Obesity and Energetics Offerings

Featured

• Sustained energy intake debate gets more complex.
• Elephant obesity is focus of Lincoln zoo research.

Findings Contrary to Hypotheses or Popular Ideas

• No association found between fast food density and overweight or obesity in NYC.
• Data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study shows no discernible association of exposure to fast food at the residential neighborhood with children's weight.
• No association of proximity to fast food locations and weight status among children living in low-income cities in NJ.
• Postpartum diet quality was not associated with weight retention.
• Higher prevalence of obesity in Greek children living in rural areas despite increased levels of physical activity.
• No association between BMI and time spent playing computer games in teens.
• RCT: No adverse effect of a high-protein weight-loss diets in people with type 2 diabetes and renal disease.
• RCT: No effect of a parental intervention involving lifestyle counseling and motivational interviewing on weight in total sample of overweight children.
• RCT: Using a smaller dining plate does not suppress food intake from a buffet lunch meal in overweight, unrestrained women.
• RCT: Intervention produces increases in reported daily breakfast intake and reductions in chip and sweetened beverage intake, but no effects on BMI among children.

Misinformation and Its Correction

• Why we are becoming a country of medical know-nothings.
• Worst. Reported. Study. Ever.
• What Do Scientific Studies Show?
• Anti-obesity campaign Photoshops kids to make them look fat.

Commentary

• Standards and classification: A perspective on the ‘obesity epidemic’.
• The inadequacy of self-reported energy intake.

Aging

• Mitochondrial targeted peptide rapidly improves mitochondrial energetics and skeletal muscle performance in aged mice.
• Life-long caloric restriction reduces oxidative stress and preserves nitric oxide bioavailability and function in arteries of old mice.
• Metabolic phenotype modulation by caloric restriction in a life-long dog study.

Basic Science

• High fat feeding-induced hyperinsulinemia increases cardiac glucose uptake and mitochondrial function despite peripheral insulin resistance.
• Chemerin connects fat to arterial contraction.
• Formula Feeding Monkeys Linked to Metabolic Stress and Risk of Later Disease.
• "Browning" of adipose tissue - regulation and therapeutic perspectives.
• Obesity skips a generation, affects grandchildren (in mice) the most.
• Muscle disease gene identified in fish.
• Mechanism of body weight reducing effect of oral boric acid intake in mice.

Caloric Restriction

• Sex differences in body composition, fat storage and gene expression profile in Caenorhabditis elegans in response to dietary restriction.
• A dietary regimen of caloric restriction or pharmacological activation of sirt1 to delay the onset of neurodegeneration.
• Fasting or caloric restriction for healthy aging.

Clinical

• RCT: Achieving long-term weight maintenance in Mexican-American adolescents with a school-based intervention.
• Size Matters: Obese patients more likely to trust overweight physicians for diet advice.

Drugs

• Synthetic compound developed from sun anemone venom, ShK-186 boosts metabolism.
• Patent: Mast cell stabilizers in the treatment of obesity.
• EU targets childhood obesity with computer-simulated testing of medicines.
• New evidence suggests no dependency/addictive potential of phentermine.
• Phentermine and topiramate extended-release : a new treatment for obesity and its role in a complications-centric approach to obesity medical management.

Surgery

• Tongue Patch Surgery: Risky Weight Loss Procedure Draws Criticism.
• Calorie restriction is a major determinant of the short-term metabolic effects of gastric bypass surgery in obese type 2 diabetic patients.
• UAB bariatric surgery earns highest accreditation level.
• RCT: Roux-en-Y gastric bypass vs intensive medical management for the control of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia.
• Bariatric surgery for weight loss and glycemic control in nonmorbidly obese adults with diabetes: A systematic review.
• Gastric Bypass in Mild Obesity and Diabetes?

