Featured

• Statistical Models for Meal-level Estimation of Mass and Energy Intake Using Features Derived From Video Observation and a Chewing Sensor.
• Central Injection of Oxytocin Reduces Food Intake and Affects Hypothalamic and Adipose Tissue Gene Expression in Chickens.
• Introns are Mediators of Cell Response to Starvation.
• Multi-Etiological Perspective on Child Obesity Prevention.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: High-fat Diet Increases Vulnerability to Infection and Bugs.
• Study: Short-term Consumption of a High-fat Diet Increases Host Susceptibility to Listeria Monocytogenes Infection... In Mice.

Contrary or Null Findings

• No Significant Effect of 1,3-Butanediol on Cycling Time-Trial Performance.
• "Contrary to study hypotheses, individuals in the neutral mood condition, but not those in the negative mood condition, responded in a manner indicative of bias toward food."
• "This study provides further evidence for an association between BMI and arsenic metabolism. However, contrary to previous hypotheses, these results suggest that this association is not confounded by the intake of micronutrients involved in one-carbon metabolism."
• RCT: "Treatment with vitamin D showed beneficial effects on appendicular muscle mass in pre-sarcopenic older Lebanese men and women. However, it had no effect on muscle strength relative to placebo."
• RCT: "Unlike previous experiments in children observing increase in unhealthy food consumption subsequent to its promotion, we found no effect on immediate vegetable intake of priming children with images of vegetables."
• The Healthy Nordic Dietary Pattern Has No Effect on Inflammatory Markers: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of RCTs.
• RCT: No Significant Effects of Sprint Interval or Combined Aerobic and Resistance Training on Myokines in Overweight Women with Type 2 Diabetes.
• RCT: Vitamin D Supplementation Has No Effect on Cognitive Performance After Four Months in Mid-aged and Older Subjects.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Flawed Methods and Inappropriate Conclusions for Health Policy on Overweight and Obesity: The Global BMI Mortality Collaboration Meta‐analysis.
• Retraction of "The Effect of Vitamin D Supplementation on Inflammatory and Hemostatic Markers and Disease Activity in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Randomized Placebo-controlled Trial" due to statistical and reporting errors.
• Surgical Decision-Making: The Province of the Patient or the Surgeon?: Commentary on an Article By Nicholas J. Giori, MD, PhD, Et Al.: “Risk Reduction Compared with Access to Care: Quantifying the Trade-Off of Enforcing a Body Mass Index Eligibility Criterion for Joint Replacement”.
• EAT-Lancet's Plant-based Planet: 10 Things You Need to Know.
• Testing Causal Assumptions in Obesity Research.
• Author Response To: Testing Causal Assumptions in Obesity Research.

Basic

• Chronic High Corticosterone with Voluntary Corn Oil Ingestion Induces Significant Body Weight Gain in Mice.
• Lactobacillus Sakei Alleviates High‐fat Diet‐induced Obesity and Anxiety in Mice By Inducing AMPK Activation and SIRT1 Expression and Inhibiting Gut Microbiota‐mediated NF‐κB Activation.
• The Metabolic Response to a Low Amino Acid Diet is Independent of Diet-Induced Shifts in the Composition of the Gut Microbiome.
• Brain Region-specific Effects of Long-term Caloric Restriction on Redox Balance of the Aging Rat.

Clinical

• The Effects of Obesity on Asthma Control and Management.
• Two Views of Treating Obesity in Childhood.
• Team Planning in Obstetrical Care for Women with Obesity.
• Treatment of Obesity in Older Persons—A Systematic Review.
• RCT: An Addiction-based Mobile Health Weight Loss Intervention: Protocol.
• BMI and the Risk of Acute Pancreatitis By Etiology.
• Classification of Obesity, Cardiometabolic Risk, and Metabolic Syndrome in Adults with Spinal Cord Injury.

Children and Adolescents

• ADHD Symptoms and Body Composition Changes in Childhood.
• Difference in Objectively Measured Physical Activity and Obesity in Children with and Without Siblings.
• Change in Eating Disorder Symptoms Following Pediatric Obesity Treatment.
• RCT: Effect of a Low Free Sugar Diet vs Usual Diet on Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Adolescent Boys.
• Dyslipidemia, Subclinical Inflammation, Hepatic Cholestasis and Endothelial Dysfunction in Schoolchildren with Excess Fat.
• Adipose Tissue Insulin Resistance in Youth on the Spectrum From Normal Weight to Obese and From Normal Glucose Tolerance to Impaired Glucose Tolerance to Type 2 Diabetes.
• School Nutrition Association, 2019 Position Paper. (pdf)

Surgery

• Pros and Cons of Gastric Bypass Surgery in Individuals with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes: Nationwide, Matched, Observational Cohort Study.
• Prevalence of Dumping Syndrome After Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy and Comparison with Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.

Drugs

• Oral Levothyroxine Therapy Postbariatric Surgery: Biopharmaceutical Aspects and Clinical Effects.
• RCT: The Effect of Methylphenidate (MPH) on Appetite, Energy Intake, and Body Composition in Individuals Living with Obesity.

Food & Diet

• Purified Egg Protein Supplementation Has Beneficial Effects on Body Composition, Metabolism and Eating Behavior and Results in a More Sustained Weight Loss Than low Fat Diet.
• Potatoes, Nutrition and Health.
• Commentary: This is What’s Replacing Soda?
• Food in the Anthropocene: The EAT–Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets From Sustainable Food Systems.

