of Carbon Dioxide (Carboxytherapy) for Abdominal Fat Reduction."
• RCT: Evaluation of a 12-week Lifestyle Education Intervention with or Without Partial Meal Replacement in Thai Adults with Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome.
• Untangling Waist Circumference and Hip Circumference From BMI with a Body Shape Index, Hip Index, and Anthropometric Risk Indicator.
• Why do Practitioners Need to Read the Revised 2017 Scope/Standards Documents From the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics?
• Poor Sleep Quality is Associated with Insulin Resistance in Postmenopausal Women with and Without Metabolic Syndrome.
• Effects of Different Weight Loss Approaches on CVD Risk.
• Energy Deficit Required for Rapid Weight Loss in Elite Collegiate Wrestlers.

Children and Adolescents

• RCT: No Effect of Social Network Intervention on Physical Activity Among Adolescents.
• The Association of Air Pollution with BMI: Evidence From Hong Kong’s “Children of 1997” Birth Cohort.
• Identifying Behavioral Phenotypes for Childhood Obesity.
• BMI Trajectories From Childhood: The Slippery Slope to Adult Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease. (pdf)
• Growth of Children in Greenland Exceeds the World Health Organization Growth Charts.

Surgery

• Revisional Bariatric Surgery for Weight Regain and Refractory Complications.
• Metabolic Surgery and Diabesity: A Systematic Review.
• Predictors of Preoperative Program Non-Completion in Adolescents Referred for Bariatric Surgery.
• Adolescents’ Experiences of Obesity Surgery: A Qualitative Study.

Drugs

• RCT: "Gabapentin before laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy reduces postoperative oxycodone consumption in obese patients."
• Vortioxetine Disposition in Obesity: Potential Implications for Patient Safety.
• Dietary Intake and Eating Behavior in Depot Medroxyprogesterone Acetate Users: A Systematic Review.

Food & Diet

• Why do Mice Overeat High‐Fat Diets? How High‐Fat Diet Alters the Regulation of Daily Caloric Intake in Mice.
• Virta Health Changing Status Quo in Chronic Disease Care with Strong Cardiovascular Outcomes From Type 2 Diabetes Reversal Study.
• Fresh Food Program Makes a Difference in Type 2 Diabetes.
• A Systematic Review of Digital Interventions for Improving the Diet and Physical Activity Behaviors of Adolescents.

Caloric Restriction

• Intermittent Fasting: Is the Wait Worth the Weight?
• RCT: Effects of 2 Years of Caloric Restriction on Oxidative Status Assessed By Urinary F2‐isoprostanes.
• Limited Daily Feeding and Intermittent Feeding Have Different Effects on Regional Brain Energy Homeostasis During Aging.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Commitment Lotteries Promote Physical Activity Among Overweight Adults.
• Me Time, or We Time? Age Differences in Motivation for Exercise.

Economics & Sociology

• Diet and Physical Activity as Possible Mediators of the Association Between Educational Attainment and BMI Gain Among Australian Adult.
• Early Childhood Obesity Risk Factors: Socioeconomic Adversity, Family Dysfunction, Offspring Distress, and Junk Food Self-Medication.
• AHA: Blood Test Could Offer Life-and-Death Clues for Black Diabetics.

Epidemiology

• The Use of Virtual Reality in Patients with Eating Disorders: Systematic Review.
• Identification of an Episignature of Human Colorectal Cancer Associated with Obesity By Genome-wide DNA Methylation Analysis.
• Ectopic Fat Obesity Presents the Greatest Risk for Incident Type 2 Diabetes: A Population-based Longitudinal Study.
• Metabolically Healthy Obesity, Transition to Metabolic Syndrome, and Cardiovascular Risk.
• International Comparison of Abdominal Fat Distribution Among Four Populations: The ERA-JUMP Study.
• Lifestyle Index for Mortality Prediction Using Multiple Ageing Cohorts in the USA, UK and Europe.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Revisiting the Marshmallow Test.
• Mediators of Two Selective Prevention Interventions Targeting Both Obesity and Eating Disorders.
• Portion Size and Later Food Intake: Evidence on the “normalizing” Effect of Reducing Food Portion Sizes.
• RCT: Habit-based Interventions for Weight Loss Maintenance in Adults with Overweight and Obesity.
• Individual and Shared Effects of Social Environment and Polygenic Risk Scores on Adolescent BMI.
• Brief Exposure to Obesogenic Diet Disrupts Brain Dopamine Networks.

Equity and Disparities

• Association of Food Security Status with Overweight and Dietary Intake: Exploration of White British and Pakistani-origin Families in the Born in Bradford Cohort.
• Migration Background and Childhood Overweight in the Hannover Region in 2010-2014: A Population-based Secondary Data Analysis of School Entry Examinations.
• Does Ethnic Identification Moderate The Impact Of Depression On Obesity In Young People? Results Of a Systematic Scoping Review. (pdf)
• Exploring the Mechanisms of the Racial Disparity in Drowsy Driving. (pdf)
• The Weight Wage Penalty: A Mechanism Approach to Discrimination.
• Variations in HbA1c Across Pediatric Populations Point to Disparities in Health Care Access.