Exercise

• High- vs low-intensity exercise on postprandial lipemia, vascular function, oxygen consumption and energy consumption after a meal.
• RCT: Diet and diet combined with chronic aerobic exercise decreases body fat mass and alters plasma and adipose tissue inflammatory markers in obese women.
• RCT: Social support from teachers mediates physical activity behavior change in children participating in the Fit-4-Fun intervention.
• RCT: High-intensity resistance training reduces visceral fat more than compaartor exercise.
• Is there an upper limit to exercise?

Food

• Offering chocolate milk increases milk and calcium intake in short-term study.
• RCT: Benefit of a low-fat over high-fat diet on vascular health during alternate day fasting.
• Review of RCTs finds inconclusive effects of vegetable consumption on weight.
• 'Cheese is from plants' - study reveals child confusion.

Potatoes

• Vegetable cost metrics show that potatoes and beans provide most nutrients per penny.
• White potatoes, human health, and dietary guidance.
• Sweet potato and cassava can modify cholesterol profile in humans with moderately raised serum cholesterol levels.

Evolution, Ecology & Energetics

• Individual energetic state can prevail over social regulation of foraging in honeybees.
• Surviving the cold, dry period in Africa: Behavioral adjustments as an alternative to heterothermy in the African Lesser Bushbaby (Galago moholi).
• The evolution of mammal body sizes: responses to Cenozoic climate change in North American mammals.
• Energetics and metabolite profiles during early flight in American robins (Turdus Migratorius).
• A grassy trend in human ancestors' diets.
• Resource unpredictability promotes species diversity and coexistence in an avian scavenger guild: a field experiment.
• Seasonal mass variation as a life history trait in West African savannah birds.

Epidemiology

• Childhood obesity is associated with increased risk of most lower extremity fractures.
• The influence of BMI on injury pattern in polytrauma: thorax as the main source of complications.
• Population-adjusted street connectivity, urbanicity and risk of obesity in the U.S.
• Reducing racial/ethnic disparities in childhood obesity.

Genetics

• Phospholipid biosynthesis genes and susceptibility to obesity: Analysis of expression and polymorphisms.
• An overview of STRUCTURE: applications, parameter settings, and supporting software.
• The Power of Meta-Analysis in Genome-Wide Association Studies.
• Detection and impact of rare regulatory variants in human disease.
• Central precocious puberty caused by mutations in the imprinted gene MKRN3.

Methods

• On the accuracy of instantaneous gas exchange rates, energy expenditure and respiratory quotient calculations obtained from indirect whole room calorimetry.
• Assessment of dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry for use in evaluating the effects of dietary and environmental management on Hermann's tortoises (Testudo hermanni).
• Establishing disability weights from pairwise comparisons for a US burden of disease study.

Microbiota

• A mucus colonizer manages host metabolism.
• Gut microbiota composition in male rat models under different nutritional status and physical activity and its association with serum leptin and ghrelin levels.
• Gut microbiota after gastric bypass in human obesity: Increased richness and associations of bacterial genera with adipose tissue genes.

Policy

• Scientific decision making, policy decisions, and the obesity pandemic.
• New York expands fight against soda to juice drinks.
• New BAI code bans promotion of certain products during children’s programming in Ireland.
• Overweight and obesity: Can we reconcile evidence about supermarkets and fast food retailers for public health policy?

Psychology

• In times of stress, people lean on established routines -- even healthy ones.
• Intertemporal discounting as a risk factor for high BMI.

Stigma

• Inequities in healthcare: A review of bias and discrimination in obesity treatment.
• Media representations of obesity: First amendment friendly approach to addressing hate speech in the media.
• NYU visiting professor accused of insulting obese Ph.D. applicants with ‘impulsive’ tweet.

General Science

• Trust in science would be improved by study pre-registration.
• Accord aims to create global trove of genetic data.
• Epigenetics play cupid for prairie voles.
• Career exploration resources for grad students and postdocs.
• Temporal cloak erases data from history.

