Featured

• Preliminary Investigation of Social Interactions and Feeding Behavior in Captive Group-housed Tasmanian Devils (Sarcophilus Harrisii).
• Antibiotic Exposure in Early Life and Childhood Overweight and Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• RCT: Clinical Study to Evaluate the Performance of a Noninvasive Focused Ultrasound Device for Thigh Fat and Circumference Reduction Compared to Control.

Headline vs Study

• Headline: Obesity Can Spread Like Flu Between Friends and Neighbors.
• Study: Exposure to Communities with Obesity is Associated with Increased Obesity. No Causation; No Viral Epidemic.

Contrary or Null Findings

• "Contrary to the widely held expectations, our analysis does not indicate significant relationship between playing Pokémon Go and some of the wellness dimensions, such as social or physical wellness."
• "Despite a growing body of literature suggesting an association between neighborhood disadvantage and BMI, the current study suggests that this association may not be causal among mid-older aged adults."
• RCT: No Significant Effect of High Milk and Sugar-sweetened and Non-caloric Soft Drink Intake on Body Composition After 6 Months in Overweight and Obese Adults.
• "There was no association between BE [binge eating] and BMI... or between individuals from mainland Portugal and São Miguel ... contrary to the BMI...." (pdf)
• Weight Reduction Does Not Induce an Undesirable Decrease in Muscle Mass, Muscle Strength, or Physical Performance in Men with Obesity: A Pilot Study.
• Helicobacter Pylori Infection is Not Associated with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
• Higher Protein Intake is Not Associated with Decreased Kidney Function in Pre-Diabetic Older Adults Following a One-Year Intervention.
• RCT: "Vitamin D3-fortified milk did not affect glycemic control, lipid profile, and anthropometric measures in patients with type 2 diabetes."
• Dietary Resveratrol Does Not Affect Life Span, Body Composition, Stress Response, and Longevity-Related Gene Expression in Drosophila Melanogaster.
• Local Excise Taxes, Sticky Prices, and Spillovers: Evidence From Berkeley's Soda Tax.

Basic

• Leptin Enhances Hypothalamic LDHA-Dependent Glucose Sensing to Lower Glucose Production in High-Fat Fed Rats.
• Zinc Stimulates Glucose Oxidation and Glycemic Control By Modulating the Insulin Signaling Pathway in Human and Mouse Skeletal Muscle Cell Lines.
• Lipolysis-Stimulating Peptide From Soybean Protects Against High Fat Diet-Induced Apoptosis in Skeletal Muscles.
• Zinc Finger Protein 274 Regulates Imprinted Expression of Transcripts in Prader-Willi Syndrome Neurons.
• Fiber-Mediated Nourishment of Gut Microbiota Protects Against Diet-Induced Obesity By Restoring IL-22-Mediated Colonic Health.
• Liraglutide Suppresses Proliferation and Induces Adipogenic Differentiation of 3T3-L1 Cells Via the Hippo-YAP Signaling Pathway.
• Differential Actions of PPAR-α and PPAR-β/δ on Beige Adipocyte Formation: A Study in the Subcutaneous White Adipose Tissue of Obese Male Mice.

Scientific Rigor & Scholarly Dialogue

• Article: Impact of Nutrition on Social Decision Making.
• Letter: An Evolutionary Perspective on Nutrition and Social Decision Making.
• Author's Reply: Reply to Raison and Raichlen: Why Does Nutrition Impact Social Decision Making?

Clinical

• Meta-analysis: Effects of Probiotics on Body Weight, BMI, Fat Mass and Fat Percentage in Subjects with Overweight or Obesity.
• Meta-analysis: Effect of Nutrition Therapy Compared with Dietary Advice in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Clinical and Metabolic Effects Associated with Weight Changes and Obeticholic Acid in Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis.
• Effects of Weight Loss with a Moderate-protein, High-fiber Diet on Body Composition, Voluntary Physical Activity, and Fecal Microbiota of Obese Cats.
• Integrative Personal Omics Profiles During Periods of Weight Gain and Loss.

Children and Adolescents

• Meta-analysis: Physical Activity, Diet and Other Behavioural Interventions for Improving Cognition and School Achievement in Children and Adolescents with Obesity or Overweight.
• RCT: Motivational Interviewing Text Messages Designed to Augment Childhood Obesity Treatment.
• A Systematic Review of Community-based Interventions for the Treatment of Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity.
• How Healthy is Homeschool? An Analysis of Body Composition and Cardiovascular Disease Risk.
• Pacifier Use and Early Life Weight Outcomes in the Intervention Nurses Start Infants Growing on Healthy Trajectories Study.