Ethics

• Considering Weight Loss Programs and Public Health Partnerships in American Evangelical Protestant Churches.
• Problematising Justice Definitions in Public Food Security Debates: Towards Global and Participative Food Justices. (pdf)

Stigma

• The Weight Wage Penalty: A Mechanism Approach to Discrimination.
• Food Addiction and Its Potential Links with Weight Stigma.
• Clinical Practices to Mitigate Weight Bias.
• Weight Bias Education for Medical School Faculty: Workshop and Assessment.
• It’s Complicated: Embracing or Avoiding Failure in Obesity.

Policy Related

• The Short-Term Impacts of the Philadelphia Beverage Tax on Beverage Consumption.
• Single-Family Housing Value Resilience of Walkable Versus Unwalkable Neighborhoods During a Market Downturn: Causal Evidence and Policy Implications.
• Navigating Complex Systems for Policymaking Using Simple Software Tools.

Intergenerational Effects

• Does Multiple Paternity Explain Phenotypic Variation Among Offspring in Wild Boar?
• Maternal Caffeine Intake During Pregnancy and Childhood Growth and Overweight: Results From a Large Norwegian Prospective Observational Cohort Study.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Temperature-influenced Energetics Model for Migrating Waterfowl.
• Inspection Behaviour and Inter-individual Cooperation in Juvenile Qingbo: The Effects of Prior Predator Exposure and Food Deprivation.

Methods

• Designing Auditory Feedback From Wearable Weightlifting Devices.
• Development of a Survey to Assess Local Health Department Organizational Processes and Infrastructure for Supporting Obesity Prevention.
• Sleep and BMI: Do (Fitbit) Bands Aid?

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Association Study, Risk Assessment, and Prediction of Children’s Growth Trajectories Through Methylation Profiles Using Functional Mixed Models.
• Dynamic functional connectivity analysis reveals improved association between brain networks and eating behaviors compared to static analysis.

Commentary

• Why a Sweaty Workout Dampens Appetite.
• The Shame of Human Nature in Words and Images.
• Childbirth: Coincidence or Cause for Obesity?
• Should You Eat Pasta?
• Making WAVES Against a Tsunami of Childhood Obesity.
• Who Added All that Sugar to Maple Syrup?

General

• Tired Walking Among Older Persons.
• Decreases in Beetle Body Size Linked to Climate Change and Warming Temperatures.
• Functional MRI in the Nile Crocodile: A New Avenue for Evolutionary Neurobiology.
• Adding Sodium Information to Casual Dining Restaurant Menus: Beneficial or Detrimental for Consumers?
• Developmental Plasticity in Reptiles: Insights Into Thermal and Maternal Effects on Chameleon Phenotypes.

Announcements

• IU Online Ranked Among Nation’s Best.
• Panel Calls for Improvements in Research on Natural Experiments to Combat the Obesity Epidemic.
• 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

• Active (Opt-In) Consent Underestimates Mean BMI-z and the Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity Compared to Passive (Opt-Out) Consent.
• Enhanced Longevity and Metabolism By Brown Adipose Tissue with Disruption of the Regulator of G Protein Signaling 14.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Early Breakfast is Important for People with Type II Diabetes.
• Study: Cross-sectional Mediation Analysis of the Association Between Measured BMI, Dichotomized Self-reported Morningness, and Breakfast Time in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: "There was no intervention effect on Camp NERF child zBMI."
• RCT: No Significant Effect of a Multidisciplinary Treatment Program on Eating Behavior in Overweight and Obese Preschool Children.
• RCT: An Interactive Web-Based Intervention to Achieve Healthy Weight in Young Children via their parents as "change agents" was unsuccessful.
• RCT: "in this exploratory small-scale study, the beneficial effects of six-month TRT on total testosterone, LBM, and percent body fat were not followed by significant changes in fractions of mitochondria, glycogen, or lipid in skeletal muscle of aging men with lowered testosterone levels."
• "Obesity does not affect severity of sinonasal disease in patients with asthma..."
• "Contrary to dual-process predictions, there was a trend significant interaction between poor inhibitory control and weaker food specific automatic processing in explaining loss of control over eating."
• "Contrary to our expectations, however, bears appeared to continue to hunt caribou as calf availability declined, but switched from a tactic of selecting areas of increased calf vulnerability to a tactic that maximized encounter rates with calves."
• Winter Cholecalciferol Supplementation at 51°N Has No Effect on Markers of Cardiometabolic Risk in Healthy Adolescents Aged 14-18 Years.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Unaccounted for Regression to the Mean Renders Conclusion of Article Titled “Uric Acid Lowering in Relation to HbA1c Reductions with the SGLT2 Inhibitor Tofogliflozin” Unsubstantiated.
• Commentary: That Study Reporting Worrisome Levels of Zinc in Tuna? It’s Being Retracted.
• Commentary: The Concept of Conflict, Run Amok.

