Featured

• Whole-food diet worsened cognitive dysfunction in an Alzheimer's disease mouse model.
• Misreporting and misclassification: implications for socioeconomic disparities in BMI and obesity.
• Can Selfies Save Nutrition Science?

Headline vs. Study

• Headline: Is Drinking Wine Better Than Going To The Gym? According To Scientists, Yes!
• Study: Improvements in skeletal muscle strength and cardiac function induced by resveratrol during exercise training contribute to enhanced exercise performance in rats.

Contrary or Null

• We failed to accept our hypothesis and concluded that overall, school-based interventions have not been effective for improving BMI or skinfold thickness to curb childhood obesity...
• Neophobia: The results of the experiment did not confirm the assertion of some authors that wild rats avoid eating unfamiliar foods.
• RCT: "As compared to diet alone, the addition of strength or aerobic training did not improve changes in BMI, body fat or metabolic risk factors..."
• Overweight is not associated with cortical thickness alterations in children.
• In older adults, food frequency questionnaire-assessed sodium intake was not associated with 10-year mortality, incident CVD, or incident HF, and consuming greater than 2300 mg/d of sodium was associated with nonsignificantly higher mortality in adjusted models.

Surgery & Devices

• FDA approves first-of-kind device to treat obesity.
• Surgery: Last Resort for Obesity?
• Causes and risk factors for mortality within 1 year after obesity surgery in a population-based cohort study.

Scholarly Dialogue

• The Restaurant Food Hot Potato: Stop Passing it on-A Commentary on Mah and Timming's, 'Equity in Public Health Ethics: The Case of Menu Labelling Policy at the Local Level'.
• Comment: Taxes and Subsidies to Improve Diet.
• Taxes and Subsidies to Improve Diet-Reply.

Psychology

• Short horizons and obesity futures: Disjunctures between public health interventions and everyday temporalities.
• Eating tasty food to cope. Longitudinal association with BMI.

Policy Related

• Legal Action Against Health Claims on Foods and Beverages Marketed to Youth.
• Weighing In: The Taste-Engineering Frame in Obesity Expert Discourse.

Methods

• Detection of brown adipose tissue and thermogenic activity in mice by hyperpolarized xenon MRI.
• Electronic Health Records and Community Health Surveillance of Childhood Obesity.
• A portable device powered by a simple breath can measure lung function and transmit results to your phone.
• Wearable sensor clears path to long-term EKG, EMG monitoring.
• The many weak instruments problem and Mendelian randomization.
• The Utility of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in Systems-Oriented Obesity Intervention Projects: The Selection of Comparable Study Sites for a Quasi-Experimental Intervention Design-TX CORD.
• Objective and self-reported measures of MVPA are weakly to moderately correlated...an objective measure of MVPA may be preferred to self-report.
• Estimation of subcutaneous and visceral fat tissue volume on abdominal MR images.
• Packet randomized experiments for eliminating classes of confounders.

Guidelines and Panel Statements

• NIH working group report: Innovative research to improve maintenance of weight loss.
• Focus on Weight Over Comorbidities, Obesity Guide Says.
• American Society of Clinical Oncology Position Statement on Obesity and Cancer.
• Children's Hospital Association - Recommendations for Psychologists in Stage III Pediatric Obesity Program.

Food

• RCT: "These data suggest that short-term consumption of low fat milk in the context of a prudent NCEP diet has no favorable nor deleterious effect on cardiometabolic risk factors associated with MetS in postmenopausal women with abdominal obesity.
• RCT: "Inclusion of spices may attenuate postprandial lipemia via inhibition of PL and PLA2. However, the impact of psychological stress negates any influence of the spice blend on triglycerides, and further, increases blood glucose and insulin."

Exercise

• Ethnic identification with physical activity may lead to increased engagement, lower obesity in children.
• Movement improves girls' computational skills.

Epidemiology

• Kids free to explore and play are more healthy, study finds.
• Obesity and Contraception Use in Women.
• Optimal Cutoffs of Obesity Measures in Relation to Cancer Risk in Postmenopausal Women in the Women's Health Initiative Study.
• Sedentary Behavior and Health Outcomes: An Overview of Systematic Reviews.
• Cohort of birth modifies the association between FTO genotype and BMI.
• The role of obesity duration on the association between obesity and risk of physical disability.
• U.S. Obesity Rate Inches Up to 27.7% in 2014.