Featured

• Donna Arnett “Transforming cardiovascular health through genes and environment: presidential address at the American Heart Association 2012.”
• Civility and fidelity called for in scientific communications - even if complex.
• Self-report–based estimates of energy intake offer an inadequate basis for scientific conclusions.

Headlines versus Studies

• Headline: Drinking 5 cups of coffee everyday may lead to obesity: study.
• Headline: Wrong amount of coffee could kill you
• Study: A study of mice, involving a substance found in coffee, but no coffee, showing no significant weight gain, and reporting no deaths.

 Findings Contrary to Hypotheses or Popular Ideas

• Controlled trial to prevent childhood obesity in maternity and child health care clinics improved maternal glucose tolerance test results, but did not affect maternal weight gain, newborn anthropometry or infant weight gain.
• RCT: A pedometer-based physical activity intervention with telephone support produces no effect on health outcomes among type 2 diabetes patients.
• RCT: No effect of whey protein supplementation vs isoenergetic control on resistance exercise-induced changes in lean mass, muscle strength, and physical function in mobility-limited older adults.
• Overweight and obesity are not associated with dental caries among 12-year-old South Brazilian schoolchildren.
• Genetically obese mice do not show increased gut permeability or faecal bile acid hydrophobicity.
• RCT: No differential effect of experimental low-glycemic-load or conventional low-fat diet for 6 months in Treatment of Fatty Liver in Obese Children.
• RCT: The addition of a protein supplement to the diet of overweight and obese young adults, with dietary counseling incorporated, did not improve diet quality or suppress fasting appetite.
• Could the Net Health Effects of Food Stamps Be Negative?
• Meta-analysis shows no association between consumption of soft-drinks and the risk of cancer.
• RCT: No effect of a program of lifestyle changes to promote weight reduction, a randomized controlled trial in primary health care.
• RCT: The relative carbohydrate and protein content of the diet, when combined with intensive CBT, does not significantly affect attrition rate, weight loss and psychosocial outcome in patients with severe obesity.
• The obesity paradox in the surgical population

Basic Science

• Brown adipose tissue transplantation improves whole-body energy metabolism.
• Alpha-MSH signalling via melanocortin 5 receptor promotes lipolysis and impairs re-esterification in adipocytes.
• Effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals on in vitro global DNA methylation and adipocyte differentiation
• Low levels of physical activity are associated with increased metabolic syndrome risk factors in Korean adults
• Fat taste in humans: Sources of within- and between-subject variability.
• Disrupting rhythms: diet-induced obesity impairs diurnal rhythms in metabolic tissues.
• Inducible transgenic expression in the short-lived fish Nothobranchius furzeri
• Comparison of the metabolic effects of sustained CCK1 receptor activation alone and in combination with upregulated leptin signalling in high-fat-fed mice.
• Obesity-Associated Oxidative Stress: Strategies Finalized to Improve Redox State

Food

• The Addition of a Plain or Herb-Flavored Reduced-Fat Dip Is Associated with Improved Preschoolers' Intake of Vegetables.
• RCT: Low-carbohydrate diet is as safe as Mediterranean or low-fat diets in preserving/improving renal function among moderately obese participants with or without type 2 diabetes.
• RCT: Higher protein diets consumed ad libitum improve cardiovascular risk markers in children of overweight parents from eight European countries.
• Meta-analysis of RCTs: Compared with control diets, diets enriched with nuts did not increase body weight, body mass index, or waist circumference in controlled clinical trials.
• RCT: No effect of macronutrient composition in isoenergetic weight loss diets.
• RCT: No effect of high GI vs low GI diet on weight among overweight and in obese adult patients.
• No effect of 12 weeks' supplementation with 1 g DHA-rich or EPA-rich fish oil on cognitive function or mood.
• RCT: combination of a high-protein formula diet and polyglucosamine decreases body weight and parameters of glucose and lipid metabolism in overweight and obese men and women.
• Cooked rice prevents hyperlipidemia in hamsters fed a high-fat/cholesterol diet by the regulation of the expression of hepatic genes involved in lipid metabolism.
• Dietary patterns and diet quality among diverse older adults: The University of Alabama at Birmingham study of aging.
• RCT: Breakfast consumption and exercise interact to affect cognitive performance and mood later in the day.
• Vegetable cost metrics show that potatoes and beans provide most nutrients per penny.
• Pilot Study: Financial Incentives Used to Increase Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Purchases in Lower-Income Households Have Mixed Results
• RCT: Daily flaxseed consumption improves glycemic control in obese men and women with pre-diabetes.