Basic

• Can the Light Be Used to Treat Obesity and Diabetes?
• After 60 Years of Mystery, Researchers Have Identified the Pathogen Responsible for White Fat Cell Disease in Daphnia.
• Cholic Acid Supplementation of a High-Fat Obesogenic Diet Suppresses Hepatic Triacylglycerol Accumulation in Mice Via a Fibroblast Growth Factor 21-Dependent Mechanism.
• Long Term Westernized Diet Leads to Region-specific Changes in Brain Signaling Mechanisms.
• Monovalerin and Trivalerin Increase Brain Acetic Acid, Decrease Liver Succinic Acid, and Alter Gut Microbiota in Rats Fed High-fat Diets.
• Amyloid Precursor Protein Deficient Mice Exhibit Resistance to Obesity but Impairment of Glucose Tolerance upon High Fat Feeding.
• In Mice, Exposure to Air Pollution Interacts with Obesogenic Nutrition to Induce Tissue-Specific Response Patterns.
• GSK126 Alleviates the Obesity Phenotype By Promoting the Differentiation of Thermogenic Beige Adipocytes in Diet-induced Obese Mice.
• Histone Demethylase JMJD1A Coordinates Acute and Chronic Adaptation to Cold Stress Via Thermogenic Phospho-switch.
• Changes in Visceral Adipose Tissue Plasma Membrane Lipid Composition in Old Rats are Associated with Adipocyte Hypertrophy with Aging.
• Genetic Identification of Leptin Neural Circuits in Energy and Glucose Homeostases.

Clinical

• RCT: Sustained Impact of Energy-dense TV and Online Food Advertising on Children's Dietary Intake.
• RCT: Postprandial Effects of Breakfast Glycaemic Index on Cognitive Performance Among Young, Healthy Adults.
• Targeting the Gut Microbiome to Treat the Osteoarthritis of Obesity.
• Early Postnatal Soluble FGFR3 Therapy Prevents the Atypical Development of Obesity in Achondroplasia.
• Short‐ and Long‐Term Changes in Health‐Related Quality of Life with Weight Loss.

Children and Adolescents

• Pilot Project to Integrate Community and Clinical Level Systems to Address Health Disparities in the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity Among Ethnic Minority Inner-City Middle School Students: Lessons Learned.
• A Mediation Analysis on the Relationship of Physical Fitness Components, Obesity, and Academic Performance in Children.
• Metabolic Features of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver (NAFL) in Obese Adolescents: Findings From a Multi‐ethnic Cohort.

Surgery

• RCT: LSG vs MGB-OAGB—3 Year Follow-up Data.
• C-Reactive Protein on Postoperative Day 1: A Predictor of Early Intra-abdominal Infections After Bariatric Surgery.
• Demographics and Socioeconomic Status as Predictors of Weight Loss After Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy.
• Bariatric Surgery in Immunocompromised Patients.

Drugs

• Fast and Sensitive HPLC/UV Method for Cefazolin Quantification in Plasma and Subcutaneous Tissue Microdialysate of Humans and Rodents Applied to Pharmacokinetic Studies in Obese Individuals.
• Effects of Intranasal Oxytocin on Satiety Signaling in People with Schizophrenia.
• Association Between Use of Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitors, Glucagon-like Peptide 1 Agonists, and Dipeptidyl Peptidase 4 Inhibitors with All-Cause Mortality in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Oxyntomodulin Analogue Increases Energy Expenditure Via the Glucagon Receptor.

Food & Diet

• RCT: A Meat- or Dairy-based Complementary Diet Leads to Distinct Growth Patterns in Formula-fed Infants.
• RCT: Effects of Caloric and Noncaloric Sweeteners on Antroduodenal Motility, Gastrointestinal Hormone Secretion and Appetite-related Sensations in Healthy Subjects.
• RCT: Effects of 6 vs 3 Eucaloric Meal Patterns on Glycaemic Control and Satiety in People with Impaired Glucose Tolerance or Overt Type 2 Diabetes.
• Similarity of the Dog and Human Gut Microbiomes in Gene Content and Response to Diet.
• Resting Metabolic Rate of Obese Patients Under Very Low Calorie Ketogenic Diet.
• Relationship Between Food Waste, Diet Quality, and Environmental Sustainability.
• Commentary: Fruits and Veggies, Food Waste, and a Healthy Planet.

Caloric Restriction

• Caloric Restriction Delays Yeast Chronological Aging By Remodeling Carbohydrate and Lipid Metabolism, Altering Peroxisomal and Mitochondrial Functionalities, and Postponing the Onsets of Apoptotic and Liponecrotic Modes of Regulated Cell Death.
• Hydrogen Sulfide Mediates the Protection of Dietary Restriction Against Renal Senescence in Aged F344 Rats.
• Dietary Restriction Slightly Affects Glucose Homeostasis and Delays Plasma Cholesterol Removal in Rabbits with Dietary Lipid Lowering.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• The Need to Objectively Measure Physical Activity During Pregnancy: Considerations for Clinical Research and Public Health Impact.
• Obligatory Exercise and Coping in Treatment-seeking Women with Poor Body Image.
• Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Retirement: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
• Impact of Age-Related Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Exercise on Intestinal Microbiota Composition.

Economics & Sociology

• Impact of Physical and Social Environments on the Walking Behaviour of Hong Kong's Older Adults.
• Economic Stress and Low Leisure-time Physical Activity: Two Life Course Hypotheses.
• Patterns of SES Health Disparities [including Obesity] Among Older Adults in Three Upper Middle- and Two High-income Countries.

Epidemiology

• Meta-analysis: Sleep Duration and Incidence of Obesity in Infants, Children, and Adolescents.
• Association of Added Sugar Intake and Caries-related Experiences Among Individuals of Mexican Origin.
• Changes of Glucose Levels Precede Dementia in African-Americans with Diabetes but Not in Caucasians.
• Association of Air Pollution with BMI: Evidence From Hong Kong’s “Children of 1997” Birth Cohort.
• Association of Obesity and Diabetes with Thyroid Nodules.
• Informational Value of Percent Body Fat with BMI for the Risk of Abnormal Blood Glucose.
• Birth Size and Gestational Age in Opposite-sex Twins as Compared to Same-sex Twins.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Do Impulsive Individuals Benefit More From Food Go/no-go Training? Testing the Role of Inhibition Capacity in the No-go Devaluation Effect.
• Breaking Bad Habits By Improving Executive Function in Individuals with Obesity.
• Intermittent, Extended Access to Preferred Food Leads to Escalated Food Reinforcement and Cyclic Whole-body Metabolism in Rats.

