• Revealing the Burden of Obesity Using Weight Histories.
• Fatness and Fitness: Exposing the Logic of Evolutionary Explanations for Obesity.
• Human Pancreatic Beta-like Cells Converted From Fibroblasts.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Slowly Chewing Until Satiety Can Prevent Childhood Obesity.
• Study: Post-randomization Split of Adherent vs Non-adherent Children to an Intervention Breaks Randomization (and Therefore Limits Causal Inference).
• Fact Check: Advocate Links R.I. Obesity and Bike Ownership [review of Information in Bike Advocate Press Release].
• Study: Tracking Global Bicycle Ownership Patterns; No Obesity, No Isolation of Rhode Island.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "As the consumption of more healthy foods increased, so did the child's weight status."
• Regular Fat and Reduced Fat Dairy Products Show Similar Associations with Markers of Adolescent Cardiometabolic Health.
• RCT: Employer Threats and Bribes: No Impact on Obesity.
• "The meta-analytic results revealed no difference in breakfast GI (high-GI vs. low-GI) on subsequent short-term energy intake."
• RCT: No Effect of a Maternal Low GI Dietary Intervention on Offspring Adiposity at 6 Months.
• "This ecological analysis showed no associations between fast food restaurants, convenience stores, super stores, or grocery stores densities and the prevalence of type II diabetes."
• "Our analysis updates the widely-cited 10:1 ratio, showing that the number of bacteria in our bodies is actually of the same order as the number of human cells."

Basic

• MicroRNA Expression Analysis in High Fat Diet-induced NAFLD-NASH-HCC Progression: Study on C57BL/6J Mice.
• Leptin-induced CART (Cocaine-and Amphetamine-Regulated Transcript) is a Novel Intra-ovarian Mediator of Obesity-related Infertility in Females.
• Role of Hypothalamic VGF in Energy Balance and Metabolic Adaption to Environmental Enrichment in Mice.
• Triticale Bran Alkylresorcinols Enhance Resistance to Oxidative Stress in Mice Fed a High-Fat Diet.
• Diluted Sera From Calorie Restricted Animals Promote Mitochondrial Beta-Cell Adaptations and Protect Against Glucolipotoxicity.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Letter to the Editor Regarding Conclusion in "Occipital C1–C2 Neuromodulation Decreases Body Mass and Fat Stores and Modifies Activity of the Autonomic Nervous System in Morbidly Obese Patients—a Pilot Study".
• Reply to Letter to the Editor Regarding "Occipital C1-C2 Neuromodulation Decreases Body Mass and Fat Stores and Modifies Activity of the Autonomic Nervous System in Morbidly Obese Patients—a Pilot Study".
• Reply to the Letter to the Editor Regarding Meta-Analysis in Obesity Surgery.
• Making Data Submitted to the Food and Drug Administration More Visible.
• Letter to the Editor Regarding the Fetal/placental Weight Ratio in a Mouse Model of Maternal Diet-induced Obesity.
• Letter to the Editor Regarding Conclusion in “The Impact of Psychological Support on Weight Loss Post Weight Loss Surgery: A Randomised Control Trial”.

Clinical

• Consensus Statement By the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and American College of Endocrinology on the Comprehensive Type 2 Diabetes Management Algorithm – 2016 Executive Summary.
• Into “Thinner” Air: A Novel Strategy to Improve Clinical Outcomes and Support Weight Loss? (PDF)
• Obesity in 2015: Advances in Managing Obesity.
• RCT: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Does Not Reduce Indications for Amputation in Patients with Diabetes with Nonhealing Ulcers of the Lower Limb.

Surgery

• Is Fear for Postoperative Cardiopulmonary Complications After Bariatric Surgery in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Justified? A Systematic Review.
• Effects of Gastric Bypass on FoxO1 Expression in the Liver and Pancreas of Diabetic Rats.
• Fasting Insulin and Glucose Reductions Predicted By Degree of Weight Loss After Surgery.