Exercise

• '10 000 Steps Flanders': evaluation of the state-wide dissemination of a physical activity intervention in Flanders.
• Meta-analysis of RCTs: The effects of physical activity and physical activity plus diet interventions on body weight in overweight or obese women who are pregnant or in postpartum: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
• RCT: No effect of substituting a physiotherapist for a nurse in pediatric weight loss sessions to stimulate physical activity.
• RCT: A physical education program decreases waist circumference in children: The JuvenTUM project.
• Don't just sit there. Really.
• Combined Aerobic/Strength Training and Energy Expenditure in Older Women.
• Cessation of physical exercise changes metabolism and modifies adipocyte cellularity of periepididymal white adipose tissue in rats.

Epidemiology

• The value of genetic information for diabetes risk prediction - differences according to sex, age, family history and obesity.
• The obesity paradox in the US population.
• Cardiometabolic risk after weight loss and subsequent weight regain in overweight and obese postmenopausal women.
• Obesity and risk of sepsis: A population-based cohort study.
• Poverty is the Main Environmental Factor for Obesity in a Mexican-Border City
• Cumulative Social Risk and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Obesity during the Transition to Adulthood
• Areca nut chewing and metabolic syndrome: evidence of a harmful relationship.
• Body Mass Index Is Associated With Hospital Mortality in Critically Ill Patients: An Observational Cohort Study.
• A spatial analysis of community level overweight and obesity.
• Obesity status and colorectal cancer screening in the United States.
• A 'Rule of Sevens' evidenced as being more appropriate for obese burn victims, as opposed to the standard 'Rule of Nines'

Methods

• Authors opine that “Energy adjustment of nutrient intakes is preferable to adjustment using body weight and physical activity in epidemiological analyses.”
• Actigraph GT3X: Validation and Determination of Physical Activity Intensity Cut Points.
• Imaging Cold-Activated Brown Adipose Tissue Using Dynamic T2*-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging and 2-Deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-D-glucose Positron Emission Tomography.
• Biomarkers of food intake and metabolite differences between plasma and red blood cell matrices; a human metabolomic profile approach.
• Three-dimensional body scanning: methods and applications for anthropometry.
• Development and evaluation of a genetic risk score for obesity.
• Two-Method Measurement for Adolescent Obesity Epidemiology: Reducing the Bias in Self-Report of Height and Weight.
• The cat as a model for human obesity: insights into depot-specific inflammation associated with feline obesity.

Policy Related

• A typology of beverage taxation: Multiple approaches for obesity prevention and obesity prevention-related revenue generation.
• Parens Patriae: A Flawed Strategy for State-Initiated Obesity Litigation.
• Guidelines updates in the treatment of obesity or metabolic syndrome and hypertension
• Changes in Sodium Levels in Processed and Restaurant Foods, 2005 to 2011.

Aging

• A Dwarf Mouse Model With Decreased GH/IGF-1 Activity That Does Not Experience Life-Span Extension: Potential Impact of Increased Adiposity, Leptin, and Insulin With Advancing Age.
• The impact of body mass index and weight changes on disability transitions and mortality in Brazilian older adults.
• Physical Performance in Relation to Body Composition and Bone Mineral Density in Healthy, Overweight, and Obese Postmenopausal Women.

Timing

• Restricting night-time eating reduces daily energy intake in healthy young men: a short-term cross-over study.
• RCT: Effects of caloric intake timing on insulin resistance and hyperandrogenism in lean women with polycystic ovary syndrome.