Stigma

• Systematic review: Weight Stigma and Health: The Mediating Role of Coping Responses. Impact of Weight Stigma on Physiological and Psychological Health Outcomes for Overweight and Obese Adults.
• Obese Children are Thin in Parents’ Eyes: A Psychologically, Socially, or Culturally Driven Bias.
• Weight Stigma in Men: What, When, and By Whom?
• Commentary: Fat Shaming: Real and Different for Men.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Preprint: Polygenic Adaptation and Convergent Evolution Across Both Growth and Cardiac Genetic Pathways in African and Asian Rainforest Hunter-gatherers.
• Diet-induced Obesity Reduces Core Body Temperature Across the Estrous Cycle and Pregnancy in the Rat.
• Difference in Plasticity of Resting Metabolic Rate – the Proximate Explanation to Different Niche Breadth in Sympatric Ficedula Flycatchers (PDF).

Methods

• New Book: Advanced Data Analytics in Health [with Examples in Obesity].

Mathematical and Quantitative

• A Mathematical Analysis of Adaptations to the Metabolic Fate of Fructose in Essential Fructosuria Subjects.

Commentary

• The Sources of Fat Science.
• Why Fit Fathers Sire Smarter Offspring.
• Journals Should No Longer Accept ‘obesity Paradox’ Articles.
• Should We Shift Our Thinking About Metabolic Adaptation?
• Ketosis – Advantaged or Misunderstood State? (Part I).
• We Need to Change the Public-Health Narrative on Obesity.
• Sugar Consumption, Cognition, Correlation, and Causality.
• Cut the Obesity Guilt Trips for Parents, Please.

General

• "Is Drug Addiction a Brain Disease? This popular claim lacks evidence and leads to poor policy."
• Are Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses Still Useful Research? We are Not Sure.
• Scientists Confirm Prion Disease in Camels Sparking Fears It Could Be Passed to Humans.
• The C-Word: Scientific Euphemisms do Not Improve Causal Inference From Observational Data (First in Series on Causal Inference).

Video & Audio

• Video: Preventing Hospital Re-admissions Through Good Nutrition.
• Shrinking Mammals.

Announcements

• Understanding and Overcoming the Challenge of Obesity and Overweight in the Armed Forces: A Workshop.
• 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

• RCT: Effect of Dietary Fat Intake and Genetics on Fat Taste Sensitivity: A Co-twin Trial.
• A Developmental Cascade Perspective of Paediatric Obesity: A Conceptual Model and Scoping Review.
• Genetic Identification of Leptin Neural Circuits in Energy and Glucose Homeostases.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Study: Eating Dinner Alone a Major Contributor to Obesity in Japanese Girls.
• Study: Cross-sectional Positive Association of Self-reported Eating Dinner Alone with Measured Overweight Versus Non-overweight. No Causation; Overweight Pooled with Obesity.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Significant Effect on Weight Loss of a School-based Physical Activity Intervention Using Social Cognitive Theory Among Overweight and Obese Girl Adolescents.
• RCT: No Significant Effects of Kinesiotape in Women with Knee Osteoarthritis and Overweight or Obesity.
• Antibiotic Use is Not a Cause of Childhood Obesity.
• "Leptin level may not be related to the risk and progression of RCC [renal cell carcinoma]."
• "Obesity does not appear to significantly affect post-operative [prostate] success, rates of post-operative complications or incontinence rates."
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Probiotic Microbial Cell Preparation (MCP) on Fasting Blood Glucose, Body Weight, Waist Circumference, and Faecal Short Chain Fatty Acids Among Overweight Malaysian Adults.
• RCT: In a Pilot Study, No Significant Effect of a Behavioral Lifestyle Intervention Enhanced with Multiple-Behavior Self-Monitoring Using Mobile and Connected Tools on Weight Loss for an Underserved Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes and Comorbid Overweight or Obesity.
• "Addition of Garcinia cambogia to diet (6%, w/w) of rats fed with the high lipid diet indicated no effect on weight gain."
• RCT: A Single Day of Bed Rest, Irrespective of Energy Balance, Does Not Affect Skeletal Muscle Gene Expression or Insulin Sensitivity.
• Another Nail in the Coffin for Fish Oil Supplements.