Caloric Restriction

• Benefits of Caloric Restriction in Longevity and Chemical-Induced Tumorigenesis are Transmitted Independent of NQO1.
• Review: Calorie Restriction for Long-term Remission of Type 2 Diabetes.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• Inscribing Gender: A Duoethnographic Examination of Gendered Values and Practices in Fitness Tracker Design. (pdf)
• Trajectories of Engagement with a Digital Physical Activity Coach: Secondary Analysis of a Micro-Randomized Trial. (pdf)
• Physical Activity Associates with Muscle Insulin Sensitivity Post-bariatric Surgery.

Economics & Sociology

• Long-term Trends (1973–14) for Obesity and Educational Inequalities Among Austrian Adults: Men in the Fast Lane.
• Income, Race and Its Association with Obesogenic Behaviors of U.S. Children and Adolescents, NHANES 2003–2006.
• Relations Between Sleep Duration with Overweight and Academic Stress—just a Matter of the Socioeconomic Status?

Epidemiology

• Visit-to-Visit Glycemic Variability and Risks of Cardiovascular Events and All-Cause Mortality.
• Trends in Low-calorie Sweetener Consumption Among Pregnant Women in the United States.
• Baseline Body Mass Predicts Average Depressive Symptoms Over the Next Two Decades for White but Not Black Older Adults.
• Weight Change Since Age 20 and Incident Risk of Obesity‐related Cancer in Japan: A Pooled Analysis of the Miyagi Cohort Study and the Ohsaki Cohort Study.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• Indulgent Foods Can Paradoxically Promote Disciplined Dietary Choices.
• Functional and Structural Neuroimaging Studies of Delayed Reward Discounting in Addiction: A Systematic Review.
• Do Adults Draw Differently-Sized Meals on Larger or Smaller Plates? Examining Plate Size in a Community Sample.
• Portion Size Does Not Influence Food Consumption in Rats.

Equity and Disparities

• Disparities in Healthcare Utilization Among Adults with Obesity in the United States, Findings From the NHIS: 2006–2015.
• Religiosity and Excess Weight Among African-American Adolescents: The Jackson Heart KIDS Study.
• Home Food Availability and Child Intake Among Rural Families Identified to Be At-risk for Health Disparities.
• Correlates of and Body Composition Measures Associated with Metabolically Healthy Obesity Phenotype in Hispanic/Latino Women and Men.

Stigma

• Personality and the Social Experience of Body Weight.
• Self-perceptions of Body Weight Status According to Age-groups Among Korean Women.
• Patterns of Implicit and Explicit Attitudes: Long-Term Change and Stability From 2007 to 2016.

Policy Related

• An 11‐country Study to Benchmark the Implementation of Recommended Nutrition Policies By National Governments Using the Healthy Food Environment Policy Index, 2015‐2018.
• Flawed Methods and Inappropriate Conclusions for Health Policy on Overweight and Obesity: The Global BMI Mortality Collaboration Meta-analysis.

Intergenerational Effects

• Developmental Trajectories of BMI From Childhood Into Late Adolescence and Subsequent Late Adolescence–young Adulthood Cardiometabolic Risk Markers.
• Effects of Infant Feeding Practices and Maternal Characteristics on Early Childhood Obesity.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• An Evolutionary Perspective on Why Food Overconsumption Impairs Cognition.
• Threshold Effect in the H2O2 Production of Skeletal Muscle Mitochondria During Fasting and Refeeding.
• Genome-wide Association Study of Body Fat Distribution Identifies Adiposity Loci and Sex-specific Genetic Effects.

Methods

• Evaluation of Reliability of the Recomputed Nutrient Intake Data in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Twin Study.
• A Delphi Study to Build Consensus on the Definition and Use of Big Data in Obesity Research.
• The Eyes Have It: Infant Gaze as an Indicator of Hunger and Satiation.
• Continuous Noninvasive Arterial Pressure Monitoring in Obese Patients During Bariatric Surgery: An Evaluation of the Vascular Unloading Technique (Clearsight System).
• Using the E-Value to Assess the Potential Effect of Unmeasured Confounding in Observational Studies.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Projected Number of People with Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes in Germany in 2040.
• Objective Versus Self‐Reported Energy Intake Changes During Low‐Carbohydrate and Low‐Fat Diets.

Commentary

• Can Food Formulation and Labeling Affect Health?
• Describing NFL Obesity in Terms of Crushing Stigma.
• New Data: Obesity Takes Years of Life From Our Dogs.
• Toward a One-Diet World.
• Context Shapes Choice of Healthy Foods.
• Overweight Horses are the 'new Normal', Vets Warn.
• "Eat-Lancet is just wrong…"

General

• Mitochondrial DNA Can Be Inherited From Fathers, Not Just Mothers.
• 15 Studies that Challenged Medical Dogma in 2018.
• Manipulating the Microbiome with Fecal Transplantation to Treat Ulcerative Colitis.
• The Behavioral Origins of Novelty: Did Increased Aggression Lead to Scale-eating in Pupfishes?
• Ants Stick to Cliques to Dodge Disease.
• RCT: Canine Therapy Versus Usual Care to Reduce Patient Anxiety in the Emergency Department.
• Review: IL-33 in Obesity: Where do We Go From Here?
• Big Data and the Transformation of Food and Beverage Marketing: Undermining Efforts to Reduce Obesity?

Announcements

• UAB Obesity Researcher Fobian Receives Honor for Innovative Research in Pediatric Health.
• Network of Minority Health Research Investigators (NMRI) Opportunities.
• AAAS and Subaru of America Announce Winners of Children's Book Awards.
• City of Bloomington Launches "Year of Food" to Address Hunger and Activate Local Food Network.
• "The Wolf Prize for Medicine went to Jeffrey Friedman, 64, of the Rockefeller University, who researches the molecular mechanisms in food intake and weight."
• 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.