Psychology

• Effects of mindful eating training on delay and probability discounting for food and money in obese and healthy-weight individuals.
• Losing the Symptoms: Weight Loss and Decrease in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms.
• Dietary fat types appeared to influence anxiety but not depression in mice.
• Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Association Between Obesity and Depression in Women

Caloric Restriction

• Calorie Restriction and Cancer Prevention: Established and Emerging Mechanisms.
• Dietary restriction of rodents decreases aging rate without affecting initial mortality rate - a meta-analysis.
• Beneficial cardiac effects of caloric restriction are lost with age in a murine model of obesity.
• Dietary Regimen of Caloric Restriction or Pharmacological Activation of SIRT1 to Delay the Onset of Neurodegeneration.
• Dietary restriction of rodents decreases aging rate without affecting initial mortality rate - a meta-analysis
• Dietary Restriction Depends on Nutrient Composition to Extend Chronological Lifespan in Budding Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
• Extension of Drosophila Lifespan by Rhodiola rosea through a Mechanism Independent from Dietary Restriction
• Beneficial effects of a 6-month dietary restriction are time-dependently abolished within 2 weeks or 6 months of refeeding-genome-wide transcriptome analysis in mouse liver.

Evolution, Ecology & Energetics

• The relationship between body mass and field metabolic rate among individual birds and mammals.
• Thermoregulation in African Green Pigeons (Treron calvus) and a re-analysis of insular effects on basal metabolic rate and heterothermy in columbid birds.
• Prolonged fasting activates Nrf2 in postweaned elephant seals.

Drugs

• RCT: Zonisamide is tolerated well and reduces weight among patients with schizophrenia being treated with atypical antipsychotics.
• Effects of growth hormone withdrawal in obese premenopausal women.
• Pharmacologic treatment options for obesity: What is old is new again
• Treatment of Obesity and Diabetes Using Oxytocin or Analogs in Patients and Mouse Models
• RCT: The Effect of leptin, caffeine/ephedrine, and their combination upon visceral fat mass and weight loss
• RCT: Maternal metformin treatment decreases fetal inflammation in a rat model of obesity and metabolic syndrome.

Weight Loss

• RCT: Renal Function Following Three Distinct Weight Loss Dietary Strategies
• RCT: Relationship of cravings with weight loss and hunger. Results from a 6 month worksite weight loss intervention.
• Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy is safe and efficacious for pretransplant candidates.

Child Maltreatment

• The Force-Feeding of Young Girls: Mauritania's Failure to Enforce Preventative Measures and Comply with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
• FAMILY LAW—CHILDHOOD MORBID OBESITY: HOW EXCESS POUNDS CAN TIP THE SCALES OF JUSTICE IN FAVOR OF REMOVING A CHILD FROM THE HOME AND/OR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS.
• Childhood maltreatment and obesity: systematic review and meta-analysis.

Trans-generational effects

• Maternal Obesity Has Little Effect on the Immediate Offspring but Impacts on the Next Generation in Mice.
• Evidence for transgenerational metabolic programming in Drosophila.
• Maternal obesity: how big an impact does it have on offspring prenatally and during postnatal life?
• Hydrocarbons (jet fuel JP-8) induce epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of obesity, reproductive disease and sperm epimutations.
• Women's Weight-Loss Surgery May Benefit Later Offspring.

Menu Labeling

• Consumers' estimation of calorie content at fast food restaurants: cross sectional observational study.
• The Energy Content of Restaurant Foods Without Stated Calorie Information.
• Equivocal results of menu labeling intervention at chain restaurants.
• Use of calorie information at fast food and chain restaurants among US youth aged 9-18 years, 2010.

Commentary

• What's the Big Deal?: The Ethics of Public-Private Partnerships Related to Food and Health.
• Nobel prizes, chocolate and milk: The statistical view.
• Great or Not Such Great Expectations: Weight Loss Goals.
• Sleeve gastrectomy: The ideal choice for weight-loss surgery.