Basic

• Cholic Acid Supplementation of a High-Fat Obesogenic Diet Suppresses Hepatic Triacylglycerol Accumulation in Mice Via a Fibroblast Growth Factor 21–Dependent Mechanism.
• Why Fat Piles on When the Body’s Daily Cycles are in Disarray.
• Polyphenol-Rich Green Tea Extract Improves Adipose Tissue Metabolism By Down-Regulating MiR-335 Expression and Mitigating Insulin Resistance and Inflammation.
• Adipocyte P62/SQSTM1 Suppresses Tumorigenesis Through Opposite Regulations of Metabolism in Adipose Tissue and Tumor.
• Activation of Liver AMPK with PF-06409577 Corrects NAFLD and Lowers Cholesterol in Rodent and Primate Preclinical Models.
• The Components of Age-Dependent Effects of Dietary Methionine Restriction on Energy Balance in Rats.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Animal Protein as Perpetrator: The Challenge in Indicting the Right Nutrient.
• Evidence on the “normalizing” Effect of Reducing Food-portion Sizes.
• Methodologic Weaknesses Notwithstanding, Can a Study Examining the Association Between Potatoes (or Really Any Food or Nutrient) and “all-cause Mortality” Truly Tell Us Anything Meaningful?
• Commentary: Nutritionists Question Study on Bean Fiber and Breast Cancer Risk.
• Commentary: Don’t like a paper, but don’t want to retract it? Just issue an "editorial statement".
• Is It True Pasta Doesn’t Make You Gain Weight, and Could Even Help You Lose It?
• Evidence that Nutrition Facts Don’t Always Change Behavior.

Questioning Information Sources

• Was there ever really a “sugar conspiracy”?
• “…even though higher earners have more access to information about food, they are also more likely to be influenced by misinformation and pseudoscience.”
• Science Organisations and Coca-Cola’s ‘war’ with the Public Health Community: Insights From an Internal Industry Document.
• Book: The Conspiracy Theory Diet: A Caelo Usque Ad Centrum.
• Bizarre food-related conspiracy theories.

Clinical

• The Effect of Magnesium Supplementation on Muscle Fitness: A Meta-analysis and Systematic Review.
• Depressive Symptoms and Weight Loss Behaviors in U.S. Adults.
• Body Composition Remodeling and Incident Mobility Limitations in African Ancestry Men.
• High Defibrillation Threshold with a Subcutaneous Implantable Cardiac Defibrillator Due to the Lead Having Been Positioned in the Fat Layer.

Children and Adolescents

• The Forgotten Parent: Fathers' Representation in Family Interventions to Prevent Childhood Obesity.
• Childhood Obesity Declines Project: An Effort of the National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research to Explore Progress in Four Communities.
• Facebook: The Use of Social Media to Engage Parents in a Preschool Obesity Prevention Curriculum.
• Pathways of Association From Stress to Obesity in Early Childhood.

Surgery

• A Meta-analysis of the Effects of Bariatric Surgery on Fracture Risk.
• Bone Health Following Bariatric Surgery: Implications for Management Strategies to Attenuate Bone Loss.
• The Evaluation of Risk Prediction Models in Predicting Outcomes After Bariatric Surgery: A Prospective Observational Cohort Pilot Study.
• Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding in Adolescents with Severe Obesity: Psychological Aspects, Decision Makers of Surgery, and 2-year Outcomes. A Case Series.

Drugs

• RCT: Impact of Metformin on IVF Outcomes in Overweight and Obese Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.
• RCT: Effect of 5-Lipoxygenase Inhibitor, Via-2291, on Epicardial Fat Volume in Patients with Recent Acute Coronary Syndrome.
• The Use of Antimicrobials as Adjuvant Therapy for the Treatment of Obesity and Insulin Resistance: Effects and Associated Mechanisms.
• Population Pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics of Micafungin Against Candida Species in Obese, Critically Ill, and Morbidly Obese Critically Ill Patients.

Food & Diet

• Chocolate: Glorify or Demonize?
• RCT: Effect of Default Menus on Food Selection and Consumption in a College Dining Hall Simulation Study.
• Review of 100% Fruit Juice and Chronic Health Conditions: Implications for Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Policy.
• Free‐Living Responses in Energy Balance to Short‐Term Overfeeding in Adults Differing in Propensity for Obesity.
• Obesity Interventions for Older Adults: Diet as a Determinant of Physical Function.

Caloric Restriction

• The Effects of Graded Caloric Restriction: XII. Comparison of Mouse to Human Impact on Cellular Senescence in the Colon.
• Metabolic Adaptations to Weight Loss.
• Obese Mice Losing Weight Due to Trans-10,cis-12 Conjugated Linoleic Acid Supplementation or Food Restriction Harbor Distinct Gut Microbiota.
• Sustained Caloric Restriction in Health.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Full-text Publication of Abstract-presented Work in Sport and Exercise Psychology.
• Study: City Areas with Healthy Eating, Exercise Options Help Control Diabetes.
• Understanding Physical (in-) Activity, Overweight, and Obesity in Childhood: Effects of Congruence Between Physical Self-concept and Motor Competence.
• Reduced Nonexercise Activity Attenuates Negative Energy Balance in Mice Engaged in Voluntary Exercise.

Economics & Sociology

• Associations of Neighbourhood Walkability Indices with Weight Gain.
• Information Sources and Needs in the Obesity and Diabetes Twitter Discourse.
• Influence of Urban and Transport Planning and the City Environment on Cardiovascular Disease.

Epidemiology

• New NHS Data Show Rise in Obesity-related Hospitalizations.
• BMI of 92,027 Patients Acutely Admitted to General Hospitals in Denmark: Associated Clinical Characteristics and 30-day Mortality.
• The Importance of Body Composition in Explaining the Overweight Paradox in Cancer-Counterpoint.
• IndEcho Study: Cohort Study Investigating Birth Size, Childhood Growth and Young Adult Cardiovascular Risk Factors as Predictors of Midlife Myocardial Structure and Function in South Asians.
• Associations Between Birth Size and Later Height From Infancy Through Adulthood: An Individual Based Pooled Analysis of 28 Twin Cohorts Participating in the CODATwins Project.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Prediagnostic Body Size and Risk of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Death in 10 Studies.
• TGF-β1 Down-regulation in the Mediobasal Hypothalamus Attenuates Hypothalamic Inflammation and Protects Against Diet-induced Obesity.
• Mediation of the Bidirectional Relations Between Obesity and Depression Among Women.
• Re-evaluating Classical Body Type Theories: Genetic Correlation Between Psychiatric Disorders and BMI.

