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Featured

• Largely Null Results of Large Comprehensive Carefully Planned Obesity Prevention Intervention Targeting Multiple Levels of Influence that Were Culturally Adapted Should Have Been Expected.
• RCT: The Impact of a Mental Work on Food Preferences, Eating Behavior Traits and Satiety Efficiency.
• The Bioenergetic Health Index is a Sensitive Measure of Oxidative Stress in Human Monocytes.
• Being Hungry Before a Meal is Associated with Healthier Levels of Post-Meal Blood Glucose.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Study Links Sugar to Cancer: How to Reduce Your Risk.
• Study: Sucrose-enriched Diet and Mammary Tumors... In Mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Adults with Overweight or Obesity Who Participated in a 4-week Intervention that Emphasized Eating Only at Five Prespecified Meal Times While Keeping a Consistent Sleep/wake Schedule Lost Significantly Less Weight in a Behavioral Weight-loss Program that Followed Vs. Adults Who Attended a Control Program.
• Over the 2-year-observation Period, the IDEFICS Primary Prevention Programme for Childhood Obesity Has Not Been Successful in Reducing the Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity Nor in Improving Indicators of Body Fatness in the Target Population as a Whole.
• RCT: No Effect of Motivational Interviewing to Treat Overweight Children at 24-Month Follow-Up.
• Rhinitis in Swiss Adults is Not Associated with Obesity.
• Our Results Suggest that Obesity Does Not Negatively Impact Complication Rate or Clinical Outcomes in Patients with ASD Treated Via MIS Approaches.
• RCT: No Effect of a Once Per Week Delivery of a Family-based Childhood Obesity Intervention on Obesity Outcomes.

Basic

• Sperm RNA Fragments Modify Offspring Metabolism.
• Tumor Suppressor RIZ1 in Obesity and the PI3K/AKT/mTOR Pathway.
• Inactivation of Adipose Angiotensinogen Reduces Adipose Tissue Macrophages and Increases Metabolic Activity.
• Single-cell Transcriptomics and Functional Target Validation of Brown Adipocytes Show Their Complex Roles in Metabolic Homeostasis.
• Regulation of G0/G1 Switch Gene 2 (G0S2) Expression in Human Adipose Tissue.
• Pentraxin 3　– a Link Between Obesity, Inflammation and Vascular Disease?
• A Novel Function of B-cell Translocation Gene 1 (BTG1) in the Regulation of Hepatic Insulin Sensitivity in Mice Via C-Jun.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Response From the BMJ to Multi-Authored Letter Requesting Retraction of Critique of Dietary Guidelines.
• "You Can’t Trust What You Read About Nutrition"
• Letter and Author Reply: Misleading Conclusions on Health Effects of Cheese and Meat-enriched Diets in Study Sponsored By Dairy Industry.
• Letter: Is the Reg3a (HIP/PAP) Protein Really an Obesogenic Factor? (pdf)
• Author Reply to "Is the Reg3α (HIP/PAP) Protein Really an Obesogenic Factor?" (pdf)
• Letter: High False-Negative Rate for Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis in Extreme Obesity.

Dietary Guidelines

• "2015 Dietary Guidelines: A Plate Full of Politics."
• 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans Released.
• Politicians' Call for Further Review of the Dietary Guidelines Report Has Nothing to do with Respect for Science.
• Dietary Guidelines: A Triumph for Lobbying, Virtue, or Science?
• New U.S. Dietary Guidelines: Love ‘Em or Shove ‘Em?
• Guidelines or Guesstimates for Healthy Eating?
• Government Revises Dietary Guidelines for Americans: Go Ahead and Have Some Eggs.
• Dietary Guidelines for Americans - From JAMA.
• Dietary Guidelines Digital Press Kit.

Clinical

• RCT: Increasing Energy Flux to Decrease the Biological Drive Toward Weight Regain After Weight Loss.
• New Advice for Weight Loss: Get on the Scale Every Day.
• Obesity and Sleep.

Surgery

• Abdominal Incision Selection for Cesarean Delivery of Women with Class III Obesity.
• The History of Bariatric Surgery: My 50 Years with Surgical Treatment of Diabesity.

Drugs

• GLP-1 and Amylin in the Treatment of Obesity.
• Sex Differences in Subjective and Objective Responses to a Stimulant Medication (methylphenidate): Comparisons Between Overweight/obese Adults with and Without Binge Eating Disorder.
• Dapagliflozin Significantly Improves Blood Pressure.
• Warfarin with Sulfonylurea Increases Risk of Hypoglycemia Events.
• Tofogliflozin Improves Insulin Resistance in Skeletal Muscle and Accelerates Lipolysis in Adipose Tissue in Male Mice.

Food & Diet

• RCT: The Effects of Water and Non-nutritive Sweetened Beverages on Weight Loss and Weight Maintenance.
• Effects of Salt and Fat Combinations on Taste Preference and Perception.
• Negotiated Pleasures in Health-seeking Lifestyles of Participants of a Health Promoting Intervention.
• Food Shopping Behaviors of Residents in Two Bronx Neighborhoods.
• Technology as a Platform for Improving Healthy Behaviors and Weight Status in Children and Adolescents: A Review.
• Food Science and Food Ingredients: The Need for Reliable Scientific Approaches and Correct Communication.
• A Review on Possible Therapeutic Targets to Contain Obesity: The Role of Phytochemicals.
• Walnuts Consumed By Healthy Adults Provide Less Available Energy than Predicted By the Atwater Factors.
• RCT: Green Tea Extract and Catechol-O-Methyltransferase Genotype Modify Fasting Serum Insulin and Plasma Adiponectin Concentrations in Overweight and Obese Postmenopausal Women.
• Protein Supplementation at Breakfast and Lunch for 24 Weeks Beyond Habitual Intakes Increases Whole-Body Lean Tissue Mass in Healthy Older Adults.
• RCT: Comparison of the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) Diet and a Higher-fat DASH Diet on Blood Pressure and Lipids and Lipoproteins.
• The Long-term Health of Vegetarians and Vegans.
• The Impact of Menu Energy Labelling Across Socioeconomic Groups: A Systematic Review.
• New School Lunch Program Lets Kids Select More Nutritious Meals.