 General Science

• The importance of surprising findings in psychology.
• Little evidence that editors, authors or reviewers use the peer review process as an opportunity to play citation games.

Findings Contrary to Hypotheses or Popular Ideas

• Large chain restaurant meals had, on average, fewer calories than independent and small-chain restaurants.
• No compelling evidence of association between Religiosity/Spirituality and the Metabolic Syndrome among U.S. Hispanics/Latinos.
• No Benefit Seen in Sharp Limits on Salt in Diet.
• Living in food desert was not significantly associated with BMI after potential covariates were considered.
• Ain't no mountain high enough? Setting high weight loss goals predict effort and short-term weight loss.
• No clear association of the early introduction of solid food with childhood obesity.
• No association of sugar-sweetened beverage intake with weight status in national sample of children with measured heights and weights.

Aging

• Young and old genetically heterogeneous HET3 mice on a rapamycin diet are glucose intolerant but insulin sensitive.
• Do sirtuins promote mammalian longevity?: A Critical review on its relevance to the longevity effect induced by calorie restriction.
• Calorie restriction (CR) and CR mimetics for the prevention and treatment of age-related eye disorders.

Basic Science

• Effects of chronic exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields on energy balance in developing rats.
• Latitudinal patterns in phenotypic plasticity: the case of seasonal flexibility in lizards’ fat body size.
• An increase in the accumulation of adipose tissue in growing male mice caused by disturbances in the sleep-wake cycle following night-shifts.
• The role of ghrelin in energy balance regulation in fish.
• Characteristics and metabolism of different adipose tissues in fish.
• Brown adipose tissue transplantation improves whole-body energy metabolism.
• Neural circuits and motivational processes for hunger.
• Leptin Sensitive Sensory Nerves Innervate White Fat.
• Developmental programming: Impact of prenatal testosterone excess on insulin sensitivity, adiposity, and free fatty acid profile in sheep.
• Metabolism: CBAT and rBAT crosstalk to regulate temperature and energy balance.

Clinical

• BMI in relation to sperm count: An updated systematic review and collaborative meta-analysis.
• RCT: Inspiratory muscle training effects on diaphragmatic mobility, pulmonary function and maximum respiratory pressures in morbidly obese individuals.
• RCT: Whole body vibration training improves leg blood flow and adiposity in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
• RCT: Tight Calorie Control in geriatric patients following hip fracture decreases complications.
• Ketosis and appetite-mediating nutrients and hormones after weight loss.

Commentary

• Martin Binks on the Perils on Looking for Heroes and Villains in Food.
• Obesity and blame: elusive goals for personal responsibility.
• National obesity rates: a legitimate health policy endpoint?
• Good and bad ideas in obesity prevention.
• Exchanges on obesity and smoking.

Dietary Fat

• Review calls for reevaluation of dietary recommendations to minimize dietary SFAs, for which mechanisms for adverse health effects are lacking.
• High-fat, low-carbohydrate diet alters myocardial oxidative stress and impairs recovery of cardiac function after ischemia and reperfusion in obese rats.
• RCT: Analysis of esterified and nonesterified fatty acids in serum from obese individuals after breakfasts prepared with oils heated at frying temperature.
• RCT: Among patients with multiple cardiovascular risk factors, n−3 fatty acids did not reduce cardiovascular mortality and morbidity.

Food

• RCT: Fattening Fasting: Hungry Grocery Shoppers Buy More Calories, Not More Food.
• Restaurant Meals: Almost a Full Day's Worth of Calories, Fats, and Sodium.
• Eating Out Without Overeating.
• FDA studies caffeine's effects on children, teens.
• Very-low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet v. low-fat diet for long-term weight loss: a meta-analysis of RCTs.
• Adherence to National Diet and Physical Activity Objectives among Military Personnel: What Are the Implications?
• Do Environmental Interventions Impact Elementary School Students' Lunchtime Milk Selection?
• Normal protein intake required for weight loss and maintenance, elevated protein intake for preservation of REE and FFM.
• Eating insects could help fight obesity, U.N. says.
• RCT: Smaller breakfasts lead to lesser total intake in day.
• Meals inspired by ancestors show some short term benefits.