Equity and Disparities

• Racial Differences in Intracerebral Hemorrhage Outcomes in Patients with Obesity.
• The Relationship Between Latina/o Youth’s Internal Health Locus of Control, Cultural Factors, and BMI.
• BMI Distribution Characteristics of Children By Gross National Income and Income Inequality: Results From an International Survey.

Stigma

• Sociocultural and Familial Factors Associated with Weight Bias Internalization.
• Weight Problem in Binge-Eating Disorders: Insights From Three Treatment Contexts with Weight Stability, Weight Loss, and Weight Acceptance.
• Being Targeted as a “severely Overweight Pregnant Woman” — a Qualitative Interview Study.

Policy Related

• The History and Future of Dietary Guidance in America.
• Sustaining Obesity Prevention in Communities: A Systematic Narrative Synthesis Review.
• Exacerbating Inequalities? Health Policy and the Behavioural Sciences.
• Obesity Framing in Botswana Online Newspapers: Its Implications for Health Policy and Physical Education Pedagogy.
• Assessment of the Contribution of Dietary and Beverage Intake Quality to Obesity Development.
• Obesity and Cardiovascular Risk: A Call for Action From the European Society of Hypertension Working Group of Obesity, Diabetes and the High-risk Patient and European Association for the Study of Obesity.

Intergenerational Effects

• Neonatal Hypoglycemia Following Diet-Controlled and Insulin-Treated Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.
• Associations Between Maternal Prepregnancy BMI and Gestational Weight Gain and Daughter’s Age at Menarche: The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children.
• Origins of Lifetime Health Around the Time of Conception: Causes and Consequences.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Selection of Trilateral Continuums of Life History Strategies Under Food Web Interactions.
• The Energetics of Fish Growth and How It Constrains Food-web Trophic Structure.
• Evolutionary Responses of Drosophila Melanogaster Under Chronic Malnutrition.
• Insulin Resistance in Cavefish as an Adaptation to a Nutrient - Limited Environment.
• The Healthy Diabetic Cavefish Conundrum.

Methods

• Modeling the Western Diet for Preclinical Investigations.
• Systematic Reanalysis of Genomic Data Improves Quality of Variant Interpretation.
• Food Photography is Not an Accurate Measure of Energy Intake in Obese, Pregnant Women.
• The Accumulating Data to Optimally Predict OBESITY Treatment (ADOPT) Core Measures Project.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Simulating Long-term Human Weight-loss Dynamics in Response to Calorie Restriction.

Commentary

• Obesity as a Disease, Not a Behavior.
• The Pleasure of M&Ms and Monet.
• "Sweet Tooth" Gene Variant Associated with Lower Body Fat.
• Meet the Man Who Hated Carbs Before It Was Cool.
• Challenges and Controversial Issues in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 1980–2015.

General

• RCT: Effect of Individualised Dietary Advice for Weight Loss Supplemented with Walnuts on Blood Pressure.
• Critical Evaluation of Data Requires Rigorous but Broadly Based Statistical Inference.
• Common Mistakes to Avoid When Reporting Quantitative Analyses and Results.
• Missing the Point: Are Journals Using the Ideal Number of Decimal Places?
• Why Scientists are Battling Over Pleasure.
• How to Avoid Common Errors in Writing Scientific Manuscripts.
• Longer Life Through Sexbots? Dream On! Research Linking Sex with Longevity Has Led to Some Wildly Exaggerated Claims.
• Getting Serious About Embodiment: Cautions About Interpreting Novel Findings of Socioeconomic Patterns in Biological Function.
• Thriving, Not Just Surviving: Skills Essential to Leveraging Your Scientific Career.

Announcements

• IU Bloomington School of Public Heath Investigators Proclaim "I am a Scientist" for Children's Science website.
• Vote for the Diabetes Innovation Challenge People's Choice Winner.
• Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior 51st Annual Conference, Minneapolis MN.
• 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