Caloric Restriction

• Circadian Clocks Govern Calorie Restriction–mediated Life Span Extension Through BMAL1- and IGF-1-dependent Mechanisms.
• Newer Antidiabetic Drugs and Calorie Restriction Mimicry.
• Significant Life Extension By Ten Percent Dietary Restriction.
• Bile Acids Induce Uncoupling Protein 1-dependent Thermogenesis and Stimulate Energy Expenditure at Thermoneutrality in Mice.
• Design of Lifestyle Intervention Trials to Prevent Excessive Gestational Weight Gain in Women with Overweight or Obesity.
• Effect of Caloric Restriction or Aerobic Exercise Training on Peak Oxygen Consumption and Quality of Life in Obese Older Patients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction.
• Study Design and Protocol for Moving Forward: A Weight Loss Intervention Trial for African-American Breast Cancer Survivors.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Objectively-measured Sedentary Time and Cardiometabolic Health in Adults with Severe Obesity.
• RCT: Effect of Internet-based Intervention on Obesity Among Adolescents in Kuala Lumpur.
• Active Living: Development and Quasi-experimental Evaluation of a School-centered Physical Activity Intervention for Primary School Children.
• Edutainment’s Impact on Health Promotion Viewing the Biggest Loser Through the Social Cognitive Theory.
• High-intensity Sprint Training Inhibits Mitochondrial Respiration Through Aconitase Inactivation.

Economics & Sociology

• Fresh Food Access Revisited.
• Global Growth of “big Box” Stores and the Potential Impact on Human Health and Nutrition.
• Corporate Funding of Food and Nutrition Research.

Epidemiology

• Higher Pericardial Adiposity is Associated with Prevalent Diabetes: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study.
• Socioeconomic Position, but Not African Genomic Ancestry, is Associated with Blood Pressure in the Bambui-Epigen (Brazil) Cohort Study of Aging.
• Prevalence and Differentials of Overweight and Obesity in Preschool Children in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Common Polymorphisms that Affect Folate Transport or Metabolism Modify the Effect of the MTHFR 677C > T Polymorphism on Folate Status.
• Glucose-lowering Agents Reduce 5-year Survival.
• Trends in Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviors of United States Youth.
• Prevalence of Obesity and Its Influence on Achievement of Cardiometabolic Therapeutic Goals in Chinese Type 2 Diabetes Patients: An Analysis of the Nationwide, Cross-Sectional 3B Study.
• Physical Activity Can Blunt the Genetic Effect of FTO Rs1421085 on Adiposity By 36–75% in a Longitudinal Multi-ethnic Cohort.

Psychology

• Stroking Calves Increases Weight Gain, Study Shows.
• The Importance of Taste in Experimental Auctions: Consumers’ Valuation of Calorie and Sweetener Labeling of Soft Drinks.
• Shared Risk Factors for Mood-, Eating-, and Weight-Related Health Outcomes.
• Does Self-Prepared Food Taste Better? Effects of Food Preparation on Liking.
• Hedonic Hunger Prospectively Predicts Onset and Maintenance of Loss of Control Eating Among College Women.

Equity and Disparities

• Nutrition and Health Disparities: The Role of Dairy in Improving Minority Health Outcomes.
• Childhood Poverty Dynamics and Overweight in Early and Middle Adulthood.
• Communities of Color Creating Healthy Environments to Combat Childhood Obesity.

Stigma

• Culture, Health, and Bigotry: How Exposure to Cultural Accounts of Fatness Shape Attitudes About Health Risk, Health Policies, and Weight-Based Prejudice.
• Schooled on Fat: What Teens Tell Us About Gender, Body Image, and Obesity.
• The Relationship Between Just Noticeable Differences in Perceptions of Facial Adiposity and Facial Attractiveness.

Policy Related

• Individual and Social Determinants of Obesity in Strategic Health Messages: Interaction with Political Ideology.
• Ethics and Health Promotion: Research, Theory, Policy and Practice.
• Obesity and Breast Cancer Outcomes: How Much Evidence is Needed to Change Practice?

Intergenerational Effects

• Postnatal High-fat Diet Enhances Ectopic Fat Deposition in Pigs with Intrauterine Growth Retardation.
• The Effects of Voluntary Exercise on Oocyte Quality in a Diet-Induced Obese Murine Model.
• Transgenerational Effects of Obesity and Malnourishment on Diabetes Risk in F2 Generation.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• No Apparent Benefits of Allonursing for Recipient Offspring and Mothers in the Cooperatively Breeding Meerkat.
• BNIP3 is Essential for Mitochondrial Bioenergetics During Adipocyte Remodelling in Mice.

Methods

• Clinical Guide for the Use of Metabolic Carts: Indirect Calorimetry—No Longer the Orphan of Energy Estimation.
• A Specific Prediction Equation is Necessary to Estimate Peak Oxygen Uptake in Obese Patients with Metabolic Syndrome.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Obesity and Peripheral Arterial Disease: A Mendelian Randomization Analysis.

Commentary

• 3 Things Some Nutrition Apps Get Wrong.
• How Labeling Food as Healthy Could Have the Wrong Effect.
• Galileo’s Middle Finger: "researchers whose conclusions didn’t line up with politically correct orthodoxies ... often faced dire, career-threatening consequences."
• Coconut Oil et al: Nutritionists Name the Most Overrated 'Healthy' Foods.
• What’s All the Fuss About Vitamin D?
• Thinking Outside the (Lunch) Box.
• The Greatest Diet Myth of All.