Surgery

• RCT: Contralateral Study of Tissue Liquefaction Liposuction Versus Suction-Assisted Liposuction.
• Effect of Bariatric Surgery on CKD Risk.
• Insulinoma Presenting with Post-prandial Hypoglycaemia Following Fundoplication.
• Association of Bariatric Surgery Using Laparoscopic Banding, Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass, or Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy vs Usual Care Obesity Management with All-Cause Mortality.
• Lifestyle Intervention and Medical Management with vs Without Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass and Control of Hemoglobin A1c, LDL Cholesterol, and Systolic Blood Pressure at 5 Years in the Diabetes Surgery Study.

Drugs

• RCT: Treatment with a Ghrelin Agonist in Outpatient Women with Anorexia Nervosa.
• RCT: AZP-531, an Unacylated Ghrelin Analog, Improves Food-related Behavior in Patients with Prader-Willi Syndrome.
• Self-administered Nicotine Increases Fat Metabolism and Suppresses Weight Gain in Male Rats.

Food & Diet

• Systematic Review: Do Non-nutritive Sweeteners Influence Acute Glucose Homeostasis in Humans?
• RCT: Differential Impact of the Cheese Matrix on the Postprandial Lipid Response.
• Metabolomics Insights Into the Modulatory Effects of Long-term Compound Polysaccharide Intake in High-fat Diet-induced Obese Rats.
• Improving Adherence to Healthy Dietary Patterns, Genetic Risk, and Long Term Weight Gain: Gene-diet Interaction Analysis in Two Prospective Cohort Studies.
• Are Women More Sensitive to the Pleasure of Food?

Caloric Restriction

• "Increased intake of the polyamine spermidine appears to reproduce many of the healthful effects of caloric restriction."
• Lessons From Animal Nutritionists: Dietary Amino Acid Requirement Studies and Considerations for Healthy Aging Studies.
• Caloric Restriction and Diet-Induced Weight Loss do Not Induce Browning of Human Subcutaneous White Adipose Tissue in Women and Men with Obesity.

Exercise & Physical Activity

• RCT: Effect of a 12-week Resistance Training Programme on Muscular Strength, Cross-sectional Area and Muscle Quality in Women Having Undergone Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass.
• RCT: Effects of a Combined Dietary, Exercise and Behavioral Intervention and Sympathetic System on Body Weight Maintenance After Intended Weight Loss.
• RCT: The Effectiveness of a Web 2.0 Physical Activity Intervention in Older Adults.
• RCT: Dietary Nitrate-induced Increases in Human Muscle Power: High Versus Low Responders.
• Extracellular Vesicles Provide a Means for Tissue Crosstalk During Exercise.
• Dietary Supplements for Exercise and Athletic Performance.

Economics & Sociology

• Acculturation and BMI Among Marriage-based Immigrant Vietnamese Women in Korea.
• Inner-city Green Space and Its Association with BMI and Prevalent Type 2 Diabetes: A Cross-sectional Study in an Urban German City.
• Socio-economic determinants of physical activity across the life course: A "DEterminants of DIet and Physical ACtivity" (DEDIPAC) umbrella literature review.
• Does Adiposity Mediate the Relationship Between Socioeconomic Position and Non-allergic Asthma in Childhood?

Epidemiology

• Comparison of Body Composition Between Fashion Models and Women in General.
• Paediatric Obesity Appears to Lower the Risk of Diabetes If Selection Bias is Ignored.
• Sex Differences in Obesity Related Cancer Incidence in Relation to Type 2 Diabetes Diagnosis.
• BMI at Age 18 Years and Recent BMI in Relation to Risk of Breast Cancer.
• The Role of Obesity in Exceptionally Slow US Mortality Improvement.

Psychology & Neuroscience

• RCT: What Works Better? Food Cue Exposure Aiming at the Habituation of Eating Desires or Food Cue Exposure Aiming at the Violation of Overeating Expectancies?
• Family History of Alcoholism and the Human Brain Response to Oral Sucrose.
• Relationship Between Obesity, Childhood Sexual Abuse, and Attitudes Toward Obesity in Sexual-minority Women.