Drugs

• The Selective SGLT2 Inhibitor Ipragliflozin Has a Therapeutic Effect on Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis in Mice.
• Pharmacological Inhibition of S6K1 Increases Glucose Metabolism and Akt Signalling in Vitro and in Diet-induced Obese Mice.

Food & Diet

• In Nutrition, Where Does Science Stop and Fantasy Begin? - Paleolithic diets: Hardly a "Garden of Earthly Delights."
• Composition, Production, Consumption, and Health Effects of Added Sugars.
• Effects of Supplementation with Pomegranate Juice on Plasma C-reactive Protein Concentrations: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of RCTs.
• Microbes Added to Seeds Could Boost Crop Production.
• Milk Sphingomyelin Improves Lipid Metabolism and Alters Gut Microbiota in High Fat Diet-fed Mice.
• Review: Dietary Fiber and Satiety: The Effects of Oats on Satiety.
• 4 Food Rules You Won’t Find in Michael Pollan’s ‘In Defense of Food’ (and 2 that You Will).
• Quality Certification Programs for Dietary Supplements. (PDF)

Caloric Restriction

• FoxO1 Signaling Plays a Pivotal Role in the Cardiac Telomere Biology Responses to Calorie Restriction.
• The NAD(+)-depletion Theory of Ageing: NAD(+) as the Link Between Oxidative Stress, Inflammation, Caloric Restriction, Exercise, DNA Repair, Longevity and Health Span.
• Calorie Restriction, Longevity and Cognitive Function. (PDF)
• Transcriptome Analysis in Calorie-restricted Rats Implicates Epigenetic and Post-translational Mechanisms in Neuroprotection and Aging.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Socioeconomic Discrepancies in Children’s Access to Physical Activity Facilities: An Activity Space Analysis.
• Fuzzy Logic for Characterizing the Moderate Intensity of Physical Activity in Children.
• Exercise Helps Fight Effects of a Common Obesity Gene.
• Keeping Track of Activity Trackers.
• Review: Muscle Growth Across a Variety of Exercise Modalities and Intensities: Contributions of Mechanical and Metabolic Stimuli.

Economics & Sociology

• Socioeconomic Status, Risk of Obesity, and the Importance of Albert J. Stunkard.
• Reducing Social Inequalities in Obesity: Complexity and Power Relationships.
• Are Neighborhoods Causal? Complications Arising From the ‘stickiness’ of ZNA (and Example Using Obesity).

Epidemiology

• Cardiometabolic Disease Risk in Metabolically Healthy and Unhealthy Obesity: Stability of Metabolic Health Status in Adults.
• Obesity and Outcome of Crohn’s Associated Perianal Fistula Surgery: A Case-Control Study.
• Obese Patients Who Fall Have Less Injury Severity but a Longer Hospital Stay than Normal-weight Patients.
• Child Academic Achievement in Association with Pre-pregnancy Obesity and Gestational Weight Gain.
• Trends in Insulin Use and Diabetes Control in the U.S.: 1988–1994 and 1999–2012.
• Predictors of Whole-body Insulin Sensitivity Across Ages and Adiposity in Adult Humans.
• Reduced Lower-Limb Muscle Strength and Volume in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes in Relation to Neuropathy, Intramuscular Fat, and Vitamin D Levels.

Psychology

• Cognitive Function Limited in Obesity.
• Effectiveness of Mindfulness-based Interventions on Physiological and Psychological Complications in Adults with Diabetes: A Systematic Review.
• Meta-Analysis: Mental Health Conditions Among Patients Seeking and Undergoing Bariatric Surgery.

Equity and Disparities

• Early Childhood Social Disadvantage is Associated with Poor Health Behaviours in Adulthood.
• Bodies and Bullying: The Interaction of Gender, Race, Ethnicity, Weight, and Inequality with School Victimization.
• A Cross-Sectional Exploration of Food Security, Depression, and CHAOS in Low-Income Households with Children.
• Report on Racial Disparities in Hospitalized Patients with Hyperglycemia and Diabetes.

