Featured

• RCTs: Short-Term Effects of Healthy Eating Pattern Cycling on Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors.
• N-acetylaspartate Pathway is Nutrient Responsive and Coordinates Lipid and Energy Metabolism in Brown Adipocytes.
• Racial Differences in Relative Skeletal Muscle Mass Loss During Diet Induced Weight Loss in Women.
• Ego-centered Relative Neighborhood Deprivation and Reported Dietary Habits Among Youth.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Controversial Food Additive 'Used in Bacon, Sausages and Fizzy Drinks Makes You Lazy and Impairs Your Metabolism', Warn Researchers.
• Study: Changes in Activity and Metabolism... In Mice. Associations Between Blood Phosphate and Activity in Humans.

Contrary or Null Findings

• Food Commercials do Not Affect Energy Intake in a Laboratory Meal but do Alter Brain Responses to Visual Food Cues in Children.
• "Green space is no longer associated with overweight after adjustment for NO2."
• No Effect of Weight Intervention on Perinatal Outcomes in Obese Women Scheduled for IVF Treatment.
• No Effect of HMB or α-HICA Supplementation on Training-induced Changes in Body Composition.
• "The vegetables pattern, modern pattern and snack pattern were not associated with hypertension."
• "Being less physically active was associated with thinness, but not overweight/obesity. Time spent in physical activity at moderate and vigorous intensities was positively associated with BMI and BAZ."
• "Our findings suggest that there is no longitudinal association between the common mental disorder diagnoses and physical activity status among young adults living in Australia."
• "Contrary to expectations, this loss of central GLP-1 had no significant effect on the ad libitum feeding of mice, affecting neither daily chow intake nor body weight or glucose tolerance."
• RCT: No Effect of an EHealth Intervention Aiming to Promote Healthy Food Habits From Infancy on Child Anthropometry.
• "Obesity was not associated with aggressive features in this prospective, European cohort of patients with DTC [differentiated thyroid cancer]".

Basic

• Interplay Between Diet-induced Obesity and Oxidative Stress: Comparison Between Drosophila and Mammals.
• Sclareol-Loaded Lipid Nanoparticles Improve Metabolic Profile in Obese Male Mice.
• Niacin Fine-Tunes Energy Homeostasis Through Canonical GPR109A Signaling.
• High-fat Diet Causes Psychiatric Disorders in Mice By Increasing Proteobacteria Population.
• Obesity-Induced Cellular Senescence Drives Anxiety and Impairs Neurogenesis.
• Obesity Attenuates Force-induced Tooth Movement in Mice with the Elevation of Leptin Level: A Preliminary Translational Study. (pdf)
• Delaying Latency to Hyperbaric Oxygen‐induced CNS Oxygen Toxicity Seizures By Combinations of Exogenous Ketone Supplements.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Common Mistakes in Statistical and Methodological Practices of Sport Management Research.
• Wobbly Math: Department of Cost-Effectiveness.
• Sports Science is Finally Talking About Its Methodology Problems.

Clinical

• Meta-analysis: Are Physical Activity Interventions for Healthy Inactive Adults Effective in Promoting Behavior Change and Maintenance, and Which Behavior Change Techniques are Effective?
• Meta-analysis: Weight Loss and Lifestyle Interventions for Obstructive Sleep Apnoea in Adults.
• Interpretation of Genomic Sequencing Results in Healthy and Ill Newborns: Results From the BabySeq Project.
• 25 Years of Research on Viruses Causing Obesity.

Children and Adolescents

• Systematic review: Natural Experiments [more Precisely 'quasi-experiments'] for Childhood Obesity Prevention and Control.
• Systematic review: Developing a Core Outcome Set for Childhood Obesity Prevention.
• RCT: Impact of LCPUFA‐ω3 Supplementation on Body Weight and Insulin Resistance in Pubertal Children with Obesity.

Surgery

• Reoperations After Bariatric Surgery in 26 Years of Follow-up of the Swedish Obese Subjects Study.
• Comment: Revisional Bariatric Surgery and Choosing the First Procedure.
• Obesity, Male Reproductive Function and Bariatric Surgery.

Drugs

• Meta-analysis: Benefits and Harms of Mysimba® (Naltrexone + Bupropion) in the Management of Overweight and Obesity: Unpublished Clinical Study Reports.
• Inhibition of Mevalonate Pathway Prevents Adipocyte Browning in Mice and Men By Affecting Protein Prenylation.

Food & Diet

• Meta-analysis: Association Between Intake of Non-sugar Sweeteners and Health Outcomes.
• RCT: Impact of Cheese Rich in Conjugated Linoleic Acid on Low Density Lipoproteins Cholesterol: Dietary Intervention in Older People (CLADIS Study).
• Changes in Milk Fat Globule Membrane Proteome After Pasteurization in Human, Bovine and Caprine Species.
• Oleic Acid Can Make Heart Claim Without Hard Evidence.
• Metabolic Profiling of High Egg Consumption and the Associated Lower Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Middle‐Aged Finnish Men.
• The Effects of Sweeteners and Sweetness Enhancers on Obesity and Diabetes: A Review.

