Featured

• Obesity, BMI, and Homicide.
• Ldb1 Regulates Energy Homeostasis During Diet-Induced Obesity.
• The Sex of the Foetus Affects Maternal Blood Glucose Concentrations in Overweight and Obese Pregnant Women.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Could a Narcolepsy Drug Help Combat Food Addiction?
• Study: RCT Testing Pharmaceutical Effects on Impulsivity; Neither Food Nor Food Addiction Tested.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Parenting and Lifestyle Programme Does Not Reduce Child Obesity, Study Finds.
• "No statistically significant evidence was found that a weight-loss program that incorporates mindfulness improves self-reported sleep quality compared to a control diet/exercise intervention that included PMR."
• RCT: "Exergames was not a successful intervention to increase physical activity behaviours in persons with severe mental illness in the community."
• RCT: No differential "impact of ingesting hydrolyzed beef protein, whey protein, and carbohydrate on resistance training outcomes, body composition, muscle thickness..."
• RCT: "A multidimensional educational intervention, which consists of motivational interviews with parents and teacher-led learning experiences for children, improved preschool children's CHBS in the long term without influencing the outcomes of BMI z-score and BMI increase."
• "In this population of breast cancer patients who had mastectomy with immediate reconstruction, fat transfer was not associated with a higher risk of cancer recurrence."
• RCT: "Twice-daily jumping activity failed to influence markers of bone turnover in adolescents with AN but was well tolerated, shortened time to vital-sign stabilization and did not slow weight gain."
• RCT: "Weekly doses of vitamin D3 in individuals with suboptimal vitamin D levels who were at risk for type 2 diabetes did not improve oral glucose tolerance or markers of glycaemic status."

Dueling Conclusions

• “Contrary to Recent Empirical Studies, This Study Demonstrates that Globalization and Several Component Parts, Such as Trade Openness, FDI Flows, and an Index of Economic Freedom Reduce Weight Gain and Obesity…”.
• Globalisation Responsible for World’s Obesity Crisis: Study.

Basic

• Oral Leptin Supplementation Throughout Lactation in Rats Prevents Later Metabolic Alterations Caused By Gestational Calorie Restriction.
• Ginger Extract Increases Muscle Mitochondrial Biogenesis and Serum HDL-Cholesterol Level in Rats Fed a High-Fat Diet.
• Feeding Cycle-Dependent Endogenous Insulin Fluctuation is Not a Dominant Entrainment Signal for Mouse Peripheral Clocks Other than the Liver.
• Impact of Prebiotics on Metabolic and Behavioral Alterations in a Mouse Model of Metabolic Syndrome.
• Whole-Grain Fiber Composition Influences Site of Nutrient Digestion, Standardized Ileal Digestibility of Amino Acids, and Whole-Body Energy Utilization in Grower Pigs.
• Early-Life Sugar Consumption Affects the Rat Microbiome Independently of Obesity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Commentary: Fundamental Limitations of Meta-analysis of Cohort Studies, Epidemiological Challenges and the Stage of Obesity Epidemic.
• "JAMA Article on Zinc for the Common Cold Retracted."

Clinical

• Providing Prenatal Care to Pregnant Women with Overweight or Obesity: Differences in Provider Communication and Ratings of the Patient-provider Relationship By Patient Body Weight.
• Factors Associated with Adipocyte Size Reduction After Weight Loss Interventions for Overweight and Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-regression.

Children and Adolescents

• Weight Gain and Obesity in Infants and Young Children Exposed to Prolonged Antibiotic Prophylaxis.
• Body Size Attitudes and Body Image Perception Among Preschool Children and Their Parents: A Preliminary Study. (pdf)
• Obesity Prevention Programs in Children: Impact on Weight, Shape and Food Concern.

Surgery

• The Lipo–Body Lift.
• Postoperative Outcomes of Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgery in Older Obese Patients: A Matched Case-Control Study.
• Pregnancy After Bariatric Surgery: Improving Outcomes for Mother and Child.

Food & Diet

• “Sonic Seasoning” is the Growing Scientific Field that Uses Sound to Make Food Taste Better.
• "Both high fructose consumption and high fat consumption in growing rats had similar negative effects on CVD-related parameters."
• RCT: Inclusion of Walnut in the Diets of Adults at Risk for Type 2 Diabetes and Their Dietary Pattern Changes.
• Dietary Restriction and Aerobic Exercise Attenuate Obesity-induced Lymphatic Dysfunction.
• Exploring Divergent Trajectories: Disorder-specific Moderators of the Association Between Negative Urgency and Dysregulated Eating.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Do Activity Monitors Increase Physical Activity in Adults with Overweight or Obesity? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Impact of Physical Activity on Cardiovascular Status in Obesity.
• Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Aerobic Capacity in Persons with Multiple Sclerosis.
• Biomarkers Associated with Sedentary Behaviour in Older Adults: A Systematic Review.

Economics & Sociology

• The Photo-elicitation of Food Worlds: A Study on the Eating Behaviors of Low Socioeconomic Chilean Women.
• The Impact of Religiosity on Dietary Habits and Physical Activity in Minority Women Participating in the Health is Power (HIP) Study.
• Social Inequality in Adolescents' Healthy Food Intake: The Interplay Between Economic, Social and Cultural Capital.