General

• The Role of the Family Doctor in the Management of Adults Who are Obese: A Scoping Review Protocol.
• Differential Analyses for RNA-seq: Transcript-level Estimates Improve Gene-level Inferences.
• A Proactive Approach to Reproducibility with Evidence-Based Research on Research.
• Role of the FDA in Affordability of Off-Patent Pharmaceuticals.
• Genome-Wide Association Studies in Drug-Induced Liver Injury: Step Change in Understanding the Pathogenesis.
• Strategies for Flipping the Script on Opioid Overprescribing.
• Low Dose Acetaminophen Induces Reversible Mitochondrial Dysfunction Associated with Transient C-Jun N-Terminal Kinase Activation in Mouse Liver.
• US Marshals Seize Dietary Supplements Containing Kratom.
• Inhibitor of Differentiation 1 Transcription Factor Promotes Metabolic Reprogramming in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cells.
• The Use of Telomere Length as a Predictive Biomarker for Injury Prognosis in Juvenile Rats Following a Concussion/mild Traumatic Brain Injury.
• Chem Nerds Rejoice! The Seventh Line of the Periodic Table is Finally Complete.
• Antibodies: Half of Samples Fail Protein-blot Tests.
• A New Tool Called DISSECT for Analysing Large Genomic Data Sets Using a Big Data Approach.
• Topical Review: ADHD and Health-Risk Behaviors: Toward Prevention and Health Promotion.
• The Illusion of Self-correction.

Announcements

• UAB's Fisher Named Fellow By American College of Sports Medicine.
• The $1,000,000 Preregistration Challenge.

Featured

• Obesity and Gastrointestinal Impaction in Giant Burrowing Cockroaches (Macropanesthia Rhinoceros): A Potential Impact of the Thrifty Phenotype.
• Disgust Predicts Prejudice and Discrimination Toward Individuals with Obesity.
• The Metabolic Regulation of Aging. (pdf)
• Six Important Shifts of 2015 in Obesity and Nutrition.

Headline vs Study

• Critique of Headlines Claiming Plus Sized Models Cause Obesity.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Changing Item Order on Menu Does Not Impact Calories of Sandwiches Ordered.
• RCT: No Apparent Effect of Pistachio Feeding on Blood Lipids and Measures of Adiposity.
• "Birth size did not influence the sensitivity of metabolic demands to fasting—neither at rest nor during activity...These results do not support the ascription of adaptive function to phenotypes associated with small birth size."
• RCT: Long-Term Supplementation of Green Tea Extract Does Not Modify Adiposity or Bone Mineral Density Among Overweight and Obese Postmenopausal Women.
• RCT: No Significant Effect of Daily Consumption of Probiotic Compared with Low-fat Conventional Yogurt on Weight Loss in Healthy Obese Women Following an Energy-restricted Diet.
• RCT: No Significant Effects of Vitamin D2 or D3 Supplementation on Glycaemic Control Among People at Risk of Type 2 Diabetes.
• Meta-Analysis of RCTs: No Significant Effects of Exercise-based Interventions on C-reactive Protein in Overweight and Obese Youths.

Basic

• Rats with Limited Access to Food Eat More.
• FGF21 Mediates Endocrine Control of Simple Sugar Intake and Sweet Taste Preference By the Liver.
• Altered Myocardial Metabolic Adaptation to Increased Fatty Acid Availability in Cardiomyocyte-specific CLOCK Mutant Mice.
• The MicroRNA-29 Family Dictates the Balance Between Homeostatic and Pathological Glucose Handling in Diabetes and Obesity.
• The AMPK-related Kinase SNARK Regulates Muscle Mass and Myocyte Survival.
• Modulation of IL-27 in Adipocytes During Inflammatory Stress.
• Impact of Genetic Strain on Body Fat Loss, Food Consumption, Metabolism, Ventilation, and Motor Activity in Free Running Female Rats.
• Uncoupling of Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase in Perivascular Adipose Tissue of Diet-Induced Obese Mice.
• Drosophila Melanogaster: An Emerging Model of Transgenerational Effects of Maternal Obesity.
• Type 5 Adenylyl Cyclase Disruption Leads to Enhanced Exercise Performance.

Clinical

• Position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Interventions for the Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults. (pdf)
• Lipids and Bariatric Procedures Part 1 of 2: Scientific Statement From the National Lipid Association (NLA), American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS), and Obesity Medicine Association (OMA).
• Perioperative Feeding Management of Neonates with CHD: Analysis of the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC 4) Registry.
• Bridging the Science-Practice Gap in Obesity Treatment.
• Design of Lifestyle Intervention Trials to Prevent Excessive Gestational Weight Gain in Women with Overweight or Obesity.
• Prevalence of Sarcopenia and Associated Outcomes in the Clinical Setting.

Surgery

• Study Finds: Weight Loss is Sustained Over 4 Years After Bariatric Surgery.
• RCT: Oral High-Dose Vitamin D Dissolved in Oil Raised Serum 25-Hydroxy-Vitamin D to Physiological Levels in Obese Patients After Sleeve Gastrectomy.
• Fracture Risk After Bariatric Surgery: A 12-Year Nationwide Cohort Study.
• Improved Muscle Mitochondrial Capacity Following Gastric Bypass Surgery in Obese Subjects.

Drugs

• The Anti-obesity Effects of Lactobacillus Casei Strain Shirota Versus Orlistat on High Fat Diet-induced Obese Rats.
• BMI Changes in Adolescents Treated with Bupropion SR for Smoking Cessation.
• Bee Extremely Amazed LLC Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Various Products Distributed for Weight Loss Due to Undeclared Drug Ingredients.

Food & Diet

• RCT: The Effects of Water and Non-nutritive Sweetened Beverages on Weight Loss and Weight Maintenance.
• Potato Consumption and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: Results From Three Prospective Cohort Studies.
• Nordic Food Associated with Lowering Risk of Type 2 Diabetes.
• Impact of Dietary Sodium Restriction on Heart Failure Outcomes.
• RCT: Green Tea Extract Does Not Modify Adiposity or Bone Mineral Density in Overweight and Obese Postmenopausal Women.
• Sleep and Nighttime Energy Consumption in Early Childhood: A Population-based Cohort Study.