Gut Microbiota

• Gut microbe may fight obesity and diabetes.
• 100 Trillion Friendly Germs: Some Might Control Your Weight.

Methods

• Estimating Obesity Rates in the Presence of Measurement Error.
• Observational Bias during Nutrition Surveillance: Results of a Mixed Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Data Collection System in Northern Nigeria.
• Measurement error is altered by participation in a physical activity intervention.
• Panel regression formulas for estimating stature and body mass from immature human skeletons: A statistical approach without reference to specific age estimates.
• Apples and oranges: a comparison of costing methods for obesity.
• Accuracy and preference of measuring resting energy expenditure using a handheld calorimeter in healthy adults.
• Fat tissue measurements by dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry: Cross-calibration of 3 different fan-beam instruments.

Neighborhoods

• Change in Neighborhood Traffic Safety: Does It Matter in Terms of Physical Activity?
• Disentangling neighborhood contextual associations with child BMI, diet, and physical activity: Role of built, socioeconomic, and social environments.
• Neighborhood deprivation and change in BMI among adults with type 2 diabetes.

Physical Activity

• The energy expenditure of sedentary behavior: a whole room calorimeter study.
• Web-Enabled Feedback Control Over Energy Balance Associated with an Increase in Physical Activity and a Reduction of Body Weight.

Policy Related

• Law as a Tool in "The War on Obesity": Useful Interventions, Maybe, But, First, What's the Problem?
• If Sugar Is Addictive...What Does It Mean for the Law?

Psychology

• Greater impulsivity is associated with decreased brain activation in obese women during a delay discounting task.
• Happy Eating And Obesity: Happiness Tied To Comfort Eating And Weight Gain

Research Reproducibility and Integrity

• Whither research integrity? Plagiarism, self-plagiarism and coercive citation in an age of research assessment.
• The Matilda Effect in Science Communication: An Experiment on Gender Bias in Publication Quality Perceptions and Collaboration Interest.
• Biomarkers in cardiovascular medicine: The shame of publication bias.
• Half of researchers have reported trouble reproducing published findings.

Salt

• Changes in Sodium Levels in Processed and Restaurant Foods, 2005 to 2011.
• IOM Report: Sodium Intake in Populations: Assessment of Evidence.

Stigma

• Obesity stigma: a failed and ethically dubious strategy.
• If Shaming Reduced Obesity, There Would Be No Fat People.
• Bootcamp, brides, and BMI: Biopedagogical narratives of health and belonging on canadian size-transformation television.

Sugar, SSBs, and related

• Whey protein sweetened beverages reduce glycemic and appetite responses and food intake in young females.
• Short-term association of sugar consumption with hunger and ad libitum food intake in young women.
• Building a Strategy for Obesity Prevention One Piece at a Time: The Case of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxation.
• Mondo/ChREBP-Mlx-Regulated Transcriptional Network Is Essential for Dietary Sugar Tolerance in Drosophila.

Surgery

• Weight Loss after Gastric Bypass Surgery in Human Obesity Remodels Promoter Methylation.
• Operator independent focused high frequency ISM band for fat reduction: Porcine model.
• Unrealistic weight loss goals and expectations among bariatric surgery.

Video

• Molly Bray on Genetic & Environmental Influences on Obesity and Exercise.
• The importance of publishing datasets.
• Tim Garvey on “New Tools for Weight Loss Therapy: A Complications-Centric Model for Obesity Management and Cardiometabolic Disease Staging”
• Strategies to Optimize the Impact of Nutritional Surveys and Epidemiological Studies – Experimental Biology Session