Equity and Disparities

• Neighbourhood Disadvantage, Geographic Remoteness and BMI Among Immigrants to Australia: A National Cohort Study 2006-2014.
• Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America.

Policy Related

• First U.S. Soda Tax Didn't Significantly Reduce Consumption.
• Will the Sugar Tax Fad Have an Effect on Obesity?
• Paper: A Critical Analysis of Obesity Prevention Policies and Strategies.
• Response: "A critical analysis of obesity prevention policies and strategies."
• Commentary: Obesity, Health, and Respect for Human Diversity.
• Implementation Lessons for School Food Policies and Marketing Restrictions in the Philippines: A Qualitative Policy Analysis.
• Stakeholder Perceptions of a School Food Policy Ten Years On.
• Coordinated Approaches to Strengthen State and Local Public Health Actions to Prevent Obesity, Diabetes, and Heart Disease and Stroke.
• NIH’s New Rules Governing Human Research Go Into Effect.

Intergenerational Effects

• Intergenerational Influence of Paternal Obesity on Metabolic and Reproductive Health Parameters of the Offspring.
• Maternal Obesity Increases Insulin Resistance, Low-grade Inflammation and Osteochondrosis Lesions in Foals and Yearlings Until 18 Months of Age.

Ecology, Evolution, & Energetics

• Individual Determinants of Social Foraging Tactic Use When Resources are Defendable: An Experiment with Zebra Finches.
• Limits to Sustained Energy Intake XXVII: Trade-offs Between First and Second Litters in Lactating Mice Support the Ecological Context Hypothesis.
• Prey Nutritional State Drives Divergent Behavioural and Physiological Responses to Predation Risk.
• Patterns of Activity and Body Temperature of Aldabra Giant Tortoises in Relation to Environmental Temperature.

Methods

• The Ideal Thigh: A Crowdsourcing-Based Assessment of Ideal Thigh Aesthetic and Implications for Gluteal Fat Grafting.
• Commentary On: The Ideal Thigh: A Crowdsourcing-Based Assessment of Ideal Thigh Aesthetic and Implications for Gluteal Fat Grafting.
• Development and Validation of a Population Based Risk Algorithm for Obesity: The Obesity Population Risk Tool (OPoRT).
• Quantitative Approaches to Energy and Glucose Homeostasis: Machine Learning and Modelling for Precision Understanding and Prediction.

Mathematical and Quantitative

• Model-Based Approach to Predict Adherence to Protocol During Antiobesity Trials.
• Illness-death Model: Statistical Perspective and Differential Equations.

Commentary

• Fiber-Rich Diet Fights Off Obesity By Altering Microbiota.
• Educating Consumers About Healthy Portions.
• Linking Biology to the Environment: Novel Methods for Understanding Pediatric Obesity.
• Panera Wants FDA to Crack Down on Eggs.
• Viewpoint: Toward Precision Approaches for the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity.

General

• Mind the Hype: A Critical Evaluation and Prescriptive Agenda for Research on Mindfulness and Meditation.
• The “unguarded-X” and the Genetic Architecture of Lifespan: Inbreeding Results in a Potentially Maladaptive Sex-specific Reduction of Female Lifespan in Drosophila Melanogaster.
• Influence of the Super Bowl on the United States Birth Sex Ratio.
• Anti-aging Field 'explodes' in Pursuit of Healthy Old Age.
• Estimating Causal Log-odds Ratio Using the Case-control Sample and Its Application in the Pharmaco-epidemiology Study.
• Fitness Tracking Gives Away Location of Secret US Army Bases.
• Gut Microbiome May Contribute to Insulin Resistance and Systemic Inflammation in Obese Rodents: A Meta-analysis.
• Role of Priority Effects in the Early-life Assembly of the Gut Microbiota.
• Naked Mole-rat Mortality Rates Defy Gompertzian Laws By Not Increasing with Age.
• Soft, Smart Contact Lenses with Integrations of Wireless Circuits, Glucose Sensors, and Displays.
• Lutein is Differentially Deposited Across Brain Regions Following Formula or Breast Feeding of Infant Rhesus Macaques.

Video & Audio

• Modifying Mammal Movement.

Announcements

• 6th Annual International Weight Stigma Conference, 18th – 19th June, 2018, Leeds, UK.
• UAB Seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for Its AHA Strategically Focused Research Center – Obesity Network: Intergenerational Transmission of Obesity.
• UAB’s NORC seeks post-doctoral fellows in obesity research.