Evolution, Energetics, & Ecology

• Climate Change Does Not Bode Well for Picky Eaters: New Study Links Resiliency to Penguins' Diets.
• Mass-based condition measures and their relationship with fitness: in what condition is condition?
• Reproductive mode evolution in lizards revisited: updated analyses examining geographic, climatic and phylogenetic effects support the cold-climate hypothesis.

Economics

• We find that obesity impacts health expenditures not only through its link to chronic diseases, but also because it increases the cost of recovery from acute health shocks.
• Estimating the lifetime cost of childhood obesity in Germany: Results of a Markov Model.
• Can Changing Economic Factors Explain the Rise in Obesity?

Drugs

• Europe Opens the Way for Two New Obesity Drugs.
• Insurers and anti-obesity drugs.
• RCT: Efficacy and Safety of Lisdexamfetamine for Treatment of Adults With Moderate to Severe Binge-Eating Disorder.

Computational

• System model network for adipose tissue signatures related to weight changes in response to calorie restriction and subsequent weight maintenance.
• Saliency-aware food image segmentation for personal dietary assessment using a wearable computer.

Clinical

• Can we safely recommend gestational weight gain below the 2009 guidelines in obese women? A systematic review and meta-analysis.
• Lifestyle Behaviors of Parents of Children in Pediatric Weight Management: Are They Meeting Recommendations?
• RCT: Effects of high-frequency current therapy on abdominal obesity in young women.
• Self-Help for Weight Loss in Overweight and Obese Adults: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
• RCT: The Effect of a Diabetes-Specific Cognitive Behavioral Treatment Program (DIAMOS) for Patients With Diabetes and Subclinical Depression: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Caloric Restriction

• Chronological analysis of caloric restriction-induced alteration of fatty acid biosynthesis in white adipose tissue of rats.
• Food restriction during pregnancy in rabbits: Effects on hormones and metabolites involved in energy homeostasis and metabolic programming.

Genetics

• TM6SF2 and MAC30, new enzyme homologs in sterol metabolism and common metabolic disease.
• Insights into the Genetic Susceptibility to Type 2 Diabetes from Genome-Wide Association Studies of Glycaemic Traits.

Commentary

• Michael Rosenbaum: The cost of a doughnut's 'lost pleasure' is something you can afford to pay.
• Food Cravings: Those "Torments of Expectation."
• Ready, aim, fire – why our efforts to prevent childhood obesity have been ineffective.
• Metabolic vs. hedonic obesity: a conceptual distinction and its clinical implications.
• Healthy junk food?
• A Slimmer Tomorrow.
• Prepare for the Pill to Make You Thin.
• Why do some youths become fatter than others?
• Book Review of "Slim by Design: Mindless Eating Solutions for Everyday Life."

Basic Science

• F1000 Recommendation: Intratracheal exposure to multi-walled carbon nanotubes induces a nonalcoholic steatohepatitis-like phenotype in C57BL/6J mice.
• Modulation of the Intestinal Microbiota Is Associated with Lower Plasma Cholesterol and Weight Gain in Hamsters Fed Chardonnay Grape Seed Flour.
• Regulation of AMPK Activation by CD36 Links Fatty Acid Uptake to ã‚œ-Oxidation.
• Integrin a1-null Mice Exhibit Improved Fatty Liver When Fed a High Fat Diet Despite Severe Hepatic Insulin Resistance.

General Science

• Bias in microRNA functional enrichment analysis.
• Testing for clustering at many ranges inflates family-wise error rate.
• Bias from conditioning on live birth in pregnancy cohorts: an illustration based on neurodevelopment in children after prenatal exposure to organic pollutants.
• A summary to communicate evidence from systematic reviews to the public improved understanding and accessibility of information.
• Clinical trial data: share and share alike.
• New device allows for manipulation of differentiating stem cells.
• Obesity Epidemic Affectiong Millions of Pets.
• Research detects PTSD 3,000 years ago.
• Why a Fake Article Titled "Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs?" Was Accepted by 17 Medical Journals.

Video

• Catharine Ross: Vitamin A in Early Life-Why Does It Matter?
• Fiona Powrie: Dining out with friends - The intestinal microbiome in health and disease.

Announcements

• Slides from 2015 ILSI Presentations Available: Sustainability, Caffeine, Microbiome, and more.
• January 2015 Forum: Tools for Funding Agricultural Research.
• Workshop on Examining a Developmental Approach to Childhood Obesity: The Fetal and Early Childhood Years.
• IOM Workshop - Methods and Approaches to the Assessment of WIC Food Packages.
• 2015 NSRL INTSOY Short Course.
• 23rd Annual Summer Training Course in Experimental Aging Research.