Epidemiology

• Trying to Lose Weight in an 'obesogenic' Environment : Strategies, Temptations and Implications.
• Obesity as an Independent Risk Factor for Group B Streptococcal Colonization.
• Reduction in Energy Expenditure During Weight Loss is Higher than Predicted Based on Fat Free Mass and Fat Mass in Older Adults.
• Gene and Environment Interaction: Is the Differential Susceptibility Hypothesis Relevant for Obesity?
• Associations of Lipid Levels During Gestation with Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy and Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Prospective Longitudinal Cohort Study.

Psychology

• A Confound-Free Test of the Effects of Thin-Ideal Media Images on Body Satisfaction.
• Dieting and Food Cue-Related Working Memory Performance.
• Disparity in Neural and Subjective Responses to Food Images in Women with Obesity and Normal-weight Women.
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Severe Obesity.
• Integrated Models for Severe Obesity Management: Role for Psychosocial Teams.
• Are Sit-down Restaurant, Fast Food and Café Usage Independently Associated with Diet and Obesity?
• Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Sizing Me Up: Validation of an Obesity-Specific Health-Related Quality of Life Measure in Latino Youth.
• Exposure to Food Cues Moderates the Indirect Effect of Reward Sensitivity and External Eating Via Implicit Eating Expectancies.
• Body Image Disorders and Abuse of Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids Among Men.

Equity and Disparities

• Equity in Active Living for People with Disabilities: Less Talk and More Action.
• Socioeconomic Inequality in Morbid Obesity with BMI More than 40kg/m2 in the United States and England.
• Health of US Parents with and Without Disabilities.
• Residential Segregation and Racial Cancer Disparities: A Systematic Review.

Stigma

• Qualitative: Obesity, Bodily Change and Health Identities of Canadian Women.
• Systematic Review: Body Dissatisfaction in Individuals with Obesity Compared to Normal-Weight Individuals.
• Perceived and Actual Weight Stigma Among Romantic Couples.
• Perceptions and Status of Weight Control in Korean Adolescents.
• Effects of Obesity-Related Health Messages on Explicit and Implicit Weight Bias.
• Relationship Between Weight Stigma, Depression, and Negative Appearance.
• Body Image Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Obesity in Hospitalized Psychotic and Non-psychotic Patients.
• Body Dissatisfaction in Adolescents with Eating Disorders.
• Perceived Weight Discrimination and Chronic Medical Conditions in Adults with Overweight and Obesity.

Policy Related

• Strategies to Improve the Implementation of Workplace-based Policies or Practices Targeting Tobacco, Alcohol, Diet, Physical Activity and Obesity.
• FDA to Redefine “Healthy” Claim for Food Labeling.
• Active Transport and Obesity Prevention – a Transportation Sector Obesity Impact Scoping Review and Assessment for Melbourne, Australia.
• Effects of a School-based Intervention on Middle School Children's Daily Food and Beverage Intake.
• FDA Issues Two Guidance Documents on the Nutrition Facts Label and the Serving Size Final Rules.

Intergenerational Effects

• A Genetic Link Between Prepregnancy BMI, Postpartum Weight Retention, and Offspring Weight in Early Childhood.
• Relations Between Neighbourhood Socioeconomic Status and Birth Outcomes are Mediated By Maternal Weight.
• Using Neonatal Skin to Study the Developmental Programming of Aging.
• Parental Obesity and Early Childhood Development.
• Mortality and Morbidity in Offspring of Mothers with Diabetes Compared with a Population Group: A Danish Cohort Study with 8–35 Years of Follow-up.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Gut Content, Fatty Acid, and Stable Isotope Analyses Reveal Dietary Sources of Macroalgal-associated Amphipods Along the Western Antarctic Peninsula.
• The Costs of a Big Brain: Extreme Encephalization Results in Higher Energetic Demand and Reduced Hypoxia Tolerance in Weakly Electric African Fishes.
• Embryonic Ablation of Neuronal VGF Increases Energy Expenditure and Reduces Body Weight.

Methods

• Objective and Subjective Aspects of the Drive to Eat in Obesogenic Environments.
• A Model-driven Approach to Studying Dissociations Between Body Size Mental Representations in Anorexia Nervosa.
• Discordance Between Measured Weight, Perceived Weight, and Body Satisfaction Among Adolescents.
• Cross Calibration of Two DXA Densitometers and Comparison of Visceral Adipose Tissue Measurements By IDXA and MRI.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Mathematical Model for the Effect of Ghrelin on Basal, GNRH Induced FSH and LH Secretion in Normal Women By Using Four Variate Weibull Distribution. (pdf)
• Improved Genetic Profiling of Anthropometric Traits Using a Big Data Approach.

Commentary

• Will Urban Planning Put a Dent in Obesity?
• Gary Taubes on His New Book and Why He Won’t Eat Christmas Sweets.
• Diabetes Can Be Prevented and Reversed with Carbohydrate Restricted Diet, Says UAB Expert.

General

• Research: Publication Bias and the Canonization of False Facts.
• False Balance in Public Health Reporting? Michele Bachmann, the HPV Vaccine, and "Mental Retardation".
• With Corporate Funding of Research, “there’s No Scientist Who Comes Out of This Unscathed.”.
• Disordered Eating Behaviors and Sexual Harassment in Italian Male and Female University Students.
• Maternal Circadian Eating Time and Frequency are Associated with Blood Glucose Concentrations During Pregnancy.

Announcements

• Dannon Institute Early Career Nutrition Leadership Institute is Accepting Applications for Its 2017 Program, Due February 10.
• National Academy of Sciences Sackler Colloquium “Reproducibility of Research: Issues and Proposed Remedies”, March 8 - 10, 2017.
• UAB’s NORC seeks post-doctoral fellows in obesity research.