Caloric Restriction

• RCT: Effects of Alternate Day Fasting and Exercise on Cholesterol Metabolism in Overweight or Obese Adults Pilot.
• Safety, Health Improvement and Well-being During a 4 to 21-day Fasting Period in an Observational Study Including 1422 Subjects.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Progressive Changes in Walking Kinematics Throughout Pregnancy - a Follow Up Study.
• Sweatcoin: A Steps Generated Virtual Currency for Sustained Physical Activity Behaviour Change.
• The Effect of Physical Activity Bout Patterns on Metabolic Syndrome Risk Factors in Youth: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2003–2006.

Economics & Sociology

• Behavioral Factors Mediating Between Socioeconomic Status and Obesity.
• Dietary behaviors mediate the association between food insecurity and obesity among socioeconomically disadvantaged youth.

Epidemiology

• The Impact of Class III Obesity on Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes in Preeclamptic Patients.
• Trajectories of Obesity By Spousal Diabetes Status in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.
• Obesity in Pediatric Patients with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Increases the Risk of Adverse Events During Pre‐maintenance Chemotherapy.
• Fatty Liver Disease: Is It Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease or Obesity-associated Fatty Liver Disease?

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Executive Functioning in Obesity, Food Addiction, and Binge-Eating Disorder.
• Exercise as a reward: Self-paced exercise perception and delay discounting in comparison with food and money.

Equity and Disparities

• Relationship Between Prepregnancy Overweight, Obesity, and Preterm Birth in Puerto Rico.
• Hospital Length of Stay and Healthcare Costs Among African American Women Due to Obesity and Diabetic Conditions in United States: A Model for Correlation Studies Comparing Ethnicity, Co-morbidities and Hospital Resources.

Stigma

• Dietitians' Perspectives on Patient Barriers and Enablers to Weight Management: An Application of the Social‐ecological Model.
• The relationship between weight stigma, weight bias internalization, and physical health in military personnel with or at high-risk of overweight/obesity.

Policy Related

• Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Requirements for Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents. (pdf)
• The Cultural Competence of Health Journalists: Obesity Coverage in Four Urban News Organizations.

Intergenerational Effects

• Systematic review: The Link Between Maternal Obesity and Offspring Neurobehavior: Animal Experiments.
• Mode of Delivery and Offspring Adiposity in Late Adolescence: The Modifying Role of Maternal Pre-pregnancy Body Size.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Duration of Breast Feeding in Ancestral Environments. (pdf)
• Nutrition, the Visceral Immune System, and the Evolutionary Origins of Pathogenic Obesity.
• Effects of Thyroid Hormones and Cold Acclimation on the Energy Metabolism of the Striped Hamster (Cricetulus Barabensis).
• Food Deprivation Reduces Social Interest in the European Sea Bass Dicentrarchus Labrax.

Methods

• Recruiting Low-income Postpartum Women Into Two Weight Loss Interventions: In-person Versus Facebook Delivery.
• "...we investigated the performance of a wide range of MI [multiple imputation] methods available in standard software packages for investigating the association between child body mass index (BMI) and quality of life using both a linear regression and a linear mixed-effects model."
• Open-field PET Enables Brain Scans of Rats in Motion.
• Limitations and Misinterpretations of E-Values for Sensitivity Analyses of Observational Studies.

Commentary

• MRI Proving Cost-Effective for Tracking Liver Fat.
• Diets for 2019: Best, Better, and Bad.
• 700,000 Insured Pets, $69 Million for Obesity.
• Mindfulness: Magical Thinking or Real Outcomes?
• Deal with It: Obesity is a Disease.
• Who Cares About a Regressive Obesity Policy?

General

• Females Increase Parental Care, but Not Fecundity, When Mated to High-quality Males in a Biparental Fish.
• Congratulations on the Promotion. But Did Science Get a Demotion?
• Metabolism Reprogrammed By the Nitric Oxide Signalling Molecule.
• Food Safety Behavior Observed in German TV Cooking Shows.
• Prevalence and Severity of Food Allergies Among US Adults.
• On the Reciprocally Causal and Constructive Nature of Developmental Plasticity and Robustness.
• Meta-analysis Challenges a Textbook Example of Status Signalling and Demonstrates Publication Bias.
• Embedded Device Stimulates Nerve Recovery, Then Absorbed By Body.

Video & Audio

• Are All Calories Created (And Burned) Equally?
• How to Tame Aging with Metformin.

Announcements

• IU SPH Seeks a Director, Grant Administration.
• NORC of UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows in Obesity Research.
• UAB Seeks Postdoctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center– Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• IU School of Public Health Bloomington Initiates Major Wave of Faculty Recruitment – Tenure-track Positions Available in Every Department and Two Department Chairs Open: See Multiple Listings Posted Here.