Caloric Restriction

• A Network Pharmacology Approach Reveals New Candidate Caloric Restriction Mimetics in C. Elegans.
• Expansion of Bone Marrow Adipose Tissue During Caloric Restriction is Associated with Increased Circulating Glucocorticoids and Not with Hypoleptinemia.
• Effect of Calorie Restriction on Energy Expenditure in Overweight and Obese Adult Women. (pdf)
• Effect of a Weight Reduction Program on Baseline and Stress-induced Heart Rate Variability in Children with Obesity.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Physical Activity Counseling in Overweight and Obese Primary Care Patients.
• Association Between Objectively Measured Physical Activity and Cognitive Function in Older Adults-The Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke Study.
• The Effect of Parental Involvement on Children's Physical Activity.
• Exercise-Mediated Effects on White and Brown Adipose Tissue Plasticity and Metabolism.
• Comparing Simple Insulin Sensitivity Indices to the Oral Minimal Model Postexercise.
• A Putative Ketogenic Diet Elicits Mild Nutritional Ketosis but Does Not Impair the Acute or Chronic Hypertrophic Responses to Resistance Exercise in Rodents.

Economics & Sociology

• Can Changing Economic Factors Explain the Rise in Obesity?
• Obesity-Related Medical Care Costs Medicaid $8 Billion a Year.
• The Diminishing Socioeconomic Disparity in Obesity in a Chinese Population with Rapid Economic Development.
• Examining the Role of Residential Segregation in Explaining Racial/Ethnic Gaps in Spending on Fruit and Vegetables.
• It is Hard to Swim Upstream: Dietary Acculturation Among Mexican-Origin Children.
• [New Book] Schooled on Fat: What Teens Tell Us About Gender, Body Image, and Obesity.
• Friendship Network Characteristics are Associated with Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in Early Adolescence.
• Associations and Intervening Mechanisms Between Family Structure and Young Children’s Obesity.

Epidemiology

• The Association of Mobility Disability, Weight Status and Job Strain: A Cross-sectional Study.
• Hair Ultra-trace Elements in Relation to Age and BMI in Adult Women.
• Prevalence of BMI Lower than 16 Among Women in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.
• Racial and Ethnic Heterogeneity in the Association Between Total Cholesterol and Pediatric Obesity.
• Surface-Based Body Shape Index and Its Relationship with All-Cause Mortality.
• The FTO Gene is Associated with a Paradoxically Favorable Cardiometabolic Risk Profile in Frail, Obese Older Adults.
• Changes in the Neighborhood Food Store Environment and Children's BMI at Peripuberty in the United States.
• Women's Reproductive Health Factors and Body Adiposity: Findings From the UK Biobank.

Psychology

• Fat Face Illusion, or Jastrow Illusion with Faces, in Humans but Not in Chimpanzees.
• "Liking" and Obesity: a Role for Incentive Salience.
• Watching Yourself in the Mirror While Eating Can Reduce the Perceived Tastiness of Unhealthy Food.
• Food Advertising and Eating Behavior in Children.
• Health Behavior and Weight Changes Among Ethnic and Racial Minority Preschoolers and Their Parents: Associations Across 1 Year.
• Topical Review: ADHD and Health-Risk Behaviors: Toward Prevention and Health Promotion.
• Future Directions for Positive Body Image Research.

Stigma

• ‘He's Got His Father's Bias’: Parental Influence on Weight Bias in Young Children.
• Body Weight and Gender: Academic Choice and Performance.

Policy Related

• Obesity-Related Policy/Environmental Interventions: A Systematic Review of Economic Analyses.
• The Rise of “Nudge” and the Use of Behavioral Economics in Food and Health Policy.
• FDA Creates the Office of Dietary Supplement Programs and Announces New Nutrition Office Leadership.
• Bringing Public Health Into Urban Revitalization: Workshop Summary.
• FDA Gives Food Industry More Time to Define 'natural'.

Intergenerational Effects

• RNA-mediated Paternal Heredity of Diet-induced Obesity and Metabolic Disorders.
• Excess Maternal Fructose Consumption Increases Fetal Loss and Impairs Endometrial Decidualization in Mice.
• Maternal Obesity Affects Neonatal Adipogenesis. (pdf)
• Impact of Maternal Exercise During Pregnancy on Offspring Chronic Disease Susceptibility.
• Maternal Fat, but Not Lean, Mass is Increased Among Overweight/obese Women with Excess Gestational Weight Gain.
• Considerations in the Management of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: “You are What Your Mother Ate!”

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Red Deer Make More Out of Less Food During Winter.
• Energetics and Digestive Physiology of Age Classes of Songbirds During Fall Migration.

Methods

• Validity of Silhouette Showcards as a Measure of Body Size and Obesity in a Population in the African Region: A Practical Research Tool for General-purpose Surveys.
• Efficient and Reliable Screening of Anti-obesity Agents on a Micro Cell Pattern Chip.
• Excision of Visceral Adipose Tissue From Live Mice (VATectomy). (pdf)
• Validation of an Inexpensive and Accurate Mathematical Method to Measure Long-term Changes in Free-living Energy Intake.

Commentary

• The Problem with Focusing on Childhood Obesity.
• Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease: Friend or Foe?
• LACTIVISM: How Feminists and Fundamentalists, Hippies and Yuppies, and Physicians and Politicians Made Breastfeeding Big Business and Bad Policy.
• Smell Tests Could One Day Reveal Head Trauma and Neurodegenerative Disease.

General

• Video: Paul Halpern discusses "Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat: How Two Great Minds Battled Randomness to Create a Unified Theory of Physics".
• Public Data Archiving in Ecology and Evolution: How Well are We Doing?
• Video: Edward O. Wilson, Jeffrey D. Sachs - the Planet's Future.
• Ingredients of Plague Risk in Western US Identified.
• Jellyfish Nebula and Strange Pulsar May Have Come From Same Supernova.
• Where the Bees Live.

Video & Audio

• Burn Her Anyway | Susannah Howard | TEDxChelmsford.
• Dr. Richard Bergman, the Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute, Blood Pressure Vs. Blood Glucose.