• Caloric Restriction Increases Lifespan but Affects Brain Integrity in Grey Mouse Lemur Primates.
• Free-Living Responses in Energy Balance to Short-Term Overfeeding in Adults Differing in Propensity for Obesity.
• The Computational Form of Craving is a Selective Multiplication of Economic Value.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Urban Design Responsible for Promoting Childhood Obesity?
• Study: Convenience Stores and Pedestrian Aids Negatively Correlated with Some Obesity Measurements in Children; No Association with Traffic-calming Features, Disorder, Physical Activity Facilities, or Fast-food Restaurants.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Aspartame Consumption for 12 Weeks Does Not Affect Glycemia, Appetite, or Body Weight of Healthy, Lean Adults.
• RCT: "A 12-week resistance training intervention effectively improved sarcopenia, body fat %, strength and quality of life in hypogonadal prostate cancer patients, but did not change MetS or physical function. PRO [protein supplementation] did not offer additional benefit in improving body composition."
• RCT: "Protein intake exceeding the RDA did not increase LBM, muscle performance, physical function, or well-being measures or augment anabolic response to testosterone in older men with physical function limitations whose usual protein intakes were within the RDA."
• RCT: "In class III obese women undergoing cesarean delivery, there was no difference in composite wound outcome up to 6 weeks postpartum between those who had staples and those who had subcuticular suture skin closure."
• RCT: "…immunonutritional therapy using a nutritional supplement with a high blend ratio of ω-3 fatty acids from 2 weeks before surgery until 2 weeks after surgery was not effective for maintaining the nutritional status of head and neck carcinoma patients."
• RCT: "Among patients with knee osteoarthritis who are overweight, telephone-based weight loss support, provided using an existing 6-month weight management and healthy lifestyle service did not reduce knee pain intensity or weight, compared with usual care."
• "Contrary to this hypothesis, there were no differences in body weight, adiposity, energy intake, or energy expenditure between HF-fed [NLRX1] KO and WT mice, but instead HF KO mice were partially protected from the development of diet-induced hyperglycemia."
• "Contrary to our hypothesis, transplantation of NUP98-HOXD13 bone marrow into obese recipient mice significantly increased survival time compared with lean recipient controls."
• "Contrary to our prediction, the addition of TAU [taurine] enhanced the deleterious effects of the HFD [high fat diet]."
• ABO Genotype Does Not Modify the Association Between the “Blood-Type” Diet and Biomarkers of Cardiometabolic Disease in Overweight Adults.

Basic

• A Carbon Monoxide-releasing Molecule (CORM-401) Induces a Metabolic Switch in Adipocytes and Improves Insulin-sensitivity on High Fat Diet-induced Obesity in Mice.
• Mitochondria Bound to Lipid Droplets Have Unique Bioenergetics, Composition, and Dynamics that Support Lipid Droplet Expansion.
• Brown Adipose Tissue Whitening Leads to Brown Adipocyte Death and Adipose Tissue Inflammation.
• Effects of Knee Loading on Obesity-related Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in an Ovariectomized Mouse Model with High Fat Diet.
• Time‐course and Dynamics of Obesity‐related Behavioral Changes Induced By Energy‐dense Foods in Mice.
• Sex-based Differences in Phagocyte Metabolic Profile in Rats with Monosodium Glutamate-induced Obesity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• The Need for Increased Rigor in Obesity and Nutrition Research: A Q&A with Dr. David Allison.
• Commentary: Food for Mood: A Wall Street Journal Article Makes Bold Claims with Little Evidence.

Clinical

• Exposure to Liquid Sweetness in Early Childhood: Artificially-sweetened and Sugar-sweetened Beverage Consumption at 4-5 Years and Risk of Overweight and Obesity at 7-8 Years.
• RCT: Two‐year Follow‐up of a Postpartum Weight Loss Intervention.
• Non-invasive, Transdermal, Path-selective and Specific Glucose Monitoring Via a Graphene-based Platform.

Children and Adolescents

• Impact of Psychosocial Risk on Outcomes Among Families Seeking Treatment for Obesity.
• Modified Healthy Eating Index and Incidence of Metabolic Syndrome in Children and Adolescents.
• Associations of Early to Mid-Childhood Adiposity with Elevated Mid-Childhood Alanine Aminotransferase Levels.
• Change in Overweight From Childhood to Early Adulthood and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes.

Surgery

• Incidence and Risk Factors for Mortality Following Bariatric Surgery: A Nationwide Registry Study.
• Tissue-Specific Phenotype and Activation of INKT Cells in Morbidly Obese Subjects: Interaction with Adipocytes and Effect of Bariatric Surgery.
• Appetite, Glycemia, and Entero-Insular Hormone Responses Differ Between Oral, Gastric-Remnant, and Duodenal Administration of a Mixed-Meal Test After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.

Drugs

• Can a Diabetes Drug Help Obese People Lose Weight?
• RCT: Antisense Inhibition of Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase 1B with IONIS-PTP-1BRx Improves Insulin Sensitivity and Reduces Weight in Overweight Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Effects of Weight-Loss Medications on Cardiometabolic Risk Profiles: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis.

Food & Diet

• RCT: "Short-term low-carbohydrate, ketogenic diets reduce exercise performance in activities that are heavily dependent on anaerobic energy systems."
• High Salt Intake as a Driver of Obesity.
• RCT: Effects of Lipid Emulsion Particle Size on Satiety and Energy Intake.
• Metabolic Response to Amylose-rich Wheat-based Rusks in Overweight Individuals.
• Dietary Carbohydrates: A Review of International Recommendations and the Methods Used to Derive Them.
• The Role of Inorganic Nitrate and Nitrite in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Human Evidence.

Caloric Restriction

• RCT: Effect of Intermittent Versus Continuous Energy Restriction on Weight Loss, Maintenance and Cardiometabolic Risk.
• Calorie Restriction Leads to Longer Life but Less Grey Matter.
• Calorie Restriction is the Most Reasonable Anti-ageing Intervention: A Meta-analysis of Survival Curves.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Assessing Outcomes in People Having Chronic Ankle Instability: The Ability of Functional Performance Tests to Measure Deficits in Physical Function and Perceived Instability.
• Exercise Alone or Combined with Dietary Supplements for Sarcopenic Obesity in Community-dwelling Older People: A Systematic Review of RCTs.

