Featured

• Nutrient-Sensing Mechanisms and Pathways.
• Inhibition of soluble epoxide hydrolase modulates inflammation and autophagy in obese adipose tissue and liver: Role for omega-3 epoxides.
• Using Microwave Metrology to Count Calories.

Contrary & Null

• Although statins are very effective medications for lowering the risk of obesity-associated illnesses, they do not significantly reduce the costs of obesity.
• ”We find almost no statistical support for higher energy-dense food being cheaper than low energy-dense food”.
• Subchronic administration of short-acting naltrexone has no effect on striatal dopamine transporter availability, food intake or body weight gain in rats.
• Typical reductions in body mass in preparation for racing have no effect on cognitive function in apprentice jockeys in a simulated and competitive environment.
• No statistically significant relationship was identified between BMI and euploidy in patients undergoing IVF, suggesting that the negative impact of overweight and obesity on IVF and reproductive outcomes may not be related to aneuploidy.

Scholarly Dialogue

• “Nordic Walking for Geriatric Rehabilitation: a Randomized Pilot Trial” is Based on Faulty Statistical Analysis and is Inaccurate.
• Letter: Research Priorities in Bariatric Surgery: Misplaced Emphasis on Innovation?
• Reply to Letter: ""Research Priorities in Bariatric Surgery: Misplaced Emphasis on Innovation?""
• Is Waiting Room Behavior an Accurate Proxy for Families' Actual Dietary Habits? A Comment Regarding ""Junk Food Seen at Pediatric Clinic Visits: Is It a Problem?""
• Letter to the editor: naltrexone sustained-release/bupropion sustained-release for the management of obesity: review of the data to date.
• Antenatal Magnesium Sulfate and Outcomes for School-aged Children—Reply.

Food

• Effect of Dietary Fiber on Circulating C-reactive Protein in Overweight and Obese Adults: Meta-Analysis of RCTs.
• Influence on Population Weight Gain and Obesity of the Macronutrient Composition and Energy Density of the Food Supply.
• Characterization of attenuated food motivation in high-fat diet-induced obesity: Critical roles for time on diet and reinforcer familiarity.
• Commentary: Fructose-Containing Sugars Do Not Raise Blood Pressure or Uric Acid at Normal Levels of Human Consumption.
• RCT: Moro (Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck) orange juice supplementation for weight management.
• A Review and Critical Analysis of the Scientific Literature Related to 100% Fruit Juice and Human Health.

Exercise

• Exercise Training and Energy Expenditure following Weight Loss.
• Walking Groups Are an Effective Intervention to Better Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Validation of the SenseWear Pro3 Armband Using an Incremental Exercise Test.
• Diet and Physical Activity Interventions to Prevent or Treat Obesity in South Asian Children and Adults.
• RCT: Changing self-reported physical activity using different types of affectively and cognitively framed health messages, in a student population.
• Walking reduces indicators of adiposity: systematic review and meta-analysis of RCTs.

Computational

• Combined computational fluid dynamic and metabolic model of liver defatting under flow.
• The Kunming CalFit study: Modeling dietary behavioral patterns using smartphone data.

Evolution, Energetics, & Ecology

• Variable Viscosity of Water as the Controlling Factor in Energetic Quantities That Control Living Systems: Physicochemical and Astronomical Interactions.
• Nutrition and maternal metabolic health in relation to oocyte and embryo quality; critical views on what we learned from the dairy cow model?
• Prey state shapes the effects of temporal variation in predation risk.

Epidemiology

• Epidemiologic Report Shows that More Older Adults are Falling.
• Trends in group inequalities and interindividual inequalities in BMI in the United States, 1993–2012.
• Longitudinal Study: Better Success if both Partners Adopt Positive Health Behavior Change.
• Longitudinal Impact of Sleep on Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents: a Systematic Review and Bias-adjusted Meta-analysis.
• Ethnic density and obesity: Evidence from fixed-effects models.
• Portly Pastors Widespread, but Sabbaticals and Peer Support Can Help Fight Fat, Baylor Study Finds.
• F1000 Recommendation: Trajectories in the course of BMI after spinal cord injury.
• Association of premature hair graying with obesity.
• F1000 Recommendation: Driver obesity and the risk of fatal injury during traffic collisions.

Clinical

• Breastfeeding Duration and Weight Gain Trajectory in Infancy.
• Visceral Abdominal Obesity is Associated with an Increased Risk of Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
• Impact of Bariatric Surgery on Physical Functioning in Obese Adults.
• Obesity and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Youth at Onset of Type 1 Autoimmune Diabetes.
• Accurate Identification of Neutralizing Antibodies to Adenovirus Ad36, a Putative Contributor of Obesity in Humans.
• Emerging Pathomechanisms Involved in Obesity.

Surgery

• RCT: Application of positive airway pressure in restoring pulmonary function and thoracic mobility in the postoperative period of bariatric surgery.
• RCT: Using Ligasure(tm) or Harmonic Ace(r) in Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomies?