Stigma

• Exploring Healthcare Experiences Among Online Interactive Weight Loss Forum Users.
• “Why Can’t You Be Fat Too?”: The Use of Fat Suits in the Big Bang Theory.

Policy Related

• 'Early Results From Mexico's Soda Tax'.
• Promoting Public Health in the Context of the “Obesity Epidemic” - False Starts and Promising New Directions.
• Effect of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act on the Nutritional Quality of Meals Selected By Students and School Lunch Participation Rates.
• Calls for Calorie Labels on Alcoholic Drinks to Help Fight Obesity.
• Beverage Purchases From Stores in Mexico Under the Excise Tax on Sugar Sweetened Beverages: Observational Study.
• Medicare’s New Bundled Payments Design, Strategy, and Evolution.

Intergenerational Effects

• Parturition Dysfunction in Obesity: Time to Target the Pathobiology.
• Maternal High-fat Feeding Leads to Alterations of Brain Glucose Metabolism in the Offspring: Positron Emission Tomography Study in a Porcine Model.
• Mom’s Weight During Pregnancy Shapes Baby’s Health.
• Human Breast Milk and Infant Formulas Differentially Modify the Intestinal Microbiota in Human Infants and Host Physiology in Rats.
• Growth Hormone Actions During Development Influence Adult Phenotype and Longevity.
• Parental Age Influences Offspring Telomere Loss.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• New Information on the Feeding Habits of Pandas.
• Many Large Animals in Africa Tried Grass, but Many Switched Diets.
• Review: The Role of the Ribosome in the Regulation of Longevity and Lifespan Extension.
• Activity, Expression and Substrate Preference of the Δ6-Desaturase in Slow- or Fast-growing Rabbit Genotypes.
• The Evolution of Human Life Expectancy and Intelligence in Hunter-gatherer Economies.

Methods

• Monitoring PPARG-induced Changes in Glycolysis By Selected Reaction Monitoring Mass Spectrometry.
• Obesity, Food Insecurity, and Future Discounting: Comparisons of County-Level Empirical Analyses Using Random Forest and Linear Regression. (PDF)
• Spatial Aggregation Method for Anonymous Surveys: Case Study for Associations Between Urban Environment and Obesity.
• Designing an Agent-Based Model for Childhood Obesity Interventions: A Case Study of Child Obesity 180.
• New Compartment Model Analysis of Lean-mass and Fat-mass Growth with Overfeeding.

Commentary

• Diet Debate: Is Breakfast a Waste of Time?
• So What do ‘Natural’ and ‘Healthy’ Really Mean on a Food Label?
• Obesity: Dysfunction, Regulation and Control.
• Role of the Food and Supplement Industries in Human Health.

General

• Prevalence of Excess Sodium Intake in the United States — NHANES, 2009–2012.
• Science Communication: How to Deal with Articles that Misrepresent Science.
• The Companion Dog as a Model for the Longevity Dividend.
• Having More Children Slows Down Aging Process.
• Are Brains Bayesian?
• Vitamin D Deficiency and Incident Stroke Risk in Community-living Black and White Adults.
• Can Psychology Be an Empirical Science?
• Insect Cinema? Why Scientists Make Little 3D Glasses for Praying Mantises.
• Fragmentation and High Entropy of Neonatal Experience Predict Adolescent Emotional Outcome.
• Limited Access to Research Details and a Culture that Emphasizes Breakthroughs are Undermining the Credibility of Science.

Video & Audio

• Audio: "HIV Prevention With PreEP, Demystifying Diets, and Freezing Fat."
• Audio: Always Hungry? Your Fat Cells May Be to Blame.

Announcements

• New Book: Dr. Lou Aronne's "Change Your Biology Diet."
• New Book: PK Newby's "National Geographic Foods For Health."
• Presidential Proclamation -- National Mentoring Month.
• UAB NORC's Steven Austad and Olivia Affuso Selected as TEDX Speakers!
• Weight Stigma Conference 2016.
• Experimental Biology-Late Breaking Abstract Submission Deadline.