Economics & Sociology

• The Dominant Obesity Discourse Versus Children’s Conceptualizations of Health: A Comparison Through Dialogue and Drawings.
• Influence of Early-life Risk Factors on Socioeconomic Inequalities in Weight Gain.
• The Association Between Long Work Hours and Leisure-time Physical Activity and Obesity.

Epidemiology

• Longitudinal Associations of Lifetime Adiposity with Leukocyte Telomere Length and Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number.
• Association of Muscle and Adiposity Measured By Computed Tomography with Survival in Patients with Nonmetastatic Breast Cancer.
• Diabetes Mellitus and Obesity as Risk Factors for Pancreatic Cancer.
• Higher Dietary Diversity Score is Associated with Obesity: A Case–control Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Discrepancies Between Subjective Perception and Waist-to-height Ratio Measurement of Obesity, and Their Policy Implications.
• Examining Neighborhood and Interpersonal Norms and Social Support on Fruit and Vegetable Intake in Low-income Communities.
• Do Local Employment Centers Modify the Association Between Neighborhood Urban Form and Individual Obesity?
• The Effects of Caloric Education, Trial-by-Trial Feedback, and Their Interaction on College-Aged Women’s Abilities to Estimate Caloric Content.
• The Role of Working Memory Sub-components in Food Choice and Dieting Success.
• Deficits in Episodic Memory are Related to Uncontrolled Eating in a Sample of Healthy Adults.
• Group Influences on Engaging Self-Control: Children Delay Gratification and Value It More When Their In-Group Delays and Their Out-Group Doesn’t.

Equity and Disparities

• Obesity and Overweight Among Brazilian Early Adolescents: Variability Across Region, Socioeconomic Status, and Gender.
• Food Patterns, Diabetes and Overweight/Obesity and Some Socio-Economic Indicators in the Italy Regions. (pdf)
• Variability in Weight Concern and Physical Activity Engagement Among African American Adolescent Girls.
• Racial Disparities in Obesity Treatment.
• Law School Collaborative Proposes Initiatives to Fight Food Insecurity. 

Stigma

• American Academy of Pediatrics Collection - Obesity: Stigma, Trends, and Interventions.
• Types and Nature of Parental Support for Overweight Students to Cope with Weight‐Related Teasing.
• Media and Its Influence on Obesity.

Policy Related

• Reward Food Companies for Improving Nutrition.
• The Role of Government Policy in Promoting Physical Activity.
• Original Public Health Practice Research Community Engagement Approach: Developing an Active Living Plan in Rural Texas.
• Physical Environments that Promote Physical Activity Among Older People.
• Examining Consumer Responses to Calorie Information on Restaurant Menus in a Discrete Choice Experiment.

Intergenerational Effects

• Association of Parental Obesity with Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Their Children.
• Protein-restriction Diet During the Suckling Phase Programs Rat Metabolism Against Obesity and Insulin Resistance Exacerbation Induced By a High-fat Diet in Adulthood.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Digestive and Locomotor Capacity Show Opposing Responses to Changing Food Availability in an Ambush Predatory Fish.
• Energetic Tradeoffs Control the Size Distribution of Aquatic Mammals.
• Water Contamination By Endocrine Disruptors: Impacts, Microbiological Aspects and Trends for Environmental Protection.

Methods

• Designing Difference in Difference Studies: Best Practices for Public Health Policy Research.
• The Accuracy of Bioelectrical Impedance to Track Body Composition Changes Depends on the Degree of Obesity in Adolescents with Obesity.
• Disparity of Imputed Data From Small Area Estimate Approaches – a Case Study on Diabetes Prevalence at the County Level in the U.S.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Differential Models of Twin Correlations in Skew for Body-mass Index (BMI).
• Presenting Models to Policymakers: Intention and Perception.
• Modeling How Obesity Moves Through the Population.

Commentary

• Really? Germs Love Diet Soda?
• Contrary to Popular Belief, Did You Know that Pasta Too Can Help You Lose Weight?
• Flaws in Pushing the Idea of Harmless Obesity.
• Eating By the Clock: More Study Needed.
• The Search for Elusive Progress Against the Epidemic of Childhood Obesity.
• Does the Netherlands Have Obesity Under Control?
• Are Sports Organizations Playing a Role in America’s Obesity Problem?
• Ignorance About Obesity is Common and Reversible.

General

• Intakes of Magnesium, Calcium and Risk of Fatty Liver Disease and Prediabetes.
• USDA Expands Focus on Program Integrity Across All Nutrition Programs.
• A Checklist to Elevate the Science of Surgical Database Research.
• Tips for Analyzing Large Data Sets From the JAMA Surgery Statistical Editors.
• Creationist Bill Dies in Alabama.
• The Problem with Mindfulness.
• General: Squeaky Clean Mice Could Be Ruining Research.

Announcements

• IU School of Public Health Students to Conduct Underwater Research on Shipwrecks.
• Upcoming Event: Food for Thought: The Science and Politics of Nutrition.
• Upcoming Webinar: Beyond the Melting Pot and Salad Bowl Views of Cultural Diversity: Advancing Cultural Diversity Education of Nutrition Educators.
• Upcoming Webinar: Making Data Machine-Readable.
• Upcoming Event: IFPRI 2018 Global Report of Food Crises Release.
• Michael Hendryx at IU School of Public Health-Bloomington Named a Fulbright Distinguished Chair.
• 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.