Drugs

• Johnson & Johnson Receive 100 Million Euros to Speed Ebola Vaccine Development .
• Antipsychotics-induced Metabolic Alterations: Focus on Adipose Tissue and Molecular Mechanisms.
• Pharmacological Management of Obesity: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline.
• RCT: Efficacy of metformin in pregnant obese women.

Policy Related

• Childhood obesity in Brazil: lessons to be learned from the Northern Hemisphere [PDF is in English].
• Commentary: Can Public Policy Stop Obesity?
• Understanding Nutritional Epidemiology and Its Role in Policy.
• Even if the empirical questions were resolved, health policy makers could not rely on currently existing prominent public health ethics guidance documents to develop ethically defensible policies.

Psychology

• Origins of Food Reinforcement in Infants.
• Facets of impulsivity interactively predict body fat and binge eating in young women.
• Can't wait to lose weight? Characterizing temporal discounting parameters for weight-loss.

Aging

• Health ABC Study: Dietary Sodium is Not Associated with Increased Mortality or Cardiovascular Disease Risk in a Cohort of Older Adults .
• Essential Role for Autophagy in Life Span Extension.
• Brain White Matter Integrity and Cortisol in Older Men.

Caloric Restriction

• Is the response to calorie restriction purposeful? A challenge to life history theory.
• Quantitative Feed Restriction Rather Than Caloric Restriction Modulates the Immune Response of Growing Rabbits.

Economics

• Increased Financial Toll of Obesity and Smoking.
• New Data: Medicare per Capita Spending by Age and Service.
• Obesity and Health Expenditures: Evidence from Australia.

Education & Economics

• Obese Preschoolers May Slim Down With Head Start.
• The Economic Burden of Obesity by Glycemic Stage in the United States.

Lifespan

• Low resting metabolic rate is associated with greater lifespan because of a confounding effect of body fatness.
• Heart rate reduction and longevity in mice.
• Anthropometrics indices of obesity, and all-cause and cardiovascular disease-related mortality, in an Asian cohort with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Sustainable Diets

• What Current Literature Tells Us about Sustainable Diets: Emerging Research Linking Dietary Patterns, Environmental Sustainability, and Economics.
• Sustainable Diets: Hairshirts or a better food future?

Temperature

• Effects of in utero heat stress on postnatal body composition in pigs: I. Growing phase.
• Effects of in utero heat stress on postnatal body composition in pigs: II. Finishing phase.

Methods

• Mining nutrigenetics patterns related to obesity: use of parallel multifactor dimensionality reduction.
• A statistical framework for testing the causal effects of fetal drive.
• Estimating the Medical Care Costs of Youth Obesity in the Presence of Proxy Reporting Error.

Stigma

• Do Media Portrayals of Obesity Influence Support for Weight-Related Medical Policy?
• Social Exclusion and Shame in Obesity.
• How Unhealthy Really is Pizza for Children?
• Obesity Bias and Body Image: How do Fashion and Retail Students Compare to Other Majors?
• The association of BMI and social distance towards obese individuals is mediated by sympathy and understanding.
• Changes in Weight Bias and Perceived Employability Following Weight Loss and Gain.
• Overcoming weight bias: promoting physical activity and psychosocial health.

Audio & Video

• Seminar series from Oxford's Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity.
• Martin Blaser: SciCafe: Antibiotics and Obesity.

Commentary

• Childhood Obesity – Looking Back Over 50 years to Begin to Look Forward.
• Critical Care Evidence—New Directions.
• A Breath of Fresh Air.

Basic Science

• P-Synephrine Suppresses Glucose Production but not Lipid Accumulation in H4IIE Liver Cells.
• Genetically Modified Cattle With Human DNA Might Hold Ebola Cure.
• Fetal hyperglycemia and a high-fat diet contribute to aberrant glucose tolerance and hematopoiesis in adult rats.
• Maternal High-Fat Diet Exaggerates Atherosclerosis in Adult Offspring by Augmenting Periaortic Adipose Tissue-Specific Proinflammatory Response.
• Regulation of the avian central melanocortin system and the role of leptin.
• System model network for adipose tissue signatures related to weight changes in response to calorie restriction and subsequent weight maintenance.
• Brain's role in browning white fat.

General Science

• Undiscovered Planet X May be Lurking in Our Solar System.
• DNA Extracted from Extinct Giant Kangaroo.
• New Horizons Spacecraft has Started Collecting Data on Pluto.
• Scientists Drill through 2,400 Feet of Antartic Ice for Climatic Clues.
• Rice-sized laser, Powered One Electron at a Time, Bodes Well for Quantum Computing.
• Fossilized Evidence of Parental Care in Primordial Reptiles.
• New Species of Legless Amphibian Found in Cambodia.
• Epic Cosmic Radio Burst Finally Seen in Real Time.
• Mummy Mask May Reveal Oldest Known Gospel.
• Human Evolution Tied to a Small Fraction of the Genome.

Announcements

• Columbia University and Institute of Human Nutrition Offering Obesity Course from April 22-24, 2015.
• EPA Webinar: The Role of Environmental Exposure in Childhood Obesity, Metabolic Syndrome and Neurobehavioral Abnormalities in Adolescence.
• Boshell Research Day Feb. 13 to Focus on Diabetes/Obesity Research.