Announcements: New Books for the New Year

• Obesity for the Obgyn.
• Always Hungry?: Conquer Cravings, Retrain Your Fat Cells, and Lose Weight Permanently.
• Obesity Care and Bariatric Surgery.

Featured

• Effects of Diet Restriction on Life History in a Sexually Cannibalistic Spider.
• Metabolic Responses to Dietary Leucine Restriction Involve Remodeling of Adipose Tissue and Enhanced Hepatic Insulin Signaling.
• Gastric Bypass Surgery but Not Caloric Restriction Improves Reproductive Function in Obese Mice.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Study Finds Surgical Solutions for Chronic Pain and Obesity are Not More Effective than Placebo.
• Study: Meta-analysis Shows that for One Type of Surgery (balloon Insertion), When Placebo Controls are Used, Evidence is Modestly Effective and Just Significant (p=.05).
• Headline: High Fat Diet Can Combat Schizophrenia.
• Study: Letter to the Editor. Ketogenic Diet Altered Schizophrenia-like Behaviors... In Mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: No Effect of Promoting Healthful Family Meals on the Primary Outcome, BMIz Score.
• RCT: No Significant Effects of a Population-Based Primary Prevention of Childhood Obesity Program on Anthropometrics.
• Prenatal Exposure to Mixtures of Xenoestrogens and Genome-wide DNA Methylation in Human Placenta - Some Suggestive Genes Were Differentially Methylated in Boys in Relation to Prenatal Xenoestrogen Exposure, but Our Initial Findings Could Not Be Validated or Replicated.
• All Measures of Meal-frequency and Snack-frequency Showed No Association with Adiposity Measures.
• "Our study does not support an association between dietary ascorbic acid and ∆BW or ∆WC."
• Common Limb Length Does Not Influence Weight Loss After Standard Laparoscopic Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass.

Basic

• Nanoformulated Copper/zinc Superoxide Dismutase Attenuates Vascular Cell Activation and Aortic Inflammation in Obesity.
• The Placental Variant of Human Growth Hormone Reduces Maternal Insulin Sensitivity in a Dose Dependent Manner in C57BL/6J Mice.
• Gsα Deficiency in the Ventromedial Hypothalamus Enhances Leptin Sensitivity and Improves Glucose Homeostasis in Mice on High Fat Diet.
• Hypothalamic Amylin Acts in Concert with Leptin to Regulate Food Intake.
• Mitochondrial Bioenergetics and Fiber Type Assessments in Microbiopsy Vs. Bergstrom Percutaneous Sampling of Human Skeletal Muscle.
• Stress-induced Activation of Brown Adipose Tissue Prevents Obesity in Conditions of Low Adaptive Thermogenesis.
• Macrophage and Adipocyte IGF1 Maintain Adipose Tissue Homeostasis During Metabolic Stresses.
• Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the Effect of Meal Intake on Postprandial Appetite-related Gastrointestinal Hormones in Obese Children.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Author's Response to the Letter: Does the Optimal BMI Really Vary By Age and Sex? (pdf)
• Apostasy in the International Journal of Yoga.
• High-intensity Interval Exercise Training for Public Health: A Big HIT or Shall We HIT It on the Head?
• Bariatric Surgery for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Bariatric Surgery for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes — Reply.
• Authors Retract Antioxidant Paper After More Work Reverses Their Conclusion.

Clinical

• The Need to Redefine Age- and Gender-specific Overweight and Obese BMI Cutoff Points.
• RCT: Exercise During Pregnancy Protects Against Hypertension and Macrosomia.
• Tools and Resources for Preventing Childhood Obesity in Primary Care: A Method of Evaluation and Preliminary Assessment.
• Weight Loss Decreases Excess Pancreatic Triacylglycerol Specifically in Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: Effectiveness of a Multi-Component Intervention for Overweight and Obese Children (Nereu Program).
• Using Family-Focused Garden, Nutrition, and Physical Activity Programs to Reduce Childhood Obesity: The Texas! Go! Eat! Grow! Pilot Study.

Surgery

• Morbid Obesity is Associated with Increased Mortality, Surgical Complications, and Incremental Health Care Utilization in the Peri-Operative Period of Colorectal Cancer Surgery.
• RCT: Comparison of Preoperative Diets Before Bariatric Surgery.
• Bariatric Surgery in the United Kingdom: A Cohort Study of Weight Loss and Clinical Outcomes in Routine Clinical Care.
• The Effects of Bariatric Surgery-Induced Weight Loss on Adipose Tissue in Morbidly Obese Women Depends on the Initial Metabolic Status.

Drugs

• RCT: Differing Doses of Postcesarean Enoxaparin Thromboprophylaxis in Obese Women.
• Lorcaserin Reduces the Discriminative Stimulus and Reinforcing Effects of Cocaine in Rhesus Monkeys.
• Naltrexone/bupropion for the Treatment of Obesity and Obesity with Type 2 Diabetes.

Food & Diet

• The Glycaemic Outcomes of Cinnamon, a Review of the Experimental Evidence and Clinical Trials.
• RCT: The Effect of Three Different Ad Libitum Diets for Weight Loss Maintenance: An 18-month Trial.
• A Diet Rich in Medium-chain Fatty Acids Improves Systolic Function and Alters the Lipidomic Profile in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Pilot Study.
• RCT: Vitamin D Supplementation Modulates T Cell-Mediated Immunity in Humans.
• RCT: The Effect of Three Different Ad Libitum Diets for Weight Loss Maintenance.
• A Comparison of Effects of Lard and Hydrogenated Vegetable Shortening on the Development of High-fat Diet-induced Obesity in Rats.
• Cashew Apple Extract Inhibition of Fat Storage and Insulin Resistance in the Diet-induced Obesity Mouse Model.
• Capsaicinoids: A Spicy Solution to the Management of Obesity?

Caloric Restriction

• Methionine Restriction and Life-span Control.
• Dietary Restriction and Nutrient Balance in Aging.
• Nrf as an Oxidative Stress and Nutrient Responsive Transcription Factor in Calorie Restriction.
• Reversibility of β Cell Specific Transcript Factors Expression By Long-term Caloric Restriction in Db/db Mouse.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Dark Chocolate Reduced the Oxygen Cost of Moderate Intensity Exercise and May Be an Effective Ergogenic Aid for Short-duration Moderate Intensity Exercise.
• RCT: Effects of Simultaneous or Sequential Weight Loss Diet and Aerobic Interval Training on Metabolic Syndrome.
• Effects of Sustained Exercise on GH-IGFs Axis in Gilthead Sea Bream (Sparus Aurata).
• Health-related Physical Fitness is Associated with Total and Central Body Fat in Preschool Children Aged 3 to 5 Years.
• RCT: Effect of a 12-Week Low Vs. High Intensity Aerobic Exercise Training on Appetite-Regulating Hormones in Obese Adolescents.

Economics & Sociology

• Sociocultural Influences on Strategies to Lose Weight, Gain Weight, and Increase Muscles Among Ten Cultural Groups.
• Welcome to Snacking Culture: Consumers Take Control of Portion Sizing.
• Analysis: Would a Soda Tax Pass in Davis and Would It Be Successful?
• Body Size Perceptions Among Overweight and Obese African American Women.

Epidemiology

• Long-Lasting Obesity Predicts Poor Work Ability at Midlife: A 15-Year Follow-Up of the Northern Finland 1966 Birth Cohort Study.
• Rotating Night Shift Work and Obesity Among Nurses and Midwives in Poland.
• Genetics, Diet, and Season are Associated with Serum 25-Hydroxycholecalciferol Concentration in a Yup’ik Study Population From Southwestern Alaska.
• Less Sleep Associated with Distracted Eating.
• Association Between Student Purchases of Beverages During the School Commute and In-School Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages, San Francisco Bay Area, 2013.
• Estimating the Time-Varying Joint Effects of Obesity and Smoking on All-Cause Mortality Using Marginal Structural Models.
• Sleep and Health-related Factors in Overweight and Obese Rural Women in RCT.
• Does the Fat-but-fit Paradigm Hold True for All-cause Mortality When Considering the Duration of Overweight/obesity? Analyzing the WATCH (Weight, Activity and Time Contributes to Health) Paradigm.
• Why are There Race/ethnic Differences in Adult BMI–adiposity Relationships? A Quantitative Critical Review.
• Geographic Disparities in Healthy Eating Index Scores (HEI–2005 and 2010) By Residential Property Values: Findings From Seattle Obesity Study (SOS).
• Trends in Measures of Childhood Obesity in Korea From 1998 to 2012.

Psychology

• Why Living in a Poor Neighborhood Can Make You Fat.
• RCT: Effect of a Non-dieting Lifestyle Treatment on Psychological Well-being and Weight Management in Morbidly Obese Pre-menopausal Women.
• Friends Like Me: Associations in Overweight/Obese Status Among Adolescent Friends By Race/Ethnicity, Sex, and Friendship Type.
• Pain Experience and Perception in the Obese Subject Systematic Review (Revised Version).
• Beverage Choices of Adolescents and Their Parents Using the Theory of Planned Behavior: A Mixed Methods Analysis.

Equity and Disparities

• Gap in Obesity Rates Between Low- and High-Income Children (pdf).
• Race Disparities and Decreasing Birth Weight: Are All Babies Getting Smaller?

Stigma

• Comparing Levels of Anti-Fat Bias Between American and Mexican Athletes and Undergraduate Physical Education and Exercise Science Students.
• Unpacking the Psychological Weight of Weight Stigma: A Rejection-expectation Pathway.
• “You Don’t Have Anorexia, You Just Want to Look Like a Celebrity”: Perceived Stigma in Individuals with Anorexia Nervosa.

Policy Related

• Obesity: How Politics Makes Us Fat.
• The Shiny Distraction of Childhood Obesity.
• Moving Beyond “Food Deserts”: Reorienting United States Policies to Reduce Disparities in Diet Quality.
• Severe Obesity in Adults Costs Medicaid $8 Billion Per Year.

Intergenerational Effects

• Fetal Heart Rate and Motor Development in Overweight and Obese Pregnant Women.
• Maternal Obesity and Sex-Specific Differences in Placental Pathology.
• Sirtuins—mediators of Maternal Obesity-induced Complications in Offspring?
• Maternal Obesity and Malnourishment Exacerbate Perinatal Oxidative Stress Resulting in Diabetogenic Programming in F1 Offspring.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Oxygen Changes Drive Non-uniform Scaling in Drosophila Melanogaster Embryogenesis.
• Friends with Benefits: The Role of Huddling in Mixed Groups of Torpid and Normothermic Animals.

Methods

• Dietary Under-reporting: What Foods and Which Meals are Typically Under-reported?
• Look Before You Leap. Can We Draw Causal Conclusions From Breastfeeding Research?
• Evaluation of a Web-Based Food Record for Children Using Direct Unobtrusive Lunch Observations: A Validation Study.
• Challenges of a Community Based Pragmatic, RCT of Weight Loss Maintenance.
• Validity of Self-Reported Physical Fitness and BMI in a Military Population.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Evaluating Propensity Score Methods in a Quasi-Experimental Study of the Impact of Menu-Labeling.

Commentary

• Too Little Sleep Spurs Appetite-Boosting Hormones.
• Research Shows Typical American Diet Can Worsen Chronic Pain in Mice.
• Fad Diet? Experts Take New View on Intermittent Fasting.
• Scientists Take First Steps to Form United Front Over Interactions with Global Food Industry.
• Does Gene Therapy for Obesity Offer a Possible Cure?
• The Double-Edged Sword of Alcohol Use (The Toxic and Beneficial Effects of Drinking and Its Relationship to Weight).
• A Call for Social Justice and Best Practices for the Integrated Prevention of Eating Disorders and Obesity.
• “Paris Thin”: A Call to Regulate Life-Threatening Starvation of Runway Models in the US Fashion Industry.
• Coca-Cola Reveals Who It Funds in England—organizations, Researchers, Other Individuals.
• Metabolic Health and Weight: Understanding Metabolically Unhealthy Normal Weight or Metabolically Healthy Obese Patients.

General

• Trends in National Institutes of Health Funding for Clinical Trials Registered in ClinicalTrials.gov.
• Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time?
• PLOS Genetics Data Sharing Policy: In Pursuit of Functional Utility.
• Animal Research is Necessary.
• Lab Staple Agar Hit By Seaweed Shortage.
• Debate - Feb 3 - Lifespans are Long Enough.
• Stress Gives You Daughters, Sons Make You Liberal.
• The Science Myths that Will Not Die.
• Authorship: Few Myths and Misconceptions.
• Pica for Uncooked Basmati Rice in Two Women with Iron Deficiency and a Review of Ryzophagia (pdf).
• On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-profound BS. (pdf)
• The Optimum Population for the United States.

Video & Audio

• Science Signaling Podcast for 15 December 2015: Hydrogen Sulfide and Inflammation in Obesity.
• Eating NatureCulture: Material Feminism and Maternal Obesity.

Announcements

• Goss Wins Thrasher Research Fund Early Career Award for Carbohydrate Restricted Diet Research.
• American Society of Nutrition Invites Applications for New Open-Access Journal Editor in Chief.

Featured

• Calcineurin Links Mitochondrial Elongation with Energy Metabolism.
• Modelling Causation and Development of Feeding Patterns in Growing Pigs.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: New Weight-loss Super Fruit: Add Sweet Pears to Your Platter.
• Study: Cross-sectional Association Using NHANES Data; No Weight-loss.
• "No, Plus Size Models Are Not Driving Obesity Trends." ConscienHealth discusses headline vs press release vs study.

Contrary or Null Findings

• RCT: Consumption of 4 Servings of Legumes Per Week Had No Significant Effect on Anthropometric Measurements, Glycemic Indices, and Lipid Profiles.
• RCT: "Limited efficacy for pioglitazone in the treatment of poorly controlled asthma in obesity, and also the potential for harm, given the weight gain in those assigned to active treatment."
• RCT: No Differential Weight Loss on Low-fat Vs. Low-carbohydrate Diets By Insulin Resistance Status Among Overweight Adults and Adults with Obesity.
• RCT: Lifestyle Intervention Delivered to Pregnant Women Did Not Significantly Reduce Weight of Untreated Partners.
• "This review indicates that macronutrient composition of a wide range of typical, non-experimental dietary fat and carbohydrate intakes has no effect on fasting substrate oxidation."

Basic

• Weight Loss-induced Changes in Adipose Tissue Proteins Associated with Fatty Acid and Glucose Metabolism Correlate with Adaptations in Energy Expenditure.
• Mitochondrial Functions Modulate Neuroendocrine Metabolic, Inflammatory, and Transcriptional Responses to Acute Psychological Stress.
• Ventral and Dorsal Striatum Networks in Obesity: Link to Food Craving and Weight Gain.
• Hepatocyte-specific Disruption of CD36 Attenuates Fatty Liver and Improves Insulin Sensitivity in HFD Fed Mice.
• MiR-212 Downregulation Contributes to the Protective Effect of Exercise Against Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Via Targeting FGF-21.
• Investigating Mechanisms Underpinning the Detrimental Impact of a High-fat Diet in the Developing and Adult Hypermuscular Myostatin Null Mouse.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• MA-CORD: Stop Ineffective Childhood Obesity Interventions.
• In Reply to Dr. Anchondo and the Ellyn Satter Institute RE: MA-CORD.
• Unsubstantiated Conclusions From Improper Statistical Design and Analysis of a RCT of Yoga for Exercise.

Clinical

• RCT: A Prevention Intervention that Embeds Weight-related Messages Within a General Parenting Program.
• The University Worksite Intervention Improved Metabolic and Behavioral Risk Factors Among Employees with Prediabetes in Ohio.
• Individual Differences Among Children in Sucrose Detection Thresholds: Relationship with Age, Gender, and Bitter Taste Genotype.

Surgery

• Energy Adaptations Persist 2 Years After Sleeve Gastrectomy and Gastric Bypass.
• Increased Post-operative Cardiopulmonary Fitness in Gastric Bypass Patients is Explained By Weight Loss.
• Effects of Gastric Bypass and Gastric Banding on Bone Remodeling in Obese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

Drugs

• Prevention of Diet-Induced Obesity Effects on Body Weight and Gut Microbiota in Mice Treated Chronically with Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol.
• The Effect of Metformin on Neuronal Activity in the Appetite-regulating Brain Regions of Mice Fed a High-fat Diet During an Anorectic Period.

Food & Diet

• Enhancement of Fat Oxidation By Licorice Flavonoid Oil in Healthy Humans During Light Exercise.
• A Historical Review of Changes in Nutrition Standards of USDA Child Meal Programs Relative to Research Findings on the Nutritional Adequacy of Program Meals and the Diet and Nutritional Health of Participants: Implications for Future Research and the Summer Food Service Program.
• Dietary Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load and Their Relationship with Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Chinese Children.
• RCT: Monosodium L-glutamate in Soup Reduces Subsequent Energy Intake From High-fat Savoury Food in Overweight and Obese Women.
• Protein Source in a High-protein Diet Modulates Reductions in Insulin Resistance and Hepatic Steatosis in Fa/fa Zucker Rats.
• The Role of Red Meat in the Diet: Nutrition and Health Benefits.

Caloric Restriction

• Whole-transcriptome Analysis of Mouse Adipose Tissue in Response to Short-term Caloric Restriction.
• The Effect of Exercise and Caloric Restriction on Cardiac NF-kB Signaling and Inflammation in Otsuka Long-Evans Tokushima Fatty (OLETF) Rats.
• Caloric Restriction or Telmisartan Control Dyslipidemia and Nephropathy in Obese Diabetic Zücker Rats.
• Comparison of the Effects of Resveratrol and Caloric Restriction on Learning and Memory in Juvenile C57BL/6J Mice.
• Short-Term Dietary Restriction Rescues Mice From Lethal Abdominal Sepsis and Endotoxemia and Reduces the Inflammatory/Coagulant Potential of Adipose Tissue.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Making Physical Activity Counseling a Priority in Clinical Practice.
• Caloric Restriction and Exercise “mimetics’’: Ready for Prime Time?
• Correlates of Physical Activity Among Middle-Aged and Older Korean Americans at Risk for Diabetes.
• The Influence of a Ten-week Nordic Walking Training-rehabilitation Program on the Level of Lipids in Blood in Overweight and Obese Postmenopausal Women.
• Effects of Obesity on Weight-bearing Versus Weight-supported Exercise Testing in Patients with COPD.

Economics & Sociology

• Becoming Overweight Without Gaining a Pound: Weight Evaluations and the Social Integration of Mexicans in the United States.
• Gender, BMI, and Eating Regulation in the Context of Same-sex and Heterosexual Couples.
• Is Utility-based Quality of Life Associated with Overweight in Children? Evidence From the UK WAVES RCT.

Epidemiology

• Prevalence of Obesity Among U.S. Workers and Associations with Occupational Factors.
• Eating Behaviours are Different in Youth with Obesity and Severe Obesity.
• How Important are Determinants of Obesity Measured at the Individual Level for Explaining Geographic Variation in BMI Distributions?
• Diet and Physical Activity in Rural vs Urban Children and Adolescents in the United States: A Narrative Review.
• The Epidemiological Transition and the Global Childhood Obesity Epidemic.
• BMI, Waist Circumference, and the Clustering of Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Early Childhood.

Psychology

• Obesity Diminishes Synaptic Markers, Alters Microglial Morphology, and Impairs Cognitive Function.
• Participation as a Leader in Immersion Weight Loss Treatment: A 1-year Follow-up Study.
• Social Distortion in Weight Perception: A Decomposition of the Obesity Epidemic.
• Associations of Child Temperament with Child Overweight and Breakfast Habits: A Population Study in Five-Year-Olds.
• BMI is Not Related to Altruism, Fairness, Trust or Reciprocity: Experimental Evidence From the field and the Lab.

Stigma

• Call to Arms: Recognizing and Eliminating Bias Against Overweight and Obese Women in Women's Health Care.
• ‘Obese’ ‘sumo’ Babies, Morality and Maternal Identity.
• The Effects of Obesity Myths on Perceptions of Sexual Assault Victims and Perpetrators’ Credibility.

Policy Related

• Menu-Labeling Formats and Their Impact on Dietary Quality.
• The Negative Footprint Illusion: Perceptual Bias in Sustainable Food Consumption.
• Food Nutrition and Obesity Policy (book Chapter).
• Evaluating the Influence of the Revised Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Food Allocation Package on Healthy Food Availability, Accessibility, and Affordability in Texas.
• Targeting Population Nutrition Through Municipal Health and Food Policy: Implications of New York City’s Experiences in Regulatory Obesity Prevention.
• Food Desert and Weight Outcome: Disentangling Confounding Mechanisms (pdf).
• The Sustainable Development Goals One-Health in the World’s Development Agenda.
• New Colorado Child Care Rules Take Aim at Obesity.

Intergenerational Effects

• Apelin Controls Fetal and Neonatal Glucose Homeostasis and is Altered By Maternal Undernutrition.
• Maternal High Fat Diet Influence Stroke Outcome in Adult Rat Offspring.
• Childhood Growth Trajectories of Etiological Subgroups of Large for Gestational Age Newborns.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Early Life Adversity Increases Foraging and Information Gathering in European Starlings, Sturnus Vulgaris.
• Controlling Synthetic Bacteria “Kill Switches” Ensure that Genetically Engineered Bacteria Survive Only in Certain Environmental Conditions.

Methods

• Evaluation of Different Methods to Handle Misreporting in Obesity Research: Evidence From the Canadian National Nutrition Survey.
• Reliability and Agreement of Adipose Tissue Fat Fraction Measurements with Water–fat MRI in Patients with Manifest Cardiovascular Disease.
• Developing a Novel Measure of Body Satisfaction Using Virtual Reality.
• Modelling BMI Distribution Using Maximum Entropy Density.
• From the Pool to the Sea: Applicable Isotope Turnover Rates and Diet to Skin Discrimination Factors for Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops Truncatus).
• Health Selection Into Neighborhoods Among Families in the Moving to Opportunity Program.

Commentary

• What Your Microbiome Wants for Dinner.
• Impact of Sleep Duration on Food Intake Regulation: Different Mechanisms By Sex?
• IGF1 and Adipose Tissue Homeostasis.
• Being Different in Diabetes and Obesity.
• What to do with the Data Patients Download?
• Five Dimensions of Obesity in America.
• Children's Ability to Detect Sugar Varies Widely.
• Rising Obesity Rates Put Strain on Nursing Homes.
• Part 1: Childhood Dieting: The Eating Disorder Starter Package.
• Part 2: Measuring the Cake: The Eating Disorder Starter Package.
• Decision to End Monkey Experiments Based on Finances, Not Animal Rights, NIH Says.

General

• Variations in Scientific Data Production: What Can We Learn From #Overlyhonestmethods?
• Could One Pill Help You Live Longer?
• Video: Andrea Wulf discusses "The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World" at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
• Audio: Why Science Needs Failure to Succeed.
• Video: Rachel Swaby discusses "Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science - and the World".
• Energy Use, Blue Water Footprint, and Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Current Food Consumption Patterns and Dietary Recommendations in the US.
• Common Ancestor of Modern Birds Lived 95 Million Years Ago.
• PubPeer and Anonymity in Science.
• NSF Responds to Research Being Deemed 'wasteful' or 'out of Touch'.
• Physicists in Europe Find Tantalizing Hints of a Mysterious New Particle.

Video & Audio

• Audio: Downsizing: Policy Options to Reduce Portion Sizes to Help Tackle Obesity.
• General Surgery